Fishing Report

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Saturday, October 4th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Anybody have an empty seat in your boat tomorrow? I really wanna do some bassin, but my Tracker is about 150 miles east of me. Even if it was here, I wouldn't be able to fish since the trolling motor is dead. I'll be glad to split the expenses and buy breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I have all my gear with me(3 rods and a box), just need a backseat. If you're willing, call me at 408-892-5294... I know some of you will be mad cuz this is not a report, but in my defense, Mr. Webmaster doesn't want to reply to my email about why I can't log in.
      City: San Jose

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried jerk baits with only one bite in three hours, tried swin baits, crank baits, top water, only got a few dinks (10" not keepers) on crank bait at the back of the lake. Moved to Cottonwood and threw everything, got a 4 pounder on a brown Strike King jig, and a couple of small keeper blade fish. Tough bite but one very nice jig fish.
      City: Merced

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had some good luck at Casitas fishing the shorelines. I was lucky to hit a 6 pound bass and a pair of 5's and 4's and had a few blow-ups also. I was using baby bass flukes and super flukes in the same color. the bigger bass are chasing bass fry everywhere.You know me,I threw big baits with no luck. Flukes were the ticket today. good luck Chief
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I also heard that the white flukes are working also.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 70 After rain

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anchored on same spot as last few weeks, they really turned on. Left at 10:00, thumbs cut up and tired of so many hook-ups.
      City: sac

      Tips: 4 lb test, okuma miniture, drop-shot lamigas did the trick.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Moved around the South Fork side of the lake on Tuesday and found most of the fish on rock piles just of the main channel. The reaction bite had fallen of but with this cooler weather should turn on again. Caught Spots up to 3 lbs. on Carolina riged worms, Drop-Shot and Dart head.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Stay in the Main Body

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went on 10/3 before little rain storm hit. No wind. Caught 13 fish. Max size 14.5 inch. Wide assortment of lures. Doesn't seem to matter what you use. Fish jumping everywhere.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Watch for swarming schools of fish. Cast line into water.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the spill way ramp and it is closed. Headed back to Bidwell still open small one lane dirt and rock steep launch. Fished from 8:00am to 2:00 pm had 25 fish all 14" 17" bigest one 2.3 lbs. All fish came on worms and leaches in arons magic in 18' to 23' of water. We saw only one other boat the whole day, rained 11 to 2 great to see some weather
      City: Loomis

      Tips: main body points

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went trolling for trout early. nothing. tried every trick in the book. decided to target carp and within an hour i had 2 nice ones for the dinner table.
      City: newark

      Tips: don't even think trout here this time of year. carp are willing and tasty. corn, bread, and of course my special recipe dough witch will be available on ebay soon.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: low 60's?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Finally found time to do some math. Since June 30th of this year I've caught and released 53 bass for a total of 153 lbs., 5 ounces. Less than 5 of them came on something other than a jig. More than 2/3 were caught from the shore. All came from Cottage Grove Lake. First one of the year came on Feb. 27th. My point is start early next spring, teach yourself to use a jig- take nothing else with you so you have to stick with it, fish them slow and milk the good spots for all they're worth. I have 5 or 6 spots along the west shore that gave up 85% of this years bass! Fish often so you stay in touch with the lake and the fish. I'm very lucky to be able to go 3 or 4 mornings a week when there's enough light. I'm also lucky 'cause it's right on my way to work so I don't have to waste a lot of gas. If I only have 20 minutes to fish that's fine- you can catch, weigh, photograph and release 3 nice ones easily in 20 minutes. Some of my spots are a good bit of walking and the exercise (Mental and physical) is a good thing. If I get up early and have an hour and a half (June and July!) then it just makes the work day breeze by. There are some spots I like to fish that you can't reach from anything but a boat but I like to take my kids there with me so they can enjoy the scenery and the fishing as well. My daughter is actually starting to recognize some of the good spots already. I havn't fished since the 27th but am hoping to get out in the kayak early Sunday. Who knows if they'll bite after our little rainstorm. They have been really rolling the water out of the lake lately- the creek only had about 3-4' of water way back in the back on the 27th.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Do a report once in a while would ya? Who cares if you only caught 1 little 10" bass- at least you got a bite! And you're out there trying.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We were there today and we caught 9 keepers and one crappie. We moved around alot looking for bait and fish on the graph. When we found what we were looking for it was easy but it wasn't easy finding what we were looking for. haha.
      City: Millbrae

      Tips: top water spoons and small plastics is what we used

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 4 year old out to check if the fall bite has started. Well it has fished from 0700 to 1230 with 27 fish total all of them running from 1.5 to 3.5 lbs. Nothing real big yet best 5 at 14lbs. Wind made it hard to fish the way I wanted to, also very hard with a 4 year old. So it ended up being a junk pattern day.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Tried topwater first thing cought a couple SM. Wind came up and tried a crankbait cought 5 LM and SM. Changed over to spinnerbait and that worked then around 10 the bite slowed and cought some on drop shot from 15-30 feet deep. Then I noticed some action on a weedline but the bait they were chasing was smaller than the baits I was throwing. I changed over to a Lucky Craft popper and they just started pounding it. My son did get 4 bass on his mojo rigged brush hog.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Dont Blank very often but fished 7am to noon. nothin. Guy that launched and returned same time...nothin. I didnt even get a bite. Found TONS of siversides. TONS!! It was windy and a front moving in which didnt help.

      Tips: Threw everything, everywhere.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Low, Low water. I fish this lake at least 8 times a year with the Fall usually the best trip of the year. This year it was minimal only 15 fish in the 12-15 inch range realistically. 1 fish 18 inches about 3-1/2 pounds on a worm. Most fish in 10-15 feet of water. Decent Crankbait bite with a stop and go retrieve. My best success at Eastman has always been with worms and grubs in a green-ish color. Alge bloom is definately in effect. Saturday after the rain, bite was off. Only 1 on a crankbait. We need HUGE rain this year to fill this bad boy up for 2009. This lake rocks when it's on!
      City: Pacific Grove

      Tips: Motor Oil, Watermelon, Green Weenie colors and stop and go crankbaits. I did not get any spinnerbait action or topwater... both of which was suprising.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: McClure is low,low,low. Old Dam is now 5' above water. Weather was nice, overcast, and slightly windy. Fished Temperance, Old Dam, and the rock walls around the dam. No bites on plastics, top water, and drop shotting. We went upriver to an area next to where the old railroad runs around the lake. I tied on a Luckcraft Pointer in Chartreuse Minnow color and caught 13 fish from 1030-1230. Most were small, @8-9 inches, but did get a 2lb and a 3lb spot along some rock piles. Saw lots of bluegills jumping and trout seemed very active.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Until we get some rain, and the lake gets fresh water, the fishing is going to be challenging. Foe me, if there's any wind, go with ripbaits and blades near rocks. The water was fairly clear upriver, and most of the hits were 10-12' from shore. The fish finder saw fish suspended from 15-30', and going shallow to attack my ripbait. Hit rocky points and shelfs. I prefer LuckyCraft Chartreuse Pointer minnows. As my buddy Anthony Tonachion says..."You can never go wrong with Luckycraft".

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I fished the pitt and found lots of runts. There was bait everywhere, especially at back of the creek. Little runts were chasing 3/4 in. baitfish everywhere. The water would turn into bubbles or foam from all the activity. It was a sight to see! If you want to use up some old plastics, head to the pitt. Use ultra light tackle and have some fun. Get rid of your old plastics.
      City: san mateo

      Tips: Try top water baits,small swim baits, grubs and jerk baits.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught Alot Of Fish But No Size,2.01 Best Fish I Thought With Front, Fish Would Be On It,Had Fun. The Jig Caught The Big Fish,And The Bigger Rats
      City: Redding

      Tips: staywith jigs or crawdad imatations and have something rigged for baitballs.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: putin newhope motor wold not start fished up stream about 2 miles in mokelumne on electric took five on speed traps darn four strokes
      City: sacto

      Tips: get a two stroke

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      Water Temp: 70 to 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to mildred island at 4 pm and we flipped around and frogged with nothing to show for it. then we went around some areas around mildred and flipped also nothing. after that we went out to a random slough and caught a dink on popper and missed to more. terrible day
      City: brentwood

      Tips: was cloudy for the first time in a while not sure if that had an affect on the fishing

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 75.6

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6-days last week & caught 11 bass to 6.6lb
      all on jigs . Nothing else worked for me.
      City: woodland hills

      Tips: All of the fish came after 11 am to dark

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't scare up any fish on crankbaits or frogs, but slaughtered the bass on dropshot rigs in the last 1.5 hours of daylight. Lost count after about 12 bass. All pretty small with a few to 2 lbs. One BIG blow up on a "Lunker Punker" launched way off shore...might have been a striper...never hooked up. Anyway, back out again tmrrw unless Delta looks good in the morning.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Hey Kyle...did you end up moving? Gimme a shout if you want to hit the water.