Fishing Report

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Friday, September 12th, 2008

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a good day, three of us landed about 15 throughout the day. We followed the baitfish all along the eastern shore. We caught most of our bass using crankbaits but a couple were taken using dark colored softbaits as well. Great day on the lake, perfect weather, lots of fish, almost no other boats on the lake at all.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Follow the baitfish, when you find them start throwing crankbaits.

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

      Report: does anyone know if you can still get a boat in on the ramp at Konocti Vista casino/ I heard it was very low(the lake)
      City: sacramento

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7am- 2pm. Water clear at about 6ft visability. water temp in main lake about 75. I fished six bit arm and poor mans gultch and finally woods creek, all for the first time.
      Tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits, panther martins, jointed minnows, vivef panther martin swimbait/spinner and zara spooks etc. All to no avail.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: didnt try dropshotting yet, didnt try split shot or any of the softplastic or jig presentations yet. and didnt do any swim baits.

  • Oregon
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out and night fished, did pretty well with a brush hog 4.5 lm, 5.0 lm, spinner bait got a 2.2 smallie and a 3.5 lm, several other dinks, all after dark til about 1 am
      City: medford

  • Nevada County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out night fishing with my buddy randy. We took off about 7:oo pm, and fished till about 1:30 a.m.
      Total we got about 20 bass. A slow night for this lake.
      we got a few on beavers, and buzzbaits, but most on chatterbaits.
      Randy threw a senko till his arm fell off and could'nt get bit.
      He also threw a basstrix and still no takers.
      We caught most in the last 2 feet of water and probably had a 25# limit. The lions share came on C.B.'s
      Broke off 4 huge fish at the boat.
      City: auburn

      Tips: The places where you could fish shallows close to deeper water drop offs seemed to hold more solid concentrations of larger fish.
      I was stupid to fish this late in the year with only 12 pound test. The bigger ones are feeding more aggressively and your bound to tangle with one if you fish late enough.

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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

      Report: Neal, Thanks for the last report. It saved me alot of searching.seems as if the points with baitfish activity had stripes on them. I ended up with 3 Stripes to 15lbs. I ran out of those slingers so I came in early. good day all around.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Thanks for the reports. Hope my report helps someone else out there.

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

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

      Report: With the water dropping I am finding lures all over the place. I guess being on a float tube makes it easier to go to shore and retrieve the baits. So far in the past two weeks I've retrieved two dd cranks, one lipless crank, one terminator spinnerbait, and a spro frog on a branch.

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

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

      Report: Killed it with a spinnerbait pattern. Slow rolling it around the weeds. 8 total between 1 and 3 lbs.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: Fished out of Big Break early. Blow ups on Buzzbaits around tule islands. 2 fish to 4lbs. The wind picked up and switched over to a weedslinger. Hooked two schoolie Stripers to 12 lbs.Missed a few others. I didn't know the Stripes had moved in yet.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: look for baitfish and birds aound tule islands. You will find fish.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Russo's with Eric Thoss for an afternoon of fun and fishing..We stayed pretty much in Frank's looking for clear areas among all of the weeds..Spotted a lot of bass, mostly small ones, but a few good quality tournament fish..Frank's was just about as smmoth as glass, and the tide was outbound for most of the time we were there..Tossed Sweet Beavers, Senkos, Rattle Traps, Speed Traps, Chatter Baits and Jigs..Caught fish on everything except the jigs..I still need to learn more about jig presentation and fishing..I am sure if I had been doing it right and in the right place they would have caught fish also..Caught a ton of dinks, some not much larger than the baits they were gaught on..Cplors of the baits didn't seem to make much difference on their effectiveness..I used 6 different colors of Senkos and caught fish on all of them..Not sure what color the Sweet Beavers were that Eric was tossing, but they sure drew the attention of nearby bass..The crankbaits were all red/orange colored and the bass lined up to chasse them..I was a great afternoon to be on the water..
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Look for clear water with deeper water in the same area..If all the young bass we saw survive the coming winter, the bass population of the Delta will be unbelievable..Good luck all..

  • Ferry County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: LOCK THROUGH ICE HARBOR DAM SMALLMOUTH FISHING IS EXELLENT LOTS OF 2-2 1/2 POUNDERS 3 -4 POUNDERS A LITTLE HARDER TO COME BY USALLY CATCH 12 TO 16 POUNDS A DAY.YOU MIGHT SEE 2 OR 3 BOATS A DAY
      City: NONE

      Tips: THEIR ARE SHALLOW FISH AND DEEP FISH UP TO 50 FEET GOOD REACTION BITE AND DROP SHOT

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

      Report: 5 bass to 4 lbs. Two on Spro "little john", 2 drop shotting, and 1 frog fish. Missed 4 more in the thick slop on frogs. Bass are feeding up on shad now. Today was the first day that true evidence of Fall is coming. Cooler temps at sunrise...no big deal...fish were definately chasing baitfish, especially along rocky structure.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Crankbaits get the nod at sunrise. Try either lipless or shallow to medium runners. No senko takers today.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a couple of guys out Tuesday expecting a great day. After about a 45 min. delay watching the Dept of Water Resources redu the ramp we were able to start fishing. It was a little late to use top water after that, so we started with tubes. One of the guys was bass fishing for the first time so I really wanted him to experience the action. After a few lessons he was catching some nice bass. We targeted points and walls in the lower lake and upper lake and North Fork. About half of the North Fork is now river. We finished the day around 3pm. and had caught around 70+ bass, several over and 2 large mouth in the 2lb+ range. It was a great day.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The bass were full of pond smelt and shad so we used tubes, drop shot, and rattle traps, in shad colors and senko's in green pumpkin, watermelon and pumpkin colors.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

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

      Report: Cought fish on a spook when they were chaseing bait. Cought a lot of fish on a robo worm one that was between 7&8 lots of fish in 10 to 20 ft. Fished main points mostly they didn't seem to be back in the cuts.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Through up on the bank and inch it back slowly

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

      Report: Started early around any rocky structure I could find. threw topwater shellcracker around rocky structure. alot of quality fish. biggest was 4 lbs. The sun came up and swiched to jigs. bite slowed later but lucky to have hit them early.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Work the topwater slow. look for shaded areas. before sun comes up.

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

      Report: is the secondary ramp at jones valley usable these days?
      City: reno

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

      Report: any ramps in the water here? best place to put in?
      City: Shasta Lake City

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time here. Lake is down quite a bit 40 - 50 feet? Saw lots of fish on the Humminbird but nothing. Not even a bite. Tried top water, senkos, wacky, crankbaits, jerkbaits, etc. Tough day. Thank goodness they reduced their prices.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took wife with me. Fished for 4 hours in the afternoon. Wife caught the big fish of the day 3.0 LB on a wacky rigged Senko. I caught a lot of small fish on spinner bait and Jigs. Concentrated in the Mokelumne Fiver area.
      City: W.Sac

      Tips: Take your wife fishing. A couple that fishes together stays together.

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: If you want to catch small fish like me throw plastics on the main river. Better fish were caught in the sloughs off the main river. Seinkos were the ticket for one fisherman who nailed an 11 1/2 pounder on a wacky rigged seinko. Winning weight for folsom bass team was 15lbs I think. Lots of limits for 15 teams. I caught fish all day and all small. 2 keepers?
      City: orangevale

      Tips: Wish I could help. I need tips to find the bigger quality fish. HELP