Fishing Report

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Friday, September 19th, 2008

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Cottage Grove for about 35 minutes before work today. Walked up to the "school of rocks" spot. Cast out my brown jig and got a bite within about the first ten seconds! Set the hook and dragged in a 17", 3.1. Very chunky, very feisty and very healthy! Thought to myself-wow, this could be a fun morning. Fished 200' of bank and couldn't draw another bite! And I lost one of my good brown jigs in a little rockpile on the next to last cast. Good start- crappy finish.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: I've actually been carrying 2 rods the last couple weeks- both with jigs on them. So if I miss a bass or lose a jig I can just grab another rod and toss right back to the same spot. If they're hungry enough they'll eat it.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Cottage Grove on the 17th and got 3 nice bass in about 35 minutes. They were 17", 18" and 17". They weighed 3.0, 2.12 and 2.10. Got them all on the brown/orange jig at the "school of rocks" spot again. The first one was a leaper, the second one dug and dug and the last one made a beeline straight for me. I had to reel like a mother just to keep up with it. A great way to start your workday! Hopefully this bite will keep up until Halloween!
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Be prepared and expect to get bit on the next cast. Check for nicks in your line and retie often- only takes about 20 seconds! GO...NOW! Winter's just around the corner.

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the kids out for 3.5 hrs on Sat got 9 fish to 1.5 lbs on drop shot 5 inch watermellon green zoom worm wacky rigged, tried my black and blue creature bait for a few cast and a Zara but only for about 10-15 minutes, hard to fish these with my 3 little ones in the boat:) There are a ton of bait fish and bass in the back of all the coves in 3-8 feet of water.
      City: San Joser

      Tips: Been fishing this lake for 35 years, I always catch a few, one guy got a 8 lb on top water Sat, my best out of this lake is 7.3 so thinks are looking good, I got a 4.11 last Sat on Black/Blue creature bait, the Ranger makes sure there is no poaching going, I mean they watch this lake like a hawk and you can not fish it after dark anymore so I would say the lake is in the best shape it has been in a long time, just needs a little more water.

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

      Report: No need to go here until we get water. Launching in mud with many getting stuck. Go elsewhere!

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: forgot to mention i lost two of my reaction baits on two 5lbers...and caught a 10lb catfish!
      ill be out there friday. i believe the weekend possibly.
      ill mention one thing. i spent 89.99 on one of the lures that I caught my 6.5lber on in the morning....*wink*
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

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

      Report: Can we go back to Keith O's report- what bait does HM stand for? I'm not familiar with the initials...it's probably something I'll slap my forehead and say, "oh, I shoulda known" but I don't. So could Keith O or someone tell me what the HM is?? Thanx!
      oh, btw, thank you to the guys that supported Jim's report. Or at least his willingness to share his experience.

      oh, my report: a week or two after the 5mph went into effect, my brother and i fished the main body just outside of brown's ravine. we worked the hazard buoys with drop-shotting at 10-15-18ft and hooked up fairly decent on spots and largies. brother got a nice 3-4lb smallie but it did a quick-release at the boat.
      City: folsom

      Tips: keep sharing tips...thanx! all my drop-shot success was on aaron's magic 5", mostly wacky but some nose rigged. brother used perch and also hooked up on jig/trailers and c-rigs with same plastics.

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow - the previous post is a new definition of the word "brief"! Big news of my trip last night (Tues) with a friend is that I finally caught a small bass - 10 inches! We did see many small bass chasing Silversides just before and after dark. I hadn't heard that "rain on the water" sound Silversides make for several years! All that action did make for one of the best "first hour after dark" bites I have ever experienced! It was "on fire" for an hour, then slowed quite a bit. Don't know how many we hooked, but put 35 or so in the boat for a best 5 limit of 18+ lbs. I decided to try one of my remaining 10" black/chartreuse Berkley Power worms (they arn't made anymore) on a shallow rock ledge - hoping it would look good in the bright moonlight. It looked pretty good to a 5 1/2 pounder - big fish for the night.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: Again, no carp rolling in the moonlight. What is going on?! We used many types of baits and colors for lots of action - even before dark. I can't say any more because my friend is fishing an upcoming tournament. As was last Friday night - the night was gorgeous. That will change some as a cold front is moving in today.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 430 pm to 630pm. Fishing activity much improved. Caught a few 1.5 lb fish near the woods creek side of the lake, on the berserkbaits don pedro special spinnerbait.
      City: atwater

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

      Report: Started around 6:00pm and ended at 10:00pm.The dam produced the most fish 1 lb and under on a drop shot.Saw a guy fishing just off the dam in about 20-30 feet of water bring in about a 3+ pounder.Not sure what he was using, I think a drop shot.No crank bait fish, a but some 2+ pounders on a Roboworm at Mong Point. About 20 fish total for the evening. Fishing is pretty good, just nothing of size.
      City: Lemoore

      Tips: Medium speed.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was slow 5 bass on 17th cranke bait.fish 6 bass on 18th mini king spinners and cranks. 85 to 96 degs.weather was beauitful but hot.lake very low. we had a great time.
      City: seaside ca

      Tips: fish were 6 to 8 ft the ones we caught.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The ramp at Jones Valley is almost unusable...You got about 6 feet of asphalt left then a 1 foot drop off the edge. The dock is out of the water. No idea what the USFS ("piss-fir willies") or the so-called Shasta Recreationx intend to do now.
      City: Shasta Lake

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: night fishing on Frank Tract.... crazy wind blowing ..... 3 people manage to catch some striper(small)... As the wind calm down just a little.. landed 3 18" to 19" striper... Thank was it for the nite....

      Good a few question for the Benicia fisher out there....

      Is there mudsucker bait fishing out there now??? I remember using pile worm for bait and catching mudsucker off shore and use it for striper bait..... But I forgot what season it was......
      Thanks.... and good luck fishing......
      City: Union City

      Tips: If the wind is blowing hard... Don't go!!!!!!

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

      Report: Sun, went to racho seco and killed it on horny todes in 1-5 ft up to 3.5lbs. Mon,Folsom was just ok got most fish on cb in 8-10ft in bays with rock and sand for ten fish up to 2.5lbs.Tuse,went north and had my best day in months found that the bait was cornered in a larg bay and fish were killing everything, got bites on every rod cb,tw,sb,c-rig there was shad and pond melt in the area best five 18lbs and cought 40+ fish in one area!Weds, went back to the same area as the day before and had the same type of day .
      City: roseville

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing on tues. morning got on the water about 9am after having problems with that stupid ticket box that refused to give my ticket after puting 15 bucks in it and this is not the first time, finally found a park ranger to take care of the problem what was wrong with filling out the old envelopes and dropping the money in the box never had problems with that. well we finally got on the water and caught 5 fish total all on dropshot with a morning dawn robo worm. all in the 1 1/2 lbs range with one going 3 lbs
      City: carmichael

      Tips: give that stpid ticket machine a swift kick before putting money in it ps I think HM stands for home made at least thats my best guess

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm new to this board and this is my first post. I'd like to respond to Jim's report from 9-13-08 where he claimed catching over a hundred fish. I was one of those four boats (white Triton) he referred to in his post. I don't know how many fish he caught, but I know he caught a lot of fish. I saw it.

      I was fishing up by the bouys, a couple hundred yards from his hot spot, when he left. He stopped when passing me and we talked for a couple minutes. He seemed like a nice guy who just had a terrific day on the lake.

      I was surprised when I saw the Jim Scarlett's Gay post. Where did that come from? I have seen Jim Scarlett's name on the message board before and it wasn't very complimentary, but, again, I'm the new kid on the block and I don't know what's happening.

      What I do know is that Jim's post was probably accurate (with a little leeway for a fisherman's ability to count)and that the Jim Scarlett's Gay person didn't have the balls to sign his name.

      Round 1 to Jim.

      Tips: Be nice.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: See what happens when you try to type at 4AM. Fifteenth to last word in last report should be "right"....arghhhh!!
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Mountain Dew!!! With orange juice!

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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 2 1/2 year old boy to Cottage Grove in the boat today. We started at the dam with a bobber and crawler chunks. He got 2 3-4" bass but was even more excited about the 30 to 40 fish milling around the bait. I had to hold the strap on the back of his lifejacket on he may have jumped in! He kept saying "Hold, hold" but as soon as he touched his thumb to the fishes lower lip he'd pull back. He'll get used to it in time. We also tossed a small Rapala but no hook ups on it. We took a little boat ride up the creek and he was ready for his hour long nap as soon as I cut off the big motor. I worked up one side and down the other while he slept but couldn't draw a bite. I did see one major blow up way back in the weeds and if I had a frog on would have tossed to it ASAP. But my retractable butt flipping stick is the only rod I can keep safe in the 6' long rod locker and you can bet it'll have a jig/beaver on it! When he woke up we headed to the school of rocks spot but school was out. We spent another 30-40 minutes over by the dam. He got another 4" bass on crawlers and a 6" one on the Rapala. And now you could see about 50 plus milling around the bait and feel 4 or five bumps every time you tossed the Rapala. He had 2 bluegills hooked up but couldn't get them in the boat. I wanted to show him the difference between bass and bluegill. Next spring he'll learn all about them. We idled over to the mouth of Shortridge Cove and while he basically ate all his goodies from the cooler I tossed at a couple of fish I saw on the fishfinder at 24 and 25' deep. And about 1/2 way back in I got a good bite, set the hook and told the little guy to hand me the net! It fought really good for a 16 1/2"- 2 lb, 15 oz. bass! It was solid looking from head to tail. After 4 or 5 more casts we headed for the dock. A very fun way to spend an afternoon. From the look of that bass and the way the bite was so slow I'd say the bass fed like crazy over the last few days (Full moon) and were floating around rubbing their bellies like us after Thanksgiving dinner!
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Take your little ones now while the dock is still in the water. Go to the dam and take worms or crawlers. #8 or #10 hook and a small piece of bait 3 to 4' under a small bobber. Or no bobber and a small split shot- the bluegills hit it on the drop. Any stick or pole will work- we had 40 fish or more at times in the shadow of the boat. Left side of the dam as you motor up to it- girht next to the barrier. Have fun and be safe- hold onto that life jacket!

Monday, September 15th, 2008

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 28+lbs night fishing.
      9.44lber
      6.12lber
      6.44lber
      4lber's
      and a whole bunch of 2-3#lbers
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: email me

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

      Report: the frog bite is on hard. my friend caught his first frog fish on sunday 2.5 lbs. and i caught 3 bass and missed a bunch 4-04, 3-13, 2-01.
      City: THA P

      Tips: frogs moving fast with quick litte pops. or crawling them slowwwly. both ways worked for me.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 79-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lots of algae blooms ,water is extremely low, watch for submerged rocks herd a guy hit one. got a few on spinners bur really disapointed in the management of this lake. if the water drops a few more feet u wont be able to use the docks. seen lots of baby bluegill , two bald eagles an some deer was a fun day.
      City: merced

      Tips: they are feeding on all the blugill.