Fishing Report

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-72 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cranked LK crankbaits in Dutch Slough, 4 doinks LB & 1 doink SB. Couple good slurps on frogs, but no hookup. Went to Sherman Lake at dusk and threw Lunker punker for Stripers-zero. Couple frogs hits there also, but none caught. Lots of misquitoes (?sp) at dusk.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: If you like catching fish, don't fish like me!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished outgiong tide started at Decker Island, caught 2, 2lbers on white speed traps on the inside weed line. Moved to Franks area and got 1 4.1 on a watermelon senko 6". Broke off a very large bass who jumped afterwards and shook so hard we could hear the rattles from the rattle trap still stuck in his mouth. At the bottom of the tide we went to white blades and quickly caught 4 fish near a cut in the bank. Two 2's a 3 and one 8+ who I tried to lip cuz I forgot the net and managed to unhook blade instead of grabbing the lip. But we did get to see him...
      City: loomis

      Tips: Threw reaction baits most of the day except for 1 senko fish.

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had two good days at lake casitas with buzzbaits.first day on the shore and on a boat.I had two big blow- ups by the t dock and caught three in a row with a DEPS Buzzbait. On the boat had a few more blow-ups and caught a couple more bass. Nothing big,biggest maybe 4 pounds. The next day the water looked like it dropped a little. I started on the shore by the log boom in the back of the boat docks and nailed a good 7 pound bass. I moved down the bank by the thick stick-ups and banged out a 9 pounder on my own double buzz. I ran into a friend later that day and he told me the buzz bait bite had died off glad I did not run into him early in the morning.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: I was using Deps Buzzbaits and my own double buzz. I also was using a 8 ft. rouge rods with braid and 20 pound maxima to pull them out of the grass. reel: shimano 300dsv. Most of the fish were by grass with stick-ups.The bites were by the grass with stick-ups.
      tight lines,
      chief

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had fish active in the early a.m. fishing special areas from days gone by. Did not have swimbaits then. What a differance now, quality was the word of the morning with average fish being various five pounders. Some bigger and some smaller. Using special swimbait of average size.

      Tips: Find the current in the main body with no ripple on the surface.

  • Idaho
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      Water Temp: WqreSFuEdEupZ

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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      City: ctvKWlcndEOiN

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

      Report: Fished the south lake from 4pm-to 5pm. Caught 1 LM on the dock casting right passed weeds. Had a vicious bite off my gravedigger crank. Had it for about 3-4 seconds till he shook it off.(same spot). Then fished right of the cement block and missed 1 off my jig. :( ... only fished for an hour cuz my son and wife was getting bored.
      City: saN FraNcisCO

      Tips: If you only have an hour to fish: *_*
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      Cranks, jigs or lures that mimic baitfish. slow presentation on jigs. HAVE FUN AS USUAL. oh yeah, Catch, PIC< and Release. WOOT

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

      Report: Went fishing Wed. night from midnight until 6 am. We started catching fish right away. Caught 19 fish between 2 guys with plenty of other missed fish. Action was fairly steady throughout the night. Caught our fish on jigs and texas rigged worms. Not much action on reaction lures. No size to speak of. Maybe 2 over. Had to leave at sun up so we missed out on some prime fishing time but overall a pretty good night.
      City: Y.C.

      Tips: The ramp is terrible right now. One lane dirt and rutted out pretty bad near the water. Damn near needed 4 wheel drive to get out.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

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

      Report: This probably should be on the forum, but I'm not
      registered. What is up with Coyote? Nothing doing since since 6/28 my last trip out.

      Is it just summertime blahs? or are the guys who are catching em just not talking.

      Email me or post if you have any ideas.

      Thanks
      City: Monterey

  • Utah
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to head up for labor day weekend. It was a cold one. My dad and his work buddy were shaking in their boots they were so excited about the Kok Salmon and the Lake Trout Macs. I of course had my mind set on the bass. Long Story short dad and work buddy ended up with 0 Koks, 2 Mac pups, and a small Rainbow after 9 hours of fishing over the 3 days. I had 13 small mouth bass under my belt after the 3rd day, 2 of em at 4 and 5 lbs. Cold, Windy, and Great fishing.
      City: Layton

      Tips: I was using a Gitzit Crawdad impression, anchoring 5 feet out at a depth of about 8 Ft, and casting at about that 14 ft of depth. Bass were only hitting off the very bottom, watch for snags and don't try to set at first nibbles, those buggers are cautious.

  • Nevada County, California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: a few cooler nights got the fish to respond to buzzbaits.
      My buddy Dan fooled a huge bass into taking his double blade buzzbait, but I think it was dan who got fooled because somewhere out in those waters that bass is still swimming around with a buzzbait piercing in his lips after he broke dan off.
      Chatterbaits got a few and big fish for the night (5#).
      A few really large fish were lost, but the fish weren't where we expected them to be.
      Dan got a few on a big spinnerbait.
      City: auburn

      Tips: The very best bites seem to be way late at night or way early in the morning.

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

      Report: Could'nt get enough angling in yesterday. Fished serious boils today at sunset into the dark my wife caught 3 - solid 10-lbers and other small stripers. She smoked me tonight. I don't mind being the net guy once in a while. Also caught today were many 12" spots dropshotting the rocky points 25-30 feet deep.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Have Fun at all times no matter what.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 71-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My 5 1/2 year old daughter and I took a 5 hour trip to Cottage Grove this afternoon. She had her first day of kindergarten and did really well so I told her we could go fishing. Today was variety day. We saw a float plane land and take off twice, a guy and his dog race out into the lake after a stick( She rooted for the dog!), a sailboat, a few jet skis- even got to see one take off up close, 2 kayaks, a ski boat and a bunch of ducklings. We fished the west shore and just drifted with the breeze. Tried a new crankbait out and had a 10" bass grab it , make it within 5 feet of the boat and then shake off. I also was tossing my jig around quite a bit. Every cast where I yanked some weeds she'd have me dump them in the net. She had the whole bottom of the net lined with them. She eventually got bored and said "Can we go fast again?" So we zoomed over to the creek- watch out for that stump out in the middle just as you get to the mouth! We idled up the creek and started fishing. We fished for an hour with nothing to show but a net full of weeds. She is learning how to handle that net pretty well. She took a while to realize if you bang it on the side of the boat it will probably scare off the big bass. We went up one side of the creek and down the other. On the way out I tossed the jig up close to the bank and while trying to keep us headed into the wind- I felt the line tighten up. I set the hook and the fight was on. She was leaning over and using the net as a paddle to help us head into the wind! I said "Get that net ready to land this bass- it's a good one". She put the net down in the water and I tried to lead it into the net. The bass tailwalked right across the net. She started to swing at it like it was a giant butterfly. Lucky she didn't knock it off the line. The second try went better and she tried to lift it but needed a bit of help getting it over the side of the boat. When she saw it she said excitedly "Daddy- that's the biggest bass I've ever seen!" She got out the camera and went to work while I weighed and measured it. It was 4 lbs., 3 ounces and 21" long. It was pretty chubby looking. They're eating good. After we let it go she said the same thing my 2 1/2 year old boy said- let's get another! We fished there for another 1/2 hour with no luck. We idled out past the stump and then blasted over to another spot. When I pulled up on this spot it was about 5 PM and it had a bit of shade. It's kind of a grassy ledge with a bit of a drop off into deeper water. I was casting my way in and when the boat was about 40' from shore I saw what looked like a small school of nice bass hanging right along the edge. I backed the boat off and then showed my daughter as we drifted back in slowly. She grabbed her Ugly Stik and tossed her frog patterned skitter pop right on top of them. We waited for the strike that would surely come any second. After 3 or 4 casts I tried my jig. Still no bites. Finally after trying several angles we floated up closer and the school of nice bass turned out to be a school of nice rocks! She laughed a lot about that. And of course couldn't wait to tell Mommy when we got home. We tried for 1/2 hour around there and couldn't get any bass to go. So we blew up a big green balloon, tied it onto her Ugly Stik and towed it around with the big motor. We hoped to fly it like a kite but it wasn't quite windy enough. Then we headed back to the dock. A real nice jet ski lady helped us put our boat back on the trailer. While we were headed up the ramp my girl said "Daddy- I'll always remember this day!" And I said "Why honey- because it's your first day of school?" And she replied "No Dad- because of that big old bass!" Wow- what a cool day.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Just take 2 poles- and tie a jig on each one. Maybe try 2 different colors but until it cools way off I don't think I'll toss anything else. We went to Mc D's for dinner. Tried to get her to try a "Whopper" from across the street but she said "No thanks". Just thought it would have been more appropriate.

Monday, September 1st, 2008

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

      Report: Fished North end over the long weekend. Wasn't expecting much given all the negative reports but this is old stomping grounds for me. I wouldn't say it was wide open, but I landed 5 on Sat (7:30-10am), 11 on Sunday (7-10am and 11-1pm), and 6 on Monday (7-10am). Early morning fish came on clown rip bait (5) and zara spook (6). I missed another 4 on the spook. After top water died, I fished pig-n-jig 90% (8) and frog the remainder (3). My 11-year old landed the big fish for the trip - an 8.5 lb on a minnow! My largest was just under 6 but most of my fish were quality in the 3.5-4.5 range. O.k., so where did I get them (the most important question)? Weed lines. Go to the backs of coves and look for SOLID weed lines. Not sparatic ones, but long stretches were it looks like the edge of an underground forest. The fish are just stacked on the edge ambussing the baitfish that come along. I did get my frog fish casting into these weed beds but all my other fish were in front of it.
      City: Saratoga

      Tips: See above. Find solid weed lines that are in 6-10 feet of water. The best weed lines I found were over 100 yards from the shore!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was slow. i got there before the sun was up and stayed till about noon. 3 fish total one 4 pounder and two 2's all on a white spinner with a gold blade fished low and slow in about 5'-12' of water. try the three points withe the third being the most productive for me.
      City: Santa Rosa

  • California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got skunked. Fished 9:00 - 1:00 all around the north end walking the shore. Tried various plastics and spinnerbaits with not even a strike. Saw some fish in the big weed patches but couldn't get them out. Saw only one fisherman catch a bass from a boat. Everyone else I talked to on shore skunked too.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Fish elsewhere?

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 80-84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went to Clear Lake with a friend last night and found the fishing to be slower, just as I heard. I was in Canada for the last week and saw some of the most beautiful water I've ever seen - in eastern Canada. I was on a train and couldn't get it to stop so I could make a cast!!!! Wow - smallmouth anyone?! Anyway, we fished from 5 pm to around 11:30 pm and caught 5 before dark and 5 after - mostly in the 2 3/4 lb to 3 1/2 lb range. I hooked my second big bass in as many trips about 8 pm in the south end. I was using a wacky #301 5" Senko - hooked her in about 2 feet of water above heavy weeds and fought her for about 3 minutes until the hook pulled out. The jury is still out for me concerning the weedless Gami Senko hooks. I would have assumed I had her hooked well! Big fish!! The Senko bite seemed best in the evening on dock pilings but my friend nailed the biggest on a white buzzbait. The buzz bite was fair, not as good as a few weeks previous. Spooks and Devil's Horses did not work. The jig bite was the best again at night and the Power worm produced a few. We lost several at night for some reason. Night fishing goes through slow periods just as day fishing does and this last week or two must be that period. A 6 or 7 lb catfish ended the evening as it should!!
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: Hard to give too many tips when the bite is slow. Weeds have caused the bass to be scattered quite a bit. Why else would I have hooked that big bass in the middle of nowhere - the weeds were obviously good structure. As I said before, the jig bite is something to be aware of - if you can find a place to fish them!!

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 74 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up Georgeana slough to get away from boaters caught a hand full of dinks 2,lbers lost a nice fish around oxbow marina ran out of gamakatsu hooks was using some other hook without the G-lock never got a good hook set . fishing with senko 5 inch. Caught a small mouth bass was surprised first small mouth I have ever seen in Delta up around oxbow. had a fair day got kinda windy later in the day off the water at 7:00 pm got in @2:00 pm
      City: Elmira

      Tips: Mke sure you got plenty of gear before you go out Used small rattles in senko allways works out good They sell them at Bass pro shops

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

      Report: USED NEW PROTOTYPE JIGS DEVELOPED FOR SHASTA I HAVE SENT MANY JIGS TO VARIOUS PRO'S WITH OUTSTANDING RESULTS PIT RIVER CRAW NO.1177 BEST ON PIT AND BLACK SHAD NO.1180 FOR SUSPENDED FISH AND BAITBALL BASS AND IS A 3/16 DARTHEAD WITH A FX ROBOWORM NO.1332 IN NATURAL SHAD FOR THE TRAILER ON THE PIT RIVER CRAW I AM USING THE DARTHEAD JIG WITH FX AARON MAGIC TRAILER AND AM ALSO USING THE PIT RIVER CRAW IN MELON HEADS WITH VARIOUS TRAILERS. I WILL BE STOCKING THESE JIGS IN PHILS PROPS PROVIDING THEY PASS TONY'S FINAL INSPECTION YOU CAN E-MAIL ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AS I AM HAVING GOOD RESULTS ON THESE JIGS THEY ARE AS USUAL MADE ON A OWNER OR GAMAKATSU HOOK MADE BY A LOCAL DEALER
      City: Redding

      Tips: GOOD FISHING TO ALL

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water early, around 6am, and headed way up north to the back of the Dry Creek arm. There is a ton of grass back there with a nice deep channel running right through it. We caught 3 fish in the first hour, a 3.5 on a black buzzbait, a 4.3 on a Vixen, and another 3.5 on a Lunker Punker Jr. After that, the fish shut off. It seems that as soon as the sun gets on the water, the bass start to suspend and chase bait way off the bank. We got off the water around 3pm, and did manage to catch a couple more dinks on worms.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

Friday, August 29th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 8am, fish top water and reaction baits for about an hour with not even a look. Dropshot and deep diving cranks were the only thing I could connect on, 13 fish up to 6lbs. Had to work for them today. My buddy got one on a blade later in the afternoon as well.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Cover allot of water!!!