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Thursday, August 14th, 2008

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Heading out at 10 am with a boat load of camping gear and a couple friends, I tie an assortment of top water lures, and plastics as we idle across the long 5mph zone that leaves the ramp. Before crossing the 5mph buoys, we decide to fish the long main lake point across from the marina. On my 3rd cast with a Reaction Innovations Vixen I get crushed by a 6 or 7 pounder right at the boat. Unfortunately, after only a few second fight, the fish comes unbuttoned. The next two hours we run around and fish every other point in the area, but come up empty handed. We then set up camp at the back of the Warm Springs arm and head back out at around 3pm. I was surprised to see how must red leaf grass there was back there. We caught a few 2 pounders on frogs, and a 4.5 pounder in 30 feet of water on a jig. The fish seemed very scattered and I was seeing bait fish from the surface down to 40 feet on my graph. We then caught a few more 1-3 pounders on drop shots and jigs. Right before dark, I was expecting to get on a decent top water bite, but it never happened.
      City: San Bruno

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

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a question really, will you still be able to launch a boat by the dam as the lake level drops ? We were there on Monday and would like to come back in a few weeks... the fishing was ok, we caught lots of little bass but also a few nice ones...
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: Fished dark colored tubes on heavier weights

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

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

      Report: Fished from 2pm to 3pm South Lake. Caught one,
      1 lb under the dock that the seagulls really like. Senko Pumpkin flake
      City: San Francisco

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished up river from 7:00-10:30, throwing top water on the sunny points. Caught 8 bass. 5LM, 3SM. Big fish 5.2# LM. Another solid 2.4# LM on a Senko. Smallies were shaker size w/ 1, 14".
      City: Ione

      Tips: Get out early and beat the heat. Fish your strengths.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: threw the frog for the full 6-10 a.m. period, got some blow ups skipping under trees in Arroyo, and 1 bite, but no froggy feesh. Behind the island in Island Pond where there was an amazing frog bite a month ago is trash now (at least for me). all the weed mats are gone, but if you flip it I'm sure something would turn up.
      City: P-town

      Tips: I would recommend drop shotting, senkos, and flipping the weeds with heavier weights. The fish that went after me frog were in the backs of trees and were pretty much on the bank. I think I am done going to Shadow Cliffs for a while now

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

  • Utah
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Whacked the Greenfish today on Jigs. The water is still down because of Dam Construction but the bass have plenty of critter-bugz to eat.
      City: Eagle Mountain

      Tips: Brown Jigs ... Fished just off the shore. Watch your line!

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  • Nassau County, California
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      Water Temp: 70*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a hot tip that this lake was good. NOT!!! My son-in law along with his brother, myself and the grandsons traveled down for a last day before school started trip. After not having the boat out since April for the CDC tournement. Its was nice to be back on the water for a change. Hit the water about 7. That was to late but you have to have bait when you have kids with you. Even at that the bit was non existant. 5hrs of lines flinging every direction produce 1 whopper. A large mouth that tipped the scales at 2oz. Thats right folks. Should have gone to the Delta. But it was great to have the boys out for a male bonding day. Geez, never want to have beans with dinner the night before!! We did have 1 contest today, you figure it out. But as the old saying goes. A bad day of fishing is better than your best day at work. AMEN!! Never a bad day when your with your family. By the way, that lake is the lowest I have ever seen it. Pray for rain soon. Dog days of summer for sure. See ya all in January at the first Big Valley 100% tourney. Yes, we will be back next year after a 2 year hiadis.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Wish I had some. Maybe next time. But we will be back to Lake Success. But today we had none.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After spending a little while going through the muscle inspection, we finally got on the water at around 8:30. Starting just south of the boat ramp, we caught several small fish on jigs and drop shots, nothing over 14

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

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

      Report: Can't believe I actually tried to fish it with all the construction going on. Nothing but muddy boots.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Maybe the cats are biting.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 75 plus in spot

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Cottage Grove with my 2 1/2 year old son. Boy did we have a cool day! We launched up the creek and putted over to the spot my friend got a 3.7 off of last Friday. We made about a dozen casts and then the wind had drifted us into the exact spot I was lookin' for. I made a cast to within a foot or two of where he got the fish. It didn't even get to the bottom! A nice hard smack- 2 second delay and wham... fish on! I got the rod down in front of my boy so he could feel it pull and try to help reel it in. He was pretty excited and curious. I netted the fish and when I swung it in the boat he looked down and acted like he wanted to touch it. I lipped it and got the jig out. It flopped hard and then he looked a bit scared of it. I wrestled the camera out and tried to take a decent photo of him and the fish but of course you can only see 1/2 the fish and it's covering the boys face! The coolest part was when I went to weigh it. I went to stick it under the right side of the lower lip and there was already a hole there. Then I weighed it and it was 3.8 and 19" long. I can't be absolutely positive but I'm pretty darn sure this was the same bass my friend released 3 days earlier. Same spot, same lure, same pole, almost same time of day, same hard bite. I am already a catch and release guy but this one really made my day. And I hope it will be a memory that will stay with my little guy forever. Didn't catch any more but with some help from the wind (Rocked him to sleep) and remembering to bring a pillow and blanket he was able to get a nice hour long nap while I drifted and covered some water. All in all a really great dad and son day. Looking forward to many more of those. Now my 5 year old daughter who is very competitive wants to go out and catch a 4 pound bass- Honey , looks like we gotta take the boat out again....sorry! Wink, wink!
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Don't be afraid to take a young 'un out in the boat. Get a good fitting life jacket, hat and glasses and cover 'em with sunscreen. My son has been really good. He likes to wander around the boat and look at the cupholders, sit down and drive- well turn the steering wheel and make the sounds, and sometimes he just sits down and enjoys the scenery. He'll stand in front of me for several casts and help me reel it in but gets a bit bored if a bass doesn't grab the lure. He did try to throw the net overboard or maybe he was just trying to dip it and get another big bass! Either way he wasn't too happy when I took it away.

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: STPLL WARM UP T

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The last couple of weekends I found that trolling for bass has been the most
      productive. Early morning I like to troll in 8 to 10 feet with a minus lure that
      dives about one foot and as the sun goes over head I go into deeper water
      (20 to 30 feet) and use a deeper diving lure that goes 6 to 10 feet down. The
      shallower lure closer to shore. While trolling on my son's pontoon boat with my
      daughter-in-law (see photos) our score within an hour was three bass each.
      I took our friend Terry and her two sons and daughter out for a couple of hours
      on my boat (I have included a photo of my boat for those who have asked me
      what kind of boat I use - a Lund fully loaded). We trolled and had a great day
      catching bass with the kids (see photo). I spent one evening in my favorite cove
      and I decided to only use a top water lure. Within an hour's time I had eight
      nice size bass. Bad part of story is that I threw my favorite top water 'chugger'
      into about two feet of water where I saw some activity and sure enough a fish
      devoured the lure and dragged it to some bushes, my line snapped trying to reel
      him in and alas the lure never surfaced. I waited for quite awhile and it never
      did come up. I had that 'chugger' for at least twelve years and it caught me
      a lot of nice bass even though I have another like it, it's just not the same.
      'til next week............................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!!
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      City: NAPA

      Tips: ENJOY BERRYESSA DAY OR NIGHT FISHIG

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow I went camping for 5 days and it was dead on that water. No one caught anything first few days. There was a 7 1/4 lb in the morning on a night crawler and on my second to last day I caught some 5 pounders and one 3. mostly on robo's that I literally had to leave out there for 1 hour before a got a hit. Bass where full of shad and for good reason because the lake is filled with them. Use your loudest lures and buzz baits also use a strong attractant for that extra dirty water. I used scent on my girlfriends night crawler and she was catching perch when no one else was.
      City: OC

      Tips: loud shad like baits. I used a chatter bait in shad color and scent with my worms. even started putting flukes on my buzz baits. TOP WATER is dead right now so hit them in the mid 10 to 20 feet of water weightless worms for a slow fall. If you can get a hold of some live shad that is the way to go but I did better with my slow buzz and chatter baits. Good luck!

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the dock and ready to go at 6am Scott, Ed, and their sons Patrick and Sam packed into my boat and headed from Konocti Harbor to Anderson Island. The first hour of the day provided steady action. We caught around 10 fish on dropshots and spinnerbaits. As the sun got a little higher the bite slowed a bit, but we still managed to pick up a fish here and there. Fishing any outside weed lines in about 12 feet of water that were near rock piles seemed to be the most productive pattern that I could find. After meeting up with a friend at noon so that we could split up into 3 people per boat, we spent the rest of the day fishing around the narrows. The wind kicked up a bit and we caught a few more fish on blades and shad colored crankbaits. The total count for the day was around 25 fish with the biggest going only 3.5 pounds. On Sunday we fished from Pirates Cove to Red Bud Park. Throwing frogs and poppers in the morning, we had a few blow up

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

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The report posted below was meant for Lake Anderson on August 11. My mistake
      City: San Bruno

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After spending a little while going through the muscle inspection, we finally got on the water at around 8:30. Starting just south of the boat ramp, we caught several small fish on jigs and drop shots, nothing over 14

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

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: Warm:)

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I just went to Del Valle to test my 1975 open bow family boat that I put a new steering wheel and steering cable assemby in and of course while I was there I tried the bass and it was slow for me but I did not start until 12:00 so I missed the AM bite, got one 2lber on a watermellon candy 6 inch worm drop shotting in about 2.5 hrs and said OK let see if we can get some trout and got 4 to 18 inches on rainbow power bait, Hey I am a bass fisherman but some times you got to do what you got to do to keep the boy happy.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I would try the south end with senkos and top water early, the water is a little more stained in the south end and fish should not be as skidish, the north end where I fished you could see 8-12 feet down, look like lake Mead, OK lake Mead you can see down 20-30:)To bad you have to be off the water by 7:00 pm because I bet a popper would kill them in coves at dusk. Spoke to a guy that could not launch his Ranger bass boat because it had little water in the live well, if you are not bone dry you will not get on the lake unless you have a band they give you connected to your trailor and boat, He fished from the bank by the docks and got one bass there so you can catch bass from the bank:)

  • Oregon
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well i guess i am the only one who fishes imigrant anymore, so here you have. 30 to 35 fish one 4.3lm and 3 other lm between 2.5 and 3 pounds. The biggest small mouth was 2 pounds but most were rats. Threw swimmbaits,dropshots,jigs, blades, and darter head worms. It really didn't seem to matter. Then the skiers started to show up and the typical emigrant wind started to blow so we got off the water about 11:15am.
      City: medford

      Tips: I am pretty sure i saw other bass boats out there so how about some reports.

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

      Report: Well the fishing has been good! On sun, the rangers were out @ noon when i got there so stayed in the main lake and dropshoted 10 fish up to 3.5lbs on the main channal drop off in 26ft-44ft then went shallow white on white blades for 6 more with one over 6lbs on rock piles just inside bays in 8-12ft.Mon, went noth and had my bet day in months with 20+ fish and three over 4lbs all on blades white on white.Tuse,same as mon bite without the large fish so i tryed wakey rigging for the first time in open water and it payed off with a 5lbr and lots of rats.Thrs, got the girl friend out to catch some blade fish and she did great with 5 fish for 9lbs not bad i spent my time teaching and back seat driving .She learnd baitcasters and the tm that day and cought limit in a bikini!!! Im in love .
      City: roseville

      Tips: Look for spots with isolated bolders with deep water on one side and not the other and slow roll blades or cb also.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I've got a great idea for a documentary. Next year starting on July 1st I can find a fellow fishing addict who likes to run a video camera and he can film every fishing trip for 40 days. We could call it 40 Days/40 Fish. Or wait...40 Days/60 Fish! Yeah I like the sound of that better. You could open to the sound of an alarm going off at 4 AM. Zoom in on my ugly mug and see the smile that appears when I realize it's not a dream- I'm going fishin' ! It would be at least as exciting as that "Documentary on Mullosks" that Monty Python was always mentioning. You could also maybe try to give it that "Hoop Dreams" flavor. Any fishing/film students out there want to waste a month of their life....fishing and um...filming? Imagine for a moment the excitement of watching someone take 3 tries to attempt to tie the perfect uni to uni knot- spellbinding!! The touching scene where a father and his young daughter tie up some new jigs! The cussin filled moment (properly bleeped of course) when I snap off yet another good bass. If we got really lucky maybe we could get Brad Paisley to do the background music. He'd probably be up for some bass fishin'! I wonder if Herve Villachez is still alive- "Look boss- de bassboat, de bassboat!"
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Quit clogging this website with silly ideas.

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: winds started early and picked up heavily after 10am. Made fishing tough from a pontoon tube as I was getting blown all over. Managed 3 fish while fighting the unusual morning wind gusts. Found the fish deeper today relating to rocky bottoms.

      Tips: only 5 boats at Anderson today? Very weird day indeed.