Fishing Report

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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

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

      Report: I havent been to Don Pedro really , only my second trip....and I went in the middle of the day, with my son...so my fishing was half-hearted to say the least.....but Thought it worth mentioning that we saw several 1.5" crawdads light green with orange tipped claws and tails. Might help you guys match the hatch.
      City: Atwater

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Cottage Grove on the 30th, 31st and Aug. 1st. The amazing fishing doesn't seem to be letting up. I fished 2 of the same spots that I hit last weekend. I got a 4 lb.,3 oz. from the first spot and a 3 lb, 2 oz. from the 2nd spot. On the 31st I got up real early and made it to the lake at just about the crack of dawn. I saw my line jump on the 3rd cast of the day and then it started tightening up. Set the hook and missed! I let the jig drop and 15 seconds later another bite- set and nothing! Now I'm beginning to wonder if it could be the huge beaver I scared off as I walked up to my spot. It wasn't happy and slapped his tail hard as it dove under and swam off. I let the jig drop again and didn't have much hope of getting lucky 3 times. Tap-tap! Who's there? Five pound, 2 ounce bass- 21 1/2" long! Only took about 20 seconds to get it in- it bit about 15 feet from shore in about 2-3 feet of water. I was still in a great mood the next morning. I got there early again on Aug. 1st. I got a 3 lb., 10 oz.- 19" from the 5.2 spot at 6AM sharp. And then tried 2 other spots and couldn't get another bite. All these fish came on the jig- I didn't even bother carrying a second rod this week- the jig is working that well. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll get the boat out twice next week- once with the daughter and once alone to see if I can break that 16.5 limit. What would really be cool is if she broke my record herself.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: From June 30th through Aug. 1st I've caught 33 bass for 100 pounds and 13 ounces. All but 2 came on a jig. This is by far the best month I've ever had! I'm hoping August beats it. The bite is still going strong and I've got a great supply of jigs and a half dozen good spots that are flat out producing. I'll try my best to get the boat out at least once a week- every week.I'll keep the reports coming but you need to get out there and fish. And punch up a report or two would ya!? It would be nice to know if someone else is having a good month.

Friday, August 1st, 2008

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: remind me never to try fishing on Labor Day ever again! By 11am the lake was a circus. Boats and Jetskiers hugging the shorlines trying to get some space from other boaters made staying in the water motionless very dangerous.

      Tips: Thought gas prices would deter some boaters from making it out, how stupid am I!?

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge Thursday around 5pm after work. Threw Senkos and Crankbaits, Caught 6, biggest was on my new combo i bought at Bass Pro Shops, a 5.11 pounder, first fish on that reel and rod! Then launched again Friday morning at 7:00am, Fished the tules, docks, and rock walls, and picked up to more hawgs on the new reel and rod! A 4.7 and a 7.2 pounder, (My personal best!) within ten minutes of each other. This pole is on fire! We caught 10 fish total for the day.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Buy a new combo from Bass Pro Shops, specifically the new Abu Garcia Reel. Make good casts, and make sure to understand the tide and where to fish at what times. Best fishing was when tide was going out.

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day for me. Tossed frogs, buzzbait, jigworm,cranks, nothing.Saw a bunch of them busting on top, but no takers. Water was very stained with algae everywhere I went. One guy said he caught four.
      City: Oxnard

      Tips: No important info. sorry

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 days a few hrs a day. Caught fish up to 8 lbs on Frogs, Rico's, Gunfish, Crankbaits and Jigs. Most fish were cookie cutter 2-3 lbers but had a blast. caught 25 fish first day, over 12 the second and about 8 on 3rd day. First night there I stuck the 8 lber on Tweetie with in the fist 10 min and my 6 year old and 4 year old boys were freaking out.
      City: Windsor

      Tips: Throw the tackle box at them!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started off at sunrise at jago Bay. No action on topwater frogs or spooks. Started throwing a wacky 4" Senko and caught a few small ones. Then surprisingly caught a 5.12 on it. Caught a few more on a sweet beaver bait. The action really slowed after about 10am. Had a few good slams on a Huddleston but couldn't hook any. Fished mainly north end. Best 5 maybe 18#'s.
      City: Y.C.

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

      Report: caught about 7 bass with my cousin today using inflated night crawlers. Spent about 4 hours this evening, and got a lot of bigger fish. Most ranging in the 2-3lb range and one 4lber and one 5lber caught by my cousin. the big one measured 27 inches.

      Tips: good eating tonight!!!

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

      Report: Great day at folsom thurs,got to the lake around noon .Went north and found a great topwater bite.Fist place i went i couhght two on in one cast on bone white vixen a 5 and a 3! Got 6 more all on topwater best five went 18lbs .
      City: roseville

      Tips: Mid day has been paying off for me .Most fish came in 12ft of water with isolated rock piles .Fish were hitting on the pause so let the spook sit for 10-20 secs and hold on!!

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Visalia Bass Club tournament results from the Friday night event. Fished from 7pm till 1 am. 1st place Isaac and Josh Adams 11.69 lbs. 2nd Darl Head & George Rosales 10.75 lbs. 3rd Bill Reeves & Ray Gauerke 10.14 lbs. Big Fish Randy Burger & Sark Davidian 5.43 lbs. 35 teams with 26 weighing in total fish weighed was 80 with weight of 133lbs had 6 limits. next tounamnet Pine Flat Sat Sept. 13th
      City: Visalia

      Tips: fishing was slow, most fish caught up river using jigs and drop shot.
      some caught around dam and rock points using crank baits.

      Good Luck

  • California
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      Water Temp: aprox 80 degree

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the sunday before the first and on the first of August. Got on the water about 8ish. Fished everywhere...the coves, deep water, shallow water, brush, weeds, the dam. Fished spinnerbaits, dd22s, jig and pigs, carolina rigs w/lizards, drop shop with various baits, different swimbait sizes and colors, tossed a castaic 8 inch trout.........nothing. No fish at all on sunday. On the first of august I caught a huge bluegill on a white spinnerbait, and hooked a bass smaller then the blue gill two casts later but it got off. No other bites, no follows, nothing. Saw absolutely TONS of bass fry, looked like millions no exaderation. No matter where you were on the lake you would see so many schools of the fry, which frustrated me like crazy cause there had to be tons of largemouth mommy and daddys in the water somewhere. Really dissapointing being that my roommate just got a boat and I was excited to go bass fishing on this lake that I have only shore fished on with the exception of one time I went in my float tube and nabbed 7 largemouths in the cove we went to on both those days. Horrible fishing, but better than any day at work!!! Will try it again soon...or maybe the forebay since theres stripers in there too. Good luck to anyone who tries....and dont even think about trout fishing there, no one has caught any since spring.
      City: Los Banos

      Tips: Use your sonar, and have a good sonar. Find good deep underwater structure holding fish, or locate schools of shad and fish em. Good luck to anyone brave enough to try...study your tactics.

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

      Report: That is correct... but only for freshwater clams, crawfish, minnows, sculpin, etc... NOT trout, Bluegill, other Sunfish, etc...

      Tips: Get a regulations pamphlet and read up...

  • California
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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried the frog until 11:00 A.M... No bites. Fished
      fished edges of weedlines Florida rigged plastics
      and got bit quick 5lb and 6lb in a matter of minutes. Back to frogs about 3 P.M and found some.
      City: San Luis Obispo

      Tips: Everything looks good... More weeds than I've seen
      in years. You can scratch a good limit just have to make lots of casts, cover water and move around.

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

      Report: frogs has died down starting last week in arroyo and island. id stick with plastics and floating jerkbaits. also i saw a 17+ pound CATFISH in island pond today. yes, it was a catfish. i was in 2 ft. of water and was litterally at my feet. it was just chillin' there and i tried snagging it, but got away How these catfish come about. this is my 2nd sighting of a catfish there.
      caught 2 all punchin' mats with 1/2 oz. sweetbeaver. no biggies just small fries at the most west end of arroyo and the most north end of island.

      Tips: heavy weighted plastics to punch through the mats, and floating jerbaits (shad rap, lc, etc) also floating crankbaits. frogs work very little these 2 weeks, weeds has died down substantially. LOTS of small bass fry. (maybe use bass imitation lures? i ve used shad imitations works good).

      Im the asian dude with a red outcast float tube probably with 2 other asians one that has fake oakleys and a wife beater and another one who has a crappy fish finder that he rubberbanded to his tube.

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had the pleasure of taking Bud Neville of Western Outdoor News to Berryessa for some late afternoon and night fishing, helping him with a story he is going to do on this great lake. Unfortunately, the lake wasn't as great as my previous trip. We worked hard for our 18 or so bass which were mostly on the small size because of the cooler summer weather the past few days. Really good night fishing is alway best when we experience hot days - not days in the 80's. The most disappointing thing was the big blowup I had on a Sammy just before dark. She missed!! I never felt the fish but she was big - moved a lot of water! Our biggest was a nice largemouth at 2 3/4 lbs taken on a MMIII Robo worm. She was not camera shy - jumped several times! All of our night bass were typical cool night type bass up to 1 3/4 lbs. We did quit a little after midnight and the bite might have picked up but I doubt it. The delta breeze never stopped and that moist, cool air is usually the kiss of death for a quality night bite. Berkley Power worms and Robo worms were our best baits. I did hook one on a crankbait about 6 pm near Goat Island but lost it near the boat.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: We did some night fishing around the "former" Berryessa Marina and Rancho Monticello. All was quiet and dark. Never saw another boat or heard the sound of people after dark. Very sad!! Some of you tell me you are interested in my obsevations of carp rolling or other outdoor experiences that are happening when a bite is very good or not so good. Once again, I noticed (and Bud did too) that there wasn't a sound last night. Not a single fish was working, no bird sounds, an occasional frog and one lone muskrat type thing. The lake was simply dead with the heavy air - we even had to put on a jacket. Always interesting to me how consistant this pattern is. On the bright side (at night?!), no smoke and the stars were fabulous!

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

      Report: No report- we got skunked. They are dropping the water level like a city stole it.
      City: Loma

      Tips: Treat people with a headnood and move on, like you wish to be treated. There are MANY places to fish from shore !!

      Sherman Is (free carpool with 3 or more within the aloted times), Jersey Is with a $30 parking pass, Down the southern banks of Cruiser Haven, Rock Slough, Antioch anywhere on 2and St.

      --- You just gotta think outside the box knowing that you will run into all types no matter where you go.......

  • California
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On Thursday, July 22, there was a report to the San Benito County Board of Supervisors by the multi-agency task force (federal, state, and county agencies) working on the mussel infestation of San Justo Reservoir.

      Overall strategy is to control the infestation this year; eradicate the mussels next year.

      Priority is water use for agricultural and municipal needs. Recreational use is secondary.

      Basic approach for eradicating the mussels is to lower the lake level (short of completely draining it) and then apply potash (potassium chloride) at a proper concentration to kill the mussels but not be harmful to other organisms (fish, birds, vegetation, etc.). If the potash were to be applied with the lake full, it would cost millions of dollars. By lowering the lake level, the cost of potash application can be reduced to the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

      Since the water in the lake is valuable ($200 per acre foot and there are 7500 acre feet when the lake is full, so the water is worth $1,500,000), the lowering of the lake must be coordinated with the seasonal needs of the water for agricultural purposes so it is not wasted.

      A water district consultant is developing a detailed, coordinated Work Plan for dealing with all issues simultaneously, including water allocations, protecting the resource for the future, eradicating the mussels, minimizing migration downstream, minimizing traffic impact caused by potash delivery trucks, and concerns that areas exposed by dropping lake levels where there are leakages are also addressed and leakages repaired.

      Time line is 1) completion of environmental assessment of use of potash this fall 2) Soliciting bids for the potash and its application; 3) Award the contract for application of potash; 4) Apply the potash in April or May 2009, but may be later; 5) Allow 45 days for potash to work on eradicating the mussels; 6) Do testing to ensure the mussels have been eradicated (or mostly so); 7) then, if it was successful, the lake could be opened again for recreational use, maybe by the fall of 2009.

      Further info about the mussel infestations in California is at www.dfg.ca.gov/invasives/quaggamussel/
      City: Monterey

      Tips: During the Environmental Assessment, there will be opportunities for public comment. Although recreational use of the lake is a secondary priority, it wouldn't hurt if some of us showed up at the public hearings and commented on our concerns about the bass population of San Justo and its potential for producing a world record bass.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

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

      Report: Fished for 3 hours today from pontoon. 2 bass both just under 4 lbs. on wackey rigged senko. Also 2 catfish about 5 lbs. each on same rig. Missed a very large bass on lunker punker in trout pattern. Fish boiled on it and then tossed it. Also have had a lot more luck at sunrise lately fly fishing the rocky banks. I have been catching trout to 4 lbs. on ant patterns and Bass to 3+ on shad streamers and grass hopper patterns.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Fish the offshore weedlines. Fish seem to be cruising the outer edges on the deep water side. All activity was in water 5' or deeper.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boy what a tough day!!! I went out with my buddy Shane and I got backseated. Shane brought in fish after fish (decent ones, too) with the biggest going 5lbs. I failed to keep my line in the water- tangled line, breakoffs and trying to find the right worm. As we headed to the launch ramp Shane smelt a distinct odor...the skunk sitting next to him.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Don't talk smack to the guy in the front of the boat...he ultimately controls your fishing destiny!!!

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

      Report: Thanks John that is very useful information. I
      have some friends headed up there middle next
      month. Can you clarify that currently there
      are no inspections for mussels at Trinity?

      Thanks again
      City: San Jose