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Sunday, July 20th, 2008

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hi everyone!!! This is my first fishing report since before Memorial Day weekend
      when I became ill and had to have a quadrupel bypass. Fortunately I am recovering
      well and eager to get back to fishing on my own. This past weekend was a full moon
      but my family will not allow me to take my boat out yet. My son found a cove in the
      Narrows where he beached his pontoon boat and spent the day. Just for fun they put
      out a couple of rods with hotdogs for bait and scored seven catfish and three carp.
      Saturday my wife and I joined our son and his wife on their boat and headed towards
      the same cove. Unfortunatley that spot was taken so we found a similar cove. Using my
      wife's secret formula of corn meal and vanilla extract I lay on the back of the pontoon
      boat enjoying the sunshine and holding on to the fishing rod. Everyone else was in the
      water when I got hit big time. I yelled for help (I'm still a little weak when it comes to
      reeling in a big guy) and my daughter-inlaw reeled the fish in for me and my son netted
      it. It turned out to be a six pound carp which gave us a great fight on four pound test
      line and light rod. When we got back to the marina I stayed at my boat and fished for
      awhile. I was joined by Nick and Scott and we had fun catching carp to eight pounds.
      I am very proud of Nick. He is ten years old and he caught three good size carp and
      his friend Scott helped him net the fish. That evening Nadar and his cousin caught five
      catfish no size to speak of on hotdogs. Nick and all his friends caught a carp near the
      cabin on hotdogs. My neighbor at the Marina and his father went out to the east side
      of the lake today (Sunday) and trolled between 20 and 30 feet using a lure that went
      down six to eight feet and caught twelve bass up to 2.5 pounds. Last week using the
      same system they caught a five and an eight pounder. Hopefully I will be able to start
      using my boat again by this weekend and have some great stories to share with you.
      'til next week...........................................good fishing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share
      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: health #1 fishing #1 lake berressa #1 catching fish bonus

  • California
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      Water Temp: 81-83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Galaxie Marine Junior Bass Masters fished a tournament today. With light wind and good water, most of them used darter head with a worm or a grub. Drop shot and a Texas rig also was one way to catch those dinks. Crankin and a spinner bait in the morning wind. With a three fish limit the winning weight was 3.80 lbs. Not bad for these young Anglers.
      If you know of any young anglers ages from 11-18 that want to get into a club and fish once a mounth, just e mail me. we have a great time too.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: fish slow and bring lots of worms,lizards and time.

  • Idaho
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      Water Temp: 76 to 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It got hot fast. To much for these old men. See ya in Sep.
      City: Boise

      Tips: Look deep, bring shade & drinks or wait till it cools off.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 73-78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I've been out four times this week. One pre- fish two with clients and one all night Anglers Choice Tournament. At best, the fishing has been really good but the smoke was still out in the begining of the week. As of now, the smoke has cleared and you can have a great day on the lake. In the morning we used top water spooks and vixons. They have been very productive and the colors really didn't matter. Tubes, senko's, jigs and drop shots are all working. At night, top water vixons were working as well as the spinner baits in any color. All trips had from 6 to 8 over and the two biggest were 2.5 and 2.9. The whole lake has been fishing well.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: If you have not been fishing any top water, start your morning off and throw some. The bite has been awesome. After the sun hits the water start going deeper with any of the methods above and try some lipless crank bait in the afternoon. You will get some of the hardest hits youv'e had all year.

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

      Report: hey b ure right. that is kinda pointless haha. its not like someones gonna steal all ure fish if you reveal ure lake and lure.
      City: pleasaonton

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing from the bank when they opened at 8:00 am. 15 minutes later, near the small dam close to the launch ramp, I got a 7+ lber on a buzzbait! Kept throwing the buzz, but that bite must have been slowing down as I got no more takers.

      Switched to a green pumpkin senko T-rigged weightless and got a couple near the big dam around 10:30. One of those went 3.5 lbs. All fish caught fishing the near in weed line that is castable from the shoreline.

      Too bad they won't let you in earlier than 8:00 am!
      City: Mt View

      Tips: Topwater early, senko when the sun gets higher. Fish on the shady edges of the weeds.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well this is 1 lake that needs more info, so here we go.The son And I had a club tourny (33 boats),(6hrs),and (103 degrees).I was the gate and did not prefish so had to go off of history. That being said since 32 other boats went before me, my choices where limited. I ran to the North fork on the long wall to the left just before the Marina and stared crankin and top water about 15min I got a huge blow up on my Zara and missed, threw back and missed again, one more time and hooked up just to lose it at the boat and get a good look at it(solid 4 lbr). Then I got to watch a club member set the hook and fight a 11 lbr and get it in the boat. So I knew I was in a good spot and stayed there for about 2 hrs I got 2 fish from there(3 1/2 & 1 1/2). The place was loaded with shad and the fish were coming out of the flume to the flat to feed, but I couldn't wait so I ran around crying. I finally ended up at 3 rocks area and my son put another 2 fish (3 1/2 & 2)in the boat and I graphed fish in 10 feet threw a drop shot an stuck 3 more keepers to cull a limit. All of this within 10 minutes. Ok here's the deal: if your crankin you should catch fish early but the bite is there all day. Back at the scales it took 26 lbs to win, 2 people caught 11+. Crankin, jigs, dropshot, brushhogs, and finess all do the trick. We ended up with 12 1/2 lbs so it's all were you go and what you through. Oh yea and some luck too.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Earlier the better, up close say 15' to bank, points and flats, look for bait, shad and craw pattern. Good luck and keep your line wet.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished sat for six hours. fishing was excellant.
      we caught around 30 spotted bass on any rocky point or rock wall.
      City: Taft

      Tips: Use jigs (natural color) or TD minnows (shad pattern)

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 5:30am fished till 3pm. My brother and I landed total of seven fish three smallies and four LARGE MOUTH BASS. Im not too familiar with the lake but hear from guys who fish it frequently say that there are no spotted bass in pardee. Man I am not sure what to think at this point LOL. Anyhow Most of my fish came from dropshotting roboworms oxblood w/redflakes at around 5-20 feet of water. four of the seven was caught on craw color jigs deepest fish caught on jig was at 25-80 feet (my brother caught one at that depth dont have to believe me but its true) BTW there are mud-lines if you can call it that there are clay deposits in the earth and it creates a merky light brown color stain in the water I spotted two of them along the arms of the lake fished them with no luck.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: after the morning bite jig deep for fish as temps rise they go deeper.

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The water temp I put in was supposed to read "warm as our pool", not warm as our poo. First we had the deal where they dropped the f's out of the reports for a while and now they're losing the the l's at the funniest possible time. What next- the b out of bass! Bye.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

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      Water Temp: warm as our poo

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Cottage Grove the 16th, 17th and 19th. Did not get a bite the first two days. Saturday I got there about 5:35AM. There was only one boat at the main ramp but there was a tourney going on because I saw a few bass boats blasting around the lake with the lime green band around the motor. They must have launched up the creek. I walked to my first spot and tossed a topwater for about 12 casts. The way all the fry have been acting the last week I thought the Sammy in the baby bass color would have worked but it didn't. So I tossed out my brown/green jig and within 3 casts got a good bite. There was a small tap and then my line started going tight. The fish fought hard and wrapped a few weeds around it head. It weighed 2 lbs., 10 oz. and was 18" long. Fished there for about 8 more casts and couldn't get a bite. Decided to cover some water. Went back to the car and drove to another spot I like. Again tossed the topwater for 7 or 8 casts with the same result. Went back to the jig and got a real hard bite. Set hard and fought the fish to the shore. It looked quite a bit bigger than the 1st one but only went 3 lb., 5 oz. on the scale. It was 19" long. I added them up and the last 15 bass total 46 lbs., 12 oz. for a 3 lb., 1 oz. average. I knew if they'd fill this beautiful lake up with water the fish would bite great. They sure seem to like those jigs I've been tossing them.
      City: yoncalla, oregon

      Tips: Go fishing as often as you can because the daylights already shrinking. The day will come when I don't have enough light to go fish before work. And what a sad day that is every year! Make the most of summer and don't forget that this fall should be some fantastic fishing. I like to toss topwaters, jerkbaits and maybe a little bit of that jig also. Be safe on the water!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I also fished the full moon Friday night. This was a 2 part trip. One to go diving and retrieve a pole I had lost several weeks ago. After finding the pole we started fishing at about 7pm. Caught several fish on the frog one at 6 1/2lbs,5lbs and one at 4lbs. Other topwater fish were caught on a yellow and white knuckle head. They wiould not touch a Fluke this time. A slow retrieve with long pauses. After the sun went down we switched up to a dropshot and small tube setup. Caught another dozen + fish from 1 1/2-3lbs. Left at about 1230am.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Frog, cast on shore and pop into water around the left over weeds seemed to trigger the strikes. The worm fish were caught on 4/1/2 robo worms im MM3 and the soft shell crawdad pattern.Tube fish wer caught on the shear drop offs .Set up parrallel to the bank. It seems that the fish are suspening in the deeper water moving up to feed.

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      Water Temp: 81 to 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: my brothers and I decided to try our luck on some night fishing on the full moon we got on the water at 10pm started with top water poppers buzz baits frogs with no luck.then we tried 12 inch power worms brush hogs and robo worms we caught our first fish at about 3 am but didnt measure we didnt catch our next fish until 5am on a margarita mutilator but it didnt measure either we finally caught a 5 lbs LM on a droppshot MM we caught a total of 19 fish 2 5 pounders and the rest didnt make the cut all the fish were so warm if they were any hotter they would of been poached.
      City: carmichael

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

      Report: I fished the night tournament on Saturday night and the water conditions remain unchanged. The wind blew all day so when my partner and I got on the water we started with cranks. We had a limit in 30-45 minutes but once the sun went down we struggled for the rest of the evening.I caught a buzzbait fish and another crank fish around midnight and again we struggled. Last place my partner caught two fish on worms and we came to the scales with a meager 12+ pounds. Hats off to those who found the better fish as all the teams weighed in limits.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: Shad colored cranks during daylight/ crawfish colored at night. Fished parallel to bank just on the tops of the wood. Black buzzbait was my only topwater fish.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey frank I went to to the lake a few weeks ago I went down to the nice area and yes the lake was reel low there and lots of weeds so much that had problems with my motor boging down , also had problems launching boat there , so we went out of the oak public launch site and had no problems their didnt get to the konocti side so I can't tell you about that we didn't get on the water till about 10 am we only picked up a few in the 2 to 3 lbs range on plastics drop shotting tons of bait fish I have never seen so many bait fish in my life. in fact when you threw your lure in they would start jumping and it looked like it was raining good luck if you need some body to go with you give me an E-mail good luck , also weeds are not near as bad on oaks south side of lake
      City: Carmichael

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      Water Temp: 77-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After "rescuing" my southern Calif clients last Sunday (thanks for the nice report!), I had a new experience at Clear Lake - a pro fly-fisherman who threw neat looking bass patterns the whole trip. I knew the bite would be tough for him with the weeds and deeper fish. He would have done well 2 months ago! Anyway, he missed a couple and did land one right off the tip of Buckingham Point. I fished Senkos (301,330) trying to find shallow fish for him and caught about 10 - nothing over 3 1/4 lbs.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: What fish I found were in isolated clumps of weeds about 8 to 12 feet deep. Actually, the best bite was after 11 am. Weird year!

  • Jackson County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a couple trips to Lost Creek Recently, I would recommend the evening, one evening got a 4.1 lb smallie on a zara, other evening a 3.9, 3.1, 2.5 on buzzbaits and spinnerbaits as well as a bunch of dinks. I havent fished lost creek at first light, but I bet the bite is good as well.
      City: medford

      Tips: Evenings with big spinnerbaits, buzzbaits or zara spooks

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took my little girls, 5 and 10 years old out in search of salmon and bass. We found 70 feet of water and dropped bait down and immediately hooked a salmon. This went on for two hours until we had 15 of them and we stopped. Awesome time and my little girls reeled their arms off. There was very little waiting for action. The bass fishing started around noon and the only bites I could get were in 20-25 feet when I found bait. We caught a dozen with the last few very close to the dam where the bait was stacked from top to bottom. Bass caught on drop shot 4"worms. I caught 3 largemouth as well and I beieive a real smallmouth too.

      Tips: I don't beleive I burned 2 gallons of boat gas. I just fished the main body points you can see from bidwell.

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at noon. Despite the high winds, there were still quite a few boats on the lake. We started off the day throwing dropshots and jigs way up north, and picked up a few 1-2 pounders. The south facing banks that were protected from the wind had a significant amount of weed growth. Some off the deeper weed beds, 10 ft +, were holding fish. Trying to catch some larger fish, we moved south past the bridge. Usually this is quite a productive area, but today it was dead. The last few hours we fished main lake points with rock. Fishing jigs at around 20-25 feet, we caught 10 bass including one a little over 3 pounds. Then just before heading in I caught a nice 4 pounder on a popper while fishing a steep rock wall.
      City: San Bruno

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

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took an 11 year old future bass pro from Georgia - visiting his aunt and uncle. All four of us had a very nice trip, especially watching the lad land many bass with his very solid hookset. The fishing was good enough in the narrows to spend our day there. The bite was a little slower than previous trips and I felt slower summer fishing has settled in (night fishing being better). He landed 7 or 8, uncle got a few, aunt missed a few, and I landed 6 or 7. We caught all three species but nothing over 2 lbs 3 oz. Couldn't seem to get the drop-shot bites going - caught all of them split-shotting 4 and 6 inch Robo and Power worms. Points were the best structure we found and the fish were about 15 to 20 feet deep.
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: I found a few schools of shad but couldn't find any feeding bass in them. They might have hit a spoon but I didn't have any on board. We had a short window of action yesterday - best bite was only about 3 hours - 9 am to noon. Don't know why.