Fishing Report
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
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Contra Loma Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: caught 2 fish by the boat launch 1 small 1 pounder in the back part where all of those tullies are, caught it on a white fluke. Then on the boat dock caught a 3 pounder on a black brown jig with a black red flek beaver, it hit it on the fall. then missed a 2 ponder that was cruising. then caught one at the channel point dock on a jig.(fernando i think it was your fish because i caught it on the same spot you were at.) then i went for catfish and caught 4.
City: THA PTips: fish were hitting my lures on the fall.
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Pardee Lake
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Water Temp: 75 to 78
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Launched at 4:30 in the morning with my uncle. Fished around the dock areas before safelight. Stuck a 2.5 lbs. blackie with white bomber crankbait. At safe light, we went back river and caught a few in the 2 lbs. range of both smallies and blacks dropshotting aaron's magic roboworms. Came back to the main by 9:30 and found about close to 20 more fish in the 2+ lbs. range spooning and dartheading. Biggest fish was 3 lbs. 13 oz. on a darterhead. Best five went close to 15 lbs. Good day on the water.
City: SacramentoTips: Don't forget shad colored plastics and aaron's magic worms. Most fish were spitting out shad so you know what that means.
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Pyramid Lake
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Water Temp: 78
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Caught spinner bait fish, fishing the outside of the weedline that encompasses the lake. A couple of fish on darterhead grubs, splitshotting and drop shot.
City: BurbankTips: Throw shad type baits.
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Temp: 72 TO 74
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: WOW 4.59 FOR A GALLON OF GAS. HALF MY CRANKBAITS DIDNT COST THAT MUCH.IT WAS A VERY NICE DAY ON TUESDAY WITH NO PRESSURE ON THE LAKE. SAW ONE OTHER BOAT ALL DAY.FISHED YORTY CREEK TO THE MAIN LAKE QUICKLY SO I COULD GET TO THE MAIN LAKE EARLY.CAUGHT A FEW FISH ON GRASS GREEN PUMPKIN SENKOS DID THE TRICK.ONCE I GOT TO THE MAIN LAKE THE WIND STARTED TO PICK UP.I FISHED THE DOWN TO LONG POINT WITH A WHITE SPINNERBAIT WITH SMALL THUMB SIZE COLORADO BLADES. ALMOST EVERY BUSH AND TREE HAD FISH IN THEM.THE BIGGEST WAS CLOSE TO 5 POUNDS SEVERAL IN THE 2TO 3 CLASS.WHEN I FINALLY GOT TO THE POINT IT WAS ALMOST 9 AM AND THE WIND WAS BLOWING NORTH ACROSS THE FRONT OF THE POINT.I SWITCHED TO ANOTHER ROD WITH SPOOK JR IN BABY BASS AND WHAMO.FIRST CAST TO THE POINT A 3 POUND SMALLMOUTH INHALED THE SPOOK I CAUGHT TWO MORE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE BEFORE THEY THEY GOT WISE TO ME EVEN BEING THERE.FISHED FOR ABOUT TWO MORE HOURS AND DIDNT GET BIT.
City: SANTA ROSATips: FISH THE MIDDLE OF CREEKS WITH LARGE SWIMBAITS. I MUST HAVE SAW AT LEAST 10 BIG FISH FEEDING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YORTY CREEK AT 7 AM.IF IT GETS WINDY THROW WHITE SMALL SPINNERBAITS INTO THE TREES AND BRUSHPILES.GO GET SUM.
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Tenmile Lake
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Water Temp: mid 70's
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Took the dog with me to Cottage Grove today. We launched up the creek. Actually saw a few other bass boats out today- a bit unusual for a weekday. I used a 5" trout swimbait, a couple of Lucky Craft ripbaits, a brown jig w/watermelon sweet beaver trailer, a crawdad Frenzy crankbait and a Shad colored Zara Spook. At 7:15AM I caught a 1 lb.,11 oz., 15" largemouth on a Lucky Craft ripbait along a transition from steep riprap to grassy flat. It hit real hard and had both trebles hooked up. It was in about 6-8 feet of water. The next bass came from one of my spots I catch 'em on every year with my favorite lure- a jig! I made a very long cast and about 2-3 seconds after it hit bottom in about 4-6 feet of water a 3 lb.,12 oz., 20" bass creamed it! Thanks to braid and a 6' 20 lb. flouro leader I was able to snap back the rod and stick the fish. I had to tighten the drag real fast to get him moving toward the boat though. I'm a little embarrased to say that had I had the drag locked down tight I probably would have snapped this fish off- it's happened before. Anyway even though I had almost 3 hours more to fish I got greedy and spent most of it tossing the swimbait along channel edges hoping for a bigger bite. Didn't see any followers or get any more bites but did find a couple of cool lookin' spots for next trip. One of them is a spot with big rocks close to a fairly steep shoreline- may even be able to fish it in the mornings from shore.
City: yoncalla, oregonTips: I love my dog but she was bugging the crap out of me. Really hard to concentrate on your lure when your 75 pound lab/pointer keeps tryin' to climb in your lap. An absolute miracle I caught a fish!
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Tulloch Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: The fishing was very slow we caught two nice trout (18+) Best catch was $20 bill in a zip lock bag up near the dam.. Sorry I kept it. God's way to help pay for the gas..
City: Oakdale
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 73-77
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Went South this morning and started throwing topwater at Indian Island with only one taker. The carp were everywhere so we headed back north. We stopped in Pirates Cove and caught about ten all around 2 lbs. We then headed all the way back up to the Nice area and fished the outside weed line with great success. All in all we caught about 45 fish from 2-4 pounds.
Tips: Frogs, Senkos and Texas rig MM III.
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Pardee Lake
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Water Temp: 75
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Got Early Start, On Water At 5:20am. Fished Points, and Banks Off Main River.
Caught First One On 6' Diving Plug. Switched Over To Split Shot'in 4" Plastics For Rest Of Day. Best 5 total 11Lbs. Most Were Spots.
City: folsomTips: None
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Shadow Cliffs Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: I have been fishing the back ponds for years and it amazes me that you have frequently been pulling out fish over 5 pounds. Are you using a scale or estimating those weights? I find that hard to belive that despite the fishing conditions sucking more and more every year you can still pull out fish that size. Why dont you take a camera out and put some of those big fish on the site for us to see. I don't doubt that there are fish that size back there(I have seen several fish over 10#) I have caught several fish weighing 4# and one around 6 but come on man 5-7# range? I will belive it when I see it. Make sure that the the lake can be identified in the background too.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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Camanche Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished from 6:00am to 1:00pm caught sixteen fish. could not get any top water bite. fish came on dart-head and drop shot in about 17-25 feet. green and purple colored worms seemed to work best. caught one nice 4lb. spot on a six inch senko off a steep rock wall.
City: FolsomTips: best results came near deep water.
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 73-77
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Went back out today to get a full days worth of fishing. We started out in Kelsey Creek throwing a variety of topwater baits with no takers. We workd our way down toward and just past State Park. Caught 4 on frogs which included a 5.5 lb, two 3 lbs and one 2 lb. From there we went to Henderson and caught a 7.5 lb and a few more in the 1-2 pound range all on texas rig and jigs. We decided to run farther up north and fished the Nice and Lucerne areas. We caught several more fish between 2-4 lbs all around isolated weed clumps. We called it quits at noon with about 30 fish.
Tips: Fish topwater early, then go to texas rigged worms, jigs and wacky rigged Senkos.
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Water Temp: 77
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: fished about 1/4 mile stretch on both sides of konocti picked up 12 all on senkos mostly all on the west side of konocti under or around docks- nothing big - best slightly over 3lbs. caught all in the afternoon the evening bite was suprisingly slow
City: Diamond SpringsTips: dark colors seem to work best -almost all were in shade or under docks
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Collins Lake
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Water Temp: 76-80
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Water was stained...Had better clarity 2 weeks ago I guess the recreational boaters have helped that out. Anyway fishing was good, put in around 5:45 am and the top water bite was good, had 2 fish hit spooks just as they hit the water, also buzz baits were effective, nothing big in the morning but a fun way to start the day. Soon as it warmed up had some success with crank baits, but most bites were on soft plastics. The reaction bite was great, the day was great except the $19.00 it cost to fish there. Top 5 went close to 15 biggest being right around 5.
City: Grass ValleyTips: Find some offshore structure, with these warm days the fish are moving down, not too deep but down none the less. Bring the bait to the fish.
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Lake of the Pines
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Water Temp: 78
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: fished 4 hours in the early morning. It was about the slowest day Ive had this year.
I got 6 in the boat. 4 on buzzbaits, (the biggest about 5), 1 on a chatterbait, and 1 on a fluke.
I broke one off at the boat that would have went 6, got him on a brushhog in deep water.
Seems like the fish are holding anywhere you can find shallow water near deeper water, but the problem with that is the ache boarders are out like rats in an aquaduct.
My trolling motor prop was outta the water more than it was in because of the big waves.
City: auburnTips: go way early or night fish.
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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Amador Lake
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Water Temp: 79-81
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: The Basin Bassmasters from Loomis fished a tournament with 12 boats. The winning weight was 22.20 for the best five and second place 21.70. Most of the bass were cought in the back of the coves using frogs, popers and spooks. The bass are pushing the bait into the backs and having a big dinner. The moring bite is better than the late day.
The launch fees will change on July 7 to $22.00 for launch, boat and two people.
City: RocklinTips: fish way in the backs of the coves
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Water Temp: 79-83
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Just a quick word to Danny, the previous poster. Amador is known for slow periods and fantastic periods of bass fishing. Don't give up - about a month or two ago I fished it for about 5 hours and got one bite. That's Amador!! My fishing buddy Rick Tietz (owner of Blade Runner Tackle and Duh spoons) hit the lake yesterday afternoon and fished 'til about 1 am. It was an interesting trip - we decided that the fishing wasn't great, but pretty steady. When we started about 3 pm, the bite was pretty good with Senkos and Sammy's (topwater). I couldn't get a frog bite at all and Rick missed all three of his - one a good bass! I lost one on the Sammy over 4 lbs but landed one almost 4 along with several others. Mid-day topwater is usually good in June and yesterday was no exception. It was interesting that the bite really slowed for us before dark - last time I was there it was great! I did get another nice 3 1/2 pounder on the Sammy by the dam and missed one more. Rick got a nice 3 pounder on a Gator Tail worm. After dark the bite was fair for bass up to 3 1/4 lbs. I did hook the "monster" of the night" around midnight in Donney Bay - got her next to the boat - we guessed how big it was - and lost it as Rick was ready to net her! Really not a monster but at least 5 or 6 lbs. She nailed a brush hog! Speaking of monsters, I was able to take photos of a young man and his grandpa with their two bass caught before dark - an 8 lb 13 oz beauty and another over 5 lbs. Photo should be on wb.com as soon as I get it to them. So, we ended up with about 20 bass in the boat and about as many "out" of the boat (ones we lost!). Maybe 17 lbs for our best 5.
City: Yuba cityTips: I got the feeling that the fishing was better during the daytime because of the smoky skies, especially with the unusually clear water. That was probably true for several days. Weeds, of course, are everywhere except on walls. The lake has begun to drop this week and that will move the the bass offshore. They probably will suspend a lot for the rest of the summer. The traditional Texas rigged weightless Senko is a good was to fish the heavy weeds. Wacky style will be tough.
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California Delta
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Put in around 6:30pm and braved the unanticipated 25mph gusts and an incoming tide. very challenging conditions -- 3/4 oz. rattle traps were all we could throw into the punishing wind and there was zero bite. refusing to surrender, we pushed on and tossed all common sense and self-preservation instincts aside and finally found some protected water in a slough just outside of big break. enter roboworm. one 5 lb. 1 oz large mouth bass later, we began our trek back to our put-in spot at antioch bridge and the real "adventure" began. massive swells, white caps, 35+ gusts and quickly fading light threw all in our 14' boat into quiet, existential reflection. in the end, our captain held his own and, after 5+ hail marys and some very dicey moments, we finally made it back to the safety of the marina. one for the books.
Tips: respect the water and be prepared for a swift change in conditions (especially in the evening.)
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 72
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: launched at Redbud late-morning. Ran across to back-side of the island and started throwing an R2Sea frog into the folliage. 3rd cast hooked and ultimately lost the biggest bass I've seen this year. Drat!
City: ClearlakeTips: Have the net on deck...
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Water Temp: 72-75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: I finally got my boat back after being in the shop for over a month getting gel coat repair. First destination, Clear Lake, being that it rarely ever lets me down. Today was no exception. I launched at the state part and headed north to long tule pt. As the sun was coming up, I caught a 7.5 pounder on a 7
Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>
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Water Temp: 74 to 76
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: well we got on the water at 5am out of the oaks area and got one on my first cast on a frog patern hula popper my brother was using a bass colored pop R and was also picking up fish we caught 10 on top water about 9am it slowed down and we started throwing plastics I caught several on green pumpkin senkos, then i ran out of that color and started with a green with purple flake yamamoto hula grub, ran out of those and started with margarita mutilator , arons magic and hologram shad ,we fished gleanhaven paradise cove and pirates cove we ended up with a total of 70 fish for the day with the biggest at 5 lbs but most were 2 to 3 lbs range
City: carmichael
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