Fishing Report

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Monday, December 20th, 2004

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOOT!! WOOT!! Awesome day today. Four stripers, one sturgeon, and one nice large mouth.
      City: Stockton, Ladd's

      Tips: Change species to try your luck and just have fun before Chrictmas. Merry Chistmas every body. Hey Steve thanks for the awesome day.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at B&W, cruised around corner to Oxbow. Fished jigs, red, brown, chart worms to no avail. At around 2pm hit a 1 1/2 lb and a 2 1/2 lb five minuets apart on dark green 6in Senko. I trimmed about 2 inches off, so it was still fat. Was surprised how lively they were. Coming back tomorrow.
      City: Clayton

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

      Report: I am going to Piru within this upcoming week (21-24th).
      I have not been there in a while so I don't know the state of transition that the fis are in.
      Has anyone been there latley?
      Are the fish still eating on the late fall shad balls or are they on a trout bite with the winter stockings being underway?
      Oooooooor, have they begun to munch on the crawdads? If anyone has been there recently, Please drop me a line so that I can clue in and gear up accordingly for my long awaited trip.
      Thanks,
      Kent
      City: reseda

  • California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing for sturgeon and striper. Started the day at the yellow can than when the fog lifted went into the big cut for a few hours than ran out to the fire line. And all day not one bit or run.
      City: bay point area

      Tips: I'm thinking of going up river by the powerlines. In the sac river. Or up by Decker Island. Does anyone have any input?

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ON WATER 7 AM,CAUGHT ALL FISH EARLY DRAGGING 4 TO 6 INCH WORMS. ONLY 1 BITE AFTER LUNCH, HE SCARED AND I MISSED JIG BITE.
      OVERALL BEUATIFUL DAY OFF WATER BY 2PM
      City: MOUNTAIN VIEW

      Tips: FISH SLOW AND GET OUT EARLY

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 49.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw a jig for 30 minutes in the morning and nothing. Switched to spooning and had a awesome day. Hit a total of 15 fish from 8:30-11am. First toss with the spoon landed me a nice 4lber. After 11am I only got one fish at 2pm and it was a nice 6lber. This was a awesome day that was pretty hard to believe. Was so great I had called my buddy at 10am and told him he had to come out. Funny thing is he came out and we only got the one fish. Definately a morning bite..
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: Bounced around 14 mile, dissapointment & whites sun morn tossn' rip baits. Started w a 7.5lb salmon, nice. Then off to 12 largies ranging from barely keeper to 2 1/2lbs for a 5 fish bag of about 11.5lbs. Most bites were on the pause, the longer our baits sat motionless the better.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: Find clean water, fish at a slow pace till you get bit, then slow down even more as they're schooled up pretty good this time of year.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished points in main lake caught 6 or 8 all over 12 but nothing bigger fished in cove and caught 15 with one small mouth at 17 inches and 2 large mouths fished all day with yamamoto curly tail jigs sun was out and we were in t-shirts
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: pumpkin colors 15 to 25 ft.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 50 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Son, John, and I fished Saturday and Sunday, the 18th and 19th, both beautiful days with virtually no wind, cold in the early morning but warming later in the day. Many of the off-shore weeds are turning brown now, and only fish we caught came from rock bottoms with no weeds. On Saturday, John got four bass up to 4 pounds, taken on jigs. Sunday I lost two on jigs, and boated one, on a bluegill finish Rapala DT-10 crankbait. As it gets warmer later in the morning, the fish seem to move into the shallows on the rock banks. Apparently, the dying weeds are no longer attractive to them, and being members of the sunfish family, they like to move shallow to get some "rays" and scarf up some crawfish.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Try the shallows on the rock banks, with brown jigs tipped with either Uncle Josh brown No. 11 pork frogs or green pumpkin Yum plastic crawfish. Crankbaits retrieved slowly in the shallow zone can also work.

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

      Report: started out where the water comes in threw rat-l-trap nothing.then went over and fished the rock wall rat-l-trap jerkbait hairaiser nothing.went out and fished the channell with bait nothing.never had a bite or seen any cought.well might as well troll for awhile same result.skunked
      water was very dirty not good for these stripers.
      City: salinas

      Tips: dont go by what won magazine say's.by the way i was fishing the forbay.

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

      Report: at packers at 5am for the Red Bluff anglers turkey shoot..#3 out..but had one small problem, my partners troling motor took a dive, so we went all day just drifting and trying to keep the boat in the best positions as possible...up the sac we went and got three hits on a staycee..hooked up with one a small keeper(culled it later) we move further back in this area and fish jigs, in the next two hrs we proceed to put 3 more keepers in the well including a 2.5..all jig fish were on Mother Finest 1/2 oz brn jig with a yamamoto twintail...move back out toward the channel and I through my 1/4 oz darthead with a MF#16 6" worm into a cut in the bank and before it hits bottom fish on, it feels good and I dead lift a 3lb spot into the boat..now were really feeling good we got a limit for 9.5 lbs..and all this without a trolling motor..we motor across the channel into some similar looking areas and Jason culls out our two smaller fish..to get us to 11 lbs...thats where we ended the day with 11.17lbs..bite was all over we got them at 2 feet..and at 50 feet..
      City: redding

      Tips: rips and blades early..then worm and jigs...stick to your areas the fish will show up...

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished about 4 hours caught four dinks, all on the bank. It had been sunny and people were doing well fishing plastics shallow and slow. When I went it was raining and fishing was slow.

Saturday, December 18th, 2004

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

      Report: Fished about 2-3 hours in the morning, got one lost a couple. Dropshot very very slow. The fish that hit, really ate it. Not the funnest way to go but you can get em. After fishing for a while, motor wouldn't start so I took off. Real nice day but really bummed about the motor.

      Tips: Must admit I am Still trying to figure the winter bite out here and if I could have spent a bit more time that would've helped. Slow dropshot and next time throwing a spoon.

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off at 8am with a jig and no success. Then dropshotted for another hour and nothing. Around 10am I decided to try out the spoon. First hookup was a real brute, when I spoon I kep my drag pretty tight and this fish was able to strip out some serious line before coming unbuttoned.

      Continued throwing the spoon and found some awesome action in the 28' mark. Ended up catching 10 fish in the next 1.5 hours with the largest going 5.6. Lost 4-5 other fish and a couple felt real nice.

      Every fish I caught the graph read 28' and I few fish were spitting up shad at the boat. Going to head out again tomorrow and try the same pattern.
      City: San Jose

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went up there sat and didn't get a bite i guess it's to cold or something but it did get very windy towrd midday well anyhow maybe next time
      City: BAKERSFIELD

      Tips: i don't know

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

      Report: pull up on nephew,he has a broken trolling motor rope,he is getting it back together and offers to let me burn his water,i was suprised as he is grinning ear to ear,i picked up 2 rats and a snag and head back over to my nephew and he is still grinning,we BS for about 10mins, till he couldn,t keep it in anymore HE SHOWED ME THE BIGGEST BAG OF SPOTTED BASS I HAVE EVER SEEN I ASKED HIM HIS WEIGHT HE SAID 225 I LOL So Hard i about fell off my boat.he was catching them so fast he didn,t have time to weigh them.i took pictures and told how proud of him i was and got ready to leave when he casted this new proto-type into my seat and i cut the line and thanked him,for the holes in my seat LOL.AND THE LURE...Part2 Of The Uncles Revenge To Follow.
      City: redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished local club tourney Saturday and found the fishing so-so but the weather was great. We started in the marina and my partner found a little honey hole under one of the docks and we pulled 5 keepers and 4 or 5 dinks out of an area the size of our boat all on drop shot worms in blue and pumpkin. We then went to the bridge pilings and the electronics went black with fish from 20-50 feet but we couldn't get a bite if our lives depended on it. Headed to the dam and caught 4 more in about 3 hours of fishing but boy did that sun feel good. Fished the big point by the public ramp and hooked what felt like a very big fish, after catching 12-14 inchers all day the headshake was real different with this one, but she took me down and wrapped me around something and that was it. It would have been my limit fish so it hurt even more. Ended our day in a main lake cove filled with trees and my partner caught 3 more that helped his weight and I had my limit fish on again but so iffy net work by my partner was enough to let a good fish live to laugh at me once again (Thanks Rod!) I took third with 4 fish for 5 pounds, my partner took second with 5 fish for just over 6 pounds(yes they were all pretty small)and the winner had 4 for just over 7 lbs.
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: A lot of our guys found the fishing a little tougher than we did. There was a few that didn't catch any or only one fish all day so we felt good about our day. We caught almost everything on 4 and 6 inch worms drop shotting in 20-30 foot of water. If we got out of that range we didn't get bit it was as simple as that. Pumpkin was by far the best producer with blue the next best. I hope everyone who reads this remembers to post their day on the lake too. This is a great way to share good info so please don't forget.

Friday, December 17th, 2004

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Todays instruction trip was with Jay Johnson of Hayward, Ca. We spent the day in 25-35 with plastics. 30+ fish for the day and a couple of firsts for Jay. He had never caught a fish on a drop shot rig and had never caught a smallmouth.Well he turned it around and he actually acomplished both goals on the second cast of the day. Good fisherman and had him self about a 13lb limit for 5 by days end.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: With the stable weather and water levels the fishing will be cosistant thru the 1st of the year. There right where there going to be all winter now.

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: awesome fishing. i had 14 fish. top 5 culled out to over 26 lbs. all my fish were on rip baits. the key was a fast rip, then a long pause, then a grind, then a pause, then 2 more rips, then i put the rod down and took a leak, then picked it up again and wam! one after another.
      City: LA

      Tips: fish the shallow cover

  • Bonner County, Idaho
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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ice fog early am... trying for the smallie's, didn/t get bit. but.. hooked inta a frickin 5 rain ,, I dont fish for those slimy, never get tired bastard's.. If you agree let me know..thanks, oh this time of year they were suspened on the outer point,s .. on the back side..