Fishing Report

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Sunday, October 17th, 2004

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

      Report: Dude thow the biGGGGGG swim baits Bass are on them---6.60 to 7.9lbs bass plus smaller...on hit for the momma baits!----get the fish where the boats and the wake boarders are they seem to like the turbulence of the wakes....crank baits to 30+ feet on in line sinkers

      Tips: Dude thow the biGGGGGG swim baits Bass are on them---6.60 to 7.9lbs bass plus smaller...on hit for the momma baits!----get the fish where the boats and the wake boarders are they seem to like the turbulence of the wakes....crank baits to 30+ feet on in line sinkers

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I guided Thurs, Fri, and Sat - "teach the lake" trips, mostly in the south end. Each day was similar - except the wind on Sat - wow! Each trip produced 17 to 19 tournament keepers up to 3 1/2 pounds, plus numerous smaller bass that are getting in their final feed while the bigger fish are offshore. Fri produced larger fish including two that my client broke off because of his line being too light in test. One can use a minimum of 12 pound test in the dirty water. I, too, had problems. I was using a Strike Pro Bad Boy 80 crank (lemon-lime) with good success Thurs. Fri. morning I had a big bass just attack it on a rock ledge and snap my new 12 lb test and fresh knot! I didn't even have a chance to react - just snapped it!! I saw the fish briefly under the surface and she was big. Of course, that was the only Bad Boy I had. The bass seemed to love that bait. Might be time to chanbe to 14# test! We used Senkos, spinnerbaits (my client Sat was a pro at fishing them!), crankbaits, Power Worms and Dead Ringer worms. Could not get a jig bite to go, but the Yamamoto Kreature bait was again a winner. We fished tule-rock areas with good success. We found shallow and deep bass, but the shallow ones seemed more active.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Since these fellows are fishing upcoming tournaments, I won't be specific about how, what, and where. I will say that experimenting with different colors will pay off. We did find a "hot" color with the Kreatures - definately. But that has to remain a secret for my clients. It looks like an earlier fall than previous years. If heavy rain happens at the lake Tuesday, it could help the bite for larger bass and bring them all a little shallower. I expect the water to cool off by several degrees in the next few days. One may need to slow their presentations a bit. Who Knows?!

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      Water Temp: WARM NO TEMP GA

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My Brother Benny and Sister-in-Law Sandi came down from Oregon to fish and I dropped the boat in at Red Bud and fished the south end. Fished deeper docks and off shore reefs with drop shot and senkos, only 2 fish on senkos and 38 fish on drop shot. I cought the numbers in am, Sandi caught the larger fish in the am and than my brother schooled us in the evening catching 8 fish to my 2 fish, calm in AM windy in PM that was Saturday. Sunday we caught about 15-20 fish on same set up. fish were 1/2 to 2 lbs with mostly about 1 1/4 lb.
      City: SAN JOSE

      Tips: Don't fish dock that do not have deeper water close by like the one at Red Bud, you will catch fish there but not as many as you would docks with deeper water close by and rocks, for example if you fish Red Bud pier the closest deep water is about 1/4 mile, this is great in the spring but not in the summer fall or winter, yes you will catch some but not numbers and yes I have caught 5 lb fish in 5 inches of water but again if you want numbers fish deep water close by. Dead stick that worm with drop shot, lift rod and lower rod and don't move the weight, sometimes don't even move the worm, a lot of bites came with out even moving the worm like live bait.
      Purple worms 4 inch strait and 4 inch curly tail.

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

      Report: went to lake siverwood on sunday hoping for some stripers. it was pooring rain and very windy. we tried everything but no luck. only a bunch of real small ones.
      City: twentynine palms

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: raining........

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: out of all the days this week (my vacation) i go fishing today...WOW WAS IT RAINING!!!!...well i tried senkos, spooks,ripbaits, split shot 'n, texas rigs, buzz baits, and a jig...i got to the lake around 12noon and fished till about 6pm...did i mention it was raining...
      well i don't know how to understand what fish do during the rain. nor do i know how to make them bite...
      but i did get one and dat swas all i needed was one. she was a lm that weighed about 4lbs on a texas rigged worm, but she was fouled hooked and released....so like i said how do i get them to bite during the rain???
      City: san francisco

      Tips: just keep on fishing, you'll figure it out!!!

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A bit late for posting this report, but here it goes. Fished Anderson on Saturday Oct 16, 04. Condition looked good, pre-front, overcasted sky. First time fishing there. Went with two friends. At the gate, paid $5 to enter and a ranger gave us some precaution about mercury in the fish. Well, we normally catch-and-release, so no problem. Started fishing at 8AM near the boat ramp (from shore). Shoreline access was quite limitted. Nothing for the first 30 mins. Moved toward the dam and started catching fish. Caught 5 on Rat-L-Trap and 3 on Brushhog. Bigger fish (well not that big, around 2-3lbs class) were caught on brushhog. Stayed until 2PM and drove to the other side (east side??). Water was a lot shallower. Couldn't get any bite there. Called it a day around 3PM. (Not bad for the first time. Might come back with a float tube.)
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Brushhog in watermelon color. (The dam is loaded with crawdad.)

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished our two day club tourney this week end. bite has been tough for me lately . saturday i did get 11.7 good for first day lead in our club including a 4.94. got 9.71 sunday includind a 4.48 but dropped to second as one member brought in an 18 + bag including a 6.25 and a 5.8. both days we caught bunches of dinks... keepers were tough to come by .. we spent most of sat and all of sunday in victoria canal. saturday 90% of fish were caught on wacky worming a yamamoto cut tail worm .. the few others on spinner baits . sunday just the opposite 90% of keepers on spinner baits and rattle traps and the rest on the worm. both days the bite was the best for keepers on the end of the tides and the first hour after the change... dinks bite all day ..broke my trolling motor cable sunday.. luckily only had an hour to go when it broke. rained on us sunday but just a little. wind came up around 10 am each day ..
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: fish tight to the tules . after sun comes up fish are tight in shade pockets..chart/wht spinner baits and watermelon worms seem to wotk the best .rattle trap fish were caught on the rocks .

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on the 16th with my fishing club. Windy, difficult for boat control, or baits for that matter. Flip/pitch bite was nothing for me, started cranking. Areas with current and bait was the ticket. Caught a small limit, with a four pounder for the kicker. Had a big fish bite, but never turned on the bait. That fish managed to blow out a crank loaded with Gammie trebles and not one hook touched it. Amazing.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: The was a Timber Tiger DC-8 color light tan or 203, had to go down to ten pound test as it was high tide. Crank the submergent grasses, with moving water. Have fun with it!
      A.G.

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

      Report: A cold front was moving in, but the fishing was still pretty good. Fished Soda Bay and had a few fish on crankbaits pretty deep, and dropshot and senkos, pretty shallow. Couldnt find a pattern.

      FIshed Konocti. Was pretty calm in the morning with some rain. THen the wind started up and it was hell from then on. In the end, i caught about 20 fish dropshotting docks and rocks. Only one of those over 12 inches. Broke off a nice fish, prolly around five pounds right in the konocti marina.

      I think i saw u out there Cooch, but didnt have a chance to say hi.
      City: Clear Lake

      Tips: Reaction bite in the morning.
      In the afternoon, drag plastics, dropshot, or throw senkos. Something slow.

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

      Report: SCOTT: INDEED IT SUCK'S,BUT SOMETIME'S THERE'S MORE BAD THAN GOOD IN PEOPLE.WE CAN'T CONTROL IT UNFORTUNATELY. WELL I WILL BE UP THERE ALSO (sat) ILL LOOK OUT FOR YOU. FISHING HAS BEEN SLOW AT BEST. BUT I LOVE THIS LAKE IN THE FALL. I USUALLY DO REAL WELL IN THE THANSGIVING AREA. EVERYONE IS HOME TOO SO IT'S ALL YOUR'S TO YOURSELF. GOOD LUCK MAYBE WILL MEET..............!
      City: turlock

      Tips: CATCH &&&&&&&&&&&&&&& RELEASE

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Future pro tour Saturday. Caught fish dropshotting and on spoons. Look for bait and stay on it. Depths anywhere from 20-55 feet deep. Had 13.43 lbs for 5 fish. Had a great day.
      City: folsom

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      Water Temp: 64-67 deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Joe Miller and I fished the Future Pro Tour Tourament hoping to make the TOC. The day had changed to being windy and the temp had droped 4 degs., the air temp also dipped down. Going to our first spot left of the dam in a large cove area finding other fisherman also had the same idea. Seven other boats were in this cove and no fish for us until later. We left to spot two looking for our fish, finding none, (large hump just outside dyke 8 ramp). Returning to spot one, finding that the fish had returned using a Pro Worm # 266 leach on a split shot in 20-30 ft of water. In the next three hours we started catching our 15 bass (four smallies ), culling seven. Moving out to other humps in the main body at 1:30pm looking for balls of bait fish in the 20-50 feet, culling one more before weighting in . We finshed 19 for 7.65 lbs, the big fish winner was a 4.0 lbs +. Some of the winners used jigs, rip baits, drop shot and split shot. To much winds for top water bite. The winning weight was 11.0 ? The small boat division winner had 13.0 + lbs, slow day for some
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Look for large bait balls with large bass on humps in the main body in deep water, work your bait slow.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 6:45 a.m. Headed to Greasy Cove. My buddy Todd got the first fish on a 4" smoke texas rigged in about 4' of water. Fish were few and far between. Saw shad but nothing chasing them. Tried throwing a crank and a jerk, but nothing. Switched to a 6" Roboworm Margarita Mutilator color, texas rigged with a 2/0 bleeding red hook. Fish responded with a few more bites. Ended up getting 5 small fish to my partner's 4, SORRY TODD.....It was a beautiful day on the water for this time of year. Had a lot of fun. Even over the bitchin' of my partner saying that I back ended him all day and had him fishing for birds in the trees he was so close to the bank....."Face it son, I finally beat you...FAIR AND SQUARE!!!!"....Let me enjoy it for once cause it'll probably never happen again!
      City: Atascadero

      Tips: Fish slow....wait for 'em to take it cuz there's a lot of small fish just playing....not really committing to much at all....still a lot of fun just being able to fish in shorts this time of year....

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This lake SUCKS right now. I fished it the 15th and 16th. Don't go until November. The fish are scattered from the surface down to 50'.
      Unless your a stud on Melones like Johnny C you will struggle to catch fish. It ain't worth it!!
      I pre fished for a club tourney on the 15th and found balls of shad in the back of a creek and went back the next morning and they were gone. The rest of the day was miserable.
      The shad balls were 30'-50' deep.
      I forgot my spoons so I counted down a 3/4 oz chrome trap and yo yo'd / ripped it back to the boat and caught fish that way. I also dropped a heavy gitzit down and caught a couple fish that way. I caught about five fish and got out of there. The spots were fat and easy to catch.
      Topwater, rippin' and crankbaits weren't working at all.
      I did catch some fish on a Yamamoto twin tail spider jig (brown with green flake)in about 15' of water.
      The tournament was won throwing spinnerbaits in shallow water. Five small spots took it.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Look for those white and black diving birds in the back of creeks because they will tell you where the shad are. I saw a dead shad on the surface and they are big right now (4"-5").
      Wait until it gets colder so the shad will be more concentrated.

Friday, October 15th, 2004

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

      Report: to add to my report i must say this small reservior is full of wakboarders and jetskiers they are very annoying and disrubt the fishing
      City: the bay

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with buddy for 4 hours and got only 4 fish bigest being 2-3 lbs. First time at this reservoir wasn't quite as good as i expected it to be
      City: the bay

      Tips: use rapalas

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent one of my vacation days on the water. Launched out of Sugar Barge at first light and fished until 4:00 PM. The weather was so calm and balmy I thought the world was going to end. Spent the first hour in franks throwing topwater and the bite was poor...Decided to move up river and headed to Sycamore Slough and for the first two hours the bite was terrible. I then came upon a point as the tide started to drop and caught a 7.6 Largemouth and 15lb striper within three casts...Both on topwater. Moved down river and fished the middle delta where the topwater bite from 11:00 - 2:00 was as consistent as I've ever seen it, unfortunately, the fish were in the 2-3lb class. Mix in two 8-10lb stripers and the day was extremely fun.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Tide is key...when it is either at the top or bottom the bite is real good using topwater baits. Fish outside edge of weedlines at the bottom of the tide and fish inside the sunken islands at high tide...White is the ticket for me. Same bait, new day, consistent results. Stay safe and take a kid fishing. TG

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      Water Temp: mid - high 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a mixed bag day. We caught 3 limits of black bass, 2 stripers (largest - 7.5 lbs), and a 7.5 lb salmon. Largest bass was 3.5 lbs, but I loss a bass that we estimated to be 6+ lbs. Caught it in the middle of a slough on a Rat L Trap, but it jumped out of the water and did a couple of flips and threw the hook. Also caught a 5.5 lb sacramento squawfish.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Salmon and stripers are moving up. Use a shad colored Rat L Trap. Fish near the end of sloughs.

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

      Report: Juan....damn shame isnt it? We spend all this money on our gear and license etc and with all the taxes we pay and stuff you'd think they'd have enough to get enough people to patrol. It's such a shame we all do everything by the book and one small percentage of poachers takes it all away. Have you been up lately? I was thinking of taking my new Stratos up tommorrow (sat) to see if I could boat my first fish outta her! Tight Lines-thanks for caring and doing what you could man-wish everybody did the same-GOOD JOB!
      Tight Lines-see ya on the lake!
      Scott
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Report each and every poacher you see!

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

  • California
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      Water Temp: COOL

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: NOT MUCH HAPPININ
      City: SJ

      Tips: BE PATIENT