Fishing Report

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Friday, October 8th, 2004

  • California
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday the 8th starting about 8:30 am. No stripe activity on the main lake so we headed into one of the major creeks in the south end. Noticed some surface activity off a point and started there. Caught a bunch of dinks on a Floating Rapala and split shot worms. Moved into other coves and did catch a nice 2-pounder on the Rapala. Tons of shad in the back of the creek but nobody bothering them. Did get some smallies on the surface about 6 pm but didn't see any boils.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Was mainly targeting stripers but ended up fishing for bass. Floating Rapala and 2-3 different worms were working. Key to the Rapala was to tie it on with a loop so that you get maximum wobble. Otherwise they just followed it.

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 70+/-

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rather slow with bass off lot 5-7. Although some friends and I have caught largemouth all the way up to 14-15" dropshotting with 4" plastic worm. I even caught a spotted bass with a crankbait there. I wish they would stock that lake
      City: moreno valley

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 68.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent a few hours Friday evening to see how Fall bite is progressing. Very windy on main body of lake, no sign of action at entrance to creek arms, so I moved up into Skunk Creek. Hooked seven fish and landed four chunky bass 3-4 pounds that hit my lipless crankbait like a freight train. Good fighting fish that ran, jumped and fought hard. All fish were caught in 4-5 ft of water over a weed bed along the edge of the creek channel. No sign of baitfish being chased on surface.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Not enough time and too much wind to establish any real pattern. The fish I caught were right along the tops of the weedlines. Use a Lucky Craft lipless crankbait and "burn" it over the top of the weeds.

Thursday, October 7th, 2004

  • Plumas County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was able to spend Tues and Wed fishing beautiful Lake Almanor, soaking up the sun and blue sky. It was fun guiding myself! Actually, the weather was too good for great fishing - the lake was basically flat for the two days I fished, along with bright sun. Each day I was out from about noon to 6:30 pm. I caught about seven the first day, losing several for some reason. One was a near 4 pound smallie I brought to the boat that hit a rip bait as soon as it hit the water. She exploded on it, but the hooks let me down at the end. I did get a 3-7 on a crankbait, which was the biggest of the trip. My 5 fish limit was near 15 pounds. The second day I landed 12 to 3 1/4 lbs with a 13-6 limit. I was able to drop-shot 2 fish, land 1 on a jig, and 2 split-shotting. On a tip from local guide Ted Pilgrim, I targeted stumps rather than rock and mainly threw rip baits and crankbaits. Ted was right on! I was surprised that some smallies would hit a rip bait in 2 to 3 feet of water with bright sky in the middle of the day. The crank bite got better as the sun got lower. I think I only saw one bass fisherman and just a few trout fishermen. I was honing my fall skills for some future guide trips next year. The bite was slow but the quality was good.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Have you ever been on the water and just enjoyed watching the bass? When I threw the Lucky Craft rip baits, 3 to 5 smallies would follow it out to the boat, swim around and watch me (I guess)! We just stared at each other!! I saw two over 5 pounds. They were very spooky in the shallow water - if they saw me - no chance to get them to bite. Occasionally there would be a little riffle on the water and that helped the bite. I was using a Storm Wiggle Wart (color #37 - red craw) and the old standby - a brown craw Rebel deep wee-R. I did throw the magnum black Wiggle Wart as I do at dark - looking for the toad. My toad Tues evening was embarrasing - 8 inches! My only dink however!! All my bass were 1 3/4 lbs to 3 1/2 pounds, mostly over 2 3/4 lbs. I wanted to night fish, but thought better of it since I had 4 guide trips in a row when I got home. I'll bet it would have been good!!

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

      Report: The answer to the previous post:No, Calero nor , Uvas, or Chesboro , or Anderson all in San Jose do not rent or have any types of equipment rentals or consession..Closest one to san jose that has that I believe would be Del Valle in Livermore.
      City: san jose

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished backyard today. Great conditions for tournament frog. no wind, sunny,(protected)
      Fished for about 30 mins and caught 4 keepers. A four pounder, 3, and two 1 pounders. Wish I could've fished more but I had football.
      City: Disco Bay

      Tips: Frog was on, don't be afraid to throw it if conditions permit you to.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish out of B&W today with to friends. We caught 8 keepers to 2 lbs and had 10 shakers. Fish came on buzz baits crankbaits and worms. Most of the fish were on the outside weedline.
      Jon
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: None to offer except keep your line wet.

  • California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I went out fishing on Sunday for the first time in about a month. At first i worked the whole south part of the lake and got nothing. One suprised me in a small cove near some weeds, but i missed that one. It would have been a solid 2 lb. I then started working the whole north shore. There were schools of bass feeding on little bait fish about 20-30ft out. The senko bite wasn't working in that spot, so i threw my white spinnerbait. I ended up catching 4 there, and got a lot of big bass chasing and attacking it. My biggest there was about a 2 pounder. There were many big bass that i saw, but no takers. The other three were caught off senkos on the boat and channel point dock. All were about one pound.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: i went back there on tuesday and all i got were two big bites and i lost one in a weed bed. So make sure you try different lures, because they were biting differently at the same good spots.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-57.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another sunny day on Folsom Lake, the day after the Future Pro TOC Tourament. The fish seam to be hiding after 60 boats (120 fisherman) pounded the lake for there last tourament of the year. We moved around the lake looking for our balls of bait fish, finding some in the main body on flats near deeper waters. A good spot is just left of the dam in the large cove in 15-35 ft of water. Most of the bait fish have moved out and so have the bass. Start looking more at points and soon in the coves at the bass move. The lake has droped again, the rain has helped. The split shot and drop shot still works well with a Pro Worm #266s leach.
      City: rocklin

  • Merced County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched at dinasour point ran accross to the dam
      to fish around the rocks.started about 7:00 with
      jerkbait(my favorite for this)started catching fish right off the start.like the other reports yoy can catch all the stripers you want right now.most fish between 18"-24".did get one 7.6 and
      one 8.9.that is what my boga grip scale said.and
      i also caught two largemoth bass just about fell out of the boat about 2lb each.real good looking fish to.well when i went back to pull out i thought why not try this cove before i left plenty of fish there also.just fishing the banks like i was bass fishing.alot more fun than bait fishing by far.
      City: salinas

      Tips: stay away from the real flat area's you need a little depth.

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Big lake Fished the 7th and 8th for about 5 to 6 hours each day. Water was glass for the most part till about 3pm. Started the days about 9 to 10am fished cranks and spooks, strike pro popper no luck first three hours.
      Then Started Graffing fish 30 to 40 foot both days. So I thought I would try it with a Drop Shot rig. First day used plastics missed a bunch and caught 4 keepers and a few smaller(salt&pepper)worked best. I am not one for bait fishing but I thought I would try fresh dead shad on the drop shot rig day two. We caught 20+ fish 9 of those were keepers. Two keepers on dubble Hook Up! Fun Day. I will try some more plastics on this and let ya know. oh and not a one was gut hooked.
      Good Luck!
      Be Safe! Don.
      City: Dos Palos

      Tips: 3 to 4' off the bottom with plastics or bait on Drop shot rig. keep watching some top water starting

Wednesday, October 6th, 2004

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

      Report: does this resivior have any rentals? canoes? boats? thanks
      City: the bay

  • California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2nd am ish, 7.6 lbs on plastics @ northeast end of lake along rock side, ished till 1pm with light winds and several fish over 2-3 lbs. tons of small fish to tear up plastics and sm tubes.
      City: Capitola/Soquel

      Tips: Deep and slow, no type of reaction bite, stay along hard edges 10 feet or more

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well...hadn't been to Folsom for a month and a half and saw some new islands last night. Continues to go down. Looked like it was down another 2-3 feet. As for fishing, tried throwing trusty shad-raps in the South Fork with no luck. Then tried blades with no luck. A couple of nibbles on the crank, but that's it. Graphed tons o fish!
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Looks like others are catchin in other areas then the South Fork with things other than cranks and blades. Try something else. Tight Lines!

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      Water Temp: 67-70 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well the water has not droped at all in the past week and the temp is the same, so the fishing should be better. Jim Ryan and I started out near the Dam on humps with large rocks and drop offs into 40 ft + only find small spots. Todays air temp got upto 84 deg and no winds. Using a jig we found spots in 20 ft again on rocks near Beals Point side of the Dam. Graphed alot of fish in 20 - 40 ft all afternoon unit 6pm. worked the rock garden area around 4:30pm and found fishing jumping in shollow water, so I started using a buzz bait, no bites, cranking none, droping shotting none. "slow afternoon on Folsom"
      City: rocklin

      Tips: work jigs and small worms slow in 20-40 ft, try any colors and sizes.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good bite here for my clients today on largemouth exclusively. The better fish were all in grass pockets and we caught them on spooks and shallow drop shots. All fish in eight feet or less.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: DONT LEAVE THE GRASS..Spots and smallies are under the bait off humps.But not the quality of the largies.

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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Purpose of trip to check out striper situation - didn't see any striper activity but other boaters observed some boils but could not get any hook-ups. Shifted to black bass and, after 2 and one half hours of no bites put ten mixed specie in the boat. All on split-shot 4" worms - nothing on surface, cranks, blades or jigs.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Try smoke or browns w/ red flakes or 3 and 4" Senkos in pumpkin or watermelon. R

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have not fished here for sometime, however, my wife and I were walking the bank on 10/02 and I did talk to some kick-boat guys that fished Rainbow Lake. They caught all there fish off of the flats and old gravel mining roads, all on the drop-shot(shad-type patterns). All dinks.
      I did tubed Quarry Lake last spring a few times, same types of loactions (old roads etc.) except in this lake they have smallies!!! A lot of fun on light tackle.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Get off the bank and into the water. Boat, kick-boat or tube what ever you got. Way worth it!!

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

      Report: fished with nephew he makes lures he brought the darts and some competators one from ariz. and one from missouri, his lure did better no-doubt but he brought out his new version which needs no trailer at all, i can't say it was better than his new drop/dart but it is better than the competators 13 fish to others 3 i think the one without the trailer is more versatile in putting endless things on it but his new stle shore beats putting worms on the rig allday
      City: redding

      Tips: thanks kid

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

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

      Report: Juan-I am just curious if your reporting these poachers to the rangers or calling the game warden on them?
      City: Chowchilla