Fishing Report

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Monday, September 27th, 2004

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake; went with Larry Hemphill. Started at 7:30 PM. Fishing was slow until 1:00 AM. We fished the south area with jigs, worms, cranks, & spinnerbaits. Even though it started slow, we did well in the end. We had one in at 6.5 & the rest were 2 - 3.5. Best 5 went a little under 17. Had a good time for the first time out.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: For first timers, go with Mr. Hemphill. He is very knowledgable about Clear Lake, very informative, & is a really nice person! He's fun to fish with too! Beats getting skunked trying to learn this big lake by yourself.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished off the shore towards the right once u enter past the marina2 nights in a row couple nights ago 1 bite a night , first night a frong on top some brown weeds big bass around 3 pounds, second night 2 pounder on a lizard threw it out where i saw him splashing
      City: livermore

      Tips: dont trespass

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

      Report: What a lake. First time there. I have never caught so many 2-3 lb bass in one day. I wish I had a tournament there soon. For those who do crank your hearts out.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Crank crank crank

  • Yukon-Koyukuk, Utah
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fun fishing and nice and warm, catch a ton of little ones, no big ones!!
      City: Cedar City

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Quin, replied directly to your email message this evening, if you didn't get my reply just give me a call (530)244-0865
      City: Redding

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing lillie-pads in the back of one of the coves and got my first Frog-fish and started flipping with Brush Hog and got five keeper 2.5+ and lost a TOAD on the brush hog.
      City: North Bend

      Tips: Flip the Lillie-pads and work the back of the coves.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Stripers are moving into the system in ever increasing numbers. There are reports from both the Sacramento and San Joaquin sides of the delta of fish being caught. Most are being caught trolling either rebels or bombers in 10 to 15 feet of water. The Sacramento River between Collinsville and 3-Mile Slough and The San Joaquin River from the Antioch Bridge past Eddo

      Tips: One of our chapter

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 65 to 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Russo's in A.M. with my buudy Cliff. Worked around the docks on Taylor. No keepers to be had there. Ran up to Happy Harbor and Spindrift. Found some good fish on blades. Bite died in heat of the day. Started working shaded banks and docks around Frank's in the afternoon. Found a lot of 2 and 3 pounders. Had a pretty great day. Watched the sun go down on Frank's Track. Awesome
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Don't know what to say. Things are probably going to change pretty quick with colder weather. Have fun.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I, and Andy G. went out of Russo's this moring to put on some hour's on my new boat (Ranger/Yamaha). We started in Frank's with little moving current, nothing exciting happen so we moved North to current (What a Idea). Andy, caught some keeper's. Me, time to change, Cranked two up in consecutively cast, 2 1/2lbs both. We pulled a small limit and culled.

      Off to Secramore Sl for a run on the engine, Nothing happen up there. Ran back to the river and proceeded to catch even bigger fish in current over flats of grass. Unbelieveable, all on Crank's (Timber Tiger's). Tried all the normal plastic's and a few combination's in jig's and nothing to get your drenal'in going. Had to crank.

      Good luck and Crank

      Rich Thiel Guiding Service
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Look for current over flats with grass. Crank them from all angle's. Change color's if you think it deem necessary. you maybe surprised on the result. Perch seemed to catch the bigger fish in the morning. Once the sun became higher, color changed to a light brown Crawdad pattern. Try Timber Tiger's their a great crank.

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

      Report: Where's all the reports???? SOMEBODY has had to fish here in the last week-give it up guys!
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: POST your reports so we all know

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WAS OUT SUNDAY VERY NICE DAY.FISHING WAS ALOT SLOWER THAN NORMAL.FISH MOVED DOWN 15-25FT. SOME TOP WATER ACTION AROUND SUN DOWN.WATER IN BY THE DAM PEASOUP GREEN THICK & STINKY .CAUGHT OUR'S ON SMALL BAIT'S.DROPSHOTING OR SPLITSHOTING SLOWLY WASTHE WAY TO GO.ONE THING I SAW ONCE AGAIN WAS PEOPLE TAKING SMALL FISH . (POACHERS SUCK) THEY WIPE OUT GOOD FISHERIE'S. I HAVE SEEN IT DONE IN OTHER LAKE'S IN THE STATE (SO.CAL) TO BE EXACT.
      City: TURLOCK

      Tips: FISH SLOWLY WATCH OUT FOR OBSTACLE'S

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 67.8-69.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The sun is comming up later and later, the gate at Granite Bay is open before 6am and the boat ramp water is narrower and shallower by the day. Not much room for more than a few boats in that channel at one time. Jim Ryan and I fished the main body for the first two hours, crankbaits, drop shot and split shots were working for the few spots and smallies we got. Moving up into the north fork finding some small bass on deep rocks in 20-40 ft. Work slow and small, no top water yet. We finished with three keepers for 7 bass. The weather is great, two or three lake lice, still have not found the big fish. See you on the water.
      City: rocklin

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I Have Great News I Tried A New Rig This Weekend On Shasta- The Sloan Drop-shot Method They Go into Phils Today!!!! If You Like Catching Large Numbers Of Bass This IS it. Nothing Beats It On Suspended Fish If You Combine It with The Fancelli Drop Shot coupling at Phils You Will Probably be More Succesful Than Most, On Those Draw Down suspended Spots. I Know This Will Be The Most Used Combination In The Upcoming Bassmasters Shasta In Nov2004. it is the best rig i have ever used. i am told there are 42 different darts and are the best quality i have ever had......
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: the kid who makes these told me they have made them for about 3yrs. for Ice Fishing Originally.
      and now sends them to alaska,and saltwater areas I Think A Big Tackle Maker Will Pick This Very Special Young Angler up. I Dont Know How Many Fish I Caught But It Was Alot... Biggest Fish Was 3.12spot. good luck mark your a class act.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Quin, I sent you a e-mail but I think I sent it to the wrong address, if you didn't get one then try it again and I will try not to screw it up.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: forgot?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well, as much as i know i check on reports, i know there must be other pple who do to. and if there are i htink it would help if i contributed.
      so here it is............
      took my dad and mom out the other day and fished for a very short time. i actually only fished four aeras, but quickly. had a few topwater blow-ups but all shook off. found another aera but no bites. moved to another aera and got two lm (2.5 and 4).stayed a little more but then left. by this time i had about a hour more to fish. made another move and picked up another lm , about 5lbs. overall great day.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: i think i want to be spookman no#2 , but i think i better get JOHNNY"S permission first. j/k
      topwater was a spook and the others were on a worm w/ a splitshot. fish slow..........and if u see a black and silver monark w/ 90 hp. holla at me.........

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 65 to 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I spent the last three days at the lake. This was our first trip to Trinity. We spent the entire time on the south half of the lake. All of are fish were smaller than the earlier reports for September. The biggest was a little shy of 2# and 8 to 10 fish over 1#. We caught enough fish to keep the boat moving down the structures. We did not experience the top water bite most likely to our rookie status on the lake. The only thing that worked for us was 2 1/2" Gitzits between 10' to 40' down. We will be back in the spring.
      City: Reno, NV

      Tips: I want to thank the person(s) for stealing a few items from our camp. I guess you needed the camping items and gas cans more than us. That was the only down side of the trip.

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Dels at about 0800am. On the way out noticed a lot of activity deep in the weed beds. Didnt fish anywhere specific and actually hit some middle of no where banks I have never tried. Tried spinnerbaits, buzz baits, and poppers Got one 2.7 on a buzz around 9am and had a good bump on the spinner, but nothing else. Switched to the trusted Senko texas rigged with a small bullet weight and caught 4 more small keepers. Nothing to right home about today but 5 keepers in three hours of fishing will not get a complaint out of me. Weather lately has been great with almost no wind and decent cloud cover in the am. Cant wait until the weather fully turns...I love the fall bite!
      City: Danville

      Tips: I dont know enough to leave a tip....haha. The senko always works for me when nothing else does.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 68 night 72 day

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started 7:00 pm Saturday with a 4.65 lb crank bait fish near rattlesnake. Quick action till dark then the winds picked up a bit. I quit at 1:30 am, too long a week at work. Total weight for the pm shift was 17.6 lbs for the best 5 with a total of 14 fish caught. Nothing on my usual night spots and all most all my night fish came on crank baits and maybe 20% on jigs. Nothing on big worms. 7:30 am till 3:30 pm was somewhat slow with a total of 12 fish caught , best 5 going 12.6 lbs. Most everything on double wide beaver and jigs with a few drop shot fish inbetween. I also tried to spoon the deeper breaks with mixed results, too early yet.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Big time transition over the last 2 weeks. Lots of bait balls and in Soda Bay at night the bait literally blacked out my Lowrance for 100 yard streaches at a time. A lot of 3 inch shad would jump in the boat around the black light. All the fish I caught were stuffed to the gills and fat. I would expect the crank bait bite to continue and cover a lot of water for the better fish. One tip , I spent 4 hours or so in Rodman, waste of time. I did pick up a few on traps in the grass but nothing wanted to play with froggie.

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass Classics had thier tournament here and almost everyone had limits. However there were alot of small 1-2 lb fish and everyone struggled to get 10 keepers average a day. In first place with 27.65 lbs and the second big fish a 4.75 lber was Chris Lee. He said he caught most of his fish on robo worms 7" in margarita mutilator color on shallow dock poles in the back of a cove and some on senkos fished wacky style on deep water rocky points in henderson bay.In second place was Dieter Spicker with 24.40 lbs he caught all of his fish flippin the Senko's in black with blue flake and watermelon red flake fished texas style way back in the tulles on braided line.In third place was myself I had fish going on rock banks and docks with white spinnerbaits with gold blades. Some of the better fish were on the cement launch ramp corners as well. On Sunday the bite slowed down and I had to split-shot my limit on robo worms out in front of the docks in 7-10 ft of water down in the south arm near bass alley.In fourth place and with the 6.72 lb big fish was Dave Brown he had 24.17 lbs for 10 fish. He said the big girl was caught on a bluegill hula grub on a ramp with a wall and on a windy bank. He also had some on the fat free shad and senko's.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: The bite was tough move around until you find the fish then work them hard because they will keep biting and they are schooling together so try the same area a couple of times.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I were night fishing saturday night, catching the saturday evening and sunday morning transition times as well. Water was muddy with alot of suspended particulate...chocolate brown with near zero visibility. Some areas were green, but still almost no visibility. Nice breeze to give a slight chop to the water, except during the brief transition to dark sat night when a small amount have heavier chop existed. We were fishing mostly rocks on the south half of the lake, hitting some docks and bank areas as well. For us the bite was extremly slow and spotty. When they took a bait it was very subtle. For us it was mostly 2 to 3 pounders, but few in number. Tons of bait fish everywhere....huge bait concentrations with some bait "balls"...you can definately see fish on your electronics hanging near the bait....doesn't surprise me that a drop shot or verticle jig in/near those bait balls might work. Absolutely no top water bite for me.
      City: Concord

      Tips: I'd watch your electronics for bait concentrations. Top water doesn't seem to be working....I'd rotate between cranks, jigs, and worms and cover alot of area...and be ready for subtle bites. Sounds like a drop shot setup might be a must-have.