Fishing Report
Wednesday, August 25th, 2004
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 75-77 deg
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: what a nice afternoon on the water of folsom lake. water still going down, we saw four skiers and three other fisherman. Jim Ryan and I left Granite bay boat ramp at 4:pm with light winds and 92 deg temp. we worked our way into the north fork draging a leach worm and cranking, jim got the first smallie cranking and even the rest of his came on cranking a shad color. I went to jiging a brown/brown with # 180 grub for my fish. no blow ups on top water or no bits on blades. the sun went down too early, next week we will start early. will folsom ever stop going down ?????
City: rocklinTips: fish in 10 to 20 feet with small plastic.
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 78-80.2
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Thought I would check out whether Melones is still in it's annual summer shut-down. Found levels low and falling, warm surface temps. Expected to strike out as falling levels and surface temps usually pull the fish out and down and they orient on shad schools. I was surprised to find that some spots were still close to shore and would hit on surface, dinner-plates and worms. Took 8 to 10 with several keepers icluding one 2.2 that ate my popper. R
City: SonoraTips: Up river, in the shade, try surface last 90 minutes of day. Top-waters 15 to 25 feet off of shoreline. Worm fish came from points in 20-25 feet. Don't eat largies, keep spots for dinner!!
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 72
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: 3 person guide trip, Father and two daughters almost whipped the guys from Texas with about 149 fish and I didn't fish. We started right by Lundborg landing and picked up a couple small one then moved around Franks on the high tide and over the Quimby fishing rocks and weeds out a little deep and finished up in little mandeville. Every fish was caught on a drop shot rig using a Sniper Lures snub in either brown / purple or dark green, eagle claw #2 drop shot hook rigged open. The big fish of the day was only 2.25lb we did get about 50-60 keepers. The guys were beginners and lost atleast as many fish as they caught.
City: ConcordTips: The drop shot fish really wanted a small bait, a great time to get the kids out they will stay busy all day.
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Clear Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: took acouple girl friends out, they had no idea what they were doin, had to spend hella time trying to teach them how to cast. So we actually started fishing the south end along some docks at about 11am, we were throwing cranks out, we only got 4, the fish really arent hitting it hard at all, they just swim with it. I regretfully forgot to bring my soft plastics with me, cuz i saw hella fish out there caught on worms, brush hogs, and senkos.
Tips: brush hogs, and senkos, thats all i can say, and get there early. good luck
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Kaweah Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Pretty much the same pattern as before. 27 bass on Wednsday morning. They are starting to hit shad more frequently. I give it two weeks and they will be busting the top in huge schools.
City: CorcoranTips: Dropshot, crawdads, or minnows. Crankbait caught a couple. Just have to watch out for boaters who don't have enough respect to drive by you out of casting range.
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Spring Lake
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Water Temp: 70ish
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: went out at about 12 noon and started with spinners in the grass. didnt pick up anything until about 1:00 when we worked the weedlines. the senko bite seems to on all day. lost a 5 lbr under the bushes, They hit when you least expect it. look for the heaviest cover you can find and get that bait deep into it
City: petalumaTips: cover as much water as you can with a spinner or a crankbaitthey are spread out all over the weeds
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
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Black Butte Lake
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Water Temp: WARM
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: WENT LATE TO GET US SOME CATFISH AND HAD PLENTY OF FISH AND FUN TOTAL OF 16 RANGING FROM 4 OUNCES TO ABOUT 3 LBS STAYED ALL NIGHT FISHING COULDN'T WALK AWAY FROM MY POLE CONSTANT FISH ACTION ON ALL POLES. FISHED USING FULL ANCHOVIES WRAPPED UP WITH BAIT WRAP
City: RED BLUFF
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: In reply to Donald Osbourne.How long ago were these determinations about the mercury levels in the lakes you mentioned made. The reason I ask is I will sometimes keep my less of fairshare of Bass from the lakes you mentioned and never knew that mercury was a problem. I go to those lakes very regularly and never was the mercury problem mentioned to me by the lake authorities or by any publications except for Calero, Almaden, and the Coleman Perc ponds. Can you give me names or numbers where I can follow up on this. I sure would like to contact the appropriate people if my loved-ones were affected by mercury especially when the fish consumed were not from lakes where formal signs were not posted.
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 75 -77
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Started off the day with topwater, no luck! The overcast day should have been great for it. We did find bass on Senkos on rock piles it 10 - 15 feet of water. Found a bridge north of Jack's Shack that runs across the river channel that I never knew existed. I have that spot on my GPS for the next time the water rises. Wind starated to blow and we were off the water by noon with only 3 in the boat, nice day.
City: Sacramento
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Pine Flat Lake
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Water Temp: 80-82
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: went out saturday the 21st @ 8:00 a.m. caught 8 fish none keepers on crankbaits and green weenies. White spinnerbait usually gets me some larger fish, not today. Still had a great time.
City: sangerTips: early morning or later p.m. during the week. skiers suck.
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 77.9
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: the report below should have been dated the 23rd of August, not the 16th.
City: Redding
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Trinity Lake
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Water Temp: 74
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Spent the last week of aug 23-30 at trinity with my wife .first 3 days very unsettled weather light rain high winds but still lots of fish averaged 25-35 fish per day, though biggest fish only about a pound and a half, though we also caught 4 large trout 2-31/2lbs. It took a while to figure out the lake for the larger fish though, and as the weather stabalized the larger fish became more active.Largest fish caught were a 5.9sm,3.7sm 6 between 2-3lbs and another 20 fish at 1-2lbs.
City: tracyTips: most fish caught dropp shotting in 20-35ft of water in the squirel gulch area.A special thanks to John Grey who was kind enough to call me after I sent him an E-mail. I just followed his advise on patterns and the rest just fell into place. The lake fished different each day and we had to adjust for the falling water, wind ect... Great lake can,t wait to go again.
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Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
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Black Butte Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Hey DG
we used to fish black butte all the time and had discovered the same thing. the first couple of times early morning the bass are jumping all over and around(especially in anglers cove) the boat yet nothing in our arsenals could entice a single one of them! after two years we came to the conclusion that these fish are all feeding on the same thing and nothing else as they make them selves known to us. what? we dont know. but we gave up on the top water, although we catch alot of bass here. toss senkos close to where you see the fish jumping but not right on top of them. the quiver on the senko attracts them on the downfall, but dont do anything, just let it fall all the way down. sometimes they will pick it up before it hits bottom, but most times senko is on bottom. an extremly slow reelin drag along the bottom is all you need. stick with pumpkinseed colors. small crankbaits in perch and babybass work well too with a steady retrieve. pick up a FRENZY perch pattern rattletrap and give it a shot. also, my fishing buddy nailed the heck outta bass with firetiger patterns here to my suprise. i refuse to use such an unnatural color but they have truly worked at black butte. dont be suprised to land a few channel cats on the crankbaits too, or a decent size crappie. i landed a couple of crappie slabs slinging crankbaits. good luck on your next trip. well be back there soon.
City: yuba cityTips: FORGET THE TOPWATER! ONLY WAY TO CATCH THEM IS WITH A 20 FOOT NET!
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 70-74
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Don't Mess With TEXAS is what they said! I took out two guys form Texas,we caught and released 169 bass the biggest was about 3lbs most were small but we did manage about 60 or so keepers. Most of the fish were caught drop shotting pumpkin helix cut in half we also caught a ton on the southern shad assassinator spinner bait, bleeding shad speed trap and watermelon and pumpkin helix fished weightless. The fish were everywhere we stopped form Frank's to Holland except the rocks on Holland cut. On the high tise we fished shallow rocks and islands when the tide went out we fished canals and areas that concentrate the fish. The better fish came from prime ambush spots mostly points.
City: ConcordTips: Toss the Helix weightless www.docwaterslures.com then when it get torn up save it for drop shotting, it really works great. For non believers I can suppply the guys email address.
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Camp Far West Lake
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Water Temp: 75 deg
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Quency Malone and in the water at 9am in the south shore ramp, drove into bear creek and started on the big rocks with a darter head lizard. the first hour we put in the boat 20 spots and smallies, the winds were not so bad by now. moved into the trees with a jig brown/brown with a 180 grub double tail and picked one keeper 1 1/2 lb. went home at 1pm with 10 keepers the best five 8.5 lbs.
City: rocklin
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 74-75
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Yes, the bite is still ON at Clear Lake! We arrived at Redbud before sun up and waited for some light before blasting off. It was really windy and the water was very rough. We started not far from the ramp looking for some top water action, but no luck. My buddy was tossing a crankbait and landed 2 keepers right away. We headed toward Jago and caught several more on cranks, still no top water action. We later fished some deep water docks and caught several on drop shots, cranks, senko and carolina rig. Headed in around 1:30pm. Overall we caught over 30 fish up to 4 lbs with the best 5 close to 15 lbs. Nearly all the fish were keepers. We also saw some other anglers catching fish on jigs and senkos. Everyone we saw on the water was catching fish and a variety of baits.
City: Rohnert ParkTips: Fish the deep water docks where you have at least 15' depth nearby. Rocky areas out produced the tully areas. Crankbaits down to 10'. If you see fry or baitfish near the docks, fish that area thoroughly and you will be rewards. The bass are very fat and healthy.
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Temp: 73
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: This is a tough lake to fish folks. Don't know if it is the boat traffic or what. Fished from 0730 to Noon. Caught 11 bass - 4 SM and 7 LM. The biggest was 7lbs. It was so convinced it was a 10lb fish that I had the guys at the dock weigh it to confirm my cheap scales. BIG BIG fish but no big gut. He had fishing line and a hook he had digested coming out his butt which I removed. Probably why he was skinny. he'll be fatter next time I catch him/her. Caught 2 on top water early. Swithed to carolina rigged plastics and got 7. The other two came late on a speed trap crank. Caught 4 fish in real shallow water near the weed edges. The others were caught in 10-15ft along the outside weed edge. Nothing on rocky shoreline or rocky points. Talked to a few other boats and no one had any fish.
City: Foster CityTips: Get there early and start with top water in close. The bite only lasts about 45 min. When it slows don't hesitate to got deeper to 15ft with plastics on the weed edges. When the wind comes up try cranks. Don't wast your time past about 11:00 AM. You will not get fish until the evening bite.
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Water Temp: 70-75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: went out with a friend rented a boat caught one....would somebody tell me what ton use and were to fish this lake? some one please tell me i caught a 2lb. SM bass near the north end by all these rocks on a lizard some one please tell me
City: morgan hillTips: dead stick it worked
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Eastman Lake
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Water Temp: 75
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: WATER FINALLY STABILIZED, FISH TO HAVE GONE DEEPER MANAGED TO CATCH A COUPLE. NOT A GREAT DAY BY ANY MEANS.VERY WINDY SATURDAY EVENING AND THE MOSQUITO'S \ GNATS ARE REALLY BECOMING A PROBLEM. GETTING AROUND IS HARD ENOUGH WITH WATER LEVELS AT PRESENT LET ALONE WHEN YOU AD WIND.WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WEEK-SEE YOU OUT THERE !!!
City: turlockTips: ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE NOTICED .SOME GUY'S AREN'T USING ANY NAVIGTION LIGHT'S. I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE GET HIT AT NIGHT NOT USING LIGHTS.IT AIN'T PRETTY ON EITHER SIDE :BE SAFE NOT SORRY
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 77-79
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Windy evening on the lake. Stayed in the south fork to try and avoid blowin around. Caught 5 keepers, again on Rat-L-Traps. Two of them were 2 and 3 pounds. Took my son and let him real 'em in. He was stoke'd. Blades and plastics were not workin for me, again tonight. I'm sure it's a confidence thing by now, so fish with what works for you. Wind muddied up the waters a bit.
City: Fair OaksTips: Fish with something noisy. Rat-L-Traps working for me. Bleeding shad w/ golden back in original size working best. Moderately fast retrieves over submerged humps, rocky points, drop-offs, etc.
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