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Saturday, August 14th, 2004

  • California
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      Water Temp: Hot!

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I like fishing black butte, but don't care for the atv's noise. we have no boat so we fish the shore and have been able to catch bass every time, dark sinkos, and worms worked for us.......no size to brag about, but still fun. we were there two weeks ago, water near camp sites was at least 90degees, next week I'll try my tube and hope to catch something to talk about!
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: catch'n release!

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

      Report: Either get there early and fish for a couple of hours or get there late. Lots of bass boats as well as wake makers. Not much etiquette out there on either side. I was first out and managed to get my obvious line blocked by the second boat out. With the whole lake (although it being a small one) I get blocked. Not to mention the 5-6 other times in 2 hours. Good thing I have mellowed out with age. Did pretty good, got 4. All were decent fish to 3+ lbs. Cooler morning than usual with breeze early. Water dropping with fish moving out. Found the decent fish in 10-20 ft of water.
      City: San Carlos

      Tips: Marked fish suspened so found a ledge in the depth that I marked fish. Easy access to shallow and deep water. 1/2 oz Blade got 3 and got one on a buzzbait. Off the water by 10:30. Stick to your guns and don't waste too much time here.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 73-77 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launch out of paradice point marina @ 5:30am with the basin bassmasters from loomis, a 16 boat tournament. check in at noon. my partner was quency malone an old friend. we fished in white slough for the first part, using a white spinner bait. i hooked three bass and lost them at the boat, then got the winning bass for the tournament a 4.84 lb largemount. we fished around small tule islands with the wind and curents moving passed them, fished from the down and up side of them. not much luck on top water. found three more largies before moving to honker cut using 6" senkos , got four more dinks. we had light winds all day and the temp droped 10 degs until 11 am. tide was moving out early, we found one more keeper off of bishop slough.
      City: rocklin

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

      Report: Spent 5 days fishing at Clear Lake. Had a wonderful time, and the fishing wasnt half bad either. Went out with Larry Hemphill on the 18th as he posted and caught some nice fish. I ended up catching about 115 fish myself during our stay and with my girlfriend and dads fish added we had around 210 fish. For the lake being in a slow phase compared to a few weeks ago, this is pretty dang good. Anyways the best part was on my last night, i hooked on one of my 1/4 oz orange jigs (after loosing about 10 others to the rocks) with a frog trailer and thunk, i felt the thunk and weight of a fish, i set the hook and she raced for the surface, jumping clear out of the water and thrashing her head. I about cried since i had lost a 7 pounder the night before the same way. But this fish stayed on. Within about 30 seconds i had an audience of about 20 people watching me fight this hog. After about 3 good runs out to sea i was about to get her close enough to grab, not having a net. I grabbed the fish and pulled the giant out. Hearing about 20 different "oh my gods" and "oohs and awws" i felt like a star for a moment. I grabbed my scale and put her up, a perfect 9 pounds 0 oz. My past personal best was only a 4.5 so this doubled it and was a perfect finish to my week. Since my girlfriend had just left to get some drinks i had nobody to take a picture, but a couple boats passing by saw the hog and a man was nice enough to hop on the DOCK and leave his family for a moment to lend me a hand. Took some great pics and revived her for a couple minutes then let her go.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Just to show you dont need a bass boat to catch big fish if you know what to do. All of these fish were caught on a specific spot at the Konocti resorts dock, with the exception of the trip with Larry Hemphill. And in response to the post below, are you sure that 21 pound fish was a bass, sounds like a carp to me. 21 pounds is very close to the world record. The lake record is only just over 17 pounds. And for a bass to take stink bait is odd.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: CAGHT 50 + FISH THREE TO SEVEN LBS. AROUND ROCK AND DEEP WATER. THIS BITE YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANC
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: look for rocks, throw worns 7" to 10" long, Crawdad color black stripe down the back model A bomber medium diver. Right up on the bank just like spring time fishing around deep water. This is real strange for this time of the year, let's injoy this golden time of bass fishing.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 78-80surface te

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished early in woods creek, caught a lot of dinks shallow, moved to 25' to 30' ledge, shakeing worms, caught 2 to 2 1/2 to 3 lbs.went to main body of lake near middle bay, carolina rig purple blue neon worm, i bite, fish came to the top and broke her off, estimate fish to be 3 1/2 to 4 lbs.slow but fun day.lots of boats out, careful
      City: salida

      Tips: fish slow and deeper ledges

  • California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT THIS WEEKEND DID OK.CAUGHT FISH ON SOUTHWEST SIDE OF LAKE . NOTHING BIG MOST ALL SMALL COUPLE 2-2.5er's .FOUND OUT LAKE WILL NO LONGER BE DRAINED. THAT'S GREAT NEW'S. MOST OF MY FISH ARE COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE BUSHES'S IN 1-3FT. DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TO GO DEEP.STILL HAD A GOOD TIME,SEE YOU ON THE WATER.
      City: turlock

      Tips: $$$-ON THE MENU-$$$ I WAS SERVING UP BRUSHHOGS :WATERMELON-ALSO SHAD COLORED CRANKBAITS + BRN-BLK PIG&JIG . TO ME THEY REALLY DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE IT WAS MORE ABOUT LOCATION. CATCH & RELEASE

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT THIS WEEKEND DID OK.CAUGHT FISH ON SOUTHWEST SIDE OF LAKE . NOTHING BIG MOST ALL SMALL COUPLE 2-2.5er's .FOUND OUT LAKE WILL NO LONGER BE DRAINED. THAT'S GREAT NEW'S. MOST OF MY FISH ARE COMING RIGHT OUT OF THE BUSHES'S IN 1-3FT. DIDN'T REALLY HAVE TO GO DEEP.STILL HAD A GOOD TIME,SEE YOU ON THE WATER.
      City: turlock

      Tips: DON'T GIVE UP SO EASY. CATCH & RELEASE

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 65 and up

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i managed 3 spots around 15"s in 8ft of water in the rattlesnake arm on dropshot using a handpoured sculpin in fire and ice. the fish were spitting up shad, and lots of bait were getting pushed into the bank by the wind and the bass were blowing up on them. but no takers on topwater,swimbaits or cranks....only fished the bank for 2hours if that. not too bad for folsom on the bank.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: dropshotting in 10 to 40ft of water with small baits worked for me.

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

      Report: This lake is tricky - some days are great, others are tough. This was a not so easy trip. 5 of us caught 8 fish in float tubes between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Largest was 2 1/4 - pound Largie.

      We tossed Rattle Traps, Top Water, Jigs and 4 to 6 inch worms. Best results were working the worms slowly in the shallows. Many fish holding 15 to 25 feet deep in about 30 feet of water, but they weren't biting. the bite was 10 feet or less from shore. Wind was howling and made it tough. Forced us to fish in close to shore between boat ramp and dam.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: If you can, avoid the windy days here. Fish seem to want the slow moving presentations right now and the bites are very subtle.

  • New Mexico
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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was slow. A few small panfish but that was about it. Tried several methods, from jigs to bottom fishing. Looking to find new spots at this lake. please e-mail me with any info. johnmbod@steelersfan.net
      City: Albuquerque

      Tips: nothing really worked.

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

      Report: Started out about 7am caught 2 right away on rattle trap pitching towards clusters of trees. Then 2 more later on trolling with deep diving rapala. Seemed to surface early for shad, but died out around 10 to 11.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Try taking long casts into the deeper areas when it gets hot.

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 65 on the surfa

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well i went to trinity for my yearly trip with my family for our early trip.
      the trip started out the same as usual. the frist couple of days were difficult in understanding what the pattern was, but i got it.
      after being on the game plan we got a 6lb lm, a 3lb lm, several 3lb smallies, a 4.5lb smallie, and on my very last day of fishing my brother and our friend got 80 fishing between the 3 of us in 6 hours.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: it's hot out there, bring lots of water, ice, and sunblock. it hard when u first get there.i threw everything day and night. but when i knew what was going on it was wide open. .................OOOoooOOOOoo and PLEASE CATCH AND RELEASE......

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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yesterday with a client from over on the coast who is camping for the next week at the lake. We had a great day. Started for the East shore to throw some topwaters, and guess who is already on the spot where I'd planned to start? Johnny Mac of course. You gotta get up really early to beat that guy. (more on Johnny Mac later)
      Ken picks up a small LM right off the bat on a Pop-R. I tell him that after the lure hits the water you can't wait long enough before you twitch it. Sure enough, after a few more casts, he gets a tangle that takes a minute or two to straighten out. As soon as he gets organized and twitches the Pop-R, bam 3+ smallie. After a few stops on deep tailings and main lke points, it is apparent that today is a flats kind of day. After fishing this lake for 15 years and guiding for 4 I know that the fish will be holding in 15-20' of water on flats this time of year. So where do we find them? In 4-8' of course. As we were drifting shallower with the wind I would decide we needed to be in deeper water. Every time I would start to bring the boat around I would be rudely interrupted by "fish on". I couldn't get back to deeper water because I can't net fish and run the trolling motor at the same time. If ever there was a time of "let the fish tell you what they want" this was it. I was astounded by the size and quantity of the fish we caught in less that 6' of water when surf-temp was approaching 80. All in all a great day. I'm pretty sure that Ken wiil take what we learned yesterday, build on it, and have a great week on Trinity. If he does any better that we did Fri then I'm jealous.
      Back to Johnny Mac. I met Johnny at Trinity Center for a busmans' holiday,
      when most serious fishermen are snoring their loudest. Talk about feeling your way across a lake.
      I E-mailed Johnny and told him that I'd like to save him the haul of his boat over the mountain, and would love to have him backseat me whenever we could get together. It happened last week. We fished a day that was as tough as any I have experienced this year, and through dogged determination, we ended up having a pretty good day. Let me tell you, dogged determination is what Johnny is all about. The contrast in styles was amazing, I was throwing a Pop-R, he was throwing a jointed Jitterbug,(damn thing must have been 6"long) got my butt kicked there. I was throwing a 1/4 oz. ball jig, he was throwing a 3/4 oz. football jig, (ended up about even though he got the biggest fish). Just goes to show you, throw what you have confidence in. Johnny, thanks, I had a ball, lets do it again.
      Also thanks to Craig and Yvonne, for your help and your great company.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: I never hurts to try the opposite of what you think you should be doing. Remember you're trying to outsmart something that has a brain the size of a pea!

Friday, August 13th, 2004

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at franks tract at 4:30am hit a 3pounder off spook,in around weeds.Moved to rock slough at 5:00am and the senko bite was off the richter scale non-stop until 8:15am.Moved down towards mildred and hooked a three 1/2 pound smallie what a blast you heard.Finished inside the harbor of whiskeyslough catchinglittle dinks dropshotting roboworms in green pumpkin biggest going2 1/4 got too hot to trot.Pulled out by 1:00pm
      City: san francisco

      Tips: please use spooks in the morning followed by senkos.And don't forget your best shot.Good luckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

  • California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: They've been raising the lake a lot lately. Many new good big bass spots have been created. I only fished for a couple hours today. My brother caught a 13 incher and i hooked a good one off my senko.Got many bites but didnt hook any of them, too windy to tell clearly. Lots of big bass have been jumping all over the place.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Since water is deeper there are many good spots for senkos and drop shotting. Drop the worm all the through the weeds, thats where they are at.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 80 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I went on a friday and I did really good I caught 4 monster bass on Northwest side of the lake. The bite is low when it is dark in the morning, When the just about to peak out thats when bite is really great. My brother took one 22 inch, and my friend timmy took a 23 inch 7 pounder.
      City: Madera

      Tips: Do not give up, and use greenweenies and wartermelon senkos.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 79-83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 8 am hoping for a good day of striper boils. Didn't see a boil until almost 1 pm. They boiled fairly well until about 6 pm. Problem was, if you weren't right on them they would go down. Did get to about 4 boils and didn't hook a fish. did catch some largemouth right before dark to save a rather dismal day.
      City: Concord

      Tips: If you don't have any competition, use the slow approach to the boils. Fish seem to be spooky.

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

      Report: PLANNING A NIGHTIME OUTING AND WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE SOME INSIGHT ON THE SITUATION. ANY KIND OF TIPS ON GOOD BAIT'S & LOCATION'S WOULD BE GREAT.FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW WHO WOULD CARE TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON US PLEASE DO SO: THANKS
      City: DENAIR-TURLOCK

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

  • California
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      Water Temp: ??????????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: CUMMON no reports from good ole black butte for months!!this lake is betta then that.does anyone have reports from here.please post em.i was wondering how is the crappie bite right now i wouldnt have too ask if u guys would give me some reports.
      City: san bruno

      Tips: POST REPORTS!!!!!DONT BE SHY