Fishing Report

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Thursday, August 5th, 2004

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 79-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers at 0445. Dropped electric motor and made my way along the east bank of the cove throwing topwaters. Force fed a jitterbug, buzzbait and spook almost all the way to the mouth of the cove without single a strike. Metered some fish on the graph on the second to last point and drop a drop shot on them to pick up a fiesty 1.8# spot. This point showed lots of fish on the graph but spent the next half hour without another bite. Up the Sac Arm trying numerous other points with limited success. Found another large concentration of fish on one point but could only get the first fish to go; the rest must have gotten spooked. Boat traffic way up by 1000 so out of water by 1030. Overall, beautiful day to be on the lake.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Was hoping for a topwater bite in the very early morning but not even a splash on any of them. Fish were concentrated once you find them, but seemed only one would go at each location.

Wednesday, August 4th, 2004

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

      Report: First off a big thanks to Randy Pringle. I have been off water for a couple of weeks, so I called Randy and aksed if he was available for guide trip. Well he was not but he gave me some advice on where,when and how.

      Thats what it took. Got a late start (0800hrs) but had a limit of good fish by 0830 and just slayed the fish all day. Caught a bunch including two over 5lbs on top water, fishing in the middle delta.

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

      Report: Can anyone share some tips for the past 3 weeks at Pedro? What is the bite and where? Please e-mail me, I am going there in a couple of weeks. Thank you!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out saturday night and really kicked ass. Caught 6 all together .With a 7.8 to go with that. Fishing is awesome at eastman hopefully they won't drain the entire lake.With all the nice fish coming out of here now is a good time to practice CATCH & RELEASE.See you on the water
      City: turlock

      Tips: Practice CATCH & RELEASE, IT IS SO IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW. LET'S NOT BLOW A GOOD LAKE. I,VE SEEN LOT'S OF PEOPLE TAKING SMALL FISH @#@#@$#@

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 78 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: quency malone and friends and i went out at 4pm. found our first dozen or more dinks in the main body out near the wind sock going off the point towards the dam. used a 4" white ears warpon worm split shot. moved later to anderson island on the back side, picked up three more some bass. went into a cove then back to rocky point and stated getting 2-2.5 lbs in 10-20 ft. leaches in 4" work. water is still going down, that means less boaters, but more rocks coming up. my other fishing partner jim ryan got a 2.1 lb largie. total bass was about 20, joe miller and tom got some good fish also with split shot. out of the water at dark (8:45pm). not a bad evening after work fishing with friends.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: watch out for new rocks and fish slow with small worms, lizards.

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to the good ol lafayette reservoir today fished 12:00 to 7:30 HOW MANY PERCH ARE IN THIS LAKE.how did they get in this lake. caught about 60 yellow perch no bigger then 8 inches.went threw 7 boxes of nightcrawlers!!!every dock we went to we caught perch throw the worm out far couple seconds later u have a perch.HAD FUN!!!!
      City: san bruno

      Tips: throw it out far and u will get a perch

  • San Francisco County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing for bass for a couple hours and caught nothing. Did see a very large dead turtle. This lake is dead! Must be polluted or something.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Don't waste your time here.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 77.2 - 79.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched about 9:30a with the purpose of checking out the striper situation.....Some scattered boils that seemed to be smaller fish. They only stayed up for seconds at a time and were pushing the shad at a very fast pace. Landed 3 keeper Smallies while waiting for the stripers. Off the water at 1:00p
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Used 4" worms on split-shot rig from 18 to 25 feet for smallies. All came off of shale points and islands w/ good depth close in. "Load-up" bites - very subtle. R

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took 8 and 11 year old boys, their dad and his dad to Oroville today for a half day trip - what a crowd in my Ranger 520! We fished the middle fork for an hour and then finished in the south fork. There really isn't much to say - we only fished 6' worms split-shotted. Smoke blue seem to be the best color by far. I did drop-shot a #239 Yamamoto Kut-Tail and it produced a few. Our biggest was only 13 1/2 inches and we had 4 under the slot. We landed about 17 or 18 and had a lot of fun. Quality fish were not biting, though I saw several on the meter. We saw lots of small spots chasing this years spawn on the surface. So, the fish are biting, but quality is lacking.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Night fishing is probably the way to go from now on. Because of the crowded boat, I really didn't try any other options. The bite was best about 15 to 20 feet. The boys had a ball and that is what counts! Look for flats in the south fork - they are there! And they are loaded with fish!!!

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

      Report: Whats the cat bite like? Anybody fishing lately?

      Tips: Chicken Livers......

  • California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished just the morning again from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. Scouted some new water in the north arm of the lake, including the dam face and the west bank of the cove by the parking lot. Lots of shad present, but they weren't boiling. Didn't appear that anything was chasin' 'em. Fished crankbaits, drop-shot wacky worm, surface lures, and Senko. Made lots of casts, mostly on the outside edge of weeds and deeper, but only caught one small bass, on a bluegill-finished Rapala DT-10. Other bass fisherman on the lake agreed it was a slow day. Wind was calm most of the morning, only starting to kick up at about 10:30 a.m.
      City: Monterey, CA

      Tips: The lake appears to have dropped a couple of feet again, after having regained some of its water in preceding weeks. The lake has stratified, with the top of the thermocline at 31 feet. There are lots of shad, and many schools of 3" bass fry. There is still lots of very green and fresh weed growth in the 15 - 18' depths.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got Eric out this evening to the 3rd pond. Tyler and I were having a biggest two ish tourny I got all my ish on lats, dragging either a 6" MGM oxblood worm, or a Witches T Zipperworm. My two ish weighed 4#9# TYlers two weighed 4#11#. He got his dragging worms too. Eric got a 2#1# large dragging a texas rigged watermellon senko 4"...Nice evening.
      City: Redding

      Tips: drag worms, as slow as you can stand..drag..pause..drag pause..there are a lot o ish on steep walls, but quality will come o lats with tullies.

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is a day to remember we caught over 125 fish today yes 125 my best trip ever. Two person guide trip Don form Oakley and his brother Mike form NY. We started in Franks with top water Luhr Jensen PJ Pop shad and cartreuse colors along with the speed trap green craw and crystal craw and later switching to bleeding shad. We then hopped around some rock and weed spots switching between the speed trap and a green pumpkin helix we picked up fish on most every spot. Then we went to mandeville and got about 10 and ended up at lunch with 40 fish, wow what a great day but it usually slows after lunch. After lunch form 12:00 to 3:00 we landed 85 fish. We were fishing around Quinmby / Holland area and found some clear water on the low tide and we could see fish every where, I mean tons of fish. using the speed trap we could only catch fish about every 5 casts. I then rigged up a drop shot and caught a fish on every cast. I then gave the drop shot to the client and he caught fish on most every cast for 2 hours we had several triples two of us using speed tran and one with the drop shot. What was really cool was you could see the fish and toss the the drop shot to um and they would bite. Sight fishing in August in th Delta go figure.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Most every fish was caught on a spinning rod with 8lb Sufix ProMix and we never broke off one.
      We drop shotted a lot of fish usuing the broken green pumpkin Helixes left on the deck. I'm sure some will not believe if your one of those too bad you wern't there!

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried to fish the ski arm but couldn't find anything but weeds. Found fish at the fish arm on a point in one of the coves. Tossed jigs into 20-25' water. Caught one fish 3lbs.
      City: Tehachapi

      Tips: Someone give me some tips.....I need um'

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for couple hours before work. Bite was not as aggressive as last saturday. Not much action on surface. Landed one small bass on blue-chrome popper. Three others came on t-rig shad colored grub. Biggest weighed about 2.5#
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Match the hatch. Big fish hit the grub on the initial drop.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 77 to 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WOW! Clear Lake is one the best fisheries in the country without a doubt. First time back to Clear Lake since April and I don't know why I stayed away for so long. Fished from 6am to 9:30pm, drop shotting and throwing blades was all it took today. I lost track of how many fish I caught after the first couple of hours, I estimate 65 to 80 fish for the day. Why forearms are still a little sore. Big fish of the day was a 9.0 lb brute drop shottin, with a 7.0 caught just before her. Majority of the fish where in the 4.5lb range to 2.0lbs. A couple of dinks mixed in. Great day on the water, i'll be back next week.
      City: Davis

      Tips: Bring plenty of worms and nothing less than 10lb test spinning tackle, the fish are tough footballs in Clear Lake.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 71-75 deg windy

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Jim and I started from the spillway with the winds blowing 20 + mph, so we headed over into the middle fork for some crankin and blades with no takers off points and inlets. I used a brown/orange jig. We then went into the south fork, found a long deep bank (10-25 ft) using split shot with a robo 4.5" morning dawn worm. Before going home at noon we picked 11 dinks, no keepers. The weekend labor day houseboats were coming out. good luck with the winds.
      City: rocklin

  • Nassau County, California
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      Water Temp: 80+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught fish between 10" and 2 1/2 pounds along the dam night fishing. Probably 15 to 20 between the 2 of us. Fished from 6:00 to 11:00.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Drop-shotted MMIII 4" worms and split-shotted amber blue small grubs.

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

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

      Report: Took my nephew and brother-in-law out for their first Bass fishing excursion...Started early with topwater with one blow-up...Switched to brown/purple jig and drop shot combination and began catching solid numbers of 1-2.5lb fish...At 11:00 moved from northeast part of delta to central and started throwing white norman crank and white yamamoto grub on a darthead and caught fish at least every third cast until the tide started to go slack at 1:00 PM. Caught well over 60 fish up to 3.5lbs. Needless to say my nephew and brother-in-law enjoyed the day so much they are considering coming back for additional action before school starts in September.
      City: brentwood

      Tips: Depth, Current, and fast presentation were the ticket. Caught quality fish on rock, weeds, and tulles...What mattered was the moving water and depth...Surprised the topwater bite didn't happen for us, but missed the tide change just enough in the topwater area to turn the bite against us...Fall weather pattern is beginning to appear which for me means WHITE baits are tied on to most of my rods. Crank, jigs, grubs, and drop shot consistently produced.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 5 person guide trip , double with Randy Pringle we both started in Victoria. Super windy! Everybody using spinning rods. High incomming tide a great time for speed traps 1/8oz(my favorite bait) Tossing a green craw and crystal craw we caught 25 fish before noon along with one over 3 and several 2lbers all down south fishing rocks and weeds. Then after lunch the tide was pretty low so we went looking for deeper rock banks and points to throw the speed trap just hopped around down south and caught another 15 or so fish. I did fish a little during the day using the assassinator souther shad spinner bait and I caught about 12 most small keepers to 2 lbs about about 42 fish for the day and 2 fish over 3lbs
      City: Concord

      Tips: Casting skill is very important the guy in the back was making good casts not great but good he landed 20 bass and the guy up frong was not as accurate and he caught 10.