Fishing Report
Saturday, July 31st, 2004
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Temp: 76-79
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Boy, was it a grueling day!----Late start....got 5 fish for three people. Tried drop shotting, senkos,frogs and cranking. Hit points coves and mudlines...Proven set up drop shotting..all small fish 9-11 inches all deep-12-25'. There are some serious weed mats, yet nothing ont the frogs-saw the mats swirl a couple of times and one hit. All reports from Norcalfising.com said it was game on...well we were all wrong-till next time Melones here we come.
City: San JoseTips: Fish hard and get there early-
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 81.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: went in at packers at 2250, slight push out of the north and a few bassboat trailers in the lot, air temp a cool 74, lake at 69 ft down, dropped the troll motor right off the bat and started throwing at the island out in front of the Packers float and got 6 small fish right off, moved down the west bank out to the point near the gap for the next hour with a few hits but nothing in the boat. Started seeing a few other bassboats moving back into packers at midnight and got a good fish on outside Packers at midnight that went 2.68 and another not 5 minutes later that was slightly bigger. The ten boats that came in then went to the float for the first of a split weighin(Redding Bassers) and I fooled around back on the island for a bit for 4 more small fish and a 1.8 just after they left again at 0200. A super nice evening out and only saw one skier out by no name, water level stil heading south at a good clip, got out at 0215, air temp down to 68. all my fish came out of 12-17ft of water, a bit different than normal, got no bites right at the bank.
City: ReddingTips: B and S twintails in melon pepper and black root beer on 1/2oz football heads and no skirts.
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
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Amador Lake
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Water Temp: 80+
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished a night tourny, i didnt do so hot, caught one on a black senko with charturse flake. My mistake was fishing deep. The guys who placed were fishing shallow
City: concordTips: Drop shot bite's good, wacky rigged senko worked too. The bass are eating crawdads up there so try crawlike colors
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Calero Reservoir
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: My brother and I fished from 8:30 AM to around 3:00 PM. Caught fish all day long, most on split shot plastics (6" lizards and worms) in 5' to 12' of water, a few on carolina rigged tubes. Dinks to 3 lbs.
City: San JoseTips: Fish the submerged points and along the weed line.
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Lafayette Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: According to Western Outdoor News they just recently stocked lafayette with bass. Most likely planters that you were catching. Good luck!
City: Folsom
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Lexington Lake
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Water Temp: warm
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Launched Float tube's from dam, Friday after work, we (me & buddy) fought the white water caused from the high winds that afternoon and my bubby lannded the first fish, a dink, drop shotting a robo worm. My 1.5# came about an hour later, also drop shotting a robo worm in about 25' water. My second fish came about 10min later in the same area. It was smaller, (again drop shotting)Buddy landed his second fish about half hour later. We worked the HWY17 side.
The wind never let up. It made for a wet back in my case! At least we wern't skunked!
City: Scotts Valley
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New Hogan Lake
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Water Temp: 82
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Met my buddy Kentuck on the lake at about 10:30 and he had already hit 3 boils and nabbed 2 fish. Boils were pretty active up till around noon then died off at the south end. Strated resurfaceing around 1430 and stayed active until dark. Most boils were small and did'nt stay up long.Some large and smallies chasing shad as well. We left around 9 with a few fish in the boat and had a triple on our last boil.
City: WoodfordsTips: Anything that looks like shad.Get on them fast and dont cut off the other guy. Watch out for ski traffic.
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Success Lake
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Water Temp: 75+
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Night trip!..... Got on the water @ 6:30 p.m. or so. Didn't realize that we were going to have almost full moon. It was very bright out on the water and awesome weather. Fished the West side of the lake against the rock wall and caught a few little ones at the floating dock. At dark, weheaded for the rock wall at the bridge. We caught a few fish on jerkbaits and cranks. Lurepoint @ dark...Caught numerous fish with 9" fatsack paddletails. Large worms were killin'...one 3.5 lber in the bunch.
City: TehachapiTips: Large worms after the sun go down mon'. No topwater in the weeds which was weird. Lurepoint all along the west side drop.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2004
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 74
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Two person guide trip with learing how to fish outgoing and low tides and an upcoming tournament. Looking for quality fish we started with top water poppers and all chartreuse persuader buzz bait and persuader assassinator souther shad spinner bait. 1st fish was 4.5lbs and the next was alittle over 4lbs on the buzz bait then a few smaller ones 1-1.5 fishing weed flats with the high outgoing tide as we were looking for better fish we targered islands with weed flats covered with water and then as the water went out we targeted the edges and when the tide got really low we fished the real deep edges with the boat in 15 ft or more of water and working the bait form the edge to about 10 ft. Using these methods we landed 5 quality fish form 3 to 4.5lbs about 20lbs for the day. We had about 40 fish for the day and 25 or so keepers
City: ConTips: All the quality fish came on the Persuader Buzz bait or the Doc Waters Tube
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Coyote Lake
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Water Temp: ?
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: me and steph were a little bored friday night so we thought coyote dam sounded just right we made it to the lake at about 4 am it was perfect cought
3 fish all on texas rigged worms, fish went from 2-3 lbs all nice keepers.it wasn't perfect but really fun, fished till 6:30 am.
City: AptosTips: tried jig,topwater,splitshotin,dropshotin,and rippin thank god for the good old texas rig.
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Lexington Lake
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Water Temp: warm 70+
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Been fishing the freeway side the last couple times according to the last report posted. Caught several small fish on a 1/4 oz. blue/chrome trap, but nothing big until I started tossing a t-rig grub in shad colors. I was not getting bit as much with the trap but they were better quality fish up to 2.5#.
City: San JoseTips: Vary the retrieve on the trap. Let the grub sink to the bottom and a nice slow retrieve back. Most fish hit it on the initial drop or pick it up on the retrieve. Better fishing when it was hotter last week.
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 81.2 to 82
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: In at Packers at 4:30PM. Ran up the McCloud to Ycotti and picked up a nice 3lber. first thing with a 1/2 oz. football head with a BnS twin tail in #22 Brown Melon. Things went slow after that. Moved across to Greens Creek and started working the points moving down to the main body. Picked up a 2.0 on the same rig with a #23 Melon Pepper twin tail. The total for the night was 10, the best fish for the Blonde in the back was a 1.4 on a darterhead with a #23 twin tail. It was a beautiful moonlite night.
City: CottonwoodTips: If you are out after dark be sure and watch your speed, the patrol boats are out doing their job.
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Temp: ...............
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: got there at about 8:30 it was nice cold in the morining then got hot at 11:00 the fisging was good but the bitting really hard to hook only cought 1 samllie
City: south san franciscoTips: find a really quiet are try lucky craft and plastics
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 74
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: One person guide trip with Joe. Working on flippin and pitchin technique. Woring the outgoing tide around Franks, Quimby, Mandeville and Holland. We targeted islands and weed edges and after a little trial and error we ended up using the New Doc Waters tube. Was a great bait if you think tubes are only for spring your mistaken. From 6:00 to about noon we landed about 30 bass to 3.5lbs some small one but most were quality fish 1.5-2.5 lbs and about 14lbs for 5. After lunch the flip bite slowed down and we went to cranking the speed trap and caught another 15 or so most all small.
City: ConcordTips: The better fish came form 5-10ft deep on water melon red and motor oil Doc waters tubes
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 76
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: My brother Jack is in from Houston and we have been fishing every day with fishing slow this time of year until our planned night trip to Clearlake. Launched out of M&M and all the reports were no topwater, dragging a purple worm off Rattlesnake and Senkos up until nightfall and then no bite until sunup. We started out near Windflower Point throwing blades and nailed a couple up to 2lbs and then headed for Jago where my brother caught more bass in 2 hours than he had all week. Working the docks and rocks we killed them on jigs. Next stop was the state park tules where Senkos were the item of choice, averaging 1-3 pounders and then when the sun went down, the bite got slower but NEVER disappeared and that probably was due to the good moon we had. Nailed our largest 5.25 pounder at 3AM on a 10" worm near Konocti. When the sun started coming up we started all over again catching one after another until I said we gotta go as I need a break and we finally pulled off the water around 9AM. It was extremely hard to figure our count for the night but a minimum of 50 keepers were brought to the boat, not mentioning our misses. Clearlake is HOT, HOT, HOT right now and you better get out there. We hit it on a good night as the lake was calm all night and made running easy.
City: WheatlandTips: When they are on Senkos, it doesn't really matter what color you are throwing and we were throwing them weightless. Our 10" MGM Baby Bass were in hogsbreath scent and weighted Texas rig while a 5" purple worm worked slowly near docks and rocks was very effective.
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Lower Otay Lake
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Water Temp: 72
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: I hadn't been to Lower Otay since I was a kid and was relieved to see the anglers at the lake, especially since it was Hump Day. Ran into a new angling club in town and they were tearing the joint up. They said that they were the Flying Piranha Brothers and they have a crazy arsenal. I ran into them on Wednesday and they were telling me about what was biting. It was my first time at the LOFT and they were helpful at telling me what were the *HOT* spots. I saw a texas rig, carolina rig, drop shot and sabiki rig. These guys were nuts.....good to see the new blood at the lake.
City: San DiegoTips: I was told to fish where the fish are by the first group of anglers I met. Don't be discouraged by the regulars, many of them are jerks and I wouldn't be surprised if they were racist.
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Tulloch Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Has anybody been at the lake? I have a tournament this weekend and was looking for a little help.
City: Livermore
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Uvas Lake
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Water Temp: warm
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: nice day! water was calm.we fished in the large cove by the parking lot in the evening! caught 2 on a shad crankbait and one on a trout rattletrap. also i was fishing with a popR and had a huge blowup but mist the darn fish, he hit the thing twice but missed both times...gotta love seeing a fish strike a topwater bait...
City: Morgan HillTips: use crankbaits, that seems to work the best at UVAS
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
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Calero Reservoir
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Water Temp: probably around
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: nice day! caught 3 by the rocks on the west side of the lake across from the ramp. caught 2 on a senko and one on a brush hog. fished the afternoon for about 2 hours or so. biggest fish was around 5 pounds.i mist a huge fish...
City: Morgan HillTips: pay attention when fishing
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 78.5
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished White Slough in the Delta today slow bite only caught four fish to 7 lbs. & pounder came on a double wide sweet beaver teas craw color. My friend did not believe me when I told him to flip really tight to the bank so I had to show him how to do it. Another fish came on a frog. Water temp 78.5 mild wind and sunny.
Fire Jon
City: San BrunoTips: Still learning the Delta
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