Fishing Report

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Saturday, July 3rd, 2004

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 74+-

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry I havn't posted much lately. It's been typical Trinity. Hot one day, dead the next. For the first ABA Tourny I had a client out the day before and found smallies on main lake points, or I should say, just off the points but within a 100 yds or so. Did real well, about 16lbs. Tournament day to start,NADA. I felt like the fish couldn't have gone far so we stayed on the lake side of the points, and started picking up fish 100-200 yds from the point. We targeted deep stumps and were culling by 8. Ended up with 13.33 good enough for 2nd. The following week I went out Sat. early and found some LM which were spawning deep (17-20'). I stumbled onto this pattern a few years ago, and when the water level,temp, and approaching full moon are right, the hogs are there. I picked up a 6+ and a 7 and loaded my boat and went home. Sat night I had dreams of a 20 lb sack. Sun morn I mad-dashed to the honey hole and they just wouldn't go. They were there.(Do you know what 6-7lb bass look like on your chart in 17' of water?) Anyway, I stayed way too long throwing the tackle box at em and when I finally left I found that the fishing was tough all over. I picked up 3 3lb smallies on steep walls on the way back to the weigh-in and finished 6th.
      Yesterday I took a buddy out and the spawning was still going on. He picked up a 5-15 right off the bat and I got a 4-15. Guess where either one of those fish would have put me last Sunday.
      Ah Trinity-I love it.
      Yesterday after the LM flurry we just ran around and fished the usual stuff. Caught lots of smallies to 2.5 and generally had a great day. Still couldn't get a crank or jerk bite going but had a lot of fun fishing slow.
      Vince Holson, who used to run Longs' fishing dept. is opening up a new tackle shop where the old furniture store used to be. I'm going to make sure he carries the stuff that works on Trinity,(He already has ordered from Pro Worms) so stop in. He'll know what is happening on Trinity, I promise.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Don't put all your eggs in one basket....

Friday, July 2nd, 2004

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

      Report: Great Day to go fishing...We jigged a watermelon yamamato grub for most of the day. Caught 3 on that and mist a lot of hits swimmin it back up to the surface from deeper water. Then we also caught one on a senko and the other on a ratltrap. They were all small fish. Fished the west side of the lake going south of the damn.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: i seemed to get a lot of hits swimmin this weedless football head yamamato grub back up from deeper water, so it might be a good idea to cast the grub in about 10 to 20 feet of water maybe even deeper and just let it sink to the bottom and varie the speed of your retrieves (try slow or fast) back up to the water

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL IF THERE IS ANY GROUPS OF CONCERNED ANGLERS GOING OUT TO DO A LITTLE RESTOREING DROP ME A EMAIL 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE...I'LL SHOW UP!!!
      City: san francisco

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

      Report: Didn't fish, just lookin'... Lake level down ~1 - 2 feet. Saw some 3 to 5 lber's slammin' baby bluegill up onto the banks near the island. Wouldn't even look at the offerings of the two anglers I was watching. One fish did a couple of swirls at a frog offering, but no takers.

      Tips: Small, small, small.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL IF THERE IS ANY GROUPS OF CONCERNED ANGLERS GOING OUT TO DO A LITTLE RESTOREING DROP ME A EMAIL 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE...I'LL SHOW UP!!!
      City: san francisco

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL IF THERE IS ANY GROUPS OF CONCERNED ANGLERS GOING OUT TO DO A LITTLE RESTOREING DROP ME A EMAIL 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE...I'LL SHOW UP!!!
      City: san francisco

  • California
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: senkos and spiners early both in shades of green. medium size cranks after 10:00. caught about 7 on the morning bite and 2 after 10:00. not much size except a 7.5lb one on baby bass crankbait
      City: fresno

      Tips: once the sun gets high the bite shuts down

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 79.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back from houseboating for 5 days with two other families who have never been houseboating. Had a great time and the fishing was decent in the mornings and evenings. Caught mostly spotted basss and 2 black bass on lucky craft sammy, jerk bait, brush hog (pumpkin color, morning dawn plastic worm, and a spinnerbait. Fish were located mostly on points with big rocks and brush near by on the main part of the lake. Water temp was 79.9 in one arm and 72.5 in another arm. Biggest spot went 2.75 lbs. Trout trolling was terrible from anglers that I asked.
      Fire Jon
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Fish early or late, top or bottom. Lots of little fish

  • Washoe County, California
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      Water Temp: 75-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Was one of the first boats on the water since the lake is now open, opened July 2. While my buddy and i were wating in line we already saw some striper boils! My buddy and i first started out by fishing the sandy beaches and my first cast i caught a real small largemouth, next cast another small largemouth( i was using a zara spook puppy). So we went down the bank some more and we got one nice largemouth on a chrome black jointed rapala that my buddy was using. We hit this one side of this rip rap bank and the largemouths were all over my topwater, it was giving me bass fever!! Then right when i landed a nice bass my buddy hooked up with a 10 pound striper right at the boat and it snapped the line. After that there was a school of stripers and we started hooking up with them on zara spooks. After that fast and furious action the bite slowed down tremendously. So our best bet was to find banks with as less weeds as possible, and if we found alot of weeds, one of us would fish the inside edge and one would fish the outside edge, and both of us were using cranks. At the end of the day we ended up catching over 20 bass, but still the bite wasent as good as we thought it would be.
      City: Castaic

      Tips: There is alot of weeds!!! For your best luck fish rocky banks protected from the wind weeds, and jet skiers! Belive me this is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack! But take the time to do that and the reward will be awesome. And when fishing weed lines in the morning fish the inside of them and in the afternoon fish the outside of them with cranks.

  • California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL IF THERE IS ANY GROUPS OF CONCERNED ANGLERS GOING OUT TO DO A LITTLE RESTOREING DROP ME A EMAIL 2 WEEKS IN ADVANCE...I'LL SHOW UP!!!
      City: san francisco

  • Nassau County, California
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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to do the full moon thing. Caught a decent one(1 1/2+) in the daylight. Almost had a topwater bite going for a minute. First cast with a chug bug produced a bite. He was pulling good so I know he was a good one but he came unbuttoned. Another cast in the other direction produced another strike. But not enough to keep me interested after that. Took the moon a while to make it's appearance over the dam. Bite seemed to get better after that. Caught 6 or 7 cookie-cutter 14" models once the moonlight hit the water. Caught a few sub-10". Finally got the kicker probably around 11:00 p.m. He might of gone 4+ on a good day. But he was a little on the thin side.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Majority of the fish came on 4" Margarita Mutilators and some other 4" puple worms I had. Also, caught 2 or 3 on 7" watermelon wacky-wormed Senko.

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Night trip again. On the water at 5:00 p.m. or so. Fished the kincaid cove area with nothing to show but dinks for the effort. Went to the damn dam second and caught more of the same dinks up shallow. last stop at about sundown was lure point. Lure point had some topwater action for a brief time and then split shot took over. The west side of the point on the secong buoy was producing a few fish. There was even some that looked like regular sized bass. 9:00 p.m. mosquitos told us to leave.
      City: Tehachapi

      Tips: 4"Purple (fat sack) worms on the west side drop-off of lure point. I sure do see alot of people fishing on the lake,but no one posts. POST !

Thursday, July 1st, 2004

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I wouldn't call it "clear" but there is 3-4' vis at the dam with a little less around the rest of the lake depending on boats and wind.Water quality is good with a lot of shoreline brush.

      Excellent fishing for numbers ..the hard part is getting size consistantly. Water level is holding pretty steady and down maybe 20'. Jigs fished 5-30' will get keepers all day but covering water with a fat free crank is getting better quality for me.

      Dragging worms,jigs,dartheads ect on main lake pionts and steep hard bottom banks for numbers.Once the wind and boat wakes pick up crank the mud lines for better fish. Havn't thrown a blade much but it might be a good idea.
      City: San Jose

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: good

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the south end of the like pulled out about 50 bass on motoroil senkos texas rigged. I really dont know why i caught so many fish because ive fished this like for the past 5 years and ive never had like this. Woohooo!
      Biggest bass caught was around 6 pounds.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: fish with senkos

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Calero has been really good for me lately in the mornings and in the evenings. Most of my fish were caught around weeds and off rock walls and rocky points. I have been getting good morning topwater bites, especially today. Most fish caught today were on the south end really close to the weed mats on buzz baits. We totalled 9 on buzzbaits today in 2 hours. All were around 2 lbs. My biggest fish in the past weeks has been a 3.2 on a spinnerbait reeled real slow right next to a submerged weed bed. When the sun gets high I turn to carolina rigging, shaking brush hogs, and dropshotting off of points, and rock walls. Numbers of fish have been alright but the size of my fish haven't been too big. Good Luck guys.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Roboworms, revenge spinnerbaits and buzzbaits, lucky craft jerkbaits, brush hogs and rat-l-traps. get there in the morning, or get there after 4:00.

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

      Report: Upper Lake; 6/28-7/3: put in at 6am (kayak fishing) and worked the north bays just at the v where the fishing arm meets the ski arm. Lots of strikes and hook ups with 2-4 lb bass casting to the banks with straight tail robo worms (oxblood, aaron's & brown - 4 1/2" & 6"), rigged texas style and a very small split shot about a foot up. Switched up to 9" trout swimbaits and got lots of follows from much larger bass, but, no hits. No hits on spinner baits or cranks.
      City: Castaic

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: nice

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 1 to 5 and on the first cast caught i nice little bass on a chartreus spinnerbait then no luck for awhile until i pulled out a nice 5 pounder out of a fallen tree. We fished the very North end of the lake where theres a bunch of timber and sticks and it was very very shallow. Fun Day though.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Fish Naked......

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the morning from 6:30 - 10:30 a.m. I got blanked but my son, John, got six nice bass, 1.5 to 2 lbs, all of which he released, of course. He got them all on a bluegill-colored Rapala DT-10 crankbait in 6-8 feet of water on the outside of an Elodea weedbed near the dam. They all came from a small area that was loaded with small bluegill. Apparently them basses are chowing down on the bluegill.
      Unusual event was his catching a 10" trout that hit a crawfish colored DT-10. That had to be a trout with an attitude! There's no way it could have gotten the lure in its mouth to eat it.
      City: Monterey, CA

      Tips: The lake has gone down a few feet over the last several weeks. The fish appear to be moving to the outside edge of the weedbeds. In some areas, there are lots of small (3-4") bluegill which are apparently serving as forage for the bass. Bluegill imitations are recommended.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 80.2-80.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: out with one of my wife's co-workers', got in at Bailey Cove at 1915, lake nearly 45 ft down and this ramp will be out of the wter in a week or less, air temp 94 with a 8 knot wind out of the south, ran over into the middle Pit to fish some emerging humps with no takers and only 2 bites, moved south a bit and finally got a few in the boat, nothing going for 1 1/2 hours but started getting some small fish, finally managed a couple under 2 throwing my B&S 3 23 twintails on 1/2oz jigs. We finished up over near Jones Valley with 21 but must have missed twice as many. Tom struggled a bit with a baitcaster as he is new to that type of reel, turned out the reel was the problem and his catching improved when he laid it down and went to another rod. Beautiful night out with a full moon and the sheriff was out tending to the night skiing problem. out at 0115, air temp 73.
      City: Redding

      Tips: The lake is now dropping very fast and it is necessary to really watch what your doing, lots of stuff coming up quickly.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out in my tube today. Fished from the public ramp out on the main lake.Only fished about a mile of shoreline. Great topwater bite until about 9am. Lots of smallies and largemouth to 2 lbs. After the wind started up, senkos were working well. Only caught largemouth, but they were all between 3 and 4 lbs, with one going 7 lbs. Nice fish. After 13:00, very few bites on senkos. Switched to ripbaits. Good thing I switched, mostly smallies 2-4 lbs with 1 at 5.2 lbs. Thats the largest smallie I've ever caught at Sonoma.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish slow with plastics. Fish fast with ripbaits.
      Just wish the water skiers and jet skis would stay at least 50 yds from me.Some sure do pull a huge wake.