Fishing Report
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 74-78
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Very comfortable, mostly sunny with scattered cloud cover
Lake Level: 862' feet in elevation\Best Depths: 15-45'
The fishing has been a bit unpredictable. Some areas are holding fishing and then seem void the next day. The fish are in transition from a summer to fall pattern. The shad are starting to school up and the wolf packs of spotted bass are using them as th
Big Bass: 15-45'
No giant fish but a handful of 2-3 pounders
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Monday, September 29th, 2014
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 71-75
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Changing all week, cloud, rains, blue bird
Lake Level: Out going tides all morning\Best Depths: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
These River bass are reading the "Book". One would have thought all week with the changing weather and overcast skies they might take off, yet quite the opposite was true. The numbers are still there, a lot of smaller fish in the 1-3 pound range all week
Big Bass: Dee drops and ledges with heavy current still tend to be kicking out the biggest fish, although many of the areas we've been fishing the past three weeks are now being inundated with smaller fish as well. Tulle islands with short flats that have a 9-18 fo
We only had three fish last week out of 6 days of fishing that went over 7 pounds, we did have a larger number of fish in the 4
Guide Information: Cooch's Fishing, 2737 Alcala St, Antioch Ca. 94509\Name & Number: Cooch - 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Plenty of open dates in October!Tips: Fish points, look for current and stick to 6-18 foot depths
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Sunday, September 28th, 2014
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 70
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Started 830am out of B&W; worked the rockwall at start of the Moke with blk/blk cavitron buzzbait but only one blowup; did this for 5 mins and went to watermelon/red flk senko. started hooking up 12" to 2lbers. when the veggie flotillas got too thick, we headed to potato slough and worked more rockwalls with the senkos and buddy used 6-7" roboworms in shad pattern... continued picking up lots of 8" to 13" and a few nice 1-2lbers. ended the day with a 5.5 lber grabbing my buddy's senko.
City: folsomTips: No tips as usual...just what worked for us: watermelon/red flk 5" senko T-rigged on owner 2/0 ball finesse ultrahead. Buddy used 5" shad pattern senko wacky on 1/0 Gamakatsu wide gap finesse. We worked the rock walls and inside/outside weedlines and also little cuts in those huge veggie flotillas attaching themselves to everything. but on clear rockwalls, we just kept throwin the senko to the wall and then immediately locking up so it would pendulum swing down along the wall and clear the rocks..then I'd jiggle it like a flickshake and next thing I'd see my line moving sideways. Worked for me.
btw...we did have one bassboat with three guys leapfrog about 30-40yds in front of us with no regard for our drifting in that direction. They were across behind us and no way could have missed us drifting in that direction. Oh well, I don't do that to others but I guess that's ok to do? We still continued to hook up anyway as we worked the same wall behind them so i guess they left us some fish to catch (well that's my preferred positive way to look at it). -
Water Temp: 72 degrees
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished Big Break in the AM with my buddy Tom for topwater stripers. Had a few blow-ups with 3 shakers. Then flew out to the entry of in Sherman where the water was extremely muddy, one major LMB hit that broke my line—then up to Decker for the outgoing tide but the rollers were about 2 feet. Headed back to Big Break, fished the TULES in Dutch with incoming tid after 1PM wherever water was moving and openings— caught about 8-10 LMB in the 1.5 to 2.5 lb. range. Caught them on texas-rigged flapping hogs and wacky worms.Winds about 5 MPH in the afternoon vs. 10MPH in the AM.
City: OrindaTips: I think the water is too warm still to see the striper/bigger fish onslaught in the AM. The birds were hunting, but very little diving anywhere. Try for stripers in the AM, then switch to LMB because they are still out there.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished today from 6:30 am to 11 am. Cloudy with sprinkles of rain off and on, nothing serious. Managed to land 27 fish this trip, from fishing two locations. Spotted bass for three 17 inch, one 15 1/2 inch, one 15 inch, three 14 inch, with the rest of the bass at 10-13 inch.Great fishing with nearly every cast a bite. Lost a couple fish that had the BIG feel, but never saw them. Got all fish tossing worms in 20 to 35 feet. Most fish 25-30 foot deep. Fish slow as if you know herds of fish are below below you. Just about all my fishing was on a 1/8 oz. Carolina rig, drop shot style, with the YoYo action. Let it sit, pull up, let down, hit bottom, crank it up a tad to avoid hang up, sit, etch, like a yoyo. Works!!!
City: MagaliaTips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know and lets go catch fish. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then we can take my small 14ft Klamath, rough ride, no room, slow, but it catches fish, sometimes better then the big rigs.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 78.5
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: FISHING WITH SID
What a difference a week makes! Two weeks ago on a Saturday I was at the vineyards with Judge and Marcus fishing by the stumps with bass jumping all around us. This past Saturday we went back to the same location but no surface activity. We didn't stay there long before deciding to try the west side working the weed line. Lots of smaller bass which were fun to catch but we were looking for bigger bass. We saw big bait balls and worked them hard. Marcus hooked up to a five pound bass which turned out to be the biggest fish of the day. All the other fish we caught were between 2.5 and 4 pounds. Between Albert, Judge and his son Marcus and myself we caught a limit of quality bass (see photos). 'til next week..................................................good fishing!!!!!!
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City: San FranciscoTips: RED AND BLACK WAS MOST PRODUCTIVE COLOR IMITATEION CRAWDADS
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014
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Shasta Lake
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: There has been a good top water bite on super spooks in the mornings and periodically throughout the day on points and steep rock structure. Colors of choice have been wounded shad and bone. Dropshotting to 40' with 6" robo's in sxe shad and hologram shad have been producing limits. Some better fish have been being caught on tubes and jigs in the 20' to 30' depths on tube's and jig's
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Monday, September 22nd, 2014
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Collins Lake
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Water Temp: 76-78
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: I visited the lake last Friday for a few hours before dark. Saw lots of bait in the center part of the lake but not much down by the dam. Had 3 or 4 bites and landed one 2 1/4 lb spotted bass - near the dam. It hit a jig of all things! Water is still warm and bait is deep.
Tips: I was not surprised that there was no surface activity - didn't get a hit on topwater. Things should perk up in mid-October.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished today at Lake Oroville from 6:30 am to 11 am, fair day for a change. Managed to catch 36 fish today. Spotted bass measured as One 18 inch, one 17 inch, three 16", four 14 inch, with the rest 10-13 inch. Fished at 20 to 40 foot down to catch them. Also got one 6 pound catfish, two 4 pound catfish, two 2 pond catfish. Released all to catch another day. So smoky from the fires that it looked like fog for a while.
City: MagaliaTips: If you find fish, stick in that location for a while, you'll catch more fish. 3/4 of my fish came from one location!! fished one location for 3 hours in a 40 foot section of shore. All fish today from 20 foot to 40 foot, most 25 to 30 foot.
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Sunday, September 21st, 2014
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Saguaro Lake
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Water Temp: 83°
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Weather: warm 100° mostly sunny
Lake Level: 99% full\Best Depths: 10-15 ft
The bass are staging in the grass on current swept points in the mornings and eves. Using Topwater and swim baits when the current is moving. After they pull current we are slowing down wit a drop shot rig and 6 inch robo worms in watermelon candy colors.
Big Bass: 10-15 ft09/20/2014 - largemouth - 7 pounds
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Events: Fall fishing is just around the corner
Guide Information: The Arizona Fishing Guides (www.thearizonafishingguides.com)\Name & Number: Jon Griffith 480-772-8460\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: call for schedulingTips: Wait for current in mornings then slow down in afternoon
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Saturday, September 20th, 2014
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Banks Lake
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Water Temp: 66
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Clear and Sunny
Lake Level: 1565\Best Depths: Shallow to deep, depending on species sought.
Wacky rigged dropshot and hula grubs for smallmouth bass. Topwater and swimbaits for early morning largemouth bass.
Big Bass: Shallow to deep, depending on species sought.09/20/2014
Several 4lb+ smallmouth and largemouth
Events: Coulee Playland resort has a tackle store and tent/RV camping facilities which is located on the North end of the lake.\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: RV and camping rates are under Fall pricing, so it's cheaper in comparison to Summer rates.Tips: Smallmouth are increasingly moving, so prepare to "spot jump". Cover water to find actively feeding fish.
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: I took a friend of mine CC to the lake to have some fun spooning for bass. She caught the first four or five fish by big island in about 40ft. Then we went up by putah creek and found a lot of fish that didn't want to bite so we fished our way south to the Spanish flat area where we found a large school of fish and caught quite a few spots and smallmouth to 5lbs. using 1-3/4 and 2oz Blade-Runner spoons.
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 70 ish
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: We fished Fri-Sunday for a club event. Each day, there were stories of people catching 4 pounders. Pre-fish, my partner catches one that goes 4-10 on topwater near the bridge. the wind is up a bit so blades caught quite a few including a 3+ for me. On Sat, the wind was virtually non existent. The big chunk rock that produced on Friday did not work on Sat. However, we found a good bite when the topwater was worked near a secondary point when either cast into a cut or when in the cut, casting out past the point and retrieving back toward it. We then put the boat close to shore (yeah I got back seated but said to do it if we can win). We caught 11 pounds that day for the lead. Day 2 was more windy, but we could not get any big fish that day. Weighed in around 8 lb to take 2nd place. First place got a 4 on day 1 and a 5 on day 2. Tough to beat that! We had around 30 fish in the boat Sat and 18 or so on Sunday.
Tips: Blades when windy, cast toward shore and bring back out. Topwater worked fine though definitely not wide open.
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Thursday, September 18th, 2014
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 732
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: (Video here: http://youtu.be/kekcKdXl_EM)
Another great day on the Delta. Started out with stripers on topwater in Franks. No keepers but just fun way to start the day out. Even caught one on a frog (see video). Ran north and started catching dinks. Quality didn't improve until we started punching around 9. Also caught 'em on jerkbait and one quality keeper on 6" Senko. Countless fish for the day, I got only 5 keepers including a 3lb. 10oz. and a 3lb 3oz. Buddy got 10 keepers.
City: San MateoTips: I was expecting bite to be off due to the front moving through but I was wrong. If you've already scheduled the day off a week in advance (like I did), just go out and fish!
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 73
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Good day on the Delta. Started in Little Potato Slough but had very little success. Went to the San Joaquin River and immediately started catching 2 & 3 pounders on a variety of soft plastics. I lost a very large bass at the boat – apparently I didn’t have a hook set and the big guy simply let go when he saw the boat. My best guess is that he looked to be around 24 inches, maybe even a little bigger, which would equate to a real quality fish. Oh well - next time! The action stayed hot most of the day and continued when I shifted over to the Mokelumne River later in the afternoon as I was heading in. I got into a school and caught a 3 pounder and saw several other bass following the hooked bass all the way to the boat. It seemed like they wanted the lure that was already firmly in the jaw of the hooked fish. That happened twice – once on a crankbait and once on a spinnerbait. All in all a real fun day.
City: Stockton
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: forgot to look
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished at Lake Oroville today, on the water at 6:15 am, off the water a little later then normal, about 11 am. I managed to catch 26 fish, 25 were spotted bass, one 17 1/2", two 16", two 15", 4-5 14 1/2" with the rest 8-13". About 6-8 were dinks, under 10". Fished slow and deeper, all fish caught 20-35 feet, most 25-30 feet. Find steep points, rocks, any good structure holds fish.
City: MagaliaTips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know and lets catch some spots. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net No boat, then lets take my 14 ft Klamath, small, no room, but it catches fish.
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Monday, September 15th, 2014
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 72-75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Clear, sunny, Hot
Lake Level: Falling tide\Best Depths: Lots of smaller fish can be caught in the 6-10 foot range, the bigger fish are all stacked up in deeper zones of 10-20 feet.
Delta bass are starting to school up in areas where the shad are congregating along deeper drops and high current flow areas. Some really big topwater fish can be had early, our best results has been fishing a variety of brown TNT Wadda Jigs tipped with a
Big Bass: Lots of smaller fish can be caught in the 6-10 foot range, the bigger fish are all stacked up in deeper zones of 10-20 feet.
a 10, two 8s and several 7+ pounders caught this weekend in the Don Lee Memorial. Clients and I had four fish between 8-9.5 pou
Outgoing
Guide Information: WWW.CoochsFishing.com\Name & Number: Andy Cooch Cuccia 925-732-3293\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: See Website AboveTips: Gotta bounce around, 15 minute rule, if no bites or keepers, move on, find the active schools and pound, don't waist any time in non productive areas, fish the moment.
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 78-82
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Sunny and warm
Lake Level: The lake is 866 ft. above sea level and 212 ft. from full. A large portion of the lake is still well over 200' deep.\Best Depths: 15-45'
The bass fishing has been a bit tough. Early morning and late evening is the best time to catch quality fish. Many fish are suspended due to falling water. Jigs and shakeyheads have been working well and dropshotting a shad pattern worm will help boat a f
Big Bass: 15-45'09/06/2014 - largemouth - 12lb 5oz
Yes, a couple spots over 6-pounds and one huge largemouth caught by angler Jeremy Pitts during the FLW College Event
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Guide Information: Glory Hole Sports\Name & Number: (209) 736-4333\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: 10% OFF ALL TACKLE just mention to our cashier- Western Bass Fishing Report (good through September 2014)Tips: Not a lot of fishing pressure due to limited launching facilities. Launching is still very doable. There might be a period of time where there is not a courtesy dock but, there are no plans of closing the launches.
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Sunday, September 14th, 2014
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: Avg 78
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Sunny/ Hot
Lake Level: Just below Rumsey 0\Best Depths: 0-14
The fishing has been tough to say the least. Carolina rigs, jigs, and small swimbaits have been best for me. The water is just too warm for the fish to go into a fall pattern this week. We need a cold low pressure to come in and flip the switch on them. H
Events: Lots of tournaments coming thru the next 6 weeks. Just about every fish off and a Rayovac FLW tourny as well. This lake will be packed but as always its Clearlake and theres plenty of fish to go around.
Guide Information: Bigbaitbailey@gmail.com\Name & Number: Paul Bailey\Pricing Specials/Open Dates: Email for pricing and dates.Tips: Use the graph and try to find cooler water! Seems like they like to feed right before dark then right at sun up then they disappear for day.
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Long Lake - Spokane
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Water Temp: Variable, high
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Weather: Sunny, clear skies
Lake Level: 1,536 ft (full pool)\Best Depths: Early morning, focus on shallow flats or shallow docks. When the sun rises, target breaks near deeper docks or points with large rock boulders
Dropshot undoubtedly catches numbers, but jigs and larger worms tend to pull quality sized fish. A 4.5-inch Roboworm or minnow imitation in watermelon is best producing color.
Big Bass: Early morning, focus on shallow flats or shallow docks. When the sun rises, target breaks near deeper docks or points with large rock boulders09/07/2014 - Largemouth - 28.06
Several 5-6 pound largemouth and 3-4 pound smallmouthTips: Tony McCalmant and Jason Blankenship weighed in a 28.06-pound bag of largemouth on Long Lake during the 2014 Buchanen Bass Battle, giving the Idaho Panhandle Bass Anglers the win for 2014.
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