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Saturday, October 29th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: DAY AFTER LITTLE STORM EQUALS BLUEBIRD SKY.sO i SLOWED DOWN AND SPLIT SHOT BRUSH HOGS FOR A SLOW 6 KEEPER DAY ABOUT 9LBS. NOT BAD BUT NOT LIKE THE DELTA.
    City: ORANGEVALE

    Tips: SPLIT SHOT OR CAROLINA RIGS 22 FEET DEEP TODAY. aQUA View showed lots of fish but not many biters. 8 lb test with 6 lb floro carbvon leader.

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake is putting out good limits of spots and large mouth. Lighter line getting more bites. 6 lb the most productive. Split shot brush hogs 10 to 30 feet. Find the bait depth and work the same depth. Afternoons they go deeper. Drop shot island humps that you can see fish on depth finder.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Work everything slow. We fished sat right after the front friday nite. Wecaught about 15 fish most around 12 inches. Light line helps. Use your electronics to fish best areas. Beware carp are everywhere. I was using my aqua view on some spots I thought had bass and they were carp.If you don't get bit on a spot in 5 minutes leave.

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    Water Temp: 66-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This lake can be good and not so good to some. The Loomis Basin Bass Masters had a small tourament with ten boats on a light wind and rain. At 3:30 weight in time all but 2 had limits, the big bag was 11.58 and big fish 3.58 cought by Joe Miller. Most were spots using jigs, brush hogs and lizards.
    City: rocklin

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: i had sex
    City: hjuykluilt

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake at 6:00, ran slowly (it was still dark) up to the bridge. Threw top water Size 13 rainbow rapapla's largest fish 5lb spot came on top water. All in all, my buddy an I landed and released 20 fish from 8 inch dinks to the 5lb'er between sunrise and 10 am. All top water, a great fishing day.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: fish the rapala very very slow. Most fish missed the first strike, but hit it the second strike. Dont set the hook till you feel the weight. Tight lines

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Joe Miller and I got in the water at 6:15am and headed out to the main body to hit those Island tops for some top water action. no top water but found some bass with JK Jigs round the trees. Next headed in the the creek using crank baits , buzz and spinner baits. My jigs was working good for me, my best five was over 15 lbs before noon. we also found some nice bass on flats with balls of bait.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: work slow with JK Jigs, drop shot and slit shot.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 78-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started early and found no topwater bite. Surface water was very warm. Caught spots to 1.5# from narrows east on drop shot and some on white crankbait. A few large mouth were found on west side near dam on dart heads and drop shot. Largest fish went 2.4#. Caught 15 fish all total. We need some cool weather to get the fall bite started.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Go deep, 15-30 ft. Drop shot and dart heads.

Sunday, July 31st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 2 cats to 2 lbs, 2 bass a little over a pound, and a crappie or two through the night. Buddy Roland caught 6 bass, a cat, and a few crappie in the Camanche Arm.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Fish cover with soft plastics in purple, darkgreen and black-n-red.

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake still at full pool,its like a new laketo me again. Well on saturday I could do nothing right finall caught a single fish at 4 p.m. in the afternoon.Tramtized! My frail Male ego shattered. Sunday was a different story Maybe the bass gods felt sorry for me. went over to the dikes got their early topwatered and second cast a 5# .. next cast 4 # as the sun came up and it got warm the topwater was off ..went to wormin split shottin with 6 lb test..ripped on the bass till noon.. probablly got 45 fish all together .. stopped counting after the previous day who cared was having fun
    City: Topaz Lake

Sunday, June 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished camache on sunday and had an ok day. Dropshoted China Gulch and got one trout. Then the boat traffic got terrible (as usual) so we fished the no wake zone. Got nothing there. Then we hit up all the submerged islands with trees on they and got 14 in the range of 1lb-3lb. GGot them dropshottin a finesse worm right in the trees.
    City: cv

    Tips: Fish all the islands were the hazard bouys are. Also dropshot all the sunken trees.

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the Lake by 6am Fished the rip/rap on the dams, caught dinks. When the water skiers hit about 7:30 went to the slow zone and fished the coves. Caught several nice 2-3 spots on black with red glitter senko's all in about 6 foot of water.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: black 6 inch senkos on light line 6lb test

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Memorial Day weekend. In spite of the outrageous boat traffic the fishing was great. Stopped counting at 30 bass - LM, SM, Spots. Largest was 4.0. Caught fish on tube, brush hog, senko, rip bait and 4" worm from 3 to 15 ft. Most were on rocky shore or weed edges but the biggest fish came in 15ft on submerged humps with grass on them. Best color was Arons Magic. Carolina rigs, split shot, and texas rig all worked. Flipped and pitched tube baits to trees in shallow water and around the boat dock and caught fish. I had a 5 yr old kid on board dragging a split shot worm and he caught fish.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: They are running water which has the bite turned on. Throw any soft plastic from shore to 15 ft and hang on. If I only had one bait and one color to throw it would without doubt be a 4" Robo in Arons Magic.

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THE WIFE AND I STAYED 4 DAYS AT THE LAKE CATHCING AND RELEASING 36 BASS, DOWN IN THE NARROWS OUTSIDE NORTH SHORE, CAUGHT OVER 40 TROUT AT THE TROUT POND, ALOT OF FUN, PLASTIC BROWN AND GREEN WORM TOOK ALL THE BASS, WHITRE POWER BAIT EGGS WORKED ALSOME AT THE POND, KEEP TIGHT LINES SEE YA ALL*
    City: PITTSBURG CA

    Tips: FOR THE BASS, USED ANY WORMS NEAR ROCKY SHORES AND CLIFFS IN THE NARROWS AND ARMS POINTS.

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: on the water about 6:30 AM. Hardly any boats for a SAT. Started at north end, moved towards dam, and then sunken islands. My partner and I caught 16 over 13 inches up to 33/4 lbs. several 2-3. Mostly spots and some largemouth. Throwing 4" green weenies on 1/4 jig head or drop shotting. Caught the three biggest between noon and 1 and then went home. Great day.
    City: carmichael

    Tips: mostly pressure bites. Water super clear, vis over 10 ft. Went to six lb on light spinning rods.

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 60-67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This lake is pretty good. we went out about 6:45 to camanche arm and narrows just like the newspaper reported and spanked about 30 fish. Most came on worms but jigs also worked. Tough since it had just rained we had NONE over 2 # either they seemed to be all small males or females. Mixed bag with a few spotted bass. All in all good trip just dont know where the big fish are at this lake. Since i been coming here the bigest was 3.1 # spot and haven't heard of many people catching larger fish here either good luck !!!
    City: east bay

    Tips: try to find big fish small ones will bite a purple worm for ever but try and find the big ones can u handle it ??

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 6:30 threw crawdad crank baits and rip baits on flats. Took 2 nice females off the edge of flats in about 8 ft water. Switched to spinnerbait picked up 1 small male. Took 2 nice largemouth in 8 ft water off the tailings using a 4 inch green weenie roboworm.
    City: Sacramento CA

    Tips: Fish seem to be staged and not up on beds yet. Try fishing the edges of flats. I had most of my success throwing crankbaits banging the bottom along the edges of flats.

Friday, April 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: saw a lot of beds...unoccupied think the 1st wave of fish are spawned out. 2 weeks ago caught numerous 5lb fish full of eggs.

    this day nothin over 2lb (maybe 12 total fish). the fish i did see on or near beds were small males not interested in any of the plastics i threw....but when i let it sit for 15+ seconds, they might swin off w/ it...tough day, tried deep but no takers

Friday, March 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished China Gulch points and grass banks, brush hogs 6 inch and senkos 4 inch, Caught 15-20 fish in a two day period. Fish a staging. Caught 1 smallie about 3lbs on the point going into China Gulch all the rest were spots and largemouth.

Thursday, March 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 61-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my daughter out for her birthday fishing trip today. On the water at about 11:00 at North Shore. Beatuful weather and great fishing. Splitshot lizards and straight tail worms working well, color didn't seem to matter. Jigs producing better fish and more ferocious bites. One 5lb., one 41/2, a couple of threes and all of the 2 pounders we wanted. Fish on beds as well, all over the lake in shallow coves near wood. This place has busted wide open!!!
    City: Galt

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48-50F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 1st trip to this pond. Nice calm, cold morning, fishin' w/ my dad. Found lots of interesting structure throughout the main body. Four spots, 1.5 - 3.0 lbs (missed 3 other bites). All fish were solid chunks, in 5-15 feet. Jigs, hula grubs, & senkos. OK for a little over a half day. I'll be back.
    City: Castro Valley, CA

    Tips: Studied the map the night before, then spent probably 1/3 - 1/2 my time looking at structure on the graph. Not something I'm real good at, but it seemed to pay off.