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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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

      Report: Decided to go for a hike and brought along a couple of rods. Did'nt expect to much since I got a late start, and it was about 80 degrees at 10:30 am. Third cast landed a 2.3 pounder on a senko. Ended up with 6 fish total including a 1.7 on a crankbait and another 2.6 the senko. Not bad for an hour and a half of fishing.
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Awesome day! 9am-noon trip today. Wind was still till about 1030, then picked up a little.
      Bass and trout busting shad on surface generally and particularly at points. 11 fish in 3 hours including one double hookup on one cast...woot!
      Fish were typically small, largest 2 lbs.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Fall pattern.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the back end of Skier's Cove for cats and bass for about 6 hours yesterday from the shore. No luck with the bass, was trying constantly around weed beds and drop offs with a red brush hog on a texas rig for about 3.5 hours. The bass bite has been sluggish recently at the lake, along with most of the other fish. We did nab a 4-6 lb. cat about 8:15 pm, but only after we switched from mackerel on our cat rigs to a few of the freshwater clams we found along the shoreline.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Give the clams a try, I know I definitely will again. Also, actively searching for bass might be futile until the bite picks up and conditions improve. My advice for Berryessa, come out with cat rigs and your favorite bait, bring some beer and your buddies, and have a nice relaxing day.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Potato slough was the plan of attack for my girlfriend and I. So we were on the water at 5:15am throwing frogs and prop baits. A lot of small fish and a few 3lb fish. I Switched to a crawfish pattern speed trap and she tossed a jointed shad pattern rapala and we worked rock levee's and out side weed lines. Hooked up with another five fish in the next 2 hrs. I never put the prop bait away all day I picked that bait up though out the day a caught two more nice fish in the heat of the day around old wood docks. We had a good day together.
      City: Napa

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Another great day. 22 fish. Largest 5 went 17lbs. 4-3's and 1-5. Busted off a bigger fish because I was stupid and did not re-tie. On the water at 6am off at 11am.
      City: Madera

      Tips: Fish are everywhere. Caught them as deep as 20ft and as shallow as 2ft. No shorts. Lots of 2-2.5 lb fish. Brushhogs and stick worms today. Water still has fine algae particles. Go with green pumpkin and darker colors. Find structure.

Monday, August 31st, 2009

  • Amador County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: thnks Zach for your tips !!
      City: elk grove

      Tips: AS for rico...no words can describe my thnks to u.

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I got a chance to fish Jago for a few hours yesterday.I got on a great shakey head bite.Jacked around 18 lbs in the first hour with a 6.5 kicker!It was one of those rare times when I just couldent do anything wrong.What a blast,too bad it only lasted 3 hours.
      City: Lower Lake

      Tips: The fish were all tight to the docks,I couldent get bit on my open water rock piles.Have fun

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I think that you just might go to Clear Lake or the Delta. The bite here is off, but we managed to pick up a few draging a leach on a split shot. I did see someone get one top water. stay in 15-35 ft, the bigger fish are in 30-45 ft but they will not bite ?
      City: Rocklin

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water by 0600, off by 1300. Launched out of russo's. spent most of the day around little franks with not much luck. Very low tide. Early morning bite was all we had. caught 2 lm and 1 striper on chatter bait and drop-shot (mmIII). No size! Any tips would be appreciated.
      City: dublin

      Tips: Don't fish little franks in low tide!

  • Amador County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: riverats... throw drop shot, dd cranks, ripbaits, grubs, shaky head. mostly smaller lures, stick to a slow presentation w/plastics, and look for rock piles, and drop-offs.. main body points etc... for topwaters i'd stay small poppers, zara puppies etc...
      City: n/a

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't fish main spot today, went up river to do a little scouting for big fish. Results were not good, went back into main body and found bite pretty tough. Trash fished certain structures with plastics down to 40 ft. managed fish up to four plus pounds, not many.
      City: sac

      Tips: Some days are great, some are bad, that's time on the water.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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

      Report: Started in potato slough on the out going tide. Tried top water,spinners and frogs right off the bat with no hits. As soon as the sun was comming up we started getting short strikes and a few small bass. My friend began throwing a craw fish crank bait and hooked up on his next few cast along a rock wall. I had a top water pencil bait tied on and caught a keeper striper. we had a great time on the delta and will be back.
      City: Napa

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: yeah riverrats i got some tips for you in that little john boat you have. throw some weightless senkos in the middle of nowhere 20 inch senkos preferably. and let it sink to the bottome. has produced big fish for me everytime out
      City: fafsa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: going to meet up a buddy of mine at lake Camanche this weekend n i've never fish in that lake b4. Wondering if anyone have any idea or pattern that they wanna share ? Be nice to know where n wat to start out with. Save me some time so i can have a few beer with them afterward.
      City: elk grove

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the late morning and afternoon along the State Park area with my float tube. At the mouth of Cole Creek I caught a bass on a silverish chatterbait outside a weed patch. At the mouth of Kelsey Slew I caught bass on a silver spinnerbait on a weed patch, and a bass on a reed point with a surface frog. At the beach area, I caught two bass in the reeds with a silver spinnerbait, and a three bass in the weed patches with a horny toad. Had a dozen of missed hits as well with the topwaters (I suck at topwater). Returned to the beach area in the evening before it got dark out, but the area was dead. All the fish today were in the 2-3.5 lbs size.
      City: Livermore, CA

      Tips: Work the weed patches along the State Park area in the late morning/afternoon time with silver spinnerbaits and chatterbaits, as well as topwater lures. For topwater, surface frogs, buzzbaits, and horny toads are producing fish.

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: same trip, same fish... two sides of the story...
      launched outta ladds up to the calaveras fished an hour and a half got 14 fish biggest only about 2 1/2 all drop shottin mmIII (fx sculpted 3 1/2's) wouldnt hit the longer ones.... 'cept got one crankin a shad color norman


      other version of the same boat trip... fished the frog got nothin back behind ladds or the calaveras... got one keeper on a drop shot in by 11.
      City: stockton

      Tips: drop the frog ...not workin today

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the float tube out to the County Park area in the morning for a couple hours, but had no luck.

      In the afternoon I head to the beach area at the State Park and fished the weed patches outside of the buoy line. There was a great afternoon topwater bite going on. Caught 2 bass on a blue/black buzzbait, and 4 bass on a dark green surface frog. Lots of missed fish as well, so if you're good with topwater lures, definitely give this spot a try. All the caught bass were in the 2-3.5 lbs range.

      In the evening I headed to the opening of Cole Creek and fished the weed patches there as well. Caught 1 bass on a white spinnerbait, and 3 channel catfish on a white spinnerbait. The silver-sides were really active, and the catfish were gorging on them like crazy. If you want some good catfish action, head down there right before sunset and while the silver-sides are still active and try white spinnerbaits and kastmasters. Should be great!
      City: Livermore, CA

      Tips: Work the weed patches along the State Park area with topwater lures and lures that imitate the silver-sides (such as white or silverish spinnerbaits).

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fine green algae everywhere. Fished from 5:30 am to noon. 26 fish with the best 5, 18 lbs. One big breakoff. Who knows. No fish on topwater. Only one fish undersized. Started to slow down about 11am
      City: Madera

      Tips: Baby brush hogs (pumpkin), Dropshot MMIII roboworm, finesse worm with tiny splitshot at head, jigs.

      Look for algae building up on surface in areas where the wind is blowing into. All fish were caught in less than 10ft of water with many caught in 2ft. They are under the thick algae crap chasing baitfish which are everywhere. Also on rocky points in shallow water.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: back again for more bass fishing after being away from the game a few months. Fished from 5:45-6:15pm. Manage to bring up a nice 2-3 lb. LargeM. from the bridge(south lake). Bass looked like its been having a rough time out there. lol... some guy was nice enough to take my pic... fished was released after photo.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: It was a nice day to go fishin + I couldnt wait to fish again. hehehe.. Saw little babies near left shore, and decided to go with plastic shads..... dark green. gg catch and release. Pic is posted .. have a nice day.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We were going to Clear Lake but heard the algae was worse than ever so decided to go back to Oroville.
      On the water about 6:30 and started with a Vixen but no takers. Changed to the tube and partner a drop shot rig. We both started catching keeper fish almost immediately. They were anywhere from the bank out to 20' After about a half dozen or so 13" plus fish, we both wondered where the "horroville" dinks were. The last trip we had to work through them to find keepers and this trip we had not caught anything under 13" so far! Partner finally got one dink and we figured here we go. Got off the water at 3:30 and the total was 17 keepers about 3 dinks and more than 5 over the slot! Somewhere around 9-10# for the best five. One of the best summer days so far. Bite remained steady all day and we only moved once to fish in two areas.
      City: RosevilleRoseville

      Tips: Fish came on tubes, darter, dropshot, and even a jig. Nothing on top water, cranks or blades. Usual Oroville colors worked.