Camping on Clear Lake (Wed-Fri) for the next couple of days and trying to figure out what to hit.  I've been there a couple times so far and done well, but I'm really not familiar with what the lake has to offer.  My experience so far is South of Willow point on a kayak and most of the West shore from a boat. 

So far on my todo list...

Rodman Slough
Soda Bay
Shag Rock
West of Konocti Vista Casino
and....any recommendations?

I want to target Bass, maybe Crappie during the day and catfish at night.

Does anyone know of a location where I can launch my yak on Morrison Creek? I've been looking on Google Maps but haven't been able to find a for sure launch site.

Also, what is up with the lake that Morrison Creek dumps into (the cords 38.434351, -121.498492)? The area looks super fishie! 

Spent about 9 hours on the river today and came across a number of stripers, spots and smallies along the way.  Although, I caught a number of fish, it was a grind.  I spent most of the day swapping out lures trying to find that one that would consistently produce.  The one presentation that seemed do slightly better over the rest was the Donkey Rig.  The river is also pumping just hard enough to make it difficult to go back up.  I attempted to troll my way back to Sutters landing but found it to be inefficient since I was picking up a lot of weeds, took frequent breaks and didn't keep a good speed. By the time I got back to the launch my arms were noodles.



1.  I really didn't spend much time fishing this area.  A couple casts here and there yielded a few spots. The focus of this trip was to fish past the 12th ave bridge.

2. As soon as I got past the bridge I immediately started getting some action with the donkey rig. Casting towards the bank, over the the rocks would produce smalles, spots and stripers.  I also fished this area with soft and hard swimbaits, under-spins and flukes which got some bites and followers.

3. The water is much deeper here, up to 22ft in some areas.  Fish were popping up throughout the water column.  Although I didn't get many on the side of the river, I did get some bites and followers on swimbaits

4. Schools of fish were grouping up on the outside of the weedbeds between 6 to 10ft of water. I fished this year mostly with an underspin.

I put in some work today at the preserve.  The area is gorgeous with tons of wildlife, things to look at and plenty of fishie places to fish.

Here is my report. It's my first report, so let me know if I missed anything

The red stars indicate were I hooked up.  I fished the area as numbered, 1-6. 1 indicating the first place I fished and 6, the last.



1. This was my first time fishing the preserve and wasn't too familiar with the area.  This area is super shallow with a ton of bluegill, which would be a blast on the fly rod.

2. I worked this area with a frog, wacky-rig and paddle tail fluke.  The first fish of the day was caught of the wacky and the second was off the fluke. Both fish were dinks

3. (Going west)The tide was going out and my finder was producing a depth of 6-8 feet.  I changed my approach and started to throw spinners and hard swimbaits. Didn't have any luck but they were showing up on the finder. (Going East) The bridged produced a coupld dinks on the fluke. Threw a drop-shot, hard swimbait with no luck. At this time the water was pretty shallow, between 4-6ft

4.  The bridge produced about 8 spots, all dinks.  The drop-shot gave me the best luck along the pilers of the bridge.  The docks looked promising and the finder was showing fish but couldn't get any of them hit.  I though for sure this spot would produce just because of the rocks, the sudden drop offs (3ft to 14ft), and the other structure in the water.  Moving further east didn't produce anything. It looked great, but super shallow and warm! The finder ticked in at 83 degrees.  I took a break under a tree and ate some berries.

5. I fished this area with a fluke, hard swimbait, and a drop-shot.  This stretch of the river had a ton of activity but only yielded only 5 dinks on the fluke.  I would cast super shallow and just before it passed deeper water, I would get a hit.  Fish were jumping everywhere though, they were chasing baitfish about 1 inch in length.

6. Nothing.... not even a minnow breaking the surface.  It looked good but nothing. Here is a pic of the water