Water temp 54-56 Clarity 5-15ft New Melones lake has yet to turn over. With the water still a bit warmer than normal many of the typical fall patterns are still working. The Swimbait bite has been day to day, some better than others. We’ve been alternating between 8-10” soft and hard swimbaits in depths from […]
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New Melones Lake Fishing Report by Josh Parris Guide Service
Water temp 59-61 Water clarity 5-10’ Melones lake has been fishing tuff for bass the last few months. There are definitely still fish to be caught but the overall numbers we are used to seeing this time of year just haven’t been there. Not sure if it’s due to water levels and unusually warm weather […]
New Melones Fishing Report by Big Ed
Water temp 63-65 Air temp 61-81 Wind 1-3mph Clarity 15-20 feet Clear Skies This past weekend I fished the inaugural California Swimbait Challenge on New Melones lake with Ron Howe as my team partner. The first word that comes to mind is tough! Swimbaits in November are normally a staple but this year has been […]
California B.A.S.S. Nation announces 2020 schedule
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Tyler McCollum California B.A.S.S. Nation [email protected] California B.A.S.S. Nation announces 2020 schedule (Pine Flat.jpg) Jeff Jones, reigning California B.A.S.S. Nation Angler of the Year, is pictured at Pine Flat, one of the stops on the upcoming year’s tour. The new season begins in January on Pine Flat Reservoir. SACRAMENTO, Calif. […]
New Melones Fishing Report by Ernie Dixon
July 7th 2019 Water temp 74-78 degrees Fahrenheit Water clarity 6-10 ft On July 7th my buddy Josh Forman and myself launched out of tuttletown launch at New Melones and started fishing directly to the right at the day use area which is now underwater about 10’, we started fishing between 15’ and 35’ throwing […]
New Melones Fishing Report by Sheldon Bisbee
Date: June 29-30 Time: 6:00PM-2:30AM & 6:00AM-5:00PM Location: New Melones On Saturday around 6PM, Charles Cornelison and I launched the boat out of Glory hole. Started off fishing points on the main body with jigs in about 15-20ft of water. Instantly we started catching fish in the 2 to 3lb range. Seen fish chasing bait […]
New Melones Fishing Report by Charles Cornelison
Date: 06/15/2019 Location: New Melones Air Temp: 80-92 degrees Water Temp: 78-80 degrees Wind: 5-8mph Water Clarity: 3ft stained to 8ft clear I got to New Melones around 10am with my buddy Levi. We headed up-river to some areas I like, and the fish were pretty scattered. The Lake level is currently 20ft down and […]
New Melones Fishing Report by Chris Evola
Date: 4/10/19 Time: 1000-1700 Location: New Melonies Lake Air temperature: 50-65 degrees Wind direction/speed: 10-25 mph Water temperature: 57-61 degrees Water clarity: 2-15 feet Target depth: 1-25 feet Barometric pressure: high pressure/post frontal Moon phase: waxing crescent visibility 26% Seasonal fish pattern: pre-spawn/spawn On April 10, 2019 I decided to head up to New Melones […]
New Melones fishing report by Ernie Dixon
Friday December 21,2018 Water temperature 55-59 degrees Water clarify 10-14ft Wind 2-8 mph NE On Friday morning around 7:30 myself and Frankie Mendes launched the boat from Tuttle town and made a run north towards a spot he has near glory hole, when we pulled up to his spot it was still out of the […]
New Melones bass fishing report August 25, 2018 by Chris Evola
Water temperature: 79-84 Water clarity: 4’-15’ Wind direction/speed: Northwest 2-10 mph Air temperature: 59-83 Moon phase: full moon visibility 100% On August 25, 2018 I took my family out fishing on new Malones reservoir. We launched the boat around 3 PM in the afternoon and after launching we headed to the south end of the […]