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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: WENT OUT SATURDAY MORNING @ 0600 LAUNCHED OUT OF WHISKEY SLOUGH FOR A CLUB TOURNEY. WE STARTED OFF FISHING BLADES RIGHT OFF THE BAT IN THE SLOUGH AND NAILED ABOUT 4 QUICK KEEPERS. I SWICHED TO A BUZZ BAIT AND GRABBED A 1.5- AND A 2.8 THAT LITERALLY ERUPTED ON MY BUZZER. THE BUZZ BITE SLOWED SO I WENT BACK TO BLADES AND WE BOTH STAYED WITH BLADES FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE DAY. ALL IN ALL ABOUT 30 FISH WITH THE BIG FISH OF 4.2. WE ALSO CAUGHT FISH ON SEDUCERS AND CRANKS. MY PARTNER GOT 2ND WITH 12.4 AND I GOT SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE
    City: SAN FRANCISCO

    Tips: SLOW ROLL WHITE BLADES OVER WEEDLINES. BUZZ @ FIRST LIGHT

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Trout Stocking plan will be hard to get with the levels of Mercury in Calero. Can't see people paying to eat contaminated fish, but ya never know!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: HEY RICH I WANT SOME FREE FLOAT TUBES

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Kick boated it. Started at 5:30am. Foggy and windy. Bass on wind blown points. Reaction baits used: Rippin' stickbaits, Chunkin' rattle traps, slow rolling blades. Over 10 fish. One kicker at 4lb. 5 oz. If you want numbers, split shot finisee worms. Bigger fish on reaction lures and Pig-n-jigs. Fish-on!!!
    City: san jose

    Tips: Bass on some beds. Bait choice changes day to day. Throw what you know. Catch and release!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I'm posting this with hopes that some one out there in the fishing community can help. On Sunday night,03/24/01, sometime after 10:00 p.m. I had all of my fishing gear stolen out of the back of my truck in the vicinity of west college ave. and Stony point rd. in Santa Rosa. my gear consisted of; One G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. spinning rod with a silver rear drag quickfire reel. One FLW burnt orange medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. baitcasting rod with a red Quantom baitcasting reel that was in serious need of a tune up. One Bill Dance blue 7 Ft. medium heavy baitcasting rod with a silver baitcasting reel. One red 6 ft. medium action spinning rod with a silver rear drag spinning reel. one green plastic flat type tackle box with a white double lid(creates two level storage)filled with numerous plastic baits, hooks, wieghts, etc. One brown and ivory split lid tackle box with side latches and six trays(3 small and 3 large) filled with numerous crank baits, spinner baits, top waters, a box containing Cabella's 31 piece jig kit, a box containing a 5 piece scum frog and popper frog kit, Castaic threadfin shad and many other blade, spoon and swimm baits. If any one comes across any of these items or can assist in there recovery in any way please contact me at 546-3401 or e-mail me at randy@ren-o-masters.com. As most of you can understand, fishing is my passion. Please help if you can. Thank you
    City: Santa Rosa

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got on the lake with buddy ralph. at the dock I tied on wackyworm with nail in the head of a brown color plastic worm.first cast hooked up with small lrgmouth bass that threw the hook after few jumps. hooked a nice bass dragging a clear salt/pepper bass asassin by the swimbeach while drifting. that was it.tightlines and fish-on fellas
    City: LA

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    Water Temp: 57-64.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived mid-day Fri. launched out of B&W and ran down to middle river and threw senkos and brush hogs, fish seemed to be of rip-rap points with sparse tules close by. Wind was pretty fierce by 4:00 so back on Sat. Fished Franks area lots of boaters bite was good until the tide change. Quality fish were on the river side from the bank out to about 8'. We caught fish on blades, senkos, brush hogs, and big fish 6'1" came on our fly rods on a flashtail while casting for stripers. Many thanks to the gentleman in the aluminum skiff on the striper tips. We could not get the bite going after the tide change, so back to Reno. We never got a quantity bite but was very happy with the quality. Good Luck and tight lines.
    City: Reno

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    Water Temp: 57.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Man, what a difference a couple od days makes. Just when that water temp was screaming up to 63-65 degrees Tuesday & Wednesday, it drastically dropped on Friday back down to 57.9 first thing in the morning and seemed to never climb much more than a couple of degrees. This made fishing a lot tougher on two guide trips Friday & Saturday. We were able to find about 25 keepers each day with a big fish of over 6 pounds each day. These fish really backed off and we had troubles getting em to eat the Senko on Friday, with the exception of our first three fish, up in the tulles, after that, not another bite, not even on Saturday. We actully found more fish on points in about 8-15 foot of water, we could only catch these on brown jigs with pork trailers. The bite really seems to git better towards the later part of the day when we have these cold fronts move through.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: If they ain't where you were catching em yesterday and it got a little colder, back off and go look for them. Where I found fish on tulles fer two days, I found em 300 yards off the bank out in the weeds in the flats. Same thing held true in the narrow sloughs, only have to move 20 yards and fish deeper.

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the hook t.o.c. - managed to pull about 17 pounds each day. It was good enough for second place (we missed winning by ounces. We had no one pattern, we pulled into any one spot and threw a spinner bait, if we got no bite we would throw a crank bait and wham, or we would chase both with a worm and thunk! It seems if you pulled into an area and threw the whole tackle box you would get paid. Chartruese spinnerbaits, mustard colored speed traps and 6" black worms thrown in stained (not muddy) water. Try launching or running south for clearer water. Hope this helps you boat some fish.
    City: Pinole

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    Water Temp: 52-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished New Bass with partner TommyP. Tough bite for us. We managed to boat 3 fish for 8#'s. Two fish on a white spinnerbait with white blades one on a senko. Fish were very shallow in 2' of water or less. We had to find stained water instead of muddy water for the fish.
    City: Belmont

    Tips: Find stained to clear water

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sherman, fish are there but finicky. A baby smoke senko pitched into the tullies & worked all the way to the boat worked.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went flippin and caught 1 fish on a jig 2 fish on a senko all in 5' or less in the tules. pitching lure a good 2-5 ft into the tules seemed to be the trick.my last fish was my first 10 pounder ive ever caught it was a nice fish one that i will remember the rest of my life.
    City: oakley

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Left Mossdale launch ramp around 10:00 A.M. got into a stripper bite around noon downriver about 4 miles. Hooked into 11.2 pounder, 8 pounder, and 7.5. Split shottin jumbo minnows off the bottom. Talked to a few boaters that were trolling crank baits with very little success. Hope this is a sign of improvement. It's been tough in this area for the last several months.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Use live bait.

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: last sat, went for an exploration and prefish with Mayday. Found fish in one area, stuck three in an hour all nice, boated two, biggest went 3.5. explored the rest of the day, mostly west and big break break area. Nothing. not a bite even. flipped, jigged, plastics, big plastics, cranked, ripped. I guess i'm just not in tune with what they want. Saw some nice areas for later.
    City: belmont

    Tips: naddah from me! i can't figure them out either!

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    Water Temp: 48+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Bass Fed and drew the one and only Bobby Barrack!!! I won't give details because he has the 100% Pro/Am next weekend but I will say he is one heck of a nice guy and a mega stick. His casting alone sets him appart from most pushing me to excel in my own abilities. His decision making was right on the money never waisting time in unproductive water. We cranked, threw jigs and did a few other things and got the bites. Unfortunatly not all the bites made it back to the boat, but thats fishing. Couldn't have hoped for a better day.
    City: mtn view

    Tips: It was a tough weekend for most, if not all. Be patient and fish the water thouroghly

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Guess a bad report is better than no report at all, so here goes. Sunday at 11:00 A.M. the wife got fed up and let me go fish, Launched out of Del's and fished till 4:30. Real tough for me. One crank bite in Italian, missed it. Ran to Little Mandeville, promising myself to work on pitching a jig, after an hour of nothing, got to a small point with wood in 6-8 feet of water and a little current - looked perfect! Pitched the jig into the middle of the tree and then slowly crawled it over limbs, when I felt the line slowly start to move off as something had picked up the bait - no bumps, ticks, or taps, just slow solid pressure. I reared back and learned a hard lesson - don't try to cross their eyes at point blank range with 20 lb superline on a G-Loomis 7 ft heavy action rod with the drag cinched down tight. KAPOW! fish and jig gone! Shoot! (or something like that was exclaimed.) That was it for the day. Noticed fatigue cracks in front and back of boat, took it to dealer and it will have to be shipped back for warranty work, so I will be bike riding and surfing for the next month or two. Y'all save some for me when I can get back. Better luck to everyone else! God Bless, Rob T
    City: Half Moon Bay

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    Water Temp: 48+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 4 fish all on jigs, one over 8. Not one fish under 3#. Look for new water, you never know what you'll find.
    City: Mtn View

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished half days Saturday and Sunday. Saturday launched from Hook and went into a deadend slough with slightly clearer water and caught 5 blackies from 2-3.5 lbs - all solid fish, but no monsters. Lost a larger fish right at the boat - odd story on that one, at the inital hit, it felt like a bigger fish, and as I was fighting it, I felt a big yank, and suddenly the action of the fish fighting changed. When I got it to the boat it was hooked near the back! It shook off as I watched in amazement and swam away. Missed another 5 or so hits, and caught one small striper. Figured the missed fish may have also been stripers, but hard to know. Fish were cranked with Norman's Little N in red in 10 feet of water off rock/tules. Needed good depth and slow retrieve. Fish hit soft and were sluggish. Launched from Orwood Sunday, trying new water (again). Wind and weather were tough in my tin bote. Fished Rock Slough a couple of hours with no bites. Ran to Sandmound, pitched jigs, no luck, started cranking outside weedline, and wham! one really hit it hard! The fish took off, screaming my drag which was set tight - I knew it was a striper, so i backed off the drag in order not to break the line and relaxed to enjoy the war - following the fish around the boat, letting it strip drag with heavy head shakes down deep. When I finally goet it up to the surace, I couldn't see any stripes on the fish and then realized, this thing was GREEN! Quick! get her in the boat! When I put her on the scales she pulled it down to 7.4 lbs. I was already having a great day, and this just topped it off! My biggest proper Delta bass to date. Flagged down a guy and got him to take some pics, then released her where I caught her. A fine clean fish, hit and fought REAL hard, hence my thinking it was a striper at first. While the weather is lousy, and the bites are slow, this is still my very favorite time of year to be on the water for green monsters - Prespawn feeding for the big ones is near, and I can't wait! Best wishes to all, and God Bless, Rob T.
    City: Half Moon Bay

    Tips: Could not get the jig bite to go. Nor was slow rolling spinnerbaits good for me, but I think my confidence is just down on those two methods. I know I can get a fish or two on the crank bite, so have been sticking with it in order to identify new water.

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    Water Temp: 44

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched out of The Break with my ABA Partner Dave at 6:45, To foggy to run, so we fished around The Break. Flippin/shaking plastics on a very very slow retreive. Water was 44 and air 37.Very cold morning, but we still caught 4 bass
    City: Fremont

    Tips: fish slow

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Bill Henderson from Alaska we caught 4 from 2 to 5 5 lbs all on 2 on 4 inch worm, 2 on 1/2 oz jig with 6" yamoto grub. You dont need minows to catch these fish just fish slow. Very windy until late in day.

    Tips: Fish very, very, very slow. jigs are my choice