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Friday, Mar 29
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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Bennit,
    It's obvious that you copy and pasted that kid wiht the fish in the picture. You say you caught that 1 week ago? The lkae looked nothing like that a week a go. It was pouring rain, not a sunnny day like it is in the picture at Rodman Slough. Nice try moron.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Looks like those sturgen peolpe have been claming to see is true because I was up there at about 7:00 in the morning and I just saw them jumping everywhere. At first I didn't know what they were until one jumped about 10 feet away and rite away I knew what it was. I just cant belive they are heer at clear lake. someone must have recently put them in. I didnt have any luck catching one because i didnt have the rite tackle with me.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: if u catch one take lots of pictuers and email me.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: In comment to the sturgeon caught. In April at the Future Pro Tourney on Clear Lake I saw a sturgeon surface out of the water at take off from the launch, it had to be 100+lbs. I have an 18ft Champion and this fish jumped right in front of the boat & barely missed it, and it probably would of damaged my boat pretty bad if we hit it. Good luck to anybody who may catch that monster!
    City: Davis

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Very windy. Fished docks with worms & jigs . caught 3 limits of bass but nothing over 3lbs.
    Sinkos worked good out of the wind. Cold front moved the bass deeper, not on the bank like last week. As the sun came out the bite picked up and I started catching them on a spinner bug around grass and tullies.My partner Delta Dave and I caught around 30 bass all day Sat. Lots of fun for the conditions. Waves weree 3 to 4 feet in the narrows. Sure like my 21 ft. stratos right now.Basin Bassmasters tournament went well almost every team had 10lb + limits.
    City: Ortangevale

    Tips: Wait for a warming trend and throw sinkos everywhere. Color dosen't seem to matter. Wacky rigged worked to me. Brush hogs split shot worked last week shallow wheen it was 76 degrees?

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: there are tons of places to rent boats at clear lake, just call one of the marinas at the lake
    City: morgan hill

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just trying to get some info from those of you who fish clear lake. My family and I are thinking of renting a house there, im a fishing fanatic and know the fishing is good, but i was wondering if anyone had any info on the water conditions. Is the water clean and swimmable, i hear it gets pretty gross and mossy. If someone could email me or respond here on water conditions that would be great.
    City: Rancho Cordova

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: IS NOBODY FISHING THIS LAKE OR ARE THEY JUST NOT REPORTING.

    IT'S A 365 MILE DRIVE FROM MY RANCH KINDA LIKE THE WATER TEMP AND A LITTLE HEADS UP ON CURRENT CONDITIONS.
    THANK YOU TIGHT LINES ,BASSRANCHER
    City: Visalia

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Josh-Go to Luckycraft.com and check the color chart...to my knowledge there are no hitch patterns. Maybe a mat pumpkin or ghost brown? By the way if you havent seen or used the "Live" pointer it is really cool too.Good Luck and Tight Lines
    Scott
    City: Chowchilla,CA

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: does anyone know a website or something i could find the Clear Lake Hitch colored Pointer 128???
    thanks

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished with jumbo's, south end mostly. caught alot o ish. best ive each day @ 24lbs. tried north, glenhaven and seabreeze but the die o is not done yet. minnow bite is not quite on yet. going again irst weekend in march. will report when back.
    City: roseville

    Tips: catch and release. dress warm

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    Water Temp: 49.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the lake on Sunday with alot o success. Found a huge shad population that was keeping every bird on the lake pretty well ed. Spooned a big ish in the bait and ater a 5 min. struggle it came unbuttoned. OH WELL!!! I want to believe it was a cat i hit in the side...Anyhow back to the bass report hooked over 30 ish. I called it a combo trip minnows and drop shot ish i was able to spoon 3 solid keepers to 3.5 lbs. Hooked only 12 or so ish on minnows with the biggest at an even 4lbs. All very solid at ish. towards the end o the day and actually a little bit into the night we drop shotted 15+ keepers to 3lbs or so a ew dinks mixed in but mostley 1.5 to 2.5lb solid belly illed ish. Im headed back up this riday hitting that break in the weather looking or a monster. Ill post another report sat or sun telling all about the day...Oh last thing the bigger the minnow the better biggest came on the biggest minnow we had in the box
    City: sacramento

    Tips: always get more minnows than you need they will live or weeks in your well

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: A little late but the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club (www.scbbbc.homestead.com) had their inal regular season tourney on the 15th and had a great crowd o 29 tubers! There were quite a bit o ish caught but not the size most thought were going to be around. Most ish seemed to be caught on either speedtraps or rattle traps with a ew caught dropshotting and jigs. Winning weight or the tournament was 18.45 lbs or 5 ish with three ish in the 4 lb range. All those ish were caught crankin' between 2 - 9 eet o water. Big ish o the tournament was only 6 lbs (a couple ish).
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Crank bite is on. I you catch one make sure to make the same cast as they are schooling up and multiples will be had.

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    Water Temp: 56-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sun, mon and hal o tues. Most o the lake still has a lot o stain to it but we ound some crystal clear areas up north in the canals. Rip baits and drop shot accounted or about 25 on sat and over 40 tue morn,mostly 1-2lb's, 2 ish over 3. Mon we concentrated on south end. Again, drop shot and rip bait picked up some ish, but all the better bites were on jigs still not much size. Went out sun night and threw jigs till midnight. We targeted main lake points and deep rock piles. My irst was 7.5, second went 5.14, my girlriend boated a 5.0 and another about 3 something, the only our boated. Mon night was much colder, same pattern but only managed 3 little guys.
    City: TRACY

    Tips: Dress warm, sun was raining, mon was reezing and tues was hot by 11am ??? Fight the ish not the elements, have un...

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    Water Temp: 55 to 60, I rea

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I had two customers out rom San Jose. It was very ""cold""in the morning. We started at 7:30 and lake was socked in with a og bank or the irst couple o hours. We drop shotted the upper end o the lake, docks, rocky point, etc. They caught an released over 20 ish, lot's o dink's some in the two pound range. At the last stop, and the very last cast, Roy, my customer said I think I have a good one, drag was singing, I decided to get the net, nine lber in the boat, beautiul ish. Photo on page three o website. www.ishclearlake.com
    City: Nice (upper end o the lake)

    Tips: Weather very unstable today, (nov 7th) wind and rain, water will be very muddy. ABA tournament championship this Sat out o Lakeport. Spinnerbaits and Chartreuse crankbaits will probably be the ticket to the bigger ish. Expect wind and rain i you plan to ish this weekend.

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Decided on clear Lake because o the number o boats on the Delta. launched out o clear Lake Oaks and stayed in the east arm all day (less tournament boats in that arm). cranked speed traps and DD14's in am and caught 10 along rock walls. mostly 1.5 to 3 lbs. Fish came in 2-6 t. Firetiger was our best color. moved to rattlesnake and cranked deeper w/ DD22's or a single 3 pounder. Slow miday bite but things picked up in early aternoon. Docks with weeds produced about 10 bass on purple plastics. inished up on east side rock walls and hooked 8 more 2 bigger ish came unbuttoned on speed traps. Great day on the water. Top 5 only 14.5 but had 30 or so or the day. went with mostly shallow water pattern because Oct. 4th my partner and I landed over 50 with 3 over 10 lbs. on speed traps. Best day I've been associated with.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Commiting to crankin shallow helped us stay ocased. Firetiger seem to be the bigger ish color.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with the Cottonwood Bass club on sat and sun. Saturday I ished docks almost all day but couldnt get any keepers, so my boater Je Nichols and I moved to weeds and docks and I only end up getting 1 ish 2 something on a splitshot 6" FX series robo work in baby bass. I end day one with 1 ish 2.35..DAY TWO I ished with Chris Laskowski, he got me on ish early and oten, we used rattle traps on windblown weed line points and got some 2 lbers and a 4.8 or him. I lipped a green pumpkin brushhog and got a limit o almost two lbers. ended day two with 5 or 9.35. Thanks to Cottonwood or a great tournament and too my boaters Je and Chris
    City: redding

    Tips: windblown points, rattle traps(blue/chrome) also lip brushhogs, and use jigs on rocks, I have a new avorite lake!

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Cottonwood Club tournament this weekend and did about a average...Launched out o Lucerne saturday morning and the bite was slow... Got one on a Jig in a rock pile ater sun was on the water. Started lipping tules and got a ew keepers on 4" aarons magic roboworms...Boater got a ew nicer ones as well. Finished the day split-shotting docks and getting a lot o smaller ish that were about 11.5" Sunday started out with a Normans DD22 and boater got a 5.5+ on that lure...not sure what color. Again had to resort to split-shotting just to get bites...got more dinks and inished the day with 3 keepers. Great tournament all in all...took 13+ to win...
    City: Redding

    Tips: Aarons magic is a great color as always and oxblood produced as well. Jigs...crankin and split-shotting were most productive.

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 68-74

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished south end or about 2 1/2 hours sat evening. Picked up 14, mostly 1's and 2's with a 3 1/2 on a spinner bait and a 5+ on a jig. Drop shot, slow rolled spinner bait, jig and a red DD14 all worked and I think we got bit at every stop. Caught ish rom 2t - 20t.Sun morn hit the water 0630 with high hopes. Bounced around south end till 1030, hit a dozen or so spots with same baits and had very little to show or it. One 3+ on a jig (same spot as the other jig ish) and a ew rats on drop shot. Frustrated, we headed north and ished some canals. Found ish up to 3lbs shallow on cranks and drop shot. Headed back south around 2 and stared catching ish again. hmmmmm Boated about 12 or the day.
    City: TRACY

    Tips: Water clarity is terrible. Usually a great time o year to rip ish shallow but not with only a oot visibility.

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water Friday about 10 pm. Worst night o night ishing I've ever had. No bites, no activity (rom carp, or birds), dead! My riend in another boat caught, I think, a 1 pounder. Saturday morning and late aternoon put a ew in the boat ishing rockpiles with cranks. My buddy landed one ish saturday, but it was estimated at 10 - 11 pounds (rocks/worm). Saturday night wasnt much better, but I did manage a ew with largest at 6 1/4, ish were on rock points. Sunday aternoon I inally decided ish had to be on the rocks during the day (where they are at night I dont know), so I ished oshore rocks rom 2-7 pm and caught quite a ew up to 2 1/2, with three between 3-4. Used a 1/4 oz ootball head jig with twin tail yamamoto trailer. Key was dragging slowly, not hopping, over rocks.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Night ishing was horrible. Fish were on the oshore rocks during day, but mostly small, had to ish slow. I think something is going on with the water.