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Friday, Mar 29
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Lo: 47 ° F
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    Water Temp: 64-84

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a club tourney over the weekend and ished with the newest member in our club. It was our 1st time on this water and the air temp was hot. We knew water temp would be too warm so we looked or cooler water and ound it. My partner stayed with 2 methods. Senkos and dropshot. I had luck on lukes, jerkbaits, dropshot and even a crank ish. We made the 35 min. run to our spot the days o the tourney and wound up taking 1st with 22lbs and I took 2nd with 14lbs. My partner spanked everyone when he landed an 8lb'er. We took the heaviest combined stringer or 80 bucks. We were also the only ones in our club to catch smallmouth. It was a un time and there are some big ish in this lake. I had lots o un experimenting with dierent techniques.
    City: Anaheim

    Tips: Capitalize on the early morning surace bite. Fish in arms where it stays shady or a while. Throw white lukes or jerk baits early. I was catching ish quicker than my partner. When u switch, ish in water between 10-20t. Throw black/blue 5-7 inch senkos or dropshot 4-6 inch oxblood w/red lake roboworms. Both techniques worked very well. Work the mudlines outside mocaisin marina with the dropshot. Good luck.

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    Water Temp: 64-84

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a club tourney over the weekend and ished with the newest member in our club. It was our 1st time on this water and the air temp was hot. We knew water temp would be too warm so we looked or cooler water and ound it. My partner stayed with 2 methods. Senkos and dropshot. I had luck on lukes, jerkbaits, dropshot and even a crank ish. We made the 35 min. run to our spot the days o the tourney and wound up taking 1st with 22lbs and I took 2nd with 14lbs. My partner spanked everyone when he landed an 8lb'er. We took the heaviest combined stringer or 80 bucks. We were also the only ones in our club to catch smallmouth. It was a un time and there are some big ish in this lake. I had lots o un experimenting with dierent techniques.
    City: Anaheim

    Tips: Capitalize on the early morning surace bite. Fish in arms where it stays shady or a while. Throw white lukes or jerk baits early. I was catching ish quicker than my partner. WHen u switch, ish in water between 10-20t. Throw black/blue 5-7 inch senkos or dropshot 4-6 inch oxblood w/red lake roboworms. Both techniques worked very well. Work the mudlines outside mocaisin marina with the dropshot. Good luck.

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man, had a tough day, while ishing a local 11 boat tourney.(Beneit or Girls Sotball). Learned another lesson, (hard to compete against these local studs).Started ripping and blading some rock piles in Rogers. Partner, Terry W. boated irst keeper. Went to the "worm" quickly as the reaction bite did not work or us. Terry put on a clinic with a new dropshot bait, as I spiltshotm small ish all day. We stayed in the Rogers arm most o the morning, then went to Hatch to inish our limit. Ended up with only 10.11 lbs or six. Missed the # by only 7 pounds,Har.....(18+ to win, with 5.05 big ish.) Great Solid limits or those olks.
    City: San Leandro,Ca.

    Tips: We didn't do well enough to give advice, maybe those who inished with 17+ could oer up something,,,huh Tom C.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WE FISHED ALL DAY OUT OF MOCASSION POINT.WENT UP THE RIVER TO FIND IT BLOCKED BY LOGS AND STUFF TURNED AROUND AND FISHED BACK TO THE DOCKS.HAD MOST SUCESS WITH PLASTICS.CAUGHT A BUNCH....BIGGEST 5.2LBS.KILLER DAY....CATCH AND RELEASE PLEASE.....SPLIT SHOT
    City: san jose

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    Water Temp: 61-66'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Somehow my report rom Monday didn't get through, so here goes again;;;;;;Fished Bucks or Bass sunday. Had a couple good bed ish going rom sat. and a good pattern,(split shotting) rom the week beore. The bed ish were to skittish,caught 18 ish, splitshotting,just no size. All ish caught in south end,(Roger's and Hatch)Got to our start spot irst,,,,then a boat came rolling in and went to back o creek.They ended up inding big school o chasing bait.This team ended up in 2nd place.(Two strikes)I'm sure there has already been a spawn, but there are lot's o emales that havn't.Next week should prove to be great with the ull moon approaching.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: small,(4") worms,cast toward likely spawning areas. It's to clear, and ish to spooky to sight ish.

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had A GREAT WEEKEND, THROW SPOOKS MATCHED WITH MARKSTAILS.CAUGHT 5 FISH OVER 5LBS. BIGGEST BEING 6.7 LARGEMOUTH. THIS LAKE HAS THE BEST TOPWATER ACTION I HAVE EVER SEEN. I WOULD HAVE 2 OR 3 FISH TRY TO EAT THE SPOOK AT THE SAME TIME !!!!! I WOULD HAVE MY WIFE THROW A SPOOK AT THAT MOMENT AND WE WOULD HAVE DOUBLE HOOKUPS, I WISH SHE COULD DO THAT MORE OFTEN, BUT SHE USUALLY DRAGS A LURE BEHIND THE BOAT, DUE TO HER ARTHRITIS. THE PEOPLE ARE VERY KIND HERE AND ARE WILLING TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION ON THE LAKE. I AM GLAD WE MADE THE TRIP. WE WILL COME BACK SOON. THANK YOU TO ALL TOM JONES
    City: Redding

    Tips: GO TO WWW.MARKSTAILS.COM HE MODIFIES ALL MY TOP WATER LURESAND MAKES A TRAILER THAT MATCHES THE LURE EXACTLY. HIS PH# IS ON HIS PICTURE. HE MAKES TRAILERS FOR MANY BASSMASTERS AND MODIFIES LURES FOR THEM ALSO.

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    Water Temp: 55-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 2 days with good success limits+ both days.Used red/orange tiger stripe crank bait in the evening in clear water. Same plug in any muddy water during the day.Big ish 4.5lb at 6t at dusk.

    Tips: Water rising 6" a day...ish are spooky. Go slow the even slower.

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: CAUGHT FAIR LIMITS BOTH DAYS,BIG FISH ON LUCKY CRAFT 128CHARTREUSE SHAD, CLOSE TO 3LBS.CAROLINA WATERMELON/RED FLAKE BRUSH HOG ON MAIN LAKE PRODUCED THE MOST FISH. DID NOT TRY A WORM.JIG FISH NOT AS BIG AS BRUSHOG FISH.I HOPE RIP BAIT BITE GETS BETTER SOON!!!!
    City: STOCKTON

    Tips: FISH MAIN LAKE.TRAILER ON RIP BAIT WORKED BETTER THAN ONE WITHOUT, CARRYONE WITH AND ONE WITHOUT AS IT CHANGES DAY TO DAY.(WWW.MARKSTAILS.COM) HE MAKES A SPECIAL TRAILER FOR RIP BAITS AND HE MATCHES THE LURE EXACTLY.HE ALSO MAKES A SPECIAL RATTLE TRAP TRAILER.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: sent report to Berryessa site,sorry........
    City: San Leandro,Ca

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    Water Temp: 81-79

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom dusk to daylight.Only caught 10 ish rom 1/2# too 6 1/2 lbs...Seven biggest weight 18 plus lbs.All ish were caught on worms along rocky banks that droped o real quick into deep water.Lost two at the boat & had two too break o on split shot & carolina riggs.No i don't think they were big ish,they wraped the line in the rocks..Most o our ish were caught between 1 & 3 AM...six in Cali.worms on 1/8 & 1/4 oz darter jig heads.
    City: Riv.

    Tips: Hard too say,i hear some people catching ish on spinner baits & crankbaits..We never had a strike on blades,cranks or jearkbaits.WORMS

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: What are the best place to ish this lake or novices...and best lures to use.It seems rom the reports that this lake is diicult to ish even or the experienced angler...and the marina's ishing report is a joke.Any ino...especially on the Flemming Meadows side is appreciated.

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    Water Temp: 78-81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished rom 6p.m. to 8:45 with riend Joe Bruce.Showed Joe the powers o the Spook.We caught 22 ish , best near 4. Also ished 5-23 same hours,ive or 18+,6.5 big ish(yes a spook).
    City: sonora

    Tips: ish topwater when barometer is rising(all lakes)

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First time at Don Pedro. Fished Big Creek and Fortynine Bay. Threw a white buzz bait in the coves in the morning. Lots o strikes and a ew small ish. Lost a nice one. Switched to 4" green weenie on darter head and watermelom brush hog on the rocks. No luck, so I threw a 3/4 oz. chrome with black back rattle trap, and got a ew 1-2 lb. ish. Best ish was 2.5 lb. spot. Done by 9:30. Nice lake.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Would appreciate any tips. Good luck.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing In Hatch at about 9pm. My partner and I caught 3 on purple ghost and 4 on red and black dead ringer. We ished the area til around midnight. Desided to go and try our luck in ther main bay. The wind was really bad. Desided to call it quits around 2am. All 7 ish went about 2lb. Real light bite.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Dont ish at night on the Friday beore Memorial Day weekend. Lots o rookies on the water.

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    Water Temp: 62-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 60 boat tournament out o Flemming. Tough bite on bigger ish. The size has been diminishing with the weather, ishing pressure and water dropping. Still some bed ish but a lot have moved o the nest. First place was 17.35, second was 17.30 and third was 16.89. Caught most o our ish in Rodgers and Mexican Gulch split shotting and bed ishing...pretty tough when you have to bed ish or 2 pounders to inish your limit. Final weight 16.89 with a big ish o 4.75.
    City: Hanord

    Tips: split shot slow and bed ish i they are still up with all this crazy weather.

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well ater our lackluster perormance during the NCC on McClure, my partner and I decided to try our hands on another lake we'd never seen. We Launched at the dam and tried ishing ripbaits irst, nothing. We headed back into the Big Creek area and tried worms, jigs, and cranks, nothing again. So we ired up the motor and headed or Woods Creek area. Only problem was we missed it by about 3 miles and ended up in the river arm. Fished worms to no avail. Went to the Marina at Moccasin or lunch, then headed over to Woods area. I managed one largemouth about 1.25lbs on a carolina rigged baby brush hog. Fish was in 50' o water on a large lat at the mouth o a cove. Had one other bite on same rig but missed him. I can't help but think that orgetting the ishinder really hurt us both days. So we used just the lasher or depth and ished in 35'-55' o water both days. Bet I remember to put that ishinder on the boat next trip!!
    City: Sparks Nv.

    Tips: The lake seems to be just recovering rom turnover, water along banks was pretty clear with visibilty to about 12'. But the water still has a very "green" look to it. Plastics SLOW and DEEP seem to be the ticket.

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    Water Temp: 82-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We ished rom 7:00 pm too 7:00 am.Caught 5 keepers in the blue oaks area rom 2 lbs too 8 1/2 lbs.Big ish was caught by my parnter on a cali.worm in app 2 t o water,next too the bank.Darter head on 10 lb test line.All o our ish came on 6 in cali. & keeper worms ished on darter 1/16 & 1/8 oz heads.We had 18 plus lbs or 7th place & big ish...First place was 30 plus lbs.This wa a MID-CAL tourn. with two weigh-ins.Good tourn. too ish.
    City: Riv

    Tips: Rocky points in deep water inside large coves

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    Water Temp: NICE

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WELL I FISHED THE NIGHT TOURNEY ALSO IT WAS TOUGH LAKE IS FULL LOTS OF BRUSH AND GRASS IN THE SHALLOWS DIDN'T HAVE MUCH LUCK WE TRIED HARD BUT WHAT CAN I SAY THIS ONE WAS NO GIMM'E CAUGHT 2 FISH BOTH ON WORMS LOST 1 HAD 4 POUNDS TOTAL WEIGHT DID'NT BOTHER TO STAY FOR THE WEIGH IN DON'T KNOW WHAT WON IT YET IF YOU CHOOSE TO TRY HERE GOOD LUCK ITS NOT EASY
    City: ESCALON

    Tips: NONE

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the ambassadors night tourney this weekend. The tourney lasted rom 7:00pm to 7am. Weighed 5 ish or 7.6lbs. I caught one dink around 4:00am on a green and brown 6" strait tail. My dad caught the 5 keepers on a Poe's crankbait(chartruse w/blue back) Fish were caught o and around points at sundown and at sunrise. I tried many dierent crankbaits in the same color pattern with no luck. The wide wobble on the Poe's semmed to attract the bites.
    City: tracy

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    Water Temp: 60-67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED THE NOR-CAL OPEN. 14+LB.S WON IT. FISHING WAS TOUGH. I THINK ONLY TWO TEAMS HAD 7 FISH LIMITS. MY PARTNER AND I ONLY HAD THREE KEEPERS FOR 6.5 LBS. I WISH MORE PEOPLE WOULD GIVE REPORTS ON THIS SITE INSTEAD OF JUST READING IT.
    City: HANFORD