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Monday, February 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50 to 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got On The Water At 9am. Drop Shotted All Day To 2pm.

    Caught 2 in Five Hours For 5 lbs.

    Used Robo Worms In Pumpkin, 25 To 35 Feet Deep.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: It's Tough Right Now.
    Fish Slow.

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Sunday. not too many boats. the inspection process was fairly quick and they will ask that you complete a questionnaire for your boat.

    weather and sun were beautiful! fishing was great, catching was slow. all of our fish were caught on shakey heads around 30-35' over a point. Tried other points without success. Tubes, darterheads, jigs, swimbaits all without success.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: fishing is slow. fish slow.

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Slow day with 3 in the boat 1.5, 2.25, 6.1
    all fish on drop shot. tried jigs in different colors, swim baits, tubes. We tried many spots on the lake and up river but no takers. Went back where we started and picked up 3 fish in 40 minutes and then that was it. Same place I caught 3 fish last week. All fish cauth in 35-45 feet.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Keep your line wet...the bites will come.

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Heard great things and fished hard from 9-3. Caught a trout to salvage a eventless fishing trip. I fished points up the arm,by the launch area,and the main body mostly. I worked jigs,dragged worms and craws,and swim baits.Not a bite anywhere!!!!! Ouchhhhhh! Others said the same at the ramp as well. Give it another week or two of warm weather and it should turn it on!!! I did mark only 10-20 fish all out in 31-36 ft off of points!
    City: elk grove

    Tips: Go anywhere else until water temp increases a few degrees!!!!!!

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: At the lake early only to find a quarter mile long line of boats waiting to be inspected. Suggest getting there before 6:30 or after 8 am.
    Started fishing humps with a jig no takers. Threw SB's on points no takers went back into cove and drop shotted 3 largies 1.8, 2.43 and 5.4 I caught all of them around 10:30 in about 20 minutes and then that was it for the rest of the day. I had two other bites but could not get the hook up.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Keep fishin and the bites will come!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out in search of the mammoth smallies I have been hearing about. I should have stayed home. Not a bite. Fished jigs, dartheads, shakey heads from 10-60ft.
    City: Elk Grove

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: for those who haven't been in 2008. all boats are being inspected, any water whatsoever in your livewells and you will be refused entry into the lake (remember ANY water at all), also you will have to provide proof of residence with a drivers license, if you live in Nevada, San Benito counties, or south of the Tehachapi mountains you will not be allowed to launch, doesn't matter that your boat may be registered somewhere else. They do a full inspection of boat, livewells an bildge area, record all license info and tags. Saw multiple people turned away at the ramp. I am only posting this so that your aware of it, maybe save you some frustration and money in wasted gas.
    fishing was not great, caught a few, nothing significant, lake is fairly clear 10-12 ft of visibility and 46-48 degrees, lots of bankies in their usual places, trout fishing looked fair, lake appears to be in great shape and 15-20 ft from the high water mark.
    City: lockeford

    Tips: fish slow, main points 15-25 ft of water.
    did i say fish slow? really, fish slow!

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 65-67 deg surfa

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Decided to to try Pardee before they closed for the rest of the year. Fishing was very tough as it appears lake has turned over (trout hitting all over on the surface ) No reaction bait bite and never caught a smallmouth?

    Tips: caught 4 keeper largemouth up to 3 lbs and lost two others when they jumped . bites were very subtle . 10-15 feet deep on soft plastics fishing steep rock bank on main river channel . once the sun was on the water the bite died and it was over for me .

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: launched early but couldn't find my rods(they got edited). Put my finger in the water to catch all my fish). They were all small (they got edited). edit, edit, edit, edit. NCBF get a life.
    City: editville

    Tips: Kiss butt and you won't get the edit treatment.

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: /

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sure, I'm paying all that dough to fish there and not keep those rascals to feed my belly, sure. Fish will only die anyway soonber or later.
    City: davis

    Tips: Think of it as saving a trip to the store. Craws are all over the lake and are the bass'es mainstay in warmer months. Hope you can hear my tune.

Friday, August 17th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Please DO NOT use live bait, it kills the smaller fish that you would otherwise release if not deep hooked. Please release all BIG fish. Please only harvest the medium sized fish and then only what you will DEFINITELY eat. Please DO NOT retain 18lbs of fish per outing, that is just too much. Thank you and Tight lines.
    City: Jackson

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took some advice of previous reporters and utilized live craws. Went to the public hole (Levesque point) and worked the bait but no bites. I decided to let the bait crawl around and only move it a bit when it stopped moving. WHAM< WHAM< WHAM, nice fish abundant, even broke my line four times, ended up with a limit about 18 pounds, all smallies. The best trip I've ever had there and I will go back and camp out on that point.
    City: davis

    Tips: Live bait really works great this time of year and I guess all the other months also. I'm now looking for a wall hanger limit of five.

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: did not throw for bass much manly troling for the kokane. but went out for bass in the evening with buzzz bait and did ok picked up two smaller ones then got one around 4 pounds. all in about 2 hours. had a few other blow ups though.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: go for the kokane the bite was on fire by the mouth

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 80 0r so

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Worked levesque point with crawdads, got only three fish from it , but they were very nice. Got broken off once. I was using flouro 15 pound test and it still broke it, must have been huge. Went ove rto dam and got some more on top water. Can't afford swimbaits, I bet they would be good in trout color. Did not have a scale , but I had around 14 pounds, I guess.
    City: lodi

    Tips: Save money, get better equipment, to catch the ones that got away. That's why we keep comming back.

Friday, July 13th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 78.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water at day light, hit a point just out of the 5mph area and took a 4+ smallie on top water. Fished the main lake with small plastics, ended up with about a 14 pound limit. All but one fish were on small plastics
    City: rio vista

    Tips: get your fish early, work them slow and use everything small

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 76.9-90.3

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We got on the water at about 6:15 we started out on a point near the mouth of the river arm. I had my dad throwing a double jointed castaic and I was throwing an ROF-12 Hudd. I stuck with that for about 3 hours. I moved us onto a point that was further down the river, I fished a stacey for about 15 minutes. At about 10:00 I was making my way between two points and saw a laydown that started in 8 feet of water and went to about 30 feet. I sent down a drop-shot with 6" blue crawler robo, the second it hit bottom I hooked into a smallmouth. My dad threw his senko to it and pulled off a small largemouth. We followed this pattern for about 2 hours, we hit one point with a spider jig, no takers. We ended out the day with 6 bass and one big rainbow.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: If you have the patience in the morning throw the Hudd. You can see down in some places 20ft+ so flourocarbon is a must. Once 9:00 comes around slow down and fish the 20ft range w/ jigs, worms, and anything else your comfortable with.

    tight lines,
    Elliott

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 76 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sonora Bass held a club tournament on Saturday. 17 teams competed, only 3 teams caught limits. Jim James and George Broekema took first place with 21.18 lbs. James Smith and Jason Wood took second place with 20.75 lbs. Nick & Karen Chipponeri took third with 17.26 lbs. Most fish were caught on plastics. Drop shotting, dart head, texas rig & shaky head. Geen pumpkin and watermelon. The fish came from 1 foot to as deep as thirty feet. As the sun got high, the fish hid just out of sight, around 20-25 feet. Rod Bayers caught a 4.58 smallie that was beautiful to look at. Tony Serrano caught a nice 4 lb smallie as well. Honorable mention goes to Carol Krawchuk because she caught all the fish and her husband Dave did NOT. For info on the club call 928-5803
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Catch them early. Use soft plastics in green pumpkin & watermelon. Good Luck.

Friday, July 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got a day off, fish have disappeared from last trip. Went to main lake underwater point caught three backs and one smallie. Two were keeeper size. Threw top water spooks early, got a few blow ups , but no hookups. i should have thown a pico, something smaller. Went up the river caught four keeper blacks and one smallie about 12 inches long. Boy this trip was bad.
    City: stockton

    Tips: maybe i should have thrown smaller baits and dart heads. They didn't want the bigger stuff.

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

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    Water Temp: high 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished mainbody humps, 30 40 ft, using medium crawdads. Caught one about nine lbs, six over four pounds early. Later on fished certain points where current was available with trout showing, caught two more around tweo to three pounds, then a whopper about eleven pounds. Got broken off by a monster just past the five mile an hour zone.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: locate the trout, that's what they are feeding on, but craw fish are an impossible offering to pass up.

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dern it, got broken off first presentation. i sdaw it too, it was an eight or so. Got it within ten feet of boat. It was a black. Fished that little drainage and hit some points and drop-offs with good success onbig smallmouth and a few blacks. Left about noon .
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Use crawdads about three inches long, not including claws. I raise them for use when they hybernate. The best bet for lunkers at that lake.