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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched about 1200 fish all over the lake taking crawdad cranks spinners and 6" worms in the watermellon and shad colors in about 10 to 20 feet. A great day 30 fish total with one 5# trout. Big bass of the day was apprx. 4#
    City: Kingsburg

    Tips: All of the quality fish were on plastic worms fished slow.

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 7:30 am. Fished the main lake and caught lots of small fish. Went into the Windy gap area and caught 9 fish up to 3 pounds. 4 guys total on my boat. We had a total of 30 fish today off of dropshotting aaron's magic roboworms by 12:30. Some were also caught on small swimbaits. Best fishing here so far.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Dropshot aaron's magic and throw small plastic swimbaits on dartheads.

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at about 0930 and hit some main lake points. Nailed a bunch of spots at about 40-60 feet drop shotting. Had fish on most places we stopped mostly deep and a few on the drop close to shore. Towards the end of the day we spooned in 60ft and hit some smaller fish and two crappie. It was a nice day with some sun little wind, but mostly calm.
    City: Tulare

    Tips: Drop shotting 6inch and smaller worms in the baby bass,ayu,aarons magic and shad patterns. Fish were mainly weight on the feel, but a few hammered it.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: No reaction bite found for me. Thought I could get a topwater bite going, but no luck. Got most of them on a Brown/Purple jig. Found the best activity in about 15-25 feet for the jig bite. No sign of surface activity/schooling going on. I don't get it, they should be corraling the shad up big time with the conditions. Caught a few drop shotting too.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Time on the water is not time at work or home.....can't beat that. Get out there. Ya ain't gonna catch 'em sitting on your couch watching football.

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 82

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a 6 hour tournament today. What a tough bite. Of 37 people, only 19 weighed a fish. The lake was dropping really fast. I fished it Friday and the lake was six feet lower today. Lots of baby bass and baitfish. Good prospects for two years from now, but a pesky bite now. Anyway, I couldn't get a reaction bite, tried a Sammy and a white blade. Went to plastics and discovered that they wern't even hitting that. Finally about 10:30 picked up a 1.44 lber on a dropshot. All the others I wouldn't even call dinks, they were so small.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Tried all my plastics and only got bit on a 4" Pro Worm purple death

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 85

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a night tournament with the Family Bass Club out of Fresno Saturday night through Sunday morning. The bite was tough. The club fished from 7 PM until the first weigh in at 12:30 AM Sunday. The second half was from 1:00 AM until 7 AM. Several fish were weighed in at the first session including a 5.48 lb. spotted bass. The second weigh in had more keeper fish including a 6.52 lb. black. All the fish were caught on plastics. Senkos, Pro worms, and Yamamoto Hula grubs taking most. The grubs and worms were fished on 1/8 oz darters. Fish were caught from the river to the dam. Most were in less than 10 ft of water. Topwater, spinnerbaits, and buzzbaits were tried but with little success. The next Family Bass tournament will be at Bass lake on Sept. 17. The Club is looking for new members. Email if you would like some information.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Take lots of food and water. It will be a long night. Plastics worked best. Dark colors were used, however the big spot and largemouth came on a pearl Hula and a shad colored 3 in straight tail worm respectively. Both were caught off of points in 10 feet of water, the spot in windy gap, and the black by the dam buoy line. Good luck.

Monday, July 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a decent morning. Started throwing a Spook at 0530 and hit three bass including a 5-8 spot that is my personal best spot. Caught a couple drop-shotting and and one more on a Spinnerbait. Got off the water by 1000. The lake is so high it really is an incredible sight.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: The bite is fair for summer, watch out for lots of debris in the lake coming from the river.

Sunday, April 24th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 37 fish all on sinkos or bright green 5 inch worms in about 8 feet of water fish wear biting all day
    City: coalinga

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at about 7 am. Fish were spread out around the Trimmer, Sycamore, and Big Creek areas. Had to work for the 6 fish boated. No size to to the fish. Mostly worked the shallows and rocky points.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56F to 63F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day March 25 and half the day March 26 with my buddy, producing only six fish for our efforts, all the first day, and only one fish above 1 lb (the lone largemouth amongst the remainder of small spots). The lake is above 50% capacity and water clarity was much better than expected given the recent rainstorms - up to 15' in some areas, with the norm around 8' - 10' in main lake areas.

    The fish that were caught typically came from deep water (20'+) off rocky areas. All were caught on miniscule shad imitating baits. There were one or two sizable bass tournaments on the 26th, but don't know how they faired -- it looked like most headed up river early, as there weren't many in the main lake area in the morning.

    Since we fished on the tail end of a passing cold front I suspect the barometer had gone up, giving the fish a case of lockjaw?
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Fish deeper and slow if the fish remain inactive.

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My son and I were on the lake by noon. We started hitting the points throwing plastics purple and shad colored 4" and 6". A few hits in the main lake then we moved to windy gap and fished a little deeper..caught a couple small large mouths less than a lb. Went to Sycamore cove and caught 2 more both spots maybe a lb each. Back to main lake and started dead sticking some rock drop offs....caught about 5 in 10 minutes. As the sun was going down I casted to a submerged tree and missed my spot...started reeling it in very fast for a rethrow and slam...a 4lb spot...a beautiful fish that will be laying it's eggs soon....a fair day with 11 caught and released. Fish are getting more active.
    City: Clovis

    Tips: No pattern just a lot of different ways to catch fish...strange weather with fog and wind. No sun so the fish were moving around in schools especially the spots. It is going to be a great year for bass!

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I started at sun up and left at 1:00pm. I went to deer creek first. No bit some fish suspended around 23 feet. Next I went up river no bit. Came back to Windy Gap and no bit. Finaly lost one at the boat about 3lbs. and boated one about 2 lbs. Both spots. I tryed drop shotting, spiner baits, split shotting, crank bait, and spider jigs only luck on a drop shot rig about 12:00pm in windy gap. We had a few Bass chace our lines to the boat but no commitment. Weather was great but fishing was just a tough day for us.
    City: kingsburg

    Tips: Keep Fishing.

Monday, January 31st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off the morning in Windy Gap. Only one fish on drop shot. As the water began to warm, I ran up river and began throwing spider jigs. Picked up eight fish in about three hours. Nothing big, five largest at 9 pounds.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Talking to locals, it seems the jig bite is starting. Something to think about. Good luck.

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the new boat out to break in the motor. Got roughly 3.5 hours of fishing in. Fishing Windy Gap and Lawless Cove and blanked in the new boat. Fished drop shot w/ colors brown and green. Tried a small brown jig, dart head combos, etc. and the fish didn't want any of it. Didn't see anyone catching fish.
    City: Clovis

    Tips: Go to McClure until the cold fronts pass through.

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We arrived about 8:30am went straight to windy gap and fished within 20-48 feet deep. First fish was pulled out of 30 feet 2lb spot. Second fish was a dink, third fish went 2.15lb. out of 23 feet also a spot. Then I pulled a 4 1/2lb. out of 26 feet and also a spot. We left about 02:30pm and I only boated five fish one being a dink. My partner never boated one fish.
    City: kingsburg

    Tips: Fish slow and fish were holding on the trees deep. Drop shotting did the trick. We tried jigs, sinkos, split shotting, slow rolling spinner baits, and even silver buddies but no luck on these.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We arrived about 8:30am went strat to windy gap and fished within 20-48 feet deep. First fish was pulled out of 30 feet 2lb spot. Second fish was a dink, third fish went 2.15lb. out of 23 feet also a spot. Then I pulled a 4 1/2lb. out of 26 feet and also a spot. We left about 02:30pm and I only boated five fish one being a dink. My partner never boated one fish.
    City: kingsburg

    Tips: Fish slow and fish were holding on the trees deep. Drop shotting did the trick. We tried jigs, sinkos, split shotting, slow rolling spinner baits, and even silver buddies but no luck on these.

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 62'

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Haven't fished this lake in 2 years. Started with
    ripbaits near flats. Few dinks in 1-2lb range.
    Headed back to lake. Flip'n and swimmin Jigs trailed with hula grubs to trees. Bam 3 blacks 4-5lbs. Backed off trees to come back later. Fished main lake points with lipless cranks. 6-7 spots within 15 minutes. Slow rolled 1 ounce spinner on bottom. Bent rod. Nice 4lb spot. Went back to trees rippn Balsa's. Fish after fish 2-4lbs. Oh yeah. Stay bent. Talked to some locals saying its a slow bite. I said its very slow. LOL. Ran into another local with a few small bass. Said he was going to make fish tacos. I told him crappie are probaly better. Lots of spots and seeing more blacks. Fish population seems to be getting better. Hopefully we can make fish tacos with crappie rather than bass.
    City: Nor Cal

    Tips: ripbaits & jigs for now. Fish fast and find your pattern. Craw, shad, chartruese all good colors.
    Use your graphs. Practice what you preach. Catch and Release!

Saturday, October 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went fishing Thursday oct. 7th late afternoon caught 3 fish between 3 to 3.5lbs. my partner lost a huge fish @ the boat on a jig. We caught plenty of small ones on plastics, majority of the fish were caught in the back 5mph zone. best times were at dark and after dark.
    City: sanger

    Tips: catch and release!

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 80-82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out saturday the 21st @ 8:00 a.m. caught 8 fish none keepers on crankbaits and green weenies. White spinnerbait usually gets me some larger fish, not today. Still had a great time.
    City: sanger

    Tips: early morning or later p.m. during the week. skiers suck.

Friday, August 20th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started up river in the trees but no luck with topwaters, senkos, or the new Kreature baits, tried some texas rig and got a couple of dinks off some rocks on the backside of Edison pt. Went around to the front side in the trees and got one on a dropshot assalt shaker. Lost a keeper on a main lake point. Lake is very low and Deer cr ramp is a pain to launch and park.Water is still being released and fish are turned off.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Dropshot