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      Water Temp: 71-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished our days with my nephew. Gazillions o shad in all arms o the lake. Good ishing on small shad pattern crankbaits and drop shot rigs with oxblood or baby bass robo worms. Most ish ran small, but a ew nice ones mixed in or un. We caught more baby small mouth bass than I can remember there, a good omen or small mouth bass ishing in the uture.
      City: Carpinteria

      Tips: small crankbaits in shad or crawish on the rock aces, robo worms in oxblood or baby bass.

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      Water Temp: 62 - 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my daughter or a couple o days. My wie (bless her) baby sit the grand son. The AM bite was slow or us with crankbaits. We met a ellow as we were coming o the lake that said it was a late aternoon bite, so I went out alone at 3PM and between then and 5:30 caught and released 15 bass on lipless crankbaits. Largest was 6 1/2 pounds, there were others in the 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 pound range, but also some dinks. Largest 5 weighed 18+ pounds.
      City: Carinteria

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent several days in search o the mysterious Micropterous. Managed airly well, but bite was slow. Several nice ish, the largest was 6.0 even. Others o note were 4-12 and 4.0 even. Most were taken on small crankbaits in iretiger or crawish pattern o steep rock walls. Several ish over 3lbs., and many o the Lopez "cookie cutter" 2.5 pounders. Nothing on the spinnerbaits. Lots o olks still throwing drop shot worms in the oxblood or baby bass color and doing well too.
      City: Carpinteria

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out to Lopez or the irst time on sunday, started around 8 am, boy where there a lot o boats out there, started doin the things i'm used to, pitchin' senkos. Buddy set up on one with a tube. I stuck 3 on senkos then 2 on crawdad colored at ree shad, biggest ish only about 3lbs. but i did get a limit irst time on the lake. Today got on the water at 3pm, irst 5 minutes stuck a nice 3 on a red/black norman, stuck a ew more, then put on a bigger norman same color 3rd cast boom! 4 pounder, got 5 again today, all on norman.
      City: Los Osos

      Tips: Craw cranks, senkos, tryed blades till i was blue in the ace with no results, anyone willing to share some tips or lopez or other lakes around here please e-mail me, i just recently moved to the area, go rip some lip-

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      Water Temp: dunno

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got done with my classes early and decided to go to lopez. I had to ish o the bank, dont have my boat with me at Poly. Caught 8 bass on Crawdad colored shad rap and zoom worms. They were all in one spot. Other than that I didn't get hit. 7 were dinks, one was about 2.5 lbs. Need to get my boat over there. Saw lots o good looking rock walls across the lake. Hopeully I will ind some better ish. Any tips or Lopez?
      City: Corcoran / San Luis

      Tips: Got lots o hits on crankbait, but I missed most o them. Had one 3lber chase, but no bite.

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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent about 5 days ishing Lopez again. Caught about 4 - 7 bass a day on small crankbaits. Saw several emales looked like they were trying to spawn (??!!). Seems too early. Any comments? Lost some really large bass due to abraided line perhaps.what do you ellows/gals use?Talked to one ellow who was vertical jigging worms o some sort. He was not giving any inormation out, but said he was doing well.Am I the only one to post reports here?
      City: Carpinteria

      Tips: Some ish will always be up shallow.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished hard or 5 days and struggled. Locals were having a hard time too. Drop-shot producing mostly dinks under 13". My brother and I could only scratch out 2 - 3 ish a day. The largest (3-9)came or my brother on a iretiger Norman Baby N.
      City: Carpinteria

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Due to 6" o rain on Monday, there was debris in the extreme in the water. A 5MPH limit on entire lake. Fished jigs, worms, lizards - no luck. Found a small patch water that was not as muddy and picked up a 3# largemouth on a chartruse and white spinnerbait. Tough conditions.

      Tips: Wait until water clears.

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      Water Temp: COLD didn't mea

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on lake at approx 12:00 It was a nice day with some blustery winds that made you want to get your jacket on. Only about 16 or so boats out on the water. I ished Wittenberg arm or 3 hrs. NOTHA! I saw plenty o birds and ish on my depth inder but no takers. I was ishing a blk/chat jig and my home made 'uncle wallie'spinnerbait. At about 2:45 I thought "screw this, I'm goin ater smallmouth." So I headed to the main part o the lake and began throwin my spinnerbait on rocky tapering ledges, just across rom the dam. In a small inlet with a tree I got a bite, set the hook and whoa! Big smallmouth I thought! Not! 6 lb. largemouth. I caught a small male largemouth about 4 casts later on a point. I let the wind blow me around a point and down toward the main channel o the lake. I was keeping my boat close to shore and throwin the spinnerbait about 3-4' rom shore and letting it sink with a slow variable retrieve about 6-8' deep. Ater I ished another inlet and was comig out I got another tap. I paused and the ish came back again. I set the hook and whoa! Again I thought big smallmouth. Very wrong, 9 lb largemouth. No BS boys,the big sow's are comin up. Both these ish were at and pregnant; and both are happily alive swimmin in Lopez lake were I put them immediately back ater yelling at the top o my lungs to the no persons that were around: only two boats were still on the water when I pulled out.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: right place, right time, right bait. I made this bait mysel ater years o expreimentation. Hint: Its not one thing you do that makes a dierence; it's alot o little things that collectively make THE dierence.

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      Water Temp: 73-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a little on all 3 days. Very good crank bite on quality ish. #6 Fat Free Shad in craedad worker best or me. Downshotted Robo Worms (Aarons Magic) worked as well. Fish were all over the lake. Windy aternoon points and anywhere in the mornings.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Crank all day at Lopez.

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      Water Temp: 57 - 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wasco Bass Club tourny was held sat. mar. 18th ishing was great! The winners had over 17lbs using lukes and spinnerbaits under the bridge in the brush. 2nd place did the samething with just over 15lbs, 3rd got over 14lbs using brown jigs and splitting smoke blue worms in the lopez arm. Big ish or the tourny was over 6lbs caught split shotting. Only two o 17 teams did not post a limit.
      City: Wasco

      Tips: ish are in 1 to 15 t o water, ish slow

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      Water Temp: 57 - 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wasco Bass Club tourny was held sat. mar. 18th ishing was great! The winners had over 17lbs using lukes and spinnerbaits under the bridge in the brush. 2nd place did the samething with just over 15lbs, 3rd got over 14lbs using brown jigs and splitting smoke blue worms in the lopez arm. Big ish or the tourny was over 6lbs caught split shotting. Only two o 17 teams did not post a limit.
      City: Wasco

      Tips: ish are in 1 to 15 t o water, ish slow

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two weeks ago limited on sunny day. Two 4+ and 3 3+. Kept our biggest. All on surace lures, all day bites. All near the boat dock or towards dam. (was rowing.) Anybody want to trade a boat or some amazing artwork. See my sight i interested. www.seewald.com
      City: Del Mar

      Tips: Last week, ater Labor Day, tried my luck again but bass where scarce. Went to Hodges to try my luck yesterday but it's all dried up... blew my mind.

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone fished here lately? I'm thinking of going down there on Monday. Any report would be helpful.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hi Nay-Nay!!!!! Love Richie :-)

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: True , I have heard of bigger spots being caught, even saw one that had a pic in the paper. The problem with all them was that non were weighed on an "official" scale. As of before Casey's fish, the official lake record spotted bass was 5.29. That is real.

      You can bet that with the rainy weather coming I will be throwing one of those "Tiny E" swimbaits from California Swimbabes.com :)

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start here ater blanking on San Antonio. Immediately started catching ish on main lake points and some secondary points rom 8-30 eet. Some ish were up shallow on the points, but majority were staged deeper. Caught about 50 ish between the two o us, all on 221 Yamamoto Hula grubs(cinnamon/purple&black lake). With some nice days to bring the water temp up a ew more degrees it should break wide open or a reaction bite.
      City: Hanord, Ca.

      Tips: 221 Hula Grubs, staging main lake points and some major secondary points.

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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out tuesday evening and late wednesday morning. usually this lake is alot more productive in the evenings but didnt catch much until the next morning. we caught around 20 ish and several bass in the 2+ range. all o the ish were caught in the narrows. the cantinas have been a waste o time the last couple times we've gone out. dont waste time and head straight to the narrows. lots o un
      City: san luis obispo

      Tips: we got the big ones on a 3 inch chartruse grub, we didnt get anything except this and small spinner'seems to be working pretty well

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went ishin both days, rainin hard both days. preishin on riday was hard and cought 0. Couldnt get a ish in the boat. got some chasin a rip bait but they will not eat it. elimanated a couple spots. then saturday, caught bunches durin the tourney. couple keepers came on d-shot and biggest on a senko.but my best ish came o o a single colorado chart spinnerbaiat. it was un believable. caught 17-20 o my 30ish o it. i ended up winnn with win at 5 ish or 5.44.not a good avg ish but all was un. just to break ure heart, we went out sunday and the blade bite was gone. no ish.no chasers
      City: Prunedale

      Tips: ripbaits, topwater soon,try a blade,and d-shot

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      Water Temp: 62 to 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water is higher than last year. But, the lake is being lowered. The spots were biting hard on small baits and lighter line. There is a lot o bait in the coves and that made some o the ish hard to catch. Look or the 64 and above degree water or the whites. the majority o the whites were taken in los tables cove.
      City: san diego

      Tips: slow down and use lighter line and smaller baits. Top baits were white rostertails and single tail grubs on small spinners,