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Sunday, January 30th, 2011

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      Water Temp: 48.6 to 51.0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Traffic here for bass fishing is very light bass are in 18 to 40 feet of water and are in the 12 to 15 range and are falling to jigs and baby brushogs and yamamoto hula grubs.Color patterns
      green pumpkin and watermelon red/black flake patterns baits well catch bass here. Bass are holding in coves on the face of the dam and in the 5mph. Structure rock piles long points brush piles and trees and drop offs. Trout fisherman are scoring good numbers of trout on powerbait from the bank
      City: madera ca

      Tips: fish slow dead sticking and slow swim bumping the bottom back to the boat works here also. Jigs in bullet or football head and baby brushogs and hula grubs all work here also.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 10am to 4pm. It wasn't hard finding fish, but quality was a problem. My partner and I caught them on the dropshot and shaky-head. Fish were found from 25-50ft, although the fish are starting to transition as we caught a few in the 10ft range. Our best 5 were about 10lbs. Didn't fish the main lake, everything was caught by trimmer and by the windy gap area. Total fish between me and my partner was 20+.

      Tips: Fish slow and deep. Todays choice of color was purple, as that was the color that the bass seemed to like more, although everyday varies.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9am till 3 pm on a cloudy day. Caught 25 spots in 30-40 ft with the biggest only 2 lbs. Hula Grubs and Jigs did OK. Best bite for us was on darterheads and T-rigs. Fished from Deer Creek to Windy Gap. Overall fun day.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Main lake points

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 56.3 to 58. 5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass here are in the 11 to 14 range with and occasional bass to 2 pounds. The face of the dam is holding bass in 19 to 40 of water jigs drop shot and baby brushogs also are working here.Other areas to work around the lake rock piles dropoff trees and a another good areas to hit are the river channel the deep parts if the channel are also holding fish. Traffic is light. Trout are hitting rooster tail spinners and mepp's spinners and also rainbow color powerbait is also working.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: Fish slow bass are biting on the light side if you fell weight when you move your bait then set most of the time you wont miss. jigs in bullet and football head work good right now and trailers yamamoto 4" double tails grubs but with the colder temps move to a 5" single tail grub or pork they all 3 work.Brushogs go carolina rig these baits for good results. drop shot you can hit them with pro gold patterns.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

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      Water Temp: 57 to 58.5 degr

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 3:00 pm afternoon. Trolling motor batteries were low so couldn't really fish for long. Found out my batteries were corroded. Caught a couple fish off the drop shot and that was it and missed a couple other bites. Will get out again by the weekend. Cold afternoon.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: So far dropshotting. Will keep all posted later.

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 56.5 to 59.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: bass here are from 11 to 14 inches and well hit 1/4 bullet head jig and 3/8oz arkie head jigs in brown and purple or black and blue yamomoto 5"single tail grubs as trailers in 221 cinnamon w/lg black &
      purple flake and 179 smoke w/black & blue flake . FISH LONG DEEP POINTS AND ISOLATED ROCK PILES HUMPS WITH DEEP WATER fish in 20 to 35 feet of water.
      City: madera

      Tips: Fish slow keep solid contact with the structure your working on the bitr is light.

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was insane! We fished the Anglers Choice Team Tournament. Caught fish from blast off till check-in. Jigs, ripbait, and dropshot were our ticket. We caught at least 50 bass for the day and our best 5 went for 8.38lbs. Not a bad wt. for Naci.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Fish were out deeper for us...25-35ft.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 8am till 2 pm and it was a tough bite for me. I worked my butt off for 5 keepers and only got 6 bites all day. I stuck 2 largemouth on senkos on a vertical wall and 3 spots on a dropshot at the end of the day. I tried a ton of stuff in between without any luck. I could not mark any shad on the graph and very few fish for that matter. No surface activity anywhere.
      City: Oakhurst

      Tips: See above, I don't have a clue

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

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      Water Temp: Low 60s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Woke up late didn't get to the launch 'til 8..fished the marina got one on the darter head right away..threw the texas rig got one but missed the set..no fish for a few hours..got one on the spoon..got a nice large mouth on the drop shot..missed a big hit on the carolina rig..came home before 2..started to get windy on the main lake..
      City: Fresno

      Tips: bring extra darter heads!!..bite is soft if you are finessing..water seems to be slowly rising..stay a little further out the bass don't seem to getting used to it yet..so they're still out there deep..was cold the whole day so layer up especially when running the big motor..

Friday, November 12th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 66.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty slow today.. Hit a few good areas with a few of my friends in another boat. Same story. Only a small dink. Headed towards the dam to check thinks out and 'BANG'. Something let go?? Had my buddies pull me back to the dock and loaded. Got home, pulled the lower unit. Driveshaft took a dump. So she's going to sit till I get parts. Bummer.....
      City: SM

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: uknown; felt to

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Naci on Sunday during the CBC tourney. The cold front that moved int slowed the bite down, but the fish are there. Got 5 fish fora day's work,missed a few more. None of our fish were under a pound, best top out at about 2. The CBC guys had 7 fish limits pushing on 15lbs, so the bite is there.
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: Jigs, dropshot, and darterhead did the trick today. Only got 1 fish in the deeper water, the rest of the fish came off the bank in 5-15 feet. Best fish was in 3' of water

Friday, November 5th, 2010

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sllloooooowww day at Margi. The 30 degree drop in weather probably influenced the bite more than anything. Got a couple dinks, and 1 solid 3lb fish on the jig up shallow. Couldn't buy any love on the main lake, only fish came at the lower end of the river arm.
      City: Santa Cruz

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 62.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty flat out. Sun came out and it was a great day for sunning. Started with a rettle trap around cliff drop offs, went to plastics, then a swim and a punch bait back in the mossy areas. Nothing!
      City: SM

Sunday, October 31st, 2010

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to naci on Sunday, the bite is off the hook right now. Started on the bank right across from the marina while I waited for the fog to lift. Caught about 15 fish in the first hour with the five biggest going just over 11 lbs. Caught the five biggest on a repo man (topwater) and spider jigs. After fog lifted switched to sex Shad colored robo worms on a drop shot rig and caught about 25 more before heading out around 1:00. Did catch some on the spider jig in the afternoon. Get out early, bigger fish seem to be active in the
      am.
      City: Holister

      Tips: Fish are feeding heavily on Shad, find a point with bait and you can catch a fish on almost every cast. Fall bite at naci is on get out and have some fun.

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was off in morning,but midday was great .caught largemouths and spots from 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 pounds lost count of how many we caught.
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: dropshot 6"robo worm in sexy shad & custom worms in cinn, blue. 17-25 ft, deep fish slow.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fixed the fuel pump decided to go run the boat..got out around 4pm went straight to the coves..
      found schooling shads..and the bass were right there..got one right away on a spoon..school ran away..moved over to creek channel got one on shakey head..fished rocks for a bit picked up 4 on dropshot..fished 'til sunset water was calm for a few hours..got 2 hits on buzzbait..missed one..wind picked up..cold..left the lake around 8

      Tips: throw big baits..finesse techs. will diff. produce fish..small though..keep eye on the fish finder..it'll completely blow up..

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: here are the results for the Visalia bass tournament at Kaweah on Oct. 16th

      1 st place Isaac & Josh Adams 12.90 lbs big fish 3.19
      2 nd place Steven & Scott Thompson 10.25 lbs
      3 rd place Jon & Michael Beasley 9.81 bs

      32 teams 19limits 122 total fish lake is low
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Go Fishing have fun.otherwise apponed

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: cooler nights bring bass to rocks and so does the crappie..

      no winds..water calm..
      City: Fresno, Ca

      Tips: Was suppose to go out before sunset to get the late day bite..missed it by 2 hours due to friends..decided to just do the night bite..crappies are back..got them on jigs!..not minnows..crappies = bass..water was calm..no wind..topwater was no good..lipless crank failed..slowed it down with a wave worm bamboo stick..got two hits right away..missed them..switched up to 5/0..got them!!..bass for 2 pounds..still aggressive

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got on the water alittle late about 830.the wind was already up and at times gusting pretty good.cleghorn was out of the question so decided to tube the marina area instead.we were able to duck out of the wind but only managed 1 dink bass on the dropshotted roboworm in arrons magic color. really an overall poor fishing day.
      City: apple valley

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 70.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Whats with the Pez??? Lake has been like OFF for the past three weeks. NADA ????
      Any offerings?
      City: SM