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Monday, June 18th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started early 5:30ish threw dropshot. first rod I grabbed. 6 casts, 4 fish. buddy threw everything but the kitchen sink, they only bit the dropshot. Ended day around 1:00, 37 fish between both of us.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Fish shallow early, then be prepared to move deep when the sun get's overhead.

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 54+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: needs water, got a couple 2>3 lbs, windy & cold,still fixing dam.....
    City: bakersfield

    Tips: bring your own water......

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 75 in morn 78 m

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Some found the fish in our 21 boat tourny and some didn't. My partner and I had 1 keeeper until 11A wiegh in was 12p. The trees in south fork held the fish just have to get the right set of trees. Engineer point seemed to help us in the last hr. Cranking and dropshot. Worms are the ticket and a few crank bites. Winner had 22lbs, we had 4 fish for 8 lbs, big differance.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Dropshot, some cranks, and creature baits in trees

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 73.3

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 1st trip to Isabella.. Not bad!

    FLW Pro J Fox and I took a 6 hours cruise around looking for hitters. Rocky Point gave us a stopping point and we hit good -- Very Good! Trying out some new Falcon Micro Giude rods and a few new baits. Hit on three nice 5+ ladies with one bustin off near the trolling motor having the Falcon in half trying to hose this ine in. Figured at least 8-10 pounder.. Thats fishin -- Cant score on all of them.. Wind came up about noonish -- Headed home.
    City: SM

    Tips: Carolina and 3/4oz jigs were working -- Sorry Cant tell all the secrets as to baits...

Monday, May 31st, 2010

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: memorial day, went to try my luck off the bank. took my wife and her sis so got at lake at 8 am. second cast with a buzzbait and had one on all the way in and shook off next to the bank, about 4#. ended up catching 6 nice fish on a carolina rig , had about 13 # , all released and were real healthy. saw some crusing shallow. not bad for 4 hrs of fishin.
    City: tehachapi

    Tips: carolina with green lizards .slow return.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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    Water Temp: perfect

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: crappie fishing is really hot right now.. caught about 80 crappies.. used small minnows with bobber..cant wait to go back..been going there for the last 3 years now..
    City: fremont

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 53-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: not a great day but picked up a couple of fish on a jib 1 going about 4.5 pounds. any one with info it would be greatly appreciated. I am tring to learn this lake this year.
    City: bakersfield

Friday, December 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: Frozen

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Test
    City: Taft

    Tips: Test

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake around 5:30 A.M started cranking rocky points landed 5 keepers around 2 and 3 pounds through a jig in about 20 foot stuck a nice bass coming in at 11.5 pounds then wind came up around 100 so got off the lake all in all had a good day.
    City: Bakersfield

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a Great time at lake Isabella started to throw a Lunker Plunker around the points and scored a chucky 3-4 pound bass. I later broke out a River 2 Sea S-waver and hammered a couple of bass off a point. I lost about a 8 pounder on the s-wave. I most say the crappie fishing is off the hook. I will be back as they say, want to get the one that got away. tight lines,
    Chief
    City: Camarillo

    Tips: Wind has the big play this past weekend, when the wind was up the bigger fish came out to play.

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hey MIKE H if you are looking at this you know who this is how is the lake please wright back and let me know thanks.
    City: bakersfield

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 73-80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: crappie fishing is on fire...any bright colored small jigs will work..caught limits after limits..crappie fishing has never been so good in ages..you need to go before its spawn is over..
    City: fremont

    Tips: bobber with jig..3-4 ft apart.. fish rocky points or marina

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 2 fish all weekend on pumpkin hulas.metered fish in 25'-30' of water.
    City: lake isabella

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Everybody was throwing cranks, we did too but did too but couldn't get bit. So we tried plastics at the flume. We hooked about 20, mostly around 2.5 to 3 lbs. Landed won 6+ and lost a much larger one.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Splitshot was the only way we could catch keeper fish.

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty windy but fishable. Not outstanding fishing- just fair.
    City: Oildale

    Tips: We fished the rocks mainly with plastics. Used darterheads and shakyheads. Most fish were 1 to 3 lbs. however we did catch 1 8 pounder. Take alot of tackle! We fished in 15 to20 feet of water.

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Well this is 1 lake that needs more info, so here we go.The son And I had a club tourny (33 boats),(6hrs),and (103 degrees).I was the gate and did not prefish so had to go off of history. That being said since 32 other boats went before me, my choices where limited. I ran to the North fork on the long wall to the left just before the Marina and stared crankin and top water about 15min I got a huge blow up on my Zara and missed, threw back and missed again, one more time and hooked up just to lose it at the boat and get a good look at it(solid 4 lbr). Then I got to watch a club member set the hook and fight a 11 lbr and get it in the boat. So I knew I was in a good spot and stayed there for about 2 hrs I got 2 fish from there(3 1/2 & 1 1/2). The place was loaded with shad and the fish were coming out of the flume to the flat to feed, but I couldn't wait so I ran around crying. I finally ended up at 3 rocks area and my son put another 2 fish (3 1/2 & 2)in the boat and I graphed fish in 10 feet threw a drop shot an stuck 3 more keepers to cull a limit. All of this within 10 minutes. Ok here's the deal: if your crankin you should catch fish early but the bite is there all day. Back at the scales it took 26 lbs to win, 2 people caught 11+. Crankin, jigs, dropshot, brushhogs, and finess all do the trick. We ended up with 12 1/2 lbs so it's all were you go and what you through. Oh yea and some luck too.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Earlier the better, up close say 15' to bank, points and flats, look for bait, shad and craw pattern. Good luck and keep your line wet.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks for the report Dick . Been awhile since I fished Isabella. Been watching though and you are the first to report in a long time. Good Fishin To Ya
    City: Maricopa

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on lake at 5:15 am. Breeze was starting to pick up. Fished Brown Cove by the rock pile with senkos. Caught 2. Wind started to pick up so we went to Boulder Gulch , started ther with cranks, nothing, tried Spinnerbaits and whammo, that was it. Caught probably 20 fish in 45 minutes, 3 to 5 lbs.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Get off early, we had gust to probably 45-50 mph

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First fish was on top early just after sun came out, 9 lbs. Caught several dinks and partner caught a few in the 3 to 5 lb range. My last fish came about noon on a point in 20' on a plastic worm, 8 lbs, what a fight. WHAT A DAY!
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Be patient, bite was very soft.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 78-82

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Ax, first place in a recent tournament had 43lbs for two days.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Go fishin.