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Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55 - 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I started fishing with my buddy on main body points near Pope Creek - water temp 55

    Tips: If you are a finesse fisherman, try the wacky jig technique. Try some baits which imitate a crawdad.

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    Water Temp: 46 to 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of Capell and went to skiiers cove for three fish one on senko two on lv500. Went to Vineyards with a few more on lv500 in same water depth 6 to 10 feet. Drop shotted ont in 22' of water and that was it. It should get better soon.
    City: san bruno

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with my buddy John and had a great time with one problem. We only got 2 fish. T-Rig junebug ~ 10 ft. Both fish by 10am in the skiers cove area. No takers after that at all. Threw swimbait on the east shore 5-20 feet no takers yet. Tried the dam and points along the way no luck. Tried jig, drop shot, crank bait, jerk bait, rattle trap, chatter bait and split shot all with no luck. We tried behind the big island no luck there either. Fog in the am till almost 11:00. Overall a beautiful day at the lake weather wise, we just didn't figure them out. Water was green but not lcear yet. Fished with two other friends one got 4 (1 for dad and 3 for Sean!)and the other had not luck at all. Drop shot was probably the way to go but we wanted to try some other things that day. SLOW was the key for us to the little success we had.
    City: Pacifica

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    Water Temp: 49-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I took a father and his 13 year old son today for a "teach the lake" trip. We started about 9 am out of Markley, hoping to get a good afternoon bite. It was short, but we did get one. I should say my new favorite 13 year old client had a good bite! Wow - he caught most of the 11 bass landed and he boated the two biggest - 2 1/2 and 2 lb 5 oz spots. He never lost a fish once hooked!! He missed a few bites. He was deadly with his drop-shot Loomis rod and 6" MMIII Robo worm! Dad caught a bass on the first cast of the day - that ruined his trip, har! They really had a nice limit - about 9 lbs. I was a happy guide!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The narrows was fogged in when we started but it soon was a beautiful day - very little wind. Best bite was 1 to 3 pm, mostly on subtle points in the narrows. Fish seemed to be in 15 to 25 feet of water. Really didn't catch anything too deep and banks needed sun on them. I tried a little rippin' and crankin' - nothing. Jigs, nothing. Spooning, nothing. A pure worm bite, such as it was. The lad really understands a pressure bite - wonderful to see in one so young!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A better day of fishing today. Launched out of Markleys Cove and headed to narrows and started fishing rocky points and just followed the shore line and started cathing fish in 15-25 feet of water. We had come down the shore line to some fallen trees and cought our biggest fish (a 2-12 lmb long and skinny) with a texas rigged lizard in about 20 feet just dragging along the the lenght of the tree. Caught a total of 14 fish and missed about 8 others due to shirt bites steeling half the lure. Good day, a little breezy at times.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: We caught our fish using watermelon/red lizard, brush hogs, and brown jigs.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: One of those day you wonder why you event went....?? Five foot waves in the lake, wind was howling, expecting a nice day but....at least I was fishing.
    I got 8 bites and landed 5 fish all about 2-lbs each, all on a 3/4 oz brown jig with a brown grub (twin tail)and all in 25-30ft the bite was from 11:30 to 2 pm. "Last week the bite turned on at noon" I was pretty limited where i could fish, otherwise I believe I could have caught more fish.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Off shore structure was good last week in the afternoon, points in the narrows mid morning. Most of the fish on Brn/brn jig and a few on a purple ghost dart head 1/4. Line size didn't matter I was using 15 lb on the jig and 6 lb on the dart head.

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 47 - 53 F

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Enjoyed a beautiful AM @ Capell Cove & caught nothing. Had one bite on spider jig & one maybe bite on dropshot. Water color looked great - nice stain & warming - but just couldn't get anything going.

    Tips: Should be good soon. Could meter fish, but couldn't get them to bite.

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

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    Water Temp: COLD

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the kids out for a early spring wakeboard trip. Beautiful day, sunny and almost no wind. Brought a couple rods and tried a few spots. Flat on east side in 15ft no takers on a bottom walker and none for my son on his drop shot. Tried a couple points as well with no luck. 30+ boats out of Capel. Those I talked to said it was tough. Water is clearer south than north and creeks cloudy. Should improve as water warms. Nice guy in a ranger said he managed a couple spots. Had fun with new toy, fishing camera, fun to look at what's really down there, grass everywhere, rocks, holes, etc.
    City: Pacifica

    Tips: Fishing out of a 23 foot Sanger is a challenge, looking forward to next time with the right boat!

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent a gorgeous day on the lake with my Pops, unfortunately, the bite was tough as nails. Lauched out of Markley at about 7:45 and ran a short way in the narrows. Dad started the day off right with a fat 2# spot on his third cast with a green pumpkin Hula Grub on a 3/8 oz. head. The bite slowed from there so we made our way out to the main lake. About 10:00 I found a real nice channel swing that clipped a large flat immediately adjacent to a major point. The flat came out about 50 yards off the bank before dropping from ~ 12' to 35' of water. Of the 10 bites we had this day, 7 came from this channel drop. Dad missed 2 on the same Hula Grub, I caught 2 on a 1/8 oz. darthead with a 4.5" Prism Craw Roboworm, 2 more on a dropshot 6" Lavender Shad worm from Ultimate Baits, and I missed another shaking a 6" Oxblood w/ red flake Roboworm. All that action took place in about 45 minutes from an area approx. 20 X 20 yards square. After that, we just ran points and channel drops for 2 more fish, each on the darthead/Prism Craw combo. Tough, tough day, but the weather sure was pretty!
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Final tally was 7 keepers - 5 spots, 1 smallie and 1 smot (smallie/spot cross). Best five may have gone 8-9# (first spot and smallie were each ~ 2# fish; other fish up to 1.5#). We found one concentration of fish, other than that it was no more than one bite per stop. Also threw cranks, ripbait, spinnerbait and swimbait with no takers.

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    Water Temp: 52.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Beautiful day on the lake. Temp was in the mid 60's, light winds. Got kind of a late start due to some trailer light problems and hit the lake around 8am out of Capells. Got a nice 1 1/2 smallie on the 3rd cast on the west rockwall at the entrance to the narrows on a black and brown jig with a twin tailed grub for a trailer. Fish hit that bait hard. After that the bite completely died for us. Graphed tons of fish and bait balls all over the lake in 15 to 20 feet, but could not entice them to save out souls.
    City: Vallejo

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48 to 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: first time out this year. Beautiful day. I found five nice spotted bass all around three pounds on a steep bank in the narrows. My buddy Doug fishing with me did not get a fish. The fish were biting real light. I got mine on shakey heads with a brown trick worm. We ran to the northend to look around in the afternoon, metered fish and bait. No takers though. water was cloudier in the north end.
    City: brisbane

    Tips: Slow down. look for steep banks. I did not try dropshot which might have worked also

Friday, February 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I,fished the narrows on saturday from 7a.m.to 2. I listened to everyone say try this and try that , throw this and throw that... nothing worked so I went to old faithful..a 6in. mourning dawn with a chartruse tail..bingo. Caught 5 nice fish one here, one there, then called it a day. It was a beatiful day out there and I can't wait for the water to warm up.
    City: berkeley

    Tips: throw em' back

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched around 8:30 and fished capells and the main body on a beautiful day with no wind. By noon just 2 fish. Went to the narrows and the fish were a little more active. Fished til 3:30 and boated 5 more. Nothing over a 1#, but with the sun it was still fun. Slow presentation with plastics with red flake in 20-30'. Saw a basser dude release a beautiful 6-4 lmb at the launch ramp that was fooled by a swim bait.
    City: orinda

    Tips: All of my fish were pretty pale. Not sure if that meant lack of sun or they were coming up from the deep.

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 9:00 am and I found the fishing slow, didn't get first bite until 2:50 pm. Then again at 5:30. The bite started to pick up about 6:00 when I caught 3 fish on 3 cast then a fourth about ten minutes later for a total of 6 fish for the day and all about 1.5#'s. Was dark and had to head in about 6:30. All fish were caught on texas rig Lizard, watermelon red, in 15-25 foot of water off of rocky points.
    City: Vacaville

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 9:30 and was greeted with mild weather and a warm sun. Perfect for expiermenting with minnows. grOuchy used artificals all day, while I used minnows for most of the day. We ended up with about a dozen bites, 7 or 8 fish with the real thing getting more bites than artificials. Nothing big, typical 1-2lb spots. A cool wind came up that messed with the minnow bite.
    City: orinda

    Tips: All minnow bites came with the bait dragging on the bottom. Had one on a bobber without a bite. hula grubs, and dropped shot worms were the plastics of choice. From 10' to 35.'

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    Water Temp: 46 to 49.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: For 3 fisherman we caught 8 fish and missed 3 bites. Fish were caught on drop shot and spider grubs mostly near rocky points and brush. Could ahve worked harder for the fish, but decided to relax and try new things. No crankbait or spinnerbait fish.
    City: san bruno

    Tips: Cover a lot of area until you mark fish on the bottom then go back and forth over the fish with your plastics.

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing With Sid 2007 Photo Album www.LakeBerryessaNews.com
    City: Napa

    Tips: slow dark colors @ firetiger

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of Capell cove and it was cold and wet. Fished spoons, drop shot, senko on a darter head, spider jig, crank baits and jerk baits. Caught one fish on each except the hard baits. I thought I saw some crappie on the meter and tossed out a red and white mini jig. 5 mins later land on of the larger fish of the day, a spot. Caught five total. very tough bite and you had to work for them. all were caught in the narrows aroung points or secondary points.
    City: san bruno

    Tips: fish slow and look for schools of fish and bait then fish very methodically for one to two bites.

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: the Sacramento Bass Wranglers launched 11 boats for our "turkey shoot" to kick off 2008. 9 came to the scales with limits of bass in all flavors. 1st place was 10.66, 2nd 9.86, 3rd 8.44, and 4th 8.28. The 1st place team also had big fish honors w/ a 5.68# spot. See full results at www.sacbasswranglers.net
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Hardly any reaction fish reported. Fish anywhere from 10-30 feet on rocky points using your favorite plastics.

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Basin Bassmasters from Loomis and two other clubs launched out of Markley Cove at first light with light winds and clouds. The day was a nice day on the water but the fishing was taught. My partner (Ken Harrison) and I stayed with a patten hitting all the points in the narrows using jigs, 3/8 and 1/2 oz. Most of the bass were in 15-30 ft, we went deeper and graphed larger fish but no bites. Our biggest large-mouth came out of Steal Park area in 10-15 ft. @ 11am around rocks. We found most of our bass on rocky points and the flats between them. Our winning weight was 8.34 lbs, another clubs was 7.02 and the third was 7.94. Not a big day. The Jig color was Black/Blue, Brown/Purple and Green Pumpkin with a Black/Blue Flake. Dark colors in this stained water and working it slow.
    Try using my Jigs, see my website @ www.captjacksfishingjigs.com or call me @ (916) 837-9474
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Try using drop shots, darter head, crank-in and jigs, working them very slow. almost dead stick it.