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Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out to fish our club tourney. Could not pick a better day to fish this lake. No wind or rain all day. I put the boat in 25 ft of water and made long cast to the shore. dropshoted (1/4 oz) a 4.5" curltail robo (oxblood) all the way back to the boat. Fish hit in 12-15 ft of water and even right under the boat. Together (Niko & I) we caught 20 fish. 1-2.20# spot, 2-largemouth, 17-smallies. Not much weight, but had alot of fun. My 5 for 7.95 & Niko 5 for 7.90. Winning weight was 11.75 w/5.40 kicker caught on a swimbait.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Everything was working. Dropshit, spidergrubs, rattletraps, ripbait (the flats). Stay out deep and make long cast, till you find the right depth they are at.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 52/53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sacramento Bass Wranglers tournament on Sat 02-28. Caught 15 or so keepers, mainly on cranks. Best 5 weighed 10.66. Curtis kicked bass with his "BABY" bass. What a toad. Fun club, looking for new members. Check us out.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Crank slow in 8-12 feet on grassy flats and points.

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 51.8 to 54.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: $20 launch at Spanish Flats. One crnkbait fish on the first cast around the small islands. No other reaction bites. 4 others caught on drop shot missed 5 other hits. Fish are a little slugish and are short striking. Nice day wind picked up in the afternoon.
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: fish slow maybe use a trap hook in the back of the worm for the short strikers.

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50 - 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday with Tiger. First Fish 7:45 last fish 1:00. Fished till 3:00. 14 Fish total. Best 5 only 9lbs. 2.5 SMB largest. All fish released with bites coming from Senko, Drop-Shot, Jig, Crank Bait. Rain started about 11:30 and continued most of the afternoon. Bite slowed significantly after that 11 fish by 10:30. Buddies boat landed a dozen or so on a variety of baits as well. Heard fish were moving up but saw nothing on beds Sunday.
    City: Pacifica

    Tips: SMB great fight non-aggressive bites all around.

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    Water Temp: 40

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished the backyards off the main launch and caught three bass ranging from a pound to two. just fished a couple of hours cuz it started pouring around noon.. fishes caught on a senko in 6 ft. water..
    City: newark

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Bass Classics of Santa Clara Valley had there tournament and the weather was great we had 25 guys catch 95 fish with two 6.72 lbers caught for the big fish. In first place with 16.00 lbs. was Russell Witkowsky he was Carolina rigging baby brush hogs near main lake points and boat docks for the win. In second place with 14.1 was Dieter Spicker he said he caught fish in pockets off the main lake points on spider grubs. In third place with 13.85 lbs was David Malley and he was Carolina rigging lizards. There were two big fish caught one by Tom Mordue on a shad crankbait and the other by Jason Giamonna.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Throw crankbaits in the morning and afternoons and fish spider grubs and worms in the middle of the day. Main lake points and boat docks for the best fish.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA on Sunday. First place was 37 lbs. 1-13lbs, 2@11lbs. and 2 dinks. Is that a great limit for Berryessa or what. Good job guys!! Check it out on the American Bass web sight.
    City: Vacaville

Monday, February 20th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished up putah creek for six fish then moved down towards the narrows for about another four then made the way back up and fished some areas around the mouth of the narrows.
    City: MArtinez

    Tips: Fish slow. A few fish on cranks in the creek. All other fish were caught on earth-tone plastics.

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54-55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Sight of snow in the background was pretty nice! Not a good day to fish the lake but had to fish anyway. Fished Putah Creek from 8 to 10am five bites two fish one 2 1/2 and the other a small spot. We headed to the east shore stopped at two spots for nada. Went to the inside of Big Island and another zero, called it at 2pm. Both fish were hooked on watermellon senkos inside of 20 feet. Got no bites on the east side of the main lake and several taps inside the Big Island with dartheads and 4 inch worms. It was a little sloppy on the main lake but all in all a nice day.
    City: South San Francisco

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Elk Grove Bass fished today and a 5 fish bag of over 23 pounds won the tournament. Big fish was 10+ pounds and the winning check was over $1700.00 for 1st place! Tough bite for most with all but 3 teams having a limit at weigh in.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Brown and purple jigs and morning dawn worms fished slowly got most of the bites.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: River City Bassers out of Sacramento, with seven boats, teams of two per boat, went out of Markley Cove Saturday morning. Teams caught from 12 to 40 fish, largest at 3 lbs. Teams fished the narrows and the main lake, primarily on the east side. Weather was cold, but little rain, some sun, and fairly calm winds. Smallies, large moutn, and spots (plus a dinner trout) were caugh. Good fishing!
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Plastic worms and grubs on dart head, drop shot, or split shot rigs were effective from 5 to 35 feet. Three nice fish caught on crank bait.

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    Water Temp: 51-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Devil Mountain Bassmasters club tournament at Berry essa on Saturday. We launched 5 boats on a very cold morning. Overall the bite was tough. Water was a chilly 50 in teh morning and only warmed a few degrees through the day. We had only 3 limits brought to the scales and three anglers blanked. Winning weight was 11.2 lbs with a 4.6 lb kicker largemouth. Most guys got their fish on worms, drop shot and split shotting. Winner found a reaction bite and got his limit on jerkbaits and upgraded his fish with jigs. Beautiful day but cold. Make sure you bring the cold weather stuff.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: Look for pre-spawn staging areas with access to deep water, throw reaction baits but slow down. Jigs in the deeper areas as the sun came up. Seemed the fish dropped down deeper when the sun came up.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Loomis Basin club tournament. Several different clubs launched out of markleys. Kinda zoo at launch. we had 10 boats with several teams short one man because of snow in colfax. Temp in dodge truck read 30 going up the hill to the lake. Fishing was totally different than last sat. Where I caught largemouths I caught smallies?Where I caught smallies I caught largemouth? Bite was on hulla grubs and brush hogs carolina rigged or split shot.Mike Dean and I had a 2 lb average. Only one dink. No jig bite today.Mike and I fished very slow and deliberatly. We fished the same area for 3 hours to get first 4 keepers.Ran to putah for next 2 returned to starting spot for one more nice smallie. Pre fishing helps.We covered a 100 yard stretch over and over. Mike wanted to leave but I'm stubborn.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Next week fish will move back into shallows. North east corner should be good again. Putah held largemouth in the pockets 10 to 15 feet deep.I cranked 2 nice smallies on a manns 15+ crawfish pattern crank bait first half hour.I might have caught more but the cold wind kinda made me fish slower baits.

Friday, February 17th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I know 1 think Bay tackle in El Cerrito doesn't have...My favorite, Trilene XT. Also no Stike King lures, such as Wild Shiners, Lipless Crankbaits and regular Crankbaits. But you guys have a lot of other stuff.
    City: El Cerrito

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED OUT OF MARKLEY AND WENT UP TO PUTAH AND POPE CREEKS. BIG SMALLIES AND LARGEMOUTH WITH ONLY ONE DINK (1.5#) SMALLIE. PATTERN WAS SHALLOW. ALL CAUGH IN LESS THAN 15 FEET.
    City: WINTERS

    Tips: USED NORMAN LURES WHITE/CHARTREUSE AND WHITE /GREY. BLUE/BLACK JIG W/ YUM TRAILER ALSO WORKED WELL.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53.7

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: my fishing partner roy started off with 2 smalleys on darters and then caught 2 more on carolina rigs i fishedjigs and rigs for 6 fish total of 10 fish for around 11lbs
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: get all your info and supplies at bay tackle el cerrito 510 235 2032 they have everything you need

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: pitched jigs and spider grubs in under 10 feet good for largemouth fished 5in berkley floating dover crawlers on 1/4 oz darters and caught good fish over 15 ft
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: berkley gulp it does out fish other baits

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This week at Lake Berryessa it rained and rained which is great because we need it. The shorelines are muddy and the lake is filling up. The fishing is heating up as the fish look for food more actively. It is not my personal preference to fish in the rain but I always seem to catch more fish when it is raining. This week a few of my friends went out on the "HulaCat" with Captain Tom Matuch for squid. They fished 1265 feet down and brought up squid up to fifty pounds as you can see in this picture. Walter had his work cut our for him with five keepers. Rangal caught two at one time and Greg (in the picture) brought a couple to the top and lost them to another squid. February 14th - 18th is the fishing show at the Cow Palace. This picture of me holding a trophy was for first place in a halibut derby where I landed a 27 lb 9 oz fish. Our next fishing meeting for the YBAC will be the third Monday in March (the 19th) at Dominic's at Oyster
    Point we will have a guest speaker. Lastly, don't forget Friday, March 16th is our third annual dinner for "Project Pride" hope to see you there. 'til next week.......................good fishing!!!!!! fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please email me at
    bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333
    City: NNAPA

    Tips: BRING YOUR RAIN GEAR see you at the cow palace

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    Water Temp: 55 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at safe light with Colin and Kimberlee to do some pre fishing for an upcomming club tournament next week. This week was dads turn to catch the fish. Colin put one in the boat on a drop shot rig at Small Island, Kimberlee put one almost in the boat on a split shot rig near the Vinyards and I had 4, all on something else.......can't give that up just yet! Beautiful day, lot's of boats on the lake and too much fun to fish with my kids! I saw a couple other club members all doing the same thing for next week....................Good Luck Guy's!!!!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Keep your line in the water and catch fish! See you this Saturday!

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    Water Temp: 54-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the wife out on the her first ride on the new(used) bassboat that I purchased last year. It was a beautiful day with about 5 knots of wind most of the time. I set her up with a dropshot rig and she fished that most of the day. Started the day at 8am and for the next two hours just checked out spots on the main lake, far too many bassboats out there so we ended up fishing the Narrows and Big Island. We got several fish on the rockslides all smallies biggest 1.5. we fished at 15 to 20 feet dropshotting purple white robo worms. We pulled into the inside of Big Island and fished on several humps and hooked and released 7 smallies and 2 largemouths using the same dropshot set up but caught fish from 8 to 15 feet.
    City: South San Francisco

    Tips: If you want someone to have a chance at catching fish in this lake teach them how to dropshot!