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Saturday, April 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Was ishing or trout out o Spanish Flat. Did pretty well. Was leaving and spoke with the manager who said a new lake record bass was taken today. 17+ pounder. Caught up toward Markley. Sure there will be more details later.Art - PeerGynt
    City: Napa

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: just got back rom shasta. bite not quite as good as berry,but i did go to phils and picked up some interesting baits including some custom trailers by marks tails they matched my poppers exactly. irst cast in the narrows caught a 4.6 spot, it really boosted me so i continued to catch 2 more limits on these poppers. i also caught 2 lg.mouth in putah on chart. blades but were barely legal.
    City: napa

    Tips: move alot you will get on groups o ish where you can catch 3 or 4 ish per group

Monday, March 31st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was great. Temp was near 80 on Sunday. Fish were in the shallows at about 5-10t o water- watrer temp 64. Any ish that went any urther into shallow water were propmtly eaten by the pellicans that were hunting them down (on the grass lats n.e. side)- Wild never saw that beore. Aaso landed many ish in any cove that I went to in the late aternoon on the N.W. side. Get out its great!
    City: Napa

    Tips: Keep it small. All ish were caught on a 3" worm light in color, Texas rig

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was air or us today. Weather was gorgeous, which brought out alot o boaters. Really had the south end stirred up in most places. We landed 8 total, no big ones, several 2-3lbers. One nice smallmouth taken by buggin' on her ly rod! Found all ish in backs o coves. Only saw a ew bed ish today, mostly a little deeper, maybe 5-10t. o water. Small plastics and cranks were getting bit or us today, oh yea, and a weighted white/chartuese streamer!
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: I you can, go up during the week, it should be awesome. As the weather warms, it just going to get better! Make sure to be as quiet as possible, they seem very jitterish right now.....

Saturday, March 29th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched our o Capell Cove early morning with my younger son Guillermo, visiting rom San Diego on spring break.Fished Skiers Cove early in the morning and moved to the Narrows ater midday.Tried some reaction with little luck. Guille caught two small smallmouth on a popper, I couldn't get a bite ripping. Changed to split shot and ended up with more than twelve ish beetwen the two o us. Best ones 4.3 lbs and 2.5 lb, the others around 1-1.5 lbs. The majority o the ish, including the two big ones took a salt and pepper ProWorm leach. Couldn't get much on the nice rocky walls, did better away rom points. Fisnished with a weight o 10.34lb on my Cull'em Rite scale. Even got a picture o the big ones! Great day, although the lake got rather busy later in the morning, and the wakes o other boats were rather anoying
    City: Fairield

    Tips: Fish deeper, the two good ishes came out o 20+ eet and away rom points.

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    Water Temp: turnover

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went North and as in my last report the water was a little stained which I thought was rom the rains except this time it has been clear or several days. Sometime I'm a little slow so when I dropped the trolling motor and read the temp o 50.5 I knew what had happened . The lake is turning over this weekend which was conirmed by the putrid smell in the back o the coves. Around the narrows, Wyagg, Markley you still have decent visability and around 60.0 in the pm.
    City: Sacramento,

    Tips: Lake is turning over . I would give it a week or the silt to settle and the largemouth should be on the beds. Only caught 4 ish, 2 jig and 2 crankbait. Spent most o the day looking or the big girls and working out with an osprey. Thanks to Fish Chris or the EWG trebble .

Friday, March 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Todays excuse as to why I didn't slam'um is wind and lots o it. I this weren't a amily site I say what I really eel. However ished the areas that had the least amount o wind and got bit early and oten.Backs o coves mainly with brown jigs and brown senkos, to only name two. Just wished I could have ished the main part o the lake, it's has got to be wide F*@#?% open. "opps amily thing sorry" Throw every thing it will all work right now. Go easy on the senkos they are too costly to use up on all the small dinks. In all no bigs just a lot(35+)o ish 2lbs or less, and the thought o what could have been or will be next week.
    City: woodland

    Tips: rent a boat, buy a boat, steal a boat, tie logs togeter,(the damm ones in markley will work) just get there and ish. Just pick a day with no wind.

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Anglers World Team Tournament was held on 3/15/03 Final Results were:Dave Smith and John Anderson 9 lbs, 5ozJim Rice and Gary Sanders 9 lbs, 3ozAdrian Smith and Marcus Lampley 9 lbs, 1ozRichard Hunt and Ray Romeo 8 lbs, 11ozPete Vanley and Chuck Meyers 8 lbs, 1 ozBob Perry abd Bobby Perry 7lbs, 8ozSteve Mirante and Joe Pinella 7 lbs, 4 ozMike Hubbard and Mark Hale 6 lbs, 14 ozMost anglers reported catching ish on jigs in the north end.The next tournament is 4/19/03 at Lake Berryessa , launching out o Putah Creek. Everyone is welcome to ish. Contact Anglers World at (510) 243-1300 or details.
    City: El Sobrante

Monday, March 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out or a ew hours today, inally saw ish on beds, was out last thursday and didn't see any. Temps are rising ast now. I was very rusty with the sight ishing, ended up spooking more ish than actually went ater. Ended up with three, nothing big. But the big news is they're here! Can't wait to get back up there this weekend, should be great.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: Clean your polarized glasses buddy, it's time to ind a big un'!

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out or a ew hours today, inally saw ish on beds, was out last thursday and didn't see any. Temps are rising ast now. I was very rusty with the sight ishing, ended up spooking more ish than actually went ater. Ended up with three, nothing big. But the big news is they're here! Can't wait to get back up there this weekend, should be great.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: Clean your polarized glasses buddy, it's time to ind a big un'!

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday aternoon rom 2:00pm to dark. The smallie's are done in the North end and the carp are loaded in the usual spawning lats. Water was dirty with only 3-4 inches o visability. Went back towards Markley with much cleaner water and slightly cooler, 57-58. Picked up 5-6 ish on L.C. 90sp rip baits and Frenzy crank baits, a 3.0 largemouth on a carolina rigged baby hog and 2 or three senko ish beore I caught my biggest ish this year , 11.4 on my scale which is about 6 oz. light. Perectly marked at and ull o eggs, what a ish. I had not seen another boat bass ishing all aternoon and I really wanted a picture o this ish beore I released her hopeully where I caught her and not at the ramp. Went around the corner and in the next cove was another bass boat who was nice enough to oer when asked to snap a shot. They had there own "Big Girl" too. Since they did not have a scale I oered mine and their ish went 9.6lbs, what a pair o ish. Ater the picture I put her in the water and moved her in a couple o igure eights and then she gave me the tail.
    City: Sacramento,

    Tips: Smallmouth are done in the north and about done in the south as I say alot og empty beds. The large mouth are just starting and should be locked on beds this week. Please remember to release the largemouth as soon as possible and where caught so she can do her duty. Do the smallie's and the large mouth a avor and keep a limit o spots.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: unk

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Three words. Smallmouth on beds!!!!!!! Man are those little guys aggressive. Wish it hadn't been overcast and windy. Saw quite a ew beds even in the bad conditions. Caught 31 ish with 25 being smallmouth the other six were spots. Biggest was a 3lb smallie on a lucky crat pointer. The water is gin clear. Fished the narrows to big island. Good luck.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Rip baits and blades or covering water. Tubes and robo worms or the bed ish. The bed ish were in protected coves with wood in them.

Saturday, March 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55 - 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a small club tournament out o Capell. No one at the ramp except our 6 boats. Had the lake to ourselves - only saw two other boats all day. Big threat o bad weather didn't happen. Weather was great. The rain blew through right at dawn and the lake was lat calm all the way to Putah Creek. A ew showers o & on, but mostly sunny all day with mid day moderate winds that later died down. Everyone got limits except one boat who had motor problems. He had to stay in the muddy water in Capell. Top weight was 10.9 to win w/ 3.5 Big Fish. 2nd was 7.8 lbs. Fish came on rip baits, Senkos and worms. Fish were deinitely setting up to spawn in some areas. Found water temp to 60 degrees in the back o some coves.
    City: Bay Point

    Tips: Smallies ate the rip bait, Spots were on beds and largemouth were moving up too.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the narrows, ish seemed to be concentrated on creek channels, and on points leading to creek channels. Caught 10 ish, best 5 9-10lbs, 3 largest were 2-2hal clones. Fat and sassy, ull o eggs. Plastic, palstic, 10-20t. Brown grub worked the best.
    City: sacto

Saturday, March 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Future Pro Tour tourney. A team event with best 5 or team scoreOnly managed 4 keepers or 7.34 pounds. 2.5 biggest. First tourney ever and we were 35 out o 88 boats in our divisionMy partner Tiger, made it a great experience and we are looking orward to the next one.Winning team had 19+ as they scored a 12.93 hog to blow away the pack. Top 10 inishers under 10 lbs.We caught ours on Senkos and Jig/spider grub.Majoroty o ish caught on drop shot ~ guess we better learn that technique!Many thanks to Vince or putting on a great event!!!! and thanks to Terry and Rob or all o their invaluable advise
    City: Paciica

    Tips: SLOW down! Dropshot i you got em.

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    Water Temp: 55-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Buddy and I ished Berryessa Sat. Started at Berryessa Marina and went over to the east side. Caught one trout and one smallmouth there. Moved down to Lillte Portuguese cove and landed 4 spots and one smallmouth. I the min. size was 12 inches we had about 4-5 pounds or the day.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Caught all my ish on a purple jig w/a june bug trailer. Buddy caught his on ringworm in Salt & Pepper chart. tail. Fished the bank mostly since I can't seem to get bit in deep water.

Friday, March 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: With bad tides I put the salt water rods up and thought I would start this years bass ishing. "wrong" The ishing started but the ish catching was slow. Hit the water about 8 and ater 8 hours I only had 6 ish to show or my eorts o hitting points, under water humps and bumps and what ever else looked ishy and I could think o rom markley to the P-creek. Three ish on a crankbait (red craw) 2 on a robo worm (brown) and one on a watermelon senko. Lakes ull and clear and I didn't see any cursers but I would think it would be any day now. Fish were berryessa ish 3/4 to 2lbs
    City: woodland

    Tips: I tend to ish things to ast. go with any slow very slow (drop-shot carolina) just slow and natural in color

Friday, February 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Drop-shotted and cranked 11 ish,a 3.4lb and 3.2lb or the best two. Got them on primary points at Haines Cove and Wraggs Canyon.
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Water is very clear. Natural colored baits seemed to work best.

Monday, February 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sunday, 2-23. Decent ishin overall, but the aternoon bite inally came around 1430. Ended up with six smallies and our largemouth. First ish in the morning I caught crankin about 8-15 eet. Hung a good smallie, about 3 and 1/2, then a couple more dinks. Fished outside schoolhouse cove in the aternoon or the last six ish. Caught those shakin 6" Robos in about ten eet o water. Great day to be out on the water. Beautiul weather!
    City: Vallejo

    Tips: I the crank bite doesn't develop, ish the worms slowly. Don't give up on the cranks though.

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers are holding their 22nd annual open bass ishing tournament on April 12, 2003, At Spanish Flat Resort and Marina on Lake Berryessa. We invite all interested teams (two people) to join us. The entry ee is $100 per team and includes launch at Spanish Flat the day o the tournament. As always, the tournament proceeds will be used to complete projects such as placing structure like x-mas trees in Lake Berryessa or stocking Florida strain bass. Over the past 10 years we have purchased and planted over 20,000 o these ish. For urther details and an entry orm on the web, Go to www.geocities.com/bassreapers/open2003.htm. go to "clubs" on this site and ind the Fairield Suisun Bass Reapers, get an entry orm at Longs in Fairield, or call Curtis Beckwith (707) 448-9113 or Dean Meyers (510) 724-3660, (between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. only please).
    City: Fairield

    Tips: Please promote your business and assist our und-raising eort by donating to the tournament rale. The majority o the unds raised or our structure and ish plants are raised through the rale. (Most o the entry ees are paid out to the ield) As each item is raled, the donor is announced. A list o rale donors is distributed to all participants. Last year we raeled o about 15 quality rods including 2 custom rod's built by Todd (o Angler'd World; thanks Todd). Participants really pay attention when a rod is being raled and we'd like more this year. I you have questions about or can assist with the rale, please call:Irving Shirley, President(707) 429-3239;