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Thursday, April 19th, 2001

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    Water Temp: NA

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: TOOK THE WIFE AND KIDS FISHING TODAY. MY 5 YR OLD DAUGHTER CAUGHT A 5LB AND A 4LB LARGE MOUTH ON NIGHT CRAWLERS. AFTER FISHING FOR ONLY TWO HOURS THAT AINT BAD.
    City: NAPA

    Tips: NIGHT CRAWLERS.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 60-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found fish to be pretty active even though the cold front was coming through. The wind and rain kept us off the main lake so we fished the coves inside Spanish Flats and Steel Park. Most fish we caught came on reaction baits...biggest 3lb large mouth. Some came on pruple weenies in 5-10ft. We fished from 3pm to 6:30, caught two limits in that time. Could not see if any bed fish were around. Did see some areas with schools of fry indicating post spawn areas.
    City: Suisun

    Tips: search with a reaction bait and then slow down once you located some fish.

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    Water Temp: 60-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found fish to be pretty active even though the cold front was coming through. The wind and rain kept us off the main lake so we fished the coves inside Spanish Flats and Steel Park. Most fish we caught came on reaction baits...biggest 3lb large mouth. Some came on pruple weenies in 5-10ft. We fished from 3pm to 6:30, caught two limits in that time. Could not see if any bed fish were around. Did see some areas with schools of fry indicating post spawn areas.
    City: Suisun

    Tips: search with a reaction bait and then slow down once you located some fish.

Saturday, April 14th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 60 - 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: we caught a ton of fish in the narrows, all the fish were fairly shallow, we used light colored worms, had a lot of fish bite the worms in half so you need to wait a second before setting the hook. Lots of small fish, mixture of Spots and Smalies. had 4 or 5 that might have hit the 2 Lb mark. Fun Day Tight Lines Jeff
    City: Suisun City

Wednesday, April 11th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished tournament on 3/31/01.Launched out of Wragg Canyon.Spent the day fishing over in the vinyards.Caught most of our fish sight fishing in one to three feet of water using splitshot and carolina rigs.Most of the fish were caught with grubs and lizards.Caught around 17 keeper fish,couple of spots,one largemouth and the rest smallmouth.Could not catch a kicker fish,our biggest fish was 2.24Lbs.Placed 2nd in tournament with 9.05Lbs(5 fish) 9.76Lbs was 1st place,big fish weighed 3.09Lbs.Lot's of limits caught just no size.Had 14 boats in tournament with almost everyone weighing in limits.
    City: Woodland

    Tips: Had to use short leader(6")because fish were so shallow, caught 5 fish in about a foot or less deep of water.

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 56-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I are very much on amateur side, but managed to do OK on SAT in crazy and cold conditions. started off with two smallies and a small spot just after launch in Capell cove on Rapala countdown. headed across lake to Farmhouse, and he hit a smallmouth on every point with the same rapala while I shook up some some 1.5-2lb spots on variety of plastics, I picked up one 3.5lb largemouth on green weenie, but most fish came on yamamoto spider grub. Despite MARBLE size hailstorm that lasted 45 min in afternoon that must have dumped the water temp, we totalled about 18 fish even mix of smallies, spots, and largemouth
    City: SF

    Tips: Who knows, I'm just a simple caveman, these coldfronts confuse me?

Friday, April 6th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I've certainly noticed the same thing about the Yamamoto baits. Though they're soft and tantilizing and the fish love 'em, I can't help but think it's part of Yamamoto's grand plan to make them fragile. At about 60 cents a pop, it adds up fast if you're using them all day---which I'll probably be doing, along with a lot of other guys this spring. The quality fish make it worth it, I guess. If someone came up with a kevlar senko and charged $5 a pop for it, we'd still save money. Or something made out of used tires....

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: City: sanjose

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took pops out for a day of fishing. We were not disappointed. We began the day on the south side of the main body. We immediately saw bedding fish. Zoom lizards we on the menu and the bass were biting. We estimated to have 18lbs in our best 7. Fished two areas that were loaded with fish. biggest went 4.5#. It was a great day indeed...nice to take pops out for a day like that.
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: polarized glasses.....

Saturday, March 31st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My Wife and I fished from the farm house north on rocky banks in 15-20 ft of gin clear 64-68 degree water using Magic Worms OxyCraw and Baby Bass and caught 21 keepers, smallies and spots to 16 in. Tried Lucky Craft in the morning no luck, tried spinner bait no luck, tired jigs no luck, tired tubes, caught one smallie 13 in. went back to worms and caught fish all day.
    City: Napa

    Tips: split shot 4.5 in Magic worms in Oxycraw or baby bass, very slow presentation, bite was subtle, on one fish I felt nothing until it jumped!

Thursday, March 29th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59.7 deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of markleys @ 6:00 am went straight to the vinyard with my dad . Fishing 6 inch power black texas style worm. caught 2 dinks and a couple of 2 lbers moved to the north end caught a couple of smallies . wind picked up about 10:00 am and got really rough headed back to south side went into capell and looked really good but no luck . Fishing was very tough .. worked everything from jig to rippin , blades, plastics , dropped shotted . vinyard looked promising , iwas going to hit on the way back but was too rough for my dad .going to go to the delta Sat.
    City: elmira

    Tips: Water still cool have patience , downsize , slow

Monday, March 26th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Want to have some fun, go to berryessa. Got on the water at 7:00 and what a beautiful day. Made it a point to fish anything but water that I have fished before. Hooked 10 fish, landed 9, best weight for 5 fish was 10.5. When I wasent fishing I was just thanking my lucky stars of having this lake so close in early spring. Only saw three other bass boats. Lake was like glass for most of the day.
    City: Benicia

    Tips: Water is clear, fish are on the points staging for a couple more weeks. Dartheaded all the fish, 4" worm (will tell you the color after the Reapers)

Sunday, March 25th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I'm posting this with hopes that some one out there in the fishing community can help. On Sunday night,03/24/01, sometime after 10:00 p.m. I had all of my fishing gear stolen out of the back of my truck in the vicinity of west college ave. and Stony point rd. in Santa Rosa. my gear consisted of; One G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. spinning rod with a silver rear drag quickfire reel. One FLW burnt orange medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. baitcasting rod with a red Quantom baitcasting reel that was in serious need of a tune up. One Bill Dance blue 7 Ft. medium heavy baitcasting rod with a silver baitcasting reel. One red 6 ft. medium action spinning rod with a silver rear drag spinning reel. one green plastic flat type tackle box with a white double lid(creates two level storage)filled with numerous plastic baits, hooks, wieghts, etc. One brown and ivory split lid tackle box with side latches and six trays(3 small and 3 large) filled with numerous crank baits, spinner baits, top waters, a box containing Cabella's 31 piece jig kit, a box containing a 5 piece scum frog and popper frog kit, Castaic threadfin shad and many other blade, spoon and swimm baits. If any one comes across any of these items or can assist in there recovery in any way please contact me at 546-3401 or e-mail me at randy@ren-o-masters.com. As most of you can understand, fishing is my passion. Please help if you can. Thank you
    City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, March 24th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6:30 to 2:00 out of Markley Fishing turn on about 8: 00. JB and I nailed 15 smallies and spots all under 2.5lbs. Red shad and oxblood worms, white flukes, white spinnerbaits and JB nailed one fat smallie on a Fat Rap all in 5 to 15 feet of water. It about to get hot, keep the reports coming.
    City: Davis

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished fellow nutcase Ninja today. Ninja nailed around 15 keepers on various plastics and cranking. I caight 7 fish including my 1st 3 smallies. Ninja was fishing a club tourny and placed 4th with 13.65 pounds, the winner had a 12 lb kicker! What a giant! Reports of a 17 lb was caught too.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: They bit everything I threw but my blade. Jigs, cranks, split shot all worked

Monday, March 19th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake level at 434 feet.

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    Water Temp: Surface: 56.7am

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bass good, 10 plus fish per person (Mix of Largies, Spots and Smallies, but mostly Spots) 10 to 15ft, Brush Hogs & Witches Tea. Warmest surface and air temp to date.

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    Water Temp: 53.5-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sat./Sun. in the narrows. Sat. got on the water at 11 am and caught about 6 fish to 1 1/2 lbs. on 4" Witches T majic worms (splitshotting) by 12:30 (just taking a relative non-fishing out for a spin in the new boat and trying out ultra-light tackle w/6 lb. test). Sun. out at 7:30 am, my son and I caught 15+ to 3 1lbs. mostly same tactics, same areas. Found a sandy cove with a tree in it and caught 5 in five casts (including 3+ lb. smallmouth, 2lb smallie and 3 spots all clone 1 1/2s). That was fun. The water was very cloudy in that cove from all the boat activity so that Witches T was just the ticket. This ultra light gear/line makes every fish a challenge.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: Split shot small worms with as light a line as possible. Fish are really turning on as the water warms!

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    Water Temp: 52 - 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thurs. 3/15 - fished Narrows (52 degrees) - cloudy and wind came up around noon -9am - 12pm - 4 fish (2.5# biggest), dragging worms Fri. 3/16 - fished Northend (56 degrees) - Blue bird skies - 20+ fish from 9am to 2:30pm - dragging worms Sat. 3/17 - SF club tourney with 5 boats - 4 limits (2.5# biggest) - winning weight 8#+ - ripping, blades, top water, worms Fish are staging and should be on beds with warmer weather, saw some fish looking to create beds - should be excellent fishing this week and weekend. Salmon was biting in front of skier cove - 20-30' mooching with minnows. Reports of salmon caught in front of Spanish Flat launch ramp.
    City: Hayward

Sunday, March 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Capell Cove at about 7:45. Quite a few boats in the parking lot already. Went all the way up to the north end of the lake by Putah Creek. Water was looking to be clear until we got there. Lots of fish on the points out in about 15-20 feet of water. Started throwing Spinnerbaits and Crankbaits and nothing. Then we found a big school of fish stacked on a point and had a couple of hit carolina rigging plastics. Had two of them up to the boat and then they popped off. Went down in front of our cabin at berryessa Pines and landed a nice two pounder on a carolina rigged plastic. A pretty slow day, only about 4 fish. Tight Lines!!!!!!!!!!!
    City: Santa Rosa