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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Was on the lake at 0700, small breeze of around 5~. Calvin and I headed to the main lake to see it any bait fish had worked their way into the coves, no luck. Fish on, off a wind blown point (1lb), Fish on, again off a wind blown point (3.75lb) and this fish was caught at the boat, like with 5 ft of line left close. Moved off the points as the wind started to die down in search of those bait fish in coves. No luck. Moved back to the main body and slowed our presentation down and started to catch more. Enof of day: 6 fish, 1 in the slot for a grand weight total of about 11lbs. And for all those keeping tabs I caught two. Calvin and Rich are on Lake Oroville today so look for the post tomorrow from Calvin.
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: Reaction baits in the morning on the windblown points, with a jig or worm presentation in the afternoon with no wind. Nver thought I would say this but we actually were hoping for wind in the afternoon but we still caught our fish.

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 56.6

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Well the lake is certainly down make no mistake about that, but the fish are alive and well. Got on the water at first light and it was a tad windy say around 10mph~, but we motored on out off the main lake (it got cold then!), we headed up a small arm in the lake with a little less wind, we saw some fish busting on top so gave that a try with no avail. I switched up to a Normans DD14 in Chart/blue and fished off the wind blown bank about 35' and I ran into a few fish. First one was the biggest going about 3lbs, then two casts later bang, hooked a 2.25lbr
    had another but failed to set the hook good enough. Could have been a good'n, may have been a minnow for all I know!
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: Fished at a moderate pace, switching up different retrieves until the fish told me what they wanted. Just felt a bit of pressure no real hammerin' on the bait, both caught were on the back trebles but on the inside, off the mouth not foul hooked, so they were chaseing but only for a bit. I believe that front pushed in and turned the bite off. No real takers on a blade, or dart head. Maggs, it's your turn to catch next time brother. Later on Yall.

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Are the striper busting yet?
    City: Rocklin

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got a late start today and headed up to the Bear Creek Arm. Action was slow with plastics and fish weren't very big. Switched over to blades and Voo-Doo's nailing fish right away. The fish seemed to be right near the bottom close to structure and when we were hitting stumps and rocks the fish reacted. Big fish of the day was 3.7 lbs. 27 total for the day.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: A guy at work gave me a new bait called the Voo-Doo, it was extremely hard to find until I found their website. This thing really blows away the chatterbait, and it's now one of my favorite lures.

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished from 6:30 till 12:00.caught some small fish holding right on the shore.pulled one fish off a stumpy flat in about 5' of water.water level is very low and muddy.
    City: citrus heights

    Tips: throw crawdad color tube jigs or senko's right on shore.try texas riggin a craw on the flats.

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of the north side about five thirty, started just east of the damn throwning spooks and blades tryin to get a fast hook up and caught three in the first ten minutes. Moved down to bear creek and caught about four more texas riggen 4 inch magic worm in about ten feet! Moved out into open water about 11 and caught 7 or 8 on crankbaits of main lake points! Finshed the day off throwin tube baits texas style of the damn for seven more fish! All in all another fun day out on Camp!
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Just find a pattern that is workin, hit lots of water early and stay in about 10 to 20 feet of water! Fist from the bank to the boat and watch for trailers that follow it all the way out!! Tight lines!!! Any color will do stay with the darker colors and fish it fast!!

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 72-82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wife and I fished from 7:30 AM till about 10:30 AM and worked the upper Bear River Arm. Got 3 for 6 lbs. Bite was super soft. Water temps varied dramatically. Two of three caught on steep walls in 20'. The third was in the channel at 20'. Plastics and let if fall straight down. No topwater, blade or reaction bite found. Moved to the dam. The wind blew me off the main body. Headed for home.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Super soft bite. Watch your line. Water clairity was poor. Watch the water temp. Got our bites in the color water.

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 79-82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Quency and I started out at 6:30am when the gate opened at the North Shore. Light winds for the first two hours. So we headed into the Quarter Mile Cove area with a small spook, buzz bait and a popper, no takers. spinners did ok and lizards. We next moved to the Bear Creek before the lake lice came out. Hitting the rockey points on the way up, finding some small bass in 1-2 lb range. After going back into the canyon and finding the colder water (65 degs) we found the larger bass around the rocks in 10 to 25 ft. My JK jig in brown/orange with #180 grub, had 5 bits and three 2.0 to 3.0 pounder largies. Very slow morning so we went back down to the main body and stayed in 25-35 ft looking with our light gear picking up a few more bass in 1 1/2 to 2.0 lbs.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Fish slow and small.

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 4pm till dark..Caught about 15 fish in front of the dam on wacky worms,all small up to 1.5 lbs..went to the north end later for 3 top water fish
    City: loomis

    Tips: color didn't mater, just fish of points or islands about 10 to 20 feet

Monday, June 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 85

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of south shore at 9 am, fished the dam with super flukes and boated 20+ fish by noon. 10" to 3 lbs. My wife caught her first fish, she thought is was a rock. Made a pass of the dam face with just her fishing and she landed 3 more! This is a great lake to fish with a beginner.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: fish early

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6pm until dark.Caught 3 on buzz bait up to 3lbs on grass bed's.moved to the main body in front of the launch and fished over a submerged island and got about 10 fish up to 2lbs
    City: Loomis

    Tips: all my fish bit really soft do not hesitate to set the hook

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started with zara spook up rock creek for two spots about 2.5 lbs. Switched to black purple jig for two largemouth and one spot on main body. sun came out so I was pitching watermelon senkos wacky rigged around flooded trees for five more spots.
    City: Loomis

    Tips: Walk the dog in shady areas close to shore

Monday, May 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Not bad timing for a holiday weekend. Monday morning was a good time to hit the water at CFW when everbody was still sleeping in with a hang over. The water was warm in the rock creek, no top water bite, crankin or spinner bite. Good lizard, brush hog on a texas rig or a jig in brown or brown/purple. Flipping the bushes or trees and retreving it slow was the ticket. 25-30 fish from 1 to 3 lbs until noon when the lake lice came out for there fun time. A nice sunny morning on the water
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Green pumkin or watermelon colors

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My wife and I went out to CFW to try out the new boat. I saw baitfish being pushed against the bank on a point on the south end of the lake. Caught em on poppers, spinnerbaits, and drop shot worm. I even had two two pounders on one popper. Total of 19 for the day. Fish were mostly on the small side but it was a lot of fun.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Just go

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-70 ya 70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: killin em on the chatter bait
    City: lincoln

    Tips: get 1

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Lake is still muddy in most places and stained in most of the rock creek. Hit the water early 7:00 am and headed up the Rock Creek, water was 59-60. Using spinner bait first right off the bank picking up our first 12 smallies and a few largies from 1.5-3.0 lbs. Some must be spawned. Switching to dark color JK Jigs for the rest of the morning getting another dozen or more.
    Good clouds for the first part of the morning helps the fish to stay up shallow. Sun came out and the fish moved out. He did move up the Bear Creek, but the water was 5 degs. colder.
    Stay in the Rock Creek area for now. Leaving at noon the a fair bag of 13 + lbs for our best five fish.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Use dark colors until the water clears. Green Pumkin, Blacks, Purples and a good scent.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: At it again this AM. Found another cove just off of where we were yesterday. Prospects seemed good. Threw my reaction bait...DONG...2+lbs large mouth. Calvin hoked and landed a bass some minutes later (congrats) on a spinner. Cal landed 4 more 1.5-2lb bass and I ended up with a total of 2 for the day. Off the lake by 130.
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: Didnt seem to matter what we were throwing today (jigs, reaction, spinners) fish were gobling them up. See ya on the lake

Friday, April 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55-65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Calvin and I got on the lake around 230-300 this afternon and went exploring. Fished a semi-submerged "finger". Cal had a few hits on a jig. I fished a reaction bait and landed a smaller LM keeper (1.5-2 lbs) while retriving my tree'd crankbait. We then moved to a grassy shoreline and found some spawing FrenchFish (Carp). Got a nice Cat on my crankbait then landed another small LM (1lb or less) on my reatction bait. Cal hooked a small LM but got off before he boated it.
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: All and all a good day. Chartrouse (bad spelling) worked well with Bass just out from the shore where the FrenchFish were spawing. Good Fishing and see ya on the lake.

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: With all that rain water coming in the water is realy muddey. Quency and I fished the 1/4 mile cove area first finding two nice smallies with a white spinner bait. Then moving to rock creek using brown/purple JK Jigs with a # 180 crub finding 12-15 1-3 lbs spots and smallies right on the banks within 2-5 ft. This weather ever breaks the fishing will be great. For now be sure to use a strong sent and work slow. Crankin works also.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Dark colors in muddie waters and maybe with a rattle, rattle traps, spinners and jigs

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Celebrated birthday with a day on the water with Capt Mike. Started a little slow and picked up as the wind did during the day. Small fish at first with "gooduns" later in the day. Finished up with somewhere around 30 keepers. Bite was good everywhere we tried. One blade fish in the am and all the rest on what else? the "tube" of course.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Color didn't seem to matter, fish in 5-10 feet with a few deeper. Look for banks with some rocks.