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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-70+

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First boat on and right to the cove. Took Rich, Calvin and I a few to get what they wanted but we found it. Mostly dinks, Cal caught a few 1lb+. Moved on for more and ran across some crappie (on a crank bait) so we caught some crappie then headed to a new place and it was GAME ON! running crank baits. over all 25+ fish for the boat.
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: Reaction Baits, Reaction Baits, Reaction Baits...chartrouse somewhere in the bait is a must. See ya on the lake.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: dropshot!!!!!!!!! caught 13 fish in an hour!6 were average size at about 2-3 lbs. 6 were dinks at about 1-1.5 lbs. 1 was about 5 lbs. later 1 jig fish was caught by my partner. about 4 lbs. GOOD DAY
    City: roseville

    Tips: DROPSHOT DROPSHOT DROPSHOT DROPSHOT DROPSHOT DROPSHOT

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got out there about 8 am fished tell about 2pm caught 17 keeper and a few dinks. fished out in the main lake along the dam with dart heads and caught a bunch of dinks. went up rock creek and with split shot and caught a couple of nice spots best 5 went about 15 pounds.biggest went 5 1/2 water is still stained but will get better in a couple of weeks
    City: sacramento

    Tips: get back in the creek and split shot a little yamamoto cut tail or dart head. watermelon work best for me today

Monday, March 20th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Monday, March 20, 2006 - Conditions were cold and rainy. Arrived around 9:30am, and drove to south cove of the lake. Absolutely NO bites. From there went to Bear Creek - water was very merky, but a couple of bites - NO fish.
    Conditions show that fishing will be awesome this year when water clears up.
    City: marysville

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to CFW and tried fishin this morning, my buddy Rich and I caught some local chatter that the Bass were doing decent around some of the coves on Chart. Tubes. It was a really nice morning...so, armed with a great bit of fishing advice we gave it a heck of a shot!! But the wind picked up and it got a bit nasty, so off the lake we went at about 0930. It was rather chilly out there ta boot. The water temp wasn't too bad saw alot of 50-51 degree areas, but on the south/south east side the temps varied from 48-46. We'll get'm next time!
    City: Plumas Lake

    Tips: None really to offer sorry Yall...

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 52-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Mid-day escape with my buddy Bill resulted in 6 fish in about 3 hours of fishing. First was a 2 1/2 lb. Black on a Staysee on a rock point. Moved up the river to find 2 darthead fish and back out to the riprap on the dam for 3 more on a spinnerbait. Laek looks great with alot of good cover in the water. This week of warm temps should light this lake on fire
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Just about any bait you want to toss will work. Todays conditions of cloud cover, south wind and moderate temps made for a reaction day and if we had stuck with it on the main lake we could have caught some bigger fish. Picked up a flyer for a team tournament out of the North launch scheduled for Saturday, April 14th. $40 entry fee if you sign up the morning of the event with a 70% payback, additional prizes and a BBQ during the weigh-in. Let's get out an support this deal, it sounds like a great time.

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49-52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First trip this year, I didn't expect much as it was raining so much the day before. We got to the lake at around 7am and put in, we were the only ones on the lake. We threw blades for 30 mins with no luck. I switched to a crawdad colored crank bait and starting pickin up fish as we would pass sunken trees. All in all a good day for the weather. 7 total fish all fish over 12 inches 1 that was around 20"
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Craw colored cranks, slow retrieve past the trees.

Monday, February 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54*

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Water Muddy!! : Fished the afternoon bite 3:45.First fish at 4:00 on spinner blade about 2lbs.Second fish at 4:15 wormin with Glup at 10' range.Rip a 3rd and 4th same depth,all on the North side then headed to the south.Water alot warmer here 59.5* rip 3 more fish on Glup nothing big and then headed in before closing time.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Fish were suspended and rip them all on drop shot.My stubburn fishing partner was fishing with split shot{bottom} and rip only one.Oh and one off a spinner blade.
    FISH SLOW....

Friday, January 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 43-45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7-3 caught 2 small bass, one on dart head with 4 1/2 MM curly tail, and one on spot remover with a 6 in aaron martins. Both fish in about 20' water on banks with deep water close by. my second time on this lake seems to be slow right now.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: fish slow, and wait for pressure on rod tip.

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 5th cast of the day, hooked a 13+ striper on a rattletrap. First striper I have ever caught at that lake. Should have stopped there. The rest of the day, mostly small bass, largest 2 lbs, and not at lot of them. All caught on a dropshot in Aaron's Magic.
    City: Sacramento, CA

    Tips: Lake is low, low low. Don't need much gas.

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out there with a friend. We only caught four fish, two of them were keepers. They were all caught on spinner baits.
    City: lincoln

    Tips: Spinner baits by the dam.

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: A-OK

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 1 Cool Cat, Louis Pastour, Head On - Fall Back - Lean Forward - Lean Back, Jazzbow China-Man, 150 Deluxe, Smacked with a Pipe, Woodside, Buffed to the Gills, Pump Truck by Day, Dumped Truck by Night, All Fish in Ocean, Whipped all in Motion. A Sliding-Thru Productions Perspective on Influence and Power, through the eyes of a Guppie. "Trying To Be Something You're Not" are the Wings of the World. Fly-Fish, you Red Headed Hamburger, Fly.
    City: Prescott

    Tips: Dream Big

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: met a friend out there and rode with him in his 18' viking with merc 150, fun!...ended up in the rockcreek first managed 4 dinks. then moved outside to fish a rock wall and got another 2 dinks, ended up catching 2 keeper spots in about 10ft of water draggin a 4" hand pour(junebug)...it sure was nice to fish from a bass boat ill tell you!!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: fish weight was 4.7 on that last post, got the pic on the door in the north shore, not a huge spot but still a trophy in my book for a spot.

    fish were all over today, seems like the last storm front messed it up a bit, but still a steady bite.

Monday, June 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72-75ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the south shore from the tube and managed a few dinks off the point by the launch, kicked down farther and managed a few keeper spots in the trees on black senkos. ended up at the houseboat still fishing senkos when i decided to fish it on top by the trees and bushes, sure enough fish on! biggest spot to date at Camp Far west for me in 8yrs of hard fishing. got a few more after but it got dark fast and i still had to walk back. 22 fish caught and released today.

    Tips: fish the trees and points they are there.

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 67-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Quency, Ryan and I got to the lake around 6:30pm for some nite fishing. Most of the boaters were gone. We started back in Rock Creek on that Island finding some spots with lizards. As the sun was going down the bite got better with top water and brown/green jigs with # 180 grub. Picking up a 4 lb smallie and 20 spots. As the sun turned into dark the bite went away. The gate close at 11pm so the nite was short.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: jigs work for the biger fish and split shots work for most of the time.

Monday, June 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 73-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Me and a buddy got in at 1/4 mile cove in the Float Tubes. managed 4 keepers on drop shot and senkos. the wind came in real bad around 5pm so we decided to bank it in a cove and wait it out.and what a good idea that was, the storm blew though in no time. after about 30 mins of rain we were fishing a flat as glass lake and ended up fishing near the house boat. managed 3 dinks there and another 4 keepers. fish seemd to be scatterd.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: try anything, its bound to work. but drop shot is a sure bet off secondary points.

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 71.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in the Rock creek area in 10-15' of water dragging 6" Zoom lizards behind a florocarbon leader. Picked up 15+ fish within 100 yards. Went to the dam and threw Bass Assasins on ultra light gear and got hit nearly every cast, had a ball with the 1-1.5 lb fish. Headed up into the river and tossed cranks on the cliff walls and got into sone bigger fish, averaged 2.5-3.5 with Firetiger J6 Rapala's, not as many fish, but much bigger. Have fun and take a couple small ones home !
    City: ROSEVILLE

    Tips: Smaller line or Florocarbon will increase catch rates !

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The water was stained to clear in the back of the coves. Quency Malone and I started out at 6:30am and found our first 15 bass in Quarter mile cove draging brush hogs and 4 " lizards in green pumkin. Move over to the dam finding the same size with the same lures. Moving again into the back of Rock creek and way in back of the coves in 5-3 ft of water working the trees and bushes with senkos. We picked up 5 nice largies with the bigest @ 3.5 lbs. Most of the bass you wil find are in the 1.5 - 2.0 range. Work em slow and in 10-15 ft. When the sun came out your can see the fish in the shallow water
    City: rocklin

    Tips: use a scent in garlic and you will catch more fish.

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Woo Hoo!! Sean and I went out on Friday evening, started around 4, left at 7, between the 2 of us we caught about 30 bass in ONE cove!!! Fishin slow and draggin on the bottom, we were pickin em off every other cast!
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Usin a pearl green paddletail, clear and purple glitter, chartreuse/blue, they were hittin pretty much everything we threw at them. Fish slow and deep. Catch and Release!!!

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started on a cold (38 degrees)and windy morning in Rock Creek. Tried rip baits and blades with no takers. Caught some small fish on tubes and senkos but it was slow. We went to the River and it was very dirty with no takers. Finally about 11am we started on windy points and gave up after 35 fish. It seemed once the water temp went up a couple degrees they moved up and got very active. Great day with great company! We love that place
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Follow the wind! with tubes, senko's and jigs.