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Monday, February 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 43

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 9am fished points deep structure tried my 4 best colors/jigs, ripped nothing wind was starting to blow pretty good went up the river a bit Nothing finished by the dam nothing This is the first time is many trips that I was blanked water was cold and the level came up 10 feet or better in a week that may of made a diffence about 8 more feet the lake will be full
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Use the notes you made when the lake was low dropp offs and rock piles the lake will be full very soon and the fish will be on the rise as soon as the water temp rises and the pressure levels out fishing will be great .

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: Cold!!

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is almost full and the water is freezing! No boat means I can't fish as deep as I wanted to so that means no fish!

    I tried jigs drop shit and jerk baits to no avail. I got two bites in 15ft of water off a main point but I took to long to set I guess.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: the water needs to warm up for bankers to do any good. Fish deep points near creeks channels.

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 9:30 water level up Foggy/overcast Started out by the dam on a point shallow to 25 feet working a 3/8 oz football head with a brown grub second cast 2.5# spot barely any stick short pop and the rod loaded no other bites for a couple of hours flew over to the mouth and hit some points 2 cast 2 fish a 2 # and a 1.5 # both again real slight tick and set hook good fights packed it up 2 pm no wind not that cold 50 degrees foggy with some slight clearing
    City: Roseville

    Tips: work the bait real slow I worked a jig at 25 ft fish seemed to bite at this depth today water level rising use the low depth to find your flats and rock piles it worked for me today from previous visits to this lake. Another storm this lake will be full Watch out for shallow unmarked rocks

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 44

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7-1:30 no fish, tried jigs, drop shot, cranks, rips, pretty much every thing I could think of. Out come was 2 bites with no fish. First time blanked at this lake, oh well guess the fish have to win sometimes.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: good luck

Monday, December 31st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wait to the ice melts before you put the boat into the water. Bass was slow, but some found the fish in 2-5 ft and some in 25-40 ft.
    Crankin, rippin and most of all Jigs in Brown/ Purple worked the best. The water is only muddy on the top 2-5 ft, then the water is clear under that. The bass will move up to get to the sun light near the banks.
    This time of the year even a drop shot and a split will work.
    check out my web site, captjacksfishingjigs.com
    I have 20 different colors
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: fish slow when using a Jig, crawl it like a crawdad in the winter time. Very slow, slow down your retrive on all your baits.

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4hrs 2 fish both on brown jigs, 1.5, and 4 lbs. both fish 20' deep. the lake has come up and ramp is in the water now.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Fish very slow and wait for the thump. watch out for logs floating in lake.

Monday, December 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46-50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 9:00 am and started throwing drop shots in 30 ft. Caught 4 fish all 2lb range. Then moved up into the north arm and continued to throw drop shots and texas rigged worms. Caught 5 more fish in 20 feet of water on the right side. Moved over the the left side and brother lands a CFW 6 pounder! Decided after that to head home because 6 pounders at CFW are few and far between!
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Drop shots and texas rigged purple robo worms worked best for us. Fish are just sucking the worm up and holding it so make sure your line is tight. I am going to keep throwing the drop shot deep for those 6 pounders..

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 47-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I freakin BLANKED!!! a Wierd day all in all. Couldn't produce on the crank, hula grub or jig.
    planned on spending some time with the swimbait.
    Spent most of the day tossing a Reastion Strike 6" bait. Had a good bump on it up Bear River Arm, and about an hour later, lost it on the cast ($15 to the bottom of the lake cause I didn't retie...usually throwing swimbaits with line heavier than 15lb.!!) Water level had risen about 6 ft since last weekend and the good ramp and dock are now useable (kinda nice!) poked around some in Rock creek arm, and some down by the dam, but the hula grub just wouldn't produce.
    Talked to another guy out there who had only 2 fish, one on a ripbait, other on worm. Saw a couple guys dropshottin and C-Rigging, didn't see 'em catch anything. I heard Friday was o.k. and Saturday pretty bad, guess the fish are still figuring out what to do with all this water thier gettin!!
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Retie your swimbaits often, just bought the damn thing yesterday! At least that good bump told me that swimbait fish are a real possibility, maybe not with the big baits, but the medium swimbaits ought to produce.
    Probly won't get back to CFW till the summer, but it should be pretty full by then.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 51 across the l

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well I had to tow my boat with my new truck and I had to take my cousin out fishing, so why not do both at the same time.

    Wintertime bassin, never the best, but it sure never dissapoints!!
    Launched at about 10:30, fished till about 4:30.
    Water is up since I was last out. Started down by the dam, had a quick bite, but couldn't connect on the T-rigged Berkley Chigger Craw. Shot up to the mouth of Bear River, and my cuz stuck a decent spot on a black hula grub.
    Went up further to the "tree cove". Tossed a bandit crankbait up to the rocks and stuck a nice 3 lb largemouth, just around the corner (upriver) tossed a brown jig n' pig to a small stump and stuck another 3 lb largemouth. By then it was cold as #$&% so we went back down to the dam for a quick bit, nothing else, decided that a warm truck on the drive home would be more comfortable. Not the biggest bass, but two 3 lbers is a nice treat for the middle of December out at CFW. Didn't use any dropshot or darthead B.S. rather stick some big fish than a bucket full of 8 inchers!
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Keep fishin deep with the drop shot, I'll stay shallow and catch the big ones!!!

Friday, December 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This is a little late but better late than never I guess. I took the boat out to get some stabill put in the gas tank and get a line wet! I hadn't had the boat in the water since a August Delta trip, so it was certainly past time to get it in the water. She cranked up just fine! I took off around to the left of the launch ramp and fished by an old road bed opposite of the camp grounds with no takers. I was throwing reaction baits looking for some fun fishing, anything but a DS or DH rig!! Well after about an hour and a half of dinking around, I flew up to the dam and went around with more cranks and rattle traps with no takers. So I finally secumed to the DH with morning dawn as my color had a few hits in about 18' and I finally stuck a Larry on the north side of the dam went 1.25lbs and was 17" long. I was happy with that and called it a day. I take it the water is up now, that's great, we need all the water we can get.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Dress for the occasion, bundle up, and have fun!

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 53.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 10-3 caught 25-30 fish only 4 over 2 pounds all on drop shot and dart head 4 1/2" curly tail prizm shad and blue gill. No reaction bite. lots of fun.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: fish rock banks and bounce it all the way back to the boat.

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out around 8:30 am fishing near the dam Marked several fish big and small 25-30 ft No takers tried drop shot with worm mouth tried senkos grubs around 10:30 we moved to a shallow point as we were trolling and nailed several small that thought they were huge after about 10 min of this I hooked a 3lb fat toad and then on the other side of the point another 2lb Lost her at the boat my fault went back to the dam still no takers fished windy point when the wind did come up another 2lb fish but mostly small 6-8 inch fish I caught all my fish on a single tail white grub I threw all colors and the only one that worked was the white grub water level has come up about 2 feet weather was cloudy and cold most of the day hardly any wind and only a couple of boats it would be nice to see CFW pull over the dock thye might see more customers off the water at 2pm
    City: Roseville

    Tips: fish slow and try all colors before giving up lots of good fish to be caught catch and release so we all can enjoy the great fishing at CFW

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of the north side No dock but a okay launch ramp shallow still no problem getting the boat in the water IF they had a dock I would fish this place daily We picked up our first fish 3.5 lbs on a sinko green swimming it slow no bites after that for a hour or so tried a jig no bites tried ripping nothing drop shotted and caught 7 boated 3 some reason I couldn't get the other 4 in the boat all quality fish easy 2 lbs oor better and healthy great day on the water I think I was the only boat that went through the gate today no wind and pretty good fishing I cant wait untill the rains fill this place back up except when all the jet skiers come back The only problem is no dock try to bring some one with you I lucky to have to have my son
    City: Rosevile

    Tips: Fish are in about 15 to 30 feet all quality fish today we fished the sinko slow and went with a drop shot worm mouth small red hook jumpped it slow

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: SET OUT THIS MORNING WITH A BUDDY FROM WORK WE DID PRETTY WELL ABOUT 18 FISH BETWEEN THE 2 OF US WE BOTH USED YUM DINGER GREEN PUMPKIN CHART SENKO HE RIGGED HIS SHAKEY STYLE I DID TEXAS RIG WACKEY STYLE. WE FISHED THE ENTIRE PERIMETER OF THE LAKE 15 FT OUT AND THREW TO THE BANK
    City: plumas lake

    Tips: LAKE VERY LOW BE CAREFUL I TRIED MULTIPLE TYPES OF BAITS LIKE SPINNER CRANK AND DROP SHOT ONLY CAUGHT FISH ON GREEN PUMPKIN KINAMI AND GRN PKN CHART YUM DINGER
    GOOD LUCK

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: No Reaction bite today. All the fish came on Hula grubs (any colors). Windy points hold the most and the better fish. Best 5 for about 10#.
    Much slower than the past week.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Take your boots, so you don't get your feet wet putting the boat...

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64 ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well a nice day at CFW. Hauled out there late morning. was on the water from about 10:00-1:45, a short day, but WELL worth it.

    Started off down by the dam, within first 10 minutes, stuck a 2.5+ spot on one of my handtied jigs, DT trailer. Fished to the north end of the dam, changed over to 1/4 oz pumpkin spidergrub, stuck 3 fish, 2 keepers. Headed up lake. Mid lake had either a channel cat(probably) or striper, chomp my jig when I was burning it back in, something fairly big and silvery, even setting the hook with just the trailer in its teeth was pretty violent, wish I could hooked it just to see what it was!
    Ended up back down near the dam, cranked up a good 2+ spot, had another good keeper down on the dam to finish up a quick limit for about 10-11 lbs.

    Still not the greatest place to fish, but its sure close. If anyone wants to fish it, let me know, I've usually got a back seat open.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Spidergrubs be the ticket, cranks still for aggressive fish.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out late (10:30am) Started throwing a chart/purple crank first fish on second cast, kept on working wind blown banks, a fish here, a fish there, most of em on a white/blue shad pattern crank. Moved to rock banks on south area, lots of hits on the crank anywhere from 2 to 15 feet. When bite slowed down, at about 1 pm, switched to a pumpking 5" DT Hula grub on a 1/4 oz football head, the results where amazing lots of fish (about 20), best one about 3#, best 5 for 13#. The note of the day: 2 Chanel cats, one 10# one 3.5# both hit the hula grub like a pile of bricks. Also tried ripping, spinners, CR Lizards and dropshots with no luck.
    A very fun day. I have forgoten what a pain in the neck it was to throw the boat in the water without a dock and without getting wet.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Go out have fun. pay atention to shady side of big boulders, big stumps, fallen trees, etc.

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water very low,got in at noon with Quency Malone. Winds blowing at 20-30 mph so reaction bait, rip baits on rocky banks with red dirt. Also found bass with a Capt Jack's Jigs "Perch" color in 2-15 ft, most off the bank. Not all windy banks had fish. Just crank or rip down the banks and you will find the bass. Our best 5 went 12.5 lbs
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: have fun and leave the bass

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66-68

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: New Bass Boat 30-50k, New Tow Vec. 30-60k, New Rod's,New Reel's & a boat load of tackle for Bass Fishing 10-20k.............
    Bass Fishermen wanting too "boycott" Camp Far West, because of the $15.00 Launch Fee.......... PRICE-LESS!!!!
    I fished CFW today from 12:00am - 6:00pm the bite was not red-hot, but I did manage to pick-up a few decent Spot's throwing a Spinner Bait. Chunk-Rock tight to the shore produced .

    Tips: Bring your offering all the way back to the boat & hang-on.....

    Just Fish & Enjoy !!!!!

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: They want there MONEY just like everyone else- low water and not many customers sometimes enforces there "Full Price Policy" I know how you feel. I haven't fished Amador for the past 2 years due to HIGH PRICES and limites results....
    City: Antelope