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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took two riends or a trip to Clear Lake over this past Thursday through Sunday. Had only been to CL once in the past and spent three days careully avoiding all bass in the lake. Hadn't planned on going back, but the lore o the big ish and classic terrain was just too much to resist. One guy actually lew out rom Maine just or this trip. We had the time o our lives. On the irst day, I landed a 4, a 5 and a 7. All on Senkos (208). The 4 irst thing in the a.m. and the biggest two in Soda Bay at dusk. My partners didn't do too well the irst day, but the next day we went out with a guide, Dave Majestic. Can't say enough about Dave. Great guy, great guide. Turned my buddy onto pitching the senkos into the tule pockets. He pulled ive, biggest going to 4 lbs. He took a lot o time with us, over what he was paid or. Gave us advice over the phone beore we ever came up and we hadn't even given him a deposit. That advice is what helped to land the big ish beore we ever met up with him.Special thanks to Dave and also to Larry Hemphill. I've been reading his reports on this site or months anticipating this trip. Everything we read here really helped turn this trip into a great experience or all and both partners want to make it an annual event. Given the nine hour drive or two o us and the light rom Maine or the third, that says a lot.
    City: Stevenson Ranch

    Tips: The wind really died o completely ater the irst day and the hot calm conditions cleared the water up and seemed to push the ish out o the tules and into deeper water. I decided to ish the edges o the shoals coming out o long tule stretches and picked up several nice ish the last morning. 90% o the people we saw ishing were still pounding the banks - don't be araid to get out in the deeper water though. I was watching dozens o cruisers at 7-9 eet. Senko 208's were THE ticket all throughout the trip. Even ished deep over the drop os, they worked great.

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    Water Temp: 66-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Clear Lake a couple o days or the BFL. Ran all over the lake looking or bed ish on Friday. There are still quite a ew ish on beds, but many were diicult to catch. Could not ind a reaction bite so stuck to bed ishing and Senkos or the tournament Saturday. Caught 1 o bed, 1 on jig, and 2 on Senkos during the tournament or only 10 pounds 2 ounces. Lost another good one about 5# on a Senko and broke the same bed ish o twice which my non boater ended up catching. Spawn seems to be tailing o and the post spawn ish are starting to bite again. Fish were moving to the rocky banks and suspending under docks in the aternoon. Saw some great ish on the steeper rocky banks with tules and weeds, but could not igure out how to catch them. Some coves have been trashed by the spawning carp they are very murky and did not seem to hold many bass.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Best bet was the Smoke Silver Senko ished under docks.

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    Water Temp: UNK

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3 GUYS FROM SO. DAK. FISHING WITH NOT TO MUCH LUCK WHEN A BOAT WITH A GUIDE FROM KELSEYVILLE CAME ALONG SIDE AND STARTED TO TALK TO US AND GAVE US SOME REAL GOOD TIPS ON WHAT TO FISH AND HOW TO RIG THEM. HE ALSO GAVE US A HAND FULL OF SENKOS AND TUBE BAITS, AND WHERE TO FISH SO WE TRIED THEM AND HAD BETTER LUCK THE YOUNG MAN IN THE FRONT OF MY BOAT GOT 5 FISH FOR 22 LBS A PERSONAL BEST AND A 6-1 LBS FOR A PERSONAL BEST. OUR HATS ARE OFF TO THE GUIDE FROM KELSEYVILLE FOR HIS HELP HE WAS DAVE MAJESTIC, A REAL GENTLEMAN THANKS DAVE.
    City: KELSEYVILLE

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught ish casting a 4 inch worm, senko and caught two on pop r. site ished about 10 ish with biggest going 7.25. on the 7 ished the south with not much luck, on the 8 ish north end did much better caught 17 ish biggest 7.27 then 7 and many ours. site ished with white tube. pretty good or ishing on a ull moon.
    City: Los altos

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well, most people have rags to riches stories, but mine is the opposite. I had a trip with two great guys Thursday rom 6 pm to 2 am. Each o us caught a nice bass beore dark, and then these ellows went on a tear ater dark. We caught 10 ater dark, with the best bite rom 10:30 to 1 am. The client who I thought said he wasn't as experienced had a banner night, with 5 bass or around 24 lbs - including a spawned-out 9 pounder, and a soon-to-nest 6-7. When I netted the 9 or him, I thought we had Barracuda in Clear Lake - that's how skinny it was!! I told him that he could call it his "post-10"!! The other clients big ish was 5-1, and I think he caught 4 bass. We were at 29+ pounds or our ive biggest, and that looked to be it, since the bite really slowed down. I was able to end the trip with a 5-6 that slammed a Weapon Jig, and that gave us 13 bass total, and a 30 lb 12 oz limit. The lake was dead calm and the evening was airly warm. Since the moon was bright, I had my clients Texas rigging a big, ugly, black/chartreuse worm that Magic worms makes or me. It was the ticket, out producing all other baits. One o our best areas was the Knoncti children's summer camp area and the wall just north o it, just beore you get to the resort. The ish were aggressive - many striking hard. Most ish were very shallow, many right on the bank. The next two nights were a dierent story. I knew a cooling trend was coming, and it did!! I always eel so sorry or clients that have to experience those howling winds. It was dead calm until 2 hours beore our Fri night trip. Anyway, the husband did catch the irst top-water ish o the year in my boat on a Storm Chug-Bug. They missed a couple, and in what little ishing I did, I landed a 6-2, 4-1, and a 3 1/2, all on Berkley Power hogs. The hot bait rom the previous night was stone cold!! Neither o them had done much ishing in heavy wind. Saturday was a beautiul day, as all you tournament ishermen know, and I thought the night would be a repeat o Thursday night - wrong. The water temp had dropped about 3 degrees by midnight - the wind blew again, and the bass completely shut o. It was hard to believe! My client caught a 2 3/4 and a 4, beore dark, on 6" Zoom lizards and I caught a 5-10 on a Weapon Jig on a rockpile ater dark, and that was it. One bite - one ish. He had one little tap ater dark. That was probably the biggest slow-down in night ishing I've seen in years. The bass will eed whenever it is the warmest - and Fri and Sat night didn't cut it. And that's the way it was!!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I love black/chartreuse worms during the bright moon periods. That combo seems to work in every lake I night ish. Black/Chartreuse Weapon jigs with chartreuse or smoke sparkle grubs work very well or me in bright nights. As I mentioned in that survey about big Clear Lake bass, many o my 12's, and all my bass over 13 lbs have been caught on black/chartreuse worms - 6 and 7 inch. Those are wise 'ol ish that don't make many mistakes - even at night. Try 'em, you'll like 'em!

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    Water Temp: 66'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched and ished out o the Keys, and around Rattlesnake arm.Only had three ish, all on Senkos, and all in the keys.Talked with several ishermen, including Tubers who had a tourney going on. Non o which had much going.Saw a ew skinny males on beds, but that's it.The water was still pretty murky in the keys, but airly clear outside in the Rattlesnake area.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Most o the ish have spawned out in the keys, but a new batch should be movong in shortly, to bad I won't be there to greet them.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started o ishin at about 3:00 AM on Sat.Split shottin lukes worked or our ish in the 2 3/4 lb range.Just beore daybreak I lipped two 3lbers on a jig with 50lb braid.Man does this stu put a hurtin on your wrist!And the ish!Daylight time and there appears to be no tourneys,Yeah!I'm a lot over anxious because I haven't been here in a year.I miss a toad!Ouch.Too quick on the hookset,damn.Then I miss two more average ish the same bait,damn,damn!!I inally wait and stick a 2 3/4.Welp that's roggin.Oops did I say that out loud! har! har!The water was not clear and was low.I tried spook,swimbait and senko with no takers.I again pulled out the jig on the north end o the lake.The jig was stuck and when I popped it out KERTHUNK!A solid 6lb 2oz risky bass on 10lb line.Ater about our more2-3lbers I ran into rodman.Ater an hour and ahal I had two little bucks,so we let.That was it or day one with cloudy cold conditions.The CATFISH ,yes CATFISH at night were awsome.I sleep ON my boat at night because o these beasts.With in a matter o Minutes my drag was singing.These are powerul ish!THESE are reight trains!Ater some hollering,high ives and pics we set the 20LBER ree!ten minutes later a 5,20 later a 8lb 9oz kitty kitty.We inally ell asleep.At 2:00 am zzz zzz zzzzzzzzz Fish on!BIG FISH!I dropped a large mag light into the water which I swam and got back the next day.My partner almost ell overboard,tangled the net in some rods, stubbed his toe and both o our socks are wet with dew!This is the pandamonia that happens.But it's great memories!Finally lights,camera,action---22LBS even!!Clear Lake is with out a doubt AWESOME!We wake up a little late to a blue bird day.I lip the jig and loose a several three lbers at the boat side.It's ok there's no tourney.Then my whole day gets ^$&(^$^%$_).I threw the rog.I got a big blow up.I waited.I set.I got a monster.I believe I was holding on too tight with too much conidence in 50lb line that was stretched across a structure.I could see and hear a deep loud whooshing...Then the hooks came loose and it was all over with.The bass won again....Ilearned something again.Each year we all get a little smarter.Don't we? I'll be back next year!!We ran to rodman again.Landed a couple and I had a couple o our lbers chase up then turn away.The rest o the day was tu on catchin but great weather!I talked to other bassers and it seems Sat. was better than Sun.On Sat. one boat had 20lb limit on senko by 8:30.They had two sixes.I tried this bait with not even a bite!More people need to post on this and other lakes!!!
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Catish bait-chicken liver depth-3-4tBass-jigs,lukes,rog in natural colorI always post a report!There are alot o people out there that should be posting and sharing ino.That is what this is all about!!!!!!!

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    Water Temp: 60ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out o redbud early. Banged a 10 lb catish on a spinnerbait irst thing. Justin gets a 2.5 on a spinnerbait o Jago pt and I get a 3.2 on a senko.. nada in Jago bay, indian Island, Cache creek. Waves and Nwind are bad and it is impossible to ish my spots. Trailer the boat to lakeport. Very cold all day. We see several cruisers/bed ish, but they wont bite. Justin throws his dropshot rig and they look, but are sluggish. I inally get a 3.6 in a waterway in Lakeports. No more bites till 6 pm in Rodman.. Way up, past the pilings in the water. We bang 6 on senkos just beore dark to 4.5 lbs and I have another good one hang me up in a tree. I had another spit the lure and try to grab it just as I pulled it out o the water. Our best 7 went roughly 21 lbs. Happy Bday Caliornia Kid!---Uncle
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Never give up. I went 4 or 5 hours w/o a bite. Keep looking and eventually you'll stumble onto something. 5" #208 senkos.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: we arrived at the keys on the 20th about 1100 am. it was pouring,hailing,and snowing in parts. the weather was terrible. we tried or a couple o minutes no bites. tooo cold. the next day and the days ater were great. we caught several 2 1/2,3s,a bunch o 4s ,5 and a 6 1/2 and the best part o all was me and my partner had a double 5 1/2. one o the 4s i caught had another bass swimming with it. both were the same size and this ish swam almost right up to the boat as i landed mine. what a trip.......oh i cant orget the catish we woke up to one morning, and 11 and a hal pounder. we had a great time. all ish were caught on the north eastern side o the lake. pitching tulies and lipping docks.
    City: visalia

    Tips: i the weather continues to warm it is going to turn on. senkos in the tulies. rootbeer with red lake. and rootbeer with black lake.

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    Water Temp: 54-62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o lakeport around 9, partner landed a 7-12 right away, then could not manage a bite or a long time,bass wouldn't bite where we have been slayin' 'em. larry must have been there the night beore. around 1:45 went back into a slough, said "maybe they just haven't come backthis ar yet" then Boom! lippin brush hogs landed a 5-4 a 3-9 and a 4-8 quick, partner got 2 males on senkos, and lostone about 6 at the boat, but 5 ish in 20 minutes isn't bad.Now we have to ish berryessa or a tourn. so it's back todinks and magic worms.

    Tips: Senko ish seem to be consistantly smaller but more bites on the senko. ind WARMER WATER that doesn't get hammered all the time by everyone else.

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: American Bass Anglers Club- Launched 5 boats rom the publicramp in Lucern, the day started o.k. weather wise, and then the wind really started to blow, at my irst spot I ind out I have no control o my trolling motor, pulled the boat out to ix it, put back in and it was to nasty to run so I ished in the area without a bite,Two boats returnedwith three ish 1st with 9+ pounds and 2nd with 7+ pounds with one bed ish caught.Day two- the wind layed down pretty good, I still could not get bit, my 12 yr. old soncaught two three pounders o a point -jago bay- craking aat ree shad, reel-twich- reel, bang a ish, both ish caught that way.1st place boat returned with 19+ pounds or 5, 2nd place boat, 16+ pounds,3rd place with 14+ Pounds. First Place gets 26+ Pounds to win it.Allot o irst place and third place ish were caught on Senkos-dead sticking-. 4-8 t o water at the south end o the lake.good luckP.P.
    City: Martinez

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Met a riend rom Oregon thurs 4/5. He ished wed, 4/4 alone and managed to catch a personal best 7lb 9 oz. He caught 3 others averaging 4.5lb. Thursday, 4/5, we landed 8 andI caught a personal best 7 lb.6oz ish. Best 7 went around 30lb. All was well until the storm ront came in at about 4:00pm. From 4pm until dark and all o riday, 4/6 we caught zilch!!! The storm ront shut o everything. I we only had one more day o good weather, I think we would have done pretty well.

    Tips: Caught all ish on spinnerbaits and all ish were scattered. According to a local tournament angler who was throwing senko's, he mentioned that the ish we caught were pretty big or blade ish!!! I assume he said that because o experience but he did not catch anything over 3lb??? I the ish are up in the tules, they are pretty aggressive. Next series o warm weather should really turn things on!!!

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    Water Temp: 60-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey larry whats up with the ishing here. No biters, even at night. Worked everthing. Way too many hot shot pro wannna be's here.
    City: lakeport

    Tips: Take lots o herb! You'll need it because it's slow as hell. You may even want to hook up some o Bunk Out's LSD cubes.

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    Water Temp: 45-46

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well this is just the opposite o larrys report. went up to clear sat to preish or sundays aba.. raining and windy . put boat in water at lakeport and started out bt spinning the prop . got out od water and took boat to hillside marine.. i had had the rubber insert replace the week beore and the mechanic a t hillside said the guy didn'r torque it down so it just spun out. hillside was great ..!! here it was 08:30 saturday morning and the guy got right on it . 19.00 or the insert and the guy said what the heck it only took 15 minutes so there is no charge or the labor.. please use them when ever you need help in lakeport..well back to ishing . at about 09:30 we started to put boat back in water and ranger came by and said the orecast was or 45 mph wind by noon so she recommended we don't go out because we wouldn't be able to get back on trailer. so we went dowwn to m&m campground on the south end. ished six hours .. one bite no ish . sunady morning went to ramp and water was lat calm with a little og . ished shallow up north nana then went to shag and henderson ...nada.. ished kona tiee..nana then about 11 wind started to kick up and here came the rain . so decided to go back across lake to the lakeport side. rough ride. by 1 we saw about ten boat get out o water .. getting rougher all the time . by 2 we still had nada and it was really rough . pulled out . hard time getting on trailer do to waves.. don't know result other than i hear winner had 20+ all on blades ater 1:30 in the aternoon . saw lots o guys with the same nada we had. all in all a pretty bad weekend
    City: SUNNYVALE

    Tips: hope or better weather and be sae on the water . oh yea sat tried larrys rockpiles with nothing or our eorts. c'mon spring !!

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Leo, Rosco and I loat tubed all weekend. Fri night and Sat NOTHING, not even a bite. We threw jigs, deep divers, even tried wormin'. Sun ished the blue waterplant (or whatever it is) in Clear Lake Oaks. We started jiggin or about an hour without luck. Still must be too cold. We switched to some shiners and we all ended up picking a ew up. Leo yanked a 5.1 lber, I pulled in 6 bass ranging rom 2.5 to 10 lbs and Rosco's biggest was a little over 3 lbs.
    City: SJ

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    Water Temp: yes

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: i am be going ish with my brother lockbeer.we are be goingish. i am be ishing one ish is on my line, and i be pull it up.WOW.Lockbeer is mad or me, i be drinking warm pop.lockbeer chuck lure,it ound my ear.i am be screaming atlockbeer. my pole is being tugged upon.i am be real in ive pounder.soda be done and so are we, as i be having trouble listeing right now.
    City: india

    Tips: leave your brother lockbeer home.

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    Water Temp: yes

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: i am be very good to go ish with my brother lockbeer. we are be go ish and catch one. i am catch bigger one. he be mad or me; i am be drinking all beers excepting one. he be get one biggun on his be line and is screaming or me and i am be drinking beer. i am be laughing or him as he is be lost his ish. now i am be having to go.
    City: india

    Tips: using big lure to catching ish and beer!

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Clear Lake Jan 2nd. One o my worst days on this lake ever. I simply did not have the "eel" that day. Four hits in 4 hours. Lost a nicer ish while trying to lip it. My numb hands could not hang on when it thrashed about. Looked to have been around 6 or 7 lbs, but overall very slow or me, unlike what others have been doing up here.
    City: Hal Moon Bay

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    Water Temp: 48-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Western Classic. Caught ish on the South end ripping Pointer minnows in Clown and Clear Shad. Steep rocky banks in the morning, between/under the docks later ater sun came out. Partner picked up a 9.34 or second Big Fish in the Tourney. Caught ish dropshotting 4" Baby Shad straight tail and 6" Peanut-butter and Jelly straight tail worms. 12-13 lb limit in 30 minutes on the dropshot up on the North end. Could not get bit on Jigs, Texas-rig or crankbaits, but other guys did.
    City: Salida

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We came down on Saturday and didn't head out until ater dark. Started out ishing some breaks and rockpiles around rattlesnake landing 2, 3.5 and 5 on jigs. Moved up lake to a major rocky area and spent a couple o hours ishing jigs in 15-30t o water. Finally had 3 bites a 6-12, another 6 that jumped o at the boat and a smaller ish we didn't see. Stopped by the rockpiles on the way back or another 3lber. Sunday aternoon we went to the south end catching only a 2 average ish on jerkbaits o a breakline. Had two bites on jigs o a rock jedi at dusk landing a nice 5lber and losing another in the same range. Ater a dinner break we went looking or more big bites on deep rock areas and only had three but they were quality ish to 6-13.Mon aternoon was even slower we managed only one 4lber on a crankbait. A storm was blowing in so we went home at dark, propably the night the got active again.
    City: Arcata

    Tips: The bite was tough but all quality ish. All except or one o the bigger ish were very well ed. Most jig bites were still solid thumps, i we had any pressure bites we missed um. Like Larry said, "don't orget your jigs".