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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Morning bite was awsome!! Blast off at 6 by 7 we had 17 lbs w/5 fish by 9 we had 22 lbs and then the bite just flat out shut down. we caught maybe 5 more by weigh-in, none cullable.
    all fish caught on texas rig lizzards and wacky rig senkos. grn/pump off tules and docks
    City: Williams

    Tips: get to your hot spot early.

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thank you, Cooch! This is a report - honest!! My first back to back guides since my surgery - all is well! Thurs my client showed me he really knows how to bass fish. He caught most of our 24 bass and we combined for a 22 1/4 lb limit. Big bass was an 8 1/4 pounder that took my wacky rigged #301 Senko. We launched out of Red Bud with the idea that he could become more familiar with the south end. I really can't say what bait he was using most of the day since he fishes tournaments and he adds some home made touches. For the first time I fished a variety of 5" Senko colors wacky style - which I really haven't done much. I usually fish them the ol' fashioned way. That does work better in the green slime we are seeing this year in places. I used the 2/0 Gami hook with the weedguard. It worked well but I did loose quite a few. We fished many types of shallow structure - docks, etc., and finally saw bass hide under docks during the warm afternoon - even caught one or two! Today I had two clients out of the Oaks. We launched in beautiful weather about 8 am - no sooner left the ramp and it totally clouded up and winded - yes, a new term for instant wind! Since one of the men had a physical handicap, we needed to try and stay in calm water. We fished the keys, Rattlesnake area, and finally the west shore of the Oaks arm. They struggled some but each did catch a few nice bass and missed a lot of bites. One guy lost a good one when it jumped. We discussed setting the hook. We wound up with only 12 bass up to 4 lbs, mostly 2 1/2 to 3 lb males. Senkos were working again along with green pumpkin Power worms and dead ringers. A rock flat I usually fish in the summer produced one of the biggest bass for one of the guys. We found bass from 3 to 12 feet.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Friday morning I again tried a few things that my client wasn't throwing - cranks, rips, and jigs, trying to read the mood of the fish. Again, nada! I knew the worm bite would be ok, and it was. We did try some off-shore structure in the morning with no success. It might have been better in the afternoon - we didn't try then. As for the spawn - who knows? This may be another long period of early and late spawns. Most of the baits we threw both days were darker colors - combinations of browns, greens, and purples. I even caught my first bass on a #157 (smoke w/purple flake) Senko. I often used that color as a jig trailer. Of course, Cooch has me using #164 on occasion too!!!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: Doesn't Matter

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Notice!!

    This is a fishing reports page. We ask that you please respect the intent of this section of Westernbass and stick to posting reports regarding you fishing experieinces on the lake on any given day. Please keep the banter and jibber jabber talk to the Personal Messaging provided with your Log in account. We would also ask that any queries in regards to the QM inspections, be discussed on the Main Public Forum as well. You'll receive faster responses that are easily search for and readily available, versus congesting up the reports pages with non-fishing related posts. There are many users who come to read the reports and these posts are a pain to have to sort through, as well as a waist of our time to have to come in here and clean them up.
    City: OAKLEY

    Tips: Use the resources of WesternBass as they are intended. As with the Folsom Reports page, we are now implimenting a ZERO tolerance policy here where this page will now be checked daily and non fishing report posts will be removed immediately. Thank You for visiting WesternBass.COM and enjoy your time here.

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60 to 63 degree

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went to clearlake on sunday got the boat inspected and we were on the water by 645 am we fished around paradise cove and I caught a couple on a X rap and had a couple of followers we caught most of our fish on dropshotting a margarita mutilator we ended up with a total of 24 fish all about the 3 lbs range most of them looked like they were still carring eggs.
    City: carmichael

    Tips: dont try to over work your bait when drop shotting let the current do the work

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Noticed not alot of reports. Thats cause the fishing is tough. Tournement weights way down with. hard to get a 5 fish limit for 2. The long cold winter and fronts that keep changing the fish patterns has them screwed up. Some tink the lake is on a down turn. we will see

    Tips: make every bite count. Some days they are far and few.

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ALL RIGHT I JUST READ THE LAST REPORT ,AND I FISHED THUR- FRI-AND SAT MORNING FISHED THE KEYS MOST OF THE TIME,AS I FOUND FISH THERE THAT I DIDNT FIND ANY WERE ELSE.DID NOT FISH OUT SIDE OF THEM VERY LONG.OK THIS IS NOT FOR THE BASS TOURNAMENT GUYS THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO CATCH THEM ANY WAY.!!!!.FIRST DAY- 11 BASS 5 CROPPIE.THE SEC DAY MORNING TILL NOON I CAUGHT 15 BASS AND 4 CROPPIE-THAT EVENING 5:30 TILL DARK =OVER 25 BASS AND 2 CROPPIE.THE EVENING BITE WAS OFF THE HOOK..!!!!OK--- NIGHT- CRAWLERS- FLY LINE,CLOSE TO SHORE,NO DEEPER THAN 5 FEET
    City: REDDING

    Tips: IF YOU ASK BOB AT IN AND OUT -HE'LL TELL U I BOUGHT 4 DOZEN.AND HAD 2 DOZEN TO START WITH. THE FISH WERE HITING IT ON THE FALL,AFTER IT HITS THE BOTTOM , CAST TO A NEW SPOT,I DID SEE ONE GUY CATCHING THEM ON SINKO-MOST OF THE BASS WERE 3-4 LB A FEW WERE OVER-A 5-1, 7-9-I KNOW IT CHANGES EVERY DAY.GOOD LUCK

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the 23rd-27th and the best day was 14 fish and nothing over 3.9 pounds. Many different reason why people think the fishing is so poor. I guess you can use minnows if you want to pay the price. We fished all over the north and south areas with limited success. Don't know if the poor fishing will continue but with gas prices the way it is I would wait until you see the reports posting better results. Most of our fish came on jigs, drop shot, a couple of AC, Senko and frog fish but nothing over 3 pounds. One of my fishing partners in his boat said they caught 40 fish on drop shot around docks. Must have been a luck spot becasue could not duplicate it.
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Wait until it improves.

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: UNK

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got the boat inspected, hit the water about 6:45, it was cold. The wind picked up right away and blew all day, fished from Lucerne to Rodamn. We picked up 2 within the first half hour 45 min on drop shot, both were small fish. Missed one by Tule Island ater that nada.
    City: Grass Valley

    Tips: Fishing in high winds is no fun, add cold to it and it is really no fun. Consult a better weather man!!!

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    Water Temp: 57-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We fished the north end from Lakeport to Rodman. Saw a few fish on beds but they were very skittish. The wind made fishing the docks very tough, so we ran to Rodman Slough. We fished the Slough for 4-5 hours throwing the kitchen sink at them. We saw one huge bass in the shallows but it disappeared before we could try to get it. W tried everything we could think of and only got two bites. missed both fish and decided to call it a day.
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: Don't fish the lake with 20-30 mph winds. the water temp dropped and made the fish have lock jaw. I talked to a few anglers at the dock and they all had a similar story. Best I heard was a couple small fish. Oh well beats a day at work.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the keys. Had 31lbs in the keys throwing frogs in heavey cover. With all the pressure from the tourney I am very suprised at all the big fish. Biggest went 8.5.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Watch out for the house cat's!

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Starting April 8, all boats entering Lake County for Clear Lake must be inspected and receive a sticker. If caught on lake with no sticker = ticket with $100 fine, etc.

    What to do? Make sure your boat and engine is DRY, DRY and VERY DRY (no water in bilge or livewell). Make sure your livewell is VERY DRY AND CLEAN (no dirt, sand or fishscale). Make sure your drain plug is out. Tilt your engine at least two times to drain out all water, repeat while you re on the trip. If they find a drop of water inside the boat, you will be directed to decom station where they spray hot water on trailer, boat, and livewell.

    More information at http://www.record- bee.com/local/ ci_8764258

    Sorry for incoviences, but it will be worthwhile to preserve our fishing waters for many generations to come.
    City: PARADISE

    Tips: VERY CLEAN AND DRY BOAT BEFORE INSPECTION!

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was slow. I think it was due to the big temp swing and the fishing pressure (WON & Chico Bass Club prefishing for their Tourys). With the water still being too cold down south, everyone and I mean everyone was up north. There was a 1 to 3 boats on every point/slough. Anyway, we battled it out and was able to get a few fish over our limit up to 4 lbs. Some boats did a little better than us and some boats got skunked. Maybe with the weather staying warm over the weekend the toury guys will do ok. We caught all fish in 4 ft or less. Caught 1/2 of the fish flippin senkos/creature during the day and other 1/2 on spinnerbait in the evening. We tried flippin /dropshotin docks with no luck. For us the fish willing to bite were on the bank. Man we need some stable warm weather!
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: At least 10 bass boats got broken into at the Konocti docks and another resort dock in the area. It was obvious the thieves knew the big toury was in this weekend. The thieves took everything but the boat! Rods, Tackle, Electronics, Spare props, etc. Don't trust your boat storage locks and bring everything inside your room when staying at Clear Lake! For the victim's of the heartless crime our thoughts go out to you. I know I have put countless hours into tuning/customize my baits (let alone the money to replace everything). You might want to check Craig's List. The losers might try to dump the stolen goods there.

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Big V and I both agreed fishing is not near what it was last year around this time. The weather was really nice but just not hot enough. The water temperature couldn't be seen due to fish finder malfunction. We mostly stayed in the south end but did adventure a little up north. We didn't see any baitfish, bluegill, or crappie. The only thing that we did see was a couple boils by some carp. We thew everything we could think of. Every boat except 2 we came across had the same problem, no fish. If they did catch something it was more like one or two and nothing worth bragging about. The wind did pick up quite a bit near the early afternoon and made the lake really ruff. We did have 2 bites all day though on plastic worm and drop shot. They are definitely not up yet. Is anybody catching any numbers or size at all? Swimbait fish? Seem like giving it a couple weeks and it should be ready. I think the pro's are suppose to have their big tourney next weekend. This will be an interesting tourney to see what kind of bags they are bringing in.
    City: Rosetown

    Tips: If you get a bite set the hook like it's your last cast. Keep your eyes open and keep posting.

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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    Water Temp: mid 50's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Clients: Phil & Ryan


    On the water at 7:30. Overnight temps were pretty low, 30

    Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

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    Water Temp: 52.5/58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: u can go any number of places to get inspected, DON'T print out the online form, they have new forms with carbon copies, the cloest place to get inspected off of Hwy 20 is limit out bait and tackle, in town on your left, they don't have any stickers yet, they will give you the yellow copy and mail the sticker to you unless Bob gets them in the next few days

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 53-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had a nice trip yesterday with clients from the midwest! The "new" hip behaved well and the Evinrude fired right up after a 5 week break! The bite did seem slow to me and was confirmed by several I talked to after pulling the boat out. We fished out of Red Bud but didn't go north of Wheeler because of the increasing wind and 4 of us in the boat. Dad and the oldest son did ok, catching 4 nice bass up to 3 1/2 lbs. The young son hooked one but lost it. I fished some when the youngest took an extended nap!! I hooked a nice one in the afternoon but forgot how to set the hook - lost it! The bass were a little more aggressive in the afternoon when the sun appeared. Good to be back in the saddle, 'er, butt seat!!!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The jig bite was best for us with a black/blue Blade Runner jig. Only two bites on brown/orange. First bass was on a drop/shot rig - Berkley 4" green craw Power Worm. No drop/shot fish after that - strange. We didn't try anything with treble hooks with 4 in the boat. We did use some Basstrix swimbaits, but no takers this day. We probably could have finessed some more bass, but I did spend most of the time helping them look for the "big" bite. Alas, it still may take a week or so - warm weather should help at the end of next week, just in time for the big tourney!

Friday, April 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went to the state park today cuz i heard it was on fire last week...fished the launch ramp exclusively..and nailed a nice 3 pounder that fought like a 6...they should start spawning soon...:)
    City: clearlake

    Tips: wait a week or so and the bite should be on fire!!!!!

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: high 50s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cliff Croxall of Benicia, CA and I fished the April 2&3 weekdays to find a very tough bite. We only caught about 15 or so bass to 3 lbs in two full days of fishing. We fished the lake from south to north. We threw texas rigged sweet beavers and 6" senkos primarily at the bank. The fish that bit were very aggressive but far and few between. With the shallow bite pretty shakey, we tried our luck on the offshore stucture with jigs and carolina rigs, but no fish. The air temps were still in the 30s in the am and I think the fish were just not up yet. I bet in a couple of weeks with the full moon cycle due, it will go off. Just missed it this time around.
    The positives were that I got to GPS several offshore spots and stay at the Ferndale resort in soda bay.
    City: San Diego, CA

    Tips: wait for the full moon and warmer air temps

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    Water Temp: high 50s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cliff Croxall of Benicia, CA and I fished the April 2&3 weekdays to find a very tough bite. We only caught about 15 or so bass to 3 lbs in two full days of fishing. We fished the lake from south to north. We threw texas rigged sweet beavers and 6" senkos primarily at the bank. The fish that bit were very aggressive but far and few between. With the shallow bite pretty shakey, we tried our luck on the offshore stucture with jigs and carolina rigs, but no fish. The air temps were still in the 30s in the am and I think the fish were just not up yet. I bet in a couple of weeks with the full moon cycle due, it will go off. Just missed it this time around.
    The positives were that I got to GPS several offshore spots and stay at the Ferndale resort in soda bay.
    City: San Diego, CA

    Tips: wait for the full moon and warmer air temps

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished south and North. 5 bites, 5 fish, 17lbs. biggest was 7lbs. My back seater got blanked and others boats were reporting only 2 or 3 fish per boat. Its definately not rolloin like last year at this time. I am sure somebody got a bunch but where?????
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: wait til the water warms up