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Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: HOT-SEE BELOW

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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    City: Carmichael

Monday, August 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 85

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Camped at Collins or two days. Found a good top water bite early and late on shad color poppers. A mix o largemouth and spots. Fished the endes o the newer brush piles and the east side o the lake. Could't get a worm bite going. Kids had a ball with the bluegill during the day.
    City: Rancho Cordova

    Tips: Poppers early and late. Fish the deeper brush.

Friday, June 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: hey mike i you want to go ishing here's my email
    City: brownsville

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 68-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I have been to Collins three times in the past 2 weeks or short 3 to 4 hour trips. One was a night trip where I hooked 5 bass up to 2 pounds on jigs and really lost a nice spot - maybe 4 pounds! The irst trip was in the morning - I threw Senkos mostly in color #214, since the bass were eeding on bluegills! I caught 9 bass including a 2-3 largemouth and a eisty 2-10 spot. I ished Senkos in the shade pockets o submerged willows. Today I went with a riend o mine and we caught 11 in 3 hours - but no real size. We did see a lot o quality ish including a 10+ largemouth!! We caught a ew on topwater and then Senkos and worms. My riend lost a good bass that dumped him in the brush. The heat this week plus post-spawn had slowed things down. One boat we talked to didn't catch a ish. The water is very clear which will make day ishing tough or awhile.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Senkos, lukes, and drop-shotting next to cover is always good in June. We spotted a ew good bass about 25 eet on ledges (on the meter). They will start moving out to deeper water now as the lake begins to drop a bit.

Saturday, April 12th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had a delightul time guiding a ather and near 9 year old son! We started about 6:45 am on the east side o the lake. We immediately got into some spotted bass with the young man nailing a 2 1/2 lb spot on a Berkley 4" Pulse Worm. Ater awhile we switched to the west side o the lake - moving up the river arm. We looked or shallow ish but didn't see any or a long time. The water temp had dropped 10 degrees a week ago and moved all the ish out to deep water. We inally saw one in about 4 eet o water and I got the young man to pitch his small sour grape brush hog to the ish - but I igured it would take o. Instead it turned and looked at the bait but I lost it in the glare o the sun. The boy didn't however and immediately jerked the 2 1/4 lb largemouth in the boat!!! Dad and I couldn't believe it! A bass pro in the making! We wound up with 11 bass in the boat and missed several. The early morning bite was the best during our 7 hour trip.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: With another cold ront this weekend, it will take awhile or the bass ishing to turn on. The water need to get near 60 or a big movement to shallow water. Bass will be ound in brush and rocky areas - warming their bodies in the aternoon. The east side usually warms up irst.

Thursday, March 6th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: GETTING SKUNKED AT COLLINS? take a drive up the hill to LAKE FRANCIS to catch good #'s in 2-5lb range! Becoming a routine or us ater ishing collins or bass and trout with little or no action. ished there once a week or last month and averaging 15-20 hookups per outting (about 3-4hours). leave cranks and reactions in tackle box and ish plastics weedless. are best success (90% o bites)are with SENKOS in #301 or Pumpkinseed with green lake best bet. Must be patient with Senkos.(as one o my ishing buddies ound out).Hey Je, you will become a Senko believer sooner or later. Toss weightless and weedless across coves or into 10t o depth. let sink to bottom and deadstick. slowly retreive a oot or so and let sink again. i bass is there it will pick it up. our largest was 6lbs and ull o eggs. (remember to catch and release all bass). also try pulse worms or baby brush hogs in similar colors. toss towards submerged bushes and near the big rock pass the gated side. remember electric motors only here, but the banks have been just as rewarding. you may be lucky and hookup one here close to 10lbs, but dont count on it. but remember, this is the most underished lake in the area. good luck.
    City: yuba city

    Tips: Bass are still clinging to bottom but in 6 to 10 eet o water. no topwater yet.warming temperatures we are experiencing will change that soon. but Senkos work year round here.

Wednesday, March 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught 4 trout today
    City: brownsville

Monday, March 3rd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: has anybody been ishing or bass, i have seen several boats comming down the hill but no reports, I have been ishing local ponds near the lake and have had some good ish, so i dont want to waste 12 bucks going to collins to ind out that it's a red hot trout bite!!!! So i you been there lately lets hear about it...
    City: brownsville

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished or trout got 3 and that was it no size
    City: brownsville

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished up in the river and the water is still very dirty. There are a lot o trout isherman on the lake. Bass ishing has been Ok but nothing special. Catching most ish in depths greater than 10 eet. The water is still cold and the ish are not very aggresive. Give it a week o warm weather and the ishing should improve. For the spots ish rocky banks
    City: Grass Valley

    Tips: use worms and ish slow

Friday, February 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ishing or trout was good a ew bass here and there
    City: brownsville

    Tips: ddep and slow

Tuesday, December 24th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I took a riend to Collins on Monday aternoon or about 3 hours o ishing. Since he is used to ice ishing in the midwest, the cold north wind and terrible ishing conditions didn't bother him. The lake was up 20 eet in a week, very dirty, and the bass had to be conused! I knew we would be lucky to get bit, but we were bit 5 times, and landed 4 o them!! I got the irst one - a near 15 inch spot on a chartreuse Terminator spinnerbait in about 3 eet o water. He missed on one a jig and then caught a 14 inch largemouth on a black Weapon jig. I soon landed a 15 inch spot on a brown/orange Weapon jig. Me moved down by the dam and he caught another 13 1/2 inch spot on the black jig. Not great ishing, but good under the circumstances!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: We saw several ish on a rocky point when we irst arrived, but they were suspended. I told him they might move shallow and bite beore dark and three o them did! Two that we caught and the one he missed came rom that rocky area in about 10 to 15 eet o water. We were moving the jigs pretty ast to get a reaction bite. It seems to work. Tried crankbaits to no avail.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This short report includes about our 2 1/2 to 3 hour trips in the past two weeks. Three were late aternoon and one was morning. The overall bite has still been slow but the quality has been pretty good. The best trip was last week - with my neighbor - landing 3 spots to 2 3/4 pounds and a 2 pound largemouth. He caught his irst spotted bass and was he excited!! He missed a huge bass on a topwater lure beore dark - jerked it too quickly! We missed or lost 4 other bass. The topwater bite has been slow as has the jig bite. Magic worms are working best along with Senkos in the brush. The #214 Senko has been the best color or me. I'm hoping the rain will add a bit o color to the water and bring the lake up a ew eet. That should start the late all bite, I hope!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The bass still are airly deep except early and late when a ew will hit topwater. Drop-shotting is a great technique this time o year on ledges in the middle o the lake.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: TRIED TOPWATER IN THE THE MORNING 9:00 TIL 10:00 NO LUCK, DRAGGED A BABY BRUSH HOG AROUND AND GOT 2, NOTHING GREAT A 1 AND 2 LB.SPOTS. HAD A COUPLE BLOW UPS ON A SKITTER POP IN THE AFTERNOON, TRIED STINKO'S NO TAKERS, OH WELL THE WEATHER WAS GREAT AND DID SEE A COUPLE OF BALD EAGLES
    City: B.V

    Tips: FOUND FISH ABOUT 20 FT DOWN AND A COUPLE CRUISING THE BANK IN ABOUT 5 FT

Monday, October 14th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 66.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Monday aternoon o, county holiday and ater going to camp ar west decided to try collins. I have only ished this lake one time about 3 years ago. The ramp was nice, and like most at this time o year was quite low. Alot o work placing brush on the points was visable below the 5 mph markers. More to the point, tried jigs, drop-shot, cranks, spinner baits, rico's and spooks. Damn near everything. Tons o bait ish that were suspended in the 16-25 oot range, nice archs on the graph. Drop shot in these areas, nata. I picked up a 4.2 lb spot on the spook in 17 oot o water o a rock hump in the main body. Two cast later a small 1 -2 lb spot sucked the spook down and was ighting creating a rucuss on the surace when at least a 10 lber tried to take the spook rom the smaller ish. Now my super spook has revamped EWG hooks and I was hoping to get her on one o the other hooks. The smaller ish had the eathered tail hook. No such luck . Picked up two more smaller spots on the rico and that was it. I don't know i it is the low water this year or the early all with the ish still in the summer pattern but it has been slow or me so ar this all. I think I'll go quail hunting or a month and then i it does not pick up ,well it will be pheasant season.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Female nightcrawlers under a bobber probably would have done better than I did.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We had hoped to land some largemouth early and hit the northeast side o the lake early on Wednesday (6:30am). No luck at all with Buzzlite buzz bait ished on a slow retrieve in anywhere rom 3-15' o water, both in brush, trees and open water. Ater switching to Mepps Anglia long spinners, we had some hits and caught a ew largemouth, but nothing o any size. Moving around the lake to the north end we trolled a bit and that's when the luck changed. Got a good sized rainbow (14" 2lbs) and lots o hits on the Mepps and Wedding Ring spinners. We continued down the west size o the lake, getting hits but not hooking anything until we were almost to the dam when we netted another rainbow o almost the same size as the irst. More trolling didn't amount to much, nor did casting under trees and into water cover as the day wore on. We probably would have had more luck i we had proper trolling gear to get the bait down a bit deeper. All in all - not a bad day, as the trout were just enough or us to have that nite.
    City: SF

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took mysel to Collins today and though I didn't catch a big one, I did catch 22 bass - 18 spots and 4 largemouth. What impressed me was the quality o the spots - averaging about 2 lbs each. Biggest was pushing 3 lbs. I ished all over the main body, but caught most on the east shore. It was a very warm day and the bite started in earnest about 1 PM. Saw one giant bass in a tree, but there were no big bass on beds. Caught a ew on Power Tubes, but most on Senkos in brush. They seems to be in shadows o trees and brush.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I was using the popular #194 Senko, but the top producer was a new color - #301. They really ate that one - even hit it sometimes. All bass were 1 to 10 eet.

Monday, April 8th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I made a quick trip since the weather was nice - a storm is supposed to come in tonight. I had about 14 hookups, but only landed 6 - the biggest being a 3 1/2 lb largemouth on a #194 Senko. I was also using a loating worm, but the ish wern't taking it very good. I talked to the ellow that caught the lake record in 1998 and he was catching mostly small ones too. I saw a ew quality spots and a big largemouth crusing, but they wern't biting. One big spot did take my worm just beore I let, about 8 pm, and I lost her at the boat - maybe 4 pounds! I saw ish all over the lake - just not in great numbers. More heat is what we need!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I was able to catch three o my ish on beds with a chartreuse tube bait. One was a 2 3/4 lb spot. They were un to catch and even more un to put right back! My Senko largemouth was in back o a cove in about 10 eet o water, next to a bush.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Males are up on the beds just waiting or the better hal. These Girls are HUGE! Now is the time to break the lake record Largemouth. You have to be there though to stake out a good ish. East side o the lake. Good Luck
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Be patient and hold as still as possible. Just watch these beauties or a while.Its amazing what can be seen. Oh yeah, Bring a good pair o polarized sunglasses.

Thursday, March 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught 3 bass all nice one's about 2 to 3 lbs, dragging a baby brushog junebug in color, water is still cold and muddy give 2 weeks and it will be on
    City: brownsville

    Tips: wait a couple weeks