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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake as the cold front was moving in. I did manage to hook a few small ones off a blue silver Chug bug around the 7pm. As it got darker I got three good bites off of a black blue custom jig. The lake is still slow I'm not planning on going back anytime soon.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Use a Black Jig around rock piles right before dark.

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the beach area to the dam, from 9am to 5pm. very tough caught 2 fish.
    City: fresno

    Tips: work plastics in browns,and greens, very slow.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough, Tough, Tough. Eastman rarely lets me down. This trip... she let me down. Water temp was good, lots of algea, and zero fish. Fished both shallow and deeper water. Fished some structure but didn't get anything. Talked to many guys that were saying it was real slow. Still a taste early not to mention cold front passed through. Fished for 2 1/2 days! Hey, this thing is about to break loose at any moment! And when she does, Eastman is the best!
    City: Monterey

    Tips: I caught nothing... do you really want a tip from me? Although Senkos, grubs and jigs all work GREAT at this lake.

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 61/62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Floated in a tube around the western boat launch area from about 3pm through 7pm, fishing flies with a 15' sink tip. used heavily weighted bunny leeches in black and purple, wooly bugger in brown, brown worm, rainbow trout streamers, etc, all subsurface. snagged four times but not one bite. algae mixed into lake left clarity to be desired. light wind at times, dead wind around 6pm. beautiful scenery on the road in to the lake. my first time to eastman, but i'll be back.
    City: Fresno

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    Water Temp: 62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Still lots of alge. Early morning, tried topwater in coves, nothing. Around noon, caught a 2 pounder on white/chart. spinner bait in flat {5-8ft} Little later lost 5 pounder near stik up on same spinner bait. Beautiful day fishing w/daughter.
    City: Dos Palos

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 56-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished all day from 9-6 caught two still really slow. both were about five lbs. one early in the day on a jig. another latter on a worm. fished from 5-20 ft deep. cant wait for it to pick up a little more.
    City: merced

    Tips: fish points and shallow flats. pay attention to water quality lots of algae in water.

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Visaia Bass Results
    33 Teams,18 weighed in total fish caught was 70 Big Fish 5.64 Had 10 fish 3lb's +
    1st place Darl Head/Johnny blackman !3.03 big fish 5.64
    2nd Eric Arbelo/Dave davis 12.47
    3rd Brett Kemmer/Joe Salyer 10.58
    Weather was cool and windy water dirty with alge.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Most fish caught in the 2-20' range. Senko's/Lizard/Brush Hogs Drop Shot caught lot of smaller fish. Water low should really be good in 2-3 weeks for more and larger fish.

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Didnt get bit til about 1pm. Cought a 3.5,4 on a flat about 12 feet deep near a point. Fished slow and used weightless sweetbeaver and split shot purple worm. They seemed to like the purple worm more but for only smaller fish. Nothing on reaction baits.
    City: atwater

    Tips: Good luck!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished with my brother. perfect weather, we caught three a piece. one 3 lb nothin else w size. all my fish but one were on swimbaits. one strike king. the carp were gettin it on all over the bank. still a tough bite but hash a blast.
    City: merced

    Tips: fished shallow but no size. these fish are presured dont want to commit.

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing Saturday until mid afternoon. Caught a couple 4lbs on windy points. Wind was bad. Caught smaller fish in the morning and the bigger ones later in the afternoon. All jig fish in shallow water. 5'-15' deep.

    Tips: Both 4lbs were spawned out. Jigs on main points. fished submerged structure with only small fish being cuaght. find rocky main body points and hold on. Had a few bites on the old swimbait, but nothing would hang on.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished with my brother mar 07& 08. on fri got a huge bass. four all day. on the 08 wind was blowin lots of debri in the water. one all day. rough fishin but its pickin up. supprised w all the boats on the lake noone postin.
    City: merc3d

    Tips: watch for debri , an the wind .

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went up for a couple of hours Sunday morning. Wind was blowing. Caught 3 bass 4, 3, and 2 lbs. Caught them on homemade watermelon jig with a Zoom Speed Craw Watermelon/Red trailer. All three were in 5-10 feet of water, tight to cover.
    City: Fresno

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Very windy day and got worse as day went on. Caught a few 2 pounders on brown/purple and brown/melon jigs. A few bites were solid, but most were soft. Try 15 ft or deeper and lake has come up some, but water is still murky and watch out for debris.
    City: Fresno

Monday, February 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well its feb and that mean it time to hit the flats in 18 to 25 feet of water and humps in 15 to 30 feet of water. Im going with 1/4 & 3/8 oz bullet head jig in lite pumpkin green with a 208 watermelon red/black flake single tail yamamoto 5" grub as my trailer. You can swim this bait in shallow or deep water long cast slow retrive is best afternoon bite works best for me im stayin with flats as bass will move up through out the day. I would even throw junebug with a june bug yamamoto trailer in a 5" single tail grub also. With the warmer weather coming this week thing may turn around slowly but it should start picking up here shortly.
    City: kerman ca

    Tips: Long cast slow retreive is best i like bullet head jig this time of year for the feel contact is everything right now.

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 44-47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished dam most of the day one bite drop shot basstrix minnow. fished strike king swimbait.dt12 bl/blu jig w/chigger trailer. nothin. wind sarted blowing moved upper. no takers all day. not a good time for fish but we were the only boat on the lake.
    City: merced

    Tips: wait till water temp reaches mid or lower 50's

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Stopped in on my way back from Fresno, Lake is Low but looks like it has come up a few feet with all the wood and grass floating around. Started out with a DD22 in Craw then switched to a
    Balsa-B in siver/black and did not get touched, slowed down retrieve to almost dead stop and nothing. Drop/Shot 082, 082 chartail, purple grape, grn/pkn worms never got touched. Brown/ppl jig, Brn/Org jig nothing. Senko-Blk/Red, Purple/
    Grn/Pkn, Texposed and Wacky nothing.
    The only bites in four hours was the sandwich i ate on the way home.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: None

Monday, December 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45 to 49.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Live bait crawdads & large minnows are taking bass in 8 to 15 feet of water. Jig fishing and swimbait 7 drop shotting are taking a back seat to live bait. The father & son team of andy & jared anderson of madera caught bass on crawdads in 8 to 10 feet of water near rock piles on saturday biggest bass was 4 pounds. A second planting of trout was done last week but not many anglers are trying from the bank or trolling for them. Traffic is very light and lake is stable ramps are both open. 559-689-3255
    City: kerman ca

    Tips: Having alot of patience this time of year helps.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 53.8 to 56.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ok bass fisherman the trout are in for round one and traffic is on the light side and bass moved back up shallow. Swimbaits work for my fishing partner on 12/9/07 with and 8/10 and 5/0 bass both bass were in less than 5 feet of water. Jig fish can also be caught in depths of 8 to 15 feet also. Afternoon bite is much better than the morning.
    City: kerman ca

    Tips: slow down and target and area small rock piles drop offs and brush piles and small trees are holding bass.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The bass are holding in 18 to 30 feet of water and 1/4 oz bullet head or 3/8 oz. football head jigs in brown or brown/purple work good here right now. there are some quilty fish to be caught you have to work for them but they are there. Dropoffs edges of rock piles and humps are all holding bass.
    City: kerman ca.

    Tips: LONG CAST SLOW RETRIVE

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: if your not using jigs here then your missing out number are on the down side but size is still there on bass to 4 pounds. brown/grn pumpkin in 3/8 oz arkie or 1/4 oz bullet head and 5" yamamoto single tail grubs ( 208 )watermelon red/black flake will do the trick here. hit the 15 to 25 foot range and there is plenty of structure to hit here bass are holding around rock piles dam area drop offs and channels.
    City: kerman ca

    Tips: slow up make contact the bas are there in these spots. This time of year i like to swim my jigs.