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Saturday, May 6th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a friend fishing who has never bass fished in his life, and this day turned out to be perfect. We caught so many bass that he said his arms were getting tired. Most fish were about 12-14" but we did have some that were bigger. We threw plastics all day, and color didn't really matter either. Senkos, Brush Hogs, Dartheads, the fish ate them all. I heard Rip baits are doing good also but I never tried. We saw a fisherman hold up a 10-2 at a weigh in that he said he caught on a jig off a bed while sight fishing. It was a beauty! Picked up a few crappie also.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Take your kid fishing, this is the perfect time for them to have a blast catching fish.

Monday, May 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 67.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It is on fire right now if you got it throw it. Fish are very aggressive.
    City: Modesto

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just got back from a 4 day trip. Seven of us total and we caught approx 500 bass. The biggest was 4.5 lbs. Most fish were caught on senko's. Clear with red and black flake, green with red and green flakes, and amber red flake. Few were caught on spinner baits, including the 4.5. No debri, water was warmer in different parts of the lake. Lots were keepers and lots were 14.5 inches! Wish I could go back today!!!
    City: Rough and Ready

    Tips: I would use senko's and spinnerbaits in white. Find the rocks either in coves or on the main body.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 64 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived on the lake at 0600. Spanked them on a Chartreuse Spinnerbait with a silver blade. Caught 12 fish in the first 90 minutes, with most fish between 2-3 lbs. All fish hit the Spinnerbait withn 6 feet of the bank...awesome!!! Fished along the western wall of Ski Cove. After 0800, switched to a smoke/chartreuse Bass Addict worm/Texas rigged and fished all the way around ski cove and caught another 10 bass over the next 2 hours. Most were spots, and fat. I didn't leave Ski cove until 1000!...Also fished cottonwood creek, and caught 3 more on a white/silver spinnerbait, 3 more on topwater, and a few more sized on lizards and smoke and cotton candy Bass Addict worms, the avg weight of all the bass were 2-3 lbs...my friend Anthony Tonachion told me about these types of days in the past, and it happened today!!!
    City: Merced, CA

    Tips: Seemed like the best fishing happened at sun up..and shad patterns were the best...smoke and chartreuse, smoke and cotton candy, chartreuse Spinnerbaits...go to A-1 Bait and pick up some of the hand poured Bass Addict in shad patterns...Anthony swears by them and so do I...

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 10 Bass in 4 hours, ranging from 2-4 pounds. Ski Cove, Temperance, and points are the best bet. The bass are moving up. Saw plenty of 4-6 pounders cruising the areas near the bank until 10 AM. Caught my bass on the usual: White and Chartreuse Spinnerbaits, Rip Baits, Watermelonseed Lizards.
    City: Merced

    Tips: Park off the area..bass are skiddish right now. Should be able to sight fish soon.

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the lake friday, i caught 25+ bass and 2 really nice catfish. one weighed 7 lbs the other close to 8 lbs. about a quarter of the bass we caught we used live crawdads and minnows.
    the rest with caught using flukes,dropshoting a green weenie. The bass we caught averaged 2-3 lbs the largest weighing 4 lbs.
    we caught the catfish believe it or not on live crawdads.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: i heard from some fisherman that the crappie bite is hot right now in buckley cove at night using live minnows. so if your willing to withstand the cold go for it, you should do well.

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the lake on saturday, arrived late about 10 a.m I caught roughly about 17 bass
    some were dinks the biggest pushed 3 1/2 lbs
    I caught most of my fish using a grub (watermelon) color and a White fluke
    the rest were caught on live bait crawdads and minnows. The water level went way up since last weekend so be careful driving lots of debree in the water.
    anyone has any questions about fishing this lake you can reach me by emailing me at jacobsherman20@yahoo.com
    City: Turlock

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the lake on Saturday and caught about 18 bass using live crawdads again. For all the anglers that use live bait I have bad news the marina isnt going to be selling anymore live minnows I dont know why. Your best choice will have to be in snelling at A1 bait and tackle
    My buddy caught a 9lb channel cat by accident on a crawdad
    City: turlock

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Turlock Fire Inc. tourney. We stayed in the river arm all day. We caught a couple dropshotting, the rest were on worms and jigs. We had 1 on a crankbait. We ended up with a couple of onces shy of 16lbs. Fun tourney, great group of people.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Brown plastics, brown jigs caught 2.8-3lbers. Crankbait caught our big fish 6.3lbs. 90% of our fish came in 2ft-10ft

Monday, March 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 40

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Back again, What better way to spend my spring break But on the lake. I fished 5 out of the 10 day spring break. Did well. I caught total out of the 5 days at least 40-50 bass and good news the crappie bite is on. If you catch one 10 to 15 are right behind him. I was mainly using my grub made by Gary Yahmamoto it is dark green with black spots.I fished about 40-50ft down. My buddy was using a large white crappie jig and he pulled out alot as well they we not as big as mine his fished average 1 lb but he found the crappie and once one was found that when I started using one.

    My trolling motor foot pedal cable broke that was a downfall but hopefully i will have it fixed by next trip

    if anyone would like to see some of the pictures of my spring break and the lake email me
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Crappie are begining to hit fish deep structures slow with small jigs

    We caught all of our crappie at Horseshoe Bend
    in various coves

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53 to 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught over 30 fish Sunday in the river area.1lb up to 3lb nothing very big, we had to fish super slow and down size .Brushhogs and robo worms seemed to be the ticket, also caught a few crappie on the brushhogs
    City: Modesto

    Tips: when u think ur fishing slow enough slow down even more, come on warm wheather

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Visited a buddy of mine that lives in Placerville... We made the drive down to the foothills and fished McClure from 830am-6pm. Between the two of us caught 8 bass and 1 trout. I was fishing cranks all day (Rebel Craw and shad), and my buddy was fishing dart and drop shot from about 20-40ft. I caught 2 bass including the big fish of the day that weighed in at 2lbs 9oz... Caught big one just inside White's Gulch on Eastern Arm at about 12-15ft... We caught most of fish in the East Arm with a few off the main lake in the West... Most fish caught drop shotting or darts around 30ft. All in all it was a decent day...Mid 50s in the afternoon and off and on sun... I would think that Eastern Arm of the lake will pick up immensely in a few weeks when the fish move a little bit more shallow. I would say our biggest 5 weighed in at 9-10lbs...
    City: Kansas City

    Tips: Crank baits slow retrieve (deep divers) Best bet is deep fishing darts or drop shotting around 20-40ft...

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the lake all weekend. Saturday morning it actually snowed it was so cold we were only out on the lake for about an hour I caught 1 trout thats it. On Sunday we went back to the lake and caught 17 Bass. The first bass was the biggest weighing close to 5lbs the others all averaged around 1 1/2 to 3lbs. It was windy all day long we found some coves that blocked the wind and used grubs and worked them really slow.
    we also used live crawdads.
    City: turlock

    Tips: If you dont have a 2 pole stamp go get one.
    I use one rod that has a grub on it and another rod with either a live crawdad or minow.
    you guys can email me anytime for info and pictures
    I bring a digital camera with me every trip.
    my email adress is jacobsherman20@yahoo.com

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished live crawdads for a couple of hours on sunday morning. Caught 10 bass, biggest five would have went close to 15 lbs. Lake is getting ready to turn on in the next couple of weeks. Have fun!
    City: Concord, CA

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey remember the good old days when melander was on the water before he was to good to fish with boom boom and myself. again its time for are moment of silience to remember steve's bait shack.... I heard steve is tournament fishing now? i looked for him on the bassmasters classic but he was not found.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: Steve loved the BPC Lure?

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ok got on the water around 7a.m. caught one bass about 2 lbs on a watermelon grub first cast. next two hours nothin I tried slow/fast retrieves
    I could see bass in about 5-6ft of water under rock ledges using polarized glasses. So I decided to go buy some live medium minnows we caught 10 bass, 1 trout sizes varing 2-3 lbs in about 4 hour period.
    trolling .5 to 1mph running parallel from the bank about 8 to 10 ft.away
    dropping the minnow down to the bottom, and reeling up about 2 ft
    I try to fish McClure lake at least once a week so if anyone has any questions or facts you can email me at jacobsherman20@yahoo.com
    City: Turlock

    Tips: If you dont have polarized glasses GET SOME its a good investment, and if all else fails go to the marina and buy some live bait.

    I believe you can never work a softbait such as a worm grub crawdad imitation to slowly

    BE SAFE HAVE FUN AND REPORT POACHING

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 51.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Mother Lode Bass Anglers launched 14 anglers on 7 boats from South Barretts ramp on a drizzly Saturday morning for our first event of the year. Water temp held fairly steady during the day, highest we saw was 52.3 and lowest was 50.9. During the week the weather soothsayers looked into their crystal balls and anxiously wrung their hands while forecasting "big weather" but it was not to be, the day ended fairly nice with steady cloud cover thruout the day and some light winds (0-5), barometric pressure was ~30.93. Rain tapered off by 8:30. Rain gear was off by 9:30am.

    While past reports of deeper bass holding in 30-45' seemed to be confirmed on the finder as we motored around, we caught most in 5-15' while casting to the bank and pulling it back. Limits were caught on green pumpkin colored jigs, green pumpkin spider grubs, clear bottomed/purple topped black flake drop shot worms. Black/blue jig was unproductive. I had more bites in the warmer water. Coves, humps, and western banks were the better producing areas. Lots of activity in the first hour, we thought that we'd be culling by 9 but then it really slowed down and you had to work for hits, I put 6 in the boat during the day with my last keeper at 3:30, my boater put 10 in. Eventual winner had a limit by 9am and put over 20 fish in the boat during the day on deadsticking a green pumpkin senko.


    Fish caught: Almost all spots and hybrids with 2-3 smaller largemouths in the mix. Big fish was 3.7 and the winning bag came in at 13.5, 2nd had 11.4, 3rd came in 10.75, 4th with 10.25.
    City: Sonora, CA

    Tips: winter color patterns, once you find them stay on them till they turn off, we had good success higher up and closer to the shore than we'd expected. no one reported any sort of reaction bite

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Devil Mountain Bass club event at McClure on Sat. There were two other tournaments at McClure and the Sourth ramp was PACKED! We launched from the North ramp which we pretty much had to ourselves. Anyway it was a tough bite from some but two of us managed to catch almost two limits. We did a paper tournament this time out since there is a15" limit on the lake. Winner had a bag of almost 10 lbs and second place was just half a pound behind at 9.3 lbs for 5 fish. My newbe partner (first time bass fishing from a bass boat) stuck two huge rainbows 7lbs and 5 lbs on a DARTHEAD of all things. It was pretty funny watching him fight the fish but he did a good job and landed both fish! Weather was fantasic and even with the big tournament one the lake we saw very few boats and were not crowded at all. Water is down 60 ft from full and you could see about 5 ft down. We found our fish on the main lake off a major point from 25-40 feet. Later in the day I ran to a deep flat tht was about 45-30 feet in depth with some old wood at the bottom. Managed to cull 3 of my fish in that spot.Most bites were a light tab or the line would go slack. Just realy up and set the hook. Fish are eating but the bite is light. Had three or four bites where the fish would pick up the tail of my worm and swim off. When I set the hook, I got back the front half of the worm only.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: We had the most succes with football head jigs with hula grubs, t rigged worms and brown rubber skirted jigs with a grub trailer. Fish deep and slow. Try cinnimon, brown and orange and green weenies. Darthead for the big rainbows!

Monday, December 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Very warm day high 60's overcast. Bite seems to be the best first thing in the morning. Caught all fish in about 10-20ft by texas rigging 6 inch worms shad patterns seemed to work the best.
    City: Hughson

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISH DEEP TO 40 FT. YOU MAY HAVE TO FIZ YOUR BASS FROM AIR BLOAT ? KEEPER WORMS, YAMAMOTO KREATURE BAIT RIP BAIT AND SPINNER BAITS ALSO ARE WORKING WELL. SPOTS IN THE 2 TO 3LB RANGE ARE BEING CAUGHT ALL OVER THE LAKE.........SILVER SALMON (COHO'S) WE HERE TO 4 LBS ARE ALSO BEING CAUGHT TROLLING EX-CEL IN BLACK AND GREEN SHAD PATTERNS !

    Tips: DRESS WARM, ITS COLD AND FOGGY !! DRIVE WITH CARE ! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM JIGS