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Saturday, March 17th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Take your own advice catch and release buddy.
    City: Bay Area

    Tips: Fishing beds is one thing keeping is another.

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THIS IS ALSO FOR STAFFORD LAKE
    Started fishing around 9pm on Saturday night. Threw everything in my bag for 4 hours up and down the bank, worms, rat-l-traps, spinners, jigs, cranks, top-water frogs, others. I didn't get a single bit, not anything. The about 1am the moon started to come up, coincidence, I think not.
    Well the bites started to come, well actually only one bite. It was a 10lb 14ounce lunker that took my favorite bait. After that lunker the bite turned on and I caught between 10-15 fish, though none bigger then 3lbs after the big one.
    City: Novato

    Tips: Worms and soft plastics still seem to be the way to go. Though for the first time out there I started to see fish roll.

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    Water Temp: 60-ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Stafford Lake for about 3 hours, one bite, one hook-up, one keeper...about a 2 1/2-pounder on a craw patterned Rat-L-Trap.

    I am posting the Stafford report here because there is no other place to post, and Nicasio is closest...
    City: Novato

    Tips: Would like to see more posts for this lake, and for Stafford... Webmaster please take note

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My boy Rico and I fished my best spot and caught 6 females each.All over 5#s,but they were full of eggs. We kept 1 to eat and released the rest.
    City: richmond

    Tips: Throw lizards and top water baits. I can't give to much info, it's fishing. Catch and release when bass are spawning. Think like a fish!

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I have been out two times in the past two weeks and it was good both times. First trip I fished from 11:00 - 5:00. Caught 4 by 12:30, biggest was 4.2 and then went 2 hours without a bite. Wind picked up a bit and the bite turnded on. Caught 10 in the next two hours and finished with a 7.0 in a 2 feet of water.
    Trip two was w/my buddy John and between the two of us we caught 15 to 4.0 lbs.
    City: novato

    Tips: Caught fish on soft plastics (brush hogs and beavers) spinner baits, chatter baits and shallow running crank baits. Caught a lot of fish in 6' of water or less. Fish seem to be in prespawn mode.

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 1:00 to 5:30 and caught 10 bass to 4lbs. Caught 9 of them on a chatterbait and 1 on a brush hog in 3 to 10 feet of water. Water is usually like chocolate milk this time of year, but is very clear right now with the lack of rain.
    City: novato

    Tips: Lighten up your colors, try to go more natural. I was yoyoing the chatterbait and getting a lot of hits as it fell. I think a spinnerbait would work just as well, just very your retrieve.
    CATCH AND RELEASE. High mercury count in this lake (It's posted around the lake).

Friday, October 20th, 2006

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    Water Temp: low 60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the island with John. Caught 15 fish on rattle traps, crankbaits, spooks, Senko's etc. Most the fish in the 1 to 3 lbs range. Last fish of the day was a 6.2 lbs fatty.
    City: novato

    Tips: I threw a lot of top water and swim baits, but you can catch a lot of fish if you stuck with crankin and plastics.

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished the island with my buddy John. We caught fish on top water, crank baits, brush hogs, superhogs, beavers. 18 fish in all, nothing big. Lots of ticks.
    City: novato

    Tips: catch and rtelease

Monday, June 12th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey, For anyone that wants to talk fishing write me an email. I have a few hot spots around the bay area to catch fish and just want to talk fishing with some anglers. I'm just trying to catch more fish and become a better angler myself. Don't write me back unless you catch and release, no bass killers please. christian_cavanaugh@umit.maine.edu I'm just trying to get more talk on the website.

    Tight Lines
    City: Mill Valley

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: You know the story. If I tell I will have to kill you. Fish my spot and caught 8 keepers on a senko. Smallest was 3#er,largest was 6#er. Only person fishing for bass, others killing crappies and carp.
    City: richmond

    Tips: Stay in muddy areas. Throw everything. No patterns yet.Catch and release full of eggs. Think of future .

Monday, May 15th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a few hours Sun. evening. Fished the rip rap areas looking for a reaction bite. Caught three, two on spinnerbaits, one on buzzbait. Big Fish went a little under 4# caught on the buzzbait.
    City: San Rafael

    Tips: If its getting late, and the wind is picking up- throw the buzzbait. I couldnt really get a feel for the current pattern.

Friday, April 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the shallows for a few hours this afternoon. Caught a 4.5 and a 4.75, one on a purple Kinami creature bait rigged weightless, the other on a topwater popper. Kinami fish was caught in about 4' of water, topwater was caught in 1'. This spawn seems a little odd compared to others I've seen on other lakes. I've never seen so many Carp hanging in the shallows, waiting to feast on the bass eggs.
    City: San Rafael

    Tips: Throw everything you got. Topwater action should be starting up pretty soon.

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Pete,
    The brass and glass does make a difference with the water clarity being so mudddy. The clicking of the brass and glass sounds like crawdad claws and will call the fish into the bait. Shake the rod with loose line for 15-30 seconds and then give a slow lift of the rod tip. Work the bait all the way to the bank. I got out on friday for a couple of hours, Joe caught a 6.0 on a brush hog (same fish I caught the day before on a chatter bait) 4.55 on a chatter bait and Joan (7yrs) brought a 5.0 to the shore only to drop her rod tip and watch that fish swim away. She was still very excited.
    City: novato

    Tips: Catch and Release

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried to take advantage of the break in the weather, but if its not rain, its 20 mph winds. Found a nice Cove (Thanks for the tip Zane), that was somewhat protected from the wind. Threw rattletraps, speedtraps, soft plastics, spinnerbaits. Pumpkin seed baby brush hog was the winner today- landed a 5+lb catfish on it-felt like a largemouth the way it ran. My buddy hooked a decent largemouth on a light green storm lure on the windy side.
    City: San Rafael

    Tips: Present nice and slow. Have not tried the brass and glass yet. Does it make that much of a difference?

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished for a few hours in the afternoon, caught 4 fish, biggest was 6.0 lbs. Caught one on a brush hog and three on a chatterbait.
    City: novato

    Tips: Fish dark colors visibilty is about 2 in. again with 3.5 inches of water we got on tuesday and wednesday.

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: water looked like Nestlies Quick.Caught one big LMB slow rolling a black spinnerbait in one of the brushy coves. It was the palest bass I have ever seen. Nothing on plastics or crankers.
    City: Sausalito

    Tips: Slow presentations. Maybe try some scent. Bring tick repelent.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Took a couple of buddies out and fished all day. John had big fish of the day, 8.7 on a brush hog and a couple of 3+.
    My big fish was a 5.7 and Lens was a 4.4.
    City: novato

    Tips: Fished soft plastics real slow on brass and glass.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 2:30 to 6:00 and had 3 bites. They were all solid fish, #5.15, 5.96 and 4.77.
    Visibilty is about 2 inches.
    City: novato

    Tips: Fished real slow with dark brush hogs and double wide beavers on brass and glass.

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: thanks zane. I will give it a try soon. Too bad about no float tubes.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: No float tubs. Fish should start moving shallow with the next round of good weather. Great lake in the spring, lots of fish in the
    2 -5lbs range.
    City: novato

    Tips: Fish dark colors and slow.