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Sunday, March 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my buddy mike started the morning off in the main body throwing ripbaits. We hooked up with eight keepers within 15 min. As soon as the sun came up the bite stopped. With the wind blowing we decided to go back in the west branch and look for mud lines. We fished from about 9am to 2pm with no bites. Around 2pm the fish moved up and started feeding. At one point we caught 20+ fish on a solid mudline with a dropshot and a shakyhead. We ended the day with around 40 fish and a 13 pound bag... Real happy with that!!
    City: Yuba Dubba

    Tips: Sleep In!

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Buckner and I got out early and started tossing ripbaits along points and walls. We noticed a lot of surface activity and the fish inhaled our rapala and lucky craft rips in silver/char. and silver/red. One fish was just tearing me up--felt like the one--but she was hooked in the back and hard to turn. I followed that bite with my first senko fish of the year. Tossed an orange pumpkin into a slot along the wall that just begged for it "wacky style". We moved to the main and fished the slot with dartheads to finish the day at noon with over a dozen spots.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: The ripbait bite made our day, but we never hooked another fish on them after the early am. Just like prior trips, we would fish 200 feet with no action, then find two or three biters in one spot. Very little pressure on the lake for a nice Sunday morning.

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Al and I fished tube jigs and dartheads in the main body Sunday. Even with a late 10am start and tournament traffic we managed some nice quality spots to 2.5 lbs. We got bit on many colors including shad, green, purple and brown roboworms in 4.5 and 6 inch sizes. Almost all our fish hit from 10-18 feet deep on the bottom. Spoke with some real nice tourney fishermen who were also having a good day with similar offerings. On the way back in, we were checked by F & G wardens in an unmarked blue aluminum jet boat!
    City: Paradise

    Tips: We spent over an hour on one side of the main for zero fish, then cruised directly across to the other side to find our biters. Very light bites! If you feel anything unusual or lose contact with the bottom, set the hook.

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: warmer

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: joe daddy here, had a couple bites and 1 fish(141/2) on pinky magic. jitterbug had "coho bite". the rabbi came through with 2 fish. one nice 16" 2 pound spottie full of eggs.
    City: palermo

    Tips: confucious say slack in line equal slack in head

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Lime Saddle early Sunday and worked towards main body. Ramp is good w 2 lanes open. Two friends and myself tossed ripbaits and plastics in fairly clear and chilly 48 degree water with no action. The wind chased us out to the main body where we hooked a coho and then a nice spot about 3 lbs on a dark colored tube jig. Saw a lot of boats working the North Branch, but no fish. Early afternoon temps hit 53 in south facing banks with mudlines and that is where we found biters. We tossed dark roboworms rigged on light dartheads in shallow to 15' for the best bite of the day.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Sleep in! fish after noon with warming water. The best bite for us came off a muddy point with heavy boat traffic.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

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    Water Temp: Don't know

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out the last two Sundays. Bass fishing is almost pointless, with all the pros fishing the lake. Salmon fishing is still going strong and 3 of us caught 19 on Sunday and 11 the week before. All about 13 inches. P.S. This site is for posting fishing reports and fishing tips. Not for asking lame questions and talking smack. Also Lake Oroville doesn't have Kokanee. You probably caught some Coho. Coho are silver and Kokanee are red with big teeth.
    City: Chico

    Tips: Fast troll 80 feet back on top water close to shore. Earth colors seem to working best but silver with a black back works well too. Drift fishing night crawlers never fails. For bass fishing, find muddy banks and try using brown with purple flake. In clear water, try a smoke color shad on a drop shot.

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Sunday with a buddy and only had 2 bass all day until about 4pm. That is when the boat traffic died down a bit and we could venture to a point or 2. (we were in a small jon boat with only a trolling motor)We hooked into a nice school of spots on a secondary point the wind was blowing into. We caught 9 spots on that one point with the biggest going 2.8 and out of the 9, 5 of them were 2 pounds or better. We had back to back to back casts that produced 3 spots 2lb+
    City: Paradise

    Tips: We had our early bass on a spinnerbait and a crankbait. But all those spots on the point came off a 6" worms texas rigged in about 15 feet of water. The funny thing....we watched 3 or 4 tourney boats stop at this point and catch nothing. But I'm sure they were already weighing in by the time the point loaded up. We located a huge spot all the way back into a creek in about 5 feet of water but she laughed at everything we offered. I guessing she was about 5 pounds or more.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: newcomer
    City: red bluff

    Tips: your guide fishes to make sure there are fish for you to try and catch. he does not want to fish you in a spot where there are not enough fish for you to catch, thats why he's called a guide. he guides his clients to fish and when he catches fish it shows you the fish are there and catchable the rest is up to you. most of your better guides do not fish once they put you on fish, they just baby sit the client.

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just a couple of questions. Should guides fish while ther're taking you out? I don't think they should!!! After all you're paying these guys your hard earned money so you can be taught how to fish and what to use at certain spots. He may be catching your fish!!! You should be the only one fishing!! Isn't it why thery're called "guides"...
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Anyone who's ever thinking about going on a guided trip should first find out if he's going to fish. You should ask the guide if he is going to fish. These guys already charge you way too much!!!!!!!!

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished during the rain showers. Started at 1:00 PM and my nephew had the first spot in 15 minutes on a brown/green 4" worm Texas rigged. I was getting bit on the drop and changed tactics and caught and released 4 kokanee salmon 13-14" on a 1/4OZ darter head with a 4" green/brown worm, Panther Martins worked well too. Lake was down 200' still. One ramp open at the spillway ramp!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Dress for worst weather!

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: FYI
    Lake level hit 700' Friday. Still 200' down. 60' better than last year at this time.

    Spillway ramp open, 1 lane. Secondary spillway ramp needs about 20 more feet. Main ramp needs about 100' feet.

    Secondary/New Bidwell ramp open.
    City: East Foothills

    Tips: To DWR: Stop releasing water!!!!
    Look at Lake Information for Oroville and go to DWR link to see infow and outflow.

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my son out Saterday for a couple of hours. Got on the water about 3:15pm and fished the main lake with rip baits,grubs and jigs with no results. Moved into some small pockets and switched to morning dawn 6" worms and started picking up fish. all the fish came from 10 to 15 feet deep on gravel banks. Best 5 went just under 13lbs. Good time for us. Was off the water at 5:35.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Morning dawn 6" worms on 1/8oz dart head very slow in 10' to 15'

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 41-45

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Friend took me out and we had a friendly competition w/ another boat. I commited to a reaction bite and got skunked. My partner caught 2 throwing a jig and the other boat caught one on a crank and 3 rippin earlier in the morning. Slow day all together but still had fun. Thanks Rich!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Youre best bet at a limit will be early and then you will have to slow down.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy226/tomloans/chartviewer.png
    City: Oroville

Friday, January 29th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Ramp Update: Visted the Oroville ramps this afternoon. Spillway ramp is closed. Looks like the single lane ramp used to the left of the secondary spillway ramp needs about 12'-16' to be usable. The "new" Bidwell ramp is open. 2 lanes, very restricted dock space.
    City: Oroville

    Tips: Keep the Department of Water Resources (DWR)honest. NO/MINIMUM OUTFLOW DURING RUN UP TO SPRING!!!!

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lake is up about 20'. Has anyone been around the Lime Saddle Ramp to see how much more water we need to put that ramp to use? Would be nice to launch from this end instead of Bidwell. And for any of you guys that might have purchased my baits in the past, I sold that business to a guy in Elk Grove and its now called Trophy Baits and will officially go live on Feb 1. He still has all the spot spanker, pink prism recipes and will be adding new stuff. And thanks for your past support.
    City: Paradise

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 3/16 darthead, Pro Worms morning dawn 4" leech shaken not dragged. Try sandy banks and banks with steep drops that flatten out in 20-25ft.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3 fish all day 2 on crawdads 1 on oxblood worm tried everthing points ,rocks,sand depyh but nothin payed off ,beutifull day but cant get on the fish .... help
    City: oroville

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: yuba city bass busters had there third tourney of the season at oro sat. the winner had over 11 pounds and 2nd through 6th were over 10 lbs. multiple 8 and 9's. so all in all a good tourney. tight lips on the baits used i guess theres a wrl coming up.
    City: plumaslake

    Tips: i finished with 10.18 all my fish came on jigs tight to shore. if your interested in fishing our club e mail me.

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 43-48 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the North fork and west branch today, did well on plastics all day long both 4 and 6", steep walls and tapering points were both holding fish.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: slow crawl or shake the heck out of it!