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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75 to 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 4:30 in the morning with my uncle. Fished around the dock areas before safelight. Stuck a 2.5 lbs. blackie with white bomber crankbait. At safe light, we went back river and caught a few in the 2 lbs. range of both smallies and blacks dropshotting aaron's magic roboworms. Came back to the main by 9:30 and found about close to 20 more fish in the 2+ lbs. range spooning and dartheading. Biggest fish was 3 lbs. 13 oz. on a darterhead. Best five went close to 15 lbs. Good day on the water.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Don't forget shad colored plastics and aaron's magic worms. Most fish were spitting out shad so you know what that means.

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got Early Start, On Water At 5:20am. Fished Points, and Banks Off Main River.
    Caught First One On 6' Diving Plug. Switched Over To Split Shot'in 4" Plastics For Rest Of Day. Best 5 total 11Lbs. Most Were Spots.
    City: folsom

    Tips: None

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Okay so I have to assume you guys that posted before me must not have bothered to select the appropriate water clarity button. Was bummed to get to Pardee and find 15 to 25 ft visibility!! Where's the 'stained' water and 'muddy' banks these guys talked about?? Then the clincher was the species. Of course there are smallmouth, but 'spots'?? These aren't spots! These are Northern strain LARGEMOUTH! So funny you guys call 'em SPOTS! Northern strain largemouth have a real compressed black line down their sides, kinda like a spot. Check the upper jaw when it's mouth closed, it extends beyond the center of a vertical line thru its eye.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Water is soo stinkin' clear, better get out there early and pick up a couple on topwater. On Saturday they were pretty non-commital on the spook, flashing on it and swelling several times. We landed a couple to about 2 lbs. Picked up one on a dart head in about 20 ft of water. Caught a couple more on a LC Stacy 90 rip and jerk baits. Nothing big this day and saw no cruisers at all, and we looked real hard. Fished big Huddie swimbaits with no results-same for smaller ones. Topwater was most fun, who knows, hit it on the right day and it could be real good.

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the early morning part up river towards the back. Dead silent. Threw dropshots-NOTHING. Came back and saw a guy throwing gsr's. I finally caught 7 spots. Worked the points, took 3 out. Rock/mud gave me 4 more. Left around 3pm. Guys were reporting not to fly out back to pardee. No fish. Stick up front as the bass are feeding on trouts getting ready for a departure.
    City: Elk grove

    Tips: Get Out And Fish!!!

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    Water Temp: 69-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was extremely well today. Caught a total of 27 spots and smallies. Bites came off a 1/2 oz white spinnerbait and a Rapala GSR 7 D/DVR. Worked the points and to my suprise the muddy banks. Can't wait till my next trip out.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Stick to these lures and don't switch or you'll be sorry. The bite is on.

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 8. Started off trying topwater for nothing. Threw dropshot right up on a point and caught 4 fish in 5 casts. One went 5pounds. Caught 2 more on the dropshot, and one around 3 on a flickshake.

    Also, while throwing the huddleston pulled in some ld fishing line,. Pulled it out of the water and a huddleston was on it too!
    City: fair oaks

    Tips: Fish around 10ft off main lake points. Saw some more fish cruising. All fish caught on the fall, just as the bait hit the bottom

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the wife cool day but not to cold. There were only a few boats on the lake. Fishing was good again 15 for the day. One was over 6 lbs and 3 fish L/M over 3lbs. Again all on reaction baits. Over cast weather made the fishing great

    Tips: Get out there before our weather heats up. There is a lot of Fish that can be pulled in at this lake.

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake after boat inspection 7am.
    Tried some top water dart head drag some worms no takers. Ok what's up with this lake? Went to my go too spinner bait and fishing got good then. Third cast 4/1/2 small mouth two large mouth over 3/lbs the rest just keepers and ended up with 16 fish. See ya on the water just look for the blue and white Astro

    Tips: Never think its to sunny for spinner baits.

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a club tournament and got 4th with 18.70 lbs. with a 6lb kicker. We caught all of our fish in a 100 yd stretch. All fish were caught in 10-20ft of water dropshotting and dartheading. First place had 28lbs. Lots of people having luck on swimbaits, but not us. We looked shallow for beds and didn't find one- same thing for the rest of the guys in our club.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Dont shake bait too much and move it real slow. Best luck comes fishing parallel to the shore.

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    Water Temp: 61-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the lake for the first time in about 2 months, Thurs for about 6 hrs and Fri for about 4. I probably missed much of the spawn and had a lot of catching up to do concerning the condition of the lake. The wind was surprising bad Thurs - it started the moment I got into my boat about 10:30 am. It never stopped! Fishing was slow but I did get my 8 or 9 lb limit - the first was a nice 3 lb 6 oz largemouth that hit a green pumpkin Power worm in the narrows. The other 4 were largemouth too, with no pattern as to where they were. I missed 4 or 5 bites. Fri the wind was not a problem and I was able to sight fish a smallie and a largie - about 2 lbs each. The only 2 nests I saw with fish on them. A Roboworm white/chartreuse Sourpuss did the trick. I caught another largie on a island top in the middle of the lake. Is it fall?!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I don't have much to offer after one April visit. There probably will be a few more ready to spawn but I guess most are done. I did see many empty nests as others have suggested. Topwater should start after the first heat spell - if that ever happens!!!

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out again today to try and get them. Fishing was slow again. I am not sure what the deal is but seems like the fish are really skitish. I looked and did not see any on beds shallow enough for me to see. I did manage to pick up 6 total, nothing big, maybe to 3 lbs. I tried everything, dropshot,swimbait, jerk bait. Managed to get them on senko and crank bait.
    City: Folsom

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    Water Temp: 57-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got a late start today. Started fishing at 2pm. Fishing was just about dead for me. Only caught a few largemouth on 4" dropshot in 5' of water. I tried jerkbaits, cranks, senko, tube, shakyhead - nothing. All the beds I found were empty. Looks like a lot of the spawn might be over. I could not find the smallies. But it was a nice pretty calm day on the water. It was good to be out.

    Some others I talked to said fishing ok for them - caught their limit for the most part. I heard other boats had the most success with dropshot on the LM as well. Grubs for the smallies.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Barricade at back of Main River temp was 57. Temp at 5 mph bouy below Barricade was 61. Temp in main lake/coves was 63. Hope the temps might help. I have no real advice because I could not get into them today.

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60,s

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Fri. and Sat.half days. Fishing was O.K. Caught about 10 but spent a lot of time working a couple of big cruisers and fixing my 10 year olds backlashes. Really only fished for about 6 hrs. combined both days. Water was very clear. 10# or lighter flourocarbon would be recommended. Caught fish on darthead reapers and dropshot 4 inch robo,s. Son caught a beautiful 4 pound smallmouth. Found a bush in about 12 feet of water off a point in the main body that was holding 2 monsters that were waiting to spawn. I would guess them both to be between 10 and 12 pounds. They just weren't quite ready to move in. A few males had beds nearby but just a day or two away from these big females coming in.
    City: Orroville

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Split Shot Plastic Worms All Day. Caught A Total Of 8, With 12lbs For Best 5. Trolled Back To Marina And Hooked 5 Trout. Lake Is Bust'in Out.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Crawdad Color Worked Best For Me.

Monday, April 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was our first time at Pardee and we had a good time. The wind wasn't too bad until 11:00 then it got bad. We didn't get bit fishing normally but then we started seeing beds and we only caught one, 4 pounder male, I know some people don't think it is right to fish for the bedding fish but I feel it is fine as long as you put them back. Went up the river a ways and saw a cove to the right,to get out of the wind, found probly 25 beds in there. We decided to go around 2:00 but on the way in we saw some calm water to the left of the 5 m.p.h. zone when we pulled into the area it looked like the redlight district there were beds everywhere roughly 100. Saw some huge fish but nothing.
    City: La Grange

Friday, April 4th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out today, fishing was slow. Super clear water. tried everything. worms, swim baits, cranks, jigs. Nothing worked. I only managed to catch 3 small ones on a senko. This lake is not quit ready yet.
    City: Folsom

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dad didn't get bit on plastics but Partner got 3 little one's on live crawfish. Dad talked to some people and they said fishing has been good the whole week but the storm front messed up fridays fishing going again on Monday, will check in after the trip. Hope others will write in also about thier trips...
    City: Oakdale

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 1 pm - sunset. Fishing was ok for me. Caught my limit of LM, and only one SM. Caught some of them on 4" dropshot warmouth in about 5'-10' of water when I first got there. Bite died down in the afternoon. I switched over to cranks in the evening and caught a few more. Smally was caught on the crank (and they would not touch a 4" worm?). Did try bit jerk bait for a little while hoping for a bigger fish with no luck. Fish were still where the below post found them.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: I see a lack of posts at Pardee, if you are one of those fishermen that check these fishing reports and don't post yourself, be a team player and post...

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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    Water Temp: no idea

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Father/Son annual camping trip to a lake I've never fished. This year we chose Pardee. Saturday was cloudy/sprinkled most of the day. Fishing was fantastic!!!Caught 30+ fish all up the river arm. 20 largemouth and 10 smallmouth. Didn't expect so much largemouth activity but they were chomping. Caught one that weighed just over 10 full of eggs in a cut off the river. Partner caught a 6.1 smallmouth at the secondary point leading into the area I caught the large fish. Used a variety of baits until about Noon when I figured out what they really wanted.

    Sunday was bluebird and much slower. Fished the river arm but not very far in...the fishing was slow until around Noon when the wind picked up. Moved out of the cuts and fished step rock walls/points. Caught 10 fish in a couple hours and lost 3 others. Two largies right at 5 lbs and one smallie that went 3.2. Off the water headed to home at 1:30 PM
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Drop shot was the ticket for all our fish. Best colors were MMII (overcast), Warmouth, and Oxblood. Most fish were caught between 5 - 35 feet. Cloud cover and wind chop fish were tighter to the bank. Blue bird all bites were deep. Line was important (6 lb or less) was the only way bites would occur. Tried other methods, jigs, split shot, carolina rig, swim baits...Only action was on the drop shot. The cuts had a few large fish in them, however, most fun for my son and I was at the entrance to the cuts and main river and secondary points.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49 to 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched At 8am And It Was A Beautiful Day.

    Water Was Like Piss On A Plate.

    Went To All My Favorite Spots.
    Drop Shotted, Split Shotted

    But Alas, All My Prayers To The Fish Gods Went Unanswered.

    Worst Fish Catching Day I Ever Had.

    It Got So Bad I Even Trolled For, Ugh,Trout.

    Even Though They Plant Heavily, No Trout Either.
    City: Carmichael

    Tips: Save Your Money. Wait For Water To Warm Up.