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Sunday, March 3rd, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at b&w at 2:30 or so and went west toward tower park.tide was dead low.pitched a senko on sparse tulls waiting or tide change.around 3:30 saw water slowing and started lippin 1/2 oz black/blue jig(thanks cooch)got 9 bites,boated 7 rom 2 to 4 1/2lbs on jig in 1 1/2hrs.inally a decent day.all ish were next to current in no more than 2 eet o water.
      City: sac

      Tips: one hour beore/one hour ater tide change

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went camping ished riday nothing. when it came saturday we ished in our loat tubes and didnt catch anything til night my riend caught 1 on a 5" yamommato crawdad in about 4' o water at night. on sunday i caught 1 in about 10' o water on a lightning blue yamommato spider jig with a 1/2 once jig head both were ished really slow. both ish were around 2lbs.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: ish really slow and i u get hung up on a little rock or somthing just wiggle your rod tip very lightly until it comes out and thats when the ish will hit it.ish up against bank rom about 20' to 3' o water and u dont even need a boat to catch these ish.

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Western Bass tournament on Sun. Too many patterns to mention. Fish could be had drop shotting in 30 t. or caught o o beds in 3 t. I had a bad day on the water and cost us weighing in a limit, but we did manage 6 ish or 11+. Found the bed ish a little too late in the day. A crazy day overall. Our irst ish came out o 30 t o water and our last ish came o o a bed.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: You just can't ignore 2 weeks o good weather, a ull moon, and 60 degree water. Check that shallow water.

Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 11:00 - 4:00. Looking or Mr. Bass. Caught three ish, a 2, 3.5 and 4+ in 5-10 oot o water. All were released. Used a brown 1/2 oz. Big Boy jig with Purple/black lake Yamamoto twin tail grub as a trailer, 10lb. test. The 3.5 and 4 were ull o eggs.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: The lake is several eet down so ind some areas with depth near shallows lats. The key was a north ace bank with lots o sunshine and a very slow presentation.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Not going to bore you all with my long narative (actually I want to, but busy at work!)so here goes ....Tried trolling or stripers in the south end. No luck. Tried driting Jumbo minnows or stripers. No luck. Tried trolling or trout. Caught 1 at 8 inch. Wish I could have tossed it out with a bobber! Went to work dropshotting in 35 to 50 eet and had a pretty good day. Most spots produced at least 1 or 2 bites. I wound up with say 11 bites and landed 6. All ish FAT and healthy. At irst glimpse in the watter they looked much larger as they were really at and thick. 3 smallmouth and 3 largemouth. Two largest (largemouth) weighed 3.8 and 3.6. Two largest smallmouth weighed 2.4 and 1.9. Smallest ish was the 1.9 or the day.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: go deep ....

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48 - 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, A nice day on the lake until around 11:00. Ya woulda thought it was July, the jetskis and water olks came out in droves!!The bite was slow irst thing in the morning, ripped and cranked or about 1 1/2 hours had one nice ish on the crank that came o at the boat. Went searching and about 8:15 the wind let up out to the main body I go. Went through 12 keppers some in the 2 to 2 1/2 lb range rom 8:45 till 11:30. Had to change up my normal plastic color though. I usually onlt throw morning dawn at two times:1) when the bite is real tough or2) post spawn them Folsom ish eat it then.Saturday it was the color o choice all the better ish came on it. Here's the kicker!! Some o these Fat spots tails were starting to get beat up, could it be? the start o the spawn.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Can't give a seasonal tip, my normal stu did not work, went to a back up plan and had a un ish catching morning.BFL at the end o the month should spell some big sacks i the weather continues it's trend.

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT AT 6AM. CAUGHT THREE RAINBOW TROUT TROLLING SUOER DUPERS.
      City: CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Zipperworm reporting in. Was on this lake or 4 days out o 9 between the BFL and an ABA team event Febuary 24th. Toss in a club event, and I thought I'd break o a post. Started the run with the BFL. It proved to be a pre-ish or the smaller lesser paying events that ollowed- got to work on that. Thought it was too early or a rip bite, but the BFL proved otherwise. It held up overnight or Sunday, the 14th and I hopped on my buddy Blademan's boat or a club tourney. Missed the win .2lbs with 9.15lbs. We did the run and gun on the main lake and Blademan threw spinnerbaits (imagine that) while I ripped and shook darterheads. He scored on shallow, wind-blown points where the water was murky. It stayed cloudy all day. A ull week elapsed between the club and the ABA. Wildman, my ABA partner illed my hardrive with e-mails speculating on the bite or this one. He'd had success ripping the week beore, and early spring weather conditions had him spun up only to have the weather change shut him down. It's Febuary- think there would be a cloud? Not one. Start calling him post-ront. He ripped one and I picked up where Blademan let o and caught 4 early on a white spinnerbait. We coasted through the rest o the day on darterheads. White, at-bodied paddletails on 3/16 or 1/4oz deadsticked between 8 and 20 eet. We weighed in 8.66 or 10th and split a small check. Spanked another team rom our club and picked up a little more cash.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Reaction ish are larger than the ish caught on sot plastics generally. Force the reaction bite as ar into the morning as you can.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53/56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake (ramp) about 8:00am Had to rewire Ign. systemto coils (TIP MAKE SURE BOAT RUNS BEFORE LEAVING FOR LAKE)Anyway ished north at the water all two BASS 2#/1.7#hit Cherry Creek points & drop os @ base o tree stumpstwo more 2/3# and Shirley caught one Crapie 2.6# mostly used small minnow plastics. Switched to FLW Crawwith small split shot in creek inlet Bammm Shirley's irstSTEELHEAD 26" NEW at Bass Fishing Any Tip's rom localLake Sonoma isherman (or women) THANKS
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: GET THOSE FISHING BOATS&MOTORS READY BEFORE HAND

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      Water Temp: 53-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma was on. My buddy and I landed 21 and had at least 30 bites. Size 1-2.7lbs. Most o the ish were in less than 15 eet and we got a bunch in the 3-8 oot range. Caught ish in Yorty, Cherry, and Warm Springs. Hits were usually pretty solid and the ish were hot. Weighed a 9.8 or a loat tuber without a scale. Beautiul ish. Too bad he planned to take it home. We need more ish in the lake like that one, and the spawn is just around the corner. The larger the ish the more important it is to return it to the water so that it can spawn and create more particularly well adapted specimens that are un to catch!
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Bottom hugging crawdad imitators - jigs, plastics in browns and greens. Wood was good though not required.

Friday, March 1st, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went loat tubing saturday on water at 3:30 o at 8:30 ish were very active.Caught 9 ish in the 1 1/2 lb to 4 1/2 lb range best 5 would go 16 lbs no monsters but alot o action as we missed as many as we caught. Fish were caught on 7 1/2 inch worms beore dark and 10 inch ater dark.nothing on jigs.We would have caught more but did not want to stay during that ater dark lull till they start bitting again. Any suggestions (would be greatly apreciated) on that ater dark lull, ishing usually dies until 11 pm them turns on again,I've haven't yet developed a good pattern or that time period except to ish very deep.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: worms small and dark. they are very lite biting just a slight weight dierence when you move your worm.smaller ish at 10tor less lager ish caught in 15-20 t. Ater the sun goes down dam it was cold (could have something to do with the ish shutting o though )

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I orgot to mention in the last report that I did catch and release both the 10 lber and the 2.5 lber. Even though I had another isherman get very upset because he wanted to eat it, I threw it back right in ront o him. Sorry buddy, catch yer own!!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE!!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was the morning o 2/27/02, rented the boat and headed back towards Honker Bay. All it took was two casts back there and stuck a 10.2 oz hawg. Stuck it out or another 3 hours and eventually caught one more (2.5 lber). I caught the big one on a 5" Senko and the other on a Texas rigged worm. Very good day or the tough Lake Chabot!!!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish your oering all the way back to the boat; not just right in the cover.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I have a report - just havn't had time to post it. My good riend Rick Tietz and I decided on Tuesday to see i anything would bite at Clear Lake ater the tournament crowd let. While it wasn't a great trip, we - I should say, he, did pretty well. WE made good decisions but HE caught all the ish - except a 12 inch bass which I was honored to catch. Ater all, we are looking or small bass at Clear Lake. arn't we? We started ishing areas near Red Bud in the morning, but only got one ish - a 4 pound rip ish. Pulled the boat out and went to Lakeport. It was calm and beautiul. We ished deeper tule clumps at the mouth o creeks and ound a ew nice ish. The highlight o the trip was Rick sticking a 6 1/2 pounder on a Basstrix swimbait - a company he reps or. I mean this ish ate it whole!!! He got a 4-14 on a jig and broke o a big ish near Rodman. I won't tell you what I caught my monster on - don't want you bothering those dinks!! We wound up with 7 bass - not too bad. Rick's limit was 22 1/4 lbs!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Jigs were working ok, better than Senkos, at least that day. Fish still seemed to be on outside edges, hear deeper water. No aternoon rip bite happened.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two o us ished all day. Got 3 small ish on plastics. No luck on Senko, rip bait, spinner bait, jig, crank, etc. Wind was terrible!!!!Kid in a loat tube cought some nice bass.
      City: Paciica

      Tips: Been here a ew times now, this lake ishes dierent every time. Our ish on 4" plastics this time.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started about 8:30 got irst ish (2lb) while buddy is parking the truck,then another as he is stepping in the boat both these ish were on a blade.For the next our hours the bite was on, all on blades.I tried cranks,worms and jigs, nothing.So back to the blade and back to catching ish.Final count 15 ish all between 2 and 3.5 lbs.Overall a good day.
      City: livermore

      Tips: blade color didnt matter.just slow role it on rocky banks and points.

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did the opener today. Very windy but managed two bass beore 8:00am- First ish was 3.1lb and second was a beautiul 5.9lb. Missed several others. Both ish realeased ater a quick photo. There were trout everywhere-had a hard time keeping them o the plugs.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son out today and we were on the water at 10:00...Went straight up the river to ish water I haven't been in all year.The boy put the irst ish in the boat on a drop shot at 35.Soon he was playing in the boat with all my old worms...The bite today was still deep and it was good.35 to 60 and the ish were mostly 2 1/2 plus....O the water at three with about 13 lbs....
      City: sonora

      Tips: I think I am going to loose this bite with the irst warm spell..But it sure has been un or almost 2 months....Best winter here in years!!!!!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: tryed nicasio or 3 or 4 hours,caught one little guy on white/silver spinnerbait,saw/talked to about 6 other ishermen who were ishing bass,only one caught a ish that day,however ive heard some pretty good reports recently on the ar upper end o the lake,closest to town. everybody has been ishing spinnerbaits,primarily whites and chartrueses.
      City: san raael

Thursday, February 28th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Disco and ished the South Delta. Caught eight ish...Largest 10.6 lbs. Caught (2) on crawdad brown/orange tube bait, (2) on a white norman crank, 2 on white/chartreuse blade spinnerbait, and 1 on watermelon/red lake senko, and 1 on junebug zipper. Top (7) went 20+ lbs. Two largest were caught on the crawdad tube. Weather was sunny and windy. All ish caught in less than our eet o water around points and submerged trees. Still learning my way around the delta, but I am beginning to ind higher quality ish.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: For size use a jig. The crawdad tube has netted a 10.6, 7.5, and 5.5 on my last three trips. I threw (8) dierent baits during the day.