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Saturday, February 8th, 2014

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonora Bass Team Tourney out of Moccasin. 20 boats. First Place 14 and change. Winners big fish 6.11. Rainy and wet all day but the wind did not show too bad.

      Tips: Fish are from 50 to 20 feet in pre spawn. Smallies, Spots and large mouth. spider jigs and senkos seemed to be the primary baits with a couple reaction bites finally.

Thursday, February 6th, 2014

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and his buddy go out today and caught 3 fish with a few other bites all on green pumpkin jigs. No big fish, biggest 1.5lbs. They worked it extremely slow and did not feel some of the bites just weight.

      Tips: Fish were caught in the main body next to river rock piles. Oh by the way to launch with a 2 wheel drive my brother said that a person go stuck try to get his boat out.

      Unfortunately I had to work and could not fish. I get tired of work getting in the way of fishing.

Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

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

      Report: Shore fished at Lime Saddle marina from 7 am to 8: 30 am. Cold!!! 32 and wind blowing! Managed to get 5 spotted bass, with one right at 15" . Most fish from about 15-25 feet of water with roboworms.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know and lets catch some spots. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net I'm available most of the time.

Sunday, February 2nd, 2014

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: no idea

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Walked the shoreline running my dog...threw small 1/4oz football jig in watermelon red with a pumpkin netbait paca chunk...picked up 1 spot and 1 smallie, both around a pound. Just having fun runnin' the dog and throwing a line in...wasn't expecting to catch.
      mnuzum, thanx for posting reports...was gettin' tired of lookin' at my old one. lots of folks walkin' the old Mormon island settlement asking if there's fish in folsom lake.
      City: folsom

      Tips: none...other than the usual...work it slow. I hate workin' it slow when I'm on the boat but even more when I'm on the shore...so I throw it out and just start walking...when I see my line parallel with the shoreline about 10 feet out, I reel it back in and cast again, then walk. oh well, sometimes somethin' will be cruising the shoreline.

Saturday, February 1st, 2014

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched around 8am and headed to the southwest arm. Caught 1 LMB (2lb 6oz) next to island view campsite. Then hit the main body of the lake with no success. Had a first on the water experience in seeing a DEER several hundred yards from shore in the main body. It was almost hit by another boater and turned around. I knew deer could swim but hadn't seen it in person before and wouldn't have thought it would try to cross the whole lake.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Slow down. Drop shot is the only thing that has produced for us so far this year.

Friday, January 31st, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50 - 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday 1-31-14, my buddy and I launched out of Holland Riverside Marina and fished near Little Mandeville all morning. It was cold and windy. We tried many different techniques but caught no fish. In the afternoon, we move backed to the Holland Tract area. Still no fish. As we were about to quit later in the afternoon, we came upon a large mat of Hyacinth extending from shore out to 20 ft. of water. My buddy decided to flip his drop-shot rig into a small hole in the mat in about 15 ft. of water. He dead sticked his seven inch RoboWorm for about 15 seconds and son-of-a-gun his line started to move. He had the first fish of the day. I said, if there is one fish there, there should be more. He when right back into the same hole and caught another fish. A few minutes later, I caught a fish. Because we hooked these fish using our light pole and line, there was a problem getting the fish out of the mat. To solve this problem, I used my telescoping lure retriever to widen the hole in the mate to pull the fish through. If it wasn’t late, we would have continued this pattern and probably caught more fish.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: If nothing is working, try punching Hyacinth mats with 6 and 7-inch Roboworms. If you are using a light pole and line, use a telescoping lure retriever to get your fish though the mat.

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shore fished at Lime Saddle this morning for 1 1/2 hours. Managed to get 3 spots, all 13-14" or so, standard size, no bigger ones. Texas rig roboworms did the trick. Fish at about 25ft-30ft of water from the docks. No hits when fishing from the shore.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know and lets catch some spots. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Forgot to post so I'll post it late....Went out with Tiger for first trip of 2014. On the water at 9 off at 3. Six fish total. 4 for Tiger. Depth between 25 and 50 feet. 5 on Dropshot and one on T-Rig. 5 Spots and 1 LMB 2.2Lbs biggest fish, the rest under 2. Six fish all on different color plastic. Most of the fish were well away from the points (we were targeting points). Fished south end of the lake most of the time. No fish in the time we were north and we never went more north than big island. Air temp was near 70 - but only if you were sitting still and off the water.

      Tips: soft bite - for most all fish.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well hit some of my key points and rock piles with drop shot, jigs and a crankbait, caught quite a few fish on the drop shot Roboworm (prism shad) but had nothin on the jigs or crankbait. Then found the schools of shad and the bite turned on, threw spoons and drop shot. Caught more fish and seen more fish also when we found the shad. We even snagged a couple shad and used them (they hammered it) catching all different types of fish.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Find the shad and throw shad colors

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52 in the mid a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We fished from about 11 to 4pm and managed 9 fish. Most were clones around 2 lbs and my brother caught a very nice 3.5 small mouth on a jig. Threw a swim bait for 4 hours an no bites. All fish caught on jigs and spoons 15 to 30 ft on the main body.

      Tips: Fish slow

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 830pm public launch, fished until 130pm. Fished skiers cove, narrows, and damn area. Fished 20-40 foot rocky slopes. Fished minnows all day (drop shot, bobber, and split shot). Slow day. 2 fish for the boat, 4lb LM and 2lb SM. The 4lb LM felt like a giant on my drop shot rod! Big ole belly!
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: I'm thinking some sun would have turned them on. Didn't start warming up until mid-afternoon.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Four fishermen on two boats, launched at 8am off the water at 2pm. My partner and I headed north from the main ramp, slow day. My partner boated 2 smallmouth, best went 1lb 15oz. I had one follower and that was it. The fishermen on the other boat fish Sonoma pretty often and had a better day. They boated 7, all largemouth nothing over 2lbs. All fish from both boats were caught is dropshot.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: It's a grind, if you go fish slow. Fish seem to be holding in 15-30 feet of water.

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a tough day, only managed to land 1 fish on drop shot. Our friends landed a few more than we did. Tried everything and it was just a tough bite.

      We need rain bad folsom looks like a river and it is very tough to launch if you do not have a keel gaurd.

      Anyhow if youre going out to folsom please keep the updated coming.

      Tips: None really through everything at them. Maybe I will try the kitchen sink next time.

Friday, January 24th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Question for all of you delta rats... with the weather being the way it is, shouldn't the fish think spring is coming in 30 days??? Looking for some help out here, the fish should be moving right?

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from about 8:30 am to 1 pm. Bad day, strong winds and white caps early when we launched. The further into the north fork, less winds and nearly glass like. Couldn't get fish to take anything. All Jeff and I managed were a 13-14 inch each, 2 fish the whole trip. Saw 3 large spots chasing my bait near the end of the trip, still couldn't get them to hit. Better luck next time.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Anyone with a boat looking for a fish partner, let me know, I'm available most of the time. Email me at Jewelweaver@earthlink.net and lets catch some spots.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear stable no wind 70s daytime 30s at night
      Lake Level: 7 ft down from full but most ramps still usable\Best Depths: 10-30
      still kinda slow with plastics but guys are getting big fish.minnow bite is good
      Big Bass: 10-3001/21/2014 - 13.54
      John Pearl on a swimbait
      Events: ABA team coming up 2-16
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: I went minnow fishing yesterday and we caught 16 bass to 8 lbs and 3 catfish 15-30 ft deep in 5 hour trip

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubed Sevenmile with a buddy for only two bass, one for my friend. First one was about 4#, second barely kept. 5" senkos and a dropshot, 4" worm. No rip bait fish. Fished as slow as I could stand. Best fish hit toward the top of outgoing at about 10:30. Water stayed the same temp. even though it got warm in the afternoon. Nothing ate the red bomber.

      Tips: 5" Senko's and a 4" dropshot

Friday, January 17th, 2014

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just to keep the reports active... Launched out of Ladd's and ran to Turner. 2 fish, one dead sticking drop shot and one ate flappin hog after picking it up after dead sticking. Fished outside weedines 10 to 15 feet near points.

      Tips: Although the weather feels like spring, fish are still cold. Dead stick or work bait very, very slow, and then slow down some more. Although not too bad, watch for debris.

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      Water Temp: 49.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good bite for fish right now using jigs. Give it a shot.

      Tips: Boat ramp is still good to launch from.

Thursday, January 16th, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As I have said before - it takes a real man to make this report. Fishing was tough yesterday - at least in the lower lake. Mike and I fished for a little over 5 hours - from 4 pm 'til a little after 9 pm. I had 2 giant bites - yea - all of 3 1/2 and 2 3/4 lbs - after dark. Hey, at least I boated both of my bites!! Mike is still recovering from his recent 11.35 bass - hasn't had a bite in awhile. Mine were caught on black/blue hog-type baits in about 15 feet of water. Saw very little bait and few fish on the meter anywhere! At least yesterday - they weren't on the bank anywhere. I will end with the conditions - the warmest January night I have ever seen at Clear lake - and the full moon rise at dusk was nothing short of stunning! Problem is: too many sun and moon rises - how about rain clouds!!!

      Tips: Nothing much to say. The water temp this time of year might inch up on the surface, but after dark is returns to 46-49 degrees. Starting in February, the warm sun will mean something as the rays begin to penetrate deeper and fish will start moving more shallow - especially up north. They might not have far to go this year.