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Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished up the river inlet and managed to get some very nice fish. 5lb large, some 3-4 pnd smalls and a few spots. Caught all fish on reaction. Ended up with about 20lbs.

      Tips: Like Larry said with the flats, the only difference is we found flats that went from 1-30 within 30' from bank. Good luck fishing is good there right now and should only get better.

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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished noon till 5. Nothing on tubes or jigs. A few missed bites on drop shot in the bear river arm. Water was very dirty from the recent rain. Saw some other boats on the water but never saw anyone pull a fish.
      City: Lincoln

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

      Report: Fished yesterday with Leo. Slow day for us, dirty water and rising water really slowed the bite for us. Leo managed 2 spots, both right at 1.5 pounds. Me o fish!! Leo also managed to hook a salmon on a roboworm. Great fight, took about 5 minutes to land the fish. Fish was 6-8 pounds and looking good. Released to catch it another day. Me, tried all types of baits, it didn't help me. Leo got his fish on roboworms, in about 30ft of water. We fished deep, shallower, still no bited for me. It sure makes for a long day when you don't catch fish. My first ever skunked day!!!
      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

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yesterday with Leo. Slow day for us, dirty water and rising water really slowed the bite for us. Leo managed 2 spots, both right at 1.5 pounds. Me o fish!! Leo also managed to hook a salmon on a roboworm. Great fight, took about 5 minutes to land the fish. Fish was 6-8 pounds and looking good. Released to catch it another day. Me, tried all types of baits, it didn't help me. Leo got his fish on roboworms, in about 30ft of water. We fished deep, shallower, still no bited for me. It sure makes for a long day when you don't catch fish. My first ever skunked day!!!
      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

Friday, February 21st, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I decided to see if we could repeat the 30 lb limit thing - and we did - barely. Actually, our trip last week was better than I reported. I thought I heard him say my big fish was 7.36 lbs, but she was actually 8.36 lbs. That gave us a 34lb 6oz limit. We started yesterday afternoon and actually caught 5 nice ones before dark, up to 5 1/2 lbs. After dark, Mike put on a show - hooking bass after bass, including an 8.12 and 7.76. He made up for his earlier bad trips. That's right - he caught 12 and I caught 4 - ugh!! I was pleased that some of the new places I wanted to try worked for him - HE caught all the good fish! Well - that must be the "guide" in me!! So, 30lb 3oz for our best five, on a beautiful, windless night.

      Tips: Again, most of our bass were in the top 15 feet of water. One or two maybe 20 feet. The baits we used are easy to report - all jigs with various trailers. I tried Senkos and deep crankbaits - nada. We got some of the same "crunch" bites like last week, but many were just pressure bites - maybe because of the previous north winds. All of our bass were on or next to some type of major ledge or dropoff.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51.3-54.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Left ramp at 8:15am back to the ramp at 1:30pm. Headed to school house,narrows, skiers cove and main body off shore points up to 40 feet deep. Tossed a rigs,deep cranks,drop shot and jigs with craw trailer's. Missed a few and caught two largemouth and one smallmouth up to 3 lbs. All on the jig.
      City: Napa

      Tips: I work hard to find the one I did catch. With the h2o temps were they are I thought it would have been a little more wide open. Maybe I should have tossed a few jerk baits. Fish were either suspended at 12 to 25 feet or on the bottom. Good luck

Monday, February 17th, 2014

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: YERBA BUENA ANGLING CLUB of the San Francisco Bay Area
      THE NEWS TROLLER & CASTER February 2014 by Nick Koozmin
      DINNER/BUSINESS MEETING The Dinner/Business meeting will be on Monday, March 17th, 2014, at the Buon Gusto Restaurant, 224 Grant Avenue, South San Francisco, Telephone (650) 742-9776. Please try to attend! ****Social hour at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. ****Choice of entrée with the extras for $22 incl. tax and tip.
      EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Monday, March 3rd, 2014, at The Magnolia of Millbrae.
      FISHING NEWS We are currently working on selecting dates, type of derbies and party boats for our fishing derbies this year. Any input from members are more than welcome. Call Sidney Silberberg 650-583-3333 or Greg Stimmel 415-518-1857.
      MEMBERSHIP The membership is still open – bring a friend or relative to join us for great fishing!
      PAST EVENT Ladies Night at Nick’s Restaurant was a success! For those who missed it, you missed out! Nice place, good food and good music. Greg Stimmel did a great job!
      We want to thank Capt. Jackie Douglas for the generous gifts at the tables, including the wine and wine glasses! Thank you, Jackie!
      Dave Costello was sworn in as new Recording Secretary. Welcome and Good Luck, Dave!
      The Jules Sahlein Award was awarded to: Charles Deguara. Thanks Charlie for your contributions to the Club!
      2013 Trophy Presentations: Salmon Derby Winners: 1st place Charlie Deguara 26lb. 2nd place Walter Huwe 23lb. 3rd place Greg Stimmel 20.4lb.
      Halibut Derby Winner: Tom Westphal 5.14lb.
      Striped Bass Winner: Walter Huwe 5.5lb.
      2013 Largest Fish Category Winners:
      Salmon: 1st place Greg Stimmel 29lb. 2nd place Charlie Deguara 27lb.
      REMEMBER! – Dues are due now!!! Please send or give the $35 to Rangal Yorks, 1550 Magnolia Ave. Millbrae, CA 94030.
      P.S. At Ladies Night, someone mistakenly took the wrong rain coat. Please let Rangal Yorks know and he will return yours. Thank you!
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Learn about Lake Berryessa from me at no charge at the dinner and meet other fisherman who can tell you fishing stories.call Sidney 650_583_3333

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear today
      Lake Level: 1.04 above rumsy\Best Depths: 3-30
      I took the kayak out of county park on sat. Plenty of water to launch a boat . 3 ft deep at the little tule patch in front and 5-6 ft at the channel bouys
      Big Bass: 3-30
      ive counted 20 fish over 10# caught this year from reports to the shop
      Events: A/C team this weekend
      fpt classic 3-7--3-9
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: I caught a couple ripbait (128) at county park one was a 6#er . I fished two hours

Sunday, February 16th, 2014

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Deep Cat area off the exposed long point seeking Grebes feeding on shad balls. Fished 15-25 ft. Strike King Sexy Spoon 5.5" through the bait with lift and flutter motion. Caught 2 bass 5pnd and 2 pnd bass with a "sway" back. Weird looking fish. Tried other areas, but Deep Cat was where they were and should have stayed there.
      City: oxnard

      Tips: "Don't leave an area where you are catching fish" is the rule.Fish Northern part of the lake in winter/spring. Big fish are around and are already full of eggs.Catch and Release please

Thursday, February 13th, 2014

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After a few slow trips, Mike Sperbeck and I decided to give it another go. Glad we did!! We started about 5 pm and quit at 11 pm, out of Red Bud. Mike got the first one - all of 8". Where did that one come from in the winter?? He got one more before dark - much bigger, and then things became exciting! I didn't have a bite until 7:15 when a big bass crunched my jig!! I set in self-defense and soon landed a tail-walking 7.36 lb bass. Very nice first bite!! We then moved to an area that isn't fished much by us or anyone else. Soon big Mike is grunting and hollering - NET. He must think it is another 11! She went 8.52 lbs - yes, I had big fish for about 15 minutes!!! In the next hour I caught 3 between 5.9 and 6 lbs and we both had more in the 4 1/2 lb range. We were able to do the 30 lb thing early this year - best 5 at 33 lbs 6 oz. We had 10 bites each - I landed 8, Mike 6 + big fish. A very fair and square trip for both of us, making the tow home a piece of cake!!

      Tips: I caught all my bass on black/chartreuse Blade Runner and old Weapon jigs, with a 6" single tail Yamamoto grub. I think Mike was using a double-wide Beaver some of the time, and probably other baits too. None of the quality bass were deeper than 15 feet. Most were caught on off-shore structure. Rare to only wear a jacket during a Feb night. Cloud cover kept the air mass rather pleasant and probably helped the bite!

Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

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

      Report: Launched at Bidwell about 7am, fished till about 11 am. Slow fishing today. Fished Bidwell area for most of the time, nothing, not even one hit. Moved to a few spots in the main lake and managed 3 spots, average size. Wood is beginning to float, so be careful. Fished mostly roboworms, texas and drop shot. Better days are coming so get ready!! Lake appears to have come up 7-10 feet by today. Just need 190 feet more :>)
      City: Magalia

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

Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Today was the first decent weather since the lake opened last fri. The water In the south end looked just like chocolate milk!! Was a lot clearer on Northern end. Fished 12-3 and only caught one on a jig. Tried a few different reaction baits and an A-Rig. Even pulled out the dropshot and couldn't get bit. Never fished the lake in Feb before. I think the fish are off shore in deeper water.
      City: Lafayette

Monday, February 10th, 2014

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On water at day break and headed toward the east end of the lake to fish second ramp and tulles. Got one about 13" on a rip bait. Pitched senkos, drop shot and jigs to tulle clumps with no luck.
      Moved to Island points and still could not find them or get bit, finally got one about 4 lbs on a texas rig bold blue gil worm. Slow day for us but others caught them pretty good. Tournament won with over 21 lbs. In the last half hour noticed all of the boats were in bunches out on the island tops and structure.

      Tips: Seemed like everyone was fishing dead slow, we fished as slow as we could go but I still think we were fishing too shallow. Seems like 30 feet was the ticket.

Sunday, February 9th, 2014

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing has been for me "really good" or "really slow" this last month. Normal jig and worm bite in the typical 10 to 40ft of water on deep structure. Fishing real slow. Best fish have been comming out of deep water to 60 feet on the shad using heavy flutter spoon. Fished the last 2 WON Casitas Region Tournaments by Rich Tauber. Great tournament Rich. Thank you. Really looking forward to the next few weeks when the fishing should improve. Take care.

      Tips: Been really tough but still manage to grind a few fish in the boat. Jigs/worm on the deep points and Spoon deep where the shad are. Been working for me.

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.