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Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found fish to be pretty active even though the cold front was coming through. The wind and rain kept us off the main lake so we fished the coves inside Spanish Flats and Steel Park. Most fish we caught came on reaction baits...biggest 3lb large mouth. Some came on pruple weenies in 5-10ft. We fished from 3pm to 6:30, caught two limits in that time. Could not see if any bed fish were around. Did see some areas with schools of fry indicating post spawn areas.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: search with a reaction bait and then slow down once you located some fish.

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found fish to be pretty active even though the cold front was coming through. The wind and rain kept us off the main lake so we fished the coves inside Spanish Flats and Steel Park. Most fish we caught came on reaction baits...biggest 3lb large mouth. Some came on pruple weenies in 5-10ft. We fished from 3pm to 6:30, caught two limits in that time. Could not see if any bed fish were around. Did see some areas with schools of fry indicating post spawn areas.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: search with a reaction bait and then slow down once you located some fish.

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

      Report: with the cold front moving in rapidly I thought that the fish were going to in lock jaw but that was not the case. Got to the lake at about five and fished with a terminator spinnerbait with the white skirt. landed a small dink in less than a foot of water right by the dam. Tried casting out about 25 to 30 feet out waited till the bait hit the bottom then slow rolled it. Caught 3 fish in the 3 pound range in about ten to fifteen feet of water, all quality fishes. Then decided to work the cove behind the bench, and landed a beautiful 5 pounder in less then 2 feet of water, would've stayed out longer but this bass tore up my spinner, took off the skirt, and the willow leaf blade on the damn thing. All the guys I talked with were fishing plastics to no avail. May be next I'll bring more than one spinner. good luck
      City: san jose

      Tips: white spinner bait in the 1/2 onz size, and just make a lot of cast every where your bound to get some strikes.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: with the cold front moving in rapidly I thought that the fish were going to in lock jaw but that was not the case. Got to the lake at about five and fished with a terminator spinnerbait with the white skirt. landed a small dink in less than a foot of water right by the dam. Tried casting out about 25 to 30 feet out waited till the bait hit the bottom then slow rolled it. Caught 3 fish in the 3 pound range in about ten to fifteen feet of water, all quality fishes. Then decided to work the cove behind the bench, and landed a beautiful 5 pounder in less then 2 feet of water, would've stayed out longer but this bass tore up my spinner, took off the skirt, and the willow leaf blade on the damn thing. All the guys I talked with were fishing plastics to no avail. May be next I'll bring more than one spinner. good luck
      City: san jose

      Tips: white spinner bait in the 1/2 onz size, and just make a lot of cast every where your bound to get some strikes.

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

      Report: Tubed Coyote rom noon till about 4. Wasnt there 5 minutes and got a 2.5 on a black jig with a black/blue mad mad craw trailer caked with smelly jelly. Im thinking im gonna throw jigs all day but nothing else or about 2 hours. Saw some bed ish deep in the trees, but couldnt get em to hit anything. Got a senko dink a little later then got a MAJOR hit. Set the hook (30 lb. whiplash) that snapped the line. Must've been rayed somewhere. Right beore I let, got the hardest ighting 2.2 lber I've ever caught. Fought like a 7 or 8 lber. Got him on a 6"watermelon/black lake senko
      City: SJ

      Tips: all i threw all day was jigs, senkos, and a 6" zipper on my 3 rods. Dont be LAZY like me, throw more than 3 lures HAR!!!!!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7am to 12:30pm..Took my 5 yr old grandson,caught app 15 bass.Fish were caught on sinko's & tube baits rom 2t deep too 15t.Had 2 blacks over the slot,most o them were in the slot limit.My grandson did catch two on the sinko's,he threw a crankbait most o the time & thought he was getting a hit on ever cast.
      City: Riv.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Big Daddy and I managed 29 over the last two days, to 3.4 lbs, most were small and the ish have pulled back o the banks and have gone deeper with the cold ront that has come through and is still here, the lake is at 19.05 t with the outlow nearly matching the inlow, we were in the pit on tuesday and the McCloud on Wednesday, red mud banks are still productive but u need to go deeper to ind the ish, we cranked a ew in the early am (6 to 630am) and I got one out o 5 t o water but the weather change has caused the cruisers to head or deeper water.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back rom a week long houseboat trip. One ront ater another but had some pretty good ishing. Averaged close to 10 lbs a day with 11 1/2 lbs my top day or 5 ish. Beleive it or not ound 2 lb plus ish Carolina rigging baby brush hogs in 28 to 40 t o water. Had to have southern acing creek channels with red clay. Best ish came rom the McCloud arm. Saw a lot o 5 to 12 lb largemouth cruising the willows but very spooky. Big ish o the week was 3 lbs. Hope it helps...

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOME REPORTS ON WISKEYTOWN HAS ANY BEEN FISHING THERE IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE REPORT
      City: KLAMATH FALLS,ORE

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

      Report: It was a overcast day over in the Yorte Creek area o Lake Sonoma where Stephen and I were ishing out o our Tube Waders. It was starting to drizzle. We decided to go out in the waders. On my irst cast I caught a 2.5 pound 17 inch largemouth bass. We saw a lot o bass in the shallows but they weren't intersted in our lures. The day slowed as when it started raining hard.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Pearl White Excalibur Suspending Fat Free Shad>Polarized Sunglasses work Great

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

      Report: HAS ANYBODY BEEN FISHING WISKEYTOWN HAVE NOT SEEN ANY REPORTS
      City: KLAMATH FALLS,ORE.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Warm, sunny day. Fished rom 9 am to 4 pm. Fished both north and south sides. Generally slow. Each o us caught three 1 1/2 pounders. Nothing worked consistently. Crankbaits caught the most, but not by a great margin.
      City: Laayette

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, we were supposed to be going camping at Amador on 4/6-4/8. We took a ride up on the 6th only to ind that it was still pretty wet and windy. I made dierent reservations or the 9-12th. I saw Hemphill ishing the damn. (nice boat)Well, we arrived again on monday and stayed till wednesday night, we saw some dark clouds coming so we let in a hurry:) We caught most o our ish on magic worms at around 5-10 t. At night I used brush hawgs and ended up with a 7 pounder on tuesday night. That was the only one I caught with any nice size to it. Most o the ish were within 2-3 lbs. We were in the very back on Carson arm and we saw some GIANTS cruising the bank. 15 + easy. They almost looked like carp cause they were so damn big. I talked to Lee up in the Lodge and he said that they went out on tuesday night and spotted some lake records. I love that lake, I think I am going to have to head up this week.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 10:00a to noon. Caught 12, from 1.5 to about 4 lbs. Caught all fish swimming a 4 inch grub on 1/8oz. jig through submerged weeds. Most bites came in less than 4 feet of water adjacent to deeper water. A slow retreive and lure contact with the weeds seemed to trigger most of the strikes.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Shad patterns on the edges of the shallow flats

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      Water Temp: 53-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well, i took my daughter back to calero to do some fishing...needless to say, she caught 1 more than i did .. whacky wormin sencos was the ticket.....we only fished for 45 minutes...remember, fish them sencos really slow.... my daughter caught fish on her first two casts. she'd throw the senco out, and dead stick it ....just left it alone....wish i had such patience....
      City: san jose

      Tips: most plastics are producing .... look for the fish...

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 10:00a to noon. Caught 12, from 1.5 to about 4 lbs. Caught all fish swimming a 4 inch grub on 1/8oz. jig through submerged weeds. Most bites came in less than 4 feet of water adjacent to deeper water. A slow retreive and lure contact with the weeds seemed to trigger most of the strikes.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Shad patterns on the edges of the shallow flats

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      Water Temp: 53-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well, i took my daughter back to calero to do some fishing...needless to say, she caught 1 more than i did .. whacky wormin sencos was the ticket.....we only fished for 45 minutes...remember, fish them sencos really slow.... my daughter caught fish on her first two casts. she'd throw the senco out, and dead stick it ....just left it alone....wish i had such patience....
      City: san jose

      Tips: most plastics are producing .... look for the fish...

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake around 1:00 and hooked a 12 incher right away. That was it or the day. Saw a nice trout landed to the right o the irst cove across the dam. Didn't want to walk that ar.ha. Millions o baby trout swimming next to the bank, wonder why??? Evidence o night ishing there, picked up trash or 30 minutes.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Throw what ever you catch ish with. They are here, just a matter o enticing them.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Some o you think I don't know how to write a short report - I'll try this time! Yes, I did get to guide Tuesday on a windy, dark, cold day. Water temp had dropped about 6 degrees since Friday night. We started about 8 AM rom Rattlesnake Island and ater going north about 1000 yards I made a U turn and went back to M&M. The wind was horriic - we could have made it but black and blue clients are not a good thing! Towed to Konocti Resort, launched, and ished north and south. All we had to deal with is 20 to 30 MPH winds changing directions every ew minutes. We were able to ish airly well and each client did land a bass. One was 4-10 on a brush hog and the other about a pound and a hal, on a Senko. As a team, we would have had a respectable day had I not lost a very large bass that rayed my 16 lb test on a cement block. Had I been at a dierent angle, I might have been able to move her out o that area. I also blew a 5 plus on a jig and Madman Craw combo. Sometimes I am neither lucky or good! It was a plain whimpy hookset. We might have had another bite or two, but that was the trip in a nutshell. We only saw one other bassboat all day, and another party that I know ished that day was skunked. The weather changes and winds this year certainly have been dramatic, to say the least!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I tried a new color Senko #306 (natural shad) because o the clear water, and that was the one that enticed the big bass to bite. She actually hit it pretty good but I couldn't move her - she had a lot o weight. My clients are ishing a tournament so I won't say any more.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: not sure / cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This lake has changed beacuse they are adding water. This has changed the water temp and the bass are now conused again. I arrived at the lake around 7:00 p.m. had to work hard to get the irst ish. Gave lessons and taclke to two boys trying to catch ish. One had been there two days and had not caught a ish. Ater about 10 - 15 mins he hit one and he was so excited. I caught and realeased a total o 7 ish (3) 12" (4) 14" no size to speak o darn. Well was a teacher again today but love it both boys I did not know til today caught a bass.....
      City: Corona

      Tips: Plastic worms and mini jigs...