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Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60 - 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite today working the cove (my back yard.) I took a friend from work out for the first time. We cuaght mostly dinks to about 1.5 lbs. One on a fire tiger rapala, two flippen' 6" junebug/char. plastics tight to cover. Could not find any aggressive bass. Low tide and windy this morning.
      City: Ladd's Marina

      Tips: Water clarity needs toget better.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6am too 1:30pm.Caught app 25 spots & blacks..We spent the irst 45 min. throwing cranks,top water & jerk bait..NOTHING...Changed too worms & tube baites,caught ish rom the ramp too the dam area,they were caught ron 5 t too 25 t deep.Seven ish over the slot,most o them were rom 13in too 15in.Six in worms,color didn't matter.Lots o missed pickups,the males are cleaning house(spots).They will p/u the bait by the tail too move it o their beds.
      City: Riv.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Exactly a week rom my last report and it was dierent. I stayed in the south ork or more action and the ish seem to have moved back due to the cooling weather and water temp but was able to maintain a airly good blade bite ishing it slower and deeper than last week with plenty o at slot ish and about 3 over the slot. Wind picked up pretty good and in the aternoon I looked or calm and deeper water and got the Senkos ready or action and boy did I ind it. Those Senkos are truly amazing, sometimes you see and eel something but most o the time it's a pure deadstick or 2 minutes, pick it up and there's a nice ish on your line. Got many slot ish, one smally and about 6 spots over the slot........what a blast! Batteries and my body took a beating today but was worth it.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Using a 3/8 chartruese, tandem willow lea spinner with a grub trailer to get it a little deeper and worked it slow. Fish came o rocks and points. Using Senkos in watermellon throwing it about 10 t rom the bank into 12-15 t o water and doing nothing or 1-2 minutes and there were plenty o ish.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry or the late report. Fished mouth o Squaw and Pit on 4-2,3,4. Found better ish on inside main points early,moving to shade and outside willows midday on keeper oxblood and Berkley 4" iness in motor oil. Once 3:00 came change over to the brightest chartreuse worm you can ind and splitshot red clay/sotball rock bank as slowly as you can and the action is hot.It seems like the quality is better this year as we boated around 20 ish 1.5 to 3lbs each day. The aternoon being much more productive or us. The days were 80 degrees and a little breezy but it will get back ther soon I hope. It always takes me a while to recall how slow the Shasta crawl really is.
      City: galt

      Tips: Chartreuse in the Evening, and don't orget, I your not getting bit at Shasta you are moving too ast.

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with the olks rom Reno again, Steve and Carol. In the water at Bailey Cove at 0630 at 43 degrees, lake at 20 t and rising slowly, water ast the ramp was 52 degrees, ran over with them to the Squaw and went uupstream near Museum Gulch where Carol and I worked on her casting while Steve promptly caught a 1.6 spot on an MGM #109 at weenie, Carol was using the same when a 1.8 lber inhaled it in 20t o water, wind really blowing at 15-25 with gusts to 35. Moved downstream near horsecreek point but got blown o in the 3 ooters runnind down channel so ducked into baxter gulch or 2more, a 1.8 and a dink on an MGM #127 4 inch worm, these were inhaled, no taps, they really went ater them. Steve popped one more and we went back to their Silverthorn houseboat with the wind picking up even more. Dropped them o ater a lieing session and ran over into the McCloud and turned the corner into some 40 knot stu and 4 ooters, bounced my way back to Bailey cove, water up to 55 degrees, air temp around 53, very rough conditions with more to come and rain expected late riday and all day saturday, nobody doing the salmon at the dam due to unsae high wind conditions. the ish have backed o the shore a bit but plenty can be ound in the 13-25 t area, they were in the rocky stu today, nothing much up on lat mud spots as would be expected this close to the spawn.
      City: Redding

      Tips: irst time or the MGM #127 4 inch, gonna have tos get some more, the 5 pack i bought got inhaled, missed a couple too.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the back cove o stevens creek right by the boat launch in an area o a allen tree with a 6inch green senko and caught a three pounder. On the next cast I saw a big emale, had to be at least 6 to 7 pounds come right up to the senko about to enhale when a one pounder came right up and swam o with it. Damn!! The little ones are always aster. Never saw her again though. Worked the senko in a jerk method about one t or six inches bellow the surace.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Yesterday the baby brush hog worked but today I tossed the senko with good results. hey inally landed one over a buck here.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: No biguns today.A pretty good jig bite though.Limit by 7:00 with two 3lbers in it.I tried a variety o baits worms,grubs,lukes,craws all work.The jig bite was at 10 - 15 t and was stronger at low light conditions.I used 20lb big game and cought about 20 or so ish.I was thinking about downsizing line to catch more and bigger ish but evertime I try this I brake o what appears to be good ish.I set the hook pretty hard.I eel i I don't that more ish spit it out at the boat or sooner . Does anybody have any suggestions???PLEASE E-Mail me thanks in advance.This was a warm no pressure calm sunny day.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: The ish are scattered and stacked.Jigs worked better or me this time.Keep your bait clean!

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

      Report: I am looking to join a club that is affiliated with the B.A.S.S. Federation so that I can fish upcoming tournaments. Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
      City: Citrus Heights

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: Felt cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I hit the south end last night or the last couple o hours o the day and I lost two solid ish beore I ever got to see them.I was using a crainkbait and you almost never loose a ish on a crankbait ater they grab hold o those treble hooks. Ater I changed to a dierent crank bait with BIGGER SHARPER hooks I did not have any more luck. I heard there was a good biteSaturday rom my reind (Davo),but the weather has changed and it was very chilly in my loat tube last night. I think alot othose ish in the shallows have moved or just are not bitting. The weather is supposed to remain winter like or the next ive daysso we will have to see what the ishes response will be. I will hit it again today or tommorrow and update.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: I was up there Saturday trolling down at the dam or trout/salmon with my girlriend (instead o catching bass with Davo)and the water seemed alot more stained last night than it was Saturday. Overall since the weekend the water is colder and murky. Big change.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished middle today with a castic trout and cought a small striper then I cought a 5 LB northern pike he ought really good , he hurt my rist because ii'm such an old
      City: livermore

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I couldn't give a more dierent report than I gave last Friday i I tried! Talk about opposite conditions and type o bite - it was amazing! To give you an idea, when I let the dam at 5:30 pm, the air temp was 28 degrees cooler than Friday aternoon. We had terrible wind most o the day, and we just couldn't seem to get away rom it. And there was a little snow in the hills above Oroville last night. Did that eect the spotted bass - only the big ones. They seemed to be o the bite, but all the smaller ones wern't!!! I was guiding a ather and his 16 year old son, who had never really ished a deep lake beore, and they did quite well ater a while - in act, dad caught the two biggest - a 2-2 and a 2-4 spot. In spite o the wind, we did land over 50 bass, including an over-the-slot largemouth and 2 in-slot smallmouth. I was surprised that we wound up with 6 over the slot, but deinately not the quality o the last trip! We ish the middle ork our whole trip with the same Rodstrainer jigs and later I had the boy shakin' a 6" morning dawn Magic worm. He caught several doing that, including a 2 pounder. We ound the bigger ish on points and smaller ones in coves and cuts, thought we did see a 6+ largemouth looking or a nest site on the back o a creek. The only thing in common with last Friday was that the ish really turned on about 2 pm - luckly we had some sun. Boat control was stressul today, but it was worth it - happy camper clients!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The early jig bite was just pressure, but as the day warmed up, some o the bites were pretty exciting. I broke o a big ish on 12 lb test - should have retied more oten. You never know how big the next bite will be!!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: cant belived I actually ished this lake. Did okay though, tossed out a baby brush hog and hit a couple one pounders. Thats all I've ever pulled out o here are one pounders. Well see ya on the water.
      City: san jose

      Tips: green baby brush hog rigged texas style or carolina.

Monday, April 2nd, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Whiskey Slough. What a crappy ramp. Wonder what our $7.00 is going too. Anyways.... Headed out toward Middle River and was fishing by 8:00 am. Caught a bunch of lightweights on the tules and weed beds. Using a white spinner bait. Fished here and there to Woodward Canal. Boated a nice 6 lb 9 ounce blackie. Weighed it and let him go. Caught a few more 2 and 3 pounders and that was it. Total catch for the day 15. Breezy but tolerable.
      City: milpitas

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

      Report: Fishing was decent except or all the boats rolling up on us shore ishermen. With such a big lake, why? It doesnt make a whole lot o sense with such a big lake and much better spots to ish. I I had a boat I wouldn't be wasting my time like that, I guess people dont know any better or are just plain rude. The next time I see a boat working a ish, I'm going to walk up on them rom shore, use live bait, and work the same ish just to see how they like it. Anyway, easy limits or those in the know, with this recent wind, all bets are o. There's a good moon, but like everything else, you wont know what to do until you get there...
      City: SF

      Tips: Not much to it, bright colors o o lakeport ought to get you some, watchout or that aternoon wind

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 65 deg.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 3 days o relaxing and ishin.Caught some 2+ lb. largieson the dropshot rig in the south end and got a nice 3lb. ona senko in the shallow water.Did manage to crank one on a speedtrapnear a bush. The highlight o the trip was my little girl catching a 8.5 lb truot on light gear, at only 35 lbs it almost pulled her outo the boat...WOW what a ish. I think she is getting the ishing bug now, I'll slowly convert her over to Bass soon.
      City: San Lorenzo

      Tips: the bass are starting to thing about doing the scooby now, so look shallow.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED MCCLOUD AND SQUAW ARM CAUGHT FISH ON TOP WATER AND RIPPING IN THE MORNING. WORMED FISH THE REST OF THE DAY.SEEN FOUR BASS BETWEEN 4 AND 6 POUNDS CRUISING. SEEN ONE THAT COULD BEEN CLOSE TO EIGHT POUNDS. CAN FIND THEM BUT GETTING THEM TO HIT IS A WHOLE DIFFERNT DEAL. ANY ONE KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO STICK ONE OF THOSE BRUTES.
      City: ANDERSON

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decent ishing with all the weekend pressure. The key to catching was main lake points with craw colored cranks. Try the brush piles with spinnerbaits.
      City: San Raael

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 40

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished saturday, all over. very slow. water cold and theweather put the ish down, as ar as my partner & I couldind. We managed one smallmouth, about 3lb, had a couple o otherhits, but that was it. Should get better, as it warms. Morning dawn was the lureused to capture & release the one we had. Did get a couple o trout and salmon. all around 2-3 lbs. Next time.
      City: susanville

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took pops out for a day of fishing. We were not disappointed. We began the day on the south side of the main body. We immediately saw bedding fish. Zoom lizards we on the menu and the bass were biting. We estimated to have 18lbs in our best 7. Fished two areas that were loaded with fish. biggest went 4.5#. It was a great day indeed...nice to take pops out for a day like that.
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: polarized glasses.....

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

      Report: This is not an April fools report!!!The fishes are biting. Fished in my float tube early, but not as early as the other three guys who had already beaten me there. Talked to them and they were fishing soft plastics. I was throwing a terminator buzzbait, and landed a fat 2 lber around vegetation. Wind started to pick up a little and couldnt buy a bite with the buzzer, so switched over to a Texas rigged baby brush hog, and was slaying them to death. Fished by a couple of guys in a boat who offered me some weed(you know who you are) but I wanted to concentrate on fishing. Well caught 7 fishes, the largest one going a solid and fat 5.5 on my stren digital scale. All fishes were shallow, was observing a dude fly fishing for crappie and he was killing them on every cast. well see ya on the lake, keep the dope at home though.
      City: san jose

      Tips: baby brush hog worked from the shore out seemed to do well for me.