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Thursday, March 22nd, 2001

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was on the water about 6:30AM. Site ished 35 ish up to 4 pounds mostly around the Island. I saw one ish that looked to be 10lb's plus. I couldn

      Tips: Beds are everywhere. I used white tube baits. On some o the more skittish ish, try bouncing a swimbait right in the middle o the bed. It usually makes them more aggressive. Good luck

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the lake continue to warm and rise at about 8- 10 inches per day, put in at Baley Cove and ran over to Squaw creek to the same spots as yesterday, zip, took o or the ort creek coves and poked around the submerged islands, lots o ish but no takers, ran over to cone point and tossed in the 3 inch MGM witches t with a curly tail and something nice smacked it on the way down, up comes a 2.9 spot with a lot o spunk, no more pressure bites now! Rolled north a bit and picked up a 1.9 spot on a rainbow #99 near Frenchmen, not a lot o action but the quality was better, lake up to 26.20t and the wrmest stu I could ind was mid channel in Squaw Creek at 56 degrees, lots o olks out ishing and I talked to two guys who hadn't caught anything, tossed them some MGM,s and they pulled o away and the back seater boated a 1.6 right o the bat, ran home to prepare or a radio talk show done locally and did that at 4pm, it came o well and I have an invitation to return. Going out tomorrow with the master o the split shot rig, John Coyle, can't wait to pick his brain on the split shot style. He only has 30 years o experience so i might need a ew more dozen lessons. Hey, big Daddy, I caught that smallmouth yesterday on that big submerged log o that rock wall u were ishing last sunday.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished both sat 10 & sat 17. caught a 6lber on 6inch purple power worm texas rigged. On 3/17 ished rom 9-12, only caught two 10-11 inchers o boat ramp, 4in pwer worms purple with hot pink tail. Saw a couple o loat tubers land several crappie.
      City: Santa Cruz, CA

      Tips: split power worms have always worked well. need to experiment with colors. darker seem to produce most consistantly. Have un.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2001

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: Did not measure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or trout. Nothing still ishing or trolling with leadcore. Used needleish, spoons, rapalas, you name. Metered plenty o shad and larger ish chasing them. Nothin.Finally switched to bass poles with 12lb mono and moved rom the east to the west end. Fishing was great rom then on. Trout were on terror chasing anything lashy. Just had to crack the code.
      City: Goleta

      Tips: Keep changing until you ind the right pattern that works or you. Others we talked to at the cleaning tables did well using needleish where we did not.Some o them tried mono and did not do well. Most ished the same depth. One explanation could be speed o troll, dierent lures perorm best at dierent speeds..

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day, light wind from the south and partly sunny. Was able to get 19 bites, 14 in the boat, 3 short strikes and 2 small bass came unbuttoned. The fish were 1/2 lb--3.12oz, best 5 went 13.57 on my cull-m-rite scale. Most of my fish came on 3 lures: spinnerbait, jig, and bush hog. Fished spinnerbait on windy points and jig & plastic around cover or rocks near deeper water. Please remember to practice catch and release this time of the year. The big ones will move up soon. Tight Lines
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Try and match lures to natural forage found in lake. Best bet in spring jig & pig and spinnerbait.

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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day, light wind from the south and partly sunny. Was able to get 19 bites, 14 in the boat, 3 short strikes and 2 small bass came unbuttoned. The fish were 1/2 lb--3.12oz, best 5 went 13.57 on my cull-m-rite scale. Most of my fish came on 3 lures: spinnerbait, jig, and bush hog. Fished spinnerbait on windy points and jig & plastic around cover or rocks near deeper water. Please remember to practice catch and release this time of the year. The big ones will move up soon. Tight Lines
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Try and match lures to natural forage found in lake. Best bet in spring jig & pig and spinnerbait.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60 deg at surac

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Listen to the ishing gods....clear day w/light breeze, occ. cloud here and there, Ater sorting thru the mound o propaganda thrown at us at the entrance, i ound the daily report that suggested 4" plastic worms in grn or brn, 4-10t in the early part o day 12-18 mid-day, got on the water at 10:45, 1st hook up by 11 in 6-8t, o primary,rocky points with submerged grass beds,with a 4" green "westerner" paddle tail, they seemed to hit about the time ya ticked the grass tops, trolled a holding pattern over the spot and ended up with 5-6 hook-ups, moved o the point to secondary's w/no grass and nada, 1st ish i caught was ull o eggs and her eyes were orange! any day now it will be on like donkey-kong!!
      City: Sacto

      Tips: There's no ish here go home..........just joshin!! stick to plastics 4-6" in green brown or purple and you will have success........LOOK FOR SUBMERGED VEGETATION....every other ish seemed to be adequate so clear out the iesty little males and sweety pie will be right there as well! enjoy, i'm going tomorrow 3/23, remeber, catch and release, thats somebody's momma you just caught!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GOT ON THE WATER ABOUT 1.30 AND HEADED DUE NORTH ONLY TO FIND MY HOT SPOT OCCUPIED.(BUMMER)STARTED HITTING ALL THE POINTS WITH A DARTHEAD TIPPED WITH A 4INCH MAGIC WORM.CAUGHT SEVERAL FISH BUT MOST WERE LITTLE BUCKS ,NO HENS.SWITCHED TO A JIG AND CAUGHT A FEW MORE AND ALITTLE BETTER SIZE.SAW BASS MONIKER OUT THERE AND HE WAS BANGING THEM ON HIS SECRET WORM.WE SWAPED FISH STORIES WITH A COUPLE OF BEERS AND HEADED IN.NOT A GREAT DAY BUT STILL BETTER THAN YARD WORK. A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER I RECIEVED NEWS THAT BASS MONIKER WAS HURT IN A BAD CAR ACCIDENT IN NEVADA.BEST WISHES TO AN AWESOME FISHERMAN AND A BETTER FRIEND.I'M SURE HE WILL BE OUT THERE SORE MOUTHING MY FISH BEFORE LONG.
      City: citrus hts

      Tips: BITE SEEMS TO BE THE BEST BETWEEN 11OCLOCK AND 4OCLOCK

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      Water Temp: Feels warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I hit the island pond and ished or the last hour o the day in my tube. Stuck a 18", 31/2 lb.bass on my third cast with a silver and black crank bait in about three eet o water. Went over to the tules and stuck another one on a greenluke. On the way back in I hit my last one with the crank bait again. I talked to some guy told me that another tuber banged a 8 lb. erearlier. (released). Going back today. Maybe I'll update tommorrow.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: For Worms, try crawdad colors with a green tipped tail. For Crankbaits keep it shallowand as close to the snags as you can. Please release all ish in these small ponds.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with John McNemar this am out o bridge bay at 6AM, not much wind, lkae up to 26.80t, ran over to a point in the McCloud, both o us got jerked but no hook up, moved over to Squaw Creek on a point behind Horse Creek point where I collected a 1.5 on a MGM witches t 3inch curly tail, ran across Squaw Creek to arock wall just north o Frenchmen Gulch and popped a nice smallmouth on an MGM #109 4 inch at weenie, John then boated a similiar ish on an MGM green ghost II curly tail 4 inch worm. Caught 4 more, 3 on the MGM #109 and one on the rainbow #99, to 1.8 l;bs ended up with 7 total when I got sick at 11AM, I orgot to eat something in the morning and the hypoglycemia(low blood sugar0 kicked in and knocked me or a loop. John hustled me back to bridge bay where I inhaled a snickers and went home. We are getting close to the spawn, another 5 degrees or so should set them spots o
      City: Redding

Tuesday, March 20th, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 61-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I went to Amador this weekend. We both caught(and released) 10 bass apiece in the 2-4 pound range, all sitting on or near nests. Excellent ishing day. To top it o irst thing in the morning we pulled up into a cove and it was just illed with trout. We caught our limits o trout within a hal hour tossing Kastmasters. We then caught and released about 6 or 7 more apiece beore the sun came up and the bite turned o.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Drag a Black worm wherever you see bass.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Warm day + wind
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: I had to work the bait to get bit. Slowly popping it off the bottom and not moving it to far at a time seemed to be the best bet. GET OUT THERE!!!

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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 4-close. Stuck to the shoreline near the dam. Was able to land 5 and miss just 1. All were relatively small for this lake (1.5-2lbs.). Caught all fish on small plastic worms. The one I missed was on a brush hog. It was a warm day with quite a bit of boat traffic on the water.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish are relatively shallow. I saw shad rising all over the lake after sundown...maybe shad patterns would work, huh?

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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Warm day + wind
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: I had to work the bait to get bit. Slowly popping it off the bottom and not moving it to far at a time seemed to be the best bet. GET OUT THERE!!!

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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 4-close. Stuck to the shoreline near the dam. Was able to land 5 and miss just 1. All were relatively small for this lake (1.5-2lbs.). Caught all fish on small plastic worms. The one I missed was on a brush hog. It was a warm day with quite a bit of boat traffic on the water.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish are relatively shallow. I saw shad rising all over the lake after sundown...maybe shad patterns would work, huh?

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at orewood 5am, fished old river and mildred, 8 fish in the boat and lost a few,all but one in the 2-4lb range,one on a jig,one on a crank,two on a jipper brn/red flk, other 4 came drop shtg 4" green/chrt worms
      City: Livermore

      Tips: fish near moving water, use what you think in the morning but for me its drop shot in the after noon.

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had jury duty today, we got dismissed at 9:40, ran home and got the boa and headed out to the River. WHoa! Them fish out there have taken a 180! Seems they have busted loose fer the shallows. The fish I found today were not on the beds, but in those shallow staging areas REAL close. And they were just STACKED! in the tulles. From 11:00a to 4:00p, I litterally caught a bass on every single cast of a SENKO. I probably caught 75-100 fish today on a wide variety of colors, including my first ever Delta bass on that Chartrues with black flake Senko. At one point, while on the phone with Ben Williams who was heading to ClearLake, I caught 8 fish, including a 9+ and 6+ while giving him a play by play. Spring is here folks and our River bass are chowing down!
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Head fer the flats. Toss plastics of any sorts! And if'n ya want a big bite, go fer a black buzz bait!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing at 5:30p.m. on the shore at Beals Point. Caught 4 2lbs bass on deep diving Rattlin Rouge trout color. Switched to Morning Dawn plastic worm caught our more ish.Lake's hot i I'm catching them.Kept three or the rying pan.
      City: Folsom

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 10 till 2 today. Caught 20 to 30 twitching and ripping a rapala. Only three were over 15".
      City: lake don pedro

      Tips: Call in sick.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: Not Sure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well this is my 1st report on this web site and my irst report. Went ishing the weather was great was with my boyriend who taught me how to ish during the summer, so to say the least he always kicks my butt!! Ahh but not to day. I ished over at "sailCove" on the bank. Only caught one but it was a great eeling. I was Fishing with a 6' inch worm aarons magic, and my boyriend well he caught none!! lol lol so or me it was a awsome.... Anyone who would like to e-mail me with suggestions please Im very new to this sport and cant wait to catch more....
      City: Perris

      Tips: From what I hear aarons magic works good and ish were hitting in about 20 eet o water... good luck all !! any hints on how to kick butt on this lake would be great help anything to kick some butt with my boyriend !!