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Tuesday, March 20th, 2001

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start, went with the amily and a couple o riends. I started to ish rom my boat and with much dierence in opinion on where and how to ish, I got dropped o on the shore!! First cast in my more relaxed mood I caught one about one and a hal pounds. Then I started to slay them, caught a total o ourteen all with a texas rigged rock monster. There was not much size to them but they were un. The other our people I went with, caught one ish between all o them. I wonder who they will listen to next time?
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish very shallow, look or the tullies to move, there looking or ood and are very aggressive. Soon we should be able to get the 30 ish days!!!!

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

      Report: For Je and other doubters, stop by the marina and check out the bragging board. I stuck a 11.6 on the above date. The marina was closed, it was 7:30 on a Friday night, but I used my digital scale. She was 28 1/4" and had spawned once at least. It is not Clear Lake or the Delta, but there are some real quality ish here. This was my Biggest so ar, but I am not dead yet! Tight lines.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Blue Senko with black lake, 2/O XWG Gamakatsu, 14 lb. lorocarbon, slack line. Mine was on wood, shallow, next to deep water. I know, that could be anywhere on this lake, and that my riends is exactly the point!!

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      Water Temp: 62.5-67.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: had a great day on the water ,caught alot o mostly buck bass rom 7 in to 11 inches up close .ound a great spot this aternoon in 27 eet o water where things got interesting,shaking my avorite worm when whack a monster bass hit ,ater a 5 minute battle i landed a 10 lb 5 oz bass,a ew minutes later a 7.1 ,i was pumped nothing or 2 more hours then caught 1 more good bass at 5.3.I love this lake.
      City: healdsburg

      Tips: dont be araid to go a little deeper ater all its post spawn guys

Monday, March 19th, 2001

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

      Report: Lake level at 434 feet.

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      Water Temp: Surface: 56.7am

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass good, 10 plus fish per person (Mix of Largies, Spots and Smallies, but mostly Spots) 10 to 15ft, Brush Hogs & Witches Tea. Warmest surface and air temp to date.

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      Water Temp: 53.5-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat./Sun. in the narrows. Sat. got on the water at 11 am and caught about 6 fish to 1 1/2 lbs. on 4" Witches T majic worms (splitshotting) by 12:30 (just taking a relative non-fishing out for a spin in the new boat and trying out ultra-light tackle w/6 lb. test). Sun. out at 7:30 am, my son and I caught 15+ to 3 1lbs. mostly same tactics, same areas. Found a sandy cove with a tree in it and caught 5 in five casts (including 3+ lb. smallmouth, 2lb smallie and 3 spots all clone 1 1/2s). That was fun. The water was very cloudy in that cove from all the boat activity so that Witches T was just the ticket. This ultra light gear/line makes every fish a challenge.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Split shot small worms with as light a line as possible. Fish are really turning on as the water warms!

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      Water Temp: 52 - 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thurs. 3/15 - fished Narrows (52 degrees) - cloudy and wind came up around noon -9am - 12pm - 4 fish (2.5# biggest), dragging worms Fri. 3/16 - fished Northend (56 degrees) - Blue bird skies - 20+ fish from 9am to 2:30pm - dragging worms Sat. 3/17 - SF club tourney with 5 boats - 4 limits (2.5# biggest) - winning weight 8#+ - ripping, blades, top water, worms Fish are staging and should be on beds with warmer weather, saw some fish looking to create beds - should be excellent fishing this week and weekend. Salmon was biting in front of skier cove - 20-30' mooching with minnows. Reports of salmon caught in front of Spanish Flat launch ramp.
      City: Hayward

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

      Report: I fished Bailey cove for a little over an hour this morning and had decent action. All my action was on a spittin image with an eratic retrieve.I landed four up to 2lbs, and had a couple dinks shake off. Once the sun hit the water, the action died off. I tried slow rolling blades, and the usual plastics in deeper water briefly, but had no luck. I noticed a lot of trash already bulding up on the shoreline within Bailey cove...." NOT GOOD ".
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Pack it in......pack it out......

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Bailey cove for a little over an hour this morning and had decent action. All my action was on a spittin image with an eratic retrieve.I landed four up to 2lbs, and had a couple dinks shake off. Once the sun hit the water, the action died off. I tried slow rolling blades, and the usual plastics in deeper water briefly, but had no luck. I noticed a lot of trash already bulding up on the shoreline within Bailey cove...." NOT GOOD ".
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Pack it in......pack it out......

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

      Report: Left the house at 12:15 (after Sunday School,swim team pictures, etc.) and headed for B&W. Loaded the Kids ages 8, 5, 5, 4, and 2 in the boat (Chapparal 2130)to the usual life vest protests. Ran up to Whimpys. Found a pretty consistant bite there. No real pattern though as grilled cheese seemed to do as well as corndogs and cheeseburgers. Almost lost our lunch gawking at a dead beaver floating at the dock. With that, we had to fish Beaver slough. Spent about 30 min of pandamonium there. did manage one small one on a black Senko, about 20 tnagles and one back of a shirt (no blood). Fished around Tower Park for about 30 sec. (meetered what looked like a good school of Stripers) will never know though as it was potty break time. Spent about 1/2 hr at the dock for that, then time to go home. Had a good time, but I thought some of you pro's should know what fishing is for some of us. Keep the great info comming
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Anything weedless for the kids. Plenty of cookies and Capri sun juices (they are clear and won't stain the boat)

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I need to clariy the ishing report that was alsly made by a username o Crazy and was submitted on the 12th not the 16 o this month. I just wanted to correct this error
      City: Castro Valley

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As a result o not ishing Clear Lake in approx. 5 years, I spent the past 3 days working harder than usual trying to igure 'em out. We only caught 5 to 10 bass (3 to 5 lbs.) each day between the two o us. Fished rom Soda Bay to Rodman. I was planning to ish South on Sat., but strong winds and white caps sent me into the only area I could ish. We caught our ish pitching worms and shaking 'em down to approx. 8 t., dead-sticking senkos, and chunkin' spinnerbaits when the wind picked up. Had a tough time establishing a pattern, catching ish in the usual 2 t. to 8 t. Saw a lot o boats ishing the tules on the NW side o the lake, but we couldn't catch squat. Lost my Pointer 100 to a submerged rope.(Ouch!). Spent most o our time ishing secondary points and ishing the irst 1/4 o dead-end sloughs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Based on the recent 100% bass team tourn. weights on Mar. 17th, don't do what I did. I'm still scratchin' my head. Good luck!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Somebody moved our cheese. Worms not working in south or north. Switched to rip baits and spinnerbaits and whacked 8- 3 were smallmouths. (all released, not whacked, including removing a lead sinker rom a split shot rig broken o in a spots' throat.)
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Mix up the reaction with worms. Avoid carpel tunnel injuries. My doctor said the cure or this injury is to quit ishing. My cure is ish with worms- they work or everybody else.

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      Water Temp: 62.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with Newman Monday evening 3:00 to 6:45 to the usual haunts. I spanked them good with a darter head worm,ive ish in the irst thirty minutes. Newman was trying every color in the boat then started throwing his secret jig( custom made ) He started spanking them, all the ish between two and three lbs. We moved to another spot and the second cast by Newmanproduced a eight lb ten oz. monster. His very next cast was a three and a hal lb spot. We ended up with a 25 lb sackor our best seven. We ended up with twenty ish total. Not a bad eveningat all.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Get Newman to give his secret jig recipe out!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did pretty good today. We got 40 ish, some nice 2's, and a at 3. All the at ones were hens, mostly shallow. Just shaking worms, 4-6 inch green/brown. Light spinning gear seemed to be the ticket as usual. Did get one on a brown on brown jig, but nothing to brag about. The bite was great rom 8-12, then slowed a little to 3.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Look or potential spawning areas to ind the better numbers o better ish. Fish are stacked good in the right places.

Sunday, March 18th, 2001

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

      Report: What a great day at Amador, The weather was perect. Since I had one hell o a late night on saturday we got to the lake at around 1 and we ate at the cae and then hit the water. I got 12 and my buddy got one. I was using 4.5 in. worms and got most o the ish in the 5-8 t. range. Not a bad day, we only ished or 4 hours. I can't wait till the lake really picks up, I think I am going to make camping reservations here in a couple o days.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Capell Cove at about 7:45. Quite a few boats in the parking lot already. Went all the way up to the north end of the lake by Putah Creek. Water was looking to be clear until we got there. Lots of fish on the points out in about 15-20 feet of water. Started throwing Spinnerbaits and Crankbaits and nothing. Then we found a big school of fish stacked on a point and had a couple of hit carolina rigging plastics. Had two of them up to the boat and then they popped off. Went down in front of our cabin at berryessa Pines and landed a nice two pounder on a carolina rigged plastic. A pretty slow day, only about 4 fish. Tight Lines!!!!!!!!!!!
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Temp: 52 am 57pm deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out of Markleys cove today at 6:00 am fish everything i could cought a couple of dinks on jigs . tried plastics 4 " nothing water teemp still is a little low 52 deg in the am fish are very slow . warmed up to 57 Deg still alittle cool. Ripped some today nada . looked really good . and of course them dam ski boats showed up and it was realy hard to get a bite . Need to go to north end to try to find some warmer water . can some one e mail me and give me a water temp at the north end please.. going to go to the delta and rack on them . goood luck tight lines all fish till your arms are tired. water is low at the lake this year lower than normal . lots of brush out of the water not much rain this year .
      City: elmira

      Tips: try fishing the weekdays if possible. go to north end or putah dont waste time at the dam side still to cold . jigs , brush hogs , 4" plastics texas stle , split shoting ,every tom dick and harry is out with there ski boats on the weekends.. GO TO THE DELTA SPINNER BAIT IN THE ROCKS

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally took the boat to the lake for some creek action. Fish were there and ready to eat the brushog. Got 9 fish to 4 pounds. Mostly three pounders. Better fish were off shore. Saw many fish caught from the bank where I was fishing the week before. They looked to still be the pound and a half variety. Most bites came on the fall but some had to be worked. The smaller fish smacked the bait and the better fish just loaded up the rod. Fished from 2:30PM to close. The better fish came right away with the sun up high along the creek.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Sometimes having new colors in old baits can really make a difference in how well you will do on the better fish. The little fish will eat anything but those better fish need to see something new at times. Get on the Zoom web page and start buying those new colors, they really work!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I shore fished the south-east side of the lake today, near the horse satbles and such, from 2 to 5PM today. I slow rolled a white blade for 2 hours hoping to pik up a large fish, but it didn't happen. After seeing a nearby boat land numerous 2 pounders on texas rigged plastics, I gave up on the blades and broke out the C-rig. First cast produced a two pounder on the windy side of a point. The calm side had no takers. About a half an hour later, I got two more 2 pounders on consecutive casts. The smaller fish seem to have moved up into the newly filled parts of the lake, but not the large ones. With this warmer weather in should be matter of a week or two before the fishing really gets good on that side of the lake. Walking back to my car, there must have been 5 or 6 shore fisherman fishing the creek area near the stables. I didn't ask them any questions, but I wondered if the fish had really moved back that far already.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I used a c-rigged watermelon red Baby Brush Hog for my fish. The fish seem to be in groups along structure in the flats, just waitng for the water to rise and warm a little more.