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Thursday, March 15th, 2001

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

      Report: sir i do not apriciate liers on the chabot reports. DO NOT BELIVE THIS REPORT !!!!!!!! i know that this is not true and when people leave reports like this the lake gets extra preasure and just ruins the already crappy ishing!thank youRyan
      City: cv

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubed it rom 7-11am. Got my irst 3 slow rolling and pausing a single colorado blade. One went about 6 lbs. Got one later on a 5" pumpkin/black lake senko, and lost one on a timber tiger
      City: San Jose

      Tips: dunno just starting to explore this lake

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two ish on---one very strong o end o rockpile by launch.Water temp 53 dg -----going to get much better
      City: Roihnert Park

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out and tried dierent baits om spinners to crankbaits. one hit o the spinner which was a 1 1/2 lb. threw plastic 6" worms and produced 3 over 5 lb. slow day but ish'em slow.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: use 4-6" worms in the darker colors

Wednesday, March 14th, 2001

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake thought there was a tourney going on doesn't any body work must have been close to 20 boats fishen today saw a few friends today also anyway caught some bass on a rodstrainer tandem chart/white skirt and gold indiana blades,c-rig watermelon brush hog man i missed one that almost took the rod out of my hands,and also on a rodstrainer jig 3/8 0z brown/green/chart/ with a zoom brown frog with the ends dipped in chart. most fish avg. 2lbs with one bass going 3+ .when the wind picked up the dinks came out all 13 in or less.saw ayoung guy fishen near the ramp within a 1/2 hour he caught a limit throwing a small red/brown worm on a dart head al the fish were dinks but hey fishen is fishen also saw a couple throwing rip baits close to the ramp and they also were slamin them..
      City: san jose

      Tips: bass are starting to move up next few weeks they should move on the beds. fish right know in 5ft to 10 ft parallel look for flats next to deep water and have fun the bites range from hard hitting to line just moving be ready.

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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake thought there was a tourney going on doesn't any body work must have been close to 20 boats fishen today saw a few friends today also anyway caught some bass on a rodstrainer tandem chart/white skirt and gold indiana blades,c-rig watermelon brush hog man i missed one that almost took the rod out of my hands,and also on a rodstrainer jig 3/8 0z brown/green/chart/ with a zoom brown frog with the ends dipped in chart. most fish avg. 2lbs with one bass going 3+ .when the wind picked up the dinks came out all 13 in or less.saw ayoung guy fishen near the ramp within a 1/2 hour he caught a limit throwing a small red/brown worm on a dart head al the fish were dinks but hey fishen is fishen also saw a couple throwing rip baits close to the ramp and they also were slamin them..
      City: san jose

      Tips: bass are starting to move up next few weeks they should move on the beds. fish right know in 5ft to 10 ft parallel look for flats next to deep water and have fun the bites range from hard hitting to line just moving be ready.

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

      Report: made a mistake on the date on my report it should be 3/14/01 instead of 2/14/01

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Clear Lake several times this past week - day and night - with mixed results. I had two clients lose big bass, one in the tules at Rattlesnake Island which we saw. It was 8 lbs minimum - his rod was just too light or a good hookset deep in the tules. He almost got her to the boat, but not quite. He was using a red shad 8" Zoom Dead Ringer worm. Yesterday, clients lost 3 or 4 ish, but did manage to land a 3 1/4 and a 5. I was able to land a dandy - 10 lbs 14 oz - on a brown/orange Rodstrainer Jig with a #180 5" Yamamoto twin tail grub. I caught her o a break on a rockpile near Rattlesnake Island. I was accidentally using 10# test line - maybe that is why she bit at 10:30 in the morning in bright sunshine and clear water that was dead-lat calm. Those are the great questions o bass ishing - i only bass could talk!! Big ish like that don't make many mistakes in the middle o the day in open water. The night ishing has only been good or quality - not too many bites. Rattlin' Weapon jigs and "Big Dipper" Magic Worms have been the best baits at night. I have ound the bass in the south end to be moving around a bit, and are diicult to locate. Fishing seems to be on one day and o the next. Some have said they are even hard to locate on the meter. Another three or our weeks should do the trick. The bass need sun!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: For the next week or two, especially in the south end, I would throw jigs, and then more jigs. Ripping is taking a ew, and crankbaits are catching some big ones, but not many. Senkos are working or some.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 1pm. Jerry, that must have been you I met on Dry Creek Road towing that purty white/red Ranger.I headed to a spot where I caught a 2.5 pounder last week directly across rom the rock pile at the mouth o the Pit. Spent 3 hours in the general area with a carolina rigged twin tail Yamamoto and did not raise a strike (it worked last week). Even tried drop-shotting a live night crawler, a technique I've used in the past to locate deep ish, but no takers. I could see 'em on my electronices, but no luck. Tired o the wind, I headed due north to a cove at the mouth o the Squaw around 4:30 and ound glassy water AND ish. Went to my trusty tube with a split-shot inserted into the cavity and got 5 ish in an hour and lost as many more, none smaller than 14 inches with 15 1/2 inch the biggest. The encouraging point is that I missed double that many at least. The "take" was undetectable most o the time, but the "spit-out" was unmistakable. I literally had a take on nearly every cast. And they were SHALLOW! It was like ishing Shasta in April or May. Many takes were nearly right at the shore line. I kept getting hit until darkness orced me in.
      City: Palo Cedro

      Tips: Is the spring pattern here? Sure seemed like it today. My bait o choice is BPS Magnum Flippin Tubes in pumpkin pepper and green pumpkin. Slip a split-shot inside the tube about hal way, so it will quiver and circle on the drop. Watch your line! Set the hook on the aintest o resistance.

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with John Mcnemar again in my boat this time, got in at Jones Valley at 615 am, ramp parking is just about done or, maybe 7 spots let, air temp 39, waster ast 46 and the lake is asround 27.20t, not rising as ast as the dam is starting to dump at a higher rate. Ran up the pit to the area near Flat Creek where john popped a 2.1 spot on a 6 inch brown jig in 31t o wster, I had somehits on my bps twin tail grub but they let go, moved inside a cove and took a 1.8 out o a creek channel in 17 t, we banged asround a bit then ran downstream near Arbuckle where I got out my MGM 3 inch beaver tail in witches T and banged 5 in a row in twenty minutes to 1.8, john lays down his jig rod and orders up some o my worms, I hand him some #125 MGM's in green ghost 2 in a 4 inch curly tail and he gets bit right o the bat. John has not ished worms much but this aternoon changed his mind. Had to hide my MGM's. We ran back down to jones valley and the water temp had risen 2 degrees since the put in , out o the water at 1235. might rain a llittle tomorrow, this weekend promises blue bird days and little wind, it is still very cold in the AM running upstream. the early ish were standard rubbe band pull downs, the later ish were hitting with some authority.
      City: Redding

Tuesday, March 13th, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I guided some nice olks Saturday aternoon and night. We had a good trip, catching 10 largemouth and a rare Warmouth bass. The largest was 2-14 and the smallest, 12 inches. I elt pretty good about the number, since a cold ront was just leaving the area. The highlight was a 15 year old girl catching her irst FISH - a 1-12 bass on a Zoom junebug lizard. We ished the Carson arm in the aternoon, and then Mountain Spring in the evening. Ater dark, we tried Rock Creek, but no takers. We did catch some on main lake points, about 15 eet deep, all on worms. I threw a jig 'til I was silly - not a bite! Actually, I did that so my clients would eel good with all their worm ish!!! A very nice trip!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The worm bite seems to be pretty good, day and night. The jig bite is good during the day. A ew days o sun will get the bass moving to shallow water.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launch out of Berryessa marina and my partner and I made our way up to the north end Putah creek. Soon as we got to our spot I made the first hook up on my own rendition of the whiches T copy and the second and the third all the bass were solid 2.0lbers. My partner and friend switched his worm and started using the W.T. and he started catching nice smallmouth and largemouth bass. I then swithed to a spinnerbait homemade and blasted a nice 4.0 largemouth then hooked into a 3-1/2pounder switched one more time to a lucky craft pointer minnow and stuck 3 nice bass. We had a good day and had we started eariler we may had caught 30 or even 40 bass that day instead we only caught 25.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Try witches T's, Salt&pepper with chartruse tail 4'' worms spinnerbaits and anything else.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 1:30pm. Started throwing 4" worms and stuck a 3lber in the back cove. Went to the spillway and hit two dinks. Then started fishing the main lake across from the boat launch. Hit one 2lber and one 4lber on the 4" worm. Then decided to throw a jig for the last 30 minutes and stuck a good 4 1/2. Tried cranking and ripping to no avail. Threw a blade for a good hour and nothing. Got a tourney this weekend so I won't be back here until next week. Hope the water clears up.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Purple jig with a roboworm trailer got the big fish. 4" robo worm dark brown caught the others. The big fish came in the 15-20' range, dinks came in the 1-5' range. Good amount of wind blowing.

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 1:30pm. Started throwing 4" worms and stuck a 3lber in the back cove. Went to the spillway and hit two dinks. Then started fishing the main lake across from the boat launch. Hit one 2lber and one 4lber on the 4" worm. Then decided to throw a jig for the last 30 minutes and stuck a good 4 1/2. Tried cranking and ripping to no avail. Threw a blade for a good hour and nothing. Got a tourney this weekend so I won't be back here until next week. Hope the water clears up.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Purple jig with a roboworm trailer got the big fish. 4" robo worm dark brown caught the others. The big fish came in the 15-20' range, dinks came in the 1-5' range. Good amount of wind blowing.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: (First report I've entered, new to this game. Sorry about the lack o lingo.) Set in 11:30 out o Granite bay, ished east side points up north arm with only 1 2.3lb spot at 10' on carolina rig with green 6" magic worm over small rocks to show. Headed back to ramp to pick up wie and girls. We ate lunch letting the wind drit dragging plastics just o the ramp. Caught 4 1.5-2.7lb spots at 8-12 eet 100 yards rom the ramp. Even my 5 yr. old had a hit on her pink "Snoopy" pole!, I orgot to teach her how to set the hook, my bad.. caught one more 2lb.11oz smallie later on 6'stick-up and called it a day at 4pm.
      City: Meadow Vista

      Tips: Thanks or all your tips and previous reports.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 45-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out into the McCloud with John McNemar, a gentleman I met one day about a month ago in the Pit, out o Bridge Bay at 0545, temp 39 with a 10 knot wind out o the north but no problem in John's Sea Ray witha windshield, lake up to 27.80 t and the McCloud is clering up, ran up near Shallow point or a smallmouth and a spot real quick to 1.8lbs on a brown jig(john) and a rainbow 99 (aka big daddy special)me, went up urther to Nosoni creek where John popped two more spots to 1.6 on his jig,, ran back downstream to Smugglers where I managed to catch up with john with another spot and one dink and that was that. The bite or us shutdown at 10AM and we got back to Bridge Bay at 1230 so I could do my daddy duties, gonna run the Pit tomorrow up near Flat Creek, temp getting out was 67 degrees. New Bass and local tourneys this weekend and the Castro Valley Bass Club is coming up rom the Bay Area, that's Big Daddy's bunch o olks.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this past Monday and had a tough bite with alling water. We caught 8 ish with nothing big (2 1/4 lbs the biggest) all day. Worked the creek arm lats with white/chartreuse spinnerbaits. A ew ish came Carolina riggin the transitions rom creek channels to lats. They are ready. Also had a lot o closed mouth strikes rom males. With stable water and sun this bite is going to get un. Good to see you power ishing Richie Rich.

      Tips: Work the gentle sloping banks or pre-spawn ish.

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      Water Temp: 50-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ahhh my ole buddy Mr. Sheekaka or whatever your name is I see you have stirred the pot once again! Guys let this one go it is not worth the eort! ished yesterday aternoon throwing jigs and landed 2 ish or 4.5 pounds. 18-20 deep and a very skittish to sot bite. I missed 3 other bites that I would have liked to have seen em. the water is very stained and very cold. I think the lake needs another 1-2 weeks o warmer days to really get going. For a monday the lake was extremely crowded.
      City: windsor

Monday, March 12th, 2001

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

      Report: Got into a big school today. Caught at least 20 bass all on crankbaits. Only there an hour and then BOOM!!! slammed a 14lber. All the other ish were over 3lbs.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Fish with brown o orange speed traps in the middle o the lake.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: No I did not ish but I was there or the weigh in and there were some hogs, irst place was on blades, 5 ish or 26 lbs. I did not catch the color or size, I think that was by design. Fish are shallow in ront o tulies and in the tulies. The winning team said that they caught the ish up on the north end o the lake.
      City: Milpitas

      Tips: Fish shallow, I mean 1-2 eet deep by tulies, and that is where they were last week end when I did ish but did I ish shallow, no!