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Sunday, March 11th, 2001

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried sot plastics, reaction baits and blades. From 11am-4pm. Not a bite Switched to trolling or trout and landed two nice rainbows by the back boat ramp. They hit a yellow Rooster Tail. Several boats were trolling with lashers and having success. However I didn't see a bass landed all day. The bass bite should come on anytime now, until then best bet is trolling or trout.
      City: Merced

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't stick it out with jigs or bigger ish- went back to green weanies on darter heads. Caught 6 to 2lbs 12 to 20t on rocks with access to main lake. Suprise- got two on chartruese spinnerbait shallow mid-day. Sometimes even a blind squirel inds a nut.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: 3/16 darters with 6" weanie worms. shake em, drag em, and set on any resitance. Cranks and blades on rubble rock points. A couple brush piles thrown in makes or the best spot.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a day walked rom Rattlesnake bar all the way to dotins point what a walk. Did mange to catch 12 ish my buddy caught 5 and I got 7. We were ish morning dawn worms in 4inch on rocky ponits and in trees in 5+ t o water. Saw alot o boats catch some nice ish they were ishing lizards and spinner baits.
      City: Roseville

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a Mid-Cal tournament sun...Was tough,caught 6 bass or 10 lb plus..irst place was 13 plus..All ish came on worms,rom 25 too 40 t.We never got bit ater 11 am..Had too stick 3 ish.
      City: Riv

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish marked at 45 to 60 eet. They seem to be staging on main and secondary points. We didn't catch any, but then again I am not a deep water specialist. Pre spawn should be soon.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: drop shots on main points

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      Water Temp: 50+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FROM BIG POINT TO THE BOAT LAUNCH USING WORMS CRANKBAITS AND SPINERBAITS HIT EVERY ROCK GRASSBED AND TREE WITHOUT A BUMP WEATHER WAS SUNNY AND WARM WITH LITTLE TO NO CLOUDS THESE BASS SHOULD COME UP ANY DAY WITH THIS KIND OF WEATHER.
      City: RICHMOND

      Tips: CANT WAIT FOR CLERLAKE NEXT MONTH

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      Water Temp: -------

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom bigpoint to launch area with worms crankbaits spinerbaits not a bite weather was nice and warm you would think these bass would come up with this weather but noooo. mabe in a coulple o weaks these crazy bass will come up.
      City: richmond

      Tips: cant wait or clearlake next month.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 43-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water murky, visibility at 2 t, in at Centimundi at 0530, 39 degrees, not much wind UNTIL 0545, it came up quickly as I was running over to Big Backbone, Ran up past sthe 5mph buoy and hit a lat that was good this time last year but the temp is much lower, 44 degrees, managed 5 dinks on the rainbow #99 (aka big daddy special) put on a 4 inch MGM weenie in color #103 or hal a dozen more dinks, wind was really cooking along until 10am when it slowed a bit. Went into Little Backbone, one tap and zip. Ran over to Deadmans gulch, nothing, ran down to the dam to check on the salmon, three boats there, not much going on, ish are deep, 120 t. got out at 1130 temp up to 61 water in main body up to 48 but we are still about 4 degrees behind last year this time. Lake up to 28.21 and still rising rapidly. Wind predicted to keep it up until thursday witha little slowing on Wed. Tomorrow is supposed to be up to 25 knots.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: was thinking about not posting ater people called me a liar,but here goes.went to sonoma today and the bite slowed down ,we caught 20+ bass rom 2to 5.7 lbs(new digital guys)all the ish were caught shaking worms and grubs.
      City: healdsburg

      Tips: the ish have been on and o the beds or 3 months .....just time your trip right .

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      Water Temp: ? still kinda c

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went tubing with a riend up in Yorty Creek today.We managed 5 keeper sized ish between us. Nothing big. 3 came on spinnerbaits, 1 on a hula grub, and 1 on a brush hog.The ish were between 3 & 15 eet near the lats but still on transition spots. Give it a week or 2...or 3, and it should be GREAT! Late aternoons MAY be better as the sun warms the shallows. We let around 2.Lotsa people on the bank ishing or ? (trout, crappie, bass?) Anyone know?
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Slow rolling big white spinnerbaitsPurple Yamamoto hula grubs on 3/8 oz ootball head jigsSplit shot Purple Brush Hogs

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      Water Temp: orty something

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ished with my girls by the ramp. 1st time at the lake.my older one caught a 13 incher on a spinnerbait.i was using a weightless worm... nothing.
      City: Fremont

Saturday, March 10th, 2001

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

      Report: The main engine wouldn't start so I ran the electric all day.I missed out on a lot o areas that I would normally ish but with such nice weather I had to stay.I tried an hour or more each o deep crankin typical divers and trout imitation with no takers.Man I can't wait to get bit on a ake trout!On the jig I managed 10 bites with 5 o them reaching the boat.The best o these was about 2.75lbs.A couple o the bites were at 10t but the best and most er me was 20-30 with the best near 30.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Tiz the time o year to be on the water anytime you can.CCR

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: amador? why? when CLEAR LAKE is only up the street
      City: hayward

      Tips: any lure at CLEAR LAKE!!!!

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: Shrinkage cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water with my tube around 8:30 And fished the boat side of the lake. Used a dropper rig with various plastics, but only produced a few strikes. I'll use the full moon and cold water as an excuse and try again in a few weeks.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We were the first boat on the water. Started fishing 10-15ft of water and did not catch a thing. We then found the fish in about 8-4ft of water. I caught a total of 11 bass, 9 of them caught on a texas rigged paddle tail.The other three fish were caught on free lined jumbo minnows. My buddy also caught 5 bass with on that weighed 7.1lbs. The fish are scattered and feeding shallow.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Suuuuuwwweeee. Call them hogs because there coming in!!!

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      Water Temp: Shrinkage cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water with my tube around 8:30 And fished the boat side of the lake. Used a dropper rig with various plastics, but only produced a few strikes. I'll use the full moon and cold water as an excuse and try again in a few weeks.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We were the first boat on the water. Started fishing 10-15ft of water and did not catch a thing. We then found the fish in about 8-4ft of water. I caught a total of 11 bass, 9 of them caught on a texas rigged paddle tail.The other three fish were caught on free lined jumbo minnows. My buddy also caught 5 bass with on that weighed 7.1lbs. The fish are scattered and feeding shallow.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Suuuuuwwweeee. Call them hogs because there coming in!!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished New Bass Tourney on the Delta. Pretty nice day but windy at times. My partner John Kort and I managed 10 bass and 2 striper for the day. There was no definate pattern as we caught fish on 5 different baits. We struggled through most of the day and managed to put a 16.5# limit in the boat. We thought that would probably only be good enough for a top 10 finish because the week before it took over 24 pounds to win a 100% Bass tourney. Turns out it was just as tough for everyone else on Saturday and we were fortunate enough to win the tourney by 2 ounces.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Once again, keep your line wet. We went 5 hours on Saturday without a fish. And then 1 hour before weigh in the window opened. P.S. Jim, what happened to you? You finished in the money and were not there to pick up yor check.

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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I fished a New Bass tourney. Caught 3 fish and lost 1, with a couple of bites and that was it. One fish close to 4lbs other two were pound and a half. All caught on speed traps. White slough and Connection slough worked for us but not as well as we thought. A lot of others didn't that well either. Water was stained and the wind finally died in the afternoon. We ended up in 17th.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: White crankbaits and the bigger fish was caught on a delta craw speedtrap.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Flipped in and around tules for about 5 hours maybe 2-3 bites but no fish landed, my buddy,"SwampBuggy", also had a couple of strikes but that is it.. Water very muddy 6" visibilty(like fishin in a mud puddle). Wind was out of control at times but for the most part bearable. Didn't see or here anyone doing any better but you never know. Disco Lemonade was skunked in the delta but we'll get'em next time. Good luck to all and god bless.
      City: Santa Rosa