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Sunday, March 4th, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived about 8am 4th cast at shore, o a point netted a 3 plus emale. I thought I had a chance, but the wind was very srong and I couldn't stay out on the points o the main lake. I continued to ish in the coves 5 to 35 eet o water but only managed a ew bites and 1 lost ish at the boat. ( bad hook set....heh it happens )With the rain and wind I decided to go or some trout. Within 2 hours I had 3, the smallest being 2 pounds. Caught the bass on a texas rigged blue leck power worm and the trout throwing a countdown rapala lure. Alot o promise on this lake and you can always get dinner i the bass aren't bitting. Good luck.

      Tips: Lake is pricey but you can count on the trout bite through spring. Alot o Good to Great bass come rom this lake.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello all. I have been fishing Calero for nearly 14 years and have had my wins and losses, but most important of all, I ALWAYS practice catch & release. This is just a reminder to all the new anglers in our area that catch & release is VERY important, especially this time of year as spring and the spawn season approach. Good luck to all of you this season! See you out there!
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello all. I have been fishing Calero for nearly 14 years and have had my wins and losses, but most important of all, I ALWAYS practice catch & release. This is just a reminder to all the new anglers in our area that catch & release is VERY important, especially this time of year as spring and the spawn season approach. Good luck to all of you this season! See you out there!
      City: San Jose

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lipped the tules today and got some nice ish. my best ive went or about 18.5 lbs. broke o a nice one in the sticks. i was lipping a watermellon red brush hog.

      Tips: lip in the heavist cover you can ind

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish the 100% Future Pro with my partner. We thought we were going to have a reaction bite early. Partner stuck a 2.52lb spot irst thing and then we didn't catch another ish till later in the day. We tries jigs to noavail. Our other 3 ish came on 6in brown weenies o steep rocky points down to 20 t. We insihed 7th, last in the money. Conditions were not avorable. 50+mph winds and rain kept us wanting to go home.
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: 1st place inishers ished jigs all day and had a 20 ish day. We were not so lucky. They ished brn on brn jigs in shallow water.

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      Water Temp: 46 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 100% tourny out o the spillway today. Fish were in 10 to 20 eet o main lake points. My partner and I boated 4 beore the wind blew us o our bite. Try dartheading grubs and worms, greens and browns. There was no reaction bite at all in the morning. Tried it all: rip baits, blades, cranks, and traps. Couldn't even get a jig ish. Good luck to anyone else, its gonna stay tough until some nice weather comes through.
      City: Laayette

      Tips: BE CAREFULL IN THE WIND. IT WAS VERY VERY ROUGH OUT THERE TODAY. Stick to the Delta (its got bigger and better ish)

Saturday, March 3rd, 2001

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner got 6 (5) after one shook off on the liquid side of the boat. I was tired of netting his fish so he tried to swing a two pounder. Didn't matter- the weigh-in was at 3:10 not 3:30 like he thought. Shakin 6" green weanies 3/16 darter head on a point in skier's cove in 30ft. Reaction bite was there- two lb smallie on a blade over the weedline. Partner didn't give reaction bite time to work.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Plastics deep off points for numbers, slow roll spinnerbaits for big fish off weedline. Water will warm to 55 by July if we're lucky.

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner got 6 (5) after one shook off on the liquid side of the boat. I was tired of netting his fish so he tried to swing a two pounder. Didn't matter- the weigh-in was at 3:10 not 3:30 like he thought. Shakin 6" green weanies 3/16 darter head on a point in skier's cove in 30ft. Reaction bite was there- two lb smallie on a blade over the weedline. Partner didn't give reaction bite time to work.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Plastics deep off points for numbers, slow roll spinnerbaits for big fish off weedline. Water will warm to 55 by July if we're lucky.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the NewBass Tourney out of Markley Cove. Caught 6 fish over 13" and a handful just shy of that. All the fish came split-shotting in the narrows. Fish were between 20 and 35 feet deep
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: SLOW

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the late report, phone line was down ALL weekend. Fished Calero from 8:30-4:45 on Saturday and found a great bite. Really windy until mid afternoon. I hooked 13 and landed 10 of them. Really nice fish today, I managed a 5, 4, two 3's, and the rest were all solid 2lbers. I threw small jigs and zipper grubs right around 10' of water. I also managed to get 3 of my smaller fish on a shad colored Fat Free Shad crankbait....nice change of pace. The water must have warmed up a little bit because I didn't get any short strikes today, and the fish fought REALLY HARD. Great day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Keep fishing slow but don't be afraid to pull out a crank or blade, especially if it's windy and/or cloudy.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of a kickboat today. hit rocks across from ramp. Kind of slow. very windy! One fish 4 lbs. Baby brushog(red,black,green) in 12 ft of water. Hit like a freight train. saw other fish caught. Some on blades, some on plastics.
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Just bought my first pair of solar bats. I like'um!

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the late report, phone line was down ALL weekend. Fished Calero from 8:30-4:45 on Saturday and found a great bite. Really windy until mid afternoon. I hooked 13 and landed 10 of them. Really nice fish today, I managed a 5, 4, two 3's, and the rest were all solid 2lbers. I threw small jigs and zipper grubs right around 10' of water. I also managed to get 3 of my smaller fish on a shad colored Fat Free Shad crankbait....nice change of pace. The water must have warmed up a little bit because I didn't get any short strikes today, and the fish fought REALLY HARD. Great day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Keep fishing slow but don't be afraid to pull out a crank or blade, especially if it's windy and/or cloudy.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of a kickboat today. hit rocks across from ramp. Kind of slow. very windy! One fish 4 lbs. Baby brushog(red,black,green) in 12 ft of water. Hit like a freight train. saw other fish caught. Some on blades, some on plastics.
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Just bought my first pair of solar bats. I like'um!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: me and my dad went fishing at san pablo starting at 6am. WE fished off a point next to a big point throwing powerbait from the bank didn't catch any trout except a bite around 8am off the point using charteuse powerbait but we lost it because there was no more jerking from the pole. No bites from any one else except another bite which was also lost. the water still needs to clear up and the bites will become hot.
      City: millbrae,ca

      Tips: use charteause powerbait off the banks mostly from the points.

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      Water Temp: 50-52 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of whiskey slough fished tully flats in 1 to 7 feet of water. In a 200 yard stretch caught a 5 13 and 5 7 on crank baits switched to a blade, and caught about 20 more fish on a blade. Was doing so well, I tried my luck with plastic caught a few heavier fish on plastic. It was truley the best day on the water I've ever had! The best 5 fish was about 24lbs.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Fish zipper worms, fire tiger, crank baits and chartreuse blades in grassy tulley flats.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: SOME WHERE IN T

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I STARTED FISHING "FOLSOM POINT" AROUND 11.30 AM IN MY KICK BOAT.I ALWAYS NOTICED EVERYBODY WAS CATHING FISH WITH THISE PLASTIC WORMS CALLED SENKO'S,SO I WHENT OUT AND I BOUGHT A FEW BAGS EARLY IN THE SEASON.I TRYED OUT THISE WORMS ON SUMERGED TREE'S AROUND THE POINTS AND NOTICED AGGRESSIVE BITES ON THE FALL THE FIRST FISH I LANDED WAS A HAWG #8.5 LB FEMALE BLACK BASS.THAT FISH WAS DRAGGING ME EVERYWHERE IN MY KICK BOAT UNTIL I LANDED IT.THISE WORMS WORK GREAT.
      City: ELK GROVE

      Tips: SENKOS,SENKOS,SENKOS.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished the won bass tourney today at New Melones. We started out throwing reaction baits in the backs o coves with no luck. We then backed o and ished these same coves at about 45 eet and caught two pretty good blacks shaking paddle tails. Ater that my partner caught another two pound black throwing a jig up shallow in the same area. We then spent the remainder o the day throwing cranks and spinner baits but only managed to catch two more 13 inchers. Our inal weight or ive ish was 8.63#s. Not good enough or a check but it kept us alive in the points race.
      City: Riverbank

      Tips: I did hear o a ew people catching ish shallow but the majority o isherman were still ishing deep.

Friday, March 2nd, 2001

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

      Report: Skipped work at lunch time and headed out to the lake. Started fishing at 1 with a red persuader jig I got at the fishing show. Fished about 10 to 15 feet of water on the point straight across the lake from the launch ramp and got a small 2lber. Picked up the jig so slowly I couldn't even feel it until I saw my line moving. was the only boat on the water, wind started to pick up at about 3 and started to look ugly. Worked the jig the rest of the day in about 15 feet of water, seems like thier starting to stage. Managed to catch my limit for a small total of 11 lbs. All fish bit very softly, might of missed a couple mistaking them for bump against rocks. Just waiting for the water to get warmer, then the hogs in this lake will start hitting.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Worked a Persuader Jig along the south shore in 15 feet of water very slowly and pay attention to your line. Most pickups are slow and gradual. good luck, and tight lines.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Skipped work at lunch time and headed out to the lake. Started fishing at 1 with a red persuader jig I got at the fishing show. Fished about 10 to 15 feet of water on the point straight across the lake from the launch ramp and got a small 2lber. Picked up the jig so slowly I couldn't even feel it until I saw my line moving. was the only boat on the water, wind started to pick up at about 3 and started to look ugly. Worked the jig the rest of the day in about 15 feet of water, seems like thier starting to stage. Managed to catch my limit for a small total of 11 lbs. All fish bit very softly, might of missed a couple mistaking them for bump against rocks. Just waiting for the water to get warmer, then the hogs in this lake will start hitting.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Worked a Persuader Jig along the south shore in 15 feet of water very slowly and pay attention to your line. Most pickups are slow and gradual. good luck, and tight lines.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Left granitebay ramp at 6.30 with mr.bass moniker himself.If you've been reading his reports you know he has bad carma right now.Well we headed north and had a double first shot out of the cannon.We preceded to bag around 20 fish in a few hours.We caught a few shallow fish early and then went in the 15-25 foot range.Fish are there just be patient and try differnt methods. Bass moniker now has a smile on his face.
      City: citrus hts