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Monday, February 12th, 2001

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o Jones Valley and headed or the Squaw arm. On the water at 9am irst ish came at 9:10am. Felt like a wet dish towel until I set the hook.(2.0lbs) Proceeded to catch three more, all o which had a more deined take.(1.05-1.13lbs) Moved around some and caught three more including a 1.11lbs smallmouth. The wind came up so I moved to a main point and spooned up a 2.02lbs spot. All the other ish came on brown jig and twin-tail trailer. The water temp. was 47-48 degrees. Not a bad bite considering there was still snow on the shoreline. O the water at 2:30pm.
      City: Redding

Sunday, February 11th, 2001

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 40 to 44

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Oroville one the 10th and 11th. On the 10th I ished rom about 7:30 to 10:30 AM but the wind rain and snow were more than I wanted to put up with. I had about 6 bites and set on two, one 2 + one about 1 +. The best ishing and size were in the middle ork. The ish were in 25 to 40 eet o water. I was using a + oz jig, purple with purple pork. the walls I was ishing were all most straight up and down. I would try to keep my jig on the wall all the way down. The ish were taking the jig very sot. I also had 2 worm bites. On the 11th I started in the middle ork middle ork middle ork. I mist my irst two bites o the day then got my irst ish a 2 +, missed the next then got another one. About 11:30 I had three and moved to the south ork. I got one got one more there but it was only about 13 in. Just ater 12:00 I move to the main lake, I had not had a bite on my worm so I stopped ishing it or the rest o the day. I had change to a Super pork Jr. to try to stop the short bites I was getting. I put 4 more ish in on the main lake ishing the points in 30 to 45 eet o water. At the end o the day with all the rain and snow I had 18 to 20 bites, 7 keepers and 5 or 11lb 12oz. Rick K o Ca or Champion Boats and BOB's Marine
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Till the water warms up some go deep and use the jig. Brown or purple.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Braved the elements and ished in the rain and hail on Sunday. Managed to land 1 @ 1.5 lbs on a june bug colored zipper lizard. Had a couple o other bites on a jig but couldn't hook up. I you don't mind the weather, now is a good time to go. We only saw a ew boats all day and the parking lot was empty.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Fish rocky area very slow.

Saturday, February 10th, 2001

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

      Report: City: concord

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 46.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out this am to try out 4wd and we did slip and slide we went to Jones valley. and 6" o snow orcasted so chained up this morning so we wouldn't have to later. Caught one ish in the ort creek and went point hopping up the pit or another ten or so. We caught all but one on a brown jig and the other on a 6" worm in green. Only caught 2 under 1.75# and none over 2.0#.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Slow Slow Slow!

Friday, February 9th, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was really windy and cold today.The backs o my hands were stiining up!I seen 2 toms 22 or 23 hens,a couple o deer and Bald Eagles.The wildlie here is pretty cool.As ar as the ish ,they won today.I landed one 2lber and broke o what began to eel like a quality ish.Ocourse the one that gets away is always better right!Trolled up a 4lb trout on yellow/white rapala.Broke one o on a Blue rapala.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Only two bites or me at 30-35t on jig.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a late aternoon-night trip with a client on Thursday as a very cold storm was moving in. We got the trip in beore the rain, but not the wind. We were limited as to where we could ish - too cold to be in any wind!! We ished jigs 90 percent o the time, because we were looking or big ish. This time, we were successul! He caught a 1 and 2 1/4 pounder beore dark in the main body. They were about 30 eet deep. I missed two at about 40 eet. Right ater dark, I landed a nice 2 pounder in Mountain Spring area, and I missed another. As the clouds got thicker, the bite picked up a bit. Yea, right - instead o one bite an hour, we got TWO bites an hour - WOW! But about an hour ater dark, ishing a little cut in the main body, he got the bite we were waiting or, and hoped we would get with the incoming ront. We were surprised how shallow this monster was, about 10 eet. Ater an amazing ight or water this cold, I netted a beautiul 8 lb 11 oz bass or him. Ater photos, we put her right back where she was caught. He caught it on a Weapon jig with a Yamamoto grub trailer. We each caught another bass in the Jackson arm, his about 2 lbs and mine about 1 1/4. Six bass to 8-11 - not bad or the middle o winter!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Shakin' worms and jigs have been the best or me this winter. Night ishing is slow because the bass just hunker down in all the weeds that are available. As the lake ills, the areas rom the inside weed edges to the bank will be good when the lake warms a bit.

Thursday, February 8th, 2001

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: only caught 2 largemouths. my mom caught 1 on a live minnow dangled rom a bobber. and i caught 1 on a rapala loating minnow. i just used the stop-go method because nothing else would work. cast right under the brush reel really ast then stop i did that two times and one came darting right rom under the brush and grabed it on the run. turned out to be about 3-4 lbs.geuss they just werent biting. problably dueto the cold ront.
      City: chico

      Tips: used loating minnow under brush and the stop-go method your garinteed to catch one.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 47.5-48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a tough bite for me today..Only 4 bites all day..They were all solid 2.5 - 3+lb fish..Cought two shaking a 6" worm and two on a brush hog..20-25' Had to work for the bites...fished from 9am to 5pm.. Nice day to be on the water though..light wind and all to myself.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Just keep fishin

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      Water Temp: 47.5-48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a tough bite for me today..Only 4 bites all day..They were all solid 2.5 - 3+lb fish..Cought two shaking a 6" worm and two on a brush hog..20-25' Had to work for the bites...fished from 9am to 5pm.. Nice day to be on the water though..light wind and all to myself.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Just keep fishin

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Chilly and breezy was an understatement so I ran to the bridge headed to south fork and maintained some cover from the wind and fished the deep water wall and picked up 3 with the smallest going 2.6 lbs on a jig. As the wind slowed down, so did the fishing so worked deep walls in 25' carolina rigging a 4" worm very, very S-L-O-W, almost dead sticking the bait and picked them up as fast as I could drop it in the water........once I got the right length of the leader. Very good day with all fish over the slot.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Working a brown/orange 1/4 oz Rodstrainer jig with Yamamoto grub trailer in 20-25 feet and when they ate the jig, they really slammed it. Carolina rig was initially set for 36" and never got tapped until I kept lowering it and when I got to 14", they ate it up. Was using a Magic worm in a light orange and tan color (can't remember the # or color) and dragging it extremely slow with a 2/0 straight hook which was a switch from my ordinary offset worm hook.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Breezy and cold at early morning launch so I pulled up to the bridge on south ork to get some lie back into my body as the piling blocked the wind. Threw a 1/4 oz jig to deep bank and slowly worked back to boat.....bam, a 2.6 pounder. That was just the start and they kept eating the jig until the wind died and it all slowed down to a crawl so I matched it. Put on a worm and worked it super slow in 20-25' on a carolina rig or 4 really nice spots. Started with leader about 36" and when I got it to 16", that's when all the action started. All in all, a really nice, productive day.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Brown/orange Rodstrainer jig with a Yamamoto grub trailer worked o steep walls in 25-30 in the morning. Aternoon was a 4" Magic worm in a light orange/tan color (don't remember worm #) worked at a snail's pace and they ate it up. All bites were hammering hits and you knew when you had one. Good luck this week-end.....some o us have to work!

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      Water Temp: 46.5-49.0

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On weds Larry Powell and I ished rom 0700-1600 and had 19 ish. All the ish came on jigs and worms, the biggest ish was a huge bucket mouth that broke the scales at 10.27lbs. Smallest ish was 1.78 then all were in the 2-3lbs class. Wind was a major role, stay on the protected sides and cast across the wind on points. SLOW DOWN with jigs and worms.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Try using 1/2 oz jigs in craw patterns and shad patterns in the worms. remember this is eb. Ther are some big ish moving right now and there moving real ast to warmer water look or temps that are 1 or 2 degrees warmer than the man body or north ork and the big boys or girls are there.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 47.1-75.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCH OUT OF THE BREAK @ 9:00AM. NOTICED I WAS THE ONLY CUSTOMER GENE HAD TODAY. FIGURED I WILL FISH A LITTLE WHILE. WHATS A LITTLE WIND. WELL THE WIND AND SWELLS MADE FISHING NOT FUN. TRIED TO TUCK BACK INTO LITTLE BREAK. NOTICED EVEN THE BIRDS WERE PINNED UP AGAINST THE REEDS THE WIND WAS BLOWING SO HARD. DID MANAGE TO STICK A 1.5 ON A BLADE. BUT THEN NOTICED THE BOAT WAS ON THE WEEDS. SO I LEFT AND WENT A LITTLE FARTHER UPSTREAM TO 75 DEGREE WATER, WHICH I AM SURE YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS. THREW THE TRAP AND GOT HAMMERED, LANDED ABOUT A 8# STRIPER. THAT WAS IT WAS NOT FUN ANYMORE.
      City: CONCORD

      Tips: BE CAREFULL OUT THERE, I SHOULD HAVE NEVER GONE OUT IN THESE CONDITIONS UNLESS IT WAS A TOURNAMENT. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I DID NOT REALLY ENJOY FISHING

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It was tough holding the boat still enough to ish. The water was cold and visibility was about 12 inches. Terrible conditions but we managed to catch a ew. Fished rom 11am to 5pm. Caught about one ish per hour. Two 2lbs, two 3lbs and one 7.1 pounder. The 7.1 pounder was my my biggest ever! Can't wait to catch an 8 pounder!! Do I hear 9!!!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I you are driving the Hopland Grade, slow down to 55mph beore you enter Hopland. The CHP are waiting! They're nice olks but a ticket makes it diicult to enjoy their company.I your ishing in this wind, tie up to a dock with a lot o posts and ish each o them with a watermelon green brushhog until your blue in the ace. Look or shallow water.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing at 3:00 at the usual haunts with the usual baits.Sunny , slight breeze airly calm.My partner and I had 9 ish 2lbs to 3.5 lbs .Extremely dark cloudsstarted to move in , bite stopped.At 4:30 we had our rain-gear on and one minute later we were deluged with rain,iceand very strong winds.Temp elt like it dropped 20 deg inten minutes.I hope the wind dies down,i this pattern continues I'll ish the anglers choice tourney this weekend.
      City: Granite Bay Ca.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake really came up this week, ound bait at 60-85 eet, hard to catch bass,talked to locals and they didn't have any good news. Saw a couple o ish caught,but they cleaned them,and took them home.

      Tips: Drain the lake and make a gol course........

Monday, February 5th, 2001

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Should have stayed home, out o jones valley at 1030, temp 54, water lat no wind,lake at 57 t and quite a bit o small debris in the pit arm, ran up to the no ski buoys and ished down stream rom there, must have had 20 taps on jigs, idgets and big daddy special,NO FISH, not a single hook up, something would tap me once or twice and then nothing, had only one pull down, got back a wormless hook. Clark (a regular) pulls up next to me at reynolds creek and laments the same acts, had a number o taps, no takers, i this gentlemen isn't catching we are all in trouble. Went on back to the ramp and talked to 8 guys I know on the way back, NOBODY had a single ish with the exception o one guy who was spooning and snagged a couple o trout. Pulled out at 230 pm and the temp was up to 73 degrees, guess the ul moon or nearly so has bit me in the behind. 3 regulars were up at the top o the ramp and we jawboned about the conditions, one guy caught one dink.
      City: Redding

Sunday, February 4th, 2001

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50 DEGREES

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED PLEASURE COVE AND THE NARROWS, CAUGHT 14 FISH BEST SEVEN WENT 12.16 LBS. SPLITSHOTTING 4-1/2" WORMS IN ORIGINAL #2, SMOKE W/ GOLD FLAKE, MORNING DAWN. FISH WERE IN 10' - 15'.
      City: SACRAMENTO

      Tips: FISH VERY SLOW , LIGHT PRESURE BITE

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two of us fished from 11-5. Nice, warm day with water temp up about 2 degrees from the previous week. Landed 7 bass from 1-3 lbs. We fished the shoreline on the far side of the dam. The bass are schooled up and as soon as we started seeing them on the depth finder we got bites. We used small worms in dark colors and small jigs in about 20 feet of water.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Locate the schools and use small dark colored baits that you can fish slow to get them in the boat!