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Sunday, March 17th, 2013

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

      Report: Shore fished at Lime saddle today from 7am to 10:15am. Fished texas rigged roboworms, got 24 spots, 2 were 15" all others 13-14". Bit died about 10am. Water looking good, fish hit very light, so pay close attention. Much better then our last boat trip a week ago. Anyone with a boat, looking for a fish partner, let me know. Generally available 90% of the time.
      City: Magalia

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 43-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9am to 2:30pm and found a pretty tough bite. Had a few followers on a rip bait, caught 3 on tubes in about 7ft of water. overall it was a pretty slow day, although the bass are starting to stage and getting ready for that prespawn frenzy. Give it 2-3weeks and the fish will be on!!!
      City: Susanville

      Tips: Rip slow, then slow down even more. Fish are extremely lethargic right now and are not actively hitting those reaction baits. Best advice is to stay in about 20ft of water and cast in....they will eat tubes right now, just have to dead stick and fish extremely slow. Good luck!!!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I didn't get a chance to post a timely report. I took a client last Tues - showing him around the lake and pinpointing some off-shore structure areas. Fishing was fair as we landed 8 or so. A friend of his followed us around for awhile and fished himself. He shot some cool videos of my boat and one of my client fighting and landing his biggest fish - a spot a little over 3 lbs. Lake was flat as could be with bright sun - tough conditions. All spots except for 2 smallies. We did not look for spawners as I wanted to cover a lot of water for him.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Lots of bass are moving shallow while some are spawning already. A possible mid-week storm could move some off the bank for awhile. We'll see.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished out of lime saddle at about 10:00 to 5 and caught 10 spots. used robos and crankbaits but no reaction bite at all. thought the fishing would be better but the bite is still very light so watch your line and try to feel a dead wieght almost. a couple more weeks and the fishing will be great!
      City: chico ca

Friday, March 15th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58 - 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday 3-15-13, my buddy and I launched at 8:30 AM from Rossos with a high outgoing tide. All day, we stayed in the area of Frank’s Track. On my first cast, I hooked and lost a fish. I guess it was good luck that I lost this fish, since; we continued to consistently catch fish until about 10:30 when the lower tide turned the bite off. All fish were caught on dark colored Senkos. I rigged mine Texas style and my buddy rigged his wacky style. Both rigs worked equally well. The fish were caught at the entrance to cuts, on the ends of islands and along tule covered shoreline. We ended the day at 5:00 PM with 28 fish. Our best 5 fish weighted 5 lb 12 oz, 4:13, 3:13, 3:8, 3:6 for a total of 19 lb 6 oz.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: The fish are there to be caught but the tide has to right.

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 9 fish today. Best five around 12-13lbs. Fished in Putah, 1 on blade when wind came up, 1 on rip, the rest on jigs. Caught 4 off beds, 2 smallies( one was the same caught on same bed from last Sun.), 1 spot, and 1 lmg. Lots of fish shallow and cruising. Going again Sun. and should be more bed fish if weather holds.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: If you want to bed fish before the rains next week, you can burn down banks and find enough fish to keep it fun right now.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56.5-58.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched my custom rebuilt nitro out of Russos today and fished all my buddy's good spots near franks throwing all his fav baits and did pretty good. I could not find a pattern out for myself so I just did everything that he does and fished all the spots that he showed me. Caught all my fish on spinning rods throwing the a rig. Biggest was a 5 lb stripper that made me excited. Tight lines and good luck out there.
      City: Dub town

      Tips: I really need to learn the delta better and learn how to throw a bait caster.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: There is always the debate of legal and limits. The bottom line is the more bass killed in the delta legal or not, hurts the bass population in that area period. When bass are hauled out in buckets the legal limit issue is all for not. Dead is dead. Kill today and dont catch tomorrow.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing minnows next to the tules at State park and north. Can't keep em off the hook. Mainly 14-15 males witn a few 20 inches ladies thrown in. Only down side is running out of minnows. The "extra large"do the same job as the Jumbos for 3 bucks less!
      City: Boise, Idhao

      Tips: Keep close to the tule line edge for quickest hookups.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 56-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spots and Largemouth in the shallow water East side and spawning, Largemouth on a Pre spawn with males cruising Throw worms to the base of the submerged trees and wait. Flukes, Senkos ,Sluggos any type of weedless plastic jerkbait.
      City: Truckee

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

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

      Report: REALLY!!! Why does the race/ethnicity thing always have to come up. We are all fishermen, outdoorsmen, hunters, etc. so lets leave the race/ethnicity thing out. Please do catch and release, but if you want to keep a fish, it's legal to do so, and you're keeping it legally the regulations have your side. Just because some people prefer to strictly practice catch and release they shouldn't impose/coerce their beliefs onto others, but rather educate. Those that have a problem with people catching and keeping fish go read the REGULATIONS. It's pretty much straight foreward for bass. If you still have a problem then why don't you take the proper actions to make changes to the regulations rather then bash on people, race, ethnicity, etc. online?

      Tips: Get over the race/ethnicity thing. Shut your mouth and fish. If you have a problem fix it legally.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Guys,
      There is no reason to hate. As long as they're playing by the rules, there's no reason why these guys shouldn't be able to keep their catch. If DFG impose a size limit like sturgeon than I would have a problem. Wouldn't y'all agree!
      City: SeafoodCity

      Tips: Don't get pissed off if someone else catch bigger fish than you do.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bank fished east delta today. 8am - 1pm. Steady bite most of the day. 19 bass..shakers-6lbs..average 2lbs..slow rolled spinnerbaits and dead stick senkos..All fished released but next outing will keep limit due to comment below.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: If they were doing things legal, then its all good. If not, report it to caltip. You aint the dfw and you didnt make the laws so quit hating on people who keep fish legally. I c&r majority of the time but comments likes yours just makes me keep & kill a big bass and release big carps just to piss yah off. To think your opinion rules over the laws is ignornace.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 61.0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: They dropped the water level by about a 12-18 inches and these fish don't like it. Fished the afternoon and front seat caught a limit of small "keeper fish" and I caught two. Tough for this time of year. Don Pedro has a tradition of getting tough when the water falls, especially when the fish want to look at the bank.
      City: Hughson

      Tips: Everything on finese 4 inch worms and split shot or drop shot, no reaction bite, no jig bite and no swim bait bite. Almost no wind and clear almost hot for this time of year.Lot of fish graphed suspended ,, only a matter of time,going to the Delta for the weekend..

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Why is it that bass fisherman feels like there entitled to special rules and regulation? I dont see this kind of pressure from trout anglers who keep their catch. Are they not subjected to the same rule? Folks just need to understand that this is just a hobby, something to take us away from the daily life. Why does it bother someone so much that another person is keeping their catch? Sound like a douche too me... worry about catching your own and stop looking to put race in the mix... another internet tough guy wannabe

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bounced all over the North End checking various areas using A-rigs,ripbait,Jigs,rattletraps,dropshots, and found it pretty tough for me.My hats off to the guys that are sticking big limits.Best five went 16lbs.Lots of boats out for a Tuesday?Only fish this lake 4 or 5 times a year is that normal pressure for mid week?
      Good Luck be safe
      City: Woodpile

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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear warming
      Lake Level: 6.00\Best Depths: 2-30
      a- rigs are still kicking out big limits, but it can be tuff out there
      Big Bass: 2-30
      several bags over 30 pounds last weekend in FPT andABA
      Events: dont forget the chamber (holder ford )on 23-24
      Guide Information: 707-262-5852\Name & Number: clearlake outdoors

      Tips: the minnow guys are whacking them

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 56-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Majority of the fish are still staging and haven't moved up yet. There are some fish that have moved up shallow, mostly bucks just cruising. We spent most of the day fishing the creeks with ripbaits, jigs, hula grubs and crankbaits. We caught about 20 fish total today, prob half largemouth and half smallies. We did get some quality fish today though. We got two largemouth over 6lbs and two smallies over 4lbs. Majority of the fish came in 8-12ft, but caught fish as shallow as 2ft and as deep as 25ft. The fishing is just going to keep getting better everyday.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: There was a decent reaction bite early in the morning up to about 9am then had to go to jigs and hula grubs to get bites.

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

      Report: South fork, 15 total, two 15" two 16". I caught 6 big daddy woo woo caught 9. Creature baits and robo worms on windy points or windy flats.
      City: Palermo

      Tips: Watch for debris

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Boat fished from Lime saddle, 8am to 12:30. Just could not find fish today. Lost 3 hits!! my partner got 1 spot. Nice day but no luck finding the bass.
      City: Magalia