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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

Monday, March 11th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53 -59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Please see Bill Talley's report below concerning the Reapers tournament.

      Monday, 3/11/13. Starting at 9:00 AM, my buddy and I fished the West side near the big island with no success. The water temperature on this side was 53 – 55º and was very clear with visibility to 10 ft. Around 1:00, we moved to the East side and found a few fish at 5 to 15 ft mostly on points. The water here was warmer at 55 - 59° and was stained with visibility to only 3ft. By 5:00, the two of us had fished hard to catch a nice bag of 11 fish. Our best 5 weighed 13 lbs 2 oz. The two largest were small mouth bass at just over 3 lbs each. The others were a mixture of SMB, LMB and spots. All were caught drop-shotting 4½ inch Roboworms. A jerk bait, crank bait, Senko and jig were tried with no success.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Look for warmer water which in the spring is usually along south facing shoreline. Stained water also warms up faster than clear water.

      As Bill Talley says in the Report below, the Reaper Tournament is really a Fun Family Team Tournament. This is the only tournament that my buddy and I fish. We have been fishing it for years and really enjoy ourselves. It has become our annual tradition. I also have another fishing buddy who's son comes up from LA every year to fish with his dad.

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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught about 8 fish total with a friend. 20-30feet of water submerged rock piles. All of them on drop shot. We used wtrmln color worms. One about 3lbs the rest under 2. Didn't have any reaction bites and no shallow fish.

Sunday, March 10th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my buddy "Worm" on Friday and Sunday. We fished out of Russo's on Friday and mainly fished around Franks Tract. We didn't start getting them until we fished the lee side of the tullies - Dark colored Senkos did the trick, nothing big but lots of fish in the 2-2.5lb range. Today we fished out of Lauritezens and fished Sherman and Big Break for stripers and Black Bass. Worm was getting bit consistently junk fishing - I couldn't get bit on a dark Senko, then I switched to Chartrues and White and got 3 nice fish in 10 minutes (biggest 4.5lbs). We also had some striper action. The afternoon weather was beautiful!
      City: Concord

      Tips: Get out there and fish! the water is warming up and the fish are getting active!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! I listening to my own seminar for the Future Pro Tour at Clear Lake Bait & Tackle yesterday afternoon! After that Mike Sperbeck and I launched my Z521 and headed out into the ocean!!! About an hour later, at sunset, I fought a big bass in the howling wind and surf for nearly 3 minutes and Mike finally was able to net my second 9 pounder in 3 weeks - this one barely over 9 by 1 ounce. We didn't know where she was half the time in the rough water!! About 10 minutes later - a 5 1/4 pounder. Both were caught on the "Hemphill Special" - a brown/orange jig w/Yamamoto twin-tail #180 5" grub. Another great trip I thought - not so!! We left about 11 pm with 10 bites (that we could feel in the wind) but 5 bass for nearly 32 lbs. I don't think we have ever worked so hard for so few fish - I was dizzy trying to keep the boat in some position to fish. Some of you bay and ocean fishermen know what I am talking about!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: My real point in this report is to thank Vince and the FPT folks for letting me give a literal "warm-up" seminar to the participants. The other speaker and I were trying to give proper tips that the anglers could use during a major cold-front. I hope some of them helped, I hear the lake calmed down some about 3 am. I hope so. Very nice group of folks! On our trip, we threw Berkley Havoc baits and Netbait Mad Pacas. I did have another good hit with a D&M Piranha swim jig, but couldn't connect this time. Bass seemed to be at the same depths as last time - 15 to 25 feet. Why do I feel seasick today???

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

      Report: Shore fished Lime Saddle from 8am to 10:30am, fished roboworms Texas style. Fish are waking up from winter. Got 19 spots, 1 15", 1 16", the rest 13-14" One was a small mouth, 13 1/2". Great fishing from shore, boat fishing should be better. Anyone needing a fish partner, let me know. Available most times.
      City: Magalia