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Saturday, February 2nd, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I visited the lake after about a 5 week break. We started out of Red Bud about 4 pm. Beautiful afternoon - almost warm! Hope the bass felt that way too!!! One did! I was fishing a green pumpkin Berkely Havoc bait on my new Loomis NRX 852S (6-12 lb) with 8 lb test. After just a few casts, I thought I felt something strange - not a hint of a bite. She came into the boat about 3 minutes later - all 6 lb 5 oz of her. Clear Lake just being Clear Lake when you least expect it!! Mike caught a few smaller ones and lost a big one. After dark it was slow - we fished several areas in Konocti Bay with hardly a bite. The cloud cover was in the distance but never reach the lake - it was cold! Finally, Mike started throwing a small swimbait and found the key. He had several hits and landed a 6-9 and 6-10 back to back. We caught a few others in the 4 to 5 lb range. We thought we were going to join the early season 30 lb club, but ONLY managed a limit of 29 1/4 lbs. Nearly all of our fish were on off-shore rocky bottoms after dark. Before dark they were more shallow - my 6-5 maybe about 12-14 feet deep. Bass were biting after dark, but, no surprise, just a little pressure before dark. They were all in excellent shape.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We were able to spot a lot of fish our my HDS-8, but few would bite. I think the cloud cover would have kept the air temp warmer and enhanced the bite, but no such luck. We both just did the VERY slow drag - stop technic - even with a swimbait. Rock bottom produced better than a smooth bottom. Look for rock patches in about 25-40 feet - off the bank!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Left out of Antlers boat ramp again this time there was a guy out there dragging Logs in with a cable with his truck. Next time please dont block the boat ramp. 4 boats trying to launch and all of us had to launch away from the ramp because this guy was blocking it. He finally moved. Thank you. fished Jig heads with straight worms from 10 am to 5pm on sac arm. Got 13 spots and a Two pound plus Largemouth. Fish in 18 to 55 feet of water fished slow. Got a couple of reaction strikes with a 3/8 oz spinnerbait but didnt land em. Was a tough slow day but in the end , not bad again for wintertime. Most spots where right about 12 to 13 inches. Caught two dinks. Put em all back in the lake. Fish were very scattered and was mostly a very light bite.
      City: Klamath falls

      Tips: Be patient and try lots of different presentations . Spinner and ripbaits if the wind is blowing. When its calm and sunny , fish on the bottom . Mornings are slow. Better bite in the PM

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 9am till 1pm
      2 fish in 2' of water
      1- 3lbs
      1 -6.5lbs
      no fish caught untill the fog lifted
      both on drop shot margartita robo worm
      City: santa rosa

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

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

      Report: Went out with my buddy Dana from Lime Saddle, fished from 8:30am to 11:am. Got 6 bass, one was 15 1/2", one 14 1/2", the others 13-14". Same as before, landed 2 trout on roboworms!!! Water is cool, so fish slow, slow. All took roboworms, All hit very light due to cool water, so pay close attention.

      Anyone wanting fishing partner, let me know, available 95% of the time. I'm a fishing fool, can't get enough.
      City: Magalia

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

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

      Report: Anyone with a boat that would like a fishing partner, email me, I'm generally available 95% of the time to go bass fishing.
      City: Magalia

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty tough bite for me today, one spotted bass about 3 lbs came off right at the boat. Got to the lake about 10 a.m. and so did that nasty wind that seems to always come up like clock work. Im actually looking for someone to fish here with as i live about 10 minutes from browns ravine. shoot me an email if your interested, not too worried about gas or anything have a pretty much fully rigged triton if it makes you feel better.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Dont have any being as though i only hooked and lost one fish, but it was on a dropshot.

Monday, January 28th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46 - 49 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today and fished my way to LVW Marina to get out of the wind. Got a cuople jig bites along the main channel, but no hook ups. When I finally reached LVW Marina started slow rolling my 4" PLine Kick R Minnow around the docks. Cuaght two bass around 1.5 pounds each. Also tried looking for some crappie, but was not able to locate any this time.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Look for calm water, clearer water. Spring is just around the corner. :-)

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: windy on sat but mostly flat in mornings, warming slightly
      Lake Level: 5.80\Best Depths: 2-30, midlake and south
      still slow for most ,arigs bite has picked up , swimbaits, traps both working
      Big Bass: 2-30, midlake and south01/26/2013 - largemouth - 13.3 last week
      several reports of 30+prefish limits ,27+ to win A/C on sat
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: fish slow,

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow bite, but decent fish if you are patient. Hit the water about 8am and stayed until 2pm. Caught 6 fish between 2 and 3.5 lbs. Try primary points near creek channels. Cast out your jig, let out enough line to get keep it on the bottom while you "drift" in a gentle breeze. "Shake" the jig gently over obstacles. Wait for the "tap tap", esepcially just as it goes over a log or rock. Give her a second to get the jig in her mouth, then nail her!!
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Best luck today on brown and purple jigs, with a brown crawdad trailer. Caught my 3 biggest on this setup. You have to use a very slow presentation. I sometimes use the drifting approach when fish are sluggish, and have had decent success in recent years.

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      Water Temp: 49.9 to 51. 7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass have move up to 25 to 30 feet of water now and are hold on and around isolated rock piles and movig up on flats in mid afternoon. Bass to 5 1/2 lbs were caught this weekend on 3/8 oz jigs and baby brushogs. Boat traffic is still light on the weekends but with the warmer weather later in the week will pull the fish up even more there alot of good areas to fish right now. Water is still stained some but its not stopping the bass from biting.The bite is holding up well thru out the morning and into the afternoon.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: jigs and baby brushogs fished slow. vertical jigging is still working well also. isolated structure hold the better fish.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: not sure...cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: while i walked my dog, i worked the dike8/folsom pt shoreline just below the picnic tables. hooked up a couple 1 to 2 lbers on a grn pumpkin jig with a 5" grn pumpkin senko trailer. that shut down so i switched to a wacky rigged monster shad senko..picked up 3 more 1 lbers. surprised me that i got that many from shore. have tried last few weeks this way and this was the best day. hope spring gets here soon!
      City: folsom

      Tips: i can't seem to force myself to fish slow so i made up reasons not to move my rod and simply put it down while i threw sticks in the water for my lab to fetch. then picked up my rod and it would load up or i'd feel the tic as soon as i'd move it. so i guess the tip is...fish slow.... if you can. i generally can't.

Saturday, January 26th, 2013

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 52 f

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Dam area. Caught five and missed 7 or so more. All on Berkley Powerbait Garlic. One had a stomach full of little silver minnows, inch and a half long.
      Bite was best at sunrise and there was a midge hatch happening most of the morning.
      City: Woodland

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son and I went out this past weekend and caught several fish on jigs and C-Rigs. We concentrated on points and secondary points in the North Fork. The wind speed was at 7 – 10 mph and it was tolerable for most of the day, we moved in and out of coves for protection. My son was pretty excited and very entertained with the amount of action we were presented with. My son stated numerous times that the best part of the day was when we casted out our rods and sat down for lunch. During that period with his thought away from fishing and concentrating on his meal he nailed the biggest fish of the day weighing in at 3.9 pounds. Needless to say we average about 2 fish per hour for 6 hours. All fish were caught and released safely to be caught another day. Tight Lines.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Slow

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just as I thought, the sheep would pull the race card. I've tried to talk to the poachers but they don't speak the language of this land. It's not profiling if its only one certain community raping our waters. If the fish aren't being sold for profit, what are they doing with the fish? If they were truely out there because they love the sport and want to keep some fish for dinner, then no problem. This is not the case. Pull your head out of your a$$ basskilla.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Scott you're even more ignorant than the other trash. Fish from the market are farm raise u nazi idiot. KNow your facts b4 u open your mouth u white hooded crossing burning ignorant trash.lol. shut your flip flop. Its easy to hide behind a screen while profiling others. If your man enough than confront them u racist nazi. Lol

      Tips: Another racist is one too many in this world. We will pray for U!!

Friday, January 25th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Unlike my last trip here, the air temps were 50+ during the ride there, unlike the previous 30+. I was optomistic that fish would be more active and move up. Well, once again what do I know, as it was about the same as last time. Fished from 9-4:30 and got about 15 bites and boated about bass. Mostly spots and few smallies up to 2+. All were on plastics in 15-25 ft. Couldn't figure out a pattern, so some stops I got bit and many others I didn't. Most stops only caught one but one stop got 5. Not sure what's going, just made a lot of casts. Grubs and tubes in S&P and green respectively were the colors. For those interested, there were periodic trout swirls, but they didn't last long. Even tho Thursday had no sun, the mild temps made for a real nice day. except for the 30 minute shower around 1-2.

      Tips: Couldn't find a pattern. They seemed to want it on the bottom, moving real slow. Once they would commit they would hold on to it, so take your time and make sure you wind down to the fish before setting hook. Seemed like the fish were in the 15-25 ft depth. Hope this helps

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Happy New Year. Just looked at old posts and realized I hav'nt posted anything since 2007. Well here goes. Started fishing at 9:30am. Water was ultra mirror glass all day with rain and sprinkles all day. Fish heavily suspended about 45 to 50 ft early. Moving shallower as the day progressed. Fished very slow drop shot with long casts 45deg to shore with boat in 60 feet. lost 2 fish, hit 3 times, and brought 4 in the boat. Biggest fish was 3.11 and smallest just under 2 lbs. Had a good pattern fishing very slow downhill around any deep rocky structure. Lake was muddy around deepcat/st.canyon/ santa ana/ wadeliegh area. Moved around alot around east shore points and Island points. Was out of the lake by 4pm. Beautiful day for fishing with only about 5 to 7 boats on the water.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: Believe it or not I fished same beat up 6" oxblood robo all day. Practically a dead stick with 8# test. I swear the short bites were trout.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey fisherman/basskilla/catch a release, wake up fools! You are a bunch of politically correct sheep! Do you think it's ok for some fresh-off-the-boat foreigners to extract our gamefish from our lakes and sell them at Asian markets and filthy restaurants? Do you think they share the same passion for bass fishing like you and I? Its obvious what's going on and dfg knows it but untill we stand up and say we've had enough, nothing will happen. Stand up for our sport and protect what's ours lemmings. Call CALTIP when you see the straw hat gang. The point pherrol was trying to make was they are out there everyday, 5 fish times 10 people. Do the math. Do you think that is right? I will not sit back and let this happen and either should you.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: 10 rods and a bucket of minnows. Don't forget your flip flops and your lucky straw hat.

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

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

      Report: Lay off the straw hat jokes... All fishermen pay their fees so they should be able to take their limits home i dont hear nobody sayn anything about vince when he hosted FPT at clearlake and there was about 100 dead fish... Im a straw hat and I tourny fish and practice catch n release

      Tips: If u got something to say about somebody while ur out on the water be a man n have some b@lls n say it to their face if not dont post anything besides fishin tips

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: If this weather pattern hold up thru the weekend it will pull the fish up into 25 to 30 feet of water and move them off of tight structure water is stained but it wont make a difference any watermelon/red & blk flake or green pumpkin patterns are working well right now
      City: madera ca.