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Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough fishing. A lot of fishing pressure, must have been over 100 boats out there. A boat at just about every spot we went to fish. Caught 2 spotted bass up to 2lbs on jigs, both in around 50 feet of water. Saw other people catch a fish here and there. My partner and most other people were catching on small roboworms.

      Tips: Fish slow. Most the time you can't even feel the bite, just dead weight.

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      Water Temp: 54°

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Father in law got a new stratos deal took all day. We got on the water about 4:30 pm after a tournament. Wind was about 8 miles an hour +. We fished the banks by temperance nothing there then we shot to the dam found a point casted the wind caught a 2lb black bass. Night fished caught a 12.5 pound black bass on a shad coloured rattle trap 10ft deep 8:30pm full moon total time fished about 5 hrs. Awesome boat awesome fish time of my life at McClure
      City: turlock

      Tips: Jerk baits and rattle traps worked for me. All fish caught shollow

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52 to 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from around 10:30 in the morning to about 5:00 when is stared cooling down fast again. Water was still stained with only about a foot of visibility!! Water temp was 52 to 54 with a couple of spots hitting 55, but the minute the wind blew registered 54 again. Caught 2 Largemouth Bass of ~3.5 and ~5.25 pounds, so it made my day!
      City: HEALDSBURG

      Tips: Be patient and fish slowly!!

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I fished the south end Thursday afternoon. Windy again and difficult to fish. We caught 4 in late afternoon that went a little over 20 lbs. All soft plastic baits - about 15 to 20 feet. I wuz beaten by .01 of a pound!! His biggest was 5.80 and mine was 5.79. Bummer! We fished after dark for about 2 hrs - no bites. Left for McDonalds and some HOT coffee!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Sure can't complain about the size of the bass. They are eating something! All 4 bass were caught in a different area - unlike some previous trips. The bites seemed a bit more aggressive this time - probably because the water is a tad warmer - er, less cold!!!

Monday, February 18th, 2013

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 8am and fished till 1pm. Caught 20+ spotted bass on pumpkin jigs in 50 feet water. Biggest fish was landed by my friend, a fat 7+ lber. No reaction bites, drag slow and dead stick, pressure bites only so set on any weight.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Jigs in 50 feet. fish slow and set on pressure of they drop it

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear still cold in mornings
      Lake Level: around 6.00 above rumsey\Best Depths: 2-30
      the north end kicked in A/C on sat took over 33 # to win . ABA on sunday 1st and 2nd both had over 39 # I dont think 30 # got a check!!
      Big Bass: 2-3002/17/2013 - 10.71
      10.71 in ABA
      Events: won next weekend should have some big bags
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: throw the a rig and stick with it, the jig bite has picked up,jerkbaits also working

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: MARK: What is the word? Jig bite still a factor? Coming up soon and want to get a gauge on bite. Water Temp? February normally good to me at Eastman of you fish slow.
      City: PacificGrove

      Tips: Looking for ANY before first trip of year.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: mid -high 40's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with variety of baits, no response on reaction baits. And you would think that there is no bite on finesse baits unless you really watched the line. Lot of bites came off in about 20-30 feet inside any coves, off those roboworms and jigs. Fished for only 3 hours, released over 15 basses, all chunky and fat. Between 2 lbs to 3 1/2 lbs, nothing less or more.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Fish real really slow, and watch your line!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51-54.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake. Spent the first 2hrs in south end with no bites. Moved to river arm and caught first fish at 10am on 1/4oz darthead/4in light blue worm. 4 more fish the next 3hrs including 2 smallies fishing the north banks of river arm. Only 2 keepers but the first one was 6lbs. Not bad for my first Pardee fish. Can't wait to go back during the spawn.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: All fish but 2 were caught on 1/4oz darthead with 4in light blue worm. Other 2 were caught on 1/2oz brown/purple jig. Caught all fish in about the 20ft depth on sunny main lake points leading into coves.

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was tough! We managed 5 bites, 5 fish, for 15lbs this past Sunday. I can't complain. Last two outings I've caught my personal best spotted bass. Last week a little over 4lbs and this week a chunk that almost went 5lbs. We caught our 5th bass (a nice 2.5 lb smallmouth) 10 minutes before dark on the rig from a nice looking secondary point. That "last cast" always works...
      City: P-Hill

      Tips: Fish finesse lures like worms, tubes, jigs etc. We found all our fish from 3-15ft deep. There are fish in this lake besides places like the narrows and putah creek - believe it or not!

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 48-50 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: what happened to this lake??? last time i fished it i got 40+ bites and landed several healthy round bellied spotted bass, then today it was a horrible bite and a dinkfest! all fish caught were small and skinny!!! also, dark day launch has dock pulled out of water.
      City: napa

      Tips: don't fish here until late march or early april

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the outgoing tide to bottom of tide 1030 - 5pm. fished Big Break. Caught some small fish on Senkos early. Then fished Dutch Slough, and inside the Break with no luck. Then caught some swimbait fish to 2.5lbs. At the bottom of the tide I started catching them on a watermelon Senkos wacky rigged dragging it real slow. Ended the day in a flurry, catching 10 fish in the last hour and a half. Several 3.5lb fish another 2.5 and some 2's. Best day I've had on the Delta in awhile. I don't think I caught that many fish all spring last year!
      City: concord

      Tips: Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. I think fishing when the water temp was at it's highest - helped the bite.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Collins Sunday evening and Monday morning.
      After figuring out the submerged tree pattern the fishing was pretty good. Had to find trees in 15-25 feet of water that were submerged completely. Caught fish on a variety of baits, senkos, drop shot, swimbait, dart head and jigs.
      Fish were 1.5-2# average with a couple 3+ spots tossed in the mix.
      Find those trees and fish slow!
      City: Reno

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: be sure and check ramp before paying. (10 BUCKS,WHY?) antlers so packed with crap its allmost unusable in afternoon. will use packers now. fishing slow for anything shallow. nice 13-15 in fish on wacky senko weighted on end. grey/blue with gold flake strike king xxx worked best. 15 to 18 ft. no wind no blade bite. fished gooseneck caught 10 doubt any over 2. learned that if someone fishing back in coves they also own the points. should have ignored the guy puffing up in front of his friends? family? not proud of my answers to that guy but dont meet that kind often.
      City: klamath falls

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
      Pretty slow overall with a few brief moments of excitement.
      Fish are still in the winter funk mode, waters cold!
      Caught 12 on Saturday, 11 little guys and one 8.2# toad!
      Sunday was more of the same except no giants.
      No real pattern to report, caught fish throughout the water column but mostly in the 30-40' range.
      Typical dart heads, senkos, jigs.. Tossed the swim bait for two followers and no takers.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Wait a couple weeks unless you have a ton of patience!
      If not there's two ways to approach these fish: either super slow or super fast.
      Super slow: drag your favorite bait in 40-60' of water, hula grubs, senkos, dart head etc.

      Fast: run and gun with your favorite bait and fish in 15-30',
      Make lots of casts and don't hang out in one spot for too long. If you find the fish up they will be more than willing to accept your offer, however you will have to cover a ton of water to find them. I would still stick with the soft plastics fishing like this, just make two casts to each point and pocket and move on.

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      Water Temp: 49-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 2pm to 5pm. Had high hopes due to the stable weather. Hopes dashed until the last 1 minute before I was due to leave. Tried everything earlier,Jigs, Rip Bait etc, had to go back to my go to bait Green Pumkinseed Hula Grub to catch a fish.
      City: W. Sac

      Tips: Dock talk revealed a lot of fish caught on Green Jigs?? The last couple of days my fish have come no shallower than 25 ft on sunny long points. They don't seem to like it moved fast.

Friday, February 15th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day. Four keepers, and one short. Fishing Holland Tract area.

      Tips: None

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished around corner from b&w at fav tule strip and dock...nothing! brother got one hit dragging a jig. tried black/red flk and black/blue flk senkos..nothing. then tried watermelon/red flk and junebug..nothing. also tried slow-rolling black spinnerbait...nothing. then tried black/blue rage craw...nothing. all the above have always managed a hit in cold, stained delta water. just not our day today.
      City: folsom

      Tips: none. what normally worked in these conditions didn't work. maybe someone can offer a new strategy?

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished outgoing tide around Franks Tract. Caught some small fish on the outside of Franks. Nothing on the inside. Black and Blue Senkos. Cranked some rock walls - nothing. I saw one striper hit my jerkbait at the boat but missed him.
      City: Concord

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 50.9 to 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to piney creek caught a couple in 50 feet on jigs.....then fished the canyon and caught 3 more in 10+ feet of water. total bag about 8 1/2 pounds
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Slow roll the jig, no luck in drop shot.