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Saturday, March 21st, 1998

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED DISAPOINTMENT AND PICO SLOUGH GOT 5 FISH . IT SEEMED A LITTLE SLOW NOT MUCH CURRENT MOVEMENT BETWEEN LOW AND HIGH TIDE IN THE MORNING I DON'T KNOW IF THAT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT. tips: FLIPPED A JUNEBUG WORM WITH CHARTRUSE TAIL . FOUND FISH A ROUND RIPRAP AND SPARSE TULIES
      City: Alemeda

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: N/AFISHING WAS EXCELLENT! BASS UP TO 3 1/2 #'S. 25- 30 FISH WITH 5 BIGGEST GOING 14 POUNDS. FISH HIT JUST ABOUT EVERY THING THROWN.
      City: N/A

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Buddy and I ished Thursday aternoon and all day Friday. Got rained out ater a couple hours on Saturday. Picked up 70 Spots and Smallmouth, mostly small, but 30-40% over 12 inches. Four or 5 over 15 in. Only 2 on spinnerbaits, the rest on oxblood/chart. 4 inch worms. Bass seemed to be on windy points and up to hal-way back into the coves. Fun trip, even i the ish were mostly small.
      City: Reno, NV

Friday, March 20th, 1998

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the narrows and small coves all day. Not many fish registered on fish finder. We caught 11 fish for the two of us one of them being a large crappie. Most were small mouth 12-14 inches. Fish were not aggressive. tips- Need warmer water to activate t he fish. Used salt and pepper twin tails, had no luck with plastic worms.
      City: So. SF

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      Water Temp: 58.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the narrows and small coves all day. Not many fish registered on fish finder. We caught 11 fish for the two of us one of them being a large crappie. Most were small mouth 12-14 inches. Fish were not aggressive. tips- Need warmer water to activate t he fish. Used salt and pepper twin tails, had no luck with plastic worms.
      City: So. SF

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      Water Temp: 58.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the narrows and small coves all day. Not many fish registered on fish finder. We caught 11 fish for the two of us one of them being a large crappie. Most were small mouth 12-14 inches. Fish were not aggressive. tips- Need warmer water to activate t he fish. Used salt and pepper twin tails, had no luck with plastic worms.
      City: So. SF

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      Water Temp: 58.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the narrows and small coves all day. Not many fish registered on fish finder. We caught 11 fish for the two of us one of them being a large crappie. Most were small mouth 12-14 inches. Fish were not aggressive. tips- Need warmer water to activate t he fish. Used salt and pepper twin tails, had no luck with plastic worms.
      City: So. SF

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      Water Temp: 58.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the narrows and small coves all day. Not many fish registered on fish finder. We caught 11 fish for the two of us one of them being a large crappie. Most were small mouth 12-14 inches. Fish were not aggressive. tips- Need warmer water to activate t he fish. Used salt and pepper twin tails, had no luck with plastic worms.
      City: So. SF

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother Justin caught 4 and nearly boated another using minnows and cranks.I caught 2 and had 2 more steal away my minnows.One o the little suckers tried to inhale my chartruese model a bomber,I also caught a turtle on a minnow.We were ishing over in the Dyke 8 area rom 3-6pm.P.S. the turtle survived his encounter with (when humans attack). tips: We were loating minnows about 3t rom the bottom and using Bomber model A's chartruese tiger stripe crankbaits.The bass were hanging 7-9t down.That's all olks!
      City: Carmichael

Thursday, March 19th, 1998

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My friend took me out to false river and we got 13 fish total with both of us catching big fish of 3.1 pounds. We threw spinnerbaits to scattered tules. No flip bite. He just won the tourny we prefished with 14.? and big fish being 4.5. Fished with Gilroy Bassmasters.
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and I ished about rom 10am.to2pm.and he cawt one small mouth around 21/2pounds and lost another.I to had one on only to watch her swim o my hook about 2 eet rom shore.Looks like some are looking or their beds but have yet to stake out any claims. tips: We both were using jigs 8-12t.down red/black w/craw type trailers.Also recieved hits o minnows using a weight about 3t. rom hook.Fished over in the Doton's Point area near the trees.Good Luck to ya!
      City: Carmichael

Wednesday, March 18th, 1998

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found a number o spots on the north ork beore you get to the narrows. Caught 2 on spinner bait, 4 on crank bait an 2 on worms.Used gold and white spinner bait, chartreuse crank bait, morning dawn worm. The ish were all near the looded trees in 4 to 15 eet o water.
      City: Shingle Springs

Tuesday, March 17th, 1998

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: striper are hitting hot and heavy on soft- shelled bugs and pile worms. cut baits aren't really getters right now. fish anywhere from Rio Vista up to the mouth of the Feather. tips: rivers are fairly clear of debris right now...don't know how long thatw ill last. try live baits or broken- backs trolled to get the big ones. good fishing!
      City: NorCal

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: striper are hitting hot and heavy on soft- shelled bugs and pile worms. cut baits aren't really getters right now. fish anywhere from Rio Vista up to the mouth of the Feather. tips: rivers are fairly clear of debris right now...don't know how long thatw ill last. try live baits or broken- backs trolled to get the big ones. good fishing!
      City: NorCal

Sunday, March 15th, 1998

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing is picking up. Fished from 10 to 2 with six keepers. I fished the mouth of Pope Canyon using plastic lizard.
      City: Fairfield

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I caught 10 bass in 4 hours o ishing in the Lakeport area. Two came on a spinnerbait and the rest were caught on a Baby Brush Hog in June Bug color. All the bass were in less than 5 eet o water. The size ranged rom 2 to 4 1/2 pounds. Water color perect.
      City: Lakeport

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake was smooth as glass, the ish were holding at about 20 eet. White on white blades on rocky banks in the south. Black and blue jig with same in Bo-Liz got the big ish in Angel's Creek. Spring bite is coming...wasn't there yet though.
      City: Sacto

Saturday, March 14th, 1998

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7am - 3pm on this beautiful spring day. Caught 7 bass 1- 2&1/2#. 6 of the 7 were caught shallow 4-6ft, which really surprised me. Yellow jig w/ yellow bow-haug frog trailer(execellent bait in stained water) took 5 largemouths. Most came from w ood. Water warmed to 66 in afternoon,caught 2 on fat raps...again shallow. Nothing on plastics. Had three good hits on the same main lake point about 2:30 on a Big lime green Shad Rap,no hook ups though. This warm weather should really get them moving...C n't carry those eggs much longer! tips: Jigs & Plastics in surmerged brush early, crankbaits after water starts to warm up.
      City: Vacaville

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Mildred Island area produced about 20 bass in the 2-3lb. range on 3/12 just before the rain. Most of the bass came on Bomber A & Wiggle wart cranks and several flipping plastics. We saw only saw 2 bass boats for the whole day. With the water temperatur e on the rise, bass fishing should be awesome!!!
      City: San Francisco

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two day club tourney where 12.5in to 13.5in ish were abundant.Diicult to pick up ish in the 15in range and most in that range were skinney male spotted bass that weren't much more than 1.5#. Saturday's reaction bite was only on until about 9 am then it was worms and lizards to pick up a limit. Sunday's reaction bite was good through most o the day. Cranks, rip baits and spinnerbaits worked through out the day on small keeper ish. Most active ish were caught on windy points. Chunk rock pointsorked well or worms and lizards.
      City: Redding