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      Water Temp: 81-83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tuff! It looked like Christmas out there with all the lights from all the boats.No big fish as Larry posted.We had several in the 2-2 1/2lb range and smaller.One of the tuffest nights ever.Oh well they have to cooperate sometime,like this wed. when its quiet again.

      Tips: If possible try moving current like the delta

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Monday nite and ound a HUGE school o shad illing the entrance back into the Jackson Creek area. The shoreline was dead all nite. So I worked the dam or a couple o 2lb'ers and did some catishing (shrimp) while I tried to nap. Ended up with an 11 pound channel cat. And inished the trip with a 7-5 bass about daybreak at the dam on a black blade. My biggest bass yet. It was spitting up crawish.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I like to beat the rock and weeds with a black 3/4 oz spinnerbait at night. Best luck ishing parrallel to shore in the 5-15 t range. I there's any paint let on the blade, you aren't working it right. Also dark Little N's cranked into the rocks. And or a break, relax with a 10" black power worm. Tossing a 3/4 oz blade all night is tough on the back!

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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I ished Amador or the irst time Tuesday. On the water about 3:30 and had a nice 2lb on the second cast(drop shot). Saw ish busting Shad everywhere. Managed to get 5 on a little white spook none over a pound. Bite shut down as night ell. Took a nap and got ishing about 2:00 AM. A ew casts later a nice tick on the line and aer a nice jumping display a 6.5lb ish in the boat. Fell or a 10" powerworm blk/blue. That was it or the night bite, missed a ew more. Fished the morning until about noon. A ew more here and there no big ones though. I will be back!
      City: Walnut Creek

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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Amador or the weekend and wasn't expecting much and that was what we got. Larry's report below pretty much sums it up. I did pretty good on Friday night with splitshotting 4.5" original magic worms. We ended up with 9 and the biggest went a little over 4 pounds. Most o the others were nothing bigger than 2. We had the best luck during the heat o the day on Saturday. Once again nothing big but lots o 1-2 pounders, makes or a un day with light tackle. Went back out Sat. night and I got one dropshotting that went 3 even. Ater that it was all over and couldn't buy a bite. Sunday we ished or a little bit beore we let and ended up with 12 and nothing over 2 pounds, all were caught splitshotting and Ricos. I spoke with Gil o Gil's guide service and he said it had been really slow the last couple o days.
      City: Elk Grove

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two nites o ishing. Tried my avorite crankbait the irst nite and got zip. Picked up a 4 pounder at the dam ace on a 10" black worm about 2am. Around midnite had 3 guys and a dog come by looking or a scale. Found that my scale will read to 9-12. They caught it by the dam on a brushhog. Went back on the 15th and had some better luck. Got a 3-6 and a 6-10 on a black spinner bait ater dark. Lots o shad balls on the graph.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Should start getting the crankbait and spinner bait bite ater dark. I ish parallel to shore in around 10 eet o water along the rocks and weeds.

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      Water Temp: 70'S

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gate locked rom dusk to dawn. Ater a wait, got on the water at 0630. A couple o hits on a Pop-R but no one home. Ended at 1415 with only a ew Dinks. Mostly on 4" worms in 20' o water. Dinks breaking all over the place chasing bait. Few boats and every one tried the breaking Dinks with no sucess.
      City: WELLINGTON,NV

      Tips: Wait or a turn over in the lake. Think small baits and ish slow until then.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and a riend went out saturday night and went ishin at night or the irst time. its alot dierent then during the day. we ished until about 1 00 in the morning with out a bite, then at about 1 15 when the moon came out we got 4 on senkos and zara spooks, then went across the lake to mountain springs. i got a catish on a 10'' power worm in purple/blue lake. then busted a big one o. lots o people on the lake, there was a small tournament. in the morning i was a guy weigh in a 3 ish 7 pound limit. pretty slow i thought.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: keep tryin

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got to lake latter than hoped on riday, started ishing around 2:30pm, my son hooked into nice 4lber right away then a smaller dink. about 30 minutes latter i caught my irst o the day a big emale weighed 6.5 lbs, but skinny.had to put my whole ist in her mouth to get my hook out & their was still room. averaged 5-6 ish each outing mostly 3-4 lbs.sat night lost my biggest ish yet. at least 8lbs. ater several minutes o tug o war she made once last run & went straight down & wrapped me in a tree but not beore dancing on the surace a ew times. not to mention she haughted my dreams all night. gio (my son) thanks or another great ather & son ishing trip
      City: paciic grove

      Tips: ished primarily worms, ished shore to deeper waters, most bites came deeper. ish not picking up & running. watch/eel line careully & when in doubt set the hook.

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      Water Temp: 78-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well lets see...started about 6:30pm paying way too much money or ishing at this lake. $36 or 3 people to ish is outrageous. The weeds were bad, again, and gettign worse. They weren't there 3 years ago...... Caught about 8 ish largest 4 1/2lbs. All on plastics. O the water at 1:30
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Here's a tip or the management at Amador: UIse some o the money you all make to clean up the weeds at this lake. YUou are charging outrageous amounts to ish this place and it would be a lot better i you could ish the shoreline without reeling in cabbage. I I wanted to ish weedlines, I would have went to the Delta and saved $20.Plastics in 10-25 eet.

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: on the water by 10pm started ishing steep rock walls in cat cove bouncing happy hogs down to 20t.caught a limit in a hour. started to slow dramaticly when the north wind started to blow.so I took a nap. woke up at 4am made a run up to rock creek ished a point and caught the biggest ish o the night a 6pounder also on a happy hog in 5t o water. stuck around till 9 or so. I expected the night bite to pick up being the 3day prior to the ull moon but the unseasonly cold weather put a hamper on that. but the average ish or the night was better than that o the day.
      City: sac

      Tips: stay on the out side weeds and ish slow.

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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: When I look back at the two nights guiding I just completed, I guess I am amazed that we caught 31 bass in the two trips considering the amazing May weather - high wind, thunderstorms, rontal passage, and so on. Tuesday evening I started with a regular client at 5:30 pm - he wanted to throw Senkos and I was throwing jigs and big worms and caught two right o the bat on topwater! As it got towards evening, he got what looked to be a ive pounder on a purple Senko, but it ell a ew ounces short - a nice ish however! I soon got a nice 3-9 on a #221 Senko. At night the bite was air with heavy cloud cover and some south wind. He got two nice jig ish - one a little over and one a little under three pounds. We ended with 15 with the 5 biggest around 15 pounds. Last night we started about 4 pm and caught a ew on Senkos - two undersized. An amazing thing happened about 7 pm as a thunderstorm was about to drown us. We were ishing in a cove - he with Senkos and I was Carolina-rigging an 8 inch watermelon/red lake worm. We were getting bit on almost every cast!!! Some were probably small ished since we missed many. I did get one almost 4 pounds. We rode the thunderstorm out in a dierent area and then came back to this cove. One small bite - that was it!!! Amazing!!!!! Beore dark I had some unortunate luck. I was looking at my client, explaining something to him when I became aware that I was slowly being pulled out o the boat! I set the hook but the monster was already in the brush and I broke it o. I lost another 5 pound plus ish that headed right or the trolling motor and somehow broke the line. Strange things happen in weird weather! The major temp drop slowed the ishing down, but my client saved the evening catching 2 or 3 on 8" junebug worms. We wound up with 16 total bass - good under the conditions we aced. I really think I have had enough o winter!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: These trips were not like trips in previous weeks - we had to work or all our bass. Not many were "on the bank" as beore. I talked to some one who had ished the day beore these two trips and the ish were starting to chase shad and topwater was pretty good. The weather was warm and stable and that makes the dierence. I was always looking or the "big bite" both nights - ishing big baits when I wasn't showing clients how to ish certain lures. I was rewarded with the "bite" - using a big worm in about 16 eet o water in a creek channel with brush. It was a huge ish but it wasn't meant to be. Most o the quality bass that had been in the backs o coves as the lake illed at the end o April seemed to have move out to deeper water. We saw lots o ish in those areas but they were only 1 and 2 pounders. I would ish closer to the points now.

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spots were holding in 30-35 t. Chaos grubs and drop shots did most o the taken. I did manage a ew rom the surace. Overall size rom 3/4 to one 4 lber. Awesome three days total o 50+ catch and release.
      City: chico

      Tips: buzz baits and woodchoppers. Motoroil and salt and pepper were sots color choices

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 4 o us ished monday and tuesday morning till 11:30. we caught 98 bass and 3 missguided trout. the bass ranged rom 4 lbs to about a pound, only 3 dinks in the group. the 3 trout all caught on plactic worms were 2.50, 3.50, and 4 lbs. 95% o the ish were caught dropshotting blue, purple, or brown 4in worms. all parts o the lake produced ish,although most were caught o main lake points with shallow water near by. over hal the bass were spots. all in all it was great ishing.
      City: san juan bautista

      Tips: as much as I hate dropshotting it sure worked this time.

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      Water Temp: 58-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lots o ish up close to the bank, both in the main channels and back in the creeks. Some on beds, with the beds deeper than normal (apparently the lake level went up rom recent storms, ater the ish started bedding) Caught ish on 4" worms on lead-heads and split shot rigs, rip-baits and Fin-S ish, with the Fin-S being the best producer. Buddy caught a 5+ lbr in Mountain Springs. Had a ew runs o several ish caught in just a ew minutes. Too bad we had to leave.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Mt. Spring Friday late aternoon. Got 1 on a shad colored Senko. Partner got 5 on brown Senkos. Both rigged weightless. They were 1-2 pounders. Saturday morning, I texas rigged a witches-t and got a nice one on a main lake point on my second cast. Moved to Doney Bay and I lipped 7 more in the next ew hours with my conidence bait. They were nice 2-3 pounders. Senkos weren't as eective Saturday. Partner only landed one. Decided to troll back to camp and maybe get lucky and catch a cutbow or dinner. Ended up hooking up with another 3+ pounder with a Rapala husky jerk(bass love em'). He was about 100 yards out. It was a long ight. He was dead tired when I got him to the boat. He was soon released. We had chili dogs instead o cutbow that night.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I let the bait sit on the bottom and starting "shakin'it", like Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke. Bites were subtle. Fished slow, I think they liked the chartruse tail.Use a baitcasting reel with a witches-t or your line will twist like crazy.

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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished with a riend on Wednesday rom 5:30 pm to 1 am, and guided 2 ellows on Friday evening, beginning at 5 pm. I had looked over the lake or about two hours previous on Friday aternoon and saw that most o the spawning rom last week was over. Lots o males on nests, but I saw only ONE emale in shallow water - amazing! I did catch and release 2 males using white jigs - one 2 1/2 and the other near 3 pounds. Couldn't pass it up - too much un! The lake was so crowded during the day that I thought the evening bite might be good - it really was! In act, the Friday trip produced more bass on one trip than any I can remember - 37 bass (5 were dinks). The sad news is that the biggest was only 3 1/4 lbs. We did however have several 2 1/2 to 3 1/4 pound bass, mostly ater dark. Beore the moon came up the ish were right on the bank, then shut o or an hour, then started hitting with authority in 10 to 20 eet o water. The best colors ater dark were junebug, black/chartreuse (produced the biggest bass) and black. We used 7" Power Worms, 6" Berkley Pulse worms - a great low-light worm (green pumpkin was great beore dark!), and 8" Dead Ringer worms. The jig bite was good on both trips beore dark, but not good ater. Since many o the spawning lat shoreline areas are still out o the water, many o the nests are a little deeper this year. That is good in case they draw the lake down some. The Wednesday trip produce 18 bass or my riend and me - our 5 biggest were about 14 1/2 pounds, anchored by the irst bass I caught which was about 4 1/2 pounds. I caught her in about 20 eet o water in Jackson Creek on a brown/orange Weapon jig with a #180 Yamamoto grub. The hit was worth the drive - what a THUNK!! We both caught other bass over 3 pounds - his was about 3 1/2. It was supposed to sprinkle that night - downpour was the word!! I was very surprised that in some 16 hours o night ishing not a single big emale was hooked, and we are all pretty air ishermen. So, there you have it - a post-spawn bite in mid-March. That's what a warm winter will do.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We ished all over the lake both nights and ound ish nearly everywhere. They were mostly on points and lats near deep water. One o my clients was Carolina-rigging his 8" worms and he did have the hot hand. I don't do that much at night but I might start! Try to set the hook as soon as you sense that a ish is on. When they are aggressive as they were last night, they will swallow a hook and worm in a hurry. That is one o the drawbacks o Carolina-rigging - you don't oten eel the bite. We had to operate on a ew, but we saved them!

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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday morning in Carson arm, ound Bass bustin on shad on main lake point in ornt o Carson arm. Fished or about 2 hours with 2 ish, both small and both caught on a shad pattern spitn image. Got back on the water at about 4:30 and ished until about 7:30 lost one ish on 8" dead ringer and caught one ish on same worm only went about 1.9 ish came rom the mountain spring area. The lake is deinately the lowest I have ever seen it and it looked as though it is still dropping! Also despite the act that there website hasn't changed they did in act raise the prices on everything it is now 20$ A NIGHT TO CAMP, however I don't see any improvements on the place actually I think it is getting worse as ar as maintenance goes. You would think that with the twenty dollars a night maybe they could put paper towles in the bathrooms, or maybe even provide a continental breakast(HAHA).
      City: CARSON CITY,NV

      Tips: I threw a brown and red weapon jig or a while however could not get bit on it. I think I was getting hung up on just about every other cast with the lake being so low. Also I don't think I gave the Senko enough time to produce threw it very little. I would say wait another week or two or the ish to turn on.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On lake rom 2pm til 3am Sunday. Picked up one 3-4 on a purple 7" worm about 4pm back in a cove. Next couple o 3lb ish came an hour ater dark on a black blade and a deep crankbait o the points into the Jackson creek area. Lost a 6lb as I reach over to lip it. Ended up with a wet ace and the un o having treble hooks lash past the nose. And hooked one log that decided it wanted to go to deep water really ast and did so. May have been a big cat. Getting cold out there at night. Dress warm and then add more.
      City: Sloughhouse

      Tips: Crankbaits and blades ater dark along the points. I you aren't bouncing o weeds and rocks you aren't catching anything.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is down a lot. about 30t.water levels are alling quickly. caused ish to turn o. Only caught three ish. Biggest went 7lbs. all caught on magic worms. tried jigs, cranks, topowater, nothing worked. Also tried ishing the ull moon but got nothing too.
      City: San jose

      Tips: This lake has a lot o good Bass waiting to be cuaght but you have to be very,very patient and the ish will eventually come.

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      Water Temp: 62'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started at 4am decided to try the launch area using 4" inesse kalin worms carolina rig, landed 2 small dinks ater about an hour. decided to ish the dam wall and changed baits used a red/blk brushhog dragging the bottom got 3 nice bass all over 3LBS but not over 5LBS moved ater about a hal hour worked my way down the end o the dam and had lost a super nice 6-8 bass busted my 10LB k-mart brand line. so now upset i switched rods and had 12LB maxium line continued ishing the dam now using 10"black power worm (lost my only brushhog) and landed a big moma wieght was 8LB-02 had a goodtime overall!! all ish were released.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: or night ishing into early morning dress warm, like my daddy use to say want big ish use big bait!