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Saturday, January 26th, 2013

  • 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.

Monday, January 21st, 2013

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 43-47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: clear cold mornings
      Lake Level: 5.77\Best Depths: 15-30
      slow for most, The a rig is working deeper,
      Big Bass: 15-3001/20/2013 - cold ones
      i heard 34 pounds to win ABA sunday, 38 boats i havent seen results
      Events: A/C team event next weekend
      Guide Information: clearlake outdoors\Name & Number: 707-262-5852

      Tips: soon as it warms a little the fishing will take off
      the minnow bite is better

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 48 - 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a friend who wanted to learn how to fish a jig. Started around 8am and he caught the first one 2.5 LM ...cool the pressures off me. I dropped a nice 4lber at the boat... jumped once and spit the jig. After that it was a dead player for the next 3 hrs. Got a alot of bumps but no takers. Tried going down deep around 60ft. where we saw a lot of action with drop shot but Nada. Went back to the jig a got 3 more and called it a day. Tough jig bite but a beautiful day to be out.
      City: Bay Area

      Tips: When you get bluebird skies and bites tough, down size and get a few more bites like the previous report. Thanks all for posting and goodluck.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 9am caught one at Swallow rock then moved to sloping gravel bank and put 4 more in the boat by 10am. Hit many spots in the next 4hrs working my way up to dam without a bite. Caught 4 more to the right of the steep rocks by the dam. Good Jan day for me at DV.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Fish were in the 2 to 2.5lbs range including 3 chunky smallmouth. All were caught on 4" light colored worms rigged on a 1/4 darthead in about 20ft. Bottom contact was a must.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 730 am, fished the damn all the way up the right side out to the point and fished left side up the river between the bridges and only caught 1 all day on 3/8 jig. We threw everything from Drop shot,Alabama rig,swimbait,crankbait,live bait,senko's....just everything. The only one we did catch was by the Dam in about 30ft. Super Tough!
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Cant really give any tips, because we didnt catch any!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 48 to 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: partner and i fished 1-19,20,21 from antlers ramp stayed in sac arm. lots of reaction bait fish in 2 to 8 ft deep. white blade and a-rig with 3 in swimbaits. with 3 1/8oz spinnerbaits worked well also. also later in day most caught on brown gitzits and brown and purple spider grubs. all 3 days fishing best 10 ft or less. must have been a trout stocking recently as we caught trout on everything we used. avg was 12-16 in on trout and spots typical 12-15 in. big fish was 2 1/2 for trip.
      City: klamath falls

Sunday, January 20th, 2013

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: farrol is an id

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A man caught 5 fish in a day for 5 yrs. He ate 3 each day. Gave 2 each day to farrol's wife cuz she hate eating his meat. Every other day she sticks one up his arse for 5 yrs and every other wk she sticks one on herself. Now we should all do the math. Farrol has to ask us to count cuz the idiot only has 8fingers,4 toes, n a brain of a size of a chest nut. Btw guess where dez nuts r at ? Lol . Go bark on southern California where they keep taken out water supplies.

      Tips: Get a life!!!#

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: worked dike8/folsom pt.... picked up 2 spots on morning dawn dropshot....nothing else. just good to be out.
      hey pharrol, were those bass you saw being taken and kept? or were they trout? don't be so hard on those who keep their fish. a limit is a limit and as much as we like our sport, if the fish and game sees fit to allow the 5 per person limit, then it is what it is. i grew up eating fish and a limit would barely feed a family. and i recall catching as many rock cod 5" tp 8" at hunter's point naval shipyard in san francisco when my dad was in viet nam and we lived on the base. i practice catch and release, but i don't knock those who don't. i DO REPORT poachers though and if you believe they're poaching, then report them. otherwise, they can have their limit.
      City: folsom

      Tips: i guess work it slow...dead stick or just eat lunch in between casts.

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dead sticking watermelon tubes for a decent day with 13 spots by browns ravine rangjng from 1-2.5 lbs that was ALL RELEASED!!. My 4th trip out in 2 weeks and seen the same fellas on the bank everytime and evertime they hooked up it went to the stringers. 4 strawhats=20 fish. 20 fish x 4 days = 80 fish. One month 160. You do the math. Catch only what u need and release what u dont. Save some for your grandkids. Theres alot more other species of fish you can also eat. Please practice catch and release instead of catch everthing to keep
      City: el dorado hills

      Tips: 10-25 ft off main points. Best action during midday

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 41 morning 45 a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Boy. Did I look and feel like a fool. Launched out of wimpys and fished beaver hog and sycamore with no bites. Headed towards all the backsloughs with no luck then finally a FISH ON!!!!!. Hell yeah... definitely a fish on the boat. Just too bad It was a dead shaker striper that was floating by that I decided to hook my dropshot rig just to make me feel better. But almost got me in trouble by a nearby warden that seen what I was doing and had me explain what the heck I was doing. But when I explained it to him what i was doing .he just turned around to gather himself and said . He wouldnt be able to continue in life if he was to cite me.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Leave the net at home. And wait for warmer water

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      Water Temp: 47.9 to 48.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the lake at 1:15pm and fished til 4:30pm
      we caught and released 10 bass to 2 1/2 lbs. all were caught on 3/8 oz jigs in 30 to 35 feet of water traffic was light.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: Fish slow & vertical jigging is working well

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 46-48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished near antlers marina from 930 am to 5pm. Got 16 spots 1 Largemouth (i have a photo of that one and a few spots) and two nice trout accidentally. Spots are bitin in water 15 to 60 feet of water some on bottom some suspended chasing shad. Fish slow in morning , and a little faster come evening time as they seemed to be more active later in the day. Most fish 12 to 14 inches, 13 inch largemouth and one kicker spot 3.5 pounds Caught on a jig on the way up in 50 ft of water. Not a bad day for winter time.
      City: klamath falls

      Tips: Fish slow in the morning and a little faster in the evening . Once the sun goes behind the mountain , then get off the lake....it will be freaking cold by then . Good luck , Tight Lines.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Redwood Empire Bass Club held their first tournament of the year and it was tough fishing all around. Very few fish caught overall with none over 2 lbs. Primary tactics were a drop shot using lighter colored baits. Big difference from last week when I fished and caught several on 7" black worms and brush hogs. Those same baits didn't produce this week.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Drop shot on main lake points with shad colored Roboworms down 40'-50'. Water is clearing everyday. Fish the rocky areas over the wood, but when you fish an isolated tree, use your electronics to find fish holding tight to the cover.