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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our club tournaments.Our first meeting of the year will be on Wednesday January 12th at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressay and Snyder Lane at 7p.m. Our first tournament will be at Berryessa on January 22nd and next month at Lake Sonoma on Febuary 26th.Go to www.rebc.net for more details.
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: U TO BOB
      City: SAN BRUNO

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Berryessa for the first time with relative success, thanks to all those who contribute to this message board. Thanks. Caught 5 LM for 10lbs, split shotting Watermelon Brush Hogs. Concentrated on the north west part of the lake around the rocks.
      City: Berkeley

      Tips: Spent a couple hours in the coves south of the Island, with no luck...any suggestions for my next trip.

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      Water Temp: Don't kown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished THe future pro. got 10th out of 18 I think I AM GOING PRO(IN MY DREAMS) my friend bruce is the best fisherman in the world the day of the event my friend bruce caught 17 bass I CAUGHT AROUND 3,000,000 (BLUEGILLS)
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: DON'T FISH WITH BRUCE HE IS THE NEXT ASIAN BILL DANCE

      ICASTED INTO 10 TREES 5 SNAGS AND 3,000,000 BACKLASHES ON MY GAY AUB GARCIAS

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone out there know how to catch carp. I ish a private pond that has monster carp in it. Besides a shotgun what is the best way to catch carp. What type o rig and what to use or bait. Any help would be great

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      Water Temp: hella cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yeah we was up in this boat dog..ishing or bass. I was using sliced hotdogs to catch cats. No luck but my homie was throwing mad speed traps in black and orange. Bass...ALL DAY. Hella bass....I wish I had some skills...anyhow...late.
      City: F Street

      Tips: Know what you're doing. My buddy is a bass angler and showed me what it's all about. It takes mad skill.

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      Water Temp: 51.7

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey not much rain up here.On the water 8:30am Second ish 3/1/2 lbs. Spot. Fish were happy except or the ones with hooked soar jaws HA!!!!Five ish total 12lbs was a good day with total o (16) ish or the day.5 Spots 1 largemouth 10 smallies.All on darthead 4'Red and 5'Worms.Day was better than last week with a riend 11 ish all day.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: Fish are not deep yet all caught shallowShaking darthead in one place and stop!That

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      Water Temp: 50 to 53.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Capell cove about 2:15pm and across the lake to skiers cove and started throwing a 1/4oz brown jig w/ craw trailer, no bites on the jig. High og had burned o by 1:00 and the sun was shining good, igured the ish might come up a little shallower with the weather. Started throwing a lucky crat aurora crawdad colored crankbait, ound 3 spots in about 8 to 10 eet o water. Found them all near cover. Nothing real big, one spot was a little over 2 lbs, the ish are really white right now, the water is still a little cold. Get ready or the lake to start turning on. O the water by 4:45pm with 3 ish.
      City: Davis

      Tips: ind ish in 10 to 25 eet o water

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Monday aternoon ater the 4th, should be deserted. Nope. Lots o activity. Regardless I wanted to night ish so I dinked around till dark drop shotting here and there. A couple o small smallie's nothing to write home about. I'm glad Larry wrote his report because I thought something was wrong with me. I missed every single hit I had ater dark. Not suttle hits either, a couple o the jig hits I could eel in my teeth. So I thought perhaps small ish but on Two I elt the ish or that raction o a second beore the hook up ails and they elt heavy. Dont't know either.
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Jigs and 8" grubs in 15 oot or so on points. Every good point had 100 t water within a cast away. One point - this is not a lake to learn night ishing. There are no lights on the shore to use or navigation and it eels spookey at times. Remember to let someone know where you are and your return home time.

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Be careul out there! I started walking the bank at 5:30 in the morning. Caught 2 small bass on topwater and then noticed that I'd also caught 5 ticks!!! Watch out i you're on the shore! I ound 2 on me, decided to leave, and by the time I got to the truck there were 3 more. They're all over the place. I wouldn't even go unless I was in a boat. Good luck to you though. The ishing is good, there were a lot o shad getting busted on in the shallows. Also... elkgrove bass is looking or members. members.aol.com/elkgrovebass
      City: vacaville

      Tips: members.aol.com/elkgrovebass

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      Water Temp: 55- 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: guided a guy and gal rom washington, and manages about a dozen or so ish each day. we caught ish rippin points, dartheadin yamamoto twin hulas, and single tale grubs. the bite was tough, and we didnt see alot o ish on beds yet. the lady on the trip, who was not only a trooper, but she was a darn good stick as well. we missed our share o ish, but i think the ront had alot to do with it. thanks dave and inger, had a great time with ya both !
      City: walnut creek, ca

      Tips: hit points with rip baits and dartheads... slow movement with the darthead... rip rip and a 2-3 second pause with a lucky crat pointer rip bait.... most o the spots were spitting up shad !

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      Water Temp: 60.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Markley, Wagg Canyon, and then North or the remainder o the aternoon. Got on the water about 3:00 and o at dark. Only one other boat bass ishing that I saw. Not alot o bass moving shallow and I saw NO beds;however the other bass isherman said he saw a 15+ but could not get her to go. I ended up with a 6.2 lb. senko ish ( up north) and another senko ish at 3.0 and lost a big girl in the canyon. I got short hit on a senko and saw the ish lare. I waited a minute, probably more like 30 sec,and pitched a ika peged and tex-posed into the same area. Tic and I set hard with the problem being the ish was taking drag into a tree top. I stoped the spool with my thumb and unortunately broke o 14lb. Sugi lorocarbon. The pits. total o 8 ish with the top 5 around 13lbs.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I do believe the ish are on beds but are VERY selective on where. Don't waste alot o time looking where it is easy. For the tourn. boys on Sunday there are some big ish irmly locked in on beds, getting her to go is another story. My irst topwater ish o the year this trip, zara spook and all small mouth, 4 ish right at dark. Good luck on Sunday and i anyone has any great tips on Folsom let me know, I'm on the line or sat.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the details on the new lake record.Neal Halter o Fremont, CA, landed a 20 lb. large mouth bass outside o Pleasure Cove. The bass was 30 inches in length. Neal used a green Crawl Winnie or bait. He said he worked his great catch or 1 hour beore he was able to get it into the boat. This breaks the old record catch by Delbert Abrams o Vallejo. He held his record o 17.5 lbs. and 28.3 inches since 1988.
      City: Napa

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: wOout with amily today and boy was it tough.Only caught one in ive hrs o o and on ishing.4inch witches t did the only trick on this windless beautiulr.day. Must have been 80 decrees today . unsure i lake has turned over yet.Any ideas on these great weather days?
      City: SAN MATEO

      Tips: You tell me no senko bite or jig bite

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: this report is not much dierent than therest, but i it helps someone, here it is...started ishn around 9am with 20mi N. windsmakn the main body not un. since me andand my buddy ("mouth") are wusses we opted orthe ew spots that were sheltered rom thecool winds. we made three times the normalcasts in the areas we ished and we learnedthe meaning o ishn slooow, as all o the ish we caught were either dead-stickn or repeated casts into the same area...all ishwere caught on plastics (maybe cuz that's allwe tried) and were in 15' to 20'. oh, "all ish" equals 4 keepers (2 spots and 2 lmb's).on 7 bites total...nice ishn day, but justa air catchn day....
      City: orinda

      Tips: you know them reports that say i you thinkyou're ishn slow, ish slower....do that, especially i you eel structure on the bottom in about 15' to 20' depths....

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In regards to the guy who wants ino about tournaments that can be done rom an aluminum boat, Newbass does a semi pro tournament series that has two catergories one or 1 -99 hp and one or 100 and above Ithink thats what the two categories are look up newbass.com

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      Water Temp: 66.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 2:00pm out of Markley cove. I was sort of suprised to see the water skiers and jet ski crowd still at it. I limited myself to three baits, a super spook, carolina rig with a 4 inch "pinkie", and a #350 Tenn. shad luckey craft crank bait. My usual points were not holding bait fish altough I did have a BIG blowup on the spook by a brush top just inside the mud line. It was more of a defensive slap rather than groceries. That was at 2:30. I am learning to trust my electronics more so every year. Great point in the past, no fish on the finder fish it anyway and nata. Go to a different point, nice archs on the finder and bam, a fish or two and we are off to another point. Great topwater bite, total of 5 spook fish the largest just at dark, at 3.8 lbs. Also had a little over a 3lb. spot that became my dinner after inhaling a super spook down into her gullet. I put her in the live well and she did't make it. Fortunately I've not forgotten how to clean a fish. The crank produced 4 small 13 inch or so fish and Mr. pinko gave me a couple of under sized dinks. Only saw one other bass boat and Maggie my 1/2 English Setter other 1/2 Beaver had a blast.
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Trust your electronics, no arches don't even put the trolling motor down.I found the fish to be really scattered out and all on main points with nothing in the coves, secondary points, or futher back in the arms. Day in day out top water

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: just a quick note on my trip here sat...went with my son and first cast was @6:15 pm. five casts later hooked and lost a 2# on a spook. 10 casts later boated a 2# on a jerk bait. i was happy and my son ate alot..we set out the lights and started night fishing.3 hrs and 6 spots later equalled nada bites. finally caught 5 keeper fish on one spot from 10 to 20 ft on plastics....a beautiful night; caught a few fish, one on one with my son, and he caught up on his sleep.
      City: orinda

      Tips: typical of this time of year is the dropping water levels for winter...makes bass catching tougher than normal...keeping moving to find active fish or bait.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to try our luck nite fishn. got some some topwater action just before dark. fished til 10:30 and used topwater and plastics and resulted in a few light bites and no fishes. the moon was too full and too bright i believe. had a little excitement tho, as we were stopped and check by game wardens. they checked us as thoroughly as if were at the airport or something.
      City: orinda

      Tips: hard to offer and advice based on no catching. when its too bright, fish deeper and look for banks where there are shadows.

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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake with a couple of buddies Friday night til about 2:30 Saturday morning. We boated 14 fish, with 5 of those coming before dark. All fish caught before dark came on crankbaits. All fish after dark came on a Berkeley pulse worm 4". Had a number of other bites throughout the night, but the fish seemed to be short striking. Biggest fish was only 2 lbs.