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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FOR 8 HRS WITH OUT A BITE. THREW BLADES, BRUSHHOGS, JIGS, AND SENKOS. I WAS ABLE TO COVER ALOT OF THE LAKE INCLUDING THE BACKS OF COVES, MAIN LAKE POINTS, AND THE FLATS BORDERING THE SPAWNING COVES. I WAS PRE FISHING FOR A NOR CAL BASS CLUB TOURNEY. WE HAVE ABOUT 25 BOATS GOING UP THIS WEEKEND. THE FISHING HAS BEEN REAL TOUGH FOR EVERYONE LATELY.
      City: REDDING

      Tips: TRY ONE OF YOUR OTHER FAVORITE LOCAL LAKES. ITS GONNA BE A WHILE HERE!

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      Water Temp: ??????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is in reerence to waltmanb@c-zone.net report on 5/2.Sir, could your cord have been cut beore you arrived at Black Butte. Being a long time resident o the lake, I have never had a problem there and believe me, I spend alot o time on the water there. Not knowing till you put the trolling motor down states to me that it could have happened say, in Redding. Just a thought. Good ishing.Dennis
      City: Orland

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      Water Temp: 68/69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished shoreline grizzly lats outside willows 4/21 5:30pm to 8:00 pm in 1 to 6 t water,15 ish with 6 keepers to 15".Using Bill Dance spitting image and Bill Dance swiming image.Fished ishermans cove 4/24 10 am to 12noon using spitting image 2 keepers or 12 ish with lots o blow ups on the lure.
      City: Quincy

      Tips: These two lures seem to work great at this time. Spent 8 days ishing had ish every day. Water is warming up to 69 degrees when the wind doesn't blow.Better days are coming not many big ish yet on the beds.

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      Water Temp: mid 40's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is up. Fished around the dam. Water is muddy, Had no bites yet. give about couple more weeks it should start out w/ a bang. Also did some ishing @ East Park Res. near stonyord. Look's like the ishing is going to be great out there in a couple o weeks also.
      City: Corning

      Tips: Start out w/ plastic and jig baits, as the weather gets warm and the water gets clearer try the crank baits

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water around 8:30 off at 5, finding fish was tough. My partner and I caught 5 spots for the day. 1 non-keeper 2 barely keeper and my partner had 2 spots that were in the 5lb class.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: fish were around 20ft range.

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: first time to bullards. wanted to go get some real fish at clear lake but decided to check to look for the cat that got out of the bag.and man am i glad i did. not only did we find the cat and the bag we found our best five spotted bass!!!at 19.+lbs i cant wait to tell my bass club to schedule a tourny out here. the best spotted bass lake ever. by far
      City: linda

      Tips: at first we ran from boat traffic to find fish with no luck. fish here like water skiers. find loud boats and u will find bigger fish. they absolutely hammer any 6inch worm.

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at the res. about 7:00am. I ished the large cove south o Woodhead park. Fishing was slow. I caught 7-8 nice smalliesuntil 9am. I ished rom the bank so did not cover much water, I still did not see many boats in the area catching ish. I went down below the dam and ished on the Idaho side around the bridge. I caught 7-8 VERY nice smallie in about two hours and lost a ew others. Caught all my ish on a Zoom baby brush hog, rigged Carolina style.I tried cranks, grubs, spinner baits, top water, stick baits, and even tried or a ew crappie, no luck. All in all a very un day except or a twisted ankle. See ya out there.
      City: Boise

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished small crawdad cranks and caught about 20-30 ish perday. Camped above the 5 MPH buoys on the Yuba arm. All theish were clones, 13-15 inches at best. Had a blast on lightline though, and had probably the best ish ry in many years (got to clean out some o small ish). Also best camping trip o the year, just the boys,beers,BBQ and lotso Bass. Freaked out a houseboat though while shooting claypigeons. Oh well, we asked i they wanted to play, we were willing to share our toys.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Fish ast with cranks resembling craws. Threw blades, butdidn't even get a glance. Worms weren't even a considerationwith the great reaction bite happening.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Guys,
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      All non-reports will be deleted and continuous abuse will not be tolerated.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: what a lake. drained all the propane in the el camino dragging the scalper up to the lake just to get a few dinks. broke a rod on my cleat. got stuck in the back of harvey's in the mud.

      threw topwater most of the day without much success. drug a few skinny bear jigs arounf the bottom and left them there. tossed a new custom blade and broke it off on a tip wrap. backlashed my new 20 dollar topoff fluorocaron into a birdnest first cast of the day.

      ran into some cat danglers from LA in the back of cachuma bay. they were on a few fish. next thing I knew I had their dacron all stuck up inside my new ninja trolling motor blades. lost about an hour of fishing time uncoiling it.

      at that point I decided to get some lunch. hit the burger shack for some grinds and got out of the sun for a while.

      back down lake around 1 heading down to the narrow for some afternoon cranking. lobbed out on a few flats. wind was picking up pretty good by then. got loaded up on the deep crank - felt pretty good. fish went into a tree or something and broke off my XT 8 lb. like nothing. tough day.

      picked up a few dinks on the goldfish colored trap down in the narrows. decided to call it a day while I still had bass smell on my fingers...
      City: Solvang

      Tips: cranks and blades.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks for the update Wyatt. I heard that some hits were coming on the 'purple' stuff and I did chance it but no takers. I know that now, we should have headed deeper to maybe 45-50 feet.
      City: Santa Maria

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: For those in the Santa Maria area. A new tackle shop has opened up at 1010 West Betteravia Rd #C which is just 2 doors down from the Applied Tech [old King Bearing]. Shop carries some great deals on rods, reels and lines. Some off brand goods but also quality stuff like Abu Garcia, Storm, etc. Prices are GREAT as they pretty much buy in bulk. Lots of great Salt water and fresh water stuff and reel and rod repairs to boot.

      Hours are T-F 9 to 5:30 and S & S from 9 to 3, Yup Sunday as well.
      City: SM

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Santa Maria srry it messed up the text

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Where is the report Justin? Just curious, if anyone else has a report in March...
      City: Vandenberg AFB

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Second boat out on sat. Went out with Kramer - allways a risk, but his boat and equipment was "right on". Went to Santa CRuz irst o, ound The shadand started with the customized chugbug. In 15 minites had three solidish, one over our and a smally 2+. Switched to a 1/2 Viper blade andgot a 3-1/2 on irst cast. Picked up one more on blade. Let area or atournment boat rom Gold Coast. Fished the clear water in Cachuma & Johnson no takers. A un Day, Let at 11 to head home and do the weekendchores
      City: Santa Ynez

      Tips: Stay in the stained water. Fish the chuggers or poppers slow. Hits were on the pause

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Lake Cachuma and it was a tough bite. There was a ton o shad around and the ish were gourging themseleves on everything but my baits. I threw blades and cranks without a bite. Finally towards 6 pm I pulled out some 3 inch Big Hammer swimbaits i had and rigged them on a darter head and stuck a ish with in a ew casts. Ended up illing out my limit in an hour with the best ish going 3.5#s. It was a pretty awesome day and i am glad i iggured out a new iness technique or when the ish dont seem to want to bite, and its a lot more interesting than dropshoting.Brian #2
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Email me i you want any ino on Cachuma

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      Water Temp: 75-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Here is a ishing report; went out with some kids on 4,5 and 7 July and Bass ishing a little slow most Bass caught were 10-15 eet in the 2 to 3lb class and caught them on cranks, spit shot bungie worms and jig & craw. did a little trolling ater the og burned o and had one nice surpise trolling a at ree shad. I hooked up along the clis south o Santa Cruz bay and the ish was ighting very hard and when it jump it looked in the 3-4lb range but was ighting like a larger bass. Got the ish closer to the boat and told one o the kids to get the net. Cody had the net and was ready to net the ish when his eyes grew large and he yelled "You have Two on". Netted the ish(s)and both were over 4lbs or a total o 8lbs 3oz. The unny thing is when they jumped I only saw the one ish. Water level is dropping so the lake is changing all the time, I have not seen the lake this low in a long time.
      City: Lompoc

      Tips: Don't under estimate how trolling can help you ind ish and take kids ishing it is well worth the smiles on their aces

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      Water Temp: 62 to 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out sat or ew hours on the 26th to pre ish beore I was going to have a husband and wie or clients on Sunday rom the city o Orange. The weather was cold and very windy the entire time there. Fishing was very slow and only got two bites caught one (3.4) and broke o the second one and it was a nice ish, both in Santa Cruz Bay. On the 27th what a dierence in the weather, sunny and no wind (I think my clients bought the good weather rom Orange county)anyways the ishing was still slow I caught a 3lb in Santa Cruz on a jig & craw early in the morning. Husband's irst ish o the day was interesting, he was having some problems with his ishing line turning in to a birds nest and his worm was still in the water when a 1lb largemouth pick up his worm. We had to hand line the ish in. Thank god it was not any larger. Went up the river to warmer water tried worming, cranking etc and nothing. Started trolling on south side by the inland with crankbaits and WHAM!! my crank got hammered, i knew it was a nice ish handed over the rod to the wie and she did a outstanding job ighting the bass to the boat and landed a 4lb even. Did some more trolling on the south side by the road bed. We stopped to crank and jig the area (it looked to good to pass up). A ew minutes later the husband hooked up to Bass on a crankbait and he landed a 3.12. No more ish ater that we end up with 4 ish (3 largemouths and one smallmouth). The weather has been dierent this year the water temp is cooler that the same time last year and the water level is down.
      City: Lompoc

      Tips: Use light line ish seem to be very spooky or most in the post spawn phase. Fish seem to be more active in santa Cruz bay and around the inland area. Good luck

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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It igures I get there early Sat and what is in ront o me are a bunch o tourney sticks. The main ramp is still closed but the line went ast. On the water and waved bye bye to the club and got to my spot beore anyone else. Spit shot a worm in santa cruz got bit had the irst ish or my client in the boat within 15 min a nice 3lb. Fishing was slow or a while and the weather started to get colder and the wind was bad. The coves were getting hammered by the club sticks so I told my client and son we will do some trolling to cover lots o water and have a chance to do something dierent rom everyone else. Him and his son wanted big ish and they had never tried trolling or Bass so they like the idea. Went over to one o my avorite trolling areas (Mowhawk) and had them troll a simple renzy crankbait which to make a long day short we ended up with our more bass (3.1,3.8,4.8 and 3.6)all on trolling cranks. His son caught his largest Bass to date. Look like the the club guys did all right, lots o ish weighed in.
      City: Lompoc

      Tips: Looks like the bass are staging, next ew weeks should be great or nice ish, get out there. (All Bass caught were release)

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Last report should have been dated 2/24. Finally got a Saturday o and thought I'd get a shot at the ish instead o Sundays letovers ....Wrong...Big ABA tourney. Tried my ripbaits early or three smallish smallmouth and went to pick up Scott "ishtrax" rom Calishing.com at the dock at eight. He had never caught a Smallmouth beore and I thought that this would be as good a time as any to get him experianced. My shallow ish got burned out o the shallows by all the trolling motors so we tried jigs and stu or awhile but everything elt USED. I took us in shallow once again as it appeared the tourney guys were busy shak'n worms on one o my best Rippin spots. Scott hooked up on a huge ish but it turned out to be a carp. Right in the lips not snagged, Which gave us a little excitement. About 5 minutes later I ripped a smallmouth and ten casts later got a largemouth. We let and went to lunch. Back out on the water we tried my original spots but there had been a lot o guys on it and we did'nt get touched. I decided around 1;30 that since the wind had been howling all day we might try cranking. Still nothing back down to my irst spot once the tourney guys split or there weigh in,and we went to a dropshot. Finally Scott got his irst smallmouth,so ater pictures and handshakes we stayed at it. Scott got 4 more largemouth on the same rig and we called it a day.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Dropshot was working best useing an oxblood/red lake roboworm. Should only be getting better by the next ull moon. Water temps up and I ound 57 degree water by late ater noon. Oh boy it's on the way