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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished clearlake rom the 8th to the 10th because o abnormal weather conditions I stayed in the lakeport-Rodman area the whole trip.Thursday I only ished a ew hours in the aternoon butmanaged to get my limit split-shoting in small very protected dock/launch ramp areas ....Friday was better or weather but the ish were out o the shallows in the morning so I caught them on crawcolored cranks and slow rolled white blades with dbl. gold willowlea blades as the day wore on I lipped brn/brn up by rodman or about 6 ish and the end o the day brought on a worm bite not inthe shallows but in the transition areas I got one just shy o 8 lbs. then it slowed at 5:30 I put 2 more in the boat on cranks and called it a day. Saturday was another story no worm ish 5 rip ish"clown pattern" and 15 odd lip ish or the end o my "vacation on spawning clearlake ish".Tips The coming weekend is going to be killer in this ishermans opinion ...Purple plastics,Whiteblades,rippin,lippin,cranks.....it will be outstanding because these ish have been putting this o or a long long time keep a tight line (Rip)
      City: Santa Barbara

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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 1pm to almost 6pm in the north end o the lake. Caught two 4 pounders on white spinnerbaits. No rip bite and no rip bite and no plastic bite. Very windy, moderate wavesand very ew isherman. On 4/8/98 it snowed, rained, hailedand everything in between. While ishing on 4/7 we could notdevelope a pattern. One ish was caught very close to shoreand the other was caught in 10 eet o water 50-60 eet oshore.Tips White spinner baits with gold blades.
      City: Lakeport

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We ished around the state park at the edge o the creek channels most o the time, alongwith many other boats. People were catching a ew ish, but none with any size. A lot o 3 to 4pounders. We caught twelve ish in 2 and a hal days ishing, 4 lbs the biggest. Caught most rippinga rapala husky jerk. One on a spinnerbait and 2 on Brush hawgs, white. It was cold windy and rainy.Tips White Brush hawgs, White Blades and Clown Jerkbaits.
      City: Weed

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      Water Temp: 47-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THURSDAY OUT OF GARNERS RAN 18 MILES NORTH TO TULE POINT ;;SHORT CAUGHT 8 FISH TO 4.7ON IMPACT JIG WITH BLUE SUPER TRAILER . MY PARTNER SCOOTER HAD A BAD DAY COULDNT BRING A FISH EVENIF HE WOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT IN HIS BACK POCKET FROM RALEYS HE DID CACTH 1 ON A BLUE BLACK Z BODYSHAK N SPIN BUT IT WAS ONLY A 2.5 BETTER THAN NOTHING THEY SAY .FISHED FRIDAY TO BUT THE WIND WAS SOBAD I HAD THE WORST DAY AND BOAT TRIP IVE EVER HAD 4-5 FOOT SWELLS IN THE NARROWS WELL TILL NEXTTIME SEE YA ....D BASSIN.Tips BEWARE OF THE CLEARLAKE WINDS ITS NO JOKE IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THEM YOU COULD BE IN BIG TROUBLE. FISH MAINLY FOR THE COLOR THAT IS CLOSEST TO THE COVER YOUR FISHING.IE BROWN TREES (BROWN) GREEN LIMBS (GREEN) ECT.
      City: SACRAMENTO

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      Water Temp: 49-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Club had a two day tourney. Best baits were spinnerbaits in and aroundtules and also on wood in the north end o the lake. Some ish were also caughton shad lukes and rip baits. Most o the ish were 2-8' deep and were chasingthe reaction baits right up to the boat so be prepared when you retrieve or ashort line hit at the boat. Not much to talk about about with plastics or jigs -it was slow or this as everyone was tossing reaction.Tips Slow retrieve with the spinnerbait. Fish near deeper water close byspawning areas. Fronts seem to be coming through every couple o days so theseish are moving - gotta ind them when the weather changes.
      City: Livermore

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom North to South or two days. Found the bite to be tough orme. Brush hogs on shallow wood worked best or 2-3 lbers.Caught a ew blade ish early in the a.m. Best bite or me was in the south end.Tips n/a
      City: Tracy

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day 3/4,3/5,3/6/99 rom 0600 to 1830, Thursday was pretty badwith high winds and waves but we were still able to catch ish with the largestbeing 8#. Friday the weather was much better and both o us got ish rom 3-4#'sbut no signiigant numbers. The ish seemed to disappear on Saturday just assoon as the cold ront moved through. We used everything rom brushhogs tominnows and the bass didnt seem to care one way or the other, just seemed to bethe location more than anything else.Tips n/a
      City: San Francisco

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: As anticipated, I was only able to ish sporadically Sat and Sunday while camping with the amily. The weather as everywhere was hot and I imagine it had an eect on the ishing pattern rom a week or two prior. Didn't have much luck around the emerging rock piles across rom the marina and didn't graph many ish either. Ater too much wasted time I headed up the river to the 3rd or 4th brush pile up the 5 mph zone and drop shotted a nice spot. Missed a couple, but graphed quite a ew ish. Had to head back to camp. Back out around 2 pm touring the lake with the wie and the 3 youngest kids (oldest wanted to stay and ish the docks)no intent on ishing. Puttering around up the 5 mph zone and the bass start busting shad all around the boat, inally get the rod out o the locker with a pooper and its ish on. Had some un action or awhile and then head back to the dock to let the amily o and take the oldest out to get some topwater. They had settled down some when we got back but still managed a ew. No real size, all just under or at keeper size, but topwater is always un. Sunday only got an hour in the middle o the day and picked up a ew more small topwater.
      City: Newark

      Tips: For what it is worth the hot weather shouldn't last too long and the bite should really pick up. I graphed a lot more ish up the river as compared to the rocks. Not enough time to give speciic tips outside o the obvious, throw to the ish busting shad.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ya hector not sure on the prices but there is an 11 pm curew kinda sux. me and my riends went camping there over spring break and got the park ranger called on us twice. i guess thats what u expect when its 20 teenagers but the ishng was great. morning dawn worms. the dock ishing at night is good in black 3-4 inch worms dropshotting right below the docks.hope this helps
      City: orangevale

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: HELLO, I'M TRYING TO PLAN OUT A FISHING EXPEDITION,CAMPING TRIP AND I'M PLANNING TO USE MY KICK BOAT OUT THERE,I'VE ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN TO THIS LAKE AND WAS WONDERING IF IT WAS WORTH THE TROUBLE (CAMPING).I'LL BE GREATFULL IF SOMEBODY OUT THERE CAN GIVE ME THE LOWDOWN ON THE CAMPING FACILITIE'S,FEE'S ECT.(ESPECIALLY THE FISHING ACTION) THANK YOU!!
      City: ELK GROVE

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 4 days camping up at collins lake and had a blast. never been there beore but caught alot o ish anyways. we rented one o those two story party boats and were catching ish on just about every set o trees in about 2-6 eet o water.tons o bed ish.biggest about 2.5 but saw lots more.my buddy rich had one come o that was a toad.never even saw him but he took o and then just shook the hook,prob a big trout or cat but oh well. throwin tikie sticks and lukes.caught probroly 6-12 ish a day only ishing or about an hour each time.
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: tikie sticks dark colors,black blue,brown purple,look or bed ish really close to shore.tried jigs,spooks,rippin-nuthn.tikie sticks and morning dawn dartheading.

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      Water Temp: 56-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started this morning at about 7:30am went out with two riends Joe and Dennis immmediatly went strait across the lake to the east side ished right out in ront o the cove in about 15 eet o water picked up three nice ish to about 1.5 LBS. some were the new lorida strain they just planted kept ishing inside the cove and piked up about six more to about 2 LBS. the water started warming so threw on a white 3/8 ounce silver double willow lea spinner bait or two ish all together caught about 22 ish in about 6 hours o ishing good un with good riends go ishing!

      Tips: try pumpkin/green lake tubes throw them right up on shore or next to bushes and hop out slowly and spinner baits when it warms up ish are moving up in aternoon getting ready to spawn.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I spend three days out on the water, trying a variety o dierent baits, depths, everything. I went ishing at multiple times o the day, but still no luck. I got one ish in 3 days o ishing, but it happened to be a blue gill. Other isherman there reported the same thing. There was one guy out there who had been ishing or two weeks, and only got 2 ish!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: wrong time, wrong place.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Where are all the reports?

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake at 7am with high hopes since it has been so warm,igured the ish would be up shallow ( wrong ) where ever they were, i couldn't ind them . there just wasn't any pattern , caught some o the tree's, some in the back o a cove, some just in the middle o nothing, so 5 ish or the day lost 3, most ish on a zipper worm pink and chartruse one on a staycee ripbait, tried spinnerbait's brushogs lukes. caught 3 yesterday throwing a spinnerbait rom the shore at lake rancis in about 2 hours
      City: brownsville

      Tips: stay home or go to another lake its spring break and there are to many people right now at collins

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start, didn't get on the water until about 12:00.Started ishing rocky points throughing crank baits pulled one out right o. started to throw jigs working slow through the rocks picked up ive more ish including a 4lbs. 4ounce spot. all the ish were between 2 to 3 pounds.had to leave at 3:00 so the ishing is not to bad.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: most o my luck was on a 12 ounce ootball head jib yamamoto cinnamon with purple and black lake skirt and twin tale trailer same color.

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      Water Temp: 69-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Collins both days this weekend. Tried topwater in coves and main lake points early Sat. nothing. Moved over and lipped a jig and topwater around the boat slips, again, zip. Moved out to main lake humps and ound some ish busting shad. started out throwing a Kastmaster and Flukes. Nothing on the Flukes, my partner inally caught one on the Kastmaster. When it spit up a couple o shad I realized the Flukes were probably too big. The shad they were chasing were only 1"-2" long. I switched to a blue/silver 1/4oz. Rat-L-trap and still nothing. My partner nailed a second ish on the Kastmaster. I igured what the heck, and dug out a 4" Senko and rigged it weightless on a 1/0 hook. Started catching a ew by casting to the boils and letting the Senko all on a semi-tite line. By Days end we put 5 spots up to 1 1/2lbs in the boat and I lost a 2-21/2 right at the boat.Sunday we started out ishing spinnerbaits and ripbaits on main lake points. My Dad hooked one on the ripbait and lost it 5' rom the boat. I landed a 1 1/2lb largemouth on a 1/4oz. white spinnerbait. Tried dragging plastics on a couple points with no takers. Again moved out to the hump and started throwin Senkos and shad colored swimbaits at the boils. Caught 3 more spots to 1 1/4lbs. Overall it's a still a pretty tough bite on Collins still. But the pending coldronts should help.
      City: Sun Valley Nv.

      Tips: I had several bites on 4" and 6" worms in between shad boils while still on the humps. Throw shad colored plastics to the boils and let them all. Seems like they hit em within 4 or 5 seconds. I they don't take it by then, reel in and get ready or the next one.

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday and Saturday. Fishing was pretty Good on Friday and not as good on Saturday. Most all my ish came onSpinnerbaits or Crankbaits. On Friday there was a little top water bite in the evening, and on Saturday morning there was some Jerk bait action. All ish caught were Spotted bass. All ish ound within a ew eet o the bank. On Saturday Aternoon we were sight ishing out on the point covered with trees and were looking at some good 6lb. ish but could not get them to bite. Tried everything in the box and the only thing they paid attention to was a 7 1/2" AC Plug. Good luck, Good Fishing!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Use your avorite reaction bait and cast ALOT!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: any tips for jr angler to catch some fish here
      City: antioch

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey tom,

      Can you email me? I have some questions for you. thanks,

      Chris