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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just wait until later in the summer for the crank bait bite. Go along those steep banks in your float tube and you will catch bass all day.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 4:30 to 6:30 whit a bud. He caught a 2.5# on a brushhog around 4:45 hal hour later a nailed a 3.2# Nice... lost a couple o hits too. Couple o more weeks o warm weather and they should be active.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: plastic carloina rigged worked real slow

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LEts get Guadalupe back in this... I have ound a ew nice Bass in coves recently throughout the lake, as well as some good action on shad crankbaits... preparing or the spawn...
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SHad Crankbaits, Certain Senkos, Big craw Jigs...

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Billy Bob, The regulars know that about Guadalupe. You now have inormed the world in more detail.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Figure it out!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey you guys you know how unpressured this lake is you know why because nobody knows about it. soooooo you need to stop making reports or guadalupe so it stays a secret. Thank You i know you'll agree

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      Water Temp: at surace 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty good night. went out or about 2 hours rom 7-9 caught 2 ish. both airly nice weighed in at 3lbs a piece. both caught on shad spinnerbait in about 10-20 t o water. tried buzzbait when nightall hit. nuthin there. all in all pretty good or only two hours o ishing
      City: Saratoga

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      Water Temp: low 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom shore this time in the evening. caught 2 on a shad colored spinnerbait. both about 2lbs. little ol' buck bass. that was all this time.
      City: Saratoga

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      Water Temp: 62-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Best day ever ishing Guadalupe. Only 15 so went with my dad. Had nothing until way late about 9:45. Was workin a weightless bubblegum zoom worm. Hooked up, landed it, weighed it, got measurements and took two pics. Fish weighed 5lbs. even and 20in.No lying. Biggest bass ever... not including a guide.
      City: Saratoga

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      Water Temp: lo 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time with my kickboat; caught a handul o keepers pitching a craw-pattern reaper into the shallows (brush-covered & otherwise). Also caught my FIRST FISH EVER on a weightless sot jerkbait (an Angler's Choice 4-incher, smoke w/chartreuse tail). Bout time! I had only caught 'em via a Carolina Rig, previously! Ran across some real 'bassy' cover as I worked my way along the bank, but my presentation skills (or lack thereo) oten spoiled what might have been a 'sure-thing' -- I **KNOW** there had to be something in there, or VERY close by! Not much pressure at this lake, & I've heard o some nice ish being caught here. Had a hell o a time getting my kickboat up that steep hillside, though! (Not to mention it was nearly dark -- another nice thing about this lake: not too heavily patrolled!). Oops! I didn't say that!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Good lip/pitchable cover along the roadside banks. On the opposite side, not as much cover, but it's even less travelled, so more open-water tactics would probably be real eective (split-shot rigs, spinnerbaits, cranks, sot jerkbaits, etc.). Bank ishing: not many places to choose rom in this high-water season.

  • Napa County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In response to the last report. I think that the previous report was kindly inorming someone that they might not be properly identiying their catch. Many ishermen rely on these reports in order to get an idea o whats going on out there. So don't get your panties all in a jumble over an inormative response.
      City: Berkeley

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In response to the last report...Yes, a smallie over ten pounds is deinately "unheard o." However, they certainly do exhist. And on another note, the actualy world record smallie is not 11.5, the 1955 record was rigged. So, untill the IFGA recognizes that, the record may stand. But, as soon as they do, its air game....hey, personally, I think I have the world record, here in AZ. What y'all ishermen need to understand is that it isnt about ame, it is is all about personal goals. My smallie topped out at 9.8lbs....you dont see me bitching. I released that large beaty back into her environment without a second thought. Worry about what your next catch is, and not what other people say. Although ishing seems at times competitive, ultimately, it is all about us ishermen comming together and preserving our ishing environment. Next time you worry about what the other guy says in terms o that he/she says they caught, beore you get all pissed, think more about what you can do to the watersheds you ish to make them actually produce one o these world records. Its possible...at any water system, be it river, estuary, lake or pond, any o these is capable o producing a record. Do you part to conserve and spend your time helping, instead o bitching...Tight lines y'all...look into helping our lakes, streams and ponds, they are in dier need o it ellas
      City: Tucson/Oakland

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      Water Temp: 5o

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to the lake to check water in low .temp was 50.the c.a. ish@game was there with there schock boat .they were gathering ish or boat show tank .Iwish all the people thatthink there is no ish in the lake go to the boat show All those ish came rom lake hennessy
      City: vallejo,ca

      Tips: ask .@g how they did it

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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 3 to 5PM with no bites. Decided to put a live mini-crawler on the end o my white double willow spinnerbait. Dragged it past a submerged but visible log next to some tules and let it all as it hit the log. I didn't really expect a bite but you never know. Hooked and landed the biggest bass I've ever caught out o this lake-our and a hal pounds, 18" long and 14" in girth. The day wasn't over yet- 10 minutes later I landed the biggest blue-gill I've ever caught- 12" long, 1.3 pounds! Caught it on a crawler on the bottom and a #8 hook.
      City: napa

      Tips: Bass seem to be holding tight to cover due to cold ronts and muddy ( or at least murky ) water conditions. Reports o great catishing is what drew me to this lake on this particular day- that and the beautiul springlike weather. I water stays murky use noisy lures- cranks, spinnerbaits, rattling jigs. I tried all o these and ribbon tail worms as well as carolina rigged lizards with brass and glass or extra noise. Good luck!

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

      Report: how did the water look was it way down?
      City: santa rosa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Anybody know if the lake is completely dried up yet? I havent been able to go but i plan to this weekend, hopefully with a float tube. I dont want to take everything just to see a dry lake! haha. I just thought that since there havent been any recent reports that maybe there was no more Lake Ilsanjo. Email or another post is fine. Thanks, good luck!
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Bruce,
      The lake only came up 33' or so over the winter. It has already dropped 9' in the last month or so since Yolo County starting taking water. Its roughly down 75' and falling pretty fast. Not looking good.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It's come up about 26'. Still about 75' to be completely full.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Haven't been back. I read in the local newspaper the main gate will be locked until March 1. Supposedly they are fixing up the road and the campground. Here's a link for the current lake level.

      http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?INV

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      Water Temp: 55.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: All day on Saturday. Snow on the peaks, and cold. Fished in my duck hunting clothes all day and still was chilled. Four bass all day, all around 2.5 lbs, two no a jig and 2 on a carolina rig baby watermelon red brush hog. Fish were on points down to 25 t. I did catch the largest crappie I have ever seen on a L.C. crank bait and the L.C. picked up a eagle lake trout.
      City: Sacramento,

      Tips: Here is the low down, good road conditions, water is close to ull, at least much more so than last year, ramp is good and even though I have a Ranger 518DVX the road and ramp were ok. Due to the storms and last 2-3 weeks o cooler than usual weather I would wait another month beore hitting this lake. Also be prepared to spend a ew hours cleaning your rig ater the 14 mile dirt road ride, even with a cover.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: don't ever waste your time going to this lake. it sucks trying to get there, the 5mph on the entire lake makes it even worse. and it is a scary place i think big oot lives somewhere around there.
      City: los altos

      Tips: stay away, be scared very scaredBIG FOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!