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  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT UP FRIDAY MORNING ABOUT 830AM. WENT UP RIVER AND HAD A COUPLE OF BITES BUT NO HOOK UPS. FINALLY MY NOVICE FRIEND THAT IM TEACHING TO FISH SMOKED ME IN WINCHELLS COVE. I SNAPPED MY ROD EARLIER AND I WAS PRETTY UPSET ABOUT IT. MY CONFIDENCE WENT TO THE BIRDS. IF YOU HAVE EVER SNAPPED A LOOMIS THEN YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT. ANYWAYS.......MY BUDDY CAUGHT 8 FISH ON A YAMAMOTO GRUB SET UP IN CINN. BROWN W/LARGE GREEN FLAKE IN ABOUT 25 FEET OF WATER. I CAUGHT ONLY 4 FISH. :-( THE FISH WERENT BIG THOUGH. MAYBE 1 1/4 AVERAGE. SPRING HURRY UP AND COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      City: Fresno

      Tips: DONT BRING SOMEONE THAT YOURE TRYING TO TEACH HOW TO FISH!...........HE MIGHT JUST OUT DO YOU!

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing's great every time I ished at weest(no twest) lake
      o kiding I caught at least one bass and at least 5 bluegill.Not all are big but most put up a great ight especialy the bass.I'm a beginner so call it beginers luck i you will, but others are catching ish too. The bass are biting on spoons,believe it or not, and plastics.And the bluegill are biting on chuncks o worms, millworms,and even cunks o worn out(brown,sot) plastics. I you can try ishing down here some time and some advice ''by all means do not ish in the new river" it's suadge rom Mexixco lowing downhill into the salten sea 'highly toxic'oh and don't eat what you catch rom the salten sea.You'r likely to get sick.And the canals down here are polluted by insectaside in ield water run-o. But youll catch big catish in the major canals.
      City: El centro, 92243

      Tips: sh; / peakseason; / lure's/bait / / bass / May-early,Sept / spoons,bussards, / / rattletraps. / / cat's / any day/night / chunck velveta / / cheese,night / / crawlers,bloodbait. / / bluegill/ may-early sept / chunks o night / / crawlers,millworms,or / / small sot brown / / plastics.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Throw pearl white super flukes let them sink a little and slowly twitch them as you slowly work them back in. Fish the weightless with a #5 Owner offset hook and hold on.......

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Come on, doesn't anyone ish here anymore? How's the striper bites lately?
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Saw the last report and headed up with the lyrods or the stripes. Bit o a breeze so no boils to speak o so I started drop shotting 4 inch Roboworms and was pleasantly surprised or a lake that ew people seem to ish. Got a nice mix o smallies and spots and one largemouth. Probably 6 were keeper size, the rest were just plain un, over twenty ish boated.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Picked up ish on just about every point I ished. The deeper the worm the bigger the ish.

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Stripers were hitting hard yesterday as the sun went down. Trolled the main body o the lake in the warmer water with everything i could think o, nothing. Marked so very large ish at 30 t in 70 eet o water. Marked a massive school cruising the main body o the lake. From 5 eet to 30 eet. Went up in to cove arms to 50 t o water and drited minnows and whole lapper cut anchovies or several ish to 9lbs. Fish where holding about 30t.
      City: lodi

      Tips: Fish are holding at around 30t, Several crawdads in the bellies. Large whole anchovies seemed to be the hot ticket. Lots o loating weeds and algae.

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was bank ishing near the dam in the aternoon using crankbaits, Rat-l-Traps and sinking Rapala's. I caught and released six largemouths to about 3 lbs. There was absolutely no ishing pressure. Stripers should be hitting soon and I'll be there.
      City: Ione

      Tips: Just be patient and really work at it and the results will come.

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      Water Temp: 58-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday rom 4pm to dark. Landed 11 anywhere rom 11 inches to 16 inches; all males. Fish were on any structure and points 4-6 eet deep. Fished Sat. rom 8am-4pm. Landed 12 anywhere rom 10 inches to 16 inches again. Lost several 2-3 pound ish. Fishing was slow until mid-morning breeze started. Came on one point with big rocks on it that had 3-4 our pounders around it. Only managed one small male there though. All ish were caught on salt&pepper ringworm and 3-4 on a chrome rattletrap in the mud lines.Didn't notice any nests so I don't think the spawn has hit ully.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Split-shotting worked as always. Couldn't get a hit on topwater. Rattletrap produced too.

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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was hitting nice ish with 5" Sencos on the back side o coves,tried split shotting,nothing,spinner baits nothing,started throwing the Senco and the bite was on,bite quit once the sun got low,it was sunny and warm
      City: Valley Springs

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a coved under the campground area. Caught three 13-14 inchers in about 8 eet o water. They were right at the irst drop into deeper water. Two ish came on 4 inch worms, the other ell victim to a small crankbait. Looks like it's time to ish!
      City: antelope

      Tips: Find the irst drop into deeper water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We went on a camping trip this last weekend and it was absolutely CRAZY. Forget ishing unless you were out on the water when the sun came up or when it went down. We didn't catch much ish but we had a ton o un. All ish were caught in less then 10 eet o water on magic worms or baby brush hawgs. The amount o skiers and jet skiers were un believable.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Watch out or the Rattlers, they are in ull eect out there right now...

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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got o work early, put the boat in the water at 12:30 ished until 5:00pm. Caught 15 ish, big ish was a 3 lb smallie.Fished coves in the lower lake with deep water close by,ished rip baits, senkos and hula grubs. Lots o ish moving onto the beds now but very spooky, ish quietly and stay o the bank and they will bite.See ya, Brian Allen
      City: Valley springs

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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got o work early, put the boat in the water at 12:30 ished until 5:00pm. Caught 15 ish, big ish was a 3 lb smallie.Fished coves in the lower lake with deep water close by,ished rip baits, senkos and hula grubs. Lots o ish moving onto the beds now but very spooky, ish quietly and stay o the bank and they will bite.See ya, Brian Allen
      City: Valley springs

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      Water Temp: 60 to 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished lower lake coves ound ish spawning on the pointsry are all over try to get rip ish going took a while started with short pauses then got longer, ish want bait to sit still or or longer than normal time.then went ater the bed ish. ished the new zoom tubes most o the ish on beds where smallies had three blacks o beds and ive smallies o beds ,ripped about seven all blacks.lake is ishing a lot dierent this year rom lastFish plastic o points or numbers, to hard to do or this delta guy.
      City: Valley springs

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 1/15/11 Very tough conditions. Lake is rising and fish are lock jawed. Only fish were on jigs and drop shot in 35-50ft of water.

      Tips: Maybe try way up the creek arms, thats the only places we didn't go

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Jim James, the long time Secretary-Treasurer of Sonora Bass Anglers, passed away last week on February 18th. Jim was diagnosed with cancer in November of 2009. Bass fishing was a huge part of Jim's life. Jim was a personal friend and frequent client of Randy Pringle. Jim will be missed by all who knew him. His family is planning a "Celebration of Life" to be held on the banks of New Melones. When I get the details I will let you know. Jim was my friend and fishing partner for the last eight years.
      City: Sonora

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wacked em on just about any thing. Best was a 3 lb'r on topwater. I got distracted and when I looked back I couldn't find my lure... several twitches, still no lure??? Started reeling only to find a nice 3 lb'r on the end! LOL, never heard it hit!

      We had 20 by 9 in the morning and my son Jon even caught a real nice 18" rainbow on a roboworm. With the strong wind and a slight motor problem, we decided to get off the water by noon, finished with 2 dozen, mostly dinks but a blast if you have a kid with you, It's quantity with them...
      City: Somerset

      Tips: If you're older and fat like me, make sure you launch from the right ramp, the 1/2 mile climb back to get the truck/trailer nearly killed me...

      Cast tight to the bank and into the shadows and you'll get bit!!!

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      Water Temp: 65.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Played hookie w/ my buddy John and hit the lake at dark thirty until 4:30pm. Fished between the bridges on main lake points and coves w/ water entering the lake for 35-50 spotted bass and 5 or so largemouth bass. Fish averaged 1.5lbs-2.0lbs with a handful of larger fish to 4lbs. Best 5 went 15.9lbs. Most of the bites came on watermelon and watermelon red flake zoom twin tails on 3/8 oz football heads and drop shotting purple ghost keeper and magic worms. Caught a couple on jerkbaits, but the action was a lot slower. Through watermelon purple flake sencos for a couple of the larger fish. Great day and a lot of action, so maybe I'll take my nephews soon!
      City: Stockton, CA

      Tips: Swiming jigs seemed to be the most effective method of fishing. It allowed us to cover water and get the baits down, but seemed to attract the smaller bass. Fill a limit and then switch over to sencos for the kicker fish. Still looking for the largemouth, so maybe get out ove the river and head down to the south end of the lake?

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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on last Wed. April 21st...three of us fishing upper side of the lake beyond Parrots Ferry, 79 bass (small mouth and spots), most action I have ever seen! Drop shotting short plastics, just about everything worked.
      City: kentfield

      Tips: In clearer water used clear plastics with chartreuse tails. In murkier water darker colors (root beer or motor oil). Fish quality was the only issue - most were pretty small. Look for rock and submerged tree combinations. 5-6 lb test, go prepared to lose gear.

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water around 0900 and headed or Carson Cove. Stayed there all day. Started getting bit around 1130 in 40 to 60 eet o water near the points. Marked a ton o ish and landed 10 dropshotting. Bite quit around 1430 or me. One Largemouth and the rest spots. A couple had pincers and antanae sticking out o there throats but I had the best luck on shad colored worms. Got the most bites when I marked ish and bait together obviously. Only 3 were keeper size and the rest an inch or two shy.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Dropshot or me but the crawdads in their throats suggest a jig. I threw one but wasn't very patient with it. Did have a BIG rainbow ollow the jig to the boat though.