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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TO the guy with the nice boat who cant catch fish. (NO OFFENSE), Oroville is probably the easiest lake in california to catch large numbers of fish on any given day. Try two methods and stick with them until you learn how to catch em'. 1) 3/16 oz. Darthead with 6" robo-worm in Oxblood, Aarons magic, margarita mutilator, prizm shad. also use a drop shot with the same colors. Try backing off the fish a bit, if the boats in 4-6 ft your way too close, put the boat as far from the shore as you can while still being able to reach with your casts. hope this helps!!
      City: Reno

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did anyone out there see the pic of the 15+ lb hog that came out of Oroville on Easter sunday. What a mamoth fish!!!
      City: Paradise

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      Water Temp: 51-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I Just got back from fishing the northfork for 6 staight days. 4-17throu-4/22. I caught mostly smallmouth (my favorite) up to 4lbs. I used mostly red and brown colors drop shotting. There was'nt much of a reaction bite, but I caught fish all day on plastics. Fish were in 10-30 feet of water. I going to shasta for a week 5/1to5/7 I let you know whats up when I get back.
      City: Martinez

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      Water Temp: high 40's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First visit to the lake since july. Got a late start, about 9 am. Dropshot a fish or two about 40 ft and then started throwing a jig and picked up several more. Missed several and got another on a dart head. I believe I shall switch from 1/8 oz to 3/16 as It is too hard to control and maintain contact. One keeper for the day. Alas, I fear I should have stayed out of the south fork and concentrated on main body. It never stopped raining all day and my partners snow gear soaked through by 11 am. He was done for. He did catch one on a weightless senko in 30 feet............oh my god that is too deep to fish a weightless bait!!!!!!
      City: Yuba City

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished with daddy and caught 22 bass. we used worms. I like this lake because even I can catch fish.

      Tips: Just throw your worm out and wiggle it.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ill be ishing Oroville this weekend on my pontoon boat.....there doesnt seem to be many ishing the lake....ill pray or good ishing like the reports are praising....ill keep you posted...
      City: sac-excrement

      Tips: remember to not get too damn drunk on your pontoon boat and not be able to row it back to your truck,lol...

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      Water Temp: 47-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished GCB tournament saturday and started spinnerbaiting on a channel bank. Caught 2 but they were short o 15". Caught a total o 4 keepers in the south ork or 7.59 lbs. Took 7.61 to get a check RATS! Had un and caught probably 14 ish on jigs.
      City: YC

      Tips: Fish rom 15-45 eet mostly.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thought we we idiots going out today until another basser showed up at the launch and we took o in the rain. It turned out to be a rather nice day with light rain and little to no wind but we didn't want to do too much running so stayed near the main body and had a very good day with nearly 20 bass, 7 or 8 o them over the slot and the rest big, at slots. Almost all ish were caught on a jig with a ew on a tube and one on a Senko and all in 30' o water.
      City: w

      Tips: I was virtually dead sticking the jig and the bite was virtually non detectable, slight pressure and many headed straight up and I lost 6 by not being able to get a solid hook set. Jig was brown/orange (1/4 oz) with the inamous #180 Yamamoto trailer. When you think you can't ish any slower, slow down and stay in 30' and you'll have a great day.

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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just spent 10 days on Oroville preishing or the Anglers Choice Pro-Am and ishing the event. Had one good preish day with a 10# limit but most days produced 7 to 8 pound limits. Caught 30-50 ish a day on dropshot, jigs and C-rig plastics. Reaction bite produced small ish or me and ewer numbers than on plastics so I decided to try wading through large numbers o ish on plastics to cull up decent limits. Unortunately, I only managed 15 1/4 pounds or two days but we caught huge numbers o ish.Dropshotted small Yamamoto cuttail worms in shad or watermelon colors.Also, during preish, I caught a 4 pound largemouth on a Spook in the south ork but that random bite never developed into any pattern or me.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Fish are holding closely to the bait balls. Dropshot, spoons and jigs will produce great numbers. But, i you catch a ew small ish on a particular bait ball, move on to the next school. The spots seem to be schooled up by size...no sense in wasting time on schools o small ish.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main body and south ork and although the bite was slow, did manage to pick up 3 overs and about 6 at slots. They were all ull o bait ish and had the majority o bites on tubes and drop shotting ater the early morning topwater bite turned o around 8AM. Most o the bites came at 20-30 eet although one hit immediately at the bank.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Used a 1/4 oz head or the tubes to get me to the bottom quickly and they preerred pumpkin seed color. Used the small spook in the morning in shad color with 3 nice ish and a number o blow-ups but the topwater turned o real quick.

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      Water Temp: 60 ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Kris and I hit Oroville on Veterans day. thank you veterans or all you have done to keep the USA strong! Started spinnerbaiting a windy channel bank. Zip squat until I ripped a couple on a LC 128 to get things rolling. Ran up south ork to catch the only Largemouth o the day o the bridge on a dropshot. Found some bait by the bridge where I spooned several and we dropshot about a dozen. No keepers though. Hit a ew spots on the way back to the main body and picked up a ew more, dropshotting about 40-65 t. On main body Island, it was un and still productive rom 10 days ago. Only thing though, instead o only catching them at 60-75', we caught more than a couple rom 30-55'. On our last spot, we caught 16, even a double hookup on my 2 hooked dropshot rig. Then I hooked something or somethings that broke the whole dam thing o. I igure we caught about 40 ish and not a one o them was 15". Baitish color worms seemed to be the best.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Find bait on your graph and ish the bait. We had many at spots, atter than 10 days ago, but no 15" ish. I tried 80-90 eet, thinking the bigger ish might be there, but no dice.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: pre-ished Oroville or uture pro tour event. nothing irst thing until 8:05 12" smb, then 14" spot at 8:10, 14" spot at 8:18, dink smb, and so on. overall 17 ish with the top 5 only maybe 6 lbs. One topwater, 7 drop shot, one Helix, 4 t-rig, 5 split shot or carolina.Sat, better ish 10+ ish only 6 keepers or 7.91 lbs and 4th place out o 80+ teams. Great partner Tiger Madsen started the day with his spook and plastice or the rest. North end where the water came in and cooled the temp 8 degrees or so. First check in 6 events!!!!!
      City: Paciica

      Tips: North end where cold water came in was our best success

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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Oroville or the irst time over 4th o July weekend. Fished Middle and Southern branches, as well as around Loaer Creek. Lots o ish in all areas, mostly spots (they ight like ish twice their size!). Just ind the structure and you'll mark ish. Some came to topwater (popper) on points, but the best was drop-shotting roboworms in 20-30' o water around submerged trees and brush. Morning and evening were both great (maybe mid-day, too, but we elt it was too hot to ish and played in the water instead). I used Aaron's Magic, but my son caught ish on purple, too, so I don't think color matter's nearly as much as location. I agree...what a antastic lake.To those o you who (also) release your ish, even when gut hooked, you should know that your actions are appreciated. My daughter's irst ish was about 1 lb with a hook still in it's throat that was cut o by a considerate angler. That ish has now been caught at least twice, and is still in the lake waiting to be caught by another angler.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Better ish are deeper (around 30') and nearer to structure, especially submerged trees and brush.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thursday and Friday with my 7-year old and his grandpa. HOT!!! HOT!!! HOT!!! on the 26th I caught over 30 ish between 9:30 -3:00 PM up the North ork. Most were slot ish but did pick up three at 2lbs or better. On our irst stop I made a cast or my son with a darter head and as I turned to put a bait on my other rod the little guy was struggling to pull in a 1.5 smallie...I cast my drop shot and while unhooking his ish my rod keeled over and a 2+ spot was on the other end. The day was all uphill rom here. Caught ish all day...Grandpa head had his troubles beore managing to catch a solid ish at the end o the day. Dad 30+, Son 5, and Grandpa 1. Day two...Hotter still...Went North again and tried some new walls...Grandpa and I started catching ish ater a hal hour or so mostly small slot ish and a hal dozen smallies mixed in...Another 30+ day with more small ish in the mix. I threw a Carolina rig out or the little guy and he landed the biggest ish o our trip 2.5lb spot on a our inch roboworm...Fished rom 6:30 to 1:00. Great lake watch out or loating debris...
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: It all worked, but dropshotting caught the majority o my ish. Tried topwater without any takers (spook) and ripped through some bait schools hooking 1 ish. Plastics were the ticket...Colors were oxblood and watermelon...with a ew ish on white as well. Bigger ish were on steep rock...shade seemed to help and you can easily chase the shade in the North...Keep the boat in 20-40 eet o water and work toward the bank back to the boat. What a great lake...Looking orward to going back in two weeks or 100% tourney. Stay sae. TG

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      Water Temp: 60 -64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is near (6 t) ull. Fish are in all stages and schooled.Best ish in the willows and inside points. Dropshot and Senkos most eective. Green weenies and Morning dawn best colors or us.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Watch or debris. Prop shops business is booming.

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      Water Temp: 56.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well the lake has inally broke open the ish are all over.ished the south ork and had no reason to go anywhere else.the best lure beleive it or not was just a regular silver blueox spinner.I tried worms on a darterhead,crankbaits,lukes, and jigs with success.but when i put on a spinner i couldnt keep them o.Also there are some big trees in the water.i threw senkos on them and really nailed some nice ish.they are stacked up on the trees too.I caught 11 ish just on one tree alone.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: it sounds like kids stu using a spinner but i you just let go o your ishing ego or a minute you will see how good that old ashion lure can be.

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the weekend and ound that the ishing, though good, is not up to the standards o what it usually is this time o year. We probably caught 60 ish between the 3 o us. Mostly on plastic dartheads. My partner did catch a ew on senkos, but the vast majority was on darthead plastics. The ish were very timid in their bite, very sot. You just eel weight only or the most part. The weather we had I'm sure had something to do with the poor bite. As we were ishing in between ronts.One surprising thing happened. We had two limits o salmone!! Nice surprise ... on the dartheads ...I was surprised at how little boat traic there was on the lake on Sunday ... I'm sure the slow bite had something to do with it.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Fish were probably pretty deep ... probably >20'. But because one o our part was a irst time bassing, we stayed shallow.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tim D, give me your e-mail address.
      City: Paradise

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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sac. Bass Wranglers Tournament Saturday & Sunday. Generally tough conditions were ound by all. Lots o ish caught but the 15 inchers were tricky to ind (we don't get a 13" exemption.) Most guys caught ish ripping then on slow plastics. We were lucky enough to ind some ares that were holding keepers and had two decent but not spectacular limits or a total o 26.36 lb, which was enough or the win. Team Duke had the big ish o the tournament, a beautiul at 4.5 lb. spot, and Second place weight o 25.96 lb. Good job Duke, you had us sweating big time!We ound an awesome rip bite both mornings and inished the day out with darter heads and split shotting. red seemed to be the color or us. Only three limits weighed in each day, this lake has not turned on yet. Did ind some beds in the back o coves but it seemed still a little early or that...
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Joe, thanks or the ino. I have more. Send me your e-mail address. Did not want to open a can o worms by leaving it at your business. Dennis
      City: Paradise