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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey where are the ish has anybody been out latley. would like some ino on oroville i am going tommorow and have not been or a long while.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: is there any water in the lake and where are the ish

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey where are the ish has anybody been out latley. would like some ino on oroville i am going tommorow and have not been or a long while.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: is there any water in the lake and where are the ish

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here you go twobasspat. Fished a club tourney on Sunday the 18th. The ishing was slow or Oroville, but still managed to get some main body ish going. Partner cranked 3 ish over the slot on Bill Normans medium diver (white/purple). I caught all my ish on brown/green jigs in 10-20 eet o water. I had big ish o 4.48lbs and a total weight o 10 something,or the win. Starting to see more Largemouth these days as three o my ive were LM. Partner weighed in 2 largemouth. No top water bite or me and reaction bite was real quick in the morning beore it died.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Reaction bite is very spotty and does not last long. Jig bite is slower than normal, but as usual the quality is better. Most o the ish are ull o real small baitish, smelt i guess.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: where are all the reports or oroville? need some help. thanks
      City: citrus heights

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Oroville AFTERBAY>>>Not Lake Oroville. Once again I ind the water in a high condition and we head out at the crack o dawn or an early top water bite and it is ull and looks as smooth as glass. Can't wait or the ole buzz bait bite but it never happens. We knew that once the sun came up we could concentrate on the tule patches and that's exactly what we did and it was like site ishing or spawners and what a ball we had. Using Senkos and jigs, we had a big ish day with the largest tipping 8+ and many over 4 pounds. Got so hot we jumped in to cool o and you must remember the water is ed rom the BOTTOM o Lake Oroville and once you hit the water, you shot up like a rocket to get back in the boat the water was so rigid but boy did it do the trick to cool us down. Great day and our 5 biggest would easily have topped 20 pounds.
      City: WHEATLAND

      Tips: Used a multitude o colors in the tules but the most productive were watermelon/blk lake Senko and red shad lizards. Jig was brwn/orange with Yamamoto grub trailer. You could see the bass on the outer edges o the tules and we would stand back, making long casts and just slayed them.

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      Water Temp: 77-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out houseboating with amily and riends during the week.I had the only bassboat on the lake being hauled by a houseboat. Stayed all week in the South and Middle orks. All the ish seemed to be in the slot with a ew hitting 16''. Best producer seemed to be a brown 1/4 oz jig w/yamamoto pumpkin colored dbl tail grub. The best time seemed to be A.M. 7:30 to 9:00 . I never really ished past that to remain sociable with guests. Evening bite was not as productive as morning.Other baits that worked were topwater Ricos and Buzzbaits,also splitshot a Aaron Martins worm that was grey with black stripes that worked well.I used a lot o other plastics that was not very productive. It was a pleasure ishing during the week as I rarely encountered another boat the whole trip on my a.m. outings.I live three minutes rom the Granite Bay launch at Folsom and have had to give up ishing or summer because o the massive crowds.
      City: Granite Bay Ca.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A barnburner last nite. 61 anglers in 31 boats, our all time high, showed up to ish or a pot o $610.00. The winning team was Matt Sheppard and John Wyllie rom Paradise. They caught a beautiul 221/4" largemouth ishing mud lines on the main body. The ish ate a grub. No speciic grub was mentioned but we caught decent ish using a Yamamoto Hula Grub in watermelon. There is a blade bite on the main body as well but mostly slot ish. No other reports were given. My riend Maynard and I would like to thank everyone that comes out, or supporting our little get together. We must be doing something right or you wouldn't come back. We will be back on July 11 as next Thursday alls on the 4th and its going to be a zoo out there. Good ishing.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Obviously ishing mud lines is working or some. Jigs in brown/purple and blades are a good bet.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A report or the rookie. Thursday nites tournament 6/20. Best ish came on crankbaits and watermelon senkos. The winning ish was caught on a Pop-R. Fished Sunday morning 6/23 rom 5am till 10am and had solid action using pearl/white senkos rigged on eighth ounce dart heads. All the ish came in less than 10 eet o water. Get out there early and leave by 10 or 11 and let the skiers have it.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Fish early or ish late

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got this ino second hand rom this past weekend's tourney:Drop shotting morning dawn magic worm in saddle around 60' yielded 60-70 ish ea. day or 2 day tourney. Most ish came around the spillway area. Hard to ind a ish over 2 pounds.Don't know why tournament anglers don't share any ino/tips or us rookies... it's not like you'll be ishing many tournaments over the summer months anyway.

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      Water Temp: 74 - 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Middle Fork rom 6:30am til 2:30pm. Managed to boat 15 ish using senko's and crankbaits. Couldn't get any takers with anything else. 6 o the ish were spots, the rest largemouth's. Nothing over 1 1/2 lbs.

      Tips: Only the second time ishing the lake. Looking orward to reading reports rom other ishermen.

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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on the water @ 5:30am blast o or a tournament at bidwell i chose to go to the dam went to the south ork threw topwater to no prevail then ound large balls o smelt spooned and drop shotted caught 30 -35 ish in a 4 hours pretty good day or numbers 1 in 7-8 ish was a keeper
      City: gridley

      Tips: ind the smelt deep

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      Water Temp: 57-61.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Chico Bass club tourn.on Saturday.Cold windy blast o and it really did not warm up until ater lunch, at least or me.We ished a pattern that produced 30 + ish the Saturday beore, however the cold ront changed all that. The bad side is we did not adapt and spent the large part o the day ishing an unproductive pattern. The stats or 71 boats, winning weight 10. something lbs., over 30 boats checked in limits o 5 ish around 7-8 lbs, big ish 3.64 or there about, less than 4.0. The ish I caught were on a jig/ 182 double tail grub and pitching to loating trash in the still pockets ater the sun was up. I did loose a nice ish early on a senko, wimpy hookset. We saw several crusers in the 3-4 lb range but they were not locked onto any beds.With the warming weather I suspect thatthe bite will pick back up. All clone spots, where are the smallmouth and largemouth in this lake?
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I would wait till the water warms a little unless you like to dropshot in 35t o water.

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Bass Classics o Santa Clara Valley had there club ishout this month at Oroville and everyone had ish we had a two day tournament with 11 guys posting double limits. The guys that put it together were catching 4 or 5 limits a day Chris Lee won it with 25.75 lbs and the big ish o 4.35 lbs plus he a Ray Martinez had heavy boat o 45.90 lbs. He said that the better quality ish they ound in the deeper water and on points with big boulders as much as 30 to 35 eet deep.They used Green wienee colored worms mostly to catch a 100 ish in two days. The rest o us had a hard time catching more than two or three limits in a day.In second place was Gary Caltigirone with 21.85 lbs he used 1/8th oz. dart head grubs and drop shotting tiny IKA's in a shad color on the wind protected side o pockets on the main lake and middle ork. In third place was Jack Ray with 21.65 lbs. he used grubs or most o his ish also on island in the middle ork in 5-30 t. o water and most o the ish were stacked up on the same spots. In ith was Mike Bugliarello he used hula grubs in 5-30 t. and baby brush hogs. He also used green weinee worms on a 1/16th oz. dart head.In sixth was mysel Mike Espinola with 19.65 lbs. I had a nice ish each day rippin a clown rattling rogue on main lake points and back in a cove with rock piles on lukes and 1/4 oz. dart heads. We ound some ish on wind blown points in the middle ork on blades and we cranked some ish on wiggle wart crank baits in the mud lines.
      City: FREMONT

      Tips: The better ish you can catch rippin in the morning and later in the day they drop o to 25 to 30 t. deep on rocky boulder areas and go slow. Try grubs on rocky areas and set the hook on any mushy eeling the bites are very light.

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      Water Temp: 62 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I don't usually post any inormation here because I never catch ish but I have to this one time. I ished Lake Oroville with Guide Len Kovats and it was great. I you want to learn more about this body o water I suggest you call this Man. (G.O.L.O.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Just cast towards the banks and Dead-Stick your presentation. You will eel the "tick-tick" and let them take it. Be patient is the only advice that I can stress!

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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TOOK CLIENTS OUT ON OROVILLE 7AM-3PM. FISHING WAS GOOD! CAUGHT APPROXIMATELY 35-40 FISH, RANGING FROM 1-5 POUNDS. MOST FISH WERE CAUGHT IN THE COVES ON SENKOS. GREAT DAY!DON LEVETT, NORCALBASSIN.COM
      City: Paradise

      Tips: FISH ARE SHALLOW - BEST TO FISH VERY SLOW.

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      Water Temp: 53-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Kris and I ished GCB Invitational. Only 30something boats as another tournament was going on this day. All my usual april spinnerbait spots were dry and we had one dink in the boat by 10am---ouch. See Marty on the water and he's already got a limit-rats! Oh well, just keep slinging. Tried ripping in S ork outhouse cove and have some lookers, but they wont bite. Started splitshotting outside stu(rocks) and still dont get anything. A ew bites, but they dont eel like keepers. Run arther upstream and get lucky w/a 1.6 and 2+ spots. Fish timber above bridge and get a short ish then a 14" ish on a #39 4" splitshot. Fish more steep rocks toward the end o the s ork and never get a single bite. Fish are not biting on the rocks! Head into Mccabe and notice water is 3-4 degrees warmer. Spinnerbait a ish in a tree that will keep. See two guys dropshotting and they claim to have caught 30-40 ish, but none are 15" ish(the other tournament going on today was 15" ish or better). The guy is unriendly and clams up when I asked him what he was doing. He says, as he looks at my spinnerbait, "well, its not a spinnerbait!". Right then, I catch a 2 lb spot and he shut up. I get another 14" ish in a tree on the SB and we start splitshotting and throwing senkos in the back o mccabe. Kris inally hooks his irst ish and it is a 2.25 lmb.....thank you god. That ish separated us rom 20 other teams. As we are ishing out o Mccabe, a boat pulls in 50 yds ahead o us and the guy proceeds to catch a 10.25 lb lmb. Rats, cut me o and nails a toad. He's ishing w/his kid, so I didnt say anything. Start throwing brushog in deep trees and catch several more 1.5's, but no help. Weigh in 9.35 or sixth place. Winner had 20+ lbs or 5 ish. Bigun caught on a senko.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We only caught 10 or 11 ish all day. Some teams caught 50+ ish, but only weighed 7- 9 lbs. Spinnerbaits work on suspended ish here.

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished thursday and riday, ound both days to be tough going. Found some ish on the rip bite by the dam and in cherry or canyon creek what ever it's called area, rest o the ish came in potters on rainbow trout colored worms, couple over the slot total or the 2 days were 17 ish
      City: brownsville

      Tips: check out the new tackle store by the lakeside market its on the way to the bidwell ramp

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ish stacks o drit wood where ever usind 4 inch Senko watermelon/black specks ished wacky in 10/25 eet getting aall large 2/3 lb bass most hens at as hogs appear getting ready to spawn, hey guys slow down in the coves and in the house boat area thanks
      City: chico

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the main body riday am/pm lipped a wacky 4* senko in watermelon with black lake no wieght lippied in dri wood in 8 to 20 eet hooked and released several bass over the slot got one ish rom each stay o drit wood also lipped around the state weekend loaters good luck put back what you dont need
      City: Chico

      Tips: used senko watermelon/black lack ished wacky no wieght

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      Water Temp: high 40's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished GCB tourney on Sat. Started in canyon creek or a change as I had never ished there in competition. My partner Rich bangs a keeper on a spinnerbait and I get 3 slotish on cranks. Farther out, he catches several more on spiderjigs and dartheads. I cant stick any and his are not keepers, so I made a mistake o heading to Potters as my nephew had said it was "HOT"......mental note to sel, dont try to catch other peoples ish. Rich catches one on a jig in 1.5 hrs. 10am and I have no keepers and he still has one. We make an adjustment ater the og lits and blast to the S ork. Start splitshotting a #39 magic worm on steep walls. I catch probably 12 ish here and got lucky w/5 over 15". Rich catches one more 15" on a spiderjig. Worms got way more bites, but I had to wade through lots o 14.5" ish. Interestingly, all o my keepers and most o my bites came o o 2 shady banks. Others caught ish in sun ater og lited. Fish were not as tight to the bank as they have been recently, with some ish probably being caught in 20'. Tied w/Pat (POL) or 1st.No largemouth weighed in at all.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Lots o things working or dierent guys. 4" worms get bites. Reaction bite early IF you are in the right areas. Big ish 2.64 lbs caught on ripbait....not by me!