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Sunday, April 15th, 2012

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

      Report: To Pfalk..

      Because it's true? I've only been fishing the delta 2 years and the number of 5+lb bass is astonishing and frequent.

      If you're not catching bigger fish, try using bigger baits. Throw a 6-7" senko, punch/flip a doublewide beaver, and use 5"+ swimbaits.
      City: Pleasant Hill

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Why is it that in dam near every report on here someone is claiming to catch a 6lb plus bass,??? even when they are fishing berryessa or folsom, ive been fishing for 15 years and find it very hard to believe that guys are constantly catching that size of fish everytime out, especially on spot and smallie lakes....
      City: VACAVILLE

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Saw lots of fish cruising the shallows at Mildred but couldnt get one to bite. Left Mildred and blind casting senkos for a decent bag around 20 , biggest was around 6. Also tried punching but only scared some big mommas under mats and no bites. Senkos next to mats worked.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Senko

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the afternoon with wifey. Caught two fish for 5 hours.. But hey it was nice being out on the water with my fishing buddy. Her Spotted Bass went 2 lbs and mine went a pound.. She caught hers on a 4 inch Senko wacky rigged. I caught mine on a Kreepy crawler.
      City: W. Sac

      Tips: If I had to do over I would have drop shotted points. I tried to split shot some points no luck..

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Going there in bout 10 hours late afternoon.til dark...Going for cats n bass...C livers n Senkos...we will see ..hittin the Damn Dam..and pond under..
      City: rohnert park

Saturday, April 14th, 2012

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

      Report: fished from 7am to 1pm. water is up pretty high and waterfalls are flowing strong after the rainstorms. caught about a dozen spots. the largest was a 6.5 lb monster.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Senko's and Spinnerbaits Purple and White. Senko's on the island points ( tip of the tule's) and spinnerbaits in the sparse tulle's. 10 fish from 1 -3.5#'s
      City: Sacto

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: There are times when losers get on this site to just stir up the pot, why??????? Because mom and dad purchased a computer for them!
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Please do not take these guys seriously, they have NO IDEA how, where, what to catch in the Delta...let alone bass on beds.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the custom built 29 foot Metal Flake All Star Ranger out of Big Break this morning looking for bed fish. Found beds everywhere near the tules, and couldn't get them to bite for the life of me...so I busted out the custom built 1 ounce punch weight with a 5/0 treble hook, and snagged away. If you get em in the mouth, it's legal right? Anyway, got a 4 pounder first, then got one about 9 and four more that were about 3-5 lbs. Had the family over for dinner, and had more bass filets than we could handle, so the raccoons had a nice dinner, also. I love the delta!
      City: Delta

      Tips: Beds beds beds, makes it easy to catch dinner!!

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 61*-65*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WON bass tourney yesterday caught a few nice bass on drop-shot, and busted a couple off, and also a 6 lb. trout as well. It was blowin out there all day and could hardly control the boat! All the bass we hooked up were on nice warm rocky points in 5-15 feet of water. The water started to murk up from the wind and it seemed the fish were all on warm rocky points.
      City: ojai ca.

      Tips: drop-shot roboworms on nice rocky points and your bound to hook up sooner or later!

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      Water Temp: 57.5 (Calereo)

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Funny story. Read Bigboybassbuster's report below about Coyote opening Thursday 14 April. Made sense to me since it opened on a Thursday last year. So I took the day off from work and talked a co-worker into coming along and off we went.

      Get to the lake and see the big "RAMP CLOSED" sign at the turn in for the lake but proceeded anyway with a sense of forboding. Heading up the hill we see a white Nitro coming back down. Stop and chat and he confirms lake doesn't open till the next day. So we all head off to Calaro.

      The surprising thing was HOW MANY boats were on Calero. Counted at least 12 on a Thursday! I know at least 2 of us read BigBoy's post. Shows you the power of these reports. (Or the gullibility of those of us who read them ;)

      All's well that ends well. Here is my Calero report:

      Had a good day at Calero.
      57.5 deg, windy, muddy
      Got 5 all on C-rigged Zoom Baby Brushhogs in JuneBug or green pumpkin. Biggest 5.2 full of eggs. All caught shallow near pea gravel banks.
      Please practice CPR.
      City: Monterey

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

      Report: wow watched the cbaf weight in today one guy brought in a 15lber biggest fish iv ever seen his other 4 fish went for 15lbs too his total bag was 31lbs crazy bigg fish for folsom

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 51 - 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water temp at the ramp at take off was 51', windy and cold. Headed up Dry Creek and into Yorty Creek, threw Chrt/Wht Spinnerbait for 1 1/2 hours, water was dirty and caught nothing. Moved over towards Rustlers camp to get out of the wind. Started throwing the Drop-Shot with Morning Dawn and that's when it started, ended up catching 14 fish 1lb to 2.5lbs. The weather got nice and the wind died down, water warmed up to 57' and the fishing improved.

      Tips: Didn't see any beds yet, young bucks are not yet all the way back in the coves. Upper Dry Creek was too muddy to fish. Should be good in a couple of weeks.

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite really changed in the last couple days. The reaction bite turned on today in the morning. Totally the opposite of last Wednesday, but of course the weather had changed as well. Fish are starting to move up and the bite should keep getting better in the coming weeks. Crankbaits and spinnerbaits are working now. The Redwood Empire Bass Club just a tourney and it took just over 19 lbs to win. A pait of 6 pounder were also weighed in.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Get out there and have fun.

Friday, April 13th, 2012

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      Water Temp: I DUNNO

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is WIDE OPEN, I took my 7 year old, we cranked several in the 2 lb range and I threw hard jointed swimbaits 6 inch Koppers LIVE, smoked 1 over 5lbs, all in a couple of hours then the boy cranked a catfish that broke his hooks, it busted the surface, it must have been 20 lbs or better. GOOD LUCK.
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: I fished from the shore, it was supposed to be a hunting trip that turned into a fishing trip. I fished near the small willows on the south end. All reaction bites.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I didn't mean to start a ruckus... I appoligize for giving the ethnic identification of the guys in the boat that anchored on top of me. That was not my intent. I do however feel that I did give some decent info related to the reports page that may help others which was my intent. Sorry for the uneeded drama.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: Take a kid fishing!!! I hope I will be taking one little guy fishing in about 3-4 years, since I just found out yesterday that my unborn child already has it's own "flippin stick"!

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: hate to be an alarmist but the State of California has plans to tag bass in order to find hot spots, then use nets to kill them. It's all part of the B.D.C.P.

      http://caldelta.org
      City: Martinez

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 4/11-4/15 rained on and off the first few days. Fished a G-Trout swimbait and A-rigs most of the time. Fish are loaded in front of some sloughs and areas with decent depth near spawning grounds. Caught an average of 20 bass 2-8lbs with most in the 3-5lb range between 2 people. Prespawn fish with no marking just really fat and healthy. The last day of fishing there was no rain or clouds or wind and the fish only bit for a little until the sun came out. Decent flip bite in the back of sloughs for smaller males and an occasional 4lber. Even caught a fish on a frog! Til next time.

      Tips: Fish G-Trouts for big bites, low and slow retieve seemed to work the best. fish the A-rig for numbers. Not liking the A-rig, fish get pretty caught up. Flipped jigs and beavers in black/blue or brown.

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

      Report: Bigmouth i had to stop at a dime to give them back their two cent. I guess u want yours too ey

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: Upper 50's?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite has been picking up over the past week even with all the recent rain. Bass are still in the pre spawn mode and haven't seen any beds just yet. Will be fishing a club tourney tomorrow so can't give too many details but we should see plenty of fish at the scales. I'll post an update this weekend.
      See you on the water
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Look near the spawning areas. Tomorrow should be interesting with the forecast for clear blue skies and temps in the 60's.