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Saturday, April 14th, 2012

  • 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.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished down south again today,weather held pretty good rained a lil here and there.We were throwing 6" wacky rigged sencos.Brn jigs,cranks and spinnerbait. All our fish came off the senco we caught 18 fish best five went 15lbs, couldnt find that kicker tp put us over the 20 mark.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: The better fish came off a wall where we were sitting in 18ft of water making long pitches to the rock back with not much grass on it

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at b&w and worked the tule strips with spinnerbaits, senkos, and cranks...3 1-lbers on the speedtrap in red craw and then switched to sexy shad kvd 1.5... 2 more 2lbers. worked the rock wall with senkos and picked up 4 more 1-2 lbers on black/blue flk and oxblood. wind was ugly and hard to keep the boat long enough to work an area. by the time the fish was boated, the boat was 20 yds from the hookup.

      riverats: post a fishing report and keep your negative comments off this report page.
      City: sac

      Tips: work an area 2-3 times and you'll be surprised the fish that hit on 2nd or 3rd pass.
      change up often on those passes.
      please just post reports, not forum trash talk.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Not many reports posted lately. Sorry - it's me again. I had a great time guiding a fellow from Seattle yesterday late afternoon up until 11 pm. He had never been to Clear Lake and had only caught bass up to 3 1/2 lbs (Washington smallies). We took care of that real quick as I netted his first bass a half hour later - part the the Clear Lake welcoming committee - a nice 4 lb 10 oz largemouth. Talk about a happy camper!! I thought this was the beginning of a fish-filled trip, but the bite turned out to be slow. Later he caught his first night bass - right at 5 lbs and I caught 2 around 4 1/2. A 4 fish limit (called a "tough" limit) around 19 lbs. We lost 3 more. Not sure why it was so slow, but that's fishin'!! He is coming back in November!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: My client was a pretty skilled angler so I let him fish a jig in the rocks. The Blade Runner jig w/Yamamoto grub produced his first bass. His "5" was on a brush hog - which he had never used before. I was using the 5" Yamamoto Flappin' hog - a great bait! We were fishing in the south end on rock structure, docks, and tulle berms which are now in deeper water. The lake looks great now!!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a blast. Only caught 4 bass to 3# but saw everbody catching fish. Senko and plastic worms in trees. Caught all in one stand of trees where I have never caught any before (because of the low lake level). A guy out deeper caught a 14# striper and had another blow up on his bait. It started raining a little while after I showed up and they were biting. I spent a majority of my time trying for striper but blanked.

      Tips: Fish trees for largemouth.

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

      Report: riverars is that a fishing report or just your 2 cents?
      City: Folsom

Monday, April 9th, 2012

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to the lake monday, got on the water around 1pm fished till around 7pm. Fished around State park nothing, then moved south to the keys. Caught 14 bass biggest went around 6lbs. Tuesday fished from sun up till dark. Started out fishin the docks around Lakeport no action, wind picked up from the south so I worked my way down more south, county park area picked up 2 bass both in the 3lb range, then went in State park picked up another two in the 3lb range. Went back to the keys and got another 12 ranging from 2lbs-7lbs. headed back to the casino and swited to crappie fishin for an hour and picked up 6 14"-16"

      Tips: All the fish came out of water in the 3-5 foot range. some of the bass in the keys were on beds. Caught the bigger bass on Maverick's swimbaits in the hitch color, the rest of the bass bit anything with greenpumkin most were caught on senko's 6" and the crappie bit the yellow/white mini jigs. Too windy to fish my favite spots but still had fun in the keys, worked the swimbaits slow and senko's had to watch the line very soft bite's most fish just picked up the senko and slowly swam to the boat. Hope my next trip does not rain, uot fishin in the rain for 12 hours sucks lol, good luck to all tightlines

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: upper 50s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got up there about 6:30 and nothing until about ten when I got a 2 pounder on rubber worms. Had two others on about the same size, just couldn't get them in. Spinners did no good. Fish were still fickle. Should be great fishing real soon.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: -Rubber worms
      -Wait a while

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: about 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally got a day off of baseball to take out the Ranger and we managed to do alright. The day started of slow with a few small crankbait fish. My dad dumped a 4 at the boat to start the day, not good. Got a few reaction bites on a craw pattern LC. Moved to another slough and stared flippin tight to tules and the bite there was hot. I got a a couple 4's and about a 6 doing that and my dad got a few 2s and a 4.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Fish wind blown rip rap with tules without weeds.

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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Whiskey Slough @ 6:30, extremely high tide. Fished most of the day in Whiskey, a little in White's Slough. Got my first bite @ 11:30AM picking up four barely keeper sized, slick headed bank runners on speedtrap. At 12:10PM rounded out limit with 6lb 6oz chunk on the same speedtrap. Beautiful weather, too nice to catch alot of fish.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Lately it seems like rocks with no tules are working best for me.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took off from Stockton this morning about 7am, worked our way to Franks fishing serveral spots along the way. It was very slow for us, we ened up with only two keepers that we caught in Franks on spinnerbait. We tried cranking, senkos and swimbaits, we just couldn't figure it out.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Riverside. Great day... for tanning. Very calm and sunny. Took my friend and his son out. Threw a bunch of stuff and only senkos and brushhogs worked but even then, a lot of short strikes and fish coming off. Punched mats and shallows for nothing. Rocks with weeds with around 5+ feet water seemed better.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: I'd like some...

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

      Report: To the idiots that's maken this forum about anything but fishing. Go to fish Sniffer n give ur 2 cents there. IDIOTS!!!