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Sunday, April 8th, 2012

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 3-4:30. Two bites on plastics. Landed one really nice spot pushing 4#. Tried reaction baits with no results. Wish I had more time on the water.
      City: Roseville

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out on monday and saw plenty of fish on the beds. even saw a 10+ pound female with her 8 pound male close by but they werent eatin anything i put in front of them. caught one fish on top water but that was it. these back lakes have been getting too much pressure so all these shallow fish are very wary
      City: daly city

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Berryessa on Saturday. Managed 15 fish with the biggest at 6.2lb. Fish were all shallow and picked up on drop shot. Only exception was the dam are where they were sitting in 30 feet of water. All good fish, surprised that there were none under the limit
      City: Concord

      Tips: Drop shot watermelon worm and Pro Gold

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

      Report: Cboat u come on n post Wat u caught n the time. Wat good info is that. Shame on u...PS.... you're still an idiot in my eyes. U don't have a heart to feeling anything. Shall I say more?

      Tips: Wat an Arse

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Thursday and we missed the boat this time. Cold and windy. Then a huge, cold and windy thunderstorm beared down on us. It was so windy by the late afternoon, I couldn't hold it with the trolling motor. We finally left. 4 little fish and 2.25 lber. That's all. Worked real hard too. Talk to one guy who said he hit a 10.1 and 5 over 5 way out in Stockton.

      Tips: Don't ask me. I caught most fish on shallow running crank baits in back end sloughs when they were biting last week. On another note, please reserve the obscenities and the hateful ugly comments for another time and place other than this website where we can all enjoy some comaraderie. If you have something against someone, please forgive them for the horrific deed, whatever it was. It is a tough world out there and then to come to this site which I look forward to and have to read silly comments like riverat's. Very disheartening riverat and shameful...

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      Water Temp: 61-62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at low tide from Ladds(3 pm)...must have been a
      tournament the lot was loaded as was the ramp.
      headed for the turning basin, junk fished and nothing....left and headed for 14 mile. Several short strikes on a speed trap (pearl white).. went past ski beach and hooked the first keeper on the speed trap...fished 14 mile for an hour and nothing...turned around (6:30pm) and went to a top water poper..hooked up 4 keepers arrived at the launch rap @7:15..
      City: Ripon

      Tips: The bite seemed to turn on closer to sunset. The water temp dropped to 61..water clarity was 2-4 feet. It can only get better right?

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 8:00 AM out of Holland trac. Did not get bit until I found some semi clear water. Three keeper and three shorts all on plastics.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Find the clean water

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: After I put down the reaction baits at 9:00 I found a decent pick on the drop shot in the 12/15 foot range. I plunked off some three pounders but the water was to clear for a senko bite. I did however toss a senko into a tree and watch a 9 and a 7 pounder come right up to the branch I was totally snagged on. While they were trying to figure out how to eat my senko off of the branch...I reeled down broke off spun around grabbed my drop shot and flipped it into the same spot. Both fish go nose down and gone...gulp... I'm bit so it's off to the races with my 10/8 braid/flouro a #4 owner and a tungsten sinker....the rod is the dsr820s by Loomis with a Sedona reel. It was my go to rig all day but it is very light. I did some serious running around while trying to slow her down but once I cleared her from the tree she kept dig'n for.I switched rod angles and she came up and jumped in the middle of the oak tree and went down and under the branch she was on the wrong side of. At that point I let her tear off a mess o' line into the nearby depths and landed her a minute later. I ended my day at 4:00 and had 23 pounds thanks to the pig and a 5 pounder I wished up from nowhere at 2 o'clock.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: My best time was between noon and 2:00.. Keep it simple. 8 pound line or less. I wacky rig a flik shake 4.8 with a 4/5 inch tag from hook to my sinker. FISH SLOWLY...Everybody seemed in a hurry to not catch fish....The water cleared and It's tough now so slow and steady and a shake or two before pulling it towards you a bit. It was all about wood. Almost all my fish were on wood. We are off the full moon but the weather is going to get typically snotty for everyone this coming Saturday. I gotta work.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ranger pilot: we were the Tracker that was 100yrds from you when that boat dropped anchor on you. After he was done with you he came into our cove and proceeded to blow it out. He beached his craft destroying at least one bed we knew of. We had just smacked two fat spots and then they were gone!
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Please have som courtesy for others. Had this been a Tournament there would have been a Hudd upside your head. We freely give out fishing information just don't ask us while we are on the water. We feel ya Rangerpilot

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back to the previous post... We ended up with 10 fish, 5 spots and 5 largies. Largest just over 4 and best 5 went about 14 lbs.
      City: Loomis

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out again today at safe light. This time with fellow angler and friend "Pony Boy". Fished til 6 pm and the day was a bit tougher than 4/5. We each caught 1 in the 1st hour, but a very long stretch before we hooked up again. Late afternoon bite was much better compared to the morning. The fish seemed to have backed out a bit, though they were still in 15 feet or less. All fish caught on a variety of plastics and no reaction bite for us.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: What's the deal with the Asian anglers that I keep seeing everytime I go out to Folsom these days? They load up 5-12 people in a boat and drop them off on shore to different parts of the lake to fish while the boater fishes by himself in the boat. Today after he droppped everyone off, he pulled his boat up right next to me and dropped anchor and cast out a line where I was already fishing for about an hour and then started asking me questions??? Now I consider myself to be pretty friendly and share info, but if you pull up on me and start casting where I'm casting...you might want to watch the back of your head for incomming Huddlestons!

Friday, April 6th, 2012

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56 - 62 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice to see I wasn't the only fisherman who had a hard time Friday (yjjforme). :-P
      Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's around 8 a.m. and was off the water by 4:30 p.m. My first 4 hours was focused on finding prespawn fish and my last 4 hours went spawn bed hunting in LVW Marina. Only got 4 bites all day and should have made them count. The mistake I made Friday was not switching to finesse and down sizing. Even the spawn bed bass were spooky and not willing to defend the beds. Should have down sized to 3" worms and possibly used my Strike King 2" tubes. My wacky rigged Zoom Trick Worms were not working on the beds today. The four bites were short strikes on a black/brown and black/red jigs. I should have down sized those too.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Learn to be flexible from day to day when out fishing. What worked the day or two before may not keep working days later. Keep expiramenting and be versitle.

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 day report, went thursday and had a great day tossing l.c. red square bills to rip rap. also was flipping brown and purple jigs but for some reason my flipping bite hasnt been too good (might just be me) all in all good day 17 fish for a best five of 21 lbs. also went out today (friday) this negative tide KILLED my day. launched at 7 and had an outgoing tide for 2hrs and quickly caught 2 fish (both bout 2.5-3lbs) on rip rap tossing square bills and that was it for the rest of the day absolute waste of a day the tide went negative round 11 and no tide change till about 230 when i was getting off the water. the bites gonna be hard the next couple days i think from looking at the tide charts. good luck and tight lines.
      City: stockton

      Tips: wait for a more stable tide swing

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49 - 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thursday 4/5/12 & Friday 4/6/12.
      Lunker Larry, because you mentioned there aren’t many reports, I decided to write this report even though my fishing buddy and I had a real tough half fishing day Thursday and a full day Friday. Perhaps there are few reports because of the tough fishing. We launched out of Lakeport and first headed south and got blown away by high winds and waves, also no fish. It was a struggle to get back to the north end to some protected cuts/channels where we finally caught 3 fish, a 4 lb 4oz, 3:8 and 3:3. This was only after being told by a friendly fisherman and his buddy that they were having some luck drop-shotting a morning dawn colored worm. Over night the air temperature dropped to freezing. In the morning, we had to chip the ice off the seats in the boat. The water temperature had also dropped overnight from 55° to 49°. There was very little wind Friday and the day turned out to be beautiful once it warmed up a little. Again we went South with no luck and then headed North up to Rodman Slough. The water in Rodman was cold and chocolate colored, again, no fish. We then worked our way back toward Lakeport and ended with 4 fish all between 2 and 3 lbs again on morning dawn colored worms. Both days we fished from 12 ft of water in to shallow water. All fish were caught between 8 ft and 5 ft at the openings of cuts/channels. Over the two days we also tried many other techniques including the A-rig with no success. However, I did have a couple hits on the A-rig but no hookups.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: The fish have not yet moved in. But if we get some nice warm days, the fish will start moving in and the bite should really pick up.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It got real cold here in livermore last night, at my house it got to 38*, which doesent sound good but it was also a full moon so i thought id give it a shot. banked it around a few coves from 10am-1pm. started w/chartr spinnerbait, dropped it for a red jig n pig, dropped that for wacky rig yamasenko and didnt get bit once. talked to a couple guys in a boat throwin tubes and jerkbaits and they had 3
      City: livermore

      Tips: they are probably in deeper water here

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: gorgeous day to be in such a beautiful place, saw a gigantic bald eagle fishing. We did better than he did though. We hammered them shallow on creature baits under any shady dock we could find. The best 5 went #32. Lost one at the boat that was every bit of #12. It hurt but still a #66 ten fish limit this week makes me giggle like a schoolgirl.
      City: grass valley

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First light we caught spotted n lmb in trees laydown n ledges with drop shot. Afternoon we caught lmb n smallie in shallow water with spinnerbait n crankbait. Smallie was in submerge brush pile. Late after noon we found spotted stack up on pionts b4 arms in 25-35 ft. Pope n putah creek is very stain due to run off. Does any one fish there when it that stain n Wat to use?

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

      Report: Cboat you are an idiot. Keep ur shit up your ass.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at high noon and fished til 6. Caught 9 and hit for the cycle(spot, largie and smallmouth). Best 5 went 17+. 1 on reaction and the rest on plastics all in less than 15 feet deep.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: Water is coming up fast so watch out for debris up to 7' long.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out the other day and water is now in the 65 degree range. Spawn is in full effect. Saw several males on beds with females close by. Saw a couple 8-10pound females cruising the shallows. Caught a few of senkos and that was it. I ran into a guy with a stringer of bass, he told me he wanted to show his kid and he would throw them back. I told him that he needs to let any females go right away. Keep an eye out for our resources, practice catch and release.
      City: Pleasanton