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Monday, May 30th, 2011

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First two hours had solid top water bite on popper and white spook. All fish on main lake points and had to let bait sit before they would commit. Then it was C-Rig and drop shot for the rest of the morning with most fish in the 15-20 range.
      City: Modesto

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the north end as all the weeken warriors were leaving after the holiday weekend. Got to the ramp about 1:00pm and the wind was howllin. Decided to give it a try but was blown off the lake 45 minutes later. Fished the ball park (wind blown bank) with no luck. Called it a day.
      City: Weaverville

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the boy up the 29th and 30th. Sunday the weather was beautiful with light winds. Lake is prolly 6ft from full pool. Stayed in Potters and North Fork all day catching 1/8oz darthead/4" worm fish all day. Color didn't matter. Most fish were caught in the 10-15ft range. We caught around 30 fish (lost count)with nearly half in the slot and 2 over. Overall weight was around 13lbs.

      Monday was alot windier. Caught 4 keeper spook fish early in Nork Fork. After sun came up, moved to Middle Fork and finished the day in South Fork. Had to switch to 1/4oz darthead due to the wind. Again, color didn't matter. Numbers went down a bit but quality stayed up. Had around 14lbs with two 3 lber's. Don't pass up the most outboard bridge pilings. Good fish holding there.

      Overall it was a great trip with my son. We had a blast catching fish after fish. The smile on his face after each fish he caught will be forever etched in my brain. Priceless!
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Spent most time in North Fork. 1/8oz darthead with 4" worm in your favorite color shallow should work.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the fishing here sucks looks soo good though so i keep going back hopin it will break lost a big fish on a swimbait early in the year a few 5 lb spots but nothing consistant anyone on here been to pablo? lets get some reports goin
      City: richmond

      Tips: stay persistant

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter out on the south end. Sunny, warm and a lot of people on the water due to the holiday weekend. only caught three small small mouth crankin and rippin. We caught several nice trout on the crank baits. Slow day.
      City: weaverville

Saturday, May 28th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of ladds @ 630 fished the back of ski beach caught 2 dinks off of chartruese and white persueder spinners and ran to white slough and caught a nice 4.5 pounder with a black and yellow spro popping frog. But the wind kicked up way to.much and decided to call it an early day.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Watch out for drunk boaters this weekend.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 dinks, one on a shakey head, the other on a crank, both up shallow.
      City: Monterey

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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

      Report: Fished for 4 hrs and caught 10 bass all under 2lbs. Tougher than normal bite. Fish are still shallow 1-10ft. Caught them on crank bait, drop shot and Crig plastics.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish shallow with plastics.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to south end Mildred Is. by 6:30. Fished green tullies near clean water. Tried to stay away from moss. Pitched Watermelon w/red/green fleck worms and Brush Hogs. The further back into the tullies we pitched, the more hits we got. This worked last week for some 5+lb fish but only mustered 2.5 pounders today. Still some bigger cruisers around shallow water.

      Tips: Fish slow.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on at 6:30. slow crank bite. only 10 in 1st 3 hours on main body. went to north arm and swithed off between crankin and texas rig robo in light oxblood. consistant for 3 hours then swithed to spinnerbait at 2pm and it was on. fished shallow and fast for 4 hours for 50+. finished off the day with 20 crankbait fish. Been every wknd for a month and had a reaction bite every time. stay with cranks & spinnerbaits and you will be rewarded.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: a lot of tree needles & leafs in the water made it tough on main lake. Use compact spinnerbait. Cranked with normans deep lil n & middle lil n. sour grape. speed trap in chrome/ black. They will set up shallow to ambush at some point during the day. Keep movin and you will find them. Everything shallow for me

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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOW! I heard about big # days so I made my first trip.. Days one started good with 18 by 0930, then died off with the wind till about 3 pm.. Day 1 total= 49.Small mouths were sitting off shore about 30 feet and spots/blacks a little more shallow..Day two started with a little rain and chilly. a little slow in the first two hours but then it picked up.. picked ALOT of fish 20 feet from shore and on the bottom dragging a variety of grubs and plastic worms.. 13 1/2 hours on the lake and the bite was steady.. day 2 total=101 fish between two of us!!..
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Slow dragging bottom retries worked well in the morning, weightless wackky rig in the afternoon/evening was working too. Not much action on cranks or spinners.. Good luck!@

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing @ 7:30 and fished a couple of areas throwing mostly reaction baits. By the time I was on my 3rd stop and it was 2.5 hours later with no fish. Finally started throwing a tube on a 3/16 jig head and the catching started. It wasn't wide open and they weren't tourney fish, but it was steady fun. These were definitely postspawn fish, and they were healthy, chunky, feisty fish. Most of them were spitn up bits of shad and crawdaddies. I thought I would see more than the couple of bass boats that I did see, but most of trailers in the lot look like trout/salmon dudes. From 10:30-4:30 boated around 20-25 keeps up to 2#.
      City: orinda

      Tips: Fish were in the 4-12 ft depths. Once in awhile i would mark fish in the 18-20 ft range, but could not get them to go. I basically caught them on 2 baits; tubes and grubs. Tubes in the beginning and grubs in the end. I think they really liked the tubes as they swallowed some of those, while the grub fish were all hooked on the lips. Most of the fish were on small points with a few fish in between....good luck.

  • Stanislaus County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 4 pm threw spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, and plastics only 1 bite on a 12 ribbon worm. Off the water at 8.
      City: turlock

      Tips: Find a new lake.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went here with my brother for the first time in the float tubes. We fished the south end and I caught a 6 and an 8 and lost a catfish. My bro gets a 6.5. Then nothing for three trips after, no bass, only catfish. You see bass swimming around, they're there. Catfish eat plasics. We didn't experiment with too many baits. Beginner's luck maybe.
      City: Concord

      Tips: 6" Senko's in watermelon/red or black/blue depending on clarity. Lizard in black/red for my brother.

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started early and got on the buzz bait, first one close to 4lbs the second right at 3 lbs. Nothing for a little after that. Then got a few on the jig and senko. North end of the lake. Went down by the damn at 9 am. Started throwing the big slammer and had a 10lb plus fish come up and suck in the tail got one hook in her but she didn't finish taking the bait. Fished the area for about an hout tossing the big baits but couldn't get her. Started tossing the crank bait against the dam and landed around 20 fish in about 30 mins. Nothing big mostly small fish. Did get a couple close to 2lbs. Ended the day with a good number of fish but just about 12lbs and one lost between 10-13lbs. Needed that kicker.
      City: Clovis

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 61 - 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started with top water at 6am. No luck. switch to plastics and crankbait at 7 am and it was on.40 fish between me and my partner. Fish were around 1.5 lbs each nothing big but lots of fun. Lake was full and only $13 to launch at Bidwell Marina.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Fish the points 10 to 15 feet. Any plastics will work.

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

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      Water Temp: 68-71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good Senko bite all morning and early afternoon. Threw crankbait in the early morning catching only two dinks.
      City: Planada

      Tips: Watermelon red flake

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Day use side of the lake will be open on May 23 for anyone interested
      City: Planada

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Windy on main body spent all day in Hay Flat. Dropshot roboworm morning dawn and not the action I expected. It sure is nice to have water in the lake maybe this year they will keep it that way
      City: Coast

      Tips: SLOW

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 76-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the West side of the big island, caught all of our fish in cuts and small wind blown coves in 8 to 10 feet of water. We caught 10 fish on drop-shot robo worm in morning dawn color. Had another 8 to 10 bites but couldn't land them in the boat. Our best five fish went 17.5 lbs with the biggest fish at 3.5 lbs and included three smallies.

      No takers on rattle traps, crank baits, jerk baits or top water...Drop-Shot was the meal of the day.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: When you get your first bite look at your depth finder and see how deep of water your boat is in...then keep your boat in that depth as you fish. Every time we moved deeper we lost our bite; once we got the boat back at the right depth of our first bite we would get hit again.