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Sunday, March 13th, 2011

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day..... Couple 3 lbrs....... Ended the day with a 5.6 once I got off the boat.... Off rip rap..... All caught on 6 in Sweet pie........... Stockton area
      City: Antioch

      Tips: High tide seemed they were burrowed away in tules....... Braided line is a great idea!! Pull em out fast or they'll lose ya

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      Water Temp: 54'

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the incoming tide in West Delta. Fish were tight into the tules. Catching them on dark colored senkos and surprisingly, they were smashing crank baits. Once the tide got high and wind picked up, nothing. Moved around into Franks but the rollers were tough to fish. Ended up with 10 fish up to 3 1/2 lbs. No big ones
      City: south San Francisco

      Tips: Threw a variety of baits and colors but they only wanted dark colored senkos and crank baits, tight in the tules.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Holder Ford Tourny at Clear Lake with Chris Z. Took 27th place out of 155 boats.
      First day we stayed north and fished the mouths of sloughs with ripbaits, Dry Creek Tubes and LV500's. We weighed 24.9 lbs and caught around 15 bass that day.
      Next day we caught a couple fish in the spots from the day before, and also flipped one on a jig in the keys, caught one on a ripbait in Konocti Bay, and flipped a few in Rodman Slough with a Brush Hog and a jig. Ended up catching 18.5 lbs that day.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Please visit www.russnyders.com for more fishing reports, videos, and info on Northern California Guide Trips.

      <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 52.5-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow Day. Found fish off main points in about 30 feet of water scatterd throughout water column. Couldn't get bit all day on reaction baits. Threw spinnerbaits, jerk baits, crawdad cranks, etc. Saw school of shad with bigger fish and caught one on a spoon. Tried catching the others with her and no luck. Fished main body of lake. then finaaly at end of day caught 3 fish in same spot. 2 on the crawdad crank that I threw all day, and 1 on a oxblood roboworm dropshotting. The 3 came out of Putah Creek off a submerged rock in 5 feet. Saw ZERO beds in all the coves I went into and no cruisers. Fish on my graph were spread from 6 feet all the way down to 100 feet. Got a ball of shad with some marks on my new Lowrance HDS in 100 feet but wasn't that motivated to fish 100 feet! Plus I couldn't get bit with marks found in 30 feet anyway..
      City: Sacto

      Tips: Hard to pattern fish on only 1 bite. Caught the spoon fish up against a rocky wind blown bank about mid way back into a small cove. Then graphed fish on end of several ponts in 30 feet with no luck.

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      Water Temp: 54 to 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launch fees $15.00 Markley Cove off season
      City: orland

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weird tide, high all day. Weather was great. Only 2 mph breeze, some am overcast. Left Lazy M around 7:30. Fished Italian for only 15 minutes. No bites. Went straight to Mildred Is (south end). Fished points from 5-10 ft. Slow tide but water was moving. No wind. Caught 15 BB to 3 lbs over the next 1.5 hrs. Very gentle bite. Headed to Cruiser Haven. No bites. The tide was VERY high so we went into Widdow Is. Caught 5 BB to 2 lbs. but no bigguns there yet. Fished outside of Widdow and picked up a couple more dinks. then headed in. Nothing big but good to finally get some action. Although we threw B/Bl jigs, Speedtraps (shad) and Green Weenies, me and my buddy always have our best success with the weenies. No hits on the crank and only one hit off the jigs.

      Tips: if you're not going to report where you went to fish, could you put what marina you launched from or at least what section of the Delta you fished (North, South, East, West)? I'd say that piece of info is the most helpful

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: So just curious about reports on fishing???? We are all out here to catch fish, personally I C&R...... At least you know these others are feeding their families... ?? Came in late on the discussion but it seems it's veered off the reason I came on here........ How's the fishin??? What are you using ?? Tips ect............ Let's have fun and catch the hogs!! But please Catch and Release!!!!!

      Tips: Get out there!!! Spring is coming..

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Knock it off with all the racial comments. PC or not this is a fishing website not a political commentary site. You should be ashamed of yourself! If you see someone break the law call it in, otherwise keep your narrow minded stereotypes to yourself. Breaking the law is breaking the law. PERIOD!!!

      Now can we please talk about fishing?
      City: Livermore

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Pondpoatcher, thanks for helping to enforce the redneck fishermen stereotype.

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      Water Temp: 49-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just Len staying close to home. Got in the water around 8am and stayed in Rock Creek most of the day. Three on the boat with 12 nice bass from 2-4.0 lbs. Drop shot, split shot with a light green lizard and a chatter bait. The bass are moving up to find the beds.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Work it slow.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trying to save gas on a long drive, went to CFW for the second week in a row and must admit that it was a lot better than last week. Started at a cove going up Rock Creek and virtually stayed there all day as the bite was so good. Worked a gradual drop bank with a tube pulled slowly on the bottom to boat over 15 really nice, fat bass. Bite is starting to pick up and spoke to another angler at ramp who said they drop shotted the first fish and stayed with it all day with a real good day so if you're looking for some action without spending big bucks to drive elsewhere, CFW is starting to turn on as it has been at full pool for a month or more.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Convinced that we would get a reaction bite and having that fail, the tube turned the trick and they seemed to want a lighter color bait as the darker ones got us no bites. Working it slowly on the bottom, the bite was at times violent while other bites were almost impossible to feel until you moved your rod and felt a difference in the feel. Nice color and the girls are full of eggs and getting ready to find a home for the next generation.

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake in the morning from 7:30-12:00. We tried texas rigging, jigs, spinner baits, cranks, and not a single bite. The water was an ugly brown chocolate color and visibility sucked, so again we tried larger baits, going rediculously slow and still nothing. Going to try next weekend and see if the lake has settled, but with all this rain exepected who knows.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: No tips because I didn't catch anything lol.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Mr. Fishaholic, The crappie fisherman I saw was using a dropshot rig in the brush piles in the southend.Try some red&wht. or chart.& wht. crappie jigs on 4lb. line and work it around brush piles and in the back of coves. They should be trying to spawn right now. If you catch one they should be bunched up in that area. Goodluck!
      City: Fremont

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my son. 8 Boats total. Fished one day out of two, (two day club tournament Fairfield Suisun Bass Reapers) TOUGH BITE FOR US; However we caught six spots overall: FOUR 14"ers returned to the lake, and TWO 18"ers weighed in for 4.80 and returned to the lake. First place Day one was my son. All my fish three 14"ers didn't make the slot. Two other boats had fewer fish.

      Now thats all said, Lures: Arons Magic 4" Robo Worm dart headed 1/8 oz dart head and Yamamoto twin tail spider grubs Root Beer Copper/Green flake, jigged on 1/4 oz black football head jig. All on six pound test. Pattern: Rocky steep points with red dirt banks. Two to three feet from the edge, 10 to 15 feet deep, some bites on the inital drop others a pressure bite. A mid afternoon bite for us.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Drag bait slowly with rod, letting the bait sit, and drag again. It worked for us. Brown pepper tubes worked for others guys. All our baits had brown in them.

      Good Fishin

Friday, March 11th, 2011

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 50 - 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son Ricky & nephew Jimmy fishing, a very windy day. Got there late, about 12:30 went north and I got one on a drop shot (Witches Tea 25') motored into the second arm and caught one on a Chrt/wht spinner bait. Then moved to a main lake rock point and Jimmy picked up his first fish of the day on Drop Shot (Baby Bass 15') picked up two more (Drop Shot). Ricky steals my rod and picks one up on a Baby Bass Drop Shot. Finished the day with 11 fish, not bad for a windy short day.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Fish main points with drop offs

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a morning of fishing got on the water around 730 am started out throwing reaction baits with no luck switched to a half ounce jig which produced nothing switched to quarter ounce jig and started whacking them fish are holding in 4-10 feet of water pitched jigs to edge of grass line and slooooow sink was the key big trailer to slow the fall was even better biggest fish was a trophy 9.6lb. Great day got off the water at 12:30pm fish bite better as the day progresses good luck and tight lines
      City: suisun city

      Tips: 1/4 ounce hand tied jigs with big trailers for a slow fall

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Cooch let me remind you that this is a fishing report section! STICK TO THE FISHING REPORTS!!!!
      City: Oakley

      Tips: dON'T LISTEN TO COOCH!!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Landed 9 bass today fish are still holding to the deck around 20', 8 were 2 LB, 1 was 4 LB. Bite is tuff out there lot of presure, boats running everywhere all day long. Threw 1/2 to 3/4 oz gigs with craw trailers. good luck.

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

      Report: Mr. Kalihi boy, you mentioned you saw a guy catch some crappie. Do you know if he was using a bobber? I'm planning to fish for some trout on monday. If the trout fishing sucks, I figure I try for some crappie. I've never fished for crappie in this lake before.
      City: san mateo

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

      Report: HAD A FUN DAY YESTERDAY FUN FISHING AGAIN WITH MY TEAN PARTNER STEVE ADAMS, WE DIDNT CATCH THE NUMBERS OR WEIGHT WE DID WED., BUT STILL ENDED UP WITH FIVE BITES, FIVE FISH IN THE BOAT FOR 16#S ANCHORED BY A 4# SPOT AND A 5 1/2 # BLACK, WE WISH WE COULD HAVE FISHED OUR HONEY HOLE BUT SOMEONE WS ON IT.

      Tips: same baits except the big spot came on a swim bait. same presentation....water level is climbing fast.............