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Saturday, April 24th, 2010

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

      Report: Almost forgot to add, if you are up at Lake Shasta make sure you make a stop at the basshole...good times, nice people and great food. Check out the link.

      http://bassholebarandgrill.com/
      City: Sacto

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      Water Temp: ~50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I just finished fishing the A/C pro / am and the WCB pro/am. I took 13th and 25th. Almost all my fish came on a 4" senko wacky rigged on a gamakatsu extra wide gap finesse hooks on 6-lb. flourocarbon. The key to getting the senko down to the 20-25 foot depth needed was pegging it in the center with a nail weight, and riggin it wacky style with a latex rubber band. Pro-cure added also made a significant difference and I would suggest using it. Most of my fish came fishing the stump infested canyons in the pit river, some of the canyons held bigger fish than others. The key was casting the senko 20' off the shore and let it sit, for as long as 45 seconds, twitch a couple times and cast again. Make sure to watch your line and use it as a bite indicator. I did catch a few key fish on a osprey line through swimbait during the A/C tournament, but those larger females were spawning by the time of the WCB tournament, so the swimbait bite was off, by which I did not realize until after throwing it all the first day of the WCB tournament.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: Pit river

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      Water Temp: 58-62 degree su

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish a friendly tourney this weekend 24th to 25th. Bite is slow but getting better. Caught 15 to 20 fish each day. Had to throw back lots of 10 to 11 inchers. Big fish weighed 3.37 lbs. fished isolated trees in coves. green worm worked best. other guys caught fish on white spinners and cranks in the wind and early morning. no much size to them.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: If i could do it all over again i would fish ever light green tree in every cove.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off fishing Yorty Creek arm with my brother in-law John with not much success, water was dirty & stained and the temp dropped down to 54. We picked up few on drop shot, tried crankbait, spinnerbait & Jerkbait with no takers. With all the rain at the beginning of the week it messed things up, the fish were back out on the points and suspending. It was sunny but pretty windy, which made things a little tough, we ended up with 9 fish, largest was 3lbs by John, then we left @ 3:00.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Wait for a couple of weeks of warm weather and it should be good.

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

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

      Report: Went down to visit a friend and spent a day at Cachuma for the first time. Love this lake! Ended up with 3 smallies and 4 largemouth fishing on Luck-E-Strike bass magic, Z-Man ZinkerZ and Strike King Zeros. Fished the shore from Martini Cove to Jack Rabbit Flats. No real monsters but all fish averaged 2 lbs. I gotta come back and hit this place from a boat!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Water was clear, but still fished dark baits like I'm used to in dirty water. Junebug worked like an charm!

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

      Report: Totaly differant story today than yesterday, had to work to get 5 fish in the boat. Plastics
      City: Port Hueneme

      Tips: didnt get bit until changing the way I was rigging the worm, after that had 5 fish in an hr, off water at 3

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 60 PLUS

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: TUFF DAY AT THE LAKE ..WATER CLARITY INCREASED BY AT LEAST A COUPLE FEET SINCE LAST POST..WHEN I PULLED UP TO THE RAMP I SAW A GUY LAND A NICE 3 POUNDER ON A POP R..TOPWATER IS ON ..I STARTED WITH A BUZZBAIT AT 6:30 AAND QUICKLY PICKED UP 2 FISH..BUT THAT WAS IT..THEN I CAST SOME SPINNERBAITS WITH NO RESULTS..TRIED RIPPEN AND ZIP..I HAD TO GO TO SENKOS TO FINALLY GET SOME BITES..OVER ALL IT WAS ASLOW DAY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR..9 BITES FOR 7 FISH AND NONE OVER 3 POUNDS..
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: TRY TOPWATER EARLY AND LATE..THROW SENKOS AROUND STUMPS AND TREES.FROGS MIGHT BE A GOOD CHOICE..NEXT WEEK I WELL BE THROWING A MOSS BOSS OVER THE TOP OF THE WEED LINES.. GOOD LUCK...

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fish in slough...toss buzz bait, chatterbaits, senko,rattle trap,frog, n punch some matt. Got a blow up on frog n miss, got my tail bitten off on my beaver n got nada. Drop shot n bit was on !!! Caught fishes in 2-5 ft of water. Bass spit out red crawdad. Found most of them in tree lay down n stump. Bite are much noticeable. Bite that i saw my line moves and toss back same spot n got another bite. Bass got some shoulder n be doing the dolphin dance..haha. Pull them out quick b4 the tangle back in them tree branches.
      City: elk grove

      Tips: wish the pro would post here more often , so we can get some idea on pattern n location. I know they read these site. Puff puff give... my angler. Some do..but most don't.

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      Water Temp: 54-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished Franks without much luck,,,several dinks.Saw lots of Beds and saw several people fishing beds,but I didn't see any fish on beds.
      All of my dinks came on drpsht in 4ft. in tule pockets.I know this isn't much but it's all i got
      be safe and good luck
      City: woodpile

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

      Report: Most fish up shallow, threw plastics all day. Total of 10 fish with a 8.5 kicker. Had something HEAVY hit, swam under boat just to snap me off. heaviest fish Ive felt at the lake in 15yrs fishing it.
      City: Port Hueneme

      Tips: all fish came on a long pause drop shot.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey thanks alot for the info. That helps out alot. That was exactly what i was wondering. Ya i just got a new boat so its got the 3 star carb rating so i should be able to put it in there. Is there any horse power or length restrictions. The lake sounds like all the San Diego lakes that I am used to fishing. Ill be out there in APR and will post my first couple of trip reports on here.

      Tips: Go Big Or Don't Go

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ok...I am bored. I agree these people that keep big, spawning females are morons that just want to brag to their buddies. Anyway, I no longer post when I catch BIG bass...not worth it. I fished in the pouring rain and managed 2 very good fish right on the bank. Got them on a go to bait of mine that usually produces. Let's all just fish and try to persuade these baby killers to release their catches as they happen.
      City: Antioch

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner Dan and I went out between rain storms for 5 hours last night. Dan caught one while I was parking the truck, and then caught another a few cast later on of all things... a buzzbait believe it or not. The next thing he caught was me. Right on the head. , but it could have been worse. Things picked up at dusk and we boated 25 total with the biggest going #6 and we had a ton of #4 & #5"s.
      I caught mine on c.b.'s and mag jerkbaits. dans mostly came on the buzzbait or c.b., but he did get one I missed on a senko. we had doubles twice once it got started. About 9:00p.m. the skies opened up again and we bailed.

      Tips: No rhyme or reason to location. We caught em in thin water and thick. they did want darker colors though.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Would like to mention the Chico Conservation Bass Club tournament this Saturday. Launching from the dam, 80 bucks includes big fish, food and raffle. You can sign up that morning if you haven't already. And you don't need a full blown bass boat to fish this. But you need to keep the fish alive so a livewell of some sort. Also want to mention the flyer for the Yuba City Bass Busters tournament is available at Oroville Outdoors. Its another really fun tournament.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Shouldn't have much trouble catching a limit. The waters 126' from the top as of today. Just throw the stuff you have confidence in and you do just fine. Lots of debris so watch for that.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on water at 930am. fished yorty creek with my dad. threw a brush hog and a wacky rigged senko till 1pm. 3 bites, 2 fish. both fish caught on senko in less than 5 feet of water. Back at lauch, a bass fisherman told me that he caught 25 in past couple days all on lizards in 5 feet of water.
      City: Larkspur

      Tips: Cherry creek. texas rigged lizards. shallow. Tight lines!!

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56 plus

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Toaday I was on a walk around the lake on the conn valley side and noticed the bass are starting to bed up. This has been happening for a few weeks now. There were a few pairs stuck together like glue and very aggresive towards intrusive baits laying in there beds. So this is more of an update of the way fish behave. I did stick a few bass.
      City: Napa

Monday, April 19th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of LazyM 8am and had 16lbs of frog fish by 9. Frog bite died after that. Don't know if it was the wind that picked up, or the morning topwater bite was finished. Either way it was good to see them aggressively eating the white phat frog. The rest of the day was ho-hum.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Bring your grass frog rod. They were 30-40ft back in the thick grass and a chore to get out. Only lost one (the first one) coming off halfway to the boat.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58 TO 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: NICE DAY TODAY. THERE WAS OVERCAST BUT WARM WITH LITTLE WIND...THE FISHING WAS GREAT.. LANDED 17 AND LOST AT LEAST 5 OTHERS.THE FISH ARE UP ON THE BANKS IN NUMBERS NOW AND ARE FROM THE BANK OUT TO ABOUT 10 FEET..SENKOS WITH SMELLY JELLY WHACKY ON A SIZE 1 KALEB CIRCLE HOOK .. DONT SET THE HOOK JUST REEL..MOST FISH ARE 3 TO 4 POUNDS SO MAKE SURE YOUR DRAG IS SET..I USE 8 TO 12 POUND TEST BUT PREFER THE 8..THAT ORANGE SINNER BAIT HAMMERED THEM AGAIN. I CAUGHT 3 SMALLIES ON IT AND TWO OF THEM WERE OVER 20INCHES.I ALSO GOT A COUPLE ON AN OLIVE COLORED XRAP..IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THE OLDER LONG As IN ORANGE AND BLACK STRIPES TIE ONE ON AND REEL SLOW DOWN THE BANKS AND RIP IT OUT OF WEEDS...GREAT DAY SAW 2 BOATS ALL DAY.
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: POUND THE BANKS THERE ARE A LOT OF FISH THERE NOW..SLOW ROLL SPINNERBAITS OVER LOGS AND AROUND TREES AND STUMPS..THROW SENKOS ANY WHERE.THE WATER IS A LITTLE COLORED SO DONT FORGET THE SMELLY JELLY OR BANG.YOU CANT MISS RIGHT NOW..GET OUT AND GET EMMMMMMMMMM...

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: toss spinner,swim bait 4/6/8", jig,n wake bait but no taker. I did wat Matt S did n got bite. Just read Matt's report n notice my bite was the same but with different worm. Tried Aaron magic n a few other worm but no bite. Til I change to the right one n bite was on. Got there a little late n met up with a lot of boat traffic . That made the bite a little tough but once traffic dies down it was on.I had other boat cut infront of my path b4 but today i had a guy on the bank walk in front of my path n toss his lure in front of me. I guess he didn't see my 8 inches swim bait..haha
      City: elk grove

      Tips: spot that had a lot of moss didn't produce for me. Weeds was the key n points that had kind of a slow tapper(fish was sitting on the drop off). fish was in 5-10 ft of water. Try different worm til u get one. Bite is much noticeable. I had a few fish tick tick me twice n three times cuz i wasn't sure it was a fish or sinker dragging again the rock or snagging on weeds

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 54-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: If you have the chance to get out this is the place to be right now. The spots are big and fat and easy to catch. The junior Bass Club spent the day on this great water fishing for those big fat SPOTS. Most of the bass were found in the back of coves when you find the water falls. Using a darter head, worm and some time. They found big bags upto 16 plus pounds for five fish.Find the time right now and enjoy the day.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: fish slow and have plenty of darter heads