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Friday, April 2nd, 2010

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: COLD AND RAINING ALL DAY... GREAT DAY TO GO FISHING..HIT SONOMA THIS MORNING WITH DESENT RESULTS.LITTLE WIND... STARTED WITH SENKOS ON TREES AND CAUGHT A COUPLE DESENT FISH.BUT DID MUCH BETTER WITH THE REACTION BITE..MY FRIEND GOT 4 AND LOST A COUPLE ON AN XRAP... GOLD WITH BLACK BACK..I STARTED THROWING AN ORANGE SPINNERBAIT AND CAUGHT SEVERAL..START CRANKING IF YOUR NOT CATCHING..GET OUT AND GOOOO...
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: USE JERKBAITS AND SPINNERBAITS ON POINTS AND NEAR WOOD..WE NEED 4 DAYS OF HOT WEATHER AND ALL HELL WELL BREAK LOOSE..............

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I took our float tubes out and fished Rock Creek Arm. We each caught three drop shooting roboworms in 10-15 feet. Margaritta Mullator and Aarons Magic Caught them of banks with grass, Biggest went 3.5 .
      City: Gold River

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good fishing today. Fished 4-5 hours and between the two of us had around 12 fish. Talked to some boats with others catching good and many fish as well. Fish are up and eating! Even with the cold front fishing was good.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Today winning baits were hula grub, drop shotted robos, and cranks. That pattern has been prolific for the last month.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: bounced around from Franks to Woodward to Mildred / Mandville and it's still fishing tough for me tried a variety of baits.Senko and Jig were our baits but only produced small bucks and not many of those.
      City: woodpile

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Enjoy your reports Russ. However maybe you could consider double-spacing the long reports. Makes them much easier to read. Keep posting............
      City: Stkn

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Rich and I headed back out to CFW to try our luck again in the boat and on the lake. It was a little chilly no doubt, but the fish...well they were in the mood to bite! Had the best day ever on CFW numbers not many in numbers (18), but the overall quality of the fish was great. Several several fish 15" to 16.5" in length that's a positive for this reservoir.
      City: Plumas Lake

      Tips: As I stated in my last post, have patience. We worked out tails off for those fish it took eight hours to get that many, just have fun. Plastics of course DH/DS and jigs, no reaction as of yet.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out and caught nothing. Is there a turnout to park near the damn? I dont know how to get down there.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out the other day, tried fishing deep, couldn't find 'em. tried shallow..... nothing.
      This lake is tough right now. Managed one small fish on the drop shot. Can't figure this lake out right now.
      City: walnut creek

      Tips: Try Chabot, I here there up shallow there

  • Siskiyou County
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      Water Temp: FN Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ponch told me the fishing was good and it was really a blast,boy he knows his stuff. Everything caught on a blue/gold beamer worm. Just through and go.
      City: Yohoo

      Tips: Listen to what Ponch tells you or even John for that matter. Good Luck!

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of my Spring break. The weather was crazy and cold. Fished both ends of the lake, but had most success in the Rattle Snake arm and State Park area. The pattern we got on was to fish any mixture of cover as long as there was wood involved. Senkos and spinnerbaits caught most of our fish. Started to figure out the swimbait bite on the last day. I'm not a swimbait guy but have invested a bunch of money in them. Finally caught a fish on one of the bigger baits. Got three bites on the Osprey and landed the biggest fish of the trip. The fish was close to 7 lbs. Seemed like the larger fish were backed off in somewhat open water. What I mean by that is the bites I had were away from obvious cover. Wish we could have had better weather, but we did pretty well for what was thrown at us. Caught close to 30 fish for the three days with decent quality. Best 5 for Wed.= 16lbs Thurs.=18lbs Fri.=19lbs.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: If the water remains cool, key on wood. The wood fish were surpisingly shallow. Just make sure the boat has a little depth under it. If you want swimbait fish, I would try more open water. Fish seemed to be out in chanels and ditches.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 60-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a good day, started at 2:30 P.M. at the Dam and finished at the waterfall across from Barretts Marina. My buddy and I caught 16, with my largest, a 7.5 Lb Black, caught on a rainbow trout Senko in 25' of water. The fish were very aggressive, and we caught the majority of our fish on Green/Red Flake Lizards, and Senkos with Natural Shad, Rainbow Trout, and Bass Patterns. Missed a ton of bites...Water is rising and warming fast. The Big Fish was definitely a Female defensing her nest. She was released unharmed.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Watch your line, and set the hook fast...the bites are soft and the fish are carryin the lure to deep water and usually towards you. Rock Piles and points are the rule still. No much action in the weeds yet. Also watch for Debris, I saw a bunch of logs and wood drifting about...

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

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

      Report: day two at pinto....caught 7 bass off the cement docks again...3 caught on white spinner bait and 4 caught with a brown brush hog..texas rigged..
      City: salinas

      Tips: if your gonna fish off the cement docks..then the best advice i can give you is to cast any plastic lure as close as you can to the boat dock..seems to be where most of the fish are hiding

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ok i know this is not a report but i see no one has reported about this lake in oh most a year i am moving to this area and this will be my closest lake i was wondering if i could get some info like is it still open and can i put my boat in it. thanks i will be there in June and am looking for somewhere to fish on the days i do not have time to haul to the delta. thanks in advance.

Monday, March 29th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday, we launched out of Russo

      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>

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      Water Temp: 60-61.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After being at work all night a buddy and I hit the East Delta for a pretty productive day for around 19-20#'s for best 5. I caught my biggest on a chatterbait and the rest were flipped on doublewide sweet beavers brown craw color on the backside's of wind blown points. A productive day catching a total of 15 fish.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Buy the biggest trolling motor you could fit on your boat. I have a 80# on my 18ft tracker and it works wonders for heavy wind and current.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 56.4

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught nine spots around 2lbs on darter head, light blue colors worked for me. Wind was at 10mph early morning. All fish caught in coves. Off at 1100 due to increase in winds. Bite was extremely light while dragging the plastic.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Very light bite on darter head until wind increased.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at sunrise about 6:15-6:30 trolled for about 2hrs got nothing.started crankin a 6inch rebel broken back casted at the shore line and that was the ticket.landed 10 fish broke off 2.all fish about 3-4lbs bigest one was 13lbs.i use 4lb line only.left about 3pm.
      City: fresno

      Tips: take a kid fishing.practice catch and release.if you can afford to go fishing then you can afford to buy long john silvers.

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught all my fish (15) up the river towards temperance flats. All on spinner bait right on the bank one on a texas rigged senko. Tried the main lake for 2 hours not even a bite.
      City: Madera

      Tips: Best bet up the river as usual!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 49-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I've been out several times a week but not reporting my trips. Catches have been in the 20-35+ per day and the bite has been slow and soft as is typical for transitional bass. This week however, the move to the bank has been exciting. The full moon has started the spawn and the bass are from 1 to 10 ft. down to 20ft. The lake is rising from 1/2ft. to 1ft. per day. This is a lot better than last year when it rose several feet per day. The useuals are working for your bites. Ripbaits on points and walls early, tubes, senkos, worms (darthead, texas, drop shot) jigs and creature baits are all working.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: A lot of the bites are so soft, keep in mind a sponge bite and line weight and line movement.

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

      Report: fished off the cement docks, caught 5 bass...3 small bass bout a pound each....caught two nice ones about 2-3 pounds. all bass caught on spinner baits
      City: salinas

      Tips: worms and jigs seem to be only working if you have a boat to go out into the lake, but neither of those baits work around the docks..try fishing spinner baits...seems to be the only thing working..cast out far and let it sink to the bottom then slowly reel the spinner bait, draggin it along the bottom