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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

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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

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two of us fished the past Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we fished the main body points and coves. Caught 37 total fish. Nine were on senko's or worms, one on a spinnerbait and the rest were on drifting live minnows. Largest fish was close to 3lbs. Fairly windy most of the day. Saw lots and lots of boats that day and learned that night that alot of the boats are prefishing for the upcoming WON tournament this coming weekend. On Sunday we fished the Sac arm. Caught 41 total fish. Again 10 were on senko's or worms and the rest on the live minnows. saw lots of fish suspended in 50 to 60 feet of water, but they were not feeding. Most of the ones feeding were in 25 to 35 feet of water. Afew were close to shore, but not many.
      City: Rough and Ready

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: TOOK MY 4 YEAR OLD AND 2 YEAR OLD,SO I ONLY FISHED FOR 3 HOURS. CAUGHT 5 AND LOST 2 TRYING TO LET THE KIDS REEL THEM IN. TWO BIG ONES, ONE WAS 3.92 AND THE OTHER WAS 3.25. ALL FISH CAUGHT ON TUBES AND ALL WERE IN PRE-SPAWN AREAS.
      City: LINCOLN

      Tips: LIGHT BITE , SO REALLY WATCH YOU LINE AND KEEP UP THE SLACK.

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

      Report: First time on the lake since last summer and in high anticipation for a pre-spawn bite, I left the plastics in the tackle box and threw some deep diving lures and I'll be damed if I caught a few and lost a nice one. Overall, fishing was slow. Even saw a few folks fishing with minnows with only moderate success.
      City: Fort Bragg

      Tips: Used crawdad lipless crankbait most of the day. I want to encourage folks to submit there reports, even if the fishing is poor. It helps to put reports in the note book.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass are shallow at both lakes. Here i toss green pumpkin 1/4 oz. jigs with 4" watermelon red/blake flake twin tail grub trailers ( 208 ) for bass to 2 1/2 lbs. Traffic for boats and bank fishing were both busy sunday.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: BLADES CHAR/WHITE, JIGS, BABY BRUSHOGS. SENKO'S, LIZARDS, COLORS PUMPKIN GREEN, WATERMELON RED/BLACK FLAKE, BLACK/BLUE, JUNEBUG, WILL ALL WORK RIGHT NOW. Bass are moving up and staying shallow now.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day throwing BBZ-1(shad) and Mission fish along rock shelves next to deep water,nothin happened. Thru cranks,spinners,drop shots and still nothin. Talked with other fisherman and there day was not going well either. One guy had a NICE 26 inch trout.(6-7 pounds)
      City: Napa

      Tips: Still waiting for things to change,weather wise. I did see a few pre spawn bass working the shallow water, starting to be protective on some flats. Keep fishing

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

      Report: Fished yesterday from 10am to 7 pm,launched from McClure.We did alright,started throwing a jerk bait caught caught 3 spots all in the slot,switched to a drop shot and caught did not switch for the rest of the day.No bed fish yet,did see a few roaming shallow.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Caught the majority of fish 20 to 30 feet deep,drop shoting.

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      Water Temp: 55-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got on the water around 730 and launched from barret. we started out throwing dropshot and jigs. nuthing so we moved to the east side of the lake and one the third cast had a nice 14 inch spot put up a good fight. and then we moved to the back of tht cove and caught 3 fish back to back of some structure(wood)we then realized tht was a pattern so we looked for tht the rest of the day and caught 20 -25 fish mostly spots with 3 largies mixed in all largies about 2 pounds. what was funny is we caught fish in 60 feeet of water on wood they were suspended and nailed my dropshot. first time to this lake and i was suprised to catch them like this. didnt see any bed fish but saw a couple crusing and they were largies.?
      City: castro valley

      Tips: use watermelon red flake anything pretty much dropshotting was the only thing wrking tried swimbaits,jigs,and jerkbaits. thanks to people posting reports this is how it shld be on every report page! LOOK FOR WOOD!

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 0700 started fishing up river i threw swimbaits, ratl traps, crakbaits with no luck i did manage to catch 8-10 fish between 0930-1200 fish were caught on robo worms of the bank hologram shad and mmIII all fish were in the 2lb range nothing to brag about still no spawners water needs to warm up a bit.
      City: Lemoore

      Tips: try your luck up river fish banks and have fun with the dinks . you guys might want to fish deeper water 20-30 for a chance of some of them big spawners.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my buddy mike started the morning off in the main body throwing ripbaits. We hooked up with eight keepers within 15 min. As soon as the sun came up the bite stopped. With the wind blowing we decided to go back in the west branch and look for mud lines. We fished from about 9am to 2pm with no bites. Around 2pm the fish moved up and started feeding. At one point we caught 20+ fish on a solid mudline with a dropshot and a shakyhead. We ended the day with around 40 fish and a 13 pound bag... Real happy with that!!
      City: Yuba Dubba

      Tips: Sleep In!

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Buckner and I got out early and started tossing ripbaits along points and walls. We noticed a lot of surface activity and the fish inhaled our rapala and lucky craft rips in silver/char. and silver/red. One fish was just tearing me up--felt like the one--but she was hooked in the back and hard to turn. I followed that bite with my first senko fish of the year. Tossed an orange pumpkin into a slot along the wall that just begged for it "wacky style". We moved to the main and fished the slot with dartheads to finish the day at noon with over a dozen spots.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The ripbait bite made our day, but we never hooked another fish on them after the early am. Just like prior trips, we would fish 200 feet with no action, then find two or three biters in one spot. Very little pressure on the lake for a nice Sunday morning.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 57-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a client on Friday, not expecting too much action since the lake had strong winds most of the week. Visability is the usual 15+ feet and water level down 10-12 feet. I was happy that he hooked 6 bass but could only put one in the boat. One broke my heart - she was a big smallie in the 4 lb plus range and got off at the boat. He had not rigged the worm he was using properly and the hook was really too small. I showed him most of the lake and introduced him to the off-shore structure we all need to know after the spawn. Great client - we had lots of fun!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The jig bite has been a little slow. 3 and 4 inch worms are working ok, especially drop-shotted. Water is pretty clear for crankbaits except in early morning shadows. Most of the available wood is still out of the water. I think the average depth of most bass is below 15 feet. We did see 2 cruising smallies - one maybe 6 lbs. But that was it!

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out just after sunrise got one one the rock wall with white spinner then around 9 got 4 nice ones with sinko on the fence lines
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: Submerged fence lines worked for me

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday morning I arrive at the ramp, and find there is an ABA tournament going on. We wait for the 30 boats to launch, and then take off. It

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