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Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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

      Report: Drop shotting and Senkos seem to be working well. Thats all i have been using and catching fish up to 4 pounds. The water is very clear and warming up a little. Catching them from 5-10 foot of water. It's supposed to be stormy next week so we'll see how it goes.
      City: K-ville

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

      Report: on the lake by 7:30. little windy. caught 3 spots up to 3lbs and one small mouth 2.5lbs. used wacky rigges and crawdads( yamamoto) bite was light.

      Tips: fish should be spawning real soon

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      Water Temp: N/A Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First time I fished here in a long time. Walked the bank around the dam throwing cranks and 6" worms. Nothing. Went back along south side and walked down some steep banks and did OK. Thrownig Kevkel fur jigs in brown and orange. Had 2 really quick both about 2 lbs. found a good point and picked up 3 in less than 5 mins, all were in the 2 lb range. Didnt do anything else there. About an hour later on another point picked up 2 more. One was pushing 4 lbs. Not bad for a couple of hours. Thats the best I'v done here in years. Hope for better days ahead
      City: San Jose

      Tips: All the fish were in about 15' of water and all caught on Kev-Kel fur jigs in brown and orange. didnt even get bit on anything else.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Hetten Cove all day in flooded willows by stream mouths, creek channel edges, dropoff surrounding a spawning flat, and misc stumps and logs w only one 2lb largemouth to show - but nice to be out anyway. Hope others did better than me.
      City: Eureka

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went to Shadow to see if there were any spawners up yet and there were a few but not any big numbers yet. I did see a few about 7-9 lbs but no real big ones today. I also could not get them to eat anything. After the next storm I think there should be some good numbers of fish up on beds.
      City: San Leandro

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

      Report: camped friday and sat. set up on friday evening got on the water just before dark, did real well with jerkbait lots of 1.5's after dark did well with spinnerbait and brush hogs, got a 4lb 4oz largemouth and many other 1.5 spots, sat was opposite, lost 2 fish in the AM then nada all day...til right before dark,then the bite was on again, got a 6lb 3oz largemouth after dark on brush hog...guess I can only catch fish at night
      City: medford

      Tips: wait til evening

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent a couple of days fishing Tulloch,managed to get some fish both days.Fish are in prespawn mode now.Saw some big fish getting ready to nest,but the water is so low they haven't decided whether to spawn just yet.Still had fun,got a big trout first fish.Then did a little sight fishing,couple large mouth in.Then went to the crankbait for smallies.Got some nice ones before dark.All in all...another great day on the water. Fish on fools...OUT !
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Take a friend fishing.....

Friday, March 26th, 2010

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 1PM to 6PM. Caught 14 Spots, 1 Black, all 12-14" with one about 3lbs. Basically I hit all the points and rock piles, ans throwing right at the bank. Most were caught on Watermelonseed/Red Flake Lizards, and I had quite a few bites on Natural Shad Senkos hooked Wacky style. Most fish were caught in 3-4 feet, with some as deep as 25-30 feet. Seeing more fish in the shallows, but no spawning bass yet. Water is at the base of the flat concrete slab on the west side of the dam.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Fish are 10-20 feet and going shallow to bite..throw anything that threatens the nest: Lizards, Minnows, Trout/Shad Patterns, etc...Water is warming fast..

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55 - 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday 3/26/10, I fished from the back of my buddy

      Tips: In the afternoon during periods of no wind, we could see fish up near shore looking for spawning beds. They would swim off when we threw our bait to them but would return in a minute or so. All these fish appeared to be small males. The full moon on Monday may bring the larger females up shallow to look for a mate. The bite should get real good.

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished thursday from 1pm-7pm caught 17 bass, biggest went 5 pounds. Best 5 went 19 pounds. Caught all of the fish on cranks, lipless and shallow divers, crawfish pattern. Also caught 11 striper and the biggest was 8 pounds.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Little faster retrieve worked for me, but I also had wind and cloud cover.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the high tide/outgoing tide this afernoon in east delta. Managed a pattern quickly. The low pressure system and wind must have turned them on. Had a really hard bite from one that pulled like a hog and then just sat down into the weeds. I was thinking to myself, this must be another 10 lber. Turns out it was about 4 lbs but went into the weeds and made it felt like a 10 lber.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Cloudy + winds = blades. They just wanted the blades today!

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      Water Temp: 53-60 depending

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I was there yesterday Thursday March 25th. Only saw two other boats one fishing for bass and one fishing for trout. We didn't get on the lake till 9:00. Wind was blowing , overcast and 58 degrees air temp. Water was 54 degrees and visibility was 1-2 feet. Got a few taps. Ran up the Bear River arm an water was 55-57 degrees caught three on tubes and worms. Move to Goat Ranch and found the warm water 58-60 degrees caught three all on tubes. All fish were shallow less than 3 feet. Graphed a lot of fish suspended and staging at the first break.

      The spawn is close and it will be big.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Fish slow and shallow

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to eastman and fished the morning. Threw blades for the first hour for 0.Put on the ol' trusty wacky senko and the first 3 casts caught 2 2 1/2 lbrs. Five minutes later caught a 5 lbr. Caught a couple more dinks before the wind picked up. Left at 11:00 with 7 fish on the day.

      Tips: watermelon red flake senkos wackey in 0-10 ft of water

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

      Report: Yes, the jones valley ramp is open. However, it is not the primary launch, you have to drive out just a ways on a dirt road to a secondary ramp.
      City: Redding

      Tips: The fish are coming up and they are coming up quick. Try any water around where running water is coming into the lake and in smaller coves. Senkos have been killing them. Also caught a few on jerkbaits. Good Luck man.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out of Ladds about 8:00am worked first two hours toward downtown hitting points off main channel; not a bite. Decided to work our way toward Mildred by hitting the cuts off main channel. My brother flips a 6" Green Pmkn/Blk Flake senko on the outer weed line and sets the hook; good fish! almost 12#; always great to start the day with a toad. So we continue to flip the weed lines with senkos and do OK. Caught about fifteen total with the best five going about 26 lbs.
      City: Hilmar

      Tips: Weed lines, slow presentation, dark browns greens.

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished five days, 20th to 24th. Franks did OK most of the time, with a limit to 15 lbs. Disapointment was slow, 2 to 3 fish a day, up to 3 lbs. Potato only produced one fish. The best fish came from the main channel, cranks and senkos, w/ a few fish on 7" worms. Generally the fishing is slow, w/ no large fish up yet. The seals look like they are eating well this trip!
      City: Valencia

      Tips: Wait for two weeks and the larger fish should be up by then.

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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the middle of the day so I could fish high tide. Had to work for my fish. Only able to scratch up a limit. 2 caught on spinnerbait, two caught on crank, 1 caught on senko.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: As the sun was up high and not much wind, I probably should have focused more on plastics.

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

      Report: Fished Wednesday, April 24 from 7:30am-2pm. Caught 16 Bass on Senko's and Drop Shot. I caught a few shallow (6 feet) but mostly 14-20 feet deep. I just love it when you throw out a Senko and as it's falling you see your line screaming to one side. Way too much fun. Mostly slot fish but some over 15 inches. I caught most of them on points or by big rocks. The biggest fish came on a bare bank close to the end of a cove. Probably some big fish in the spots where most of us don't fish.
      City: Denair

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of alge all over the lake in the north end. The bite was slow, although most of our fish were in ten to fifteen feet of water around trees. On our way back to the ramp we went to school house and pick up a nice spot.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Waiting for over night temps to maintain 50 deg and day time temps to maintain 68-72 deg and the all bass fishing will begin to EXPOLODE. Maybe by the April full moon we will be there. Keep fishing and good luck to all.

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      Water Temp: 53 - 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tuesday, 3/23/10. There were only a few boats on the lake. The air temperature at 9 AM was about 50

      Tips: Keep fishing and the bite should get better.