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Thursday, March 25th, 2010

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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.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just wanted to start off by saying that this report page is turing into MYSPACE with all the trash talkin' COME ON GUYS!!! Anyways, fished the north delta where the water was clearer, threw white blades up into the tree's for largies, caught a few small fish up to three pounds. Switched to fishing for linesides when the tide was pushin' caught two fish around 6lbs. on swimbaits around rip-rap.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Try your old faithful delta lures, white blades/w gold colorado, speed traps on rip-rap and flip some beavers if your feelin' frisky!!! Just look at what the elite series was catchin' fish on!!! Fishin' is tough but if your persistent with those baits, you'll boat a few!!!

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

      Report: Whatever you throw make sure its a slow presentation. Ive been dead sticking, drop shotting, swim baits and jigs. The bite should take off any day. Been about 70 everyday.
      City: K-ville

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried my luck for about 3 1/2 hours this afternoon and found the bite still kinda slow - though I threw swimbaits most of the time. I did catch a nice 2 1/2 lb spot on the east side and missed 2 or 3 others - all on jigs. I was fishing the end of 2 north wind days, so, didn't expect much. Water color is good!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: With colders days at the end of this week, better work your baits very slow. Bass are still lethargic.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out this afternoon and the bite was off and on. ended the day with six fish all small under a pound and one 4 pounds (released). all fish caught in the weeds. 4 were caught on brushhog 2 on worm
      City: hollister

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7am to about 11:30 caught 30, fish are all up on the bank up river. Main Lake seemed speratic and not really a pattern. Up river still best bet. Most of them on texas rigged or Wacky Senko, couple jig fish.
      City: Madera

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished hard all day in Dissapointment. Had few bites ended up with only two a 3 and a 4 pounder on a brown chatterbait. Got them on the back of wind blown points off the edge of tule's. I flipped most of the day tubes and sweet beavers but not a single bite. I tried black and blue brn/blk..NOTHING. I did see a couple males setting up on beds.

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      City: Stockton

      Tips: I would like to think my best tip was to use the heavy wind to your advantage and fish wind blown points but, this did not seem to work yesterday.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished shallow along beach areas out of Granite Bay launch with no luck. Caught 5 nice spots between 2-3 lbs in heavy rocked coves. Use light blue color robo worms
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Bounce robo worms off rock piles, bites are light, you will feel like your snagged.

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

      Report: Fished FriDay 4 bass by noon then 18 Bass by 4 Got a 3.0 lb bass on a green grub. let her go so some other guy might enjoy seeing a fish that big on the end of his line.

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished for two hours saturday evening and had 7 fish to the boat and 5 on sunday afternoon. we fished the south end of the lake in the willows. found the fish hanging out in the shallows at the edge of deep water.
      City: orland

      Tips: its a pretty soft bite and finesse baits were the only thing working. shakey heads and texas rigged craws were the key.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well the bite was a little soft this past weekend. We did manage a few fish on drop-shots, Jigs, white spinner baits, and we caught a few flip fish later in the afternoon. Biggest bass was about 3 pounds. Some fish on beds smallies and largemouths, just a bit skittish. Smallmouths are pulling hard when caught. Good luck to all.
      tight lines,
      mark chief torrez
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: Try white worms so you can see it if you are looking for spawners. No swimbait fish.

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      Water Temp: 57-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: If you had talked to me at noon, I would have told you to stay home. I was not a happy camper with the morning bite. We had fewer than 10 fish by noon. Three blade fish and a few on senkos and split shot worms. The next three hours were a different story. My 7 year old and myself caugt around 30 fish in the next three hours. The fish were super shallow. I will keep it simple. Jerk jerk pause, Jerk jerk pause, Jerk jerk pause...... Enough said.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Most bites came with the bait sitting still. Don't fish too fast. The pause was key. Water has some color in it so choose your colors accordingly.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the coves in 10 to 15 feet of water where the wind was blowing the current to the back banks. Caught eight fish in 2-1/2 hours, the largest was 3 lbs 3oz , caught two more at 3 lbs on 2-1/2 lbs and the remaining were 1 lb to 1-1/2 lb.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: we caught all our fish on green pumpkin/red flake on wacky rig; let it sit on the bottom (dead sticking) and shake it and let it set. They all picked it up off the bottom.