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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

  • 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.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Al and I fished tube jigs and dartheads in the main body Sunday. Even with a late 10am start and tournament traffic we managed some nice quality spots to 2.5 lbs. We got bit on many colors including shad, green, purple and brown roboworms in 4.5 and 6 inch sizes. Almost all our fish hit from 10-18 feet deep on the bottom. Spoke with some real nice tourney fishermen who were also having a good day with similar offerings. On the way back in, we were checked by F & G wardens in an unmarked blue aluminum jet boat!
      City: Paradise

      Tips: We spent over an hour on one side of the main for zero fish, then cruised directly across to the other side to find our biters. Very light bites! If you feel anything unusual or lose contact with the bottom, set the hook.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: got out around 645 to find out there was a ten boat tourney. started out throwing a lipless crank and dropshotting on the fourth cast wit the drop shot we had a nice 3 lber in about 9 ft of water. caught 10 more 2 to 3#ers with a huge 2# crappie on a senko!!
      City: castro valley

      Tips: fish points in about ten ft of water and cast to the bank and wrk it out and u have to have some red flake thts the key in this dirty water.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sun-mon did ok caught 13 sun and 10 mon. Was hoping to get on the spawners, didnt work so well.
      City: Kfalls

      Tips: Darter heads seem to work the best. Fished points and some coves. Good luck

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north end Friday and found the water to be 48 degrees at 1030 and warming to 58 by 1500. Saw small, 1-1.5 lb small and largemouth bass in shallow water. Caught two, 1.5 lbs ea. on firetiger crankbait. Saw several others caught, about same size. Plastics didn't produce for me. Spawners are not on the beds yet but will be soon if the water stays warm. G'luck
      City: Trinity Center

      Tips: No ramps in water. Launch at Minersville or Trinity Center. VERY LIMITED parking at Trinity Center temp ramp.

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I checked out the lakee today for about 3 hrs in the afternoon and then my bud Rick Tietz joined me at 6 pm for a few hours of night fishing. The story is: water is still pretty cool and bass as still kinda deep - mostly. I started with a 2 1/2 pounder on a jig (about 20 feet deep) and then threw a D&M Piranha swim jig on an 8 foot deep flat - made a few twitches - and got slammed. The 5 lb 2 oz bass jumped at least a foot but I still got her in the boat - cool! The funny thing was I thought I had a rainbow trout 6" Basstrix trailer on the rainbow colored swim jig, but I had the perch color Basstrix instead. The bass thought I was stupid but didn't seem to care!! The next hour or so I missed 4 fish - weird. After Rick got there we had a pretty good pre-dark bite in Mountain Spring but he only landed one. After dark - very slow. Rick did manage a near 3 pounder and then set on a beauty, about 11 pm in Jackson Creek. She went 6 lbs even and hit a Blade Runner jig. I caught 2 more - one on the bank and one over 20 feet. How's that for a pattern?! Our best 5 about 18 1/4 lbs - not too bad.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It is hard to give tips when every bite is so different. As I mentioned, bass were from 3 to 30 feet. Didn't see any shallow bass. I did crank a little - no takers. Still lots of pressure bites except from the big ones. Jigs seem to be the overall best bait which is normal for this time of year. Lake has come up fast the last 2 weeks and that might contribute to the slow bite.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out the day at 7 am, very cold 36 degrees and water was 52. Tough bite as the fish were hitting short. Closed the day with about 10 misses and 4 boated. Biggest was just tad over 4 1/2 pounds. Total weight for the 4 was 12 pounds. All caught on Robo and ring worms carolina rigged. Water is a bit murky due to algae blooms.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish are not spawning yet and the water is still a bit cold. Fish submerged creek beds for the bigger fish in 15 to 20 feet of water.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lake looks like pea soup,seems it turned over,drop shot 6in robo ox blood,2-10 ft,mostly smallmouth,the largemouth are very healthy,some bed fish but hard to see and find,storkflats area seems to be the best area,also rocky slopes
      City: la canada

      Tips: nothing but 6in ox blood,drop shot,shake slow and watch line for movement.maybe two three fish days.

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

      Report: Can anyone tell me how to up load pics on this web site when logged in... thanks Plasticman1
      City: Elmira

      Tips: don't be computer illiterate