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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 57.3 - 62.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water temps finally hitting the 60's in spots. Carp are going nuts spawning on the banks in weeds, sometimes jumping clear out of the water!
      Bass- - - ? 1 small mouth between us in Big Cachuma. Water has cleared considerably but more heat is needed to get them motivated.
      City: SM

      Tips: Work edges. Think spawning is in deeper water. Bass just are not moving up yet.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Are the back lakes going to stay closed to fishing forever? And is the closure just for fishing or can you still let your dog swim back there.
      City: fre

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

      Report: Fished after work up the pit and got 13 fish in 2 hours. Fished last sat. caught 30 by noon then Sunday caught 21 but had to fish all day Dang it !
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Lots of Big Hens headed to spawn. Also heard its once again legal to fish right next to the dam. If thats true Look out Salmon !

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This is actually a report on what's legal in Shasta. The salmon there are Chinook and it is legal to keep 5. There are not any Coho in Shasta.
      City: red bluff

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this past sunday evening near mildred. fishing was pretty tough durring most the day. had a couple two pounders on a white and blue spinner bait. right as the sun went down the wind died the fish began busting all around me. i started working a white spook with very long pauses, up to a minute with slight twitches. got seven fish within the next hour, with a five pounder kicker. thought they were stripers when i first saw them pushing bait and was happily surprised to see they were blacks. what started out to be a pretty tough day, turned into one of my best so far this year. fifty four degress... hitting on top.. lots of fun.

      fished in and around big break yesterday. pretty tough bite. had only three fish all around two pounds. wasn't much wind... could only get bit on a six inch worm. think i'm heading back to mildred..
      City: bethel island

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55 - 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Warm Springs arm from 10am to 5. Caught 5 bass to 2.5 pounds on a variety of baits: jigs, senko, brush hogs, etc. No reaction bites. All were along bare banks in 5 to 10 feet of water.
      City: Novato

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Sunday with my good buddy Ronnie and had an awsome day!!! It started off kinda slow in the morning no fish the first 3 hours but then we figured them out. Drop shot in 10 to 20 feet of water worked best for us. Also a few on rip baits, overall it was a good day caught about 18 fish with best 5 going 15 pounds not bad considerig everyone is saying its a tough bite...
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Slow down and dead stick your drop shot...

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      Water Temp: 48 - 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 1000 water to the north was stained and around 52 degrees...tried everything: rock, trees, islands, banks and still nothing worked...fish were just not biting..still a bit cold. Did find some clear water at the south end but water was 4 degrees cooler around 48.
      City: Berry Creek

      Tips: Give it another two weeks!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 50 - 54 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Lake Camanche on Sunday March 14th, 2010 and caught 6 spotted bass and 1 largemouth in 9 hours of fishing. The best five when 16.60 lbs and big fish was the 4.33 lbs largemounth. We fished main lake island tops till 11am for one spotted bass and the kicker. Moved up the river arm and found a point (35' of water) just off a spawning bay and found a nice pod of 2.5-3lbs+ spots. I proceeded to wear out the spot to fill my 5 fish limit. Most of the fish took shad patterned plastics on 1/8 oz darter heads and hula grub on a 3/8 oz football head. Threw crank / jerk / swimbaits too, but didn't have any takers.
      City: Stockton, CA

      Tips: Get a map of the lake and look for deeper water (25'-65') areas off shallow water (5'-20') spawning bays and flats w/ fresh water creeks coming into the lake. With water temps in the low-mid 50's the fish seem to be in pre-spawn transition w/ the spotted bass being more active and running down baits. The fish will spawn around April 28th's and May 27th's full moon.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not much action today..caught a few 1 lb spots on drop shotting..saw some fairly large bass in the shallows just hanging out..water is rising fast, and is still really cold. Saw some smaller males as well cruising around. Fishfinder showed fish in 20-30 foot range, but not reallt feeding.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: I think the spawn is 6 days of warm weahter away. Water is still too cold, but I hear forecast is for sunny days in the 70's...

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Lime Saddle early Sunday and worked towards main body. Ramp is good w 2 lanes open. Two friends and myself tossed ripbaits and plastics in fairly clear and chilly 48 degree water with no action. The wind chased us out to the main body where we hooked a coho and then a nice spot about 3 lbs on a dark colored tube jig. Saw a lot of boats working the North Branch, but no fish. Early afternoon temps hit 53 in south facing banks with mudlines and that is where we found biters. We tossed dark roboworms rigged on light dartheads in shallow to 15' for the best bite of the day.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Sleep in! fish after noon with warming water. The best bite for us came off a muddy point with heavy boat traffic.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Made the long trip over the hill again, always worth the trip, this place is a spotted bass factory. Started out in front of the rec and boated 8 nice bass on berkley gulp on 1/16 ounce dart head 5 large mouth and 3 spotted. moved over to rock point outside boy scout cove and landed 6 more on DD 22 in sexy shad. finished up in skiers cove with 4 more spots on black and blue jig with rage craw on the back. I love this place!
      City: Redding

      Tips: It's wide open get out and get you some.

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

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

      Report: caught a 8 pounder on big swimbait had another same size miss bait
      City: santa barbara

      Tips: fish by dam

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Still slow from wind earlier in the week.
      Wind was blowing hard again by noon. Caught 2 close to 4 lbs. 20' water.
      City: Ventura

      Tips: Copper flake hula grubs on a football jig. If youget bored flyline nightcrawlers for trout for easy limit.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It

      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>

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Devil Mountain Bassmaster's launched 10 boats from a house boat at Flemming Meadows. The morning was calm for a smooth run across the lake. Fishing proved to be tough from the blue bird skies after the storm the night before, I targeted points in the morning assuming the fish would be in transition for prespawn, mid morning I headed to the water fall to find water rushing into a cove, two pitches later I hooked up with a 2.5 Spot at 9:30 on a trout colored senko, which was the only bite I had. Catching was tough for most but the time on the water on a beautiful lake was great. 1st Place was 3 fish for 6.96 Lbs.
      second place was 4.27 lbs.for 2 fish, third Place and big fish was 3.73. Lbs. The afternoon was a different story with winds in the 30 MPH range on the way back to the weigh in.

      http://www.devilmtbass.com
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Hine sight is a virtue, I guess smaller baits and slower presentations would have produced better.
      With the stable weather coming this week the bite should be better.

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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Devil Mountain Bassmaster's launched 10 boats from a house boat at Flemming Meadows. The morning was calm for a smooth run across the lake. Fishing proved to be tough from the blue bird skies after the storm the night before, I targeted points in the morning assuming the fish would be in transition for prespawn, mid morning I headed to the water fall to find water rushing into a cove, two pitches later I hooked up with a 2.5 Spot at 9:30 on a trout colored senko, which was the only bite I had. Catching was tough for most but the time on the water on a beautiful lake was great. 1st Place was 3 fish for 6.96 Lbs.
      second place was 4.27 lbs.for 2 fish, third Place and big fish was 3.73. Lbs. The afternoon was a different story with winds in the 30 MPH range on the way back to the weigh in.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Hine sight is a virtue, I guess smaller baits and slower presentations would have produced better.
      With the stable weather coming this week the bite should be better.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished all day mostly in south fork. we caught ten fish 9 on brn jigs shallow near deep water in ny creek and near jacks shack. one on drop shot.in back of ny creek. had lots of missed bites. hella windy and hard to feel em. they will b exploding on the scene this week. best five 13.57
      City: plumas lake

      Tips: know that they r there wanting to enjoy sun on the back just like me. so they came up shallow all day here and there. they will be in your favorite spawning area NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just leave it there and give em time to seek it out. good luck.

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      Water Temp: almost 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my normal hot spots. Started deep nothing.Then went mid level nothing.Finished shallow and got some action. 2 monster females full of eggs. Caught them at 7:00 and 7:30. Fish were jumping everywhere chasing bait fish.
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Think like a fish. Everyone left early and I stayed and it paid off. Use everything you got it might work.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52 - 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Saturday 3/13/10, I fished from the front of my boat. The water temperature in the morning was about 52

      Tips: Fishing should get better as the water warms with the coming warm days that are forecasted.