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Saturday, February 20th, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 45-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out today and caught 17 lbs doing the things the previous posts said to do, thinking we did okay! Wrong! Look at the "AC Clear Lake "Slug Fest" Results" in the forums! 35.78 lbs won first place!!!

      Tips: Ouch!

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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a tournament w/ Fellowship of Christian Anglers Society. Started at first cove to the left of the dam. Caught a nice 2.5 lb. shallow on a lipless crank bait in the first 10 minutes. Continued fishing the area with out another bite, also trying jigs, and carolina rigs. Moved to the upper end of the lake and started catching again on jigs and texas rigged plastics shallow (2-10 feet). My wife had her limit by 9:30 and was able to cull a couple times. I was stuck at 3 fish and the fish stopped biting around 11:00. Kept working back and forth over the 75 yard stretch where we caught them before. Finally about 1:30 I decided to move out of the bank and found fish stacked up on a ledge that went from 10 feet down to 24 feet. I caught 6 fish between 1:30and 3:00, all 2 to 3 lbs. Ended up with 4 fish for a little over 9.5 lbs., enough to win by 2 lbs. My wife took 3rd about a tenth of a pound behind 2nd.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: When you find fish and they stop biting keep trying they won't be far from where you first caught them, and they will be stacked up this time of year. Try jigs, T-rig, and C-rigged plastics.

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

      Report: Fished windblown areas in 10 feet or less of water and nailed some big spots- best five went about 17lbs. All on the same worm shaken very fast.
      City: Elk Grove

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out around 7, fished near the Granite Bay ramp with no luck. Water level still pretty low. Moved over to the south fork and hammered points, flats and coves. Nothing until around noon (oddly, that was when it was getting colder), when we started getting bit. Four spots, all caught on roboworms on shaky heads and drop shot. Others found some luck with jerk baits, but most fished slowly. All around 20' of water.

      Tips: Persistence with spirit!

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: arrived about 1pm on Sat afternoon. really cold- really windy- Tried in the creek to the left as you head back away from the dam. Got nice fat 18 incher (I didn't weight) but it was a nice looking female caught with finess worm- very soft bite- I thought I had a stick but the stick started pulling back!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: keep warm- watch your line cause you may not feel the bite.

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

      Report: na im not a beginer, i've been fishin for bass for 5 years and usually fish anderson. i consider myself somewhat good for my age. also do you know why there is so many concrete slabs in the area of the launch ramp.
      City: elkhorn

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: Dunno

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday out of JV caught one on crankbait on a windblown point about 15 incher, but FAT. Boated a limit by the end of the day, lost 5 plus and had 10 or more short strike fish all on worms. Took my 5 year old with us this time he had a blast reeling in my fish. Take a kid fishing.
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: 3/16 ounce lead head, I used MGM worms in brownish colors, Shake for long time. Sexy Shad crankbait caught the active fish.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55.6 to 56.6

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Devil Mountain Bass masters launched 8 boats on a cloudy morning, the lake level is up to normal.
      All Anglers brought fish to the scales, Phil Lopez took 1st Place with five fish for 12 + pounds, his Fish were caught rippin, crankbaits, and senkos.
      2nd Place was Rom Cormier with 11+ pounds, 3rd Place was Howard Harrow with 10 + pounds and a five fish limit.
      Big fish of the tournament was 4.60 Lbs. caught on a black and blue jig in 10 ft. of water early in the morning.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: My partner and I both caught 3 fish each, all on black & blue jigs, the boat was positioned over 19 ft of water, throw the jig up to the bank and work it down, then let it soak- the bites were aggressive.

Friday, February 19th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: water is still muddy, fish seems to be in 15-20ft. Fishing is slow, caught 2 bass, another boat caught 2 also. Boat launching is easy. Trout fishermen complain about catching 1 or none at all. Not worth they money to fish here yet. Maybe when water warm up n much clearer

      Tips: drop shot, spinnerbait, worms

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 11:00 - 3:00. All over the lake, picked one at each spot. 10-15 feet of water. Dark plastics. Ended with 7 boated, one came unbuttoned, and missed about 3. Biggest was 3.12 I was happy for February.
      City: Felton

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to get some time on the water in before all the fronts hit. Weather was not bad fog then overcast, did'nt help the water warm to much. Started off like last week with cranks and not much action, a couple of hits but no hookup. I noticed the the hits were coming in around 8ft of water. So I changed over to a suspending ripbait that was the change they wanted. It was a nice steady bite after that I cought 3 on one spot all the others were just one per area. Mostly SM with a few LM mixed in. Felt good to finally put together a reaction pattern this year. I only had 5 hours on the water had to leave at 1 with the bite getting better as the water warmed. All the fish were running 1.8-3lbs.9 fish total with the 5 biggest going 11 lbs.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: The SM have started to stage all of them came on the outside edges of srawning areas. The LM were holding to the weeds. You needed decent water clarity for the rip to work. The upper end was to dirty with the southwind blowing all the stained water up there. Had to stay mid way up the main body on east and west shores. This lake is set to take off soon.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a difference a few days makes . Was out for a few hours on 2-17 and caught spots about every fifteen minutes just junk fishing. Fished the afternoon 2-19 with overcast thinking it would be on , WRONG , one two pound spot for three hours of time
      City: GB

      Tips: ???

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished tonight right before dark in my spot that i always go to...i looked into the tullies and saw them move a lot..so then i casted my 4inch chigger craw in and pulled out a 6+ pound fish.
      City: SF

      Tips: this was off the hook..everytime i come here i hope to atleast get a bite..and to catch a 6+ out of here is great. tight lines SEE PICTURE

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I would try this hot lake (lake record caught last weekend). Fishes very much like oroville (steep rocky canyons). dropshot and splitshot only. Lost more than I landed. Landed 7 up to 3 lb and lost over 10. Most were lost within 5 sec of me setting the hook. A few times broke off but probably due to line rubbing rocks but most times the fish just works its way free from the hook. was using 6 in staight tail worms w/ 1/0 hook. Has always worked well in the past. One thing I noticed is that the fish was already swimming w/ the worm (no feel of the bite) and would set hook. In hindsight, I should have let it swim longer so that the worm is further in the mouth? Anyway, good day for my 1st time in years. scouted the river area and it is serene and beautiful.

      Tips: land the fish that bite !!!

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

      Report: yeah i have a boat but i use my kick boat out there...in the morning tules and when the sun comes out under the trees...the bite is great...are you just starting out bass fishing?im going back tomorrow
      City: watsonville

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: really any bait to flip.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: really any type of bait you can flip....blk/blue jig or zipper worm or any bait to immitate a crawdad...creature bait

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Late report

      Fished the Pro/Teen tournament at Russo's on Sunday. It was my first event of this kind and I had a blast fishing with 17 yr old Justin. Was his 3rd year here. Guess he's the vet & I'm the rookie. Anyway, launched out at 6 & hit the tulles at north end of Franks with topwater, buzzbait & poppers for an hr. without hits. Moving to the tulles going towards SJ channel .... still nothin. Then to Venice for some froggin. Did well there b4, but this time only 3 blowups but no hookups. Finally to some rip raps nearby and got several small LMB with senkos inside the weeds with a little current. Unfortunately not big enough to weigh-in. Motored down to Ward Island for more froggin, but again 3 or 4 blowups and couple of missed hooks. Down to the last couple of hours and had to change up. Put all our rods down and switched over to punching the mats. Knew a spot that always produced for me and showed Justin how to punch. He's a fast learner, within minutes he hooks up his first fish about a 2 lber. Unfortunately, he jerked it so hard outta the mat, that it flew over the boat and off the hook. Justin is a big kid (lineman for his high school football team) and took my instructions too literally. For the next hour, we caught maybe 5 or 6 more, mostly small guys again. But finally the last fish was a 3 lber. We didn't do well in the standings but he learned something new and was thrilled and that is all that matters!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Punch. Punch. Punch......especially after the sun hits the water.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 47-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally back to collins after the tournament season is over and this lake very seldom disappoints the first point my friend jim aka (stove guy) hehe and I stop at is elmers point jim threw a hollow body swimbait bottom bouncing it and hooked up with a 5.19 spot we fished into the cove with no luck but as we got to the other side I got a bite on a jig and he caught a 2.13 spot on a wacky senco weighted we went to the east side to try the flats and we got a few more bites on the jig but they werent eating it headed to the first point up the river and finally hooked up with some spots near a brush pile and on a small flat area near a spawning cove then back out to elmers before I had to go to work (that sucks) jim missed one nice fish right at the boat on the hollow body then we took pics and I left.
      City: grass valley

      Tips: the bass are starting to move up with the weather being nice all our fish were pale but chunky caught all are fish between 18 and 10 feet of water on the outsides of coves nothing in the backs fished jigs, hollowbody swimmers and cranks.Oh yeah huds but no takers on those today fish slow in the morning then pick up the pace as the day gets warmer they started hitting the jig on the fall around eleven o'clock good luck and hope you catch some good ones

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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out around 7AM throwing swim baits on points and landed a nice spot close to 6 lbs. and lost an equal fish on same. Switched to senco and landed 2 + lb. spot then two on jig.
      Beautiful day, nice tan and nice fish in 5-12 foot. Nice birthday for me!!
      City: Penn Valley

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

      Report: Was wonderin what kind of rigs did u get those fish on local? fishi there tommarow. just fishin for tips.
      City: elkhorn