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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In my last post (one under this one), I indicated that I had caught a few Coho (silver salmon) this weekend. Now after speaking with locals and other anglers, they were probably small King Salmon and not Silvers. I guess I mis-identified my catch. The DFG Regs say you can't keep ANY Sinver Salmon in the state of Calif unless there were caught in Lake Oroville. I guess I was gun-shy and didn't want a DFG violation.
      I missed out on a good salmon dinner I guess.
      City: Cottonwood

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out there on monday and got one bite on a senko but missed him. i casted right back to the same spot and nothin. all day i cranked til th end and got a bite but that is it. hurry up spring and summer.

      Tips: Stratoskid: i am normaly in a togaiak yellow float tube.

Monday, February 15th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on SJ main channel in east delta. Water was stained to muddy. Threw jigs, spinnerbaits, cranks, lipless cranks, and even senko's. Fished 3-10 ft of water. No takers, only a small nibble off my craw pattern lipless crank. Should be getting better with this weather warming.

      Tips: Find the fish!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: some guy took home a 12 12 today.
      all i can say is wow people told him not to take it and his dumass still wouldnt listen. its the long haired guy in the lil boat and the older chevy suv or gmc suv and its lite brown.
      City: kkk

      Tips: Listen to fuckin swimbait fisherman when they tell you not to take a big bass home you fukin tard

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from sun up til about 2pm. Caught two nice trout fishing for bass. Little woman caught 3 bass, only one landed on the boat. Thought she had a "stick fish" and kept pulling and pulling...you know the dead weight of a darn log and all of a sudden it shot up and out of the water and i think she was gonna die. Landed it, nice 3.5lber. Fun day on the lake, beautiful day. Hard work but should be getting much easier in the next few weeks im guessing
      City: Clovis`

      Tips: Nothing on stick bait, spinner bait or cranks. Wife caught all hers on mini red senkos w/bullet weight, and she halfed 6" brown senkos and halfed 6" green senkos and hooked up on all she used...just couldnt seem to land em but one. Still think plastics are working best.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WE BETTER PRAY FOR RAIN OR THIS LITTLE LAKE AND EVERY OTHER LAKE WILL BE A MUD PUDDLE. WE CAUGHT ABOUT 9 TROUT AND 18 BASS ALL FROM 2.5 AND THE BIGGEST 4.5 DROPSHOT CALIFORNIA WORMS IN THE 080.COLOR WITH THE GRAPE VEIN.20 TO 25 FEET ALL DAY.
      City: PLANADA

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 1p.m. and started fishing near the dam. Caught a 2 1/2 pounder on a jig. I picked up and moved to another spot. Spent a lot of time just idlinng around and looking at the graph. Later I stopped on a spot and caught another 2 1/2 on the first cast with a carolina rig.
      City: Fresno

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

      Report: Lower ramp is covered with water and launching is now at the second to lowest ramp (widened this year ) Lake seems to be rising abour two inches a day. Talked to Seth who caught around fifteen in five hours.
      City: Granite Bay

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone know what ramp they are launching from at Granite Bay and what condition it is in?

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is high and looks like chocolate milk. Went to my normal spots.Fishing everthing that is flooded now.Just remember when water was low,fish those same spots and see what happenens.
      City: Richmond

      Tips: Caught 3 but full of eggs. 3 fish went almost 10lbs.Caught and released,nice fight.First three of the year. Think like a fish. R.I.P Rico,my fishing partner for years. Its not the same without you!!!!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled Jones Valley area Monday morning and caught two 17" trout first light at about 10' of water (150 feet behind boat) using a Seps flasher (silver willow blades/red beads) and a silver/blue hum-dinger. Dropped deeper to about 30 feet of water and caught two silver salmon using a home-made silver willow leaf flasher with yellow beads and a gold Kastmaster (released them of course due to new regs). Switched to a colarado leaf gold and silver Seps flasher using a home-made shad looking silver lure and stayed at 30 feet of water working the edges of the lake. Caught a few FAT 18" largemouths gourged with minnows. Looks like almost anything resembling a shad minnow will do the trick. Water is cold and trout/salmon are running shallow to feed on shad. Bass seem to be hanging 30-40 feet also feeding on shad.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Troll or throw silver shad immitation lures. Don't forget the Shad-Gel adding a nice scent to your presentation and of course... release all Coho (Silver) salmon.

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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back from two days on Shasta. The two of us fished the Sac arm on Saturday and caught 12 fish. Two biggest were 17 and 18 inches. Two were on artificial (spinner bait)and the rest on live minnows. We fished the main body on Sunday and caught a total of 35 fish. Largest was 16 inches. Six were on artificial (one senko, 5 on shaky worm)and the rest live minnows. We tried senkos, beavers, spinnerbaits and yuki bug, they just seemed to want live minnows!!
      City: Rough and Ready

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50 deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well went out today and ran my boat gettting ready for the spring pre-spawn .Went out of B&W resort and fished the Mokullme River went to tower park fished some of my favorite spots for pre- spawn .water was still pretty cold fish are not moved up yet. Threw Cranks , Blades , Senkos, everything looked really good water was lightly stained . Fish fast looking for a reaction strike with no takers . Broke out Senkos and worked them really slow at the toe of the slopes . rip rap . tules and faster current areas, With no takers It all looked good and techniques were there . with some warm weather coming shouldn't be long I will continue to go out every weekend till something happens. Its almost time for my favorite fishing, throwing large swimbaits .Tight lines to all
      City: Elmira

      Tips: get out soon , dont forget to put new tags on your boat. If it is that time of year.... Put your reports up here so we can all know whats going on in the delta

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rodman dirty, also cache. Tried rock piles with some success south and narrows. Deeper areas held more fish and size was proportionate.
      City: sac

      Tips: Water is rising and patterns will change. Also temperatures will raise motabilization. Tules may be interesting.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The jig bite is picking up in depths of 12 to 30 feet. arkie football and bullet head jigs are all working from 1/4 to 3/8 oz.

      Tips: Slow down make contact on or around structure bass are keying on crawdad pattern baits.

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

      Report: FYI
      Lake level hit 700' Friday. Still 200' down. 60' better than last year at this time.

      Spillway ramp open, 1 lane. Secondary spillway ramp needs about 20 more feet. Main ramp needs about 100' feet.

      Secondary/New Bidwell ramp open.
      City: East Foothills

      Tips: To DWR: Stop releasing water!!!!
      Look at Lake Information for Oroville and go to DWR link to see infow and outflow.

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

      Report: I'm fishing a club tourny next month and I was hoping someone could give me a couple of tips I've only fished the lake ones and it didn't go well I blanked. so if any one knows anything I would love the help.
      thanks
      City: concord

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out at the back lakes for one of the last times due to closure by fish and game as of March 1, 2010. Without giving too much detail I landed one of the largest bass ever caught in the back lakes. The picture will be added to the photo gallery page for viewing.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Use this as a tip to help rally the troops to keep the back lakes open!!!

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

      Report: Fished Sunday afternoon with my buddy and his wife and my son. It rained the entire afternoon. We put the top up and wind drifted minnows and ended up catching 25 bass total. Also caught one crappie.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Ya wont feel the bit from the couch with a remote in your hand. Take your family fishing make some memories and then make some fish tacos !

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: sloooooow stay home 2 fish in 8 hours. Call the office and they are slamming them. Even called from the lot after we were done and the lady said it was off the hook.
      City: redding

      Tips: don't trust the office people there