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Saturday, February 13th, 2010

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Zero, zip, skunked, nada'gd'thing. Completely opposite last weekend. Saw fish at various depths but just couldn't figure it out. Windy in the morning and thought that would score on the windy points...zero, zip, skunked, nada...tried darthead, finesse jig, dropshot, tiny swimbait...everything that worked last weekend... zero, zip, skunked, nada..oh, I guess I said that already. Well, such is life trying to catch bass at Folsom Lake.
      City: folsom, ca

      Tips: I guess keep trying...saw the bassers head straight to south fork but also saw them working same main lake points..so did we. Favorite areas were zero, zip, skunked, nada (sorry, just had to say it again)...I'm pretty sure the pro-ams caught..hope one or more of them post something.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: After hearing good things about the bass bite,and the water temps looking good. I tossed jigs with craw trailers,shad cranks,drop shot all deep and shallow with not a bite. Fish were scattered all over the lake on my lowerance. There will be a better day, I would like some one to e-mail me with some tips.
      City: Napa

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son out Saterday for a couple of hours. Got on the water about 3:15pm and fished the main lake with rip baits,grubs and jigs with no results. Moved into some small pockets and switched to morning dawn 6" worms and started picking up fish. all the fish came from 10 to 15 feet deep on gravel banks. Best 5 went just under 13lbs. Good time for us. Was off the water at 5:35.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Morning dawn 6" worms on 1/8oz dart head very slow in 10' to 15'

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake looked great, to bad I can

      Tips: good luck, you can do it

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

      Report: Took my wife out Sat. afternoon. She caught 7 bass on minnows best fish 16in.

      Tips: Dont forget your wifes coat. If YOU forget HER coat shes gonna blame you and then your gonna have to let her wear yours.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yesterday afternoon up the pit with minnows and did real well. Sure are a lot of nice bass in the lake. Think we caught 19 in 2 hours. Takeing the wife out today.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Very sluggied bite. Wind drift worded well about 25 ft.deep

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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

      Report: U tell them Nac...I got ur back...lolz.... i've never fish at a lake n skunk like this b4...bass my ass...lolz. This lake got a lot of potiental but not yet. I hope they don't release baby bass..lolz. They probable realize the water gonna be way up this yr n start releasing bass. IF n when the water goes up 10-20ft n if they release some big mama..it's on. For now my comment still stands...this lake sucks...lolz

      Tips: my opionions n comments...not the fact

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52-56deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A interesting day of fishing for sure, I fished the CBC today and it was a well ran event! I did not place well but did manage to figure out some fish with lil to no time at ths lake. Don Pedro has far more Smallmouth Bass than I had any idea! I knew there was a few in there, but there's more than that! Many fish released were smallies. And some spotted bass too! If your looking to fun fish try small tubes or a split shot and drag it slow! The bite is light so be ready! Pockets or creek guts with 10-30 feet of water and chunk rock are holding these smallies. Points that look like Large Mouth heaven are hoding Smallies and Spotties. If you are to try for Largemouth try the ugly banks with clay and a mud line shallow with a Shakey head or a senko. This weather will bring the largemouth up!
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: SLOW!

  • Palo Pinto County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to pinto just to go and take a day off from the bigger lakes with traffic,started out at 8am started fishing slow shallow and got bit so stuck to that all day.caught about 20 fish,smallest one was about 2.5...biggest about 7.over all the fishing is doing great.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: take your time its a small lake...to those who aint getting bit,dont get mad...just keep fishing .there are alot of big fish here you just gota take the time and find them.if you dont get nuthing,chances are you need to analyze what your doing wrong cuz whatever it is its keeping you away from good bass

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

      Report: Prespawn has started at Rainbow lake. I caught a nice 3 pounder off a spinner bait and talked to another guy who caught 4 off a plastic worm. All were caught close to shore. Get out there and please practice C&R.
      City: Fremont

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out at 730am of Cappell.Ended up at 1pm with 10 fish.3 on jerkbaits-ima flit- and the rest dropshot.All but 1 d/s was on Robo warmouth color 4" and 6". Jerkbait fish were in less than 12' and d/s were 15' to 20'. We only fished to about the Big Island.No jig fish today(sorry Luke).
      City: dixon

      Tips: The water was lot clearer than 2 weeks before.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Put a friend on some of my spots last weekend for a club tourney.They used the same set up as me and Scott.Sinkos in the watermelon black flake / Jigs in brown with green pumpkin twin tails. Along with a drop shot. They took first place with 12.65 lb, not as much wait as me and Scott had the week before but they got in to a lot of fish. This is a awesome lake with lots of fish, but like all lake you have to put your time in on the water and find them.
      City: Galt

      Tips: Put your time in on the water before you doubt others report. I put my time in on this lake for 15+ years and there is still days I don't do that well. Tight lines and happy fishing

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I did a little scouting trip yesterday late afternoon and again this morning - about 3 hrs each trip. The lake has nice color in the main body and is fairly dingy up the river. I targeted off shore structure in the main body and found a few takers! I caught 2 and lost one at the boat in the afternoon a missed 3 more. The biggest one took a rainbow trout colored D&M Piranha swim jig in about 15 feet of water. The other bites were on a Blade Runner jig. This morning I only got bit 3 times and landed a largemouth close to 3 lbs and another quality spot - both on a brown/orange jig. I did try to locate some shallow fish but no-go. All bass were on some type of rock structure 12 to 20 feet.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The lake is down 23 feet but still rising. No bass migrations to the shallows has taken place yet as far as I can see. Nice to see some activity though!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: anyone fished this lake lately? was wondering about the prespawn.
      City: fresno

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

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

      Report: i happen to see the last too posts about smallies and spots. About 7 or 8 years ago while night fishing - I DID catch a 14 inch spotted bass in Amador. There was no doubt - looked like a clone from Oroville. It was soon in the garbage can. Some say there are spots in Pardee - that is where this one probably came from.
      City: Yuba City

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i feel u man...so far...this lake sux. They release 1600 bass but i can't find one.. who didn't let the bass out..lolz

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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

      Report: I was thinking about getting out tomarrow for a couple of hours.......anyone game????
      City: Antelope

Monday, February 8th, 2010

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      Water Temp: -50 last we wer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is in response to the guy asking if anyone fished here lastely. As this is my most favorite lake, havent gone out for a month or so. last time i went it was all baby red senkos drifting the bottom...BUT, took my kids to Hensley just so they could do some trout fishing and i walked the shore dreaming of a few bass. Well it came true. I was fishing a few coves around the boat launch area...opposite of the swimming area launch. Kids caught their trout while mommie used a half 6" big red senko and caught a 3lber and then a bit later there are some rocks across the parkling lot and i was able to land my baby red senko right on the rocks and drag it off and bam, another 3lber...then it was time to go...i think bass are coming...God, what a long season it seems before the bass come.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Large or preferred small red senkos. Weightless with the big ones and a small bullet on the small ones.

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-50deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started main body points...a few missed hits dragging jigs. picked up a few spots on dartheads in 15-20ft. consistently saw fish at 22ft so worked this depth for 3-4 more. moved up south fork and just picked points that everyone else wasn't working. found a good rocky point that transitioned to gravel and picked up 4 more. all these on 1/4oz darthead in both aaron's magic and morning dawn....folsom bass's preferred worms! all good 1.75 - 2 pounders. nice day but had to keep moving. that's funny - work slow but keep moving! and i guess be prepared for the ticket because we heard someone said someone they know reported to the sheriff's dept seeing several bass guys ignoring the 5mph. we also saw a couple of winter jetskiers with roostertails.
      City: folsom

      Tips: just because the electronics don't show fish doesn't mean they're not there. keep draggin' the dartheads and finesse jigs. brother's first few hits were all jigs. then he did a length-wise wacky with the head in line with the darthead and that worked for our last 4. 10-20ft and some inlets. bites are soft and not always obvious. hurry up spring!! wanna crank!!!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lake way up from last year. prefished for sat the 13th yuba city bass busters
      the bite was not. thats all i can say.2 pretty good anglers 1 bite =1fish. i expected a good bite after reading last report
      City: plumas lake

      Tips: dont read reports and actually believe em