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Monday, February 1st, 2010

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49.50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9:30-1:30
      Rained all day. 6 fish 1lb to 1.50lbs. All on dropshot about 20-25ft. Client wanted to go in because of the the cold.
      City: Weed

      Tips: fish slow

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing with a friend from Florida, who was interested in deep water fishing. The water was up 20ft, with some dark stain and a nasty mud line. We fished up and down the narrows just hitting the old sweet spots, found fish in over half of them, with the shad not being a factor today. After building up our confidence landing fish in 20 to 50 we drifted in 80 feet of water just to see if the fish were active out there and they were. When the sun came out I tried a green Robo worm with a purple bloodline to see if the smallies could find it in the deeper water, one crushed it within 10 minutes. If the rain slows down and the temp hits 55 the fishing here is going to be out of control. Most of our bites were soft, even the bigger fish were just taking the bait in, but not swimming off.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: Dont give up on your spots, fish them real slow and try something new when you fun fish. Be safe and God Bless

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished for trout from the dock, and i saw a guy on a bass boat, he said he had one taker the first 5 minutes, then nothing for the next 4 hours. he said it was on a jig
      City: ro po

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: took my girlfriend to county park with minnows so she could have fun and catch some bass, but we didnt even get a bite. i also tried a jig with no bites
      City: ro po

      Tips: dont ask me!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 41-45

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Friend took me out and we had a friendly competition w/ another boat. I commited to a reaction bite and got skunked. My partner caught 2 throwing a jig and the other boat caught one on a crank and 3 rippin earlier in the morning. Slow day all together but still had fun. Thanks Rich!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Youre best bet at a limit will be early and then you will have to slow down.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy226/tomloans/chartviewer.png
      City: Oroville

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: SLOW water clarity 10" @ the south end and 5' up north fished the hole lake end to end went thrue the all the diffrent set up's DS work the best in 45' off points

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

      Report: got 9 spots to 3lbs fishing from shore near the dam. good to see the lake rebounding! all of last year caught only skinny malnourished looking spots. slow with plastics was the key.
      City: amcan

      Tips: t-rig brush hogs or lizards in watermelon

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

      Report: Got some family coming from So. Ca. in March. Can anybody tell me how the fishing is on the Delta at that time of year. And whats biting, bass, cats, striper?
      City: Sacramento

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a small club turney on Saturday. The guy's that put it on wore from Stockton Bass. We started the day by blasting off at about 6:45am and headed to a island top in the main lake. My partner Scott Stevens fished 1 ton's and I fished jigs. Fished that area for about 1 1/2hr with onley one small keeper and a bite. Ran to are next spot on the main body and grafeded around. Found some arks tight to the bottom so we stoped and checked it out. I tosted a jig and Scott droped a drop shot on the arks. Three shakes of his rod and it was on. He got a three pound spoted bass. I worked the jig a little bit longer and I hooked up with another three pound spoted bass. We started to look around the area to see why the fish wore there and we hit the mother lode. We found some grass in about 40 to 50 feet. We started working the area and sure as you know it Scott hooked in to his bigest spot ever, a 5.66 lbr. This is was a spot that you would onley dream about finding in a big turney. We stayed in that area preaty mouch of the day catching three pound spots. We had about 17 1/2 pound for the day at 3:00 pm. Are waigh in was at 3:30 so we tryed one more spot on the main lake before waigh in nowing we needed one more big fish. We pulled up on are last spot of the day and it was on. Scott started off with catching two more 3 lb spots back to back on a jig and I got to on a sinko. It was almost time to waigh in and I seen a small stick up on the bank and told Scott that this was the last cast. What do you know I stuck a 5.62 lb larg mouth. We ran to waigh in and finnished the day in first place with 19.90 lb. Second place had 16.54 lb and big fish of the turney was 5.96 lb. What a day on the water, great freand to fish with and a asome day on the water. After waigh in we went back out and finnised the day out catching another limet of fish around 16 lbs.
      City: Galt

      Tips: Start the day fishinh 40 to 50 feet. Then as the sun starts to get over head look shallow. Bait was jigs in brown with green pumpken tralers and sincos in the watermellon black flake.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 47/48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the main body for a few hours this morning. was able to land a couple fish with one ton beavers in 30 to 40 ft. once that slowed down i concentrated my efforts to a little shallower water. got a few bites drop shotn morning dawn but was only able to land one lrg. mostly spots.
      City: Carmichael

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Way to lie once again Jimbo.....look at the date of your post!!! You're getting so bad at this that you're lying in the future now!!!!
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Give it rest Jim, no one actually believes that you can catch one rat, dink, squeaker let alone the ones you lie about catching!!!!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: CBL-Christian Bass League had a solid start for 2010. 18 teams competed 6 of the teams were father/son and we even had a few grandsons! The day was beautiful some clouds in the morning with sun the rest of the day. Most of the fish were caught on drop-shot and shaky heads in various colors from the greens to craws. There was even a few reaction fish early in the morning. One team placed high dragging a Carolina rig. With all that the bite was tough not everyone brought in a limit. If you would like to join us for our next tourney on the Delta give me a call of check out our web-site at www.christianbassleague.com 209-988-5818
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Fish slow and then slow down again. The bite picks up later in the day. Moving water or the south end of the lake are good bets.

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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is coming up fast...good news for fishing this year. Caught a grand total of 4 fish from 12:00 Noon to 5:00 P.M. Caught 1 in the corner of the dam drop shotting with Prism Shad/Robo Worm, and 1 on my go-to: Natural Shad Senko hooked wacky style. The others on Watermelon/Purple Lizard with Texas Style set-up. Missed alot of fish across from Barrett Cove Marina at the point on lizards. Most of the action was at 20-30 ft.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Fish slow, purple/green/shad colors seem pretty reliable. I talked to some of the others coming off the lake, and they had some luck with brush hogs off points. Watch for debris, it's starting to run in the lake.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wife and I went up to the river area, had very good day just no big fish.The biggest 3lbs, ended up with around 40 fish. We draged brushhogs swallow to the deep, linewatching a must and around woodand rock.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: We used watermelon green and dark red on a 1/8oz jig

Friday, January 29th, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike Sperbeck and I made a quick trip to Clear Lake last night to check things out - not expecting the bite to be too good. The real excitement was seeing the lake up around 4 feet - just amazing - wonderful!!! We only fished 4 hours, 6 or 7 bites, landing a 2 3/4, 3 1/2, and one topping 4 lbs. Did lose a bigger one. Mike stuck with a brush hog and I used the Piranha swim jig.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Water seemed to be cleaner as we went south and quite murky north. A little hard to tell at night. Thought we would get some shallow bites but they were still about 20-25 feet deep. Again, as last trip, good cloud cover for first 2 hours (8 to 10 pm), clearing and colder next 2 hrs - bite died. Actually, it was never really alive, har!!

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

      Report: Ramp Update: Visted the Oroville ramps this afternoon. Spillway ramp is closed. Looks like the single lane ramp used to the left of the secondary spillway ramp needs about 12'-16' to be usable. The "new" Bidwell ramp is open. 2 lanes, very restricted dock space.
      City: Oroville

      Tips: Keep the Department of Water Resources (DWR)honest. NO/MINIMUM OUTFLOW DURING RUN UP TO SPRING!!!!

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

      Report: Can anyone in the area provide a fishing report and ramp conditions. Is anyone fishing the North Trinity area?
      City: Granite Bay Ca

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: -

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Uhhhh... are you two being serious? go fish in the narrows for an hour and all you will catch are spots and smallies.
      City: Reno

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Daughter and i went out this morning.Started out fishing deep nothing so decided with the water flow coming try shallow and bam there they were big spots in 6'to 10' of water and the good thing is they were all on jigs.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: catch n release