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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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

      Report: Why can't we stick to fishing reports on this site. I have talked to alot of guys that quit coming to this site because of all the B.S.Why cant we keep this a fishing report site...
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: GROW UP

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: darthead and dropshot picked up 3 spots about 2lbs each. aaron's magic and morning dawn worked. rich springs, can u be a little more specific on the 4-5lb bass being caught?
      City: EDH

      Tips: patience and work around the bait balls.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tons of boats, managed 10 lbs, drop shotting in about 30 feet. Main body still slow, i went way up pit, found some schools with big balls of bait. a few on cranks/jigs, but drop shotting was way to go.
      City: Redding

      Tips: too many boats on lake. get away from them

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried everything rip baits,jigs,fluke,crank,shaky head and the only thing that produced was a double drop shot 4" aarons magic appx. 20" off bottom in appx. 12' water.
      City: Penn Valley

      Tips: Fish deep docks

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      Water Temp: 52.3 to 53.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass are holding in 21 to 40 feet of water and jigs are still taking bass from 2 1/2 to 4 pounds. The cold weather has kept most anglers away from the lake. Bank anglers fishing for trout are also staying away. Bass are holding on and around rock structure and brush piles in deeper water also fish are holding on humps in depths of 30 feet or deeper. Green pumpkin,black,green crystal/blue,black flake jigs in 3/8 or 1/2 oz football head trailers 156 yamamoto 5" single tail grubs. This combo has been working here now going on 3 weeks now. Colder weather has slowed them some but you can still put some nice bass in the boat in several hour of fishing. Water is dingy/stained and still coming up but not to bad fish will stiil bite.
      City: madera

      Tips: Fish slow work the structure you target long cast let the bait settle crawl the bait slowly back to the boat by not losing contact with the bottom. Also vertical jigging here this time of the year is proved too be a very good method for catching the bigger bass that are being targeted. I do both and they work really well for me.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of fog early and cool air temp. D.O. levels up river 11.1 and visibility 100%. Bites were very soft and slow presentations had to be made to get the fish. Main body D.O. was 10.8 with good visibility and bites were also the same. Senkos in natural shad took all fish today.
      City: sac

      Tips: Cool temps and high D.O. are still fishable. Just go slow and offer them something larger because feeding maybe every three days.

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

      Report: Fished club tourney Saturday. 18 of 22 teams weighed in limits and all were culling. Nearly all fish were 1-3 lbs with the exception of on that was 5.05 and another that was 7.56.

      All of our fish were caught dropshot in 20-25 ft during the overcast morning. Once the sun came out fish moved up to 15 ft and bit like crazy for an hour. Then they moved deeper 30-40 ft. Caught dropshot and spoon.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Fish submerged islands on the main lake and/or main lake points. Better bite comes when there is a little breeze. Green and silver were the colors that worked best for us.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: bite is slow, fish there to be caught on finesse tactics, just slow your presentation down. best fish in boat was 3.09, couple just under 2, rest 1 to 1 1/2. No reaction bite whatsoever. be prepared to fish plastics all day. two people in boat, caught and released about 20 total.
      City: redding

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out today for about 3 hours and had no takers. i tried roboworms on a shaky head, rip baits, crankbaits, and a jig. no bites. i talked to another guy out there and he sid he had no bites either.
      City: rohnert park

Friday, January 8th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished
      City: nonya

      Tips: you tube bass fishing lake berryessa 1 8 00 your welcome

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

      Report: For the future for those who don't know. The middle ramp at Granite has been expanded to 6 lanes. This should help in the Spring and the Fall. Recently a lot of bass in the 4lb to 5lb
      range are being caught.
      City: Granite Bay Ca

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The date is off as 2011 wasnt an available choice.

      Got my first fish of the year while practicing some swimbait techniques. I actually lost my swimbait and switched to a black Strike King Pro Model jig with a #1 Uncle Josh pork frog trailer. Found the deepest water I could find on foot and let my jig fall at least 20 feet. By my fourth cast I hooked into a good 6 pounder!

      Lexington has always produced even as it recovers from the past couple years when there was virtually no water in it.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish slow with jigs and plastics

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time ever on Berryessa and really enjoyed the day compared to recents days on the Delta. Launched at Markley and fished primarily from the Dam north on the north side. I only got one but my buddy got 9 - all spotted bass. The boat was in 50' of water and fish were caught in about 40'. Most fish caught on drop shot and one on darter head. Also tried ripping, spoons and jigs with no bites.

      Tips: Hit boths sides of the points. Most fish were caught on a sexy shad roboworm which worked in the heavy fog (low light) and sunshine.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started around 10:30, headed over near the dam where there e some trees, and fished a rattletrap, a few colored senkos, and different roboworms, all with no takers. then we moved down the lake, stopping every so often where there was a fair amount of trees, fishing the same lures and worms, because i had heard that they were working for some poeple. still with no takers.we made it just about to yorty creek, still without a single taker! tough day, but still better than work! fish seened to be holding around 40 feet
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: dont take tips from me!!!!! idk what to use, fishing is slow.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Union Point, Victoria & around Coney. Couple of stripers followed but no hookups. Cloud cover so I was hopeful. Water was like glass. Fished ripbaits & big hammer swimtails.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A friend and I dropped lines around 8am and we were hooking into fish all day long. We hit the jackpot when we found some kind of large cover ( might of been a large tree) in 50 feet of water, on an old roadbed. My first large-mouth of the year was a picture perfect 4lb+ large-mouth, with a belly full of shad. My rods are rigged with 8 lb line that kept getting broke off by either the power of the fish or the hard cover. Next time I'm taking some of my delta gear with me to horse some of these fish. Crank-baits, jigs, shakyheads and dropshots were all duds today. A simple 3 inch watermelon tube was the only producer. We worked upriver, the narrows and the China's.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: Give extra attention to large cover with bait fish over it. Have tubes in different colors, jigheads from 1/16 to 3/8 and stronger line for heavy cover.

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

      Report: I just wanted to inform everyone that there is only one ramp available to launch your boat now. The Granite Bay low ramp is the only one that is out of water to date. The Browns Raven launch ramp has just closed recently. Current water level is at 379 ft, down 87 feet. Good luck and be safe. Lake is 5mph and will remain that way until it reaches 400feet, that is if we get any more rain.
      City: EDH

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out on my tube hoping to get bit on the big baits, well no bites on any of the big swimmies, but had a fish on the 2.5 bbz shad that was taking out drag and then came unbottoned.

      dont know whatit was but it wasnt fighting like a trout or bass, just a slow steady pulling of my drag going diagonal to the shore.
      City: THA P

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bite was slow went north for 2 spots and 1 salmon then to main body for one nice spot.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Today we fished dart heads and dropshot.

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

      Report: Noticed everyone is fishing deep. Anyone trying shallow water near deep water (breaks)? the 12/29 report stated the water temp was 49-50 is this average for this time of year or a little high? Whiskey town was at 47 and I was able to get a 4lb largemouth in 4 ft. of water. I agree more people whould post here especially for those of us not near the lake.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: anlgers are more willing to share info when catch and release is practiced. Put em back so we can catch them again. Be safe and have fun.