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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my friend rick out a little late on wendesday got on the water around 9:30 we started on the east side near the dam looking for beds and for active fish we found out that both were there had a decent top water bite mostly bucks guarding but did get a couple spot hens they were little but had bellies the big girls were moving up next to the bushs throwing a wake bait next to them would draw them out then i would follow that up with an rof 5 hud got allot more follwers and one 6.5 largie ate the hud.
      City: grass valley

      Tips: In the afternoon top water and bed fishing will produce but in the early morning try for the big bite with the hud and the wake baits I use a dead or alive by daiwa and a 3:16 wake jr a little expensive but worth every penny.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: nice 3 pounder caught on a blown crawler.
      City: los gatos

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ALERT!!! regular anglers at McClure. I lost my prescription sunglasses somewhere at or around the ramp. They are amber ray bans. If anybody see's them, could you e-mail me please? If anybody has some time, on the way out of the park, could you ask if they have a lost and found and get a number for me? I don't know when the next time I'll be up there. Thanks everybody.
      City: Hayward

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65 to 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: A couple hundred fish per day. Unbelievable lake. Excellent fishing all day long. Catchem on everything - from worms to crankbaits to spinnerbaits to topwater.
      City: Oroville

      Tips: Start fishing. Cast to the bank and retrieve lure as intended. Catch a fish, repeat. :)

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Found some very aggressive fish in the Warm Springs Arm and nailed 15 fish on swim baits and wake baits. Missed another 6-10 as well, including a toad that followed the wake bait for at least 20 ft before finally hitting and just missing it right at the boat. Best five 18-20 lbs.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Locate pods of fish and then back off and make log casts past, and then slowly retrieve over them.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me, My brother and his girl friend hit the lake after school, arrived at around 4pm and fished till 7:30 pm, stuck 14 spots on pbj robo worms drop shotting the ledges then went to the narrows to fish the coves and caught around 5 large mouths on senkos/drop shot biggest being 4# and one more off the dock when we were putting the boat on the trailer. Pretty good 3 hours of bass fishing once again when berryessa isn't crowded its wide open.
      City: walnut creek

      Tips: work bait around until you can find a school for everybody to hook into. structure structure structure

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a day off work and fished the Keys all day. Launched at 6:00 or so at the oaks and started throwing topwater. Got 2 in the first 10 minutes, then nothing. Switched to flip baits, beavers, sinkos etc... Ended up with 5 fish total for about 15 lbs or so. Not sure what happened, but I thought I was going to slay them. Probably should have went up north
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Dont ask me, I have no idea!

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      Water Temp: 56-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I just came back from a four day run at the lake.Friday thru Monday.The water temp spiked to 70 in the keys, and around 67-68 on the main body with the warm weather this past weekend. Water clarity on the main lake was as much as 5-6 feet at times, and in the keys it was muddy-6 inches or so. I had a fairly tough time, largest fish we caught was a tad under 4lbs. On Monday the shallows came alive with tons of spawners crusing, and some fish on beds. The issue was that they had NO INTEREST in any baits. I ended up the weekend with a handful of small fish, and one of my buddies saw the biggest bass of his life on a bed! (He has a 9 lber to his credit)As usual, I thought they would be jumping in the boat this weekend, but the boat scared them away. We saw a lot of fish, if they get rid of their current lockjaw-it should be wide open.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: I tried it all, listen to someone that hooked numbers.Have fun!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: MY FATHER AND I GOT ON THE WATER ABOUT 6:30 WHEN INTO BIG CREEK CAUGHT 6 KEEPERS WITH 2 SMALLIES.HEADED OUT INTO THE MIDDLE BAY AND STARTED SIGHT FISHING.ENDED UP CATCHING A 15.8 POUNDER OFF OF THE BED.AWESOME DAY AT DON PERDO.
      City: PLANADA

      Tips: GET ON YOUR TROLLING MOTOR AND GO LOOK FOR THE BEDS.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I Went out Sunday and the fishing was slow. There was alot of fish in the trees and just couldnt get the big ones to bite. i plan on going back tomorrow. if you have any tips or tricks to catching them let me know. Also what colors are good?
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: try senkos in the brush and trees. (the shaded sides)

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing 6:00am through a brown jig with a chijer craw .Bam caught 3lb. caught eight fish lost five one in the 6 lb.range .My buddy fished 6"Joesenkos wacky hammered them.great day at my favorite little lake
      City: redwood city

      Tips: Make long casts in the flats and drop off

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 58-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a wonderful seasoned fisherman that had not yet caught a spotted bass is fishing career today. We started out in the West Branch moved into the main body and a bit into the North Fork. We had a great day. It was nice to here him say "you can't beat catching fish as soon as you start till it's time to stop fishing"
      City: Paradise

      Tips: bites came on worms, tubes ,spinner baits, and jigs

Monday, April 20th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake first thing with my 4 year old. Thought with all the warm weather the top water might get started. Started with a vixen for the first hour and hit some of my best areas. After a couple half harted rolls on the lure I put it away for later after the water warms. Worked other reaction baits for the next half hour and decided reaction was not the way to go, high pressure and dead calm conditions not a good combination. Chenged over to a jig and rigged up a brush hog for my son. My son cought a couple and I was able to pick up 3 quality fish ripping the jig in the grass. With the sun high and dead flat water we went looking for bed fish. We found quite a few but they were just male smallmouth that were just setting up some were locked others not. My son just had a ball watching the fish eat the bait he got to real in all of them except the one female large mouth that went 5+. Off the water at 1 with a total of 18 fish best 5 going 14lbs.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Even though we have had some very warm temps this week the fish are still acting like it is March. The fish have yet to move up in any real big numbers. Sight fishing is real good with the water being so clear and the flat conditions. With all the weather coming in this weekend look for the reaction bite to go and the sight fishing to go away.

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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It is still fun to be surprised when going bass fishing!! I offered to take some folks from the Outdoors Writers of California conference (held in Fairfield) to Berryessa for a fishing trip today. I knew it was on a Monday but didn't know it would been after the first "summer" weekend of the year. The weekend boat traffic must have been so bad that the water clarity in the narrows went from 15+ feet to 3 or 4!!! That helped the fishing! I was hoping for a few fish for my guests but we did even better - landing 13 bass - the biggest a nearly 18" spot that hit a white/chartreuse Piranha swim jig in the back of a cove. Our best 5 around 11 lbs. We caught 9 spots, 1 LM, and 1 SM. Most fish were in the top 10 feet and seemed to prefer MMIII Robo worms again in the 6" size. I had one of my guests, Kathie Morgan, drop-shotting but the bass seemed to want the split-shot rig more. She ended the trip in style with a near 16" spot split-shotting a MMIII Robo worm. We fished the narrows because of the limited time schedule. Fun day!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We ran into Carol Martens (Aaron's mother) on the water with 2 other writers. It was good to see her again. She towed her boat up from Southern Cal to fish Berryessa - for the first time - I think. Not sure. Bass are definately staging on points and working their way to the backs of coves. Some bass may spawn in different areas this year because the backs of coves are pretty small this year. We caught bass in most areas we fished and did find a good concentration in one areas. Hope it holds up for Wed!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out late afternoon/evening. Fished around the damn area and around the bridge. picked up quite a few spotted bass in between the spillway and buoys. Also that island that is by the damn produced quite a few fish as well. We were throwing Rat L Traps in crawdad colored patterns. Also were getting fish off of Hula grubs (double tail) on jig heads. I will be out there again this weekend.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: it was very hot (upper 90's) when we went out and we picked a lot of our fish up from shady areas.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubed the keys looking for the PB fish. Ended up with 3 fish all under 3lbs. Did lose one that was big, I was picking out a professional back spin :), when my line takes off . I reeled up the extra line but didn't get a good hook set. I did tell me to sloooow down . Dead sticking caught my fish .I Caught them on 6 inch senko , (watermellon black flake). I also wanted to thank those indivuals on the docks who put up rope or cables to keep people from fishing the docks. Whatever your feelings for float tubers I wanted to give a big thak you to the guy in the ranger that pulled up to me and went around me . What was nice to see is we cruised down a 100 yards or so to give me enough bank to fish . We didn't coc* block me and gave me some fishable water. I can't say everyone used the same attitude toward me today .
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Fish Slow and watch out for rope and cables.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Noticed that there isn't a lot of truthful reports surfacing recently probably due to the big tourneys coming up. Knocked the crap out of them on cranks up in the north end. Anything running 3-4 foot deep and with some purple or chart. on it worked. Speed traps, CB's fat free, it all worked. Nothing worth talking about in the Keys. Got a few decent ones between Jago and Konocti, but most of the quality fish were up north. A few on buzzbaits in the am too. Best 5 over 26lbs with an 9.1 kicker.

      good luck
      City: Benicia

      Tips: find the subtle offshore breaks and such. You might look like you are fishing int he middle of nowhere, but it will pay off.

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      Water Temp: Hope it warmer

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and some friends will be headed down from Washington on Thursday night to fish Clear Lake for 10 days. I can't freaking wait!!!!! See you on the water.

      We will be staying in a rented house in the keys. Look for a White, yellow and black skeeter and a Ranger fish and ski. Stop by and say hello or just have a beer.

      Mike
      City: Enumclaw

      Tips: Don't know yet but I hope to find out real quick!

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

      Report: does anyone troll with downriggers here? I have never been here before, if so, where at, the dam? or around the boat launch in the south end. Just wondering, I have a little brother and my cousin I want to get on some trout. I don't care about the size I just wanna hook up. Any tips would be appreciated
      City: Fremont

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

      Report: Can anyone tell me what the speed limit is in the lake right now? Is it still 5 mph?
      City: san mateo