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Thursday, March 26th, 2009

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I made the long haul to Pardee yesterday to see if things were better 2 weeks ago. As usual, the largemouth were nicer to me, but a 4 lb 13 oz smallie put a smile on my face. She took a #301 5" Senko on my first cast with that bait - about 4:30 pm. I had caught a 2 3/4 lb smallie and two largemouth earlier in the day. After photos and releasing the big one, I fished the Senko for another hour straight - not a touch! Before I quit, I fished an off-shore rock pile from fun and got nailed by a 2 3/4 largie - again on the first cast (jig)! That was followed by 2 more 3 lb largies. So, hard work, but 7 bass total with my 5 best at 16+ lbs. Gorgeous scenery and wildflowers this time of year!! Almost makes slow fishing worth it, har!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: 6 of my 7 bass were on Blade Runner and Rodstrainer jigs - all brown/orange with a 5" #180 Yamamoto double tail grub. I always use the double tail in very clear water where sight is important too. I was using a 1/2 oz jig which they seemed to like. I did that because of the wind and fishing deep water - but most of the quality bass were 12 feet or less. I caught fish in the narrows and the main body. Water temp was about the same everywhere - best I found was 59.7.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass fishing is starting to pick with large live minnows are working well.Baby brushogs are also working and jigs/twin tail grubs are picking bass up to 2 1/2 pounds from 15 to 35 feet.Dam area for live minnows 15 to 40 feet.Not much traffic durning the week.Trout are still being caught off the banks on rainbow powerbait or nightcrawlers.

      Tips: Bass are starting to move up live baits your best bet for the bigger bass. Dam area is holding some good fish off the face across the dam and around the tower.Jigs brushogs use on flats next to deeper water around rock piles fish are also holding.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50.5-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out yesturday and fished from 6:45 to 12pm with a buddy caught a total of 7 fish. worked main body in the morning caught a couple on dd22 on some points then went up north fork and caught a 4+ spot on a 6in rof12 hudd headed back out to the main body and caught a couple more on dartheads. All fish came in the 8-15ft range.
      City: roseville

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: a few on cb's, a few on white spinnerbaits, about 13 on a red crawdad colored ST, banging the bottom..
      City: auburn

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: Warming up

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out a little late and my money spots didn't pay off. I did hit my biggest bass this season though (5.2 lbs) on a solo branch sticking up out of the flats at the northern end near the boat dock. Again, my white spinnerbait comes to the rescue!
      City: Ukiah

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

      Report: Fished South End of the South Lake on the East Bank. Found an opening in the tulles. Threw white on white blades and caught 2 bass biggest 4lbs. Dragged football jig craw color caught another two biggest went 5lbs.
      Only fished less than an hour if stayed longer most likely would have caught more
      City: Bay Area

      Tips: Everything fished slow. Stay on eastern bank (wind blown side)

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: actually the concrete ramp is in and has been for ten days, centimudi is a mess and unusable with 200 yards of debris, Packers is the best right now
      City: redding

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm heading down to shasta next week. Can you use the jones valley ramp yet? Also should I stay in the main lake or head up one of the arms?Sure would like a responce from someone. Thanks!!
      City: lakeview oregon

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It

      Tips: <a href="http://www.russnyders.com/">Rus Snyders Guide Service</a>

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out again and caught 4. missed a few others, bent the gamakatsu hook!!!!! then half heartedly set the hook and had a 5 plus pounder on for 5 seconds and popped off. fish are getting ready to spawn. marks are all over the fish.
      City: brenthood

      Tips: throw bottom baits, fish are spawning

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the delta Tuesday and Wed. for the first time this year with poor results. Fished both days throughout franks dealing with the strongs winds and cold temps only landed 5 fish, biggest fish went 5.7. Talked to several other guys who concurred on the slow bite.
      City: Watsonville

      Tips: White Spinnerbaits, fish seem to be shallow. Just need a few more warm days.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mother Nature, thanks for all the WIND N Cold front that chilled the lake to a chilly 59 in the morning and 60.9 in the afternoon last Sunday the 22nd. Bass were biting pretty darn good before that. Now I had to fish them deep at their comfront zone.....Give me that good warm 64 water and all is well here.
      City: San Dimas

      Tips: Forget the bed(sight) fish as they are no challege,offer a fatter meal of plastic and slow slow slow fish it...Hang on, Casitas has all nice healthy fat bass.....

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: ---

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Heading to Collins lake April 4 and 5. Wondered if there was any generous individual that might suggest some locations on the lake that tend to produce.. Dont want your secret spots and I know its a small lake so any information would be appreciated. you can email me if you would like. Thanks guys, apparently i will be bringing a Hudd.
      City: Reno, NV

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: REAL TOUGH DAY. THE LAKE IS STILL DOWN ABOUT 8 FEET. AREAS THAT I FISHED LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME ARE OUT OF THE WATER.THE SPAWN HAS NOT STARTED YET.THE NEXT FULL MOON AROUND THE TENTH OF NEXT MONTH THINGS SCHOULD PICK UP.
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: SENKOS AND JIGS NO REACTION BITE. STAY OUT OF THE WIND.

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

      Report: Does anyone fish this lake, or is it so secret no one posts reports? I am coming up for four days in April, and I would appreciate someone to let me know anything. Thanks.
      City: Sacramento

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

      Report: Hey Robert, Whiskeytown lake is an extremly clear, and cold lake. It is a very difficult lake to fish so you don't get a lot of weekend fishermen there, they usually go to shasta. Whiskeytown is fished by mostly tournament guys, that is why no one reports. Try using watermelon baby brush hogs on a c-rig or watermelon red flake senkos in the the fall downs in the coves. Some guys do well throwing trout swimbaits and D-shot halogram shad in a 4 one half inch curltale.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Use the latest line possible, has to be flurocarben, and oil your reels for extremely long cast, and good luck, if you don't get any success shasta isn't that far from W-town!

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: LOW 50S

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I hadn't been to the lake in five weeks and was very excited to go fishing. Arrived at the lake around 10 PM Thursday night. We entered our cabin only to discover we had been robbed. Our TV was gone but the worst part was my favorite fishing rods and reels that I have used faithfully every week for the past ten plus years were taken too. Needless to say my heart was broken it was like losing a best friend. I had planned to fish on Friday morning and had to cancel. The water is murky from the rain run-off. My buddy Albert convinced me not to sit around and mope but to get out and fish a little. I went through some of my other rods and decided on a light spinning rod and put a R2S crawdad on. About fifty casts later I had no luck. It was very windy, cold and wet out. Albert had caught two nice bass earlier that morning but neither of us had any luck now. Albert wanted to wait for the four o'clock bite so I half-heartly agreed. Sure enough at around four another friend caught a bass. The water is still very low even after all the rain. I had really hoped to have an exciting report for you this week after so long an absence but circumstances beyond my control prevented me from fishing the way I had planned. Hope to be in a better mood next weekend and get out there and do some serious fishing. 'til next week.........................................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: NAPA

      Tips: FISH SHALLOW TO 10 FEET PLUS MUD LINES

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lauched around 8am, landed one spot on main body island with hula grub, about 3 lbs, right away, then the wind came instantly, by 1pm couldnt keep the boat still in the white caps so headed home
      City: placerville

      Tips: wait for less wind. other than that conditions were good

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite turned off. They are letting out a lot of water for some reason. The fish were up shallow before then, buit now UI can't catch a bite. Blue black jig and senkos, but no fish.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: Made my first trip to the Delta last monday after 6 months of spotted Bass fishing. Was welcomed by 30 knot winds and zero visibility water conditions, and 3 ft. rollers in piper slough. started around Frank's tract and sand mound but absolutely horrible conditions and no bites. Took the beating and ran south. Ended up with about a dozen bites, 8 in the boat, best five went 24 lbs with a couple 5 1/2's and one around 7 lbs. all on jigs. Sound good? they all came off one 200 yard stretch! everywhere else we fished we blanked. 2 passes on that bank two hours apart for all our bites. tough bite!! 3 other boats we talked to blanked.
      City: Hollister

      Tips: we didn't really fish anything but jigs because of the water temp drop the previous day. we were fishing pretty fast, popping the dragging the baits from the bank to about 4 or 5 ft. Solid bites, no doubt about it when you got picked up.