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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Lets keep it about fishing and reports of your day fishing on the water This reports area is not for arguments or general discussion.. It is for fishing reports. If you would like to have a discussion about something, please use our Fishing Forums. thank you , P.M1
      City: Elmira

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      Water Temp: warming up

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....the bitter man has spoken
      City: sac

      Tips: try to have fun and not get bitter

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday was a wet and windy day for the Junior Bass Club "NorCal Bass Ratz". Eleven anglers at 1:00 came in with 38 bass @ 43.79 lbs. Most of the bass were caught on darter head, Jigs, spinnerbaits and drop shot. All fish were released back into the lake.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: The weather should be warming up and the bass will move back on the bank.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had a trip cancel for Lake Berryessa so went up to Folsom for a few hours. Did some scouting in the North Fork and caught 6 fish up to 3 lbs on Carolina rigged Robo worms. Tried reaction baits but with the storms did not pan out. This will change when the weather does.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: This lake will be great so stick with it.

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Granite Bay Sunday morning to 10mph winds and light rain. Fished North Fork, got skunked and was blown off the water by 11am. A couple hours later the weather was gorgeous so we headed back out. Followed the wind looking for shelter. Landed 1 spot split shotting and missed another one. Slow bite with the storm moving out.
      City: Reno, NV

      Tips: This week should be better weather wise.

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The Bass Classics of Santa Clara Valley had there March tournament out of Holland Saturday and it was a tough bite for most. We had 25 guys catch 56 fish for a total of 170 lbs. There were four fish over 22 inches long which is 6.72 lbs in our club(we use the card system for the weigh-in). In first place with 17.90 lbs was Greg Dougald who was fishing the tullee islands and opening in Franks Tract with wacky style worms all day. In second place with 17.62 lbs was J.R. Taylor he caught fish on jigs, cranks and swimbaits. In third was Gordon Rydquist with 17.06 lbs.The first big fish was 6.72 lbs caught by Paul Barry and I Mike Espinola caught the second big fish a 6.72 lber on a crawdad crankbait.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Dirty water today and very little current so the fish were scattered or suspended off the bank. Use bright red or white cranks.

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      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Tract Marina Saturday morning, and fished all day. Ran to Indian Slough for 1 miss, got 0 in Discovery Bay. Ran to latham slough where there must have been 10 boats.. boated one small one and lost a hog. Total was 1 on a 5" senko, 1 miss on a senko, and a lost hog on a secret bait. Cannot say what it was as we have an upcoming tournament...
      City: Reno, NV

      Tips: Anyone know who the tournament launcing out of Hollands this weekend was? And does anyone know the winning weights? I saw them releasing some good fish at the marina so I was curious. Thanks.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out today and tossed out some weightless senkos for the fish on the beds. wonderful day. caught about ten on beds biggest goin 6 pounds. then started to cast out ol reliable the spro bbz 1 swimbait fast sink and caught an 8 pounder off a rock point
      City: San Diego

      Tips: lake is getting a lot of boats and people can be total doooooooooosh bags. respect the persons water and dont pull up in front off them. throw the senkos weightless green pumpkin color

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53-58 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Clear Lake on Fri night. Got to the water at dusk and the wind was blowing pretty good. Made for an interesting ride to say the least. Launched out of Red Bud and stayed south of Konocti the whole trip. Started fishing @ 8pm and found the bite to be pretty good. Picked up two fish within 5 min. of getting my line wet. Both fish I picked up on a Basstrix Spintrix in Hitch #2 w/ a 1/2 oz. Revenger head. Once it got really dark I got situated w/ my Black lights and started throwing Brush Hogs, Jigs, and a Chatter Bait later in the night. Fish seemed to be healthy. Nice football sized fish. The early bite was good till appx. 10:30 and didn't pick back up for me till around 12am. My better fish didn't come till after 2 am. I fished from a little after dusk til 5 am. Im sure I finished w/ 19 fish. Big fish of the night was 7lbs even maybe an oz over. (Caught on a Blk/Blue Chatter Bait close to 4:30am WOW) Best five appx 25.5-26lbs. Fishing is still good for me and will be heading back up to the lake on Wed. night pending the wind factor. HAHA!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Pulled up on Lunker Larry @ 2am and watched him put on a show landing what seemed like a dozen fish but I think was 6-8. He seemed to be having a consistent night as well but like me hadn't landed any real quality yet. Funny story of the night was Larry and Chatting about how quiet the lake was of traffic and for the exception of the swirling wind, it was a beautiful night. Then a boat pulls up on us both within 20 yards and begins fishing. Im thinking to myself 200 miles of shoreline on this lake and the only 3 boats out here are within 30 yds of eachother. HAHA! You never know Marty of MP Night Fishing may have been somewhere out there so that assumption may be false. HAHA Anyhow get out there and get your lines wet fishing is still pretty good at night. I like the night time anyways this time of year because you have the whole lake to yourself except on Fri. that was the exception. One last thing, When you tighten your drag to break off a jighead stuck in the rocks don't forget to adjust your drag back after you retie and make the next cast. That stupid mistake cost me two good fish that strighted my hook out. One on a Brush Hog and one on a jig. Only problem w/ using heavy floresent superlines at night is they are hard to break when you get hung and can't get it out.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out yesterday with the new boat to get it in the water and try and catch a few fish. We hit the water at about 1030hrs. The water was white capped the entire time we were out there. (till approx 1530hrs) We threw everything from crankbaits (liped and lipless) to spinners to jigs and brush hogs with no luck. It was extremely windy and once the rain moved in we left. Hopefully well have better luck next time.
      City: Newman

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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I did something different last night (this morning!) and fished from 11:30 pm to 5 am. After catching a few 2 pounders at Rattlesnake Island, I moved to the next spot uplake as the wind picked up. I tried to turn on my blacklight again but it quit! Don't know the problem yet but had to "fish by feel" in the dark of the moon - in now stiff wind! Naturally I missed more than my share but I did land 12. My bigger bass came about 4 am, but the biggest was only 5 1/4. I did have a nice limit "by feel" at 22 pounds! Luckily, my last few bigger bass hit a Piranha swim jig and I could feel them real good. They would just "mouth" a brush hog. Again, I fished rock only - rock flats and steep shoreline rocks. No fish deeper than 15-18 feet.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Many, many clients and others have asked me about the wind patterns at Clear Lake - and they are interesting! Clear Lake is the only place in the world that the wind can blow all 4 direction inside of two minutes - and I was there - at Dollar Island!! I often joke with clients, telling them that Clear Lake is God's "practice wind tunnel." He tries out all the various wind patterns before sending them around the world! After mostly a calm lake since late Sept (except for winter storms), I have always felt that the weather pattern changes around the 15th to the 20th of March, as the pattern switches to the costal weather pattern of afternoon spring and summer winds which will often blow into the night. This mornings north wind was on schedule - the 20th! That pattern is what creates the summer costal fog patterns in the late afternoons. Anybody remember Candlestick Park summer night Giants games? Brrrr! While this pattern doesn't bother the Lakeport area fishing that much (it blows offshore), the rest of the lake can be very rough after 4 pm. During the spring and summer heat spells, the wind isn't so bad and often quits at dusk. When a summer cold front moves in and the temp drops 15-20 degrees, you can count on "rough seas" for a day or two. Beware - it is often fairly calm at blastoff (dawn) during these periods, but by 8 or 9 am, things will change in a hurry - with heavy winds coming from the north. As we get into Sept, the winds are less fierce and gradually mello out as Oct arrives. When are the most beautiful days in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and other coastal areas? You guessed it - Oct and Nov!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all over, Started out on the main body...nothing. Moved South.....Nothing, although we saw a couple being caught by another boat, he was using 1/8 oz darter heads. Moved North caught 2 both on T-Rigged worms. The conditions were not great, rainy, windy ect.
      City: Grass Valley

      Tips: Watch out there is a ton of debris on the water. Also mix it up, talked to a few people that were catching them on jerk baits, darter heads, and t-rigged.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught on swimb8s. open water.
      City: SR

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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      City: SR

Friday, March 20th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had the future pro tournament this weekend fished friday and saturday found two diffrent patterns. The aquarium was holding some nice bass as usual but they were finicky.I found that if I texas rigged a 6 inch mm 111 on a 3/16 oz tungsten weight or put it on a drop shot then threw it into 8 to 10 feet of water and slowly I mean slowly you must feel every blade of grass then when it pulls free feel for a diffrent kind of pressure or small tap this was a solid pattern there were tons of fish there on friday they were 2.5 to 3 lbs. On saturday with the wind up they were 1.13 to 2 go figure I didn't find a solid reaction bite but some guys got a crank bite on lu-craft spring craw. The other pattern I found was in the narrows look for flater points with wind or waves on them enough to cause a mud line fish under this mud line with a dropshot purple or morning dawn worms worked the best. This was more of a hit or miss pattern when you got one or two fish off a point move to the next one thats all the active fish i would find on a point. Mostly these fish were 1.4 to 1.6 but if you needto finish a limit its a quick fix.
      City: grass valey

      Tips: This weekend it was about moving slow but in my opinion and from what the fish looked like very soon the lake will be wide open. So dont rule out the reaction bite cranks and swimmers should turn on soon good luck hope this helps.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day out. Not to many fish but caught a few LM to 2.5# and lost a Haug. caught em on minnows. The ones caught hit pretty good. Just fish and quit complaining. This is what it is now and I have been expressing my concerns by voice and by phone & mail. Welcome to the age of socialism (you all voted for it now shut up and just fish)
      City: san jose

      Tips: These fish are tired of seeing the same old plastics and they are also smart enough to read the sponsers on the sides of your boats. Quit spending thousands of dollars on plastics and try something "live" for a change.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57--61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake today from 7am to noon. Caught 12 bass to 4lbs. All males except the 4lbr. They were all shallow and relating to wood, mostly tree's and stumps in 4' of water. They hit a Tin roller spinnerbait in chart/white, black/blue and brown/brown jig, and carolina rig power worm 10" in camo color.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Males are making beds, preparing for the spawn, and are shallow from 2 to 6'. This week should really kick in the activity with the warmer conditions.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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

      Report: Uh - I should have said 8" Huddleston. Actually, I wanted you to guess - 8" what?!!

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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I spent Wed and Thurs afternoons a Collins to see what is going on. The big fish bite from last weekend has slowed some because of lack of wind and lots of folks fishing! I threw swimbaits mostly and did get some light hits - maybe from smaller bass. Finally, about 6 pm, I got THE bite and almost couldn't get the 8" out of her mouth! She was a beautiful largemouth at 8 lbs 14 oz and was able to release her totally unharmed. Congrats to the other anglers who are releasing their big ones too!!! Thurs afternoon the lake was dead calm and the bite really died for everyone. I did throw some Senkos in bushes but missed 3. I caught a spotted bass off-shore on structure.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The majority of bass are still to move shallow for spawning - which should happen in the next two weeks. Brush hogs and Robo worms will work well as the bass move up. Don't forget spinnerbaits while the water is murky!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is stained but warming up fast. Got in the water at 3 pm and fishied the north fork on the East side (warmer) using Darter Head and Drop Shot in 5-15 ft. We boated 12-15 spots and largies in three hours. The Bass are moving up and it's time for them to start. Crank-n and ripen for some anglers did will and a spinner bait. stay in the warmer waters and in shallow depth.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Warms work well