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Saturday, March 14th, 2009

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49.5-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The previous post had a typo it was supposed to read "24 anglers for 7 limts" not 2 anglers for 7 limits - doh!
      City: Santa Rosa

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      Water Temp: 49.5-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club had it's Spring tournament on Clearlake Saturday. 2 anglers for 7 limts and a total of 62 fish caught. First place Jon Adams had 5 fish for 24.77lbs and 2nd big fish @ 6.5lbs, 2nd place Jerod Adams had 5 fish for 21.31lbs, Steve Adams had 5 fish for 17.92lbs and big fish 7.26lbs, 4th place Paul Facio had 5 fish for 15.92lbs. A lot of fish were caught on cranks and jigs and drop shot in the South end. The wind made it difficult to fish a lot of spots but still a lot of great fish brought to the scales.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: REBC's next tournament is at Lake Sonoma April 18th. Our next club meeting is on April 8th at 7PM at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. If you want to get to be a better Bass'er and fish with some great guys whether boater or non-boater come to our next meeting and sign up for the April tournament. We wil have a guest speaker at this meeting and we have a raffle every month. For more info, check out our club web site at www.rebc.net

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 51'ish

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Jensen and I took a tip from Matt and hit collins today. Late start around 4pm. Jensen picked up 2 keepers on a rattlebait while I struggled w/the huddleston. I finally got bit, 2 times on one cast, which kept me throwing it. Matt shows up w/ two 7's and his personal best, an 11.8.........omg, I am so happy for him! He tells me where to go, so I went there. Stuck a 5+ spot which comes off...........rats. stick another that comes off. Jenson misses one.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Fishing a huddleston is a workout. I figure I had 4 bites in 4 hours...........It was frustrating as guys around us were catching way more than we were.

      Thanks Big ED for the helpful hints. Thanks for Matt also as he is somewhat computer illiterate.

      Maybe it will get even better!

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started out today at around nine o'clock again in the boat was my good friend will we decided last night that today was a hunt for big fish day so he only brought three swim bait rods but he only needed one the huddelston deluxe was the food for the day I started the day with a 6 pound spot near the dam then a 4 pound largie on the east side followed by a 5.5 pound largie on the east side then will picked up a 3.5 pound largie all were hud rof 5 and 12 in rainbow trout around 1:30 the bite died so I switched to a drop shot marg mut and picked up 4 small fish for will's mom at around 4:30 the hud bite started back up will stuck a 6 pound spot same place i got mine near dam then he strocked an 11 pounder after the hoopn and holarin i caught a 8.5 in same area on east side of the lake this concluded our day after pics and weights at the store they were all released to be caught again.
      City: grass valley

      Tips: HUDDELSTON DELUXE!!!!!!!!! 5 TO 8 FEET the fish are moving up to spawn and feed so go catchem chuck and wind it will work!!!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of graite bay saturday. Fished the north fork the whole day for 1 small mouth on a hula grub and a couple missed strikes. caught our only fish 19ft deep first thing before the wind really picked up. threw hula grups, rip baits, cranks, senkos, spinner baits, shakey head.
      City: Reno, NV

      Tips: try something else...

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

      Report: CBL with our second tourney of the year. 14 boats fished and most of the fish came on drop shot, worms in craw patterns. Other limits came on senkos and carolinas. One team caught some on cranks. It seemed the bigger fish 3#s were caught and lost on the jig.(the ones that get away are always big, LOL) Most guys fished from Barrets to the south. Winning teams was 6# 15oz, big fish 1#14oz that should pick up next month. Our next tourney in at Los Banos May 16, interested? 988-5818
      City: turlock

      Tips: It was better a week ago. Fish it slow and be ready for it to unload next month. Alex, great to here you're fishin the Van Guilder Tourny. I have a couple you or anyone else can fish at McClure also in April/May

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat. morning before the rain came, overcast, windy, and cold. My buddy and I each caught a 1.5 lber. Both were caught on shaky head and I had a purple and blue flake cenko. I caught mine on the banks of the tullys. Can't wait till it warms up these next few weeks.

Friday, March 13th, 2009

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out with my 4 year old for around 5 hours. Flat calm blue bird day. Great weather but the fishing is still a little slow for this time of year water is still a little on the cold side. Water is in good shape with a nice green color and a little stain to it. As far as the bite we cought 8 fish in the 5 hours all on brush hogs and jigs none on reaction and all of them buck small mouth running around 1.75-2.25 lbs. Not a very big limit around 10, will be looking for bigger fish next week.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: All of the fish came from spawning areas so the small mouth are definitely staging.They were holding in water from 2-25 ft. Did not seem to be any real big numbers of fish just one here one there. I will be on the water March 20th helping out with the Future Pro Tournament. If any of you are looking into starting tournament fishing Future pro would be a great place to start wish they were around when I started.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday 7 AM to 2 PM. Sunny, no wind. Fished Old River and Mildred Island. Caught 1.5 to 2 lb'rs all day. 1 Every 15 minutes. Fish were spread out. Tried everything in the tackle box, NO reaction bite. Only took 6" worms Watermelon or green w/red fleck. Absolutely NO bite, NO movement. Still A GREAT day
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Pull up sloooow and stop if there's ANY resistent set the hook.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are up getting ready to do their thing. Lots of males on beds. Found a couple of areas where the females are ready to come up on the the beds. Got an 8lb and a 6lb, all the rest of the fish for the day were in the 2-4lb range. Looks like it will only keep getting better. More and more boats every week. Good luck.
      City: ventura

      Tips: Fish shallow, senkos, worms the usual spawning baits.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back out to collins whith my good friend will took our time rollin out of bed and got on the water around nine not much going on for the first twenty minutes the wind was calm and there were alot of trollers since they stalked on the 12th the lake is about 17 or 18 feet from spilling so we headed for the points with light on them first had no takers on cranmkbaits or tubes switched to rof 12 hud and picked up a 3.75 so threw the huds for the rest of the day i got two more a 4 pound spot and a 6.75 large mouth will picked up his 3.75 largie on a rof 5 hud i lost another giant close to ten in the same area as last month this time she hooked up jumped and threw the bait i will get this pig!! I hope? talked to a few bass guys but they were'nt having any luck back out tommorrow hope for the same sucess its beautiful out there right now so go have fun

      Tips: the water is still cold alot of the fish are very pale so there coming out of deep water i have been cathing them in about 5 to 8 feet on points and dark rock areas so throw huds till your arm falls off just chuck and wind like crank bait it will work.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hi, this is for the person asking for help on the rip bait. I am telling you right now, go to folsom, put a Lucky craft staycee 90 on in any shad type color, then find the warmest water you can locate, hint, not in either arms where cold water flows into. Then, find points, toss swallow, and start ripping. you will catch a limit in less then 1 hr right now, and a good limit at that. hope it helps. Mesh matt Triton tr-21
      City: folsom

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: my tournament partner and i went out on my bday yes friday the 13th.Pulled up to our first spot i was tossing a spinnerbait caught 2 fish right away chris was throwing rip bait 2 caught 2 also and missed about 6 fish we also tossed jigs and worms caught a few more fish biggest fish was a small mouth on a blade over 4# our best 5 went around 13#
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Slow roll blades rip slow and work points.I would also like to think renee byer for putting our picture in the sacramento bee.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from noon to 3pm. Wind pushed strongly from the dam toward piney creek and a bit east as well. The water was very clear at over 8 feet, debris dimishing everywhere except an area near horseshoe bend, likely an inflow from bagby creating flotsam area. Water much higher over the last week. THe pilings near south barrett are covered. The water is approaching the tunnel at mclure point. The water is remarkably unchanged in temprature.

      Fishing was inactive.

      The trout trollers seemed centered at the dam, and hugely at bagby, but the bank fishermen were doing well as well.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: look deep again...25-30ft and slow....some fish may still be shallow, but I missed them.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Friday with a buddy fished from sun up to sun down with no bites we did not even see a fish. You can see down 20+ feet in some areas. We tried everything from deep to shallow cranks, swimbaits, jigs,drop shot, shaky head, off of points,islands and drop offs. There was not a cloud in the sky with hardly any wind i think that played a roll as well as the fact that it is just starting to warm up out there. Good luck and tight lines.
      City: Citrus heights

      Tips: It should be getting better everyday as long as the weather permits and we can get that water temp up so the fish become more active in there journey to the spawn.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Rivers End. No bass bites at all trying Senkos, jigs, rattletraps, Stacey90s, & Nates bait. Switched up to swimbaits and caught 6 stripers and many more near-catches near the surface. Biggest was 32". Watch other boat catch bass from a distance using dropshot in less than 10ft of water.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: If ur after bass, use dropshot.
      If ur after stripers, use white swimbaits.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my master angler buddy float tubed out of Westgate Park. Nice day with windy,bluebird skies. We started fishing about 10:00 and took about two hours before we nailed our first three fish. Two of them weighed about 2 lbs each and the other was 3. We caaught all 3 in the same place with in 20 minutes. I think the water was starting to warm up. We were using texas rigged plastics. Later, probably around 3:30 my master angler buddy nailed a nice 4 lber on a 5" swimbait.
      City: Galt

      Tips: Fish deeper,outer weedlines. Don't waste your time waking up too early.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for five hours this afternoon and had a good time.concentrated on deep rock piles in the south end using the shaky-senco.Stuck around 20 with a 4 lb kicker and a few nice 3,s.Couldent get em to bite the cranks or swims today.
      City: lower lake

      Tips: Use smelly jelly or other sents on your plastics,it makes a big difference.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Found a good bite in the 10 to 15 foot range on jigs. No rip fish, mybe because I have no clue what Im doing. Seems odd the fish are so shallow with the cold water.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: I could use some tips from anyone.

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: STILL COLD

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a chance fishing the island for smallies on a buzz bait. Surprisingly, picked up two (a 4 an a 1.5). This bite only lasted for an hour at best in the morning. The water level still really needs to come up for the fishing to turn on. There is o much great structure that is still high and dry right now.
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: Pray for rain!!