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Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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

      Report: Tough day. It's been awhile since I've been skunked. My partner and I both ended up with 0 fish. We fished different depths with a variety of baits and only had one tick. Hopefully it will pick up soon.
      City: Union City

      Tips: ?????

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      Water Temp: 50-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Misery loves company. I too have been in the "Mother of All Slumps". Franks Tract today with not a single bite. Tried jigs, Senkos, spinnerbaits, crankbaits (lipped and lipless) Sweet Beavers and Carolina rigged Margarita Mutilator. Nothing! Totally frustrated. Guess my "Excuse Du Jour" will be the muddy water.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Keep wettin' the lines...

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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 1st off thank you Rich for that report.Nice to hear from a pro. I haven't posted in a long while myself. Having a tough time myself. I have 3 fish this year, in 8 trips. Today was a zero but I know they are around based on water temp and the reports. Worked the Texas rig and the jig all day ( 6 hours) couldn't get 1 strike. I have had way better than this by now in earlier years but we know each is different. Don't know what is next but I will continue the quest.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Have zero tips

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice to fish a full pond again, caught about 20 fish on spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, LV 500's, Dropshot, and tubes. Fish were 10'-30' deep.
      City: Lincoln

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 58.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Knocked 'em out today! We had 6 fish today split-shot Powerwormin' different shorelines around stickups. Fish are 5-15 feet deep with clear water. They hit better in the morning,but there were ALOT of fish up and ready to be caught our whole trip. Fished from 6-11:30. Fish were all 2-4 pound range. Lots of bed fish,but they were harder to catch.No Giants...:( Had a great day!
      City: Oxnard

      Tips: Split-shot Power Worm along brush lines and drop offs 5-15 ft. deep. Good Luck!
      Please add more reports you guys. Guys like me are still learning and we DO check this for info. and tips. Thanks!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with John to watch his son fish the college fishing FLW tournament. Great event. Lot of wind Friday and only got 3 fish to 3.6#. One on a rock pile drop shot, one on a deep crank bite, John got one on a shaky head. Dock talk was all fish on plastic and deep. Didn't fish shallow but should have. Fished bottom walker, paddle tale, cranks and others but no real luck. None of the favorite spots producet. Lots of pressure from the FLW may have had an impact. John's son (Jimmy Sweeney from Chico State)told us that the fish were moving up near rattlesnake. After the weigh in we took a quick run down there. Got 4 in about an hour and lost 4 more, lots of fun. Very soft bite fish seemed to be staging. If the weather holds it should be exciting soon! Fish came on Helix and Drop shot in less than 10 feet.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Test the shallows or find your favorite rock pile.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a small tournament on Sunday with around 15 teams. We managed our 5 fish limit for 9.80 with all fish on a jig. I missed 3 or 4 others bites. Caught fish from 5 feet out to 30 feet. We took 7th with 1st place at 13 something. Stassey's worked for them all day and 2nd place was with darterheads Aron's Magic. Sunday I went back for a few hours and managed 1 nice smallie and 1 nice spot on a crank bait.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Keep the lines wet...the more you fish the more fish you will catch.

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      Water Temp: 49 to 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well me and my brother decided to give it a go and try are luck got on the H20 about 1 pm and were amazed at how much the lake had gone up I started out by throwing a LiL Gorge and bam 3rd cast and got a 2 lb spott my brother was throwing a drop shot and swim bait with no luck then put on a white chatter bait and hooked up on nice spott that just plowed it a couple of more cast and bam he hooked into another . we also tryed X raps,rattle traps and dart heads but only had luck with the chatter bait and Lil Gorge we ended up with a total of fifteen biggest going 3 lbs all spotts and 2 small mouths
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: well they will be spawning soon all fish had eggs and moving in to shallow water caught fish from 3 to 15 feet cover a lot of water fish seem to be spread out

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished deeper water without success. Graphed fish anywhere from 15' to 75'. Finally, caught a 3# at ATM in 11' and a 1# at 6'.
      City: Cameron Park

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is still coming up and the fish are so scatted and not biting. I used everything on my boat and found nothing that the fish wanted. The upper south fork was muddy but warmer than the North Fork. Good luck. After the bass stabilize the bite should get better.
      City: Rocklin

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: hey matt its not about fishing where the dogs are at, its about trying to get in and out of the water with your float tube. it kinda sucks when there are between 6-12 dogs running around knocking your rods to the ground,jumping on you ,barking,growling and the owners just stand there and think its cute
      City: it dont matter

      Tips: so now you stop crying

Friday, March 6th, 2009

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Lakes for about 3 hours yesterday. There have been some changes since my last time out there last year. I fished the Impoundment for about 30 minutes,entirely on the left side of the bank. Two Carp fisherman with 2 rods each took up the rest of the bank. I threw soft plastics YUM Craw Bug, a purple plastic worm. Nothing. Moved to the pier on the other side of the bridge for another 30 minutes. Hey! Guess what? Another Carp guy at the pier! I also saw a fisherman in a small rubber dinghy in the tules with a long rod/ bobber outfit fishing for carp.I worked the tules with a black and blue jig YUM wooly hawg trailer. Not a bite. The bank on the South Lake bridge side is being restored, so I didn't fish there. Moved to the docks/pier on the other side of the South Lake by the old restaurant. Tossed a spinner bait into the wind along the tules and on the pier. Nothing biting. I moved across the road to the North Lake. I rigged up a split shot and rainbow trout colored Baby Sluggo. Tossed it along some tules and nailed a small 14 inch bass. An interesting sunny day at Lake Merced. Smoked 2 Nicaraguan cigars and caught 1 large mouth bass. Not too bad. Maybe I should get some doughballs and fish for carp? Just kidding!
      City: Daly City

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: tell me where the fish are. ive been tryin this lake for so long. where they at!!
      City: rohnert park

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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

      Report: I tried the north end and the water was muddy with no visible mud lines. The farther south on the lake the clearer the water became. Cloudy and overcast. Caught 6 smallies on rocky points, 12-20 feet of water. All came on a white Booyah spinner with gold blade.
      City: Suisun city

      Tips: Take your kids fishing

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out at 530 and went to docks by tule point, started throwin cranks and hooked a decent 2lb. After a couple hours went to the jig and started pitchin around docks, natta .In between docks i crawled the jig around the boat ramps and started gettn bit. Couple of 3s and a 4. Fun day of fishn, but no clear lake monsters

      Tips: dont just fish da docks, ramps hold fish too

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north side and threw everything from dropshot to big swimbaits and jigs. Nothing going on. Thought I might find some fish on deeper points near coves but I couldn't get anything going. Had 1 peck on a football head jig but that was it for bass. I did manage 8 trout on 1/2 oz redeye shad...largest was 19" and the rest were the size of the Rago swimbait I was tossing.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Need some consistent sunshine to get the fish thinking about moving up shallow. I will keep at it in between trips to Contra Loma where the bass have at least staged on areas just off spawning areas.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 1-5pm. Weather was windy...comming from the NNW to SE. Caught fish on crankbaits..only 15" each, but aggressive in about 8-15' of water.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: The Mike Van Guilder Sr. Memorial tournament is comming up in April 26, 2009 and will be my first tournament. My 25hp boat and I are hoping to save face and boat a 5 fish limit so I'm keeping more to myself...sorry.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I haven't made a report in about a year...I doing this to help the individual that can't seem to do well at the moment. Im fishing small area's NEAR spawning area (Known) that have deep water nearby. What I recommend is put your head down and flip a jig. Trick is, SLOWDOWN, think your not slowin down enough. Slow some more. Watch youpr boat depth is another key to big fish. I try and keep my boat in 5-6ft of water with a long pitch if necessary. Im using a Bobby D's 1/2oz Black/Blue with a Netbait Baby Bama trailer.

      Area's that Im fishing alot right know is Franks, Washington Cut, Connection, Big Break somewhat and Taylor with some upper parts of piper (deep section). You don't have to run all over hell to catch quality fish. I've been using 3 rods. Jig, swimbait and a Texas Rig. With this you can cover all depths. You may change the above to meet your confidence level, everyone is different in approach.

      In the last 8-10 days there has been movement of big fish looking for a place to spawn. In about 1-2 weeks this place is going to be wide open. At the moment I've put in a 8lb 3oz, a 10.73 and a 9.06 today, all have been verified. Im going for a 50+ limit consisting the best 5 for 09. Counting fish over 7lbs. My Profile will show it and will update has I catch them.

      Good luck and hope this will help someone.
      Rich Thiel
      City: Bethel Island

      Tips: Deep channel's near Spawning flats or area's. Current is another option near flats. Fish slow, with a warm weather coming in the shallow water bite will be wide open. Look for grass in 5-6ft of water and work it with a swimbait or something that you can crawl.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: you guys need to stop crying about the dogs. I'm a fisherman there too and I personally could care less if the dogs are there or not. Ya the dogs stir up the water and scare the fish away. So what, the areas the dogs are in anyways suck and concentrate the fish elsewhere. To me the fishing is just as good if the dogs are there or not, just find another spot to fish.

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

      Report: What is high pool Elevation ?
      City: Salinas