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Friday, May 9th, 2008

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 62+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South Fork. Hard to get out of the wind till later in the afternoon. Partner and I caught 15-20 fish, 3 over the slot.
      Senkos, tubes and the first Fluke fish of the year. Very agressive! Fluke fish up against the bank off and/or near tapered points. Senko and tubes mostly in 20ft.
      City: East Foothills Oroville

      Tips: Fish points and stump banks slowly. Sandy banks also held fish at mud line.
      Notice: Bidwell Ramp closed tomorrow (Saturday May 10th). Be safe, warm weather has arrived!!!

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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

      Report: Half the fish were on beds the other half not. Caught around 20 with tubes and rips. All the big hens that we caught were not on beds.
      City: susanville

      Tips: Get up early so you dont have to deal with the wind

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Put in @ Markley around 3 o'clock; not many skiers on the lake and it was cooing down. Started off with a purple worm w/fire tail and the fish kept eating the tail off! I shortened the worm up a bit and that got'em. Saw some breaking fish next to the bank so I went to a rebel topwater and I never looked back...they were all over it. I caught 25 in 4 hours 75% of those were on topwater. The size range was from 1-2.5 lbs and every fish had been on a bed, dirty bellies and split tails. I had a blast! While worm fishing I did notice that the fish were gently moving my worm off the bed and not really inhaling it so look out for that soft bite...
      City: Vacaville

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Same experience as previous post!! Very slow bite. Windy and cloudy.
      Electroshock sampling occurring in Santa Cruz bay - not sure who is conducting it.
      City: Santa Barbara

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to DB to my buddy's dock with my son for a quick fish last night 1st cast with double wide beaver stuck 8 pounder - I let my son reel her in....only fished for 1 hour caught another one male 2 pounder. Was getting bit but had to go. Just a quick fish at the end of the day.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Teach kids to fish and reel them in to gain experience for our future to continue.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: oh yeah let it be known, retired from san ramon was with me i did not catch all thoes by my self, although we both got nine, i did get the largest of them all at 6lbs, but honestly his first cast he landed a nice 4lber....
      City: san ramon

      Tips: dont forget to mention your buddy in fishing report cause he my get butt hurt.....

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We launched out of Red Bud and started fishing the docks heading south with only one fish hitting a Sammy, but didn't eat the bait. We caught one on a Dirty Sanchez Sweet Beaver along a wall and then it shut down. We headed across to the island and fished the tules with no luck. We decided to go to the "Egg Rock" and spent a while throwing jigs with no luck. After a run through the cement blocks John hooked a nice 4 or 5 pounder who came off at the boat on a jig. We moved up to the big willow tree and John hooked another one on the jig and got it in the boat! We continued toward the north end of the lake stopping and putting 2 more in the boat on a drop shot. These fish came in 10 feet of water at the end of a dock with grass. Good day, with 9 in the boat, all solid fish.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Brown and purple.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Skunked! Fished 6 hours from 1330 to 1930. Fished just the south creek end. Here is what didn't work: green pumpkin senkos, brown/purple jig, top water Spook, and MMIII on a shakey head. Saw lots of carp.
      City: Monterey

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yo Ben, wells, Shadow Cliff now its much worse than before but still able to find some good size fish. I lost a huge fish just about two weeks ago on the Jig that looks like double digit. Anyways, mainly I have fish across the side from the Arroyo Pond, its been producing some fish there under neath the trees. Jig i use natural color like watermelon or cinnamon. flip into the trees and let it sit there. Drop shot would work from the side where u start the tube..go toward right fish along the weed line. Senko works out good as well but you need to have patience to toss your senko.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: I am on the green tube caddis and asian guy. maybe i will see you around in the water. Good luck..keep posting some review

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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

      Report: On the water at 8:00 am, fished pts. @ main lake
      north of Spanish Flats 6 fish to m 2 lbs, moved to Oaks had 8 fish, 5 keepers to 2 1/2, 11:30 moved to Big Island caught about 14 mostly 1-2 lbs, decent action coves, pts, look for weeds off banks, even better with wood & rocks. Best 5 of the day about 14-16 lbs.
      City: south san francisco

      Tips: Yamamoto creatures in Baby Bass (texas rigged with small bullet), Senko's wacky rigged, split shot caught fish on baby bass, watermelon blk & gold flake, rainbow trout pattern 5" on all, seem like they like the green color. Bite was good with the wind ripple on water.

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      Water Temp: 65-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to oak shores. The bite was tough as steel until the end of the day when I caught a 12# LM! caught him on a purple magnum sized zoom lizard, texas style with a 40/ and half ounce weight cant wait to get back out there
      City: peidmont

      Tips: dont give up!!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: had good day today,caught 18 total best five 23lbs got some early on high tide on spinner bait then the gail force winds picked up had to get off the island tullys went over to tiki and got in some cover, used sinkos and lit them up. that bite slowed and some how the wind slowed up to so went to rocks and tullys got them again on spinner and speed trap.as the wind yet picked up again choose not to fight it and called it a day.so as plastic man said lots of pictures and let them all go...i only hope that everybody else lets them go, if you do keep some keep the two and three pounders leave the breeders to do their jobs for future fishing days....
      City: san ramon

      Tips: if its to windy find some cover use plastic...

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the morning in Franks Tract. Wind seem to be 20+. Picked up a small one on c-rig then my boat got stuck on a submerge rock (peat moss)the wind kept me lodge in and nothing I could do could get me off. Thankful tghat the only other boat in the tract was a ranger fishing nearby who came to my assistance and pulled me off (otherwise, it would be a long wait for the tide to come in.) Moved to Mildred and continued to throw swim baits, sp;inners and cranks but no takers. Wind died down and threw senkos and the fish were on. Everytime I switched to something else, no bites. They only wanted worms and dead sticking. Didn't matter what color. Best 5 was over 16lbs with the biggest at 6 lbs. Not bad for a windy, windy day.
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: Fished outgoing tide with senkos, deadsticking and wacky. Didn't matter what color, they were very light bites. Had to watch line, which is tough in the wind. Not holding tight to the tulles, seemed to be post spawn in deeper water.

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      Water Temp: 62 DEG

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well got a late start out of B&W resort wind was blowing like usual caught some really nice fishhad 5 in the boat first half hour biggest went four and a half pounds took off to whits slough by then water was super freakin low broke off a couple in whites sloughh moved over to venice no takers bite went dead most fish were caught on the first 3 hrs of run out did some nice scouting for future outings seen some nice places need to go back and fish on the top of tide and first hrs of run out had a good day through back a couple of beers and caught and released some nice fish took some pics but still cant figure out how to post them up waiting for e mail back from W.B, so i can log in, sure wish they left the site the way it was but guess they had their reasons... Tight lines to all c ya on the water
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: Senkos , had one blow up no luck on blades or swim baits water was too low

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another great client (and good fisherman) and I launched out of Red Bud at 8 am just as two other rigs had already taken out and were going to the north end to get out of the wind. Another horrible windy morning got me wondering if we would last - but we did - fishing protected lower lake areas and even in Cache Creek, then slowly working our way up the lake as the wind gradually let up after 1 pm. I was very pleasantly surprised at our results - 16 in the boat with two 4 1/2 pounders - overall best 5 near 20 1/2 lbs. I was very pleased. We caught bass as shallow as 2 feet - mostly in tulle areas. Wacky Senkos were again the key, although a few were caught on green pumpkin worms, AND - one on a brown/orange Rodstrainer jig - finally!!!!! Unlike last Thursday, we only saw one bass under a dock in the afternoon. A few places that were good last week were dead today. Most hookups today were non-bites - just pressure. It is always great to have a better day catching than one would expect!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Any tips that I would give would probably be blown out tomorrow!! A spring to forget!! Again, the #301 Senko worked very well as did one or two of the two/color laminates (912 and 926). My client did fish swimbaits a fair amount and actually had 2 hits, but no connections. I thought they would produce with the wind. One or two of the bigger bass seemed to have already spawned. Again, the bite was shallow - about 2 to 8 feet.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my dad out again,I caught 25 and my dad 24 plus a cuple trout.My best fish was an 18"bass.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Green clored plastics and jerkbaits.

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at lake around 5:30pm. I wanted to take my kids fishing but questioned why I was there when I looked at the wind formed waves knocking the boats around on the dock. We all put on Life Jackets and decided that we would try. Motored across the lake to the North shore and tucked into a quiet cove. Over the next couple of hours we caught small (no bigger than 14") spots. Most came on hologram shad 41/2" curly tail Roboworms dropshotted in 2-20 feet of water.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: The fish were easy to find but be sure to bring bumpers for your boat if the wind is up, wind + boat wakes = large rollers coming directly into the launch ramp.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am going to be at shasta 14-18, I usually do just fine fishing in fact I usually catch more fish than anyone on the houseboat. But I have never fished with the water as low as it is, does it change the places you fish? We usually spend the most time on the pit. But it doesn't relly make any difference to me. I usually just use 4-5" powerworms or sencos and catch a lot of fish.
      City: Creswell OR

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Markly coveat 7:00 amcaught 20 fish all small dinks had a good time top water was on fire this morning barely made it out of markleys .finnaly picked up and went around lake on some of my favorite spots . did well till 11:00 bite died of . had a good day lots of fun going to the delta tomorrow hope wind lays down . took some pictures going to post up in photo section. nothing in size Dave , got to go to the delta for the monsters , lake was like a duck pond today and hot
      City: Elmira

      Tips: senko 4 inch finnesse worm with tail watermelon they were all over it..... went through bag and a half, pop- r for top water

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out on water 9:30 and had no luck, 2 short smallies on dropshot. Threw senko, dropshot, small swimbait and jerkbait. Few strike but couldn't set that hook. Weather nice gut wind picked up around noon, off water at 2.
      City: Santa Maria