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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: hopefully warme

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys, i just quickly need to ask if anyone's been catfishing at berryessa, or if you've heard any negative or positive reports of the conditions for catfishing right now. any advice helps: 'cause i'm going to berryessa this weekend for catfish using chicken liver, and i'm just wondering because the fishing report said there was no sign of cats, yet i know that some of those kinds of reports aren't always true. THANKS!!!!!!!
      City: el cerrito

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

      Report: Decided to celebrate my Birthday by going out on the Delta. Launched out of Paradise and took a long ride down Disappointment, the San Joaquin, 14 Mile and White. Around 8:30 AM the Wind took over. I took this new guy out for the second time because he has never caught fish on a Senko or Plastics for that matter. We had about 4 fish by 9AM all on Plastics. Then the gates opened and this guy was in fish heaven. He nails a 3 LB beauty on a Wacky Rigged Senko and after a few more small ones he lands a 6 LB plus beauty. I thought he was going to fly out of the boat he was excited. I lost count of the fish we caught but we did manage to weight 5 fish and he had right around 24 LBS for some who has never fished with a Senko. We used the Watermelon/Black combo 6 Inch hooked regular and Wacky style. I threw Blades, Cranks, Buzz and Swim Baits and no takers only Senkos. Around 10 AM we found that Seal that was eating everything in the area and he is now Rock Kill (aka Road Kill), someone shot it. Looks like he has been there for around a week. The water was murky and the Wind was at full force when we left at Noon. All together a great day for the Rookie.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Pitching into the Tules and Dead Sticking it at times. Used some Pro Cure on the Wacky Rig and it seemed to trigger the bigger bites.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Gonna be getting back down there in about 3 weeks, just wanted to shoot out an invite to anyone for a little fun fishing over the summer. I know I talked to a few of you before...the new truck is towing good and the BassTracker is primed and ready to get back to the valley waters! I'll be getting out there at least 2-3 times week (usually afternoons and weekends)

      For those of you who have been out there recently... What's the water level (will there be any by July?!) any specific bites turning on yet, (Rat-L-Traps, Jigs, etc) What the water temp doing? Any info would be appreciated!

      Shoot me an email or pm off the forum.

      All the best,
      BassManDan
      City: Soon to be back in Lincoln

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the Mrs. out to pre-fish for a couple of clients the next day. We had a late start but from 10am to 2pm we caught around 40 bass with 5 over. Used the usual jigs,worms,tubes and drop shot. All worked and in many differnt colors. May 1st, I took out two great guys that wanted to learn some new techniques. I started them out throwing spooks and flukes with good success. Then, I introduced them to bed fishing. They really enjoyed the visual game and produced some nice bass. We then went out of the coves to target post spawn bass throwing tubes. They caught around 35+ with their top bag at 10lbs. Lots of high-fives and a great day.
      City: Paradise

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THis year has been the best year The lake is fishing real good and weve hade some fine days all month with the exeption of 1 skunked trip. Jimmy got his p.b. here last year I got my sonoma p.b. 7-9lbs we had no scale but she was big.And the numbers are real good hope it keeps up its been fun. Ieven brang a buddy yesterday who rarely fishes and he roped um and lost a true giant 10+ right at the boat broke 12lb test he had a blast
      City: Guerneville

      Tips: use your imagination a lot of stuff works I refuse senkos too slow right know for this Stunna! I know youll be readin this J the Stunna is for you!!!!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got on the lake at 7:00 the water has cleared a little and is warming, the fish were very active assassins were killin them all day! fish shallow to mid depth with them early and drop shot or shakey head later before the sun warms up too good. 3.5 lbs and 4lb were the biggest
      City: lompoc

      Tips: try next to the patches of green reeds that you can find, dead stick weightless zoom super flukes, baby bass color

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very windy,but beat them up with the jerk all day.Cauhgt 15 bass including 9 good size rainbows,also on the jerk.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Bass are starting to get active with the rising water temps,so pick up the speed on those luers.

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

      Report: You guys are killin' me with this no reaction bite stuff! I guess I'm the only one who is catching bass off spinnerbaits, cranks, and jerkbaits right now. I was out in a little 12 foot boat this past weekend, no electronics, a trolling motor that kept falling off and we nailed em' on reaction baits. I'm not saying we didn't use the normal jig, tube, worm routine but I am saying we caught all of our good fish(15 or better )on reaction baits.
      City: Paradise

Monday, April 28th, 2008

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake clearing some. Still a lot of green alga pooling on the surface. Water down a couple of feet and rafting starting in the inlets. Lot of junk on the bottom. Fishing slow for me.

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

      Report: Launched at Ladd's this morning and decided to try 14 Mile and Disappointment. The action was fast from the start. Had 14 fish in the first hour and a half. The tide was just topping out and then turning around. Things started to slow as the day wore on. Finished with 21 at the boat. Best one went 8.1 then a 5.8 and several in the 3 to 4 lb. range. Caught all but two on a texas rigged Zoom Dead Ringer. A good day in my book.
      City: Stkn.

      Tips: Almost all fish came from tules, the rip-rap didn't work for me today.

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a client out on Thursday and caught 17 fish. We fished middle river and caught them all on shad colored senkos. The fish were in rock with tules , next to deeper water. Friday I had another client that wanted to go for big fish only. We only caught 5 fish ,but they were good ones. He caught a 11 ,a 8,two 5'sand a 4. Lynn flipped these fish from a back water area and man were these fish hot. He stuck them on a 8" Zoom red shad lizard.E-mail me for more info.

      Tips: GO to the hard to get at areas to catch the big fish.

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

      Report: Rented a pedal boat around 11:30 a.m. and hit the tules opposite of launch. First cast 2lber on drop shot worked along tules caught lots of dinks. Got blown into tules near dam and lost a big fish on the jump, looked about 4+, caught 3
      more over 2lbs, over all hook 15 fish.
      City: Layfayette

      Tips: Drop shot mmIII robo worms, if fish dont bite on
      drop, dead stick for a minute, fish not slamming
      bait just slight tick then lower rod and set hook

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52 to 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 days on the pit. Rain and wind and cold slowed down the bite but managed a couple of fish an hour.Average fish was about 14 inches.caught more fish on the main points of the pit rather than back in the coves.
      City: Penn Valley

      Tips: Shakey head worms and gitzets in bright colors worked best 2 to 10 feet deep. No surface action probably because of the sudden drop in water temp. Going back next week and would expect the water to be a few degrees warmer and better fishing.

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

      Report: We arrived at the lake at 7am. The weather had been hot (mid 80

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

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last Thurs and Fri. Thurs was tough, only 8 fish, but Fri was a blast. Still slow but an 8 lb LM and a 5.5 lb smallie before 7 AM helped make the backseater very happy. Ended up with a 24 LB 5 fish limit. Today (28th) was horrible. 2 small fish, and smallies on beds everywhere in the afternoon. The only problem was that the usual Trinity PM wind started about 10:30. The other problem is the that there is a cold front expected here tomorrow, which will probably put the smallies back down for a week or so.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Larry... Next time you head up here give me a call. I know I'm known as dinker John, but I might actually have some good advice.

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: upper 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a beautiful weekend out at Berryessa. My friends and I loaded a bunch of gear in our boats and we camped out on the big island in the middle of the lake. We arrived Friday evening at around 4pm. We decided to fish skiers cove, and got on a decent top water bite. By the time in got dark David and I landed about 20 fish to 2.5 pounds. Saturday was a bit tougher because of all the extra fishing pressure and boat traffic. We went to the north-east corner of the lake. The topwater bite never happened in the morning for some reason. By 10am there wasn

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

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60 to 63 degree

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to clearlake on sunday got the boat inspected and we were on the water by 645 am we fished around paradise cove and I caught a couple on a X rap and had a couple of followers we caught most of our fish on dropshotting a margarita mutilator we ended up with a total of 24 fish all about the 3 lbs range most of them looked like they were still carring eggs.
      City: carmichael

      Tips: dont try to over work your bait when drop shotting let the current do the work

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Noticed not alot of reports. Thats cause the fishing is tough. Tournement weights way down with. hard to get a 5 fish limit for 2. The long cold winter and fronts that keep changing the fish patterns has them screwed up. Some tink the lake is on a down turn. we will see

      Tips: make every bite count. Some days they are far and few.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 63 to 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Evening fly fishing with beaded flys,dark colors, drop shotting with kut tail worms and wacky rig, 4-6 inch. One bass on swim bait at dusk. Bass are shallow near rocky shore.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: grn pmkin, watermelon red flake, slow slow down

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 5 on gulp minnows. 1 on a darter head. 5 on a popper. The faster baits worked better. Finally the topwater bite has hit. Insects have hatched, small fish were jumping and being chased by the bass.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Look for the small fish jumping or a bass bust out on top. Cast there and the bass will most likely bite when it hits the water, or after a few pops. If you dont see anything, just cast out and retrieve like normal and wait for a strike, or look around for one.