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Friday, May 2nd, 2008

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished lower end in Temperance...caught 2 Bass on Lucky Craft Chartreuse Ripbait. Fished along the wall outside Temperance and missed a few. Worked the tree tops in Horse shoe and caught 3 crappie, and two 3#bass on ripbaits...the upper river was
      non-productive. I fished the cove across from the marina that has two large boulders and stream fed. I caught 6 nice 2-3# on my new favorite Senko: Brown/purple/green/gold flake. The best fishing was along the rock walls between horseshoe and the main lake. I spotted numerous bass staging below shelves in 10-15 feet of water, and caught 12 along the wall using natural shad senkos.
      I hit the point near the houseboats on the way in and caught 3 more on DD20 Crankbaits. All in all a good day, but still not quite as active as last year. The cold nights are still keeping the bass down, but maybe with hot weather, things will fire up.
      City: Merced, CA

      Tips: Senkos, ripbaits, and plastics in Crawdad with green, and hit submerged structure. You could see fish coming up and feeding, then going back down. Catch and Release!!!

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 63- 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Only fished the lake for a couple of hours. Got on the lake around 3 p.m. There wasnt too much going on fished with a clear sparkle keeper worm or anything brown and green. later on in the day jerk baits ripped them up. total number of fish was 25 or so with only three keepers.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: bigger fish seem to be in the main lake off of submerged humps and structure. keep your eyes open for shad breaking the surface fish are becoming active

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake about 9am just a layed back day. Started at the first bend up river we worked the river up to the 5 MPH. Jigs in bluegil and brown worked good the best bite was on red/gold robo worms. Drop shot about 6 to 10" off the bottom in 12' to 20' of water. The lake has been up and down I don't think the fish know what to do the beds I found last week were high and dry today. I looks like the water is back up a bit now. Well we boated about 30 fish today but I'm sad to say only about 5 keepers big fish of the day was just over 2lbs. Some on the jigs but most on the drop shot and Texas rigs.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Stay below the water temp break about 1/4 mile inside the 5 MPH there are fish back into the coves in the warmer water there. S L O W is how they like it today. The points are working to. Good luck and look out as the wacko's will be out soon. We even had a jet boat HAMMER down the 35 MPH zone today doing about 80.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great looking conditons but a tuogh bite. Found 1 fish late deep (20 ft.) on an inside point. Found more, and larger fish in the backs of coves, especially if there was a creek channel. Another angler put me on to this as the smaller fish are chasing fry. Didn't see any bedding fish. Practically no wind all day until about 2:30 and then only a moderate s.w. breeze. Still lots of debris in the water.

      Tips: Fish in the backs of coves wanted a light colored swimming grub or wham-type lure. Not many anglers out, which might have been a clue. Conditions looked ideal but the bite wasn't.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went on a 2 day run of the Delta, different water both days. Frank's was unfishable day 1. Big wind, chocolate water, and swell. Ran into small cuts around mildred, and sandmound. Ended up with good numbers 2 swimbait fish 5.5 and a 7, 1 good senko fish 8, 1 chart'white spinner bait fish 5.2 ended up just over 27lbs best five. About 12 fish total. Day 2 fished Franks, Fishermans cut, and Taylor. 12 more fish, first fish 6.13 on a senko, 5.5 on a rattletrap, a some beaver fish 2-3. Top 5 ..21.4lbs. Good fish spread out, only small pockets.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Swimbaits hit and miss, senko's most consistent, stay in 5-7 feet of water. Try mixing it up, rocks/tules depending on the area either one can be better than the other. Fish EVERYTHING SLOW!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Doesn't Matter

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Notice!!

      This is a fishing reports page. We ask that you please respect the intent of this section of Westernbass and stick to posting reports regarding you fishing experieinces on the lake on any given day. Please keep the banter and jibber jabber talk to the Personal Messaging provided with your Log in account. We would also ask that any queries in regards to the QM inspections, be discussed on the Main Public Forum as well. You'll receive faster responses that are easily search for and readily available, versus congesting up the reports pages with non-fishing related posts. There are many users who come to read the reports and these posts are a pain to have to sort through, as well as a waist of our time to have to come in here and clean them up.
      City: OAKLEY

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  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished lower end out of Flemming. Bite was fair. Found some 1.5-2 lbs on split shot 4" robo hologram also live bait crawler fly lined or minnows with a small split (1/16)
      City: La Grange

      Tips: May have to work for it a little but they are out there. Scattered all over the place. Fish 25+ ft to the shallows.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dodged the wind until about 1pm and no crowds,so itwas a nice day to fish. Fished the trees on the peninsula and near Beals Pt. for one 3# spot and lost a nice one. One fish for two bites. Seemed pretty slow, maybe all this cold weather has an affect. Tried Senko and worms, but maybe they wanted something else, somewhere else?
      City: Folsom

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 59TO63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED 7AM TONOON WITH MODERATE SUCCESS..NOTHING ON REACTION BAITS EARLY...CAUGHT SEVERAL TO ABOUT 3 POUNDS ON SMALL WATERMELONRED BRUSHHOGS IN 4 TO 10 FEET OF WATER IN FRONT OF THE WEEDS...NOTHING ON A SPINNERBAIT AFTER THE WIND PICKED UP..CAUGHT ONE MORE SMALL FISH ON A NORMANS CRANKBAIT AND THAT WAS IT...A FRONT WAS MOVING THROUGH AND RAIN BEGAN TO FALL AT 11AM.. TUFF BITE TODAY ... BUT IF YOU WANT TO CATCH MORE FISH GO 6 OR 8 POUND TEST LINE SMALL WEIGHTS
      OR NO WEIGHT AND PEG THE HEADS OF YOUR WORMS......
      City: SANTA ROSA

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.