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Monday, April 21st, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: "mike" you know, the constant draining of the lake is most of the fishing problem. i have been going up to that lake for my entire life. and the fishing was unreal until "terry knight" decided he was going to tell EVERYBODY about it. so now all you flatlanders come up in your bass boats and partyboats and you all keep limits. not to mention you folck up there by the hundreds. and now yolo county has orderd to drain the lake. that is why the fishing sucks. so, "mike" you might want to take that into concideration. oh, and it makes the road worse when u FLY up that road. the first person that slams into me on my way up or back from there is going to need more than an insurence polocy.
      City: kelseyville

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 57-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 4/15 to 4/19. Windy, windy most of the time. The water temp started out at 57 and by Saturday was was 63. The majority of the fish were caught on senko's, some by drifting live minnows, and a few on spinner baits. There were approx 10 of us fishing and we probably has 25 keepers total. Most were 14 3/4. Not many bass were at the shore, most were in 30 feet of water.
      City: Rough and Ready

      Tips: Rainbow trout, clear/ red/ black flake and rootbeer colored senko's worked the best. The live minnows caught approx half of the keepers and approx 12 crappies. The wind was not our friend!!!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to Trinity at 730 with my Buddy Dare and we started to fish flats with humps on the southern part of the lake. Got our first 3lb smallie on a tennesse shad crankbait in about 4 foot of water. Decided if they were hitting the crankbait, it has to be a good jerkbait bite. So threw the jerkbait for another 16 smallies all 2-3.5lbs. It was a cold windy, windy day, but the fish fell for the jerkbait in several different colors and styles. The key was to pause it for about 2 seconds then Bam!
      City: Orange,Ca

      Tips: Throw Jerkbaits in 2-7 foot of water near tree stumps and pause for about 2 seconds between your normal cadence!

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to East side in the morning and picked up a few spots. Found one point they were holding and picked up 5-6, biggest 2.6lbs, all spots on drop shot and crank. Late morning moved to west side but all dinks. All of the small fish were smallies. Majority of fish all spots in 15-20'. Threw a brown garlic worm and caught a trout on first cast. They were on a feeding spree today after yesterdays high winds.
      City: south San Francisco

      Tips: Drop shot robo worms (brown) in the am. Later switch to white kinami worms on drop shot. All fish were holding off points. Looks like spots are on move to spawn.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60ish

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at paradise. hit up diapointment first, caught two about two pounds right away. throwing wacky senkos. bit stayed pretty consistent until low tide hit. couldnt catch anything after that. biggest went about 4lbs. fish werent up tight like they were friday. most fish came about 6-8 feet. anyone have any tips or anything that could help email me at live2fish22@yahoo.com
      City: modesto

      Tips: you probley know more then me??

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      Water Temp: 58.7 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of b&w late in afternoon 10;30 am Took off to holland tract water was really muddy and stired up wind was a pain in my $%#, as always not a good day I guess got to take the good ones with the bad ones, turned around at webb tract, when i first noticed the water change color wanted to stay in cleaner water , tide was very low -0.03 ,not my favorite tide . I gave her hell,fished the north side of bouldin island with only a hand full of takers . nuttin big. on sweet beaver and blades . wind got to pickin up and it was tough keepin boat on point. gave her hell and got in a fix . A bad day fishing is better than being at work.. Going to wait for a couple of weeks to go out again . Going to be laid up for knee surgury.. keep fishing reports coming in, so i can keep up with the latest.
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: none today! stay out of the freakin wind..........

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: UNK

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got the boat inspected, hit the water about 6:45, it was cold. The wind picked up right away and blew all day, fished from Lucerne to Rodamn. We picked up 2 within the first half hour 45 min on drop shot, both were small fish. Missed one by Tule Island ater that nada.
      City: Grass Valley

      Tips: Fishing in high winds is no fun, add cold to it and it is really no fun. Consult a better weather man!!!

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      Water Temp: 57-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We fished the north end from Lakeport to Rodman. Saw a few fish on beds but they were very skittish. The wind made fishing the docks very tough, so we ran to Rodman Slough. We fished the Slough for 4-5 hours throwing the kitchen sink at them. We saw one huge bass in the shallows but it disappeared before we could try to get it. W tried everything we could think of and only got two bites. missed both fish and decided to call it a day.
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: Don't fish the lake with 20-30 mph winds. the water temp dropped and made the fish have lock jaw. I talked to a few anglers at the dock and they all had a similar story. Best I heard was a couple small fish. Oh well beats a day at work.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for 1 hour in evening (5PM) from the shore between dike 8 and dike 7. No bites on shaky head, nor deep crank (craw).
      1 LMB on bass-colored Zara Spook about 2.5 lb.
      Saw some bait fishermen catching/keeping good fish on minnows - several in an hour.
      City: Folsom

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55 degrees give

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son and I fished the Anglers Choice Gold City tournament on Sunday with 30 boats attending. You would have thought a 15.17lb bag for 5 fish would have won it but we settled for 3rd. The second place team had much the same bag as we did but the winners had a 7.5 kicker for a limit just over 16. We had close to 10 pounds in the boat by 8am and spent the rest of the day culling. And I must admit, my son caught the key fish we needed to have the weight we did. He was really on his game. I was content to net and weigh with out new Cul-m-rite scale. Now next Saturday is the Chico Conservation Bass Tourney I mentioned in an earlier post with signups and weighin from the dam. Its an $80 dollar entry which includes big fish, bar-b-q, and 1 ticket for the giant raffle. If the weather continues to warm, you can expect more fish on beds and bigger bags to be weighed. See you there.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Jigs, tubes and worms accounted for most fish for us. No reaction and just a couple pull downs on swimbaits. Creature baits should come into play for bedding fish, ie lizards, brushhogs etc. I believe most of the boats in our tournament were in or near the South Fork as the water these tends to warm quicker.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just got back from Taiwan. Jet Lagging this morning so decided to head out. Tube out the Arroyo pond and I did alright. caught 4 between 1.5lb to 2lb. Something really sad happened to me, I hooked a huge bass on a jig, I had it on for 5 minutes, it was coming in and out and fish was flopping everywhere. On the 4th jump, my jig went off its mouth. I was so mad because that looks like a double digit fish to me and could be the biggest one i ever caught from shadow cliff back pond. Damn, hopefully I can catch that one again, give me one more chance to bring it in.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Its good to be back in the water. Trying the island pond tomorrow hopefully I can get some goos size bass. Folks, please catch and release. thanks

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Since I was at Pardee yesterday, I thought I was there again today - it has been many moons since I have seen Berry this clear. Glad we fished today - tomorrow morning many be a record low. Nice Spring we are having! I was prepared for the worst as far as wind goes as I met my clients at Markley today. It was bad most of the day, but the lake went dead calm about 11 am at the mouth of Wragg Canyon - weird! About an hour later it was back at it - even worse. In spite of the winds we had a very nice trip. My clients were very new to bass fishing but picked up techniques very quickly and did well in the wind! We Texas rigged and split-shotted Robo worms in morning dawn and warmouth colors and wacky rigged #301 Senkos. We fished about 7 hours and moved around alot but still managed 19 bass for a 10 lb plus limit. A near 3 lb largemouth was the biggest. They caught all the quality fish except one, starting in the afternoon after it warmed a bit. Most bass were deeper - 10 to 20 feet. We could not see any shallow fish.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Almost like summer, we found some of the quality bass on windy points that had a mud line. We checked out the backs of several major coves - not much there. Most fish were back on walls and major points. Wind and murky points were the best pattern. We only fished the narrows. Didn't think we needed to take a chance on the main body. Nice trip!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a small club tourament, we launched out of B&W resort. I went southeast down into the San J. River and found the wind much calmer. We fished rock and tule areas and found fish hitting cranks, senkos, and baby brush hogs. Had one fish pushing 6 lbs. best five for the boat was 20 plus.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: fish up close to the bank and fish SLOW!

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      Water Temp: 60-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Tract at 11am. Ended the day at 7:30 pm. With best five going 20lbs biggest fish was 8.13 on a sweet beaver near tullys and wood. Most fish caught on speed traps near current. One fish on a Carolina rig and 8" lizard. End of the day had a top water bite. One on a buzz, 4 on a popper, and a 11 on a frog. That is 11 inches. Very windy all day.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: If you are fishing structure if slow. give them time to hit. If you are fishing current fish faster with crankbaits.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 12-3 super windy my boat got banged up good from the ramp the water is super low never seen it that low in long time good luck if you have a bass boat i have a 14 foot gregor with 25 horse motor and i took the motor of the back before I went and still had a hell of a time.For the fishing sucked only fished in the first cove by the ramp and the next one blowing 25 mph had one blow up and one small one
      City: PITTSBURG

      Tips: fished the wind with cranks and swimbaits got the one fish on senko

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: they lowered the water like 10 feet killed all the spawning bass beds and fishing sucks, and hella windy caught 1 12 inch bass and a 4 inch bluegill.
      City: THA P

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wind was howling (i was probably that boat bobbing like a cork) Went over to Mormon island and fished the windward side for reaction fish 1st thing. One Slammer fish (smallest fish of the day) and one jerkbait fish also a 1lber.

      Went south and fished some coves, lots of Carp rolling in the back with a few blacks mixed up with them. Got onto a senko and tube bite that lasted until about 10:15am.

      Fishing got tough from there and we worked some steep stuff picking up a fish here and there, nothing huge.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: The fish were moving up late in the day to spawn, fish a typical pre-spawn pattern, and you will find your fish. Drop shot probably would have been a better choice but the bucks were actively running th e bank in the morning.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My truck was shaking while waiting to launch this morning due to 90 mph winds. The boat in front of me in the water was bobbing up and down like bottle and the 3' waves crashing on the shoreline every 2 seconds made me think of last Monday when I was out here. So, I decided to go home.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: No casts = No fish

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went with another friend, caught 16 total. He got 6 and i got 10. Fun day. We fished from 10am-2:30pm. Fish are not super aggressive, but not sluggish. Could it be post-spawn?
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: What fish does not like gulp? Fish slow with plastics, but not too slow, the fish dont mind something that moves a little faster.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 53-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Yesterday I had a couple of great guys out and had a pretty good day with them. About 40 bass with about 6 over. We went to both ends of the South Fork and Middle Fork and fished back from there. Today I took out a father and son team and had a great time with them. Like yesterday, we had around 40 bass with 8 over including a nice 2.5lb smally. Today we fished the main body and parts of the West Branch. For the last two days we found bass in all areas on points and walls going into coves big and small. Jigs, drop shot, tubes and senkos.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Colors were green/blk and punkin/blk senkos, clear sparkle tubes, brn/purple and green/blk Paradise tackle jigs, and prism shad robo worms for drop shot.