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Thursday, April 24th, 2008

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took out a father/son team on Thrusday. They wanted to learn a couple of new patterns for targeting bass. We used jigs and senkos for the 1/2 day trip. We fished coves with trees and without trees. The guys had a great time caught about 25+ with 6 over. Thursday was the typical blue bird day with the rain and cold front the day before. Friday the 25th. I took out another couple of great guys. Picked them up from their house boat and went up to the slot area. Fished all the way up the North Fork and in Dark Canyon. They did great catching 30+ with 8 over. Their best five would have put them in the money in the Chico Bass Club Tournament the following day. Tubes,senkos and jigs took the bites but no reaction bite for the two days.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Bites in the coves without trees came on jigs in brn/prpl, watermelon/blk and grn/pumpkin and senkos in pumpkin/blk and watermelon/blk. Coves with trees had the same color senkos. On the walls going out of the coves the tubes were real effective in the clear/sparkle and grn/blk.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake by 10, the spring bite is on. Caught fish on drop shot, dart heads, jigs, carolina rig, senkos, tubes, small swimbaits, and texas rig. I used watermelon, warmouth, hologram shad, and green pumkin. It didn't seem to matter what color I used the fish hit them all very hard. Caught some fish from 2ft all the way to 30ft of water. Caught about 50 fish today, it was a blast! But I didn't even have 5 keepers, but when I catch 50 in one day it doesnt'matter the size.
      City: Redding

      Tips: I was wondering if anyone is catching fish up the pit and if they are, are they using spooks yet?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 23rd-27th and the best day was 14 fish and nothing over 3.9 pounds. Many different reason why people think the fishing is so poor. I guess you can use minnows if you want to pay the price. We fished all over the north and south areas with limited success. Don't know if the poor fishing will continue but with gas prices the way it is I would wait until you see the reports posting better results. Most of our fish came on jigs, drop shot, a couple of AC, Senko and frog fish but nothing over 3 pounds. One of my fishing partners in his boat said they caught 40 fish on drop shot around docks. Must have been a luck spot becasue could not duplicate it.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Wait until it improves.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 58 - 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 21 fish in water from 4-25' deep. Green
      Senko wacky style. Fished eastside across from ramp and northend. Water seems cold for this time of year.
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out sunday got nine not much in the way of size but did get a 6.5 lb mostly on spinning bait and worms. went out today only got three. on out going tide but nailed an 8.5 lb er lost one as big or bigger. landed big one on spinner again, the one that sliped away hit it on a chatter with sinko..

      Tips: dont know...its hit or miss any one else got any tips for me????/

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took two clients out on Saturday,it was cold and windy. We started in the back of Ramos creek throwing shaky head worms, only caught one 3lb. fish. Looked for beds but didn't find any. We moved out of the creek arm some and started fishing shale rock points, this is where we caught the rest of our fish. We caught then on brown worms an a few on sinkos. Most of the fish were right next to the bank on windy points, feeding on shad.We ended up catching 17 bass , with the biggest one being that first fish. Got a trip booked on the Delta on friday, look there for a report. Good fishing to you. www.markmcgowanguideservice.com
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish the windy side of the rocky points, with shaky worms.

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

      Report: sounds like its ready!!!!!!!!hahahahaha Too much pressure, thats a good one!

Monday, April 21st, 2008

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

      Report: Perico they are pressure washing at lopez and they are doing the lock system.
      City: Taft

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I decided to check a cuople spots north (destination was Mosher Slough) it was a bad decision today. I should have stayed south. I struggled getting my 5 fish limit today. Spinnerbaits and senkos worked for me. The custom Valco bass boat "BASSBUSTER1" is running good. I'm looking forward to chasing the frog bite this summer.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: LOL, rememeber to work southern areas first as the water warms work the northern areas to follow the prespawn / spawn patterns.

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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