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Sunday, April 6th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This past weekend was a little tougher fishing then my last report. I got to the lake
      late Friday afternoon and headed out for awhile to see how the bass were biting. I
      landed a few bass using brass and glass and a senko. On Saturday I took out Jeff
      and his son Dustin for the day. My plan was to start at the Ranch house and head
      towards the vineyards. We stopped at a few points and tried brass and glass with
      very little luck. The first fish of the day was caught on a R2S crawdad and Procure
      crawdad scent. We continued on to the vineyards in a better frame of mind. At the
      vineyards where we could see the tree stumps in the water, Dustin threw out a senko
      watermelon with black fleck and was hit almost immediately by a bass. We kept getting
      hits and reeled in some nice size bass (see photos). As we were heading back I
      decided to try my favorite cove and it turned out to be a good decision. Dustin got
      very lucky and landed five crappies one after the other. His father and I have to
      take lessons from him on how to catch crappies!!!!!! It was a very enjoyable day.
      Sunday the weather played games with me all day. One minute it was sunny and
      warm and the next the wind picked up and it was cloudy and cold. But that didn't
      stop me from landing a few nice bass and a couple of trout. Bass are starting to go
      to the shallow water and the top water bite hasn't turned on yet but I hope it will
      soon. 'til next week.................................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
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      City: Napa

      Tips: Starting to go shallow to bed,

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite for bass on Saturday and Sunday. Son, John, and I fished from rental boats for five hours each day and produced only two bass. On Saturday, I scraped out a nice 3 lb 10 oz bass taken on a black Swimming Senko rigged on a 3/8 oz. Jobe head. The fish came from 15 feet deep off the end of a sunken tree. On Sunday, John landed a nice 2 1/2 lb bass using a black/blue jig right up against the tules in a patch where there is a few feet of depth on the outside of the tules.

      Many casts with swimbaits, lizards, salamanders, jigs, drop-shotted wacky-rigged 5-inch Senko's, crankbaits and buzzbaits yielded no bites. We fished the west shoreline from the dam back to just south of Coot's Landing. It's frustrating not getting bites from the smaller bass which must be there, while trying for the lunkers that are definitely in the lake.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: We did see some large (10+) bass cruising in the shallows, some with smaller bass accompanying them, but no beds were visible yet. If there is any spawning occurring on that side of the lake, it's in the dark zone not visible from the surface. Fan-casting into that zone is what produced my fish.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on saturday the 5th of april the gold country bassmasters held there second tournament of the year it took 12.5 pounds to win by rj bennett he waqs throwing wake baits darterheads and senkos on points and deep flats i had 8.8 for second throwing huddelton swimbaits and dropshot worms at the ends of brush piles and on deep points and flats lots of fun fish are moving on to beds
      City: grass valley

      Tips: look for fish on beds fish the deep points still need to go slower

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      Water Temp: warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished water I have nerver tried. Turned out as a great day. Over cast and windy. Looked for wind protected area. I was thinking like a fish. What, Where ,and How?
      City: Richmond

      Tips: White spinnerbait=3lb.Green senko=4lb. Creature2-3lbers. That's enough info.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the middle fork yesterday from about noon to dark. Between the two of us we caught 37 bass. All but 7 were on senko's. Largest was approx 4lbs, most were in the slot, but we had 10 above the slot.
      City: Rough and Ready

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 57 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water is still high and clear. fishing for bass with rattletrap, caught a 6 lbs. trout instead. trout are still surfacing. waiting for the water to warm up.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day. Threw everything in the tackle box and finally had to give in to some powerbait and ended up with one little lonely trout. Can anyone tell me how to catch bass out of this lake?
      City: El Sobrante

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took the float tube out to the back ponds. did alright, caught four bass dropshotting robo worms all over. biggest fish went 2 pounds.
      City: livermore

      Tips: water is still to cool for spawn. CATCH AND RELEASE

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished a small bass derby on the 5th, and found the fishin to be slow. phils props told me to expect 30 to 40 fish days, ha, they must have been using minnows. Average angler boated about 12 fish a day on mixed worms and lizards on dart heads.

      Tips: green rubber lizards, dart head worms. depth 5 to 20ft.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the results of the 2nd Jason Fisher Memorial Vocational Scholarship Tournament. 1st place to Milovic and Richards. They weighed in a 22.26 lb sack that included a 6.41 Lm. 2nd was Sam Hunt and Jeff Olsen with 3 smallies and one LM for 17.61. 3rd was Brian Taylor and Mike Bently with 16.90. 4th was Shawn and Rodney Maples with 4 smallies that weighed 16.35. They also had smallie lunker at 5.30. A little better turnout this time with 12 teams. These are fun tournaments on a fun lake. Come on up May 17th and give us a try.
      City: Weaverville

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, got a mixed bag report. The good news is I caught some nice quality fish. Caught them a number of ways. Beds, d-shot, rip, jig. Hit my big fish, a 6'14 on a bed. There were bed fish everywhere, but mostly 2 pound males. The bad news is that Lake Amador is the lowest I have ever seen it right now and that makes for a very boring, non structure type lake. All the brush and drop offs are 50 feet out of the water. Plus, the moss is horrible already. Most of the beds are surrounded by it making bed fishing a pain. Also, forget fishing any jigs or plastics in the top 15 feet of the water column. As soon as it even sniffs the bottom it is loaded up with that stringy green stuff. I was excited to throw the Huddy and unless you are throwing it 20 feet or deeper be ready to come back with your whole Huddy engulfed in the stuff. I wish Amador would let youi know these conditions when you call up there. Drop shotting worked a little, but most of the fish are shallow and that was still tough with the thickness of the moss. I'm not joking when I tell you that it was really frustrating.

      Tips: Like I stated, not a bad weight day. My best 5 went 19 pounds and it was cool seeing the big fish eat the jig, but just can't justify the money for the water quality.If you go, hope for a reaction bite, because plastics or jigs in the top 15 feet is basically a no go. Out off main points is you best bet. I would suggest going to Pardee.

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Entirely different than last weekend with staging fish stacked on points in 0-15'.

      Now...Very windy, Water dropped 2' since last weekend, MAJOR algae bloom ("Delta Cheese") all over the lake now (Hmmm, Frog bite coming soon!) and Fish locked on nests now.
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Fish nests with fish on them, don't fish the empty nests. Seriously though, I didn't sight fish, but would cast onto bank and if I got bit and missed, would cast back to that spot until I hooked the fish. All 2+ lbs. Couple followers on swimbaits too.

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time fishing the lake only fished for about an hour, the wind began to pick up at about 3:30. Caught three fish on robo-worms off a rocky edge on the east side of the lake.
      City: Chico

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: forgot to add the date
      City: Chico

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Nor-Cal Bass tourney out of South Shore, started out throwing a white/chartrues blade on the points with stick ups and with no results. Saw fish busting bait fish in the adjacent cove so i started throwing MS-Slammer/Rainbow and got chrushed by a nice three pounder. Kept throwing it for the next hour and nothing else.
      I tried cranking, ripping and blades but could not get a reaction bite going.
      So i switched to a Senko, Grn/Punpking Blk/Flake and stared picking them up on a pretty consistant basis, but i had to hit areas with wood/stick-ups to get bit.
      Lost two nice fish that would have put me in the 13-14 lb range; but ended up with best five going 11.35.
      City: Himar

      Tips: Start by giving top water a try; Spook, Popper, Slammer. Then go to Senko and Jigs; browns seem to be the thing. Fish the wood starting at the deepest stick ups first and fish your way in to the shallow stuff, be looking for bedding fish also, they are starting to move into the coves.

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Some of the water you can see 5-10 ft deep. Tom Erickson and I fished Saturday and Sunday staying in the North Shore Camp Ground with some friends. The wind came up for each morning but the bass were biting. We started out with cranks and ripping, no takes. Jigs in Brown/Purple got some in 15-20 ft. Most of the bass are still waiting to spawn and some have. The bass are spooky along the banks. Saw no beds yet.
      Drop shot in front of the dam just at the drop off point 25 ft, just full of small bass in 1-1 1/2 lb. Go up the Rock Creek and use a Fluke (white) with a small weight and let it fall slow along the banks. Use a small weight on the drop-shot and a Pro Worm Leach, can't miss.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Look for the bait and big stacks of fish.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had a nice trip yesterday with clients from the midwest! The "new" hip behaved well and the Evinrude fired right up after a 5 week break! The bite did seem slow to me and was confirmed by several I talked to after pulling the boat out. We fished out of Red Bud but didn't go north of Wheeler because of the increasing wind and 4 of us in the boat. Dad and the oldest son did ok, catching 4 nice bass up to 3 1/2 lbs. The young son hooked one but lost it. I fished some when the youngest took an extended nap!! I hooked a nice one in the afternoon but forgot how to set the hook - lost it! The bass were a little more aggressive in the afternoon when the sun appeared. Good to be back in the saddle, 'er, butt seat!!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The jig bite was best for us with a black/blue Blade Runner jig. Only two bites on brown/orange. First bass was on a drop/shot rig - Berkley 4" green craw Power Worm. No drop/shot fish after that - strange. We didn't try anything with treble hooks with 4 in the boat. We did use some Basstrix swimbaits, but no takers this day. We probably could have finessed some more bass, but I did spend most of the time helping them look for the "big" bite. Alas, it still may take a week or so - warm weather should help at the end of next week, just in time for the big tourney!

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      Water Temp: 50s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: used chatterbaits, worms and swimbaits near swim area for a 2 pounder--pressure mounting, 5 boats on lake and didnt see any caught
      City: antioch

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 1 hour on the lake, got a 5.14 on a white chatterbait with white trailer.
      SE bank ~8' photo'd and released and then the motor died. A new PB for me so I didn't mind
      (too much) out of action for a month.
      City: Monterey

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Padro for the first time.Fished a small tournament with Auburn bassmasters. Sat best 5 13 lbs. Caught alaught of fish but majority 1.5 one 5 lbr. Sunday got one to go just under 6 lbs but played dumb and was late to weigh in would hav had 3rd place instead. we took last lol. used drop shot ox blood/ morning dawn. who said u cant catch big fish on small baits.
      City: Riolinda

      Tips: Drop shot/ Shakie heads /Dartheads all with fx or Robo worms fish slow. Fish back side of windblown points and sloped bankes. Alaught of the fish have spawned out already so about 2 weeks it will b on Fire.