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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55.7 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well went out of b& w at 6:45am Did some great fishing today it got windy today every one was looking for a break . lots of big fish, had a taker 8 lbs or more, lots of dinks on senko , broke out the ol mighty swim bait and what a day i had up to 10 fish today, noticed the tail on the big one was flat on the bottom, you all know what that means, yep its that time of year. get out and beat the water to a froth, saw my friend dave out in his boat with his buddy and they were doing great catching some nice fish . we were both out of the water at noon. Great job Dave it was tough fishing today but we hooked it up all morning. going to go out tommorrow morning and hit it again, looking for the monster bass.. got to get a digtal scale, mine is on the blink, will have one by tomorrow. tight lines, c ya on the water.. ps. water is clearing up nicely
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: throw it all at them fishing is getting good.. throw them swim baits. find where there stacked up slow roll on the swim baits, seemed to work for me around syphon pipes , and any large stuctures may not produce quanity , but will produce quality.. be patient

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ B&W 6:30am. Went south. Bent rods, two 4 lbs in the box. Eight more 1-2 lbs. Got windy, went around Venice and got into a few more 2-4 lbs. Senkos brought'em in. Seen Plastic Man land a huge 8 lb bucket mouth near one of his favoite spots. He showed us his secret - plastic of course. Then he released it. Had a great day except for NW wind. Thanks for all the advise Plastic Man.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Have Fun. Throw what you know. Have a brew dad and Get Bent.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished top water early nothing... spinners and cranks nothing... didn't have a swim bait... drop shotted ..4"Robo Brown & Purp landed 3 large mouths 1 5lb 1 7lb 1 scrapper and one small mouth little guy. Fleming Meadows Good luck
      City: Modesto

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out early, and took one off a dock, with a beaver first cast.. almost always a bad omen (cept on this lake).
      went out to the flats and pulled back to back 5 pounders out.
      went across the lake and pulled 3 more off the rocks.
      then back in the coves and nailed maybe 7 more on a crankbait.
      hit the flats on the way back in and tricked a 7 pounder on a homeade thingy, and a few 3 pounders.
      A great day for only being out 3.5 hours
      City: auburn

      Tips: sloooow got em today, even the crankbaits.
      any color will work as long as its purple.

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

      Report: I forgot the most important pieces of info.Of the fish we boated the weights ranged from 1# to 1 3/4# the large mouth that broke my line looked 8# + you could fit a cantalope in it's mouth we boated around 20 fish.
      City: Ft.Bragg Ca.

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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and the wife, Bassgirl, fished worms and tubes today ,and caught several large and smallmouth bass. We started at the mouth of the river on the north side working the bank and the first drop-off. I tossed a smoke and purple 5" worm, no weight, let it settle to the bottom and worked it back slowwww stop and go .They would hit it as I started the retrieve again.On the south bank of the river there is a shelf with a quick drop-off, caught a few switching between the worm and a 3 1/2" tube in Blue Gill pattern,1/4 oz. slipin weight. When we got up on the shelf I casted the tube toward the shore, next to a bush and let it settle down. When I took up the slack, My line was going left pretty fast. I set the hook three times, this fish was heavy,I worked to the boat and thought this was going to be a short fight. As the bass went under my boat it saw me move and broke me off with two flicks of it's tail. You would have thought I spooled my reel with thread cuz my rod hardly moved, the line just went "Tink". Then we moved to two other midlake shorlines we like to fish and caught fish at both of them using the same technique. O'l Bassgirl caught her fish using a 3 1/2",1/4 oz. tube in a browncraw pattern with the same technique
      City: Ft. Bragg,Ca.

      Tips: I think most of the fish we caught today were males. The change in weather has got the on guard,be patient and you'll catch fish. Also don't be shy,leave your own report!!!!!

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Been out a couple of days this week (Wed and Sat). Fished the usual spots for early spring. The water is still a bit cold, but did happen to see a fish caught on Wednesday. Ran into a couple of young fellers (Ramy and friends) who have been fishing the lake for the last few weeks.

      I've been throwing a splitshot 4" Pumpkin Green YUM Wooly Hawg on my spinning outfit with some success (one small bass on Saturday).

      Give it another week or two - I've got a feeling it'll be a pretty good year.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Go slow - try every pocket and point. Move to different spots, if you have the time.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 9 hours on Saturday, caught 8 fish. 5 were dink largemouths, 2 were healthy, 2 pound, very pregnant spots... finally at 7:00pm nailed a 7 pound 1 ounce largemouth in timber at the back of a cove. Sunday was a complete write-off; didn't get bit once in four hours! Fished from shore out to 35 feet deep with various plastics, both T-rigged and Carolina.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Guess the cold front made the fishing tough. With a week of sun and warmer weather, this lake will be on!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the YCBB Tourney today.

      Weird weather, RAIN, FOG, WIND, ETC...

      Caught 20 fish, Slow dragging 6"Trick Worms and RI baits.

      No Rip bite. Never tried top water. came in with 5 fish all in good shape. Would of liked to see more boats though. 30 boats total.

      Worked hard to overcome the 13" min. Ended up with all our fish being over 15".

      Fun Tourney!!!

      ~River
      City: CHICO

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      Water Temp: 52.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished that Yuba City Bass Busters tourney I told you about in an earlier post. 10.91 was good enough for 5th with 12 something winning it. Right at 30 boats and the weather might have kept some away. Jigs, senkos, worms, spinnerbaits and some top water were some baits mentioned. So you didn't go. Want another chance? You got it. On April 26 the Chico Conservation Bass Club holds their spring spectacular and for $80.00 you get entry, big fish option and a BBQ dinner. I have fished this with close to 90 boats entered. For info call Vi at 8728805 or Rich at 8720407. And I think your going to need more than 12 pounds to win this one. See you there.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: We fished all the windy banks we could find, and it wasn't hard to find them. The baits mentioned above would be a good start. The lake is coming up each day and with it the debris so be aware.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: no idea

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Father/Son annual camping trip to a lake I've never fished. This year we chose Pardee. Saturday was cloudy/sprinkled most of the day. Fishing was fantastic!!!Caught 30+ fish all up the river arm. 20 largemouth and 10 smallmouth. Didn't expect so much largemouth activity but they were chomping. Caught one that weighed just over 10 full of eggs in a cut off the river. Partner caught a 6.1 smallmouth at the secondary point leading into the area I caught the large fish. Used a variety of baits until about Noon when I figured out what they really wanted.

      Sunday was bluebird and much slower. Fished the river arm but not very far in...the fishing was slow until around Noon when the wind picked up. Moved out of the cuts and fished step rock walls/points. Caught 10 fish in a couple hours and lost 3 others. Two largies right at 5 lbs and one smallie that went 3.2. Off the water headed to home at 1:30 PM
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Drop shot was the ticket for all our fish. Best colors were MMII (overcast), Warmouth, and Oxblood. Most fish were caught between 5 - 35 feet. Cloud cover and wind chop fish were tighter to the bank. Blue bird all bites were deep. Line was important (6 lb or less) was the only way bites would occur. Tried other methods, jigs, split shot, carolina rig, swim baits...Only action was on the drop shot. The cuts had a few large fish in them, however, most fun for my son and I was at the entrance to the cuts and main river and secondary points.

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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

      Report: Could not stay away from Amador after my trip last week. Did not think it could get any better, but it did. Caught 73 bass today, all on a dropshot rig with Robo worms. Did not catch anything larger than 4 pounds but did catch more 3 and 4 pounders today. Many more bed fish this week and with the clear water it made for a fun day. Found one bank with 10 bed fish on it. Did see some large fish in the coves.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: I have fished this lake for 25 years and have never caught this many fish. Only saw one other bass boat all day. Caught fish on rock and clay banks from shore to 10 feet deep. Hit this lake now before it gets busy.

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water very colored with a lot of suspended alga. Also a lot of brown streaks of ash, etc. Fishing not too hot!
      Lake entry working as advertised. Personnel were all very pleasant and helpful.
      City: Santa Barbara

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On a solid reaction bite from 7:00am to 10:00pm at incoming high tide. Caught about 15 plus fish nothing bigger than 4.5lbs. Bite slowed down a bit but picked up again about halfway of outgoing tide stuck another 10 fish on plastics. Best 5 were 19lbs. Another great day on the Delta.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Fish, fish some more and then fish some more. Success to all there is alot of quality fish right now.

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went our with Floor Guy my side kick. We were just having fun. Hit the out going tide in the afternoon and fished for 2 plus hours. Not really being real serious and caught five fish. Five minutes before we were done landed a 12.5 lbs. It was my p.b. and I have only been fishing for 6 months in the delta.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Used speed trap crank bait and stuck with it.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 times in the last 2 weeks. We did alright on the reaction early. Last time out was the most useful. We caught 3 rippin early on rock piles in about 5 feet of water. Shad pattern seemed to work best. The rest of the day was much slower than we anticipated. Caughht just a handful draging worms. All in all not the numbers I expected.
      City: Sactown

      Tips: All the reaction fish were actually decent and up to 3.0 pounds. The worm fish, as expected were much smaller. Shad reaction pattern and green worms.

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: about 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went to berryessa with 2 of my friends and i got 10 my friend got ll and my other friend got 2 our bigest fish was about 3.5 pounds our fish were all about 1 pound the fish are geting bigger and starting to move up we were also site fishing for some fish
      City: vacaville

      Tips: we used plastics

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ATTN: Retired from Pinole
      So me and my buddies went up to the lake wednesday morning we caughtand released 6 bass between 930-1130, we were on the water at at 800 but they didnt bite till it warmed up a bit. Biggest fish was 21in, the rest fell between 13-17in. The next morning we went out at 900 got off at about 1200 after catching and releasing 8 more bass all about 12-18in. Thanks for the tips and the launch was still free at berryessa marina. all fish caught in the flats on plastic worms.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: DID OK TODAY.TWELVE FISH.TWO GUYS, FROM 1LB TO 8LBS.3# 4# 8# the largest.. VERY WINDY GOT THEM ON OUT GOING TIDE NEAR WHISKY SLOUGH ON SPEED TRAP CRANK BAIT. NO LUCK ON SPINNG BAIT OR CHATTER BAIT.HAD WEATHER BEEN BETTER WOULD HAVE KILLED THEM.the wind did cut the day short..
      City: SAN RAMON

      Tips: KEEP CHANGING IT UP. THINGS SEEM TO CHANGE ALMOST DAILY.REACTION BAITS ARE WORKING. DONE FLIPPIN...

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough, Tough, Tough. Eastman rarely lets me down. This trip... she let me down. Water temp was good, lots of algea, and zero fish. Fished both shallow and deeper water. Fished some structure but didn't get anything. Talked to many guys that were saying it was real slow. Still a taste early not to mention cold front passed through. Fished for 2 1/2 days! Hey, this thing is about to break loose at any moment! And when she does, Eastman is the best!
      City: Monterey

      Tips: I caught nothing... do you really want a tip from me? Although Senkos, grubs and jigs all work GREAT at this lake.