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Sunday, March 30th, 2008

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out yesterday for a couple of hours with my brother and it was windy, wasnt thinking i was gonna get a bite.so started on the red dock on the south lake and got two shakers on a drop shot then moved to the to the other side of te lake o the cement dock and pulled out a 5+ bass on the drop shot! i thought she was a gonner cuz she went straight for the tules and i was using 6 lb test!!! man wut a day at merced.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: fish slow tight lines...(see pic of 5+)

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the wind was blowing good so went back in to an arm. Up near warm springs fish drop shot,cranks,chatterbaits,and jigs. Most fish came on drop shotting and watermelen w/red &purple flake and a watermelon jigs in submergered timber get outt of the wind and fish wood.
      City: castro valley

      Tips: If it windy dont test it it was blowing lke crazy out there.Try to not get snagged in the wood. Lost the only jig that was working today.

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 42 in the after

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Smallies are in smashing the tubes and rips. Caught 12 in the last 3 days after work. All big females 2 to 4 pounds.
      City: susanville

      Tips: Bunched up moving in and out for short periods all day

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went out fishing for the infamous large trout and endud up catching bass. I was using just a worm, weight, and a hook. I caught 15 bass sitting on beds. The largest being 4.5(lbs.). I was too late to make it around the corner when I heard the splash. Someone had beat me to the spot. They had just reeled in a 7(lb.) bass. I couldn't believe it. I just missed the opportunity. I did see some giant black crappie caught that were the size of some bass. Baitfish were everywhere. I only saw a few trout caught though fishing from shore. I will be coming back to this lake for sure.
      City: Rosetown

      Tips: Crappie were hitting minnows, jigs, and worms. Bass were hitting worms(live), jigs, and minnows. Trout were hitting power bait and worms. Keep fishing, they are there.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out and threw everything. Only picked up a couple dropshotting oxblood worms. Very slow day of fishing.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DL, they removed my previous post...perhaps it was too harsh. Just wanted to tell everyone that you are a liar and Amador is not producing 73 fish days for a single boat/angler. Of a dozen bass boats we talked to, only a few fish were caught and we tried everything the day after your so called 73 fish day.
      City: Rocklin

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish were all small. Used robo 4 or 4.5 curlytail with splitshot rig. Holo shad or aarons. 2 smallies and 2 largemouth. Lost what felt like a good size one. Took me into the trees.
      Water clarity is messed up. big algae bloom
      City: Ventura

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

      Report: Me & my buddy Fred started are day off at Anderson,Fred caught (four) 9" to 13" with in the first hour drop shoting.started to get some rain,so w\that and the big!!! tournament going on we decided to run up to calero reservoir.no rain & only a few other anglers.3 hours pass & nothing.could not figure them out until I thru out my plastic watermellon speed worm and put my pole down to grab A snack,took A couple of bites,grabed my rod & felt some weight on it. pulled a little more and fish on,4#14oz.so we figured they dont want it fast or slow! they want it dead in the water.after that we started dead sticking them & wow!!! it was on,A couple more 4's & A few 3 pounders,& some 2#.What a GREAT!ending to A rough beginning.

      Tips: Have good company,and fish slow,(REAL SLOW!!).

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Walked the bank north of the launch ramp from 3:00 to 6:30 pm. Three fish... two around 15" and one 4 pounder. All toward the end of the day, on a white/chart chatterbait, in the weeds close to shore. All fish caught after walking past the dam.
      City: Mt View

      Tips: Tried spinnerbait, C-rig, dart head worm, crankbait... but it wasn't until I tried the chatter-bait that I started getting them. Fish were in shallow close to weed cover.

  • 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.