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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 46-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Watch out for the debre in the lake. It is what we deal with when the lake is rising almost a foot a day. Now at 744ft. elevation, it is a long way from the top but at least it is coming up. Tuesday's trip was another 20+ bass day. The bass came from inside coves, points and walls leading into coves. We missed a lot of soft bites and had severl break off. Bites came on Paradise Tackle jigs in the brown and green, on gitzits in craw, green/blk, green/red and clr/sparkle. Bucketmouth worms in the Oroville craw color also provided some bites.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The bass are in the coves, walls leading into the coves and on points. Lots of bass still suspending from 20ft, to 50ft.

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      Water Temp: 49 to 53 or so

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just a reminder that this Saturday is the Bass Busters of Yuba City Spring Invitational at Lake Oroville. $80.00 entry and $10.00 big fish. Sign up at the dam 4 to 5.30. These guys put on a great tournament and it doesn't cost a fortune to fish it. In fact, you could probably fish this out of an aluminum boat if it had a live well. Should be a good day and fishing has picked up. If you need more info call Joe at 530-790-7011. See you there
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Watch for debris, there is some big stuff floating especially on the West Side. As for fishing, well you'll have to find your own.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched my boat last Friday for the first time this year to make sure everything was working good. On the first crank it started right up and proceeded to the Dam and caught a beautiful 3.5 prespawn smallie on a brwn/org crawdad pattern crankbait. The water was really clear at the Dam but still cold. Went into Cherry(water stained) throwing jigs, swimbaits and crankbaits with no success. Tried the same patterns up Dry Creek with no takers and then headed back to main lake and cranked a 4lb.LM on the same bait. Went back to Dam and cranked a 2.5 LM on a red crawdad speed trap and called it a day at 12 noon. Like the previous report the reaction baits worked best but when the water warms the senko, worm and swimbait bite should bust wide open.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our tournaments with us. Please join us at our next meeting On April 9th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Pat Wilson from Penngrove. Pat has fished over 30 Tournaments as a co-angler in the FLW Series and has won five tournaments and over $116,000 in career earnings since 2000. He will be sharing all his winning techniques he has used fishing as a backseater. Our next Tournament will be at Clear Lake on April 19th and I expect someone will weigh in a 30lb. limit. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758.5972.

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: All the reports ive been reading have been keepin me away from here.Cold muddy no visibility etc. MY buddy and I just wanted to get the boat in the water so we really were expecting the worse. As soon as we drove over the bridge I could tell the water was clear. dropped in ran the boat to warm her up and headed for main lake across from the marina. A tuber said he was cathchin smallies on a shad rap. We crancked ratte traps and misc.cranckbaits. Broke a nice one off on a bluegill DT 16 it was a strong fish. Followed with a senko and pulled a 2lb smallie. we tried alot of different stuff in the same area but nothing .my partner lost one on a 3/8 jig in shallow water. We went to warm spring side to try some feeder creeks. One lost fish all the way back in the creek that was a senko fish I had hooked and reeled and then nothing. Didnt even feel it shake off. We decided to try some rock piles that have done well in the past. I immediately hooked up on strike king #3 bleeding shad. My partner hooked up a4lber on a flat DT-10 shad pattern his first good fish of the year. High fives were in the air. Wished we had more time but the trolling motor battery wasnt charged fully oops. We had a good time but cut short I think we coulg of had a pattern goin but when a battery is dead what do ya do.
      City: Guerneville

      Tips: Fish when you can fish dont always belive what you read judge for yourself. Ive already had a few good days this year in some of the "worse conditions" cold muddy water, bluebird skies,cold fronts, etc. Go when you can even if the weater seems unfavorible ITs all up to the fish when there biting there biting no matter what the focast is Time on the water=fish in the boat

Monday, March 24th, 2008

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

      Report: Good trout fishing in Big Cove! Caught 2 saturday evening and 4 sunday morning. 1 King Salmon in the bunch. Missed quite a few fish as well! Good times! Can't wait till the Bass fishin heats up.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: minnow imitation lures!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED CHANEL POINT MOST OF THE DAY AND THE ISLAND CAUGHT 4 BASS TO 3 POUNDS AND LOST A 5 POUNDER. ALSO CAUGHT A 1.4 POUND CRAPPIE.
      City: THA P

      Tips: DARK COLORED JIGS SEEM TO BE WORKING. AND 5 INCH HOLLOW BODY SWIMBAITS.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Very good day. Caught four bass the biggest two being 9.5lb-9lb and 8.5lb-8lb. Other two where about 2lbs. Three of them came of jigs on beds. The biggest one came off a rapala subwalk in olive color (looks like a bluegill. It was about 5ft deep on a bed. Fished the island and Channel Point.
      City: antioch

      Tips: More big bass are coming up just look. Throw dark color jigs and bluegill colors. Be Patient they will bite.

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      Water Temp: 61/62 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Floated in a tube around the western boat launch area from about 3pm through 7pm, fishing flies with a 15' sink tip. used heavily weighted bunny leeches in black and purple, wooly bugger in brown, brown worm, rainbow trout streamers, etc, all subsurface. snagged four times but not one bite. algae mixed into lake left clarity to be desired. light wind at times, dead wind around 6pm. beautiful scenery on the road in to the lake. my first time to eastman, but i'll be back.
      City: Fresno

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      Water Temp: 62 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Still lots of alge. Early morning, tried topwater in coves, nothing. Around noon, caught a 2 pounder on white/chart. spinner bait in flat {5-8ft} Little later lost 5 pounder near stik up on same spinner bait. Beautiful day fishing w/daughter.
      City: Dos Palos

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WE GOT ON THE WATER AT 2:00 PM CAUGHT 5 IN A SHORT TIME FISHED UNTILL 6:30PM 11 FISH CAUGHT 1.4OZ TO 2.12OZ HAD OVER 20+ BITES
      City: FAIR OAKS

      Tips: C RIG AND SINKO LOOK FOR LARGE FLATES 0 TO 15 FT

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ditto to Jan Wilson's report. We fished Monday and Tuesday and had the same fishing conditions. We fished the Pit Arm and Squaw Creek.

      Tips: We used dart heads and split shot. More fish came on the dart heads. Any color that included some Blue.

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      Water Temp: 49-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Sac arm, Pitt, and main body points this past Saturday and Sunday. Hard to find a group of fish, they still seem to be scattered. Did find a few groups, but not all of them were feeding. Very few fish at the shore, most were in 30 to 40 feet of water and just off the bottom. We caught approx 45 fish between two of us and largest was 2.5 lbs. on a spinnerbait. The fish don't seem to be in a reaction mode, except for a few fish every so often.
      City: Rough and Ready, Ca

      Tips: We used spinnerbaits, wacky rigged senko's, hula grubs, money minnows, jerk baits, and drifted live minnows. The senko's probably worked the best followed by the minnows and then the spinnerbait.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58 thru 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Easter weekend was just perfect at the lake. The weather was great, the water
      was clear and the fish were biting. Friday I headed out to the vineyards at 11:30
      with my wife. We had a limit by 1:00. We were both using brass and glass with a
      5' senko (I keep telling you it works!!!). After she brought in her second fish, I
      figured why should I be stubborn I switched to her color senko and sure enough I
      started to catch fish. The conditions were perfect and I followed my own advice.
      On Saturday I took Tom and Tony out for the day. We trolled from the ranch
      house to the vineyards with no success. We fished the vineyards for over two
      hours with no bites. No matter what bait we tried..........zilch!! What a difference
      a day makes. I decided to try my favorite cove. I had Tom and Tony start by
      bouncing a split-shot and minnow on the bottom. The first two fish that were
      caught were under size. You should have seen their faces when I let those two
      fish go. The bite picked up and we began to enjoy ourselves. They landed two
      good size crappies and a limit of bass (see photos). At about 1:30 I threw a brass
      and glass with my wife's favorite color senko into a recess in the rocks and was hit
      immediately by this five pound four ounce bass (see photo). After taking two
      pictures, I released the fish and I thought Tom and Tony were going to jump over
      board to grab it. They were happy with all the fish that they were going to take
      home. Sunday my wife and I went to my favorite cove for a couple of hours. We
      both used the brass and glass with the senko and landed a few nice fish no size to
      speak of. All in all it was a good fishing weekend and I hope it continues to get
      better and better. 'ti next week......................................good fishing!!!!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any fishing stories you would like to share
      please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      One of my friends from the Highlands caught a 12 pound bass fishing from shore
      this past week (photos at Steele Park Marina).
      City: NAPA

      Tips: It looks like the lake is turning

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally got a chance to get out and decided on the Delta. Started at Franks at 7:30am hit a few spots for nada. Started fishing Old River and found some clearer water. We ended the day with 7 fish all were about in the 2#s. Fished mostly rock with sparse tulles on them and all looked like males. All were caught on Dark colored Senkos but lost a few on Pitching jigs. We tried spinnerbaits, Plugs and some top water stuff but got nada. We only fished the Outgoing tide. Beautiful Day!
      City: So San Francisco

      Tips: All I can say is find a difference in water color and have some patients. Fish were hitting light. The last four fish were caught in the last two hours of the tide. I lost a few pitching jigs in Black and Blue color. Add a little weight when the tide moving fast.

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      Water Temp: 55 Deg

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First i would like to apologize to the gentleman below, no hard feelings .Went out of b&w resort 6:45 am with a friend cought the tide just right first 10 min of fishing dave hooked in to a 4.5lber fished all over found them stacked up in some places . kepted moving alot and fishing alot of water had 6 fish . stayed in mokulumme river ,tower park bridge, fished all the way down potatoe slough, found them on venice island, had a fair day it will get better as spring comes on, threw it all at them today , but pattern that worked was of course 5 inch watermelon senko water was fairly clearer in patatoe amd mokolumme river than south delta going next sat and sun, off the water at 10:30 am
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: move alot and find where there at . cover lots of water cant go wrong with senkos

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      Water Temp: Hi 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Somedays you do good, somedays you can't buy a fish. My fishing buddy went out on Tuesday with another friend. He fished Frank's and caught 5 bass in less than an hour - 8+, 6, 4, 2, and 2. Like my previous report, the stretch that he fished was less than a 100 yards.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: I keep seeing people criticizing other people's fishing reports over the years. That's why many people don't post their reports. I use to post all my trips but only post occassionally now and then because I don't want to be called a liar when I have an exceptional day and someone has a s*(@^* day. If you don't like what you read, go to another site.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Channel Point area for most of the day and caught 3 bass. All three were on beds and ranged from 2lbs-10lbs. Saw alot of bass moving around looking for places to bed.
      City: antioch

      Tips: Caught fish on jigs and rapala subwalk. Use dark color jigs like brn, blk, etc. and be patient.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 57 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: it's still too cold for the prespawn. threw the swimbait... no bites, no chasers. water is clear (7 foot visibility), high, and cold. threw a rattletrap for bass in the narrows and caught trout... go figure. i can't wait for the blade bite to turn on.
      City: Fremont

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday morning was a great day to hit the water before all the family came over, so Tom and I started with swimbaits no takers. we switched over to Jacks Jigs in Brwon/Purple and bam the larggies loved it. With not much time and the weather great we headed home @ 1 pm. Look for some good fish between Granite Bay and Beals Point. The main body points and Dyke 8.
      City: rocklin

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      Water Temp: warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took off on Easter Sunday when everyone was still sleep!
      City: Richmond

      Tips: If you know this lake? I stopped at the stop sign on the left. Fished with my best bait. I was there for three hours and had a limit of school size fish. All was under 4#s.maybe?Stay in coves things are picking up here. Slow and Slower