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Monday, March 17th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake about 10AM, hardly any wind and caught 2 right off the bat...1.5lbs ea. Put in @ Markley. I was using football-headed blue/brown jig w/pig. Everyone one is right about fishing slow. I threw some other stuff w/no luck...fished about 4 hrs. I made a journey to the far end of the lake...thought the water would be a little warmer w/ a better bite. Nothing and the water was real muddy. I sure am looking forward to that mean Spring bite!
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: I need'em!

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      Water Temp: 52.8 morning to

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dart head, Drop shot, and weighted senkos in narrows on step rock banks. Most of our fish came off secondary points in cove inlets 15 to 26 feet. Better bite for us on sunday then the blue bird Monday. On the lake to late and missed any reaction bite. Wish we were there this weekend. Good fishing!!!
      City: Fernley, Nv

      Tips: As previous, fish slow and dark (green pumpkin, Purples and blues all caught fish for us.

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

      Report: I look here for fishing reports and find peoples conversations instead......not very informative.
      City: modesto

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What is up with the big fish in backyards. Have a replica made. I know this should be about fishing reports but lets catch and release.
      Got blown out on sunday had a small limit with baldes and cranks

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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to get the boat on the water before it sets for a while, and ofcourse cast a line or two. Went back into RC and it was accessible but still a tad on the shallow side on the left bank, water very clear, could see down to the bottom, from about 7' of water. Had heard that cranks were working last week, but no takers for me today. I worked the damn and a few points, no reaction, no jigs, did get bit on a shakey head 3 x's but could not set in time. It is good to se the lake up though, looks like it could come up around another four feet, and another five degrees and things will start to get pretty darn good.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: None for today, cept just be patient and have fun out there before the boarders and ski boats come out and infest the place.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50 to 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: one fish today and some bites most people were gettin them on night crawlers...i got mine on a 6 inch margarita mutilator.
      City: lakecounty

      Tips: water temp still is too cold to fish from shore go slow and use purple like colors....water needs to be at least 5 degrees warmer.....

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

      Report: sorry about the date.

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: getting warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: As we head into this coming weekend there will be a full moon and all the
      water conditions are conducive for the spawning of the smallmouth bass.
      I plan on fishing Friday the 21st. My first stop will be the vineyards and I
      feel the fishing will be great. I have received many calls asking me what I
      would use at this time. For those who are in Tournaments, I would throw
      swim baits all day only. Since I am not in tournaments, my arsenal would
      consist of a carolina rig with a 5" french fries. My second choice would be
      brass and glass with a dark senko 5" worm texas style. Thirdly, would be my
      favorite confidence bait, a R2S crawdad with Procure crawdad scent. If I see
      any top water activity at all, I'll be throwing a chugger or a pop'r. My boat
      will probably be in seven feet of water throwing to the shore. Of course these
      are only my intentions for the coming weekend which can change due to the
      weather and fishing conditions. Please read my next report to find out what I
      ended up doing. 'til next week...................................good fishing!!!!!
      www.fishingconnection.net If you have any questions or stories you would like
      to share please email me at bestguide@hotmail.com or call me at 650-583-3333.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Hopeing for good wether, that means no rain in the forecast.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: black and blue jigs with the magic craw red beaver trailer. when they take it they run towards deeper water and or the boat, you have to watch the line they are swimming with it. some blade fish, white and chartreuse. got 8 fish sunday in the nasty wind, best 5 went 14-15. be safe.
      rickd
      City: Burlingame

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Awesome tournament!!!!!!Had some decent action in woodward and Widows. Anyone see what slough down south Brett Hite was fishing, I heard it was Italian, but that was just dock talk, I think.??
      City: brentwood

      Tips: black and blue and junebug

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hats off to Dee Thomas for his 6th place finish at the FLW National Gauard Delta Open. When I first started fishing organized tournaments(35 yrs. ago)Dee was an immediate multiple tourney winner. It was'nt very long before a few of us started calling him "King of the Delta". Soon everyone was makeing the same referance. At Dee's final day interview he said "At this point in my career I was interested in makeing the top ten and not necessarily winning. I wanted to show everyone that old guys could still play the game"(71 yrs. young) I'm 65 years old and pretty much just a tournament "journeyman" but you sure as hell motivated me and even though I got my butt kicked this time I will be at the next one takeing another swing at the " Brass Ring".Some time far, far, far, away when there sprinkleing Dee's ashes over that vast expanse of water,no matter who is the hot stick at the time, Dee Thomas will still and always be "The King of the Delta".
      City: lockford

      Tips: Always take that swing at the Brss Ring no matter who or how old you are

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i think its the thc theory,whats that cat smoking? diddent fish today wanted to watch the FLW weighin. going tomorrow, probabley get blown off the water.

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

      Report: What crankbait were you throwing?

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out today and caught 3 caught 1 in the cove with a zellamander from yum. and the other 2 i caught at the dock with a robo worm in bold bluegill drop shotting. the wind was at least 30 mph the whole day.
      City: THA P

      Tips: ROBOWORMS

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The wind kicked up for the kids of Junior BASS Federation Nation for their first BASS Tournament. The club meets at Galaxie Marine the first Thursday of each month @ 5:30 just before the the Bass School starts @ 6:30pm with Damon Witt. Eight kids fished in four areas between Grante Bay and Beals Point. They had four volunteers with boats to take out the kids for four hours. Two kids got four bass, two with two and two with one bass. For a windy day and cold the kids did very good with jigs, spinner baits, drop shot and crankin.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: The ages for the kids are 11-18, see you @ Galaxie Marine.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: my brother and I decided to try Indian valley res. this weekend why in the hell would you go down a 8 mile dirt road from hell. and fish a muddy farging lake when you have clear lake right next door. and they acctually make you pay to fish their hell they should pay you. took one look at the lake and didnt see anything appeeling about it so we turned around and went to clear lake .
      City: carmichael

      Tips: dont waste your time unless you want to farge up your bass boat hell I didnt even want to take my john boat down that road .

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On on lake about 8:00am, wind blowing way to hard to hold the boat in place so i pulled into the cove just left of the ramp and camped out. Threw blade shad/siver-gold bld, pointer ghost, senko bwn/blk-flk and nothing, finally set up in 14' of water with drop-shop 4"MM and got hammered by a three pound trout, dropped in back down and again hammered by a four pounder; fun but not the green monsters i was looking for. Switched to a Robo Arons Magic and got a LM about 2.5 and two more about 1.5 & 2.0 both in the middle of the creek channel on a dead stick drop-shot.
      City: Hilmar

      Tips: With the wind shut down fish should be aggressive and staging, hit points with rip baits and cranks. Grn/Pmkn Senkos and drop shot on points and middle or creek channels.
      Should be pre-spawn for the next week and then it should get good.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 3rd club tournament of year out of packers bay.won by j selby 15.85 lbs anchored by 9.86 largemouth. swimbait approx 8-10 ft pit river point up from jones valley. lots caught on darter head worm as well.
      City: klamath falls or

      Tips: swim bait bump on bottom slowly

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for three hours on Sunday afternoon in the 5 to 20 foot range in Warm Springs Arm. Used drop shot, carolina rig, split shotted a worm, and jigs but no bite. Bass must be deeper than 20 feet.
      City: Novato

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 44

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The 1st of 5 Jason Fisher Memorial Vocational Scholarship Tournaments was held yesterday the 15th. Although the day started out a little nasty, the weather cleared and a warm calm day was enjoyed by all. 8 teams entered and 4 weighed fish. 1st place went to Dave Richards and Rob Milovic with 4 fish for 19.57 lbs. They also had LM lunker at 5.98. In 2nd place were Brian Taylor and Mike Bentley. They weighed 4 LM for 14.05 lbs. Not bad for the 1st time on the water this year. 3rd went to Terry Sexton and Tim Coyle with 4 smallies for 9.87 lbs. They had a 3.2 SM lunker as well. I want to thank those who made the effort to attend. We had teams from the coast, Redding, and Red Bluff. Hopefully the weather will be a little nicer for the next event which will be held April 5th.
      City: Trinity Center

      Tips: Trinity kept it's reputation as a trophy fishery alive as the average of the fish weighed was over 3.5 lbs.