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Friday, March 7th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished with my brother mar 07& 08. on fri got a huge bass. four all day. on the 08 wind was blowin lots of debri in the water. one all day. rough fishin but its pickin up. supprised w all the boats on the lake noone postin.
      City: merc3d

      Tips: watch for debri , an the wind .

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I did not get out until 2 pm and we headed over to Beals Point in 10-25 ft. using darter head and drop shot finding O. So we moved to the main body point throught a swimbait off the rocks in 2-10 got a 5.14 largie, only stayed 2 hrs so went home.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: The bass are up0 spawning on the flats in 1-10 ft.

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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished mon-thurs good bite all over lake .Mon, went north and went looking for warm water found that it is 52 @ rattelsnake cought 6 up to 2 lbs on mud lined points with long taper, fish in 7-8 ft on speed trap and c-rig senco.Tuse, wanted to find bigger bite went north and started with big jerk bait and hud with no bite so c-riged for 3 1.5lbs fish just stop the bait and hold so if you feel any wait set the hook.Weds, just went out to catch a limit and went with c-rig with 3/4oz bulet,glass and gami ewg thin wire hook to 6in senco in green ,found fish up in 3-6ft and went 5 for 16lbs with a 5.12lb kicker.Thurs, had to see if my pattern from the day before would hold, and it did and got better best five went 17lbs and had a better avg.
      City: roseville

      Tips: when you find fish catch one or two and leave for an hour or so to let the spot rest.Allways more than one fish on a spot this time of year get three or four spots and run and gun.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 51 - 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In the morning, my fishing partner and I started fishing up the Warm Springs arm. Water temp was 52

      Tips: It appears the fish are starting to stage in deep water and getting ready to move up to the shallower water as the temperature goes up. If the bite is tough, try downsizing.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Reaction bite is still slow but the fish are
      moving up
      City: TheWoodpile

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

      Report: Thanks for the 'heads-up' DK. I passed it along on my Group Email!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish frank's for about 2 hours and no bites. Went and fish around Corrieia Rd for 4 hours and still nothing. I was throwing spinner bait, rattle trap,swimbait and speed trap......still nothing. Went to white slough and it was high tide peak and going out...caught first fish of the day...on white/red spinner bait...5 pounder. Caught an 4 pounder 10min later.....and that everything went crazy...I end up catching 13 bass ...and my buddy caught 11 bass....our biggest is 6lb 7oz. we caught six 5 pounder and three 6 pounder all ohters were 3 to 4 pounder. Bass were caught on white/red spinner bait and crawdad rattle trap. All bass were caught on out going tide and fish was caught on island only.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Never give up......it will pay off.

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

      Report: the fish were there...the water was clear, fish from
      1-15 foot water were seen...but they werent exactlyfeeding.
      as for the quagga, the meating was BS because it seemed that many of the board members had there mind made, before the meating...
      srry for all the anglers out there.
      City: ventura

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: join Redwood Empire Bass Club or Sonoma County Belly Boat Club and you will learn lots of things to catch those clear lake bass as well as waters you havent fished at before!
      City: petaluma

      Tips: try new things and gain confidence. no matter what you throw at clear lake. you cant go wrong. stick with one thing/day and you will catch something. then once you thrown different things all day, you could throw them using a pattern!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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

      Report: Notice of Public Hearing

      March 2008

      The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on March 11, 2008 at the Betteravia Government Center in Santa Maria to consider a request from the Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board (COMB) to temporarily close Lake Cachuma to private boats. The request is based upon the threat of Quagga Mussel (an invasive aquatic freshwater mussel) possibly being introduced into the lake via private boats. The hearing will be conducted as part of the regularly scheduled meeting which begins at 9am.and should be heard sometime during the morning agenda.

      Public may give testimony before the Board of Supervisors in person in Santa Maria, or by remote at the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room in Santa Barbara.

      The Betteravia Government Center Hearing Room is located at 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, Ca.

      The Santa Barbara Hearing Room is located in the County Administration Building, fourth floor at 105 East Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara.

      Tips: Everybody show up to this!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out of russos today . windy 3 foot swells in front of russo . even tricky to get boat launched. not being too smart we went anyway . tried to fish inside tract .. too rough for us old guys. tried some places with a little protection . partner got a five off rocks with a speed trap . too windy and rough to fish SLOWLY .. gave up about 10:30 . we were at the south end behind the wall and to get to russos it was too rough for us to run the tract so five mile all the way back and with big swells we got WET .. I SAY WET !!! i heard that the afternoon it calmed down but my trolling motor batteries would be shot by then . had to either run at 80-89 percent or drift 30 miles per hour with the wind and current. one bass we did get was a football and full of eggs . so when weather permits things south really pick up ..
      City: sunnyvale

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

      Report: Look it up on the internet. The Quagga can be spread by birds that migrate. I guess it's the boaters fault!
      City: Ventura

      Tips: Fish in a different county. Pretty soon Piru and Cachuma will be closed and San Luis county is having a meeting next month to talk about closing their lakes also.

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      Water Temp: who fuckin care

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fuck the people of ojai and the employees of lake casitas i hope your town goes bankrupt and this summer i hope your fuckin town burns to the ground just my feelings about there vote to close the lake with no evindence of mussels in the lake or on the boats that go there on a regular basis fuck you very much from a local for 35 years
      City: oxnard

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: congrats tom. i went today at 2:30 pm and didnt get a bite. the water temp moved down quite a bit since yesterday. When I was leaving, this guy caught two, one about 3lbs, nice and fat, and another 2lbs on a crappie spinner bait looking lure. I was amazed.
      City: antioch

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1 bass 7 lbs. from rip rap by dam on crankbait. Another fish, definately larger, but lost at shoreline. That fish fell for a black/blue jig w/blue trailer dropped into middle of a brush patch.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: shad crankbaits on wind blown banks. Jig bite is starting to improve in tullies along bank.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to test out the Island pond today with my tube. I actually did way better than what I expected. Got 6 fish total with the biggest close to 4lb. All I did was blind casting the drop shot, pitch in the kreature, and roll the blades. Water is still cold but I found fish in shallow and deep water. I guess in another two weeks fish would start move up more. Plan to go out to Arroyo this sunday and I will put up some report.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Please keep this lake updated, and please catch and release. If you see a asian guy with the green caddis tube, that's ME. Hope see u all in the water.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my father today for an easy day fishing. Tried swimbaits and jerkbaits early with no takers. ended up shaking works in 2-12 ft. of water. caught a good 10 fish to 3lbs missed a ton more with one that got away by taking a bunch of line into a bush! trout fishermen were killing the 5 lb trout everywhere
      City: fair oaks

      Tips: they are there just be patient

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

      Report: The Fairfield-SuisunBass Reapers are hosting their annual Open Tournament April 5 on Berryessa. The entry fee is $100per team including a $20 big fish pool. For more info call Curt (707) 448-9113, Floyd at (707) 425-8505, or go to www.BassReapers.Com and download the entry form. The entry form is at www.bassreapers.com/images/08OpenFlyer.pdf.

      This is a fun tournament with payback to 20% of the field.
      City: Fairfield

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two members of the Redwood Empire Bass Club fished the recent Vanity Cup and weighed in a respectable limit both days caught on jigs, swimbaits, blades and ripbaits,
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club welcomes new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us at the Delta on March 22nd. and Clear Lake on April 19th. Please join us at our next meeting on March 12th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Sieg Taylor sharing with us his swimbait techniques he uses to catch huge bass. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707.758.5762.

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for about 30 minutes in my pontoon at 6 pm, and caught three 2-3lb's in less than 10 minutes. I will meet up with you, lmk. Email me or something PJ.
      City: antioch