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Saturday, March 1st, 2008

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed Arroyo with my brother from 9 am - 2 pm. Winds were about 10 mph and it was overcast. Water was cold. Tried a Rat-L-Trap deep, chartreuse spinnerbaits and a shakyhead near the shoreline. Caught 2 LMB flipping a brown and purple jig near breaks in the brush near the shoreline. My brother got one on a wacky rigged purple senko. Largest fish 2.5 lbs.
      City: SF

      Tips: Slower presentations worked the best. Jigs in dark colors. Respect your fellow anglers please...Catch and Release!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: still cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: beat the sun out there,perfect morning,windless,still needed the long johns. fished all morningwith plastics & buddy threw spinner baits & cranks without any hits, tried dry & warm spings, finally about 11 hooked into a 2 pounder just outside of warm springs on a yamamoto black cut tail, just a single tap worked super slow. then the rain came in & that was it. hid for awhile & tried again, this time without anymore hits, started to rain again & headed home!
      City: san mateo

      Tips: wait til it warms up a bit & wait til the weather stabilizes.

Friday, February 29th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went here friday and started around 9am. A beautiful day, no need for gloves nor my insulated hat. Tried experimental fishing with the usual "no luck." Went to try to catch fish on the main body near skiers cove. In a 200 yd stretch I got about 6 bites and hooked only 3. Bites were in 12-30' on jigs. Took what I learned from this spot and applied that to my many stops up into the narrows. Over the next 4 hrs I jigged, dredged, fished wood, ripped, threw shakey heads, and even trolled for zero bites! I'm sure the weather change didn't help, but the rest was on me. Knowing nothing else, I went back to where I orignally caught fish and got 4 more bites and 3 fish.
      Felt a little better about myself and called it a day at 4:30 as it was becoming windier with more clouds. Even tho the weather was kinda wacky after 2pm, what a nice day. 6 fish with one dink. largest was a 2#spot. Found some water as warm as 55, but it didn't seem like the fish were aggressive at all.
      City: orinda

      Tips: I'm sure someone did well today, but I only got bit in one area. Most of the bites were pressure bites. I boated one fish from 40,', but the rest were in the 12-30' range. I thought the fish would be a little shallower, not so.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! Water and visibility are significantly better than last weekend! Unfortuntately, at least for me the bite wasn't :(. Fished White Slough for about 4 hours and only caught one small (12 inches) striper. Moved over to Disappointment slough and had some good strikes but failed to set the hook. Had to leave at 1pm right when things are picking up.
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished tules with rock with jig one fish 9.2 stuck with it for an hour with no more takers switched up to a swim bait in first 20' of a few good flats and had several short strikes. gave them a white chatter bait and they ate it.Fish on chatter were from 2# to 4# 5 total.Had a decent bag but not like the ones Cooch has been gettin! One more week of this weather and it will be wide open.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Fish in 8-12 ft. until it warms up a little then move shallow and cross your fingers.I think the ones I got shallow were because of cloud cover.

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around Franks for a few hours today. Third cast I had a 4 lb Bass nail my red/black jig with a Sweet Beaver trailer. Tried cranking with Crawdad lipless bait and picked up a smaller Bass and missed another. Picked up a 3 1/2 lb fish later in the morning fishing a Mission Fish Minnow. Also had a nice Swirl on a Pearl Fluke fishing the tulle's. All fish were in fairly shallow water.
      City: Lockeford

      Tips: Sounds like a broken record, find the clearer water. If your not getting bit, keep changing it up.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Guys, I'll be there on Sunday, loma is one of my favorite lake during this time of year, thats where I learn how to bass fish, anyway I hope the water is much clear, I'm either on the shore or im on a yellow creek company pontoon, good luck and see ya all on the water
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: I always do very good on swimbait and dropshoting, I'll try cranks this sunday!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Yeah.I will be there all this weekend. This season is gonna be hot.
      City: antioch

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

      Report: Loyd, you are posting very good luck every time you go out on Folsom. Nice job! With so many striking out right now (me included), could you say WHERE you are catching fish up shallow? Main body, N S E or W shore, any clue appreciated! Thanks. (Loyd I sent you a PM a week ago but got no reply)

      Webmaster, I KNOW this isn't a report but on behalf of the Folsom Winter Banana Team I'm hoping to get a hint here before my wife takes away my bassboat. Thx.
      City: Penryn

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: good day out caught about 9 fish total but all good fish biggest 5 fish about 15 pounds caught biggest fish on spinner bait 5 pounder.
      City: roseville

      Tips: found fish up shallow start looking for warm water.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Most bass are being caught at about 10-15ft on berserk jigs or a brush hog. Some are hitting surface lures, ripbaits, and crankbaits. Small ones are able to be caught on dropshotting. Some swimbait fish are out there. Bucks are moving in with a few females too. Its getting better, if you can get a 10lb limit with 5 fish you are doing pretty good. I caught some smallmouth upriver on a brown berserk jig, nothing big pound and a halfers.

      Tips: Brown or brown/green jigs in about 15ft worked slowly or a bait that looks like a crawdad. Reaction baits near the shoreline. www.fishwrangler.net

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished 2 days at hogan and not a single bite. shorefishing of the fiddleneck and also close to the dam (north shore). Anybody have any clues to where the stripes are?

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Afterbay this morning.
      Very limited action on a picture perfect day. Thought the 4 days of warm weather would turn them on. Not quite yet. Threw grubs, senkos, worms and spinner baits. 3 fish total. Main lake is up about 20' since January 1. Still down 180'. Should turn on in a week or so.
      City: Oroville

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      Water Temp: mid-upper 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: past couple of weeks have been warmer, and i've gotten out a couple of times, but not for long periods. My last outing had a big strike on a white 1/2oz spinnerbait. I wasnt really aying attention because we hadnt gotten bit yet and i was looking for another spot to fish. Of course thats when a fish decided to hit the bait! My cousin that i never knew i had came fishing for the first time that day and i set him up with a wacky worm smoke w/purple senko and his bait was near mine and he got a strike by the same fish (im pretty sure) within 8 seconds. His drag was kinda loose and so it was making some noise and he set the hook and the fish kinda took a run. Somehow the fishy managed to throw the hook out and get away, it would have been a really nice first fish for my cousin, but he had a thrill with that strike! He will be coming back to CA from Mex. this summer and we're going to show him some topwater action!!!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The fish are moving (if not already) into prespawn and maybe even spawn, but the water was a little too muddy to see if there were any shallow fish. By now probably there would be, but i would assume that most fish are in prespawn. you can try to get a reaction strike like i did or fish slow like my dad and cousin. Good Luck to all! Maybe you'll see me out there during Spring Break! haha... (i cant wait for it)

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Retired, and Firejon, for the reports.
      We were at berryessa yesterday,with similar results. We stared fishing in the narrows and
      caught three small spotted bass on darter heads.
      We moved to Spanish flat area on the way home and
      got two more small fish using the same darted heads.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: With the water warming it will get better any day

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      Water Temp: 55 - 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started fishing with my buddy on main body points near Pope Creek - water temp 55

      Tips: If you are a finesse fisherman, try the wacky jig technique. Try some baits which imitate a crawdad.

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      Water Temp: 46 to 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of Capell and went to skiiers cove for three fish one on senko two on lv500. Went to Vineyards with a few more on lv500 in same water depth 6 to 10 feet. Drop shotted ont in 22' of water and that was it. It should get better soon.
      City: san bruno

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day with little wind. Fished Hog/Sycamore Sloughs and Potato Slough/Frank's Tract. Action still a little slow. We were fishing Sycamore and my fishing buddy was cranking a 1/2 oz Rat L Trap and caught a steelhead about 18 inches. First time that any of my fishing buddies caught a steelhead. Caught a few small bass. Fished Potato Slough/Frank's Tract and we caught 3 stripers around 19 inches (good eating size) and a couple of keeper size bass.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Look for the clearer water. Had several fish follow my lure back to the boat but no bite. We were cranking all day since my buddy had great success with cranks in his last 2 trips (black bass limits with a striper or two)

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 57 to 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water nice and clear. Saw a few small fish in 6-10 ft of water. Senko and dropshot didn't appeal to the fish.
      City: Santa Barbara

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Kyle...yeah, I have seen you up at the lake. I also fish from a water skeeter "day tripper" from time to time, but do MUCH better from shore as I get most of my big bed fish between shore and brush piles in less than 2' of water. I will give you a shout next time I see you as I am there at least 4 days a week during the spawn. As for Alex and PJ...Sorry, I'm not sure I remember you guys...my apologies. There was another Tom that used to fish Loma that went into the Coast guard...could be him ar maybe I'm losing my memory as I get older. Anyway, if I do know you guys, please jog my memory as I am always willing to talk "Contra Loma". I been hammering this lake hard for 6 years and I think I finally have it figured out. Good luck to all and I will see you as I creep the shoreline.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Big jigs = big bass any time now!