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Friday, February 15th, 2008

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught limit using drop shot near inlet. moved out to main body threw river to sea trout swim bait 4 bumps 2 takers 3.5 & 5+. other than that real slow
      City: sac

      Tips: throw swim bait!!!! its hit or miss

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Windy, Windy, windy....water was pretty rough..caught six total for the day..probably going for 5 pounds. Caught three throwing cinnamon/green flake yamamoto twin tail hula grubs on dart head...1 drop shotting with keeper pearl/blue 4" worm..one on a Lucky Craft rip bait... one on a Watermelon seed/red flake baby brush hog...all were caught five feet from the bank..but fish finder showing most 15-25 feet...saw piles of bait fish all along the old dam, what's left of ski cove, and along the old railroad posts half way to horseshoe...no luck though...everything caught was in the rocks...good news is the lake levels are rising with the old dam three feet showing, and ol' McClure starting to look almost normal again. Saw another Basser hook a 4 pounder on a green pumpkin tube, texas-rigged in Temperance. Forget going up river...water is still 6-8 feet deep a half mile past horseshoe...
      City: Merced

      Tips: I've read that crankin along the creek beds are getting fish..none for me. I still think crawdad colors are the way to go...hula grubs, brush hogs, and tubes...and once the old dam goes under...the fising should improve..plus keep drop shotting. Have patience..it will get better...

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 39-45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of tournaments both club and pro this weekend. The bite on Sat. was really soft. A lot of the guys came in without full bags. Won Bass winner had around 9 1/2 lbs. Sundays bite was a lot better for some and not so good for others. The top weight for Sundays Anglers Chioce tournanment was 11.80. The Main Body produced more full bags and also the Middle Fork. The South Fork was still disapointing. Jigs, dart head worms and tubes did the best over all. A few on swim baits and a few on lipless crank baits. The Lake should turn on after the rain coming in this week. It should warm the water temp. up and also provide in-flow that we don't have right now.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Keep fishing slow

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: How's the water clarity in the back ponds? Please post some report. Anyone catch any good size bass yet? Please share some info.
      City: fremont

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i agree tim. the bass fishing has been extremely bad. i always use to catch them on senkos near the shore at this time of year, but im hardly comming up with any fish lately.
      City: p town

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: muddy dont bother fishing here
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: dont bother fishing here

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks bassin homer. Tried the link, but nothing came up.

      Did report say if the lake has the lake come up at all?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One of those day you wonder why you event went....?? Five foot waves in the lake, wind was howling, expecting a nice day but....at least I was fishing.
      I got 8 bites and landed 5 fish all about 2-lbs each, all on a 3/4 oz brown jig with a brown grub (twin tail)and all in 25-30ft the bite was from 11:30 to 2 pm. "Last week the bite turned on at noon" I was pretty limited where i could fish, otherwise I believe I could have caught more fish.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Off shore structure was good last week in the afternoon, points in the narrows mid morning. Most of the fish on Brn/brn jig and a few on a purple ghost dart head 1/4. Line size didn't matter I was using 15 lb on the jig and 6 lb on the dart head.

      New Bass Anglers Guide will be in stores the first week of March www.bassanglersguide.com

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50.9

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The fishing conditions was tuff. the water was muddy brown everywhere i went. the only thing i think did not help me was trying to fish slow in the wind.

      i did manage the first fish for the year. one over 3 pounds. caught on a half ounce jig.
      City: san francisco

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49.1

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: well gate didnt open till almost 7:30 and after launching my boat someone in a ranger launched right into mine but bite was good caught some nice largemouth fish are moving shallow and reaction bite is starting look for warmer water
      City: Roseville

      Tips: to the guy in the ranger you dont need 30 feet of rope to get your boat in the water

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: bassin homer, have you taken another drive to the lake?

      Whats the latest?
      City: Sacto

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone fish the back pond lately? The weather have been steady, I would think the bass would start coming up to shore. Please post some report to keep this lake active. I am planning to head out this weekend with island and arroyo pond. I'll post some report
      City: fremont

      Tips: Please keep the report active here. And please catch and release the bass. Its getting less and less.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today all day for 2 fish to 3 pounds or so. Tried going up warmsprings and thats were i did catch them but 10 hrs 2 fish 1 missed fish im not doing somthing right?
      I fished mostly jigs and zipper worms in purple and purple black. I tried a swimbait for a while figured if im not catching anything might as well not catch something BIG right?
      I fished last friday for about the same results then went and watched the ABA tourny and wow those guys can catchem got me inspired I will be out there tommorrow maybe i will learn something!!
      City: s.r.

      Tips: Please anyone??? TIPS?? P.M. me :-)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 47 - 53 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Enjoyed a beautiful AM @ Capell Cove & caught nothing. Had one bite on spider jig & one maybe bite on dropshot. Water color looked great - nice stain & warming - but just couldn't get anything going.

      Tips: Should be good soon. Could meter fish, but couldn't get them to bite.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The last week has been very tough. Nothing on swimbaits or even jigs. I started fishing deeper and got a few on darterhead worms and some smaller fish on dropshot. With the weather the last week I figure it would be off the hook, not!
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: for any chance of a bite, rock piles that drop into deep water.

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      Water Temp: 48+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Press release from the State Weather Department of Water Conservation and Lake Level Control Research Data Committee: It hasn't rained in a week. It's feeding on snow melt and higher elevation lakes. It'll be a slow rise until we get more rain.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Go catch fish.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It looks like they're holding the lake at 389 feet after it rose about a foot a day for the last 10days or so..I wonder if they're holding water in the above dams for Los Angeles Area?
      City: EDH

      Tips: Don't have any!!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough today. Fished 10:00am-3:15pm with one tap that didn't stick around to finish it's meal. Threw black/blue jigs, spooned and drop shotted on Dry Creek and Warm Springs sides. Graphed lots of fish throughout the water column, as well as plenty of bait. Fished S.L.O.W., and still no go. Talked to a couple guys who took one 1lber all day. Hope someone did good.
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: Do the opposite of what I did, or do it somewhere else...most winters at Sonoma I find that the all around best bait is a jig n' pig fished super super slow, and I do mean pork, which I didn't use today.

Monday, February 11th, 2008

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My lake neighbor (Joe) and I launched his boat at the Narrows resort and started trolling with cripplures and Blue Fox spinners. I got a 13 inch trout 5 minutes after we started towards the north end on a cripplelure. We trolled back and forth while we enjoyed the beautiful day and ended the day with 5 trout between us. All carbon copies of the first. The temperture was in the high 60's, t-shirt and shorts all day :-)
      City: San Francisco

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

      Report: Spoke to the lake personnel and they said the ramp is on schedule for 28 Feb. Shud be nice IF the lake is open!!

      Meeting with Board of Supes is tentatively scheduled for the 4th of March.
      City: Santa Barbara