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Saturday, February 9th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 3 Tourney's crowded Frank's Tract pretty well. I fished from 7:30 am until 3:00 pm. Sun was out all day. Caught only 1 fish (7lbs). Caught it on a 1/2oz green pumkin jig in 4 ft of water on a tule point leading into Frank's Tract. It was very hard to find a spot to fish there were boats on every spot. A couple weeks of this weather and its on.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: PATIENCE!!!!

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished weed beds in Mildred Island early.Cold and slow but managed 2 bass on weedslingers.Not a bad day being that I haven't fished the Delta since October.
      City: Farmington

      Tips: fish slow and dress warm.

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It's been tough for everyone, including some of the veterans I hear, but Cooch and Blue Daddy Ranger seem to know something we don't. Congrats guys, my hats off to you! I did manage one bite for 3 afternoon hrs of fishing. Water temp was around 52 degrees. I found the clearest water around from what people keep reporting and I think it made all the difference. It was a reaction bite in 3ft of water. Very subtle bite but it pulled like it was a donkey. She got me hooked up in a submerged tree and broke me off but not before my partner got a quick peek at her. He's convinced it was a giant! Hopefully that means more females are soon behind looking to feed. Can't wait to get out there again. Good luck!
      City: manteca

      Tips: Just as everyone else is saying, follow blue daddy ranger or look for the clearest water with some warmer temps. The big girls are coming out finally with this warming trend we're having. Watch out for wake boarders, I've seen them out already this year!

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my dad in Holland's Cut on Saturday. Saw a lot of bass boats zooming back and forth. We were using senkos and jigs mostly, near structure along the rock wall. My dad caught 2.5 and a 4 on brown/purple jig with a cinnamon w/black and purple trailer. I missed one setting the hook. It was my first jig fish.
      City: san anselmo

      Tips: With the water so muddy, cast so much you hit them on the head!

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      Water Temp: 47-51.9

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 4 hours. Found 51 degree water but couldn't get the fish. I know there in there. I've been using dark colors in the muddy water Maybe that's it. Will continue the work.
      City: S.L

      Tips: none

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      Water Temp: 46-48.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Called some people to get some advice on where the water is cleaner. Gave it a shot today but still finding very stained water with only one fish caught. It is still very tough out there and I know that White's and Mildren is cleaner but so does everyone else. Lots of boats out today with a couple of Tourney's not many fish were caught today at least that's the word that I'm hearing. Hopefully the water will warm and clear up by Saturday's tourney.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Search for cleaner water and you must fish real sloooooow....

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 41-44

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Found water with only 1 foot of visibility and found water with 6 feet of visibilty but it did not matter, they did not want to bite. I got one 3.5 lber at 5:30 pm on Sat on a 1/4 oz shakey head with a 6 inch warmouth Robo fat body, I fished from 10:00 am to 6:30 pm Sat with only one fish. On Sun I fished from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM with only one fish at 1:00 PM on a pumpkin seek 5 inch curly tail worm drop shotted. I fished a fav area for 45 minutes using drop shot, shakey head, rip, crank & 3:16 swim bait, got one smack on the swim bait but did not commit so I left for 45 min, I came back to same spot and there are 2 guys using minnows and the guy in front lands 3 fish in 15 minutes right where I could not buy a bite so I switched to a curley tail worm and dead stuck it, I did not feel the bite but I lifted the crucial drop shot rod and my line started moving ever so slowly and a 2 lber was on there, these fish are eating for sure but they want to see gills moving so that is why I went to the curly tail and it worked but only for one fish.
      My 3.5 was in 15 feet of water and the 2 lber was in 25 feet of water. I spoke to a few Won bass guys fishing the vinard circuit and they were the AOY team last year and only had one a pc at 2:00 PM so I did not feel so bad, I spoke to a number of people and it was the same, zero to 2 fish per boat. If the weather stays this good for 2 more weeks we will see a huge turn around.
      City: San Joser

      Tips: If you want to just enjoy good weather go now, if you want to catch fish wait for 2-3 weeks but look for at least low 50's in water temp before heading out. It's going to bust open and I will be there. Go to the Delta and follow Cooch around and see where the heck he is getting those toads!!!:)

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      Water Temp: 41

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit it hard on Saturday. Fished Rodman Slough for 2 hours. Threw everything. Jigs, Huddlestone, Senko, Staysee 90's, Slow rolled Spinner-baits, Drop-shot. Not a bite. Moved to Rocky Point and repeated. Fished deep water, Shallow water, Wooden Docks, Standing Timber even punched laydow tules with a Sweet beaver - nothing.

      Went out Sunday afternoon and headed south to fish Cache Creek and surrounding area. Didn't get a bite.

      I think the water is too cold. If anyone has had some success I would love to know what worked and where?
      City: Nice

      Tips: Make a sacrifice to the fishing gods!

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I was going to fish hear next week end how is the water level I will be going in my gregor 14 foot taking of my outboard and using my trolly anybody with some insight would be cool grew up on this lake in mira vista hills come back a few times a year those bass should be moving up
      City: Pittsburg

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 29-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: tough bite, lots of angling pressure prior to the weekend with blue bird skies. after we pulled out we heard that salt/pepper was producing, with fish in the 30-35-40' range, but go slow slow slow. we caught 2 keepers, one on watermelon trick worm on shaky head on a 30' hump,and another way upstream against the white cliffs in 35' on a redish 4" worm drop shotting. one rat in 35' on a mm3 sculpin dropshoting. god I hate this time of year, bring on the frog bite, it just can't come soon enough
      City: Sonora

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 44-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished two back to back club tourneys on Sat and Sun. Sat only 1 team out of 12 cought a limit. Bite was very slow and reaction bite was off, however, the key was to find fish within the fist three hours of daylight because the bite was done by 10am.. All of our fish were caught on brown or green tubes, some teams caught a few on worms and jigs on sat but most fish were caught on tubes. Big fish for Sat was a little over 3lbs. and winning weight was just under 10lbs with five fish over the slot. Sun was a better bite for some teams and there were 2 limits weighed in out of 16 boats. Big fish was a 3.77, first place was just under 11lbs, and second was just behind by a few ounces. Both limits had all fish over the slot. There were reaction fish caught in the morning before the sun hit and then the bite shut off. Some teams reported catching several of their fish later in the day which also showed improvement over Sat.. All in all it wasn't too bad considering the water level of the lake and the temps, but it was definetly the slowest bite we've seen in a while for our tourneys.

      Tips: Fish slow in the 15'-40' range-fish are scattered and hard to graph, but once you find a few they will bite in the mornings. Use tubes, jigs, and reaction baits. No real pattern as far as location or type of structure.

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      Water Temp: 39-44

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We started fishing around 9am this morning looking for some new water with feeding bass. We fished the West Branch, Main body and the North Fork. We found bass in all the locations but the bite was still soft. We took hits on jigs, tubes and lipless crank bait. We caught 11 for the day with 5 over. The biggest was 2-1/2 lbs. on a lipless crank bait about 15-20ft. deep. The jig bite was the best during the day at about 40ft. but lost a few as the bites were very subtle. Jig colors in green&brown, black&blue, and brown&purple and the tube color was clear sparkle. The reaction bite was great to see using shad color lipless crank bait. We talked to other boats out there and with only one other bass.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: We found the afternoon bite was better as the water did warm up a bit. The key for us was to fish very slow.

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      Water Temp: 41- 42

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: took a trip out today late start got on the water around 2:15 basically just running the boat in the nice weather. decided to run up the middle fork but just stayed at the mouth due to wake boarders? hit the vertical walls on the south side no takers switched to the north side on the sandy areas and stsrted to catch fish in the 25 to 30 foot range used a shakey head with a yamamoto cut tail worm in watermelon red ended up with six two over all the rest in
      City: grass valley

      Tips: with the water so cold go slow real slow and fish the warmest water possible the mud will not get real warm for another few days of good weather but the granite sand is conducting heat well right now good luck and always try reaction early morning it should turn on any day now

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: At the lake early only to find a quarter mile long line of boats waiting to be inspected. Suggest getting there before 6:30 or after 8 am.
      Started fishing humps with a jig no takers. Threw SB's on points no takers went back into cove and drop shotted 3 largies 1.8, 2.43 and 5.4 I caught all of them around 10:30 in about 20 minutes and then that was it for the rest of the day. I had two other bites but could not get the hook up.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Keep fishin and the bites will come!

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

      Report: From what I understand the Trinity Center ramp has been plowed. 1 single narrow lane with no chance to turn around at the bottom. I've been told that it would take a pretty brave soul to attempt it. It doesn't matter to me. After getting over 80" of snow last week and having to hire a D5 Cat to dig us out, it's still going to be a while before my boat can leave the barn. The ramp should be better soon with the nice weather we're enjoying, and hopefully I can beg a ride from someone who lives a little lower and only got 3-4' od snow.

      Tips: I'll at least get a chance to talk fishing this Wed the 13th. I'll be putting on a little seminar at Redwood Marine in Eureka at 5:30 PM. Stop by and say Hi.

Friday, February 8th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I,fished the narrows on saturday from 7a.m.to 2. I listened to everyone say try this and try that , throw this and throw that... nothing worked so I went to old faithful..a 6in. mourning dawn with a chartruse tail..bingo. Caught 5 nice fish one here, one there, then called it a day. It was a beatiful day out there and I can't wait for the water to warm up.
      City: berkeley

      Tips: throw em' back

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched around 8:30 and fished capells and the main body on a beautiful day with no wind. By noon just 2 fish. Went to the narrows and the fish were a little more active. Fished til 3:30 and boated 5 more. Nothing over a 1#, but with the sun it was still fun. Slow presentation with plastics with red flake in 20-30'. Saw a basser dude release a beautiful 6-4 lmb at the launch ramp that was fooled by a swim bait.
      City: orinda

      Tips: All of my fish were pretty pale. Not sure if that meant lack of sun or they were coming up from the deep.

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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 9:00 am and I found the fishing slow, didn't get first bite until 2:50 pm. Then again at 5:30. The bite started to pick up about 6:00 when I caught 3 fish on 3 cast then a fourth about ten minutes later for a total of 6 fish for the day and all about 1.5#'s. Was dark and had to head in about 6:30. All fish were caught on texas rig Lizard, watermelon red, in 15-25 foot of water off of rocky points.
      City: Vacaville

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with a good friend on a great weather day
      Slight wind by fishing the lake when it was low you find all the points and breaks under the water Caught my first fish at the dam in 20ft 2lb solid fish on a salt pepper spider jig 3/8 oz continued to fish the points off the dam with no other bites went up to the south bend of the river and nailed a 3lb on a jerk bait off a point were the water temp came up to just 50degrees fish were suspended on a wind blown point ran to another wind blown point and caught another 2.5 and again around the point casting along the shore in 15 feetwith a brown spider jig caught another smaller fish all in all a good day in Feb with cooler water The water level is just about to the top 6feet or so to go fish all seem healthy and ready to move up with this weather fishing should get better
      City: Roseville

      Tips: fish slow jigs in the AM and watch your finder when the temps rise so do the fish I used stacy 90 slow rolling with a 2-3 count pause

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 43 - 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Air Temp High = 60
      Barometer Avg = 30.01
      Wind Speed = 0mph - 5mph
      Average Depth = 20 feet
      Objective Today = Scouting Expedition Only
      Lots of dead algae in certain areas. Drove around and searched for baitfish 1/2 the day in the north and south ends. Found one secluded hump with fish on it. I made one cast and caught one fat 3lb 6oz football then pulled up to go find more humps spending only 00:30 min per spot. Will post picture today. I found no large schools of shad or crappie on or near structure.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: These fish are ON THE BOTTOM and lethargic, so keep an eye on your electronics. Then keep your bait in front of their face. With consistent weather - it will pick up!