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Friday, February 8th, 2008

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out about 9:00am on Friday only caught 4 fish. best one 3lb. spot. All fish came from the main body on drop shot in 8-15 feet of water on green and brown worms. defiantly not red hot but picking up.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: rocky points

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 42 - 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up the Middle fork looking for big spawning salmon. Saw no sign of fish. Went up into 4' of water and also looked near the falls...no luck. Caught one 10" trout on a Super Duper half way back. Tried graphing both sides near the bridge for bass and still no sign. Went back to the main lake near the island...no bass sign. Went half way up Potter's Cove...no sign. Saw a few in the Bidwell Marina. Spent some time looking at the campsites at Bidwell...anyone have any info on the Lime Saddle sites? Not impressed with Bidwell camping.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: The little man in the boat says "when it's cold, a slow even presentation will provide more pleasing results".

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 9:30 and was greeted with mild weather and a warm sun. Perfect for expiermenting with minnows. grOuchy used artificals all day, while I used minnows for most of the day. We ended up with about a dozen bites, 7 or 8 fish with the real thing getting more bites than artificials. Nothing big, typical 1-2lb spots. A cool wind came up that messed with the minnow bite.
      City: orinda

      Tips: All minnow bites came with the bait dragging on the bottom. Had one on a bobber without a bite. hula grubs, and dropped shot worms were the plastics of choice. From 10' to 35.'

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      Water Temp: 46 to 49.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: For 3 fisherman we caught 8 fish and missed 3 bites. Fish were caught on drop shot and spider grubs mostly near rocky points and brush. Could ahve worked harder for the fish, but decided to relax and try new things. No crankbait or spinnerbait fish.
      City: san bruno

      Tips: Cover a lot of area until you mark fish on the bottom then go back and forth over the fish with your plastics.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Mildred is off color but very fishable-upper White is in very good condition-closer you get to bridge the more turbid it becomes.Anything close to a main chanel is bad.I'm still averageing two to four fish but I did get another 8 . Things should break loose pretty quick'
      City: Lodi

      Tips: Keep grinding it out -still better than staying home.

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      Water Temp: 44-49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Waters completly washed out burned 20 gal looking for clean water, there is none to be found. No fish not even a bump fished all day
      City: Lodi

      Tips: STAY HOME UNTIL WATER CLEANS UP.

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      Water Temp: 44-48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Grant was right! Delta is Chocolate Ice and the clearest water that I could find was Ice Coffee. No kidding, water temp way down for this time of year and all the run off has caused non fishable water everywhere. I was told that there are some areas where the water is fishable but I wasn't able to find it today, the entire river water is very dark. Air temp at luanch was 39deg and it warmed to 60 when I got off the water. Fog hung around until 8-8:30am or so.
      City: EDH

      Tips: Stay home until the water warms and becomes clear.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in the back seat of my friends boat, fished mostly main lake areas around browns ravine. We caught 5 fish all day fishing shallow 2-14 ft. Actually I only caught 1 No reaction bite yet but I bet it is coming soon! I Want to thank Jim Novotny for taking me out during my cheno treatments and giving me a much needed day of fishing! Thank you Jim you are a Great friend
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Fish slow for now

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in search of the mammoth smallies I have been hearing about. I should have stayed home. Not a bite. Fished jigs, dartheads, shakey heads from 10-60ft.
      City: Elk Grove

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46-47 Choco/ice

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launch, check water temp, cast 10-20 times and left. Think I saw "Big Daddy Blue Ranger". Maybe it was just a guy in a blue ranger, but he looked like he is out there 24/7. Seen em before. No fish for me. This years water is dirtier than last year same time...and colder by 3-4 degrees.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Follow the blue boat because my boat got 0 fish.

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      Water Temp: idk

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: is the bite comming up yet guys?
      City: antioch

      Tips: i need to know so i can practice for the turney in july

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks for the info Pat.

      Hope things change soon, I like this lake because of its so hard to get into it. Once there though, it is beautiful, especially when it is full.

      The fishing is pretty good too.

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

      Report: Thank you for posting Ron. I have been checking daily for an updated report for an upcomming trip. I was happy to hear the trout or samoln are eating, my friend is interested in catching them. Do you think spoons will work best for them? Thanks again.
      City: Sacramento

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 44-45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the past day and a half. We caught a total of 15 fish on Tuesday, 8 on drifting live minnows and 7 on a hula grub fished very slow along the bottom. Yesterday we caught 6 fish. Three on minnows, and 3 on the hula grubs. Fish are scattered, and very white looking, not the usual color. Very slow bite!!!

      Tips: They want something thatmoves very slow. Not a reaction bite at all. We did try spinnerbaits, senko's and other grubs. No luck.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I called the Yolo water district yesterday and apparently the guy who used to maitain the road is no loger there so due to this change the lake is closed untill march for road and liabilty issues.. The north end has spots to launch small boats but nothing big... Dont try anything crazy lake is very hazardous getting into!! Good Luck Fellas!!

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      Water Temp: 41-47

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out for a few hrs today. lake has risen about 8-10 ft in the last month. water temp at the ramp was 47. made a run up river just to check temps. a frigid 41 degrees. located baitfish in a few different locations,at 37ft. did not see any fish activity, but stayed with them for about 45 minutes, wih zero bites. hit the usual main lake points with assorted plastics with no success. searched around to find a little warmer water, and found a nice drop off from 57 to 24 ft in the north end. graphed fish at 17-22ft. managed 2 smallmouth on 4 inch tubes (watermelonseed.)overall a pretty tough bite. but nice to see some water coming in. only saw 1 other boat on the water, but 3 trailers in the lot.planning on hitting it again sometime next week. will post any new info.
      City: modesto

      Tips: don't waste a lot of time chasing the baitfish on your graph unless you see active fish. be very careful running the lake as there is quite a bit of debris being washed in upriver, and several islands are just being covered.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 35-44

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I havn't done any reports in the last few weeks because the fishing hasn't been vary good. The cold weather has droped the water temp down to 35f were the water is coming in to 44f in the shallows and next to rocks in the afternoon. With the nice weather forcast this week, the fishing should get better. All of the ramps are open now with the water level at 711 ft. Tusedays trip produced 5 bass with 4 over and a bunch of salmon. We fished the West Branch and the North Fork. I talked to 4 other boats Tuseday and they had 1 bass between them. We used senkos in pumpkin color and cinnamon jigs with 3/8 and 1/2 once football jig hooks.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: With the water temps so cold, we fished very slow.

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

      Report: Anyone know how bad the wind is at Berryessa today?
      City: Pacifica

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a very tough day. I blanked and my partner caught one on the only bite of the day.Launch air temp was 34 and water temp was 46 with muddy water everywhere. Even though the sun did warm things up a little bit it wasn't enough to get the bass to bite. We need at least a week or more of sunny days to put the bass in a better feeding mode.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: On February 16th the Redwood Empire Bass Club will be hosting there second tournament of the year. Hopefully with 10 days of warmer weather the bite should be on for the tournament. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Please join us at our next meeting February 13th at 7 p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Dale Meddock from D & M Custom Baits. Dale will be demonstrating the Piranha deep water swim jig and many other exciting products. There will also be a raffle with a great variety of bass tackle to win. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

Monday, February 4th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 9am fished points deep structure tried my 4 best colors/jigs, ripped nothing wind was starting to blow pretty good went up the river a bit Nothing finished by the dam nothing This is the first time is many trips that I was blanked water was cold and the level came up 10 feet or better in a week that may of made a diffence about 8 more feet the lake will be full
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Use the notes you made when the lake was low dropp offs and rock piles the lake will be full very soon and the fish will be on the rise as soon as the water temp rises and the pressure levels out fishing will be great .