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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One LM on a trout pattern swimbait, 2 large trout on Aroku Shad crawled along the bottom. Fished the arm where they plant the trout along what appears to be an old road bed. Bass went about 5+ lbs.
      City: Antioch

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

      Report: ok thank u for telling me. brown n purple, brown n green, brown. 1/2 once. fish steep rocky walls and also main lake points
      City: Atwater

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

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      Water Temp: 44

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7-1:30 no fish, tried jigs, drop shot, cranks, rips, pretty much every thing I could think of. Out come was 2 bites with no fish. First time blanked at this lake, oh well guess the fish have to win sometimes.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: good luck

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 40-42

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two members of Redwood Empire Bass Club fished New Years day and manged to catch five with 16lbs total. They used a combination of crankbaits, jigs and worms but the bite was slow.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Redwood Empire Bass Club would like to invite you to fish with us at our next tournament January 19th out of Red Bud. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to attend our next meeting on Wednesday January 9th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane.For more information log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Stopped in on my way back from Fresno, Lake is Low but looks like it has come up a few feet with all the wood and grass floating around. Started out with a DD22 in Craw then switched to a
      Balsa-B in siver/black and did not get touched, slowed down retrieve to almost dead stop and nothing. Drop/Shot 082, 082 chartail, purple grape, grn/pkn worms never got touched. Brown/ppl jig, Brn/Org jig nothing. Senko-Blk/Red, Purple/
      Grn/Pkn, Texposed and Wacky nothing.
      The only bites in four hours was the sandwich i ate on the way home.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: None

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      Water Temp: ???????????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i PASSED BY nicasio about 4 months ago. DO NOT FISH THIS LAKE!!!!!!!!!!!! when i passed by it, i could have sworn the deepest part of the lake was probably only 5 or 6 feet!!!!!!!!!! i could be wrong, but this lake will be a fuckin puddle in a few months!!! it's decent bass fishing when the water is high, and same with the catfishing in the summer- it's actually fantastic catfishing, but do not fish for ANYTHING here right now. all you could catch is Lyme Disease from the massive amount of tics.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: poor bass over there.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Three members of the Redwood Empire Bass Club fished over the Christmass holidays and did quite well. In one area at 40ft. they managed to pull up a 7.5, 6.5 and 5.4 on jigs fished really slow. They also caught a few 4 lbs. on crankbaits. There best five went over 27lbs.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Thanks to everyone who fished with us on December 15th. The Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us at our next tournament at Clear Lake on January 19th. Please join us at our meeting next Wednesday the 9th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center located at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. For more information log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of B&W fished for 4 hours nothing. Fished jigs, drop-shot and cranks. fished the river channel. should have fished some dead end sloughs saw several boats in sycamore slough.
      City: W.sac

      Tips: ???? Wait for warmer weather.

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 51??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: my bro., my friend and i went out early to lafayette and to our secret fishing dock and got about 3 hits, 1 we landed- decent size. my friend also saw a 50lbs+ sturgeon jump clean out of the water- no fake- it was WWWAY out there though and we had no chance! i'm kind of getting bored of trout fishing here even though i caught an 8 pounder back in November and on the same day my buddy caught a 5 3/4 #er.
      City: el cerrito

      Tips: some days are bad some days are good. i've noticed that you either catch big ones or dinks- usually dinks- but it's still more productive than Chabot. and somebody please write a report here after this!!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rockpiles and points in 15-50ft of water. Lot's of fish on dropshot. Quality fish from 2-4lbs came on jig

      Tips: Keep moving until you find fish. Then pick it apart!

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thought today would be better than Saturday due to warmer weather, (so warm it brought out the lake lice) but water was 2 degrees colder than saturday (2 back to back freezing nights)and fish had moved off of our spot. Only three fish caught between my brother and I. There was 1 jig (black/purple) fish and 2 fish caught on tail spinner (shad). Jig fish caught in 20' feet of water and tail spinner fish were caught 10' deep. Nothing on split shot 4" worms, C-rig and rat-l-trap.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Key is to find baitfish and fish that depth with your favorite baits

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i went today and it was way too windy. i will go tommorow i think too. i just got a trolling motor and fish finder too :)
      City: a

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: How can you say the lake is raising a foot a day when this is the level that it been for almost 2 mo.See below.
      I work at Folsom and thewre isnt any raise that as i can see.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Date / Time RES ELE STORAGE OUTFLOW INFLOW
      (PST) FEET AF CFS CFS
      01/02/2008 06:00 372.04 222151 138 699
      01/02/2008 07:00 372.06 222243 137 1257
      01/02/2008 08:00 372.08 222335 138 1258
      01/02/2008 09:00 372.09 222381 137 698
      01/02/2008 10:00 372.11 222474 264 1384
      01/02/2008 11:00 372.09 222381 1529 415
      01/02/2008 12:00 -- -- -- --
      01/02/2008 13:00 372.07 222289 1586 1030
      01/02/2008 14:00 372.05 222197 1632 518
      01/02/2008 15:00 -- -- -- --
      01/02/2008 16:00 372.02 222058 1626 512
      01/02/2008 17:00 --

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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the lake is coming up a foot a day, with more rain coming this week the lake should get more water.
      Some of my friends went out for the first day of 2008 and did ok with crankin, swimbaits, Jigs and worms.
      Stayed in the main body in 15-25 ft of water and draging slow. Some bass were found in the South and North fork.
      Jigs in Brown/Purple or Back/Purple with a double tail grub is the ticket.
      Check out my website captjacksfishingjigs.com
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: still look for bait,spoons and Jigs

Monday, December 31st, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We made it a point not to fish the Narrows today like we have the past 2 trips. We started at Big Islan throwing cranks jigs with no luck and the wind blowing. We decided to head to Spanish Flats to see how things would go there.......nada! The wind was blowing pretty good so we decided to try Sid's favorite cove......we think! We found a submerged tree on a steep point and drop shotted 4 fish very quickly......Thanks Sid!! When the wind decided to calm down we went on a hunt for the Vinyards to see what we could pick up....nada, and the wind started up again. We decided to head back to the ramp, but we stopped at a couple of points in the Narrows just to see if we could get things going there............nada! Better than working and a whole lot cheaper than taking my wife to the mall shopping!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Morning Dawn and Basstrix Minnows seemed to be good for us. Thanks again Sid!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 41- 43

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the last day of 07, threw small baits , big baits, reaction baits, drop shot, all day long with no bites until I decided to work the bank on the way to the ramp, hooked into a 3 lber.
      the bite was undetectible- just weight and then a little tug. caught on a LV max 500 in a bone color,after all those casts the percentage was in my favor. the water temp in the river and the back of sloughs dosent differ much right now.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Dress warm, mix up your baits, be versatil, make plenty of casts.

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      Water Temp: Cold ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I worked my winter piling pattern just going from dock to dock around marinas in back of coves. Using a 4" leech style plastic I did some Shak'n and flipping.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Down size your baits and work'm slow. With alot of afternoon sun on the back of coves I believe makes the 1 or 2 degree differnce. I graphed alot of bait fish as well.

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wait to the ice melts before you put the boat into the water. Bass was slow, but some found the fish in 2-5 ft and some in 25-40 ft.
      Crankin, rippin and most of all Jigs in Brown/ Purple worked the best. The water is only muddy on the top 2-5 ft, then the water is clear under that. The bass will move up to get to the sun light near the banks.
      This time of the year even a drop shot and a split will work.
      check out my web site, captjacksfishingjigs.com
      I have 20 different colors
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: fish slow when using a Jig, crawl it like a crawdad in the winter time. Very slow, slow down your retrive on all your baits.

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 4hrs 2 fish both on brown jigs, 1.5, and 4 lbs. both fish 20' deep. the lake has come up and ramp is in the water now.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Fish very slow and wait for the thump. watch out for logs floating in lake.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is very low. Ramp is out of water and gate is locked. Need rain!
      City: Middletown

      Tips: Try orange powerbait from shore for trout.