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Sunday, January 13th, 2008

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      Water Temp: very very low

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: heads up to anyone trying to launch their bass boat with the water so low its almost impossable I understand drawdown but this is crazy!!!
      City: valley springs

      Tips: pray for rain so we can launch our boats!!!

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 51.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First trip of the new year; got skunked!
      Lake was low despite the rains. Only had
      one bite on a senko on the NE side of the bridge.
      Saw 12-15 boats launch, but none I spoke with had any fish.
      City: Monterey

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 45 - 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tough, tough day. had our devil mountain bassmasters club tournament with 8 boats (team tournament). 5 boats blanked. 2 boats got one fish and --- there's always somebody ---- one boat caught a limit (even culled a fish)!
      City: Orinda

      Tips: still waiting to find out "exactly" how the winner caught all of his fish. other than that, the rest of us threw everything under the sun with (obviously) no real success

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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough
      City: Cameron Park

      Tips: Don't do what I did

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 9:30 water level up Foggy/overcast Started out by the dam on a point shallow to 25 feet working a 3/8 oz football head with a brown grub second cast 2.5# spot barely any stick short pop and the rod loaded no other bites for a couple of hours flew over to the mouth and hit some points 2 cast 2 fish a 2 # and a 1.5 # both again real slight tick and set hook good fights packed it up 2 pm no wind not that cold 50 degrees foggy with some slight clearing
      City: Roseville

      Tips: work the bait real slow I worked a jig at 25 ft fish seemed to bite at this depth today water level rising use the low depth to find your flats and rock piles it worked for me today from previous visits to this lake. Another storm this lake will be full Watch out for shallow unmarked rocks

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First out..The lake is up 2 feet and a little dingy but unfortunately the shad are still up by the truckloads. I tossed a huddleston for 4 hours without a follow or tap but that's fishing..Flipped to a spoon and had limited sucess. 8 bass for the day and one spot was good for 4 fish in short order. None were much over 2--2 1/2 pounds.... I had a three surprises in 10 minutes when I found what I think is an off shore boulder with smaller rock all around or an outcroping with a crevice..either way if you dangle a spoon down along it and get it to fall into the "hole" there were some big ol' catfish in there. The first one was 20 pounds or so and had the tail of a freshly eaten trout sticking out of it's throat. The very next drop produced a bigger catfish that I estimate at 5 pounds bigger with a hell belly on it...Really a fine looking fish and after cutting off some line, retieing, and re locating the hole about 5 minutes later I stuck another cat that started rolling like an alligator and broke me off after a minuter or two...I don't carry a net so It was fun wrestling withese big blue channels and getting my spoon back...Was surprised by the trout tail. I caught all spoon fish in 40 to 55 feet.
      City: Ojai

      Tips: With all the shallow bait the big fish are up and it's my thinking that a big juicy get it all in one bite rainbow is better than a supersized order of shad. A spinnerbait should elicite a better reaction size fish and the shallow worm biters that you can dropshot up in the first few hours have bigger fish right in there with them at this time. But the better fish don't seem to prone to making an error yet...Maybe the warm water will finally push the fish onto a craw bite soon as I believe Floridas are more prone to spawn early than Northerns....But that's just me we'll have to wait and see what the comming weeks bring. The big tournament on the 25th should be a hoot and I hope to learn by watching. Come to the lake the 25th and watch the spectical that is big bass at it's most pure form...50 boats with some of the best sticks California has produced going toe to toe. It's sure to be a barnburner.

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

      Report: Started the year with a nice 5lb. 11 oz. bass caught on a 1/2 oz. brown jig with a green pumpkin craw trailer.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Patience, use slow presentations.

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      Water Temp: 47+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is now totally full, finally!!! Fish seems to be in the holes in the middle of the lake. Nothing around the shoreline. I think they where hunting after all the debris that came in after the storm. Lake is as muddy as I've ever seen it. Looks blown out until it clears. I tried anyway but had no takers. Fished a basstrix and senkos but nothing. Can't wait until it warms up.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish the Northwest end and find the holes. They are down about 10-13 feet.

Friday, January 11th, 2008

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: San Justo will be closed on Saturday, January 12, and Sunday, January 13, while repairs are done on the dam and/or inlets.
      Next open date on the lake will be January 19.
      City: Monterey

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