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Saturday, May 19th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WOOHOO!!! first swim bait fish had to be 10 plus! and my friend got another one on a jerkbait both fish on were caught walking the bank by the dam
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nothing over 2.75 pounds , but plenty fish. All spots on 1/4 oz jigs. Tried topwater and swimbaits for a while , one top bite. Aior temmp unseasonally chilly. Went as far as NY creek mouth.
      City: sac

      Tips: Mouths were beat up from scraping for dads, one real small bass spit up a whole bunch of fry. Didn't have my front depht finder back yet so I fished blind and shallow. Just had a good ole day tossing and reeling in. left real early.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on water at six boated 150+ bass in north fork
      City: oo

      Tips: all the bass came on top water in the morning few on senkos and the majority of them on a motor oil or red magic worm.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What a difference a week makes! Lake is super dirty right now. Seems as though the weekend wakeboard guys have come out to play. Fished for a couple hours in the PM picking up nine. The normal stuff wasnt working so I started throwing a jig. This seemed to work decent but no where the action that was on the lake last week. Biggest spot went 3 1/2lbs. All were decent fish.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Fish points a drop offs.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: John got on'em again with 12 bass on Friday and 10 on Saturday, with several over 3 lbs...no small feat since there were at least 23 boats on the lake on Saturday. He's using soft plastics (craws, lizards, and worms) and any color is working as long as it's green pumpkin with black flake. He's finding the fish deeper and taking a slow presentation...probably fish that have moved off the bank due to the fishing pressure of most anglers banging the banks.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Fish deeper, slower, and use green pumpkin with blake flake.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the last week vacationing at Shasta. I launched out of Bridge Bay. I started out throwing the Lunker Punker swimbait. My quality fish seemed to come off the bait in the mornings. I stayed shallow most of the week. I must have released about 200 fish over the week. I look forward to next year on beautiful Shasta.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: If you want quality fish throw the bigger surface swimbaits.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 62+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with clients on Thurs and Friday. Thurs trip was pretty much like fishing in a washing machine with high winds. Caught a few fish and the back-seater, Jack may have caught a lake record, but it had to be released as it was caught outside the mouth. I'm guessing it would have topped 250 lbs and was caught on a ball jig just above the ear. Watch your backcasts guys.
      Fridays trip was much better fishing as the wind didn't come up till 10:00. Showed the guys how patience really pays off when fishing topwater. They caught some pretty good smallies on top and a few fish on cranks before the washing machine conditions started all over again.

      Tips: Hope the Cottonwood and Chico clubs will let us know how they fared this weekend.

Friday, May 18th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a great day on the lake Had blow ups all day through the afternoon took my wife and kids , both my daughters caught fish on plastics it was crazy I fished top water all day and produced some nice fish. Fished my normal spots around markley cove and no fish, couple dinks, went to the narrows fished the rock banks, nope !nada! So I picked up and looked for some new fishing grounds and booom... found some coves that were packed with smallies and large mouth had a good time, 25 plus fish through out the day with a kicker 4.5 lb large mouth cought on bill dance top water lure, all in all, had a good time for my last day on vacation ,
      City: Elmira Ca

      Tips: Most areas have been fished heavy , Dont be afraid to venture out to new areas, some coves dont look so good on the bank, but have lots of stucture under water moss beds trees etc. So even if it dont look good try it anyway. Was trowing top water over areas with underwater points that went out a long ways they were smashing it off shore 25 to 30 feet

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out at about 8am and got 8 bass and one brim the gititsz were workin good.i caught a few around the island at buckhorn fish on bra the fishin commision
      City: fishville

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

      Report: Fished out of Big Break. I threw a Shellcracker and mission fish around weed edges. I endedup with 12 fish biggest around 6lbs. Alot of quality fish.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Fish as close to the edges as possible.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Most of the water is clear and back of the coves are stained. Went out Wedesday,Saturday and Sunday with three different anglers. First thing in the morning the bass were up on the banks within 2-7 ft. I was using a small single tail crub on a dart head 1/8 oz. Let the crub sit and the bass will just pick it up. A worm on a dart head works also. As the sun hits the water move back with a drop shot using a worm in brown/purple. Most of the water with deep water near is good. After 9am I went to a Capt Jack's Jig in Green pumkin with Green/Purple flake with a Brown/Purple double tail grub or a # 180. Most of the bigger fish cam on a Jig. After 11 am the bit died off so by noon we went home.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Let the grubs sit and pop it slow.

      California BASS Federation Nation State Team is looking for some good Anglers for next years State Team.

      There will be a qualifing tournament in Aug. 3-4 at Clear Lake to get the top 12 for next years team. For more Info send me a email.

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the land from 1-7pm. Caught a lot of small bass 8-10". End up catching a 3.5# and a 2#. All finesse fishing. fish were holding in 2-15ft of water. A lot of toads followed the swimbait, no takers. fun day!!! All fish C/R
      City: Pinole

      Tips: All fish are in postspawn mode. Big pigs are potecting fry. If you see fry then there is a pig or two around. Caught the nicer fish in deeper water. Algae starting to disappear some.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great weather

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

      Report: First time I hit the lake in two weeks and boy what a day did I have. I started the day with a 4.4lb. Largemouth and followed it two casts later with a 2.8lb. spot. Both fish came on white fat free shad bombers. Later I swithced to a carolina rigged 6" Zoom lizard and really started to nail em. Bagged another 12 in an hour before I had to call it a day. Only fished for about two hours. Top five fish for the day went a little over 15lb. Best day I have had on the lake in several years
      City: Paradise

      Tips: All fish caught near shore line anywhere from 2-6 feet deep.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Where are all the bass!? I was catching them left and right about a monmth ago using senkos and now Im not getting a bite. I'm fishing the same spots using the same strategies. Any suggestions on baits that are working? or is the cold front just killing the bite?
      City: p town

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: hey josh the only 4.0 you have is your reading grade level
      City: unknown

      Tips: stay in school

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: There aren't any dirt bags in CV that know how to play baseball (Oh by the way, you talk like a dirt bag). The only thing dirt bags know how to do are smoke and snort.
      City: SJ

      Tips: Go to a rehab center then adult school.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 65.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Clear Lake dished out some punishment today, but we fought back. We arrived at the ramp at 5:00am and the wind was howling and waves made the launch a mess. We soaked our selves in a 5 minute run to 4 walls only to see that it was not to the place to be today. We decided that we would run across the lake and get out of the wind to try and get some fishing in..........bad idea, as we got even more soaked. We did manage to find a cove to get out of the wind and began the day of one fish after another! We put over 25 in the boat on jigs and Senkos while trying to keep the boat in one place. Another fantastic day at Clear Lake and on the way home by 11:30 with wind and waves making life tough. We had a great time and caught quality fish again today.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish had moved out with the weather change and we sitting on the grass lines waiting for a meal. Pull through the grass and hang on! Tight Lines! Color did not seem to matter, green pumpkin, brown, dirty sanchez and purple all worked well as usual.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 64 to69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today I took two clients out that are very good fisherman. We fished the North Fork from 7am to 2pm. Started out with top water action then went to tubes and senko's. By the end of the trip we had over 150 bass. Only 8 over with most of them in the uper bracket. They had an awsome day!
      City: Paradise

      Tips: The pattern that worked the best was senko's on steep walls and breaks at 15 to 20 feet with 5
      inch pumpkin and 4inch water melon with chartrouse.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 6 am, but only a few small bass going for a sara spook. Ended the day with four bass from 12 to 19 inches on a lizard and a shad colored grub. Fish were in 15-feet of water.
      City: Novato