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Thursday, April 19th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing aprox. 1100 AM, north of Konachti Harbor with my Brother Inlaw. Bass are very active. Caught about 20 Bass a piece between 11am and 3 pm. Brush Hogs, 6" worms, and drop shotting. I caught a 6.75 drop shoting a salt n pepper 2" tube bait. Go figure. Caught mostly males. Females are off the shore, looks like they haven't spawned yet. These fish are very active today, incredible. Weather is starting to suck., some females. Good healthy fish averaging about 2.5-3 lbs each.
      City: Clear Lake Oaks

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished friday before the last cold front came in and the bite was tough. I still managed to boat some good fish, but the bite was really not what I was expecting. I started out throwing a Basstrix paddle tube and...nothing. I got one good bite but the fish didn't eat the bait. Then I started throwing the blade...nothing. Finally I fell to my knees and took out the dropshot rod and got the first 2-1/2 lber in the boat. Then after 5 or 6 fish I realized I was onto something. I was just amazed how far back one night of cold weather moved them off. But I guess its the same as a couple days of nice weather moving them up. If it wasn't purple, they wouldn't touch it. I caught fish on a 5" green pumpkin Yamasenko also, but most all of my fish came dropshotting folkstad special or MM3 in 10-12 feet of water. Just because Nice is shallow doesn't mean there's no bass there! I notice alot of you guys fish rattlesnake and jago and the south end. Come up north, it's like two different lakes. It's like the difference between Oroville and the Thermalito after bay. I did not SEE any fish!! All of the senko fish I caught were off of isolated tule patches in 3 to 5 feet of water and the water was clear, I still couldn't see any fish. If things get tough, dropshot, it may be called the quitters rig, but hey, it catches em' when nothing else will. Go fishing. There are still a billion bass to be caught but you gotta find and figure, then boat your fish. See ya on the lake.
      City: Upper Lake

      Tips: Drop shot the pea gravel and the tules in between docks real slow w/ different purple variations. Blind cast senkos to isolated tule patches. Remember all the 4 pounders you see cruisin and chillin under docks can see you crystal clearly.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i am going to indian valley for the first time any tips would be great thank you.
      City: sac

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 63/65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED JACKSON CREEK ARM TOPWATER PRODUCED 3 FISH BETWEEN 2/3PDS FISHED MOSTLY COVES BECAUSE OF WIND FOUND FISH USING SENKOS RED PEPPER CAUGHT FISH UP TO SIX PDS LARGEST . I WAS LUCKY THIS TIME NEVER WEAR MY VEST FELL OUT TRYING TO LAND A FISH IN THE WIND . I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: FISH ARE ON THE BEDS FISH SLOWLY

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      Water Temp: 63/65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED JACKSON CREEK ARM TOPWATER PRODUCED 3 FISH BETWEEN 2/3PDS FISHED MOSTLY COVES BECAUSE OF WIND FOUND FISH USING SENKOS RED PEPPER CAUGHT FISH UP TO SIX PDS LARGEST . I WAS LUCKY THIS TIME NEVER WEAR MY VEST FELL OUT TRYING TO LAND A FISH IN THE WIND . I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN AGAIN
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: FISH ARE ON THE BEDS FISH SLOWLY

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

      Report: Fished for about three hours from around 7:00 to 10:00, got some bites, landed a few pigs that went a little over 4lbs on my scale, the rest were between 1-3lbs, total of 8 fish out by the Bailey cove. Wind was a biotch today!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Find cover when its windy and fish slow. All im getting are fish movin my lures off the beds, to be expected of course. Tight lines.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dammit, I knew they left.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Although I am not as well hung as TomE (who taught me how to fish this lake), we managed to boat a few dozen fish a piece each day we fished from 4-18 thru 4-21. Used the Oroville Fly up tight to the bank. If you were 10 ft off the bank, they would not hit.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Make frineds with TomE!

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mike, First thing in the morning throw a chartrues/white chrome blade spinnerbait and green pumkin/black flake 4" senkos in the turning basin. We caught a bunch of 1.5# fish there yesterday. If the wind picks up fish any of the marinas with the senkos and drop shot or shaky head with a bold blue gill or any worm with a little chartrues on it. good luck
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Senko's green pumkin/black flake, if they don't eat em on the fall let them sit for fifteen seconds with intermitant shake.

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

      Report: Not much to report from last weeks trip. I was up for a week, but pulled the boat after the wind picked up Wednesday, didn't want to fish in the rain the rest of the week.

      I had my friend Jesse up for fishing late Monday and Tuesday morning. We tried to fish the upper part of the lake around the tules on Monday but there were lots of boats on the spots we were looking at. We didn't want to crowd in, so we moved south.

      We got our fish on dropshot rigs with Margarita Mutilator and Morning Dawn and Prism Shad Roboworms and a size 1 dropshot hook. Late in the day (6:30 to 8pm) we fished the docks on the south side of Bayliss Point and did well farther out. The fish were caught from near the end of the docks.

      Tuesday we fished in Konocti Bay and did ok trying to fight the wind. Later it really came up and we were done!

      The foot switch on my MotorGuide crapped out. I haven't even had it for a year! "Never Stop" eh? I ordered 2 to fix it and have an extra on board.
      City: Oakland/Clearlake

      Tips: Drop shot is a good skill to have at Clear Lake! Fish a little farther out than you might think. I like to use a spinning rod with some Power Pro braid on the reel topped with about 15 feeet of Seaguar Fluorocarbon. It seemes to work well. I also tried using only Berkeley Firelene Crystal #10 "superline" to dropshot, that also worked. They say "the first translucent superline for near invisibility." Not sure about that, I could see it in the water, but I did catch fish with it.

      Thanks to Larry for posting the reports!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: So Windy out there today...only fished a couple hours down south and boated 7 small guys...got off the water as the lake got damn rough
      Not a good day out there
      City: Mtn View

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: That sounds like a crappie spankin report!
      What a homo!

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      Water Temp: 63 to 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: You can still catch nice bass here not much change traffic is heavy on the weekends but during the week its light and bass are shallow and hitting senko's jigs cranks brushogs and lizards. Bass form 2 to 7 pounds were caught this last week and weekend. Fish are in 2 to 15 feet of water and will hit just about anything you throw at them now. 1-559-689-3255
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Just stay in that 2 to 15 feet and you should do very well. COVES FLATS BRUSHY AREAS AROUND ROCK PILES ARE ALL HOLDING BASS.

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

      Report: Went out at 7:30 to the south fork, threw a Vixen and nothing, moved to an arm with some trees and caught a 3# on the drop of of the creek channel on a 4" roboworm Dropshoted. Missed some bites at New York. Ended up by Salmon falls, fishing the bank that leads to Jack Shak caught a 2.5# and a 3# on Darthead robo curly 4 1/2" oxblood. Out of the water by 11:00
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: don't go there its a waste of time all the fish left--
      City: san jo

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to los banos today (very windy) threw white spinnerbait all day long caught fish 1 to 10 feet deep all day. best 5 went 16 lbs.
      City: hughson

      Tips: slow roll the bait once out from shore, bigger females are still staging. white spinner bait with double gold colorado blades. lots of small males up shallow.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62/67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED COVES CAUGHT A FEW 2/3 PD FISH MOVED OUT TO ENTRANCE OF COVES 20/30 FT DEPTH NO ACTION TRIED SIGHT FISHING WITH NO SUCESS USED SENKO/TOP WATER EARLY CRANK BAITS SENKO RED PEPPER WORKED BEST I DONT BELIEVE THE LARGEMOUTH HAVE SPAWNED YET
      City: ANTIOCH

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

      Report: just wonted to know if the fishing is any better there yet
      City: cottowood

Monday, April 16th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-60 in east

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well we headed out of paradise point. to go and fish disappoinment slough and then crap what a disappointment. We only had 6 fish total and 1 or 2 weren't even keepers. Small fish largest was about 2 3/4 maybe anyhow tough windy day but all in all a decent day of fishing. we threw jigs dropshot chatterbaits cranks plastics (senkos) not sure if we were not on them or if we missed correct presentation.
      City: haystack

      Tips: Go to another spot disapointment was not on!!

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

      Report: What are the colors of the swim baits that are working for you? How long? thanks Im going wed wish me luck.
      City: Antioch