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Saturday, April 14th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: don't know

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: my son and i went to clear lake for the first time ever yesterday. taken out by my friend, mark lavine. started at about 9:00 and and finished aroun 4:00. whacked 30 - 35 fish. nothing of size, largest about 3 and a half. not the 30 fish a person days but a hecl of a lot of fun!!! what a fishery!!!! can't wait to get back.
      City: Orinda

      Tips: fished slow with finesse. shakey heads and drop shot caught all but two fish and those two were caught on weightless senkos. got zero reaction bites.

      also got a chance to meet lionkiller. :-)

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      Water Temp: mid 50s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: cold front made things alot tougher than last week.on the lake for three days two people about 50 fish best one 6 pounds.
      City: sac

      Tips: wait for the water to warm

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out at safe light to 1:45 pm today with my sponsor(LHB). Tons of short strikes on topwater, only hooking up with 2 or 3 of them. Worm bite was still there, along with a blade bite. Fish were smaller for us today, and most of them were spots(only 2 male LMs). Caught about 15 keepers with about 13 lbs. for our best five. The wind continued to change speeds and directions all day plus on and off rain made us keep trying to ajust to what they wanted throught the day. We did get some valuable info though...and that is "My new BPS 100 mph Raingear was well worth the $$$"!
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Take kids fishing!!!

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dennie Howard and I fished up the North Fork staying around small rock banks with sand. Most of our 3.0 plus lbs came on a new "capt Jack's" fishing jig in "Green Pumkin with green/purple flake" in 10-15 ft of water. Darter head a small worm and using a leach also. By the end of the day we had 12 bass over 3 lbs and 2 over five. A total of 35 bass and a 5 fish for 17.5 lbs.

      I just got back from two weeks with B.A.S.S. in Stockton and at Clear Lake. what a fun job working with the PRO'S from the Elite Series.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Have fun and wait for this cold front to by.

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      Water Temp: Didn't check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw swimbait for an hour, nothing. Went upriver to NY and area to underwater bridge. !/4 oz brown jigs, thumbs are sore and torn up. Only saw two other bass boats.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Throw to the bank, they are everywhere. Dumped about twenty keepers on the old bridge. Good luck Jim

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

      Report: I started with senkos and nailed a few decent fish.Then I started throwing a lunker punker top water and had numerous large fish follow. I finally got one big blow up. After a short fight I landed what my berkley scale said was a 7.3lb Bass. My first swimbait fish! Lookin forward to more swimbaiting.
      City: farmington

      Tips: If you get fish following. Keep throwing because eventually one is going to grab it!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Off the chart fishing as usual this time of year. I don't know how not to catch fish in this lake. Has to be the most fertile, healthy lake in California. In three days the four of us caught and released 372 spotted bass with about 35 over the slot. (Last year we had 552 for three days). Biggest went 17 inches. This is a fun lake. Carolina rigged morning dawn worms from 2' down to 25 '. Also spinner baits from time to time. Others were throwing jigs and catching them too.

      Tips: Fish were everywhere. Trees are always holding fish. Waterfalls also. Steep rocky banks. Everywhere we went we caught fish. Shold only get better as the water warms.

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out fishing in the rain and it came down pretty hard. Lots of shakers, but got 1 Keeper at 22' on sardine. Launched out of Garcia Bend and fished in about 10 feet of water near water tower.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Bring water proof jacket and pants when fishing in the rain.

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

      Report: got on the lake about 10:00 from yorty creek.went straight back to skunk creek.caught a nice 6lb about 15-20 fet down just off some trees.brush hogs and sencos seemed to work best.didnt see any in the creek channels.fished about 4 hours and caught 4-5 all day.all were in the deeper water.water still alittle cold.
      City: petaluma

Friday, April 13th, 2007

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My Dad and I spent about 3 hours on the water on Friday. I hooked into only one fish on a carolina rigged brush hog. There was a lot of pressure on the lake that day.

      We heard that a guy on a pontoon hooked into a 12# - if it's true that must have been awesome!

      Wind wasn't as bad as it had been most of the week and I thought the bite would have been better.

      Good luck!
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62/66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I want to thank all of the fishermen that replied to my inquiry.And say that I will try all the sejestons and then some. I got out Friday the 13 with my partner and we caught lots of fish still no big ones.But I havent geven up!!To those that need a little help don't be afraid to ask theres a lots of good fishermen and people out there, let theme help if they can and thanks agin.shuddabeen
      City: N.Highlands

      Tips: Dont be afraid to ask quistons!!!!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the chance to fish noon to 3:30 today with a new Devil Mountain member. He had been out in the morning and I was happy for the time on the water. We flipped jigs and plastics around franks and little franks. The plastics out produced the jig today, but I think the real story is what is going on in Little Franks. The water is an ugly brown tea color. We still managed to pull a few small fish out, but all in all, the fishing in there was slow.

      The best part of the day was fishing with a new club member. I showed him some water and a few things that I do to catch fish and he showed me a ditch in franks that I didn't know was there.

      If you are looking to expand your knowledge through club fishing, then go to www.dmbass.com.
      City: Walnut Creek

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The bite was slow. This was my second time out in the past couple weeks. One day I got 8 total with the largest at 3lbs. Last Friday I caught
      a total of 4 with the biggest 2 lbs. I tried the swim bait thing until I was blue in the face
      and did'nt even get a strike. I through it hundreds of times.
      The only thing that produced any fish for me was
      a purple senko weightless.
      I'm no tournament quality fisherman. However I've been at it since I was 12 years old. I'm 50 now. I certainly am a decent bass fisherman.
      I know what I'm doing. I honestly don't believe the reports I read in this column about people taking 30 - 40 - 50 fish in a day. In my humble opinion, it's Fish Tales.
      I've spent DOZENS of 10 hour days on the lake throwing everything but the kitchen sink. The biggest one I've caught was a 5 pounder. The most fish I've boated in a day is less than 10.
      I have a house over in Kelseyville 3 miles from Konocti. Maybe it's just a slower bite on that side of the lake. You tell me!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: PURPLE.....
      PURPLE.......
      PURPLE..........
      Low and slow

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 4 fish for 12lbs, definately slowed, although I was using big swimbaits most of the time. I got about a 14lber to the boat and the she jumped/shook and broke my line. I will be putting braided on ALL my spools.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: dont use a swimbait if you want a big quanity of fish.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing at about 6:30 PM. Wind was calm no clouds. Headed up to bagby and fished under the bridge hwy49. Cought 1 large mouth about 1lb. cought a spot 2lbs. boths on watermelon red flake senko wacky style weightless. Then headed over to McClure point at dark and cought 15-20 on green zelamanders in about 2ft of water. All were in the slot but one 17" spot. got a lot of bites that i missed due to the smaller fish holding onto just the tail.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Fish at night with a black light and florecent line it helps tremendously. email me if anyone is interested in going up to the lake at exchanging different techniques.

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

      Report: A friend and I are going out to fish Shasta on the weekend of April 13. We are comeing out from Colorado to pick up a boat. My Question is we don't know anything about this lake and where to fish. If anyone knows some good tips on where and what to try it would be greatly appreciated. We are looking to do some bass and King Salmon fishing.

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

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

      Report: went out last weekend with my grandpa had a great start at new malones got at least 30 plus fish with the top two fish being a 5 and a half lb er and a 7 and a half lb er. on the way back around 5 pm we stopped at the delta .it was really windy so we went to a shallow cove flippin 8 inch worms and bam nailed a 10 lb er ..now thats what i call a great weeekend
      City: lafayette

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished North side of the lake and threw reaction baits for Nada. Found a cove that the wind wasn't Blowing 15mph at and threw watermelon and grn pumpkin Senkos in the trees for four spots. Biggest one was 2 lbs.
      City: Loomis

      Tips: Throw senkos in the trees and bushes and let em fall

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Belated report here. Fished the 12th with a friend from Red Bluff in his boat, a great little Viper. Got 17 that day and 14 the next. Day one on the north end and day 2 on the south. Big fish on day one remains a mystery as my friend's scale only went to 10 lbs. Monster fish for me, my biggest ever. The scale would click over 10 lbs with a substantial portion of the tail still on the deck. We should have taken it over to Bob's and had him weigh it but we revived it and slipped it back in on the spot. Big fish on day 2 was 5-10. Senkos in the tules were primary but got good action on swim baits and jerks as well. We have Larry booked for May 5 and I want him to fish with us as much as possible. He is so generous with his information just on his posts and I can't wait to see him in action and learn all I can. I hope he keeps doin' what he's doin'.
      City: McKinleyville

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: used a del porto carmel tang on a drop shot. went staight to the HEAD!!!!!
      Ya dumb dik
      City: gilroy