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Saturday, April 7th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FINALLY my turn. Mildred Island. Boated 7. Largest 4.4 ( GREAT fight) Missed at least 15 others. Still learning the fluke. Had a ball. Perfect day weatherwise.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Most of the fish seemed to pick up the fluke while it was lying on the bottom. Few (if any) reacted to the action.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy Maggs and I hit the lake at daylight looking for Bass action.Today was pre-frontal conditions and it showed. A bit of a tough bite, but we did hook up with around nine fish. The crankbait and rattle trap fish we caught all hit like they just wanted to kill the lure not eat out of hunger, hooked them on the outside of the jaw, mostly on the head and under the gills. Maybe a quarter of the bites were really agressive, the others just felt like you were hung in the weeds. Didn't really throw alot of plastic, was looking for more of a reaction bite, wasn't in the mood to just sit and twitch a lure! Till next time Yall have a goodn'.
      City: Plumas Lake

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

      Report: Hey you guys I know you are busy fishin clear lake but you need to go to Lake mendocino And throw big White and chartruse swimbaits.
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: Come out here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and hurry.

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      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: clear lake oaks fished docks and rock and caught 10 and lost 6 all quality fish nothing under 3 pounds
      City: live oak

      Tips: caught them on 6 inch tequila sunrise and black and blue jigs with black trailors

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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Enjoyed the best fishing day ever!
      Caught so many fish, we lost count. Several in the 3-4 lb. range and many lesser sized. All on a small (4") or medium size (6") Lizard - Watermelon w/ red flakes.
      The highlight of the trip was my girlfriend's HOG,,,,,a 23.5", 8.8 lb. largemouth.
      See the picture in the "PHOTOS" section of the website.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: In the shallows, lots of fish and every once in a while a HOG will be there. Have fun.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main body and South Fork. Threww swimbaits with some followers and tappers, no hookups. Went farther up river checking beds, windy hard to see, caought one spot on a jig, and continued on looking, not much fishing. Left early.
      City: sac

      Tips: What ever your cup of tea, looking or fishing, enjoy your time out there as I do.

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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on 4/3, 4/5, and 4/7...Bite is on!!! 4/3 with Marky Mark(from 1:30pm-7pm), we caught 18 fish(1 bronzeback, 3 LM and the rest were spots). Fish on worms, jigs and topwater. 4/5 with JT the Duracel-Man(2pm-5:30pm), only 6 fish(2 spots 4 LM), due dead trolling batteries in his boat, DUH!!! Back again today 4/7 with "The Lincoln Hillbilly" and we smoked 'em. Landed 24 fish, but it should have been more like 40+. Lost a ton of fish and broke off 3. Reaction fish just came unbuttoned. Caught 'em on worms and a certain reaction bait(don't wanna give it up cuz nobody is probably throwing it). Mixed sack of LMs and spots with 1 bronzeback.

      All fish were in less than 12 feet all 3 days. Nothing over 4 lbs. but lost 1 mule and saw another over 7 cruising. Had a blast!!! Thanks for lunch Jim...I love the broccoyee and beef!!
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Take the kids fishing, even if they aren't yours!!! Expose them to the outdoors and the importance of catch and release...

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: unsure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South West Banks of Cottonwood and Barret's Cove using Dark colored Senkos rigged Wacky style. It seemed just about every cast something happened. At least 50+ fish and it was great it was my Wife's first time Bass Fishing she had a blast. Bigest fish landed 16".
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Noticed more fish of Muddy points where water was stained about 5' of banks.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy John and I went out on Sat. from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm and slayed them pretty good. Over 20 fish between the two of us.
      We got a frog bite early and and had one that went 4.14 and flipped a bunch of fish in and around tules up to 5.0. Caught a bunch of fish in the 2-3 pound range on chatter baits and right at the end of the trip stuck a 7.7 fatty on a swim bait. The fish were hot and were putting up good fights.
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      City: novato

      Tips: Look up!

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

      Report: After several days of tough fishing conditions ( clear, flat water ) The 3rd Jason Fisher Memorial Tournament started out windy and rainy. Just what Trinity fish love. Dave Richards and Butch Sanborn proved that Trinity fish love inclement weather by bringing in 4 cookie cutter Largemouth that weighed 27.13 lbs. Big fish was 7.80 and second big fish in their bag was 7.75. Too bad they couldn't get a kicker. They culled a 3.5 Smallie, which would have brought their 5 fish limit to over 30 and a half lbs. That 4 fish limit shattered any previous 4 fish limit on this lake that I'm aware of. As soon as my computer recovers from the last power surge there'll be pics. All those fish were caught by 7:30 by Richards, and he was still shaking at the 2 PM weigh-in.
      City: Weaverville

Friday, April 6th, 2007

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

      Report: Hit woodchoppers @ 8:30am from bank. A lil overcast,no wind and the lake solid glass. No action for the first hour. Tried just about evrything. No luk. "Goooo ROBOWORM" on a drop shot. Hit 2 nice ones carmel-tang.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: next couple of days the weather will have an impact. BEAUTY>

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 59-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow..!!! 2 person guide trip with a girl that never caught a bass before. 1/2hr out she got her first one 1.5-lb spot and we let her know the tradition that you have to kiss your first fish she did and I have the pic, posted. We finally got some reaction fish today I down sized to 6lb line and a small deep pointer we ripper about 5 fish early then that bite died off, biggest was 2-lbs. From there we fished a bunch of off shore humps and caught lots of fish one spot we got 6 smallies all 2.5 to 2.75 lbs. We ran a bunch of coves but couldn't get any big ones and after a coupe hours of catching tons of 14-18 " fish all species we went to the north end and, the wind picked up and the spinnerbaits came out we landed another 20 or 30 fish some in 1 to 5ft of water. You could throw to the bank and not see anything then have a fish on. For the day we had well over a 100 fish only 2 dinks and didn't land one over 3 lbs. We lost one really big smallie

      Tips: We caught fish in 1-15' of water a few on a 4"lizard, most of them on a Sniper 4" bait that looks just like a Senko, best colors were chartreuse or a white sandy color with gold flake we caught about 30 on reaction baits Persuader southern shad and a small pointer in ghost minnow

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started around 8 a.m. Fished from shore to the left of the boat launch. Caught 8 fish from that spot in about 2 hours. 7 bass ranging from 1/2 to 4 pounds. 1 crappie almost a pound. All on white/chartreuse spinnerbaits.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish school around the docks/boat launch. Fish the spinnerbait around the boat launch and docks early in the day, while there are few boats there. Once jetskiers come the fishing sucks. Fish the spinnerbait on the bottom so it ticks against the rocks.

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the shore for an hour and a half... got a 1, 2, and 3 pounder all on a white and chartreuse spinnerbait fairly shallow.
      City: Saratoga

      Tips: get there early to avoid the jet- skiers.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i headed to the lake and the shad were running thick, i didnt bring my shad net so some fat kid named Matt gave em to me for free. so i headed to the sunken island and fished all day got 8 bass, three were 2 lbs. but the others werwe weighed in at 5 , 5.5 , 6.8 , 11.2 , and 9.4
      City: ventura

      Tips: fish anywere if u have shad

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Red Bud, 5minutes later a 6.6lber in the boat. Then proceeded to get a 3.5, a 4.7, a 5.4 and a bunch of 2.5 and under. EPIC Day. Brest 5 was about 22.5 Not a B.A.S.S. record, but my record. Lots of Pressure will slow things down soon.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Change it up. most of my fish came on first cast of new lure.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the boatdock for 2hrs and missed a bass. Spotted big females moving toward the tulies and they picked out thier beds. Sight fished one of them for 2hrs then went to the swiming pool and saw couple of bass. Came back and threw a jig she was 11.4lbs!
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Look fish swiming toward tulies and other cover, use dark color jigs.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 61-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: after running my mouth to my buddy pete about how i was going to school him he beat my ass on the lake. plenty of action on this lake nothing big but lots of fun.pete 34 me 13 tony 12. a bit of a letdown after all of the clearlake fishing lately. but fun anyway.1/4 oz leadhead pear/silver flake yama twintail grub.
      City: sac

      Tips: go to clearlake for the real fish!!!!!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING WAS SLOW BUT LARGE FISH 14"-17" IN MCCLOUD ARM. DROPSHOT IN 20-40 FEET OF WATER. GREAT TOP WATER ACTION AFTER SUNDOWN TIL DARK. ALSO CAUGHT A TROUT TROLLING A RAPAULLA IN THE CHANNEL BETWEEN BANK DRIFTS. WATER TEMP HIT 65 ONE EVENING AND THE BIT WAS HOT.
      City: REDDING

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My first 10 fish day at Anderson. Based on J.P.'s report started at 0815 at WoodChopper's throwing lizards. One bump. Switched to drop-shot with M.M III worms and picked up 2. One 2# the other 2.5# (biggest for the day). Worked my way north covering the N.E. bank toward the cove with the two rocky points. All the rest caught on Carolina rigged 4" black twirl tailed worm by Renegade (WalMart) drifting along grassy banks. All around 2#. Fun!
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Small plastics seemed to be the ticket.