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Monday, March 12th, 2007

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: prespawn

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just to get back to "fshken", not a report. Hey dude you need to post on the forum for questions like this. Anyway Clementine has a rough road going in, be careful, it is loaded with smallies(some regard it as their secret lake). Jim
      City: sac

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Jim you have a PM.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hope this question will not upset anyone,but I was curious if anyone could help with bass fishing lake clemintine??
      City: Loomis

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out for a couple hours in the afternoon with no luck. i did see fish shallow but nothing would bite. the fish i did see were around tules and most were males with some females mixed in. spawn is almost here. maybe?
      City: santa cruz

      Tips: the ninja sneak attack seems to be the way to go. the water is so clear 10+ feet visiblity that any fish nearby seems to spook

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day on water. Lots of small fish though. Weather was perfect at about 80 degrees by afternoon, mild wind. Morning bite for small fish was on but the bigger fish were harder to find all day. Most bites came on sharp, primary points with smaller rock on shores (not big chunks, small stuff) up the river arms in 30+ feet of water. Not much happening in the trees or closer to shore for me this day.

      Started morning off with rip baits and got nothing. Then moved to senkos and jigs and got a few rats.

      Did get a few fish on a spinnerbait in shallow water but the better fish were on a texas rigged robo fished deep or with a middle range crank bait over deeper water (30-40 feet-fish were suspended middle of water column in many cases). Steeps were better than flasts/coves. Used the drop shot but all fish were rats.

      Had a hard time catching any fish in the coves or main lake in the southern end or dam areas. It was all about primary points and deep water for me up the western river arms. Best fish of the day was about 3.5 lbs on the robo.

      Never seen so many trout/kokane jumping in my life though and wish I had a spinner or two in my boat at times. Like bricks falling out of the sky that day. Scared the heck out of me a few times when I wasn't looking.
      City: San Rafael

      Tips: Best colors for the deep fish were dark colors (purples and blacks). I actually had to have the bait moving or hopping a bit to get bit. Shallow fish hit a chartreuse SB with double gold blades. Crank was a chrome color.

Sunday, March 11th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 55-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I hit up the south end around 1pm and started out with a shaky head, I had no bites, so i tied on a blade and what can I say, a nice 3lbr and then a few small ones. I kept using the blade a picked up about 10 fish in three hours. I tlaked toa guy that had been fishing a shaky head and he had 20+ for the day. I found a few on the shaky head but the nicer fish hit the blade.

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      Water Temp: 61.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner and I caught 12, 6 keepers. 3 were over 15". Of those three, two were caught on Spinnerbait in 3' of water. The others were by Drop-Shot Roboworms in 12' to 20' of water.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Fished the mud lines on flat windy banks. The fish seem to be moving up to bed. The bite is very aggressive if you can find them. Good luck and Tight Lines!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out great in the morning on reaction using Voo-Doo chatter baits as well as rip baits. Main lake points and flats. Mid morning the jig bite turned on creek channels. Fish made a big move in the afternoon suspending in the grass lines killed them on senkos. Even nailed a bed fish. Over all 30 plus fish most in the 2.5 pound range up to 4.5 best five at 16.5
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: The water is very clear in some spots making the fish very spooky avoid these in the afternoon until they are locked on the beds, great at first light . Stained water will produce more consistantly. As for bait colors The Voo-Doo chart shad, hang on the hit are very hard on the bait work it just over the grass. Chart shad rips on the points. Brown and purple jigs. Green pumpkin for the Senkos. I want to wish all the Future Pro anglers good luck on the 24th, I will be up there on the 23rd as a guest speaker looking foreward to it.

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out on the westside but too much algae floating. Fished the eastside and skiers cove caught a few drop shot and senkos, nothing on rips or swimbaits. Nothing big, about 15 fish up to 2.5 lbs.

      Lots of pleasure boats and capella (free launch) was packed.
      City: South SF

      Tips: Early morning, fish biting on dark colors and later in the morning, started to catch them on light color worms. Fished around 15' mostly spots and LG, only one smallie.

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      Water Temp: 52.3-59.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Sunday morning with my good friend Eric. Started out fishin in the narrows throwing green pumpkin plastic's. Eric got a few in the boat, then moved up north where Eric lost two good one's on a swimbait. Me still nothing. Moved over to Rancho where we hooked up and yes I got my first one for the day. Switched over to using ripbaits around lunch time. Eric ended up with about 30 bass and I about 7. Seen lot's of bass following the ripbaits but most did not commit to them. Great day on the lake, awesome weather. Lot's of pleasure boaters out. Top five went around 15.
      City: Millbrae

      Tips: fish the afternoons in the coves where the boat traffic has made mudlines.

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

      Report: went out Saurtday got about 20 fish on a rip bait (between 1.5 and 2.5) around ladds, got a 3.5 on a zipper worm in Disco.
      Sunday, stayed south and fished about 4 hours and got a dozen or so on jigs but nothing to write home about. LOTS and lots of boats on the water and it was getting crazy so I called it an early day.

      tight lines to all
      City: Tracy

      Tips: jigs on points and watch your line. have fun

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: my 14 yo,dalton,& i decided to start fishing again,(havn't held a bass rod in 3 yrs !)were fishing the 16/60 club(i am the first member from 1990).anyway,we fished out of ladds @ 7:30,i caught 2 keepers 1-2 lbs on brush hogs,split shotted.dalton hooked up a nice strong fish took him into the trash & lost it(roboworm),prob striper,any tips for fishing close to ladds sat?
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: talked to several bassers,only a couple fish caught

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great day! Got out at around 10am, yeah, nice late start, head up to a favorite spot of mine, and just started catchin em...nothing big, lots of males pushing the bank...fished about a 1/4 mile stretch of old river and got 12 in 3 hours...LOTS of boats out there...bite was odd, some just crushed it, some just sucked it in and the line told ya a fish was there...biggest was around 3#..most in that typical delta 1-1.5# cookie cutter..
      City: Tracy

      Tips: plastics on the rocks, fished the upswing of the tide, seemed once the tide went out bite got tougher...dark colors worked best, fished slow.

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      Water Temp: up to 60*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the water in about 6 months. Geez I am totally clueless!!! Found surface water temps (well, OK as deep as my trolling motor anyway) up to 60 degrees in shallow areas (3-6 ft) up around Venice/Middle River/Mildred. I tried jigs (brown/purple), beavers (brown/orange) and blades (white/silver). Nada. Even tried dropshotting and got zilch. I 'may' have gotten bit once on the jig but if I did I missed completely. I tried fishing ledges with weeds next to the flats and points, tried the first tule clumps next to deeper water, shallow tules around flats, rock walls, docks and wood, in current, out of current... All in all I was only out for about 3 or 4 hours but still, the fish gods could have smiled on me a little bit!

      Tips: I could sure use some right now! (I know it's FLW week out there but I can still ask, eh?)

      The cruisers were out in force - courteous boaters that they are... Be careful!

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished fri/sat/sun and I have to say it was a bit tougher than it has been. Talked to a lot of guys sayin the same. Got like 1.3 fish per hour. That's TF(total fish)/THF(total hours fished)= FPH(fish per hour). There's also pounds of fish per hour but that's another formula! Fishin was better than not fishin.

      Tips: Anticipate rookie boat drivers flyin around blind corners!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went Friday got 8 fish up to 4lbs. a few on swimbait and a few drop shottin. Just got a little Ranger boat and I am back into it. My Mastercraft Wakeboat was workin. This is my third bass boat. Glad to be back. Going out again tomorrow. Like to Fish Sonoma and Clear Lake.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Think like a fish and pay attention, some hits are very subtle.

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      Water Temp: 50-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WOW. Took my son and his friend from college out today and we ripped 37 fish in about 3.5 hours. Our best 5 fish went 18-5, nothing huge with out biggest was just over 4 with many fish in the 3 to 4 lb range. I wish everyday was like this one. We found a spot where the bass had pinned several schools of shad and the action was just about non-stop. What a blast :) My thumb is ripped to shreds (pun intended) and 3 of my rip baits are missing paint and are covered with tooth marks:) I feel like calling in sick to work tommorrow just to hit up this spot again :)
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Lucky Craft Pointer 128, Megabass Ito Vision 110

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FROM 8AM TO 2PM. I THOUGHT WITH ALL OF THE WARM WEATHER THAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING, THAT THE LAKE WOULD BE GOING OFF. NOT THE CASE! WE MANAGED ONLY 7 BASS ALL DAY. NO REACTION BITE AT ALL. A FEW BASS IN THE SHALLOWS, BUT NO EVEN CLOSE TO BEING WIDE OPEN. THIS LAKE IS ABOUT 2-3 WEEKS AWAY FROM BEING WIDE OPEN.
      City: Ripon

      Tips: SOFT PLASTICS, SLOW..SLOW..SLOW. TRY AND KEY ON THE SUNNY POINTS WITH CHUNK ROCK. THAT SEEM TO BE WHERE WE SAW THE MOST ACTION. HANG ON BOYS... THE SPRING BITE IS ALMOST HERE.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yes I am the Rookie Jim gave his spot to THANK YOU we did not produce any fish but we saw you catch them all HA HA Thanks Again for the Jig we ended up with 2 spots 3.5 pounds and left at 1pm
      City: Rosevile

      Tips: we used to catch our two white grubs with a little sent Thanks again Jim
      Happy fishing Neil

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      Water Temp: 52 a.m.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: These are only fish reports not bashing reports. Anyway mainbody had four bite on 1/4 oz jigs, one over five and one a shade over twelve, two smaller three pounders. Moved up river checked out five more spots, one hole produced over twenty over three pounds. Two boats came right up close to me and watched in amazement at one cast after another yielding at least a three pounder each cast. Later I politely gave it to a couple of hardworking, fishless fishermen) and left to find out how my buddy was doing. Folsom fishing is not hard when you have the knowledge , but damned hard if you are a rookie. I finished up with twenty seven pounds on a jig not a swimbait.
      City: sac

      Tips: Don't let know it alls mess with your mind with bashing, just ignore their ineptitude to get it done and show a little class. One thing to remember with a big fish is not to put your thumb on the spool counteracting the purpose of the drag system. Mornings work your jigs down hill after the thermals change direction work your jig uphill. Good fishing, Jim(P.S. Cabo , another report coming soon, har, har.