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Sunday, March 11th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THIS IS ALSO FOR STAFFORD LAKE
      Started fishing around 9pm on Saturday night. Threw everything in my bag for 4 hours up and down the bank, worms, rat-l-traps, spinners, jigs, cranks, top-water frogs, others. I didn't get a single bit, not anything. The about 1am the moon started to come up, coincidence, I think not.
      Well the bites started to come, well actually only one bite. It was a 10lb 14ounce lunker that took my favorite bait. After that lunker the bite turned on and I caught between 10-15 fish, though none bigger then 3lbs after the big one.
      City: Novato

      Tips: Worms and soft plastics still seem to be the way to go. Though for the first time out there I started to see fish roll.

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      Water Temp: 60-ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Stafford Lake for about 3 hours, one bite, one hook-up, one keeper...about a 2 1/2-pounder on a craw patterned Rat-L-Trap.

      I am posting the Stafford report here because there is no other place to post, and Nicasio is closest...
      City: Novato

      Tips: Would like to see more posts for this lake, and for Stafford... Webmaster please take note

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

      Report: headed out around 10am sunday, fished the middle fork and parts of the main lake till around 5. NO bites, not even one. Threw everything at em. Drop shot, darter heads, jigs, rip baits, etc. Tried fishing in shallower water and deep water, anywhere from 5-35 feet. Tried fishing slow, no bites, and fast, no reaction bites. Went out on a buddys boat that wasnt really equipped. No fish finder (pretty tough without one this time of year). So not really sure what the temp was, but it was still very cold. THe visibility was good, clear for about 12 feet. Saw one guy catch one drop shotting in about 25 feet of water. Didnt talk to anyone else, but there were a good amount of people fishing, but no one seemed to stay in any one place longer than twenty minutes (so i am guessing they were having similar problems finding a pattern). All in all, despite the coporation of the fish, beautiful day, even got a tan.
      City: san francisco

      Tips: Dont go fishing without a depth finder. Need to find that warmer water this time of the year. And find where the fish are holding in the thermocline.

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished some of that gin clear water on Shadow and ended up with a good limit and a fat girl that was getting a lot of interest from the little males arround her. A fat gitzit and a drop shot was the ticket. I posted the pic of the fatty and all were released, no gut hooked fish. Lots of fish shallow today, catfish carp and some really big trout. I saw one trout swimming off with someones leader hanging from it's jaw. I only saw one 10+ bass today.
      City: San Leandro

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: great day on the squaw, 10 spots 2-4 to 3-6 brown and chartrouse w/ char tail 4 or 6 inch 1/8 oz dart w/ blood hook.
      3- 10 ft. of water.
      City: redding

      Tips: let fall then shake that tail momma

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a great day, my son-in-law and I went out for a full day on our great Lake Shasta and it didn't dissapoint. Throwing blue/salt and pepper soft curl tail grubs, on the steepest banks we could find, adjacent to 40 to 80 feet of water, let the grub slowly sink to the bottom and don't move it for 10 seconds then hop it and repeat, this dead stick method brought us 30 spots, to 2.5 pounds and they are such great fighters that on light line, and medium action spinning takle, what a great day. The shade seemd to produce better than the sun side and the lake is very clear. It is the beggining of the great spring fishing we have grown accustomed to here at Shasta. Fish came out of 10 to 20 feet of water.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Let the lure dead stick on the rocks for a while before moving it, any resistance set the hook, and hang on. Have a great day fishing.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56F-59F

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished morning to early afternoon in a float tube at Yorty. Caught one fish on a darter jig, a 1.5 lber in 6 feet of water near wood. Great day, upper 70's, no wind, lot's of families out fishing.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: The water is still muddy, barely two feet visibility. If you're jigging, you gotta be right on top of them.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the results of the Mar 10 Jason Fisher Memorial Scholarship Tournament. Only 7 boats showed and the fishing was very tough, but, as usual someone unlocked the secret. Tim Brady Sr. (of state record smallie fame) and Steve Gildesgard (from Dragonfly Enterprizes Tackle shop in Weaverville) took it all. They weighed in a four bass limit weighing 19.73lbs. Their winning weight included an 8.21 LM and a 5.11 Smallie. Of the 7 teams, only 7 other fish were weighed. Randy McDaniels and Curt Gibson finished 2nd with 4 fish weighing 10.71 and had a smallie well over 4 lbs. Johnny Mac and I had 3 smallies for 7.16. That was it.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: There is a lesson in this. When you find an area that you have confidence in, fish it. Tim and Steve didn't start their big engine all day, and never moved more that 100 yds from their spot.... No matter how hard the rest of us tried to pressure them off of it.

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: #0's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Trout bite is starting to pick up. Trollers are picking up fish pulling needlefish along eastshore. With the water temps still in the 30's the smallies have not come alive yet. When the temps get up in the 40's they will start showing up. Remember its up to us to take care of our fisheries. Please practice catch and release.
      City: Chester

      Tips: Turney guys we still need your help by keeping those largemouth out of the bags. also we will be doing some xmas tree work in a couple weeks any one who would like to get involved let me know. we can use the help.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on sautrday and sunday, with 35 fish in two days,didnt get out till about 11:30 on saturday fished a main lake point first zero bites went back into rock creek and fish got busy, wife got her limit there no probelm for me wasant happening fishing way to fast for our first trip of the season.. went over to cat cove and I hooked into 4 bass in first four casts. a solid bite was begining to happen just had to slow it down. soft bites, if your a good line feeler you'll get your fish bigeest fish was 6-9. every place we fished we caught some fish lots of 2's and 3's, tried jerk bait and spinner nothing on reaction bite. 2 trout on watermelon 6 inch worms ..gave em to a guy trolling tried to release but just didn't happen.
      City: Topaz Lake

      Tips: split shotting was good for the most part anywhere I thought ..biggest came on carolina rig 8 inch blue flake ribbon worm enjoy and have fun

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. Caught sixteen bass on a dropshot and shacky head using MM3 and bluegill Robo worms. Fished points and around brush in 1 to 10 feet of water. Bites are still very soft. Caught four trout with the MM3 worm on the shacky head.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Lake should bust loose soon. Fish during the week if you can. The lake was a zoo Saturday. Good fishing.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Big change since last week. First the water temp went from 52 to 58-59 deg. Second the wind was up. Caught 22 LM biggest 3lbs. Had a back seater for 2 hrs and he caught 7. All caught on lizzard and brush hog in 6-15 ft on wind blown shallows with a mud line just as Team Dean experienced. Nothing on spinner or crank in the same areas I caught them on with plastics.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish are getting active and moving shallow with the increase in water temp. The reaction bite should start soon. Try reaction baits first (more fun) and if no bite where there should be fish then go with plastics fished shallow to deep.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all morning around the mouth of the narrows up to the ranch house. Used only two baits all day, a Lunker Lures rattlin' jig (brown/green) with a Paca craw chunk, and a chrome/blue back rattle trap. The jig bite was consistent in 10-15 feet of water on and near rocky points. It was a little more spotty with the rattle trap, but I did get a nice blowup from a 3 lb smallmouth in about 4 feet of water fishing parallel to a rocky bank. I was burning the rattle trap when he hit it. Not a spectacular day, but fun with a decent jig bite.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: The bites are coming shallower than they were in previous weeks. Looks like the prespawn is on. If I had more time, I would have moved over to the Vineyards or Putah Creek. The reaction bite looks to be heating up. Time to bust out the ripbaits!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Middle River from 8:00am to 2:30pm caught 21 fish between my partner, ranging from 1lbs to almost 4lbs. Best 5 would be about 16lbs. All fish were caught on Texas rig and Dropshot.
      City: Mtn. View

      Tips: Fish texas rig and Dropshot really slow and pay attention to your line. Most bite are subtle but some are vicious.

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I am passing on a report from one of our Devil Mountain club members and based on his report and my conclusion, the spawn is beginning. They caught 25+ fish up to 5 lbs. The jig and beaver continue to be productive for numbers. The spinnerbait bite is continues to be on and off, but producing the occasional fish.


      It looks to me like the males are coming shallow to begin building beds and if the weather continues to stay warm we are days away from the big girls.

      The devil mountain bassmasters will be up at Clear lake this weekend, then back to our home water of the Delta in April. If you would like to join us feel free to give me a call 925-639-7724.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Find time to fish mid week.

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      Water Temp: 57ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out today around noon and fished the southern arm. Caught seven bass on rock piles and ledges. Bass were in about 20-25 feet of water. Drop shotted robo worms the entire day. Tried spinner's, crank and chatter baits but the drop shot was on. Lake is really starting to pick up with the good weather.
      City: Lincoln

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 57-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a day at Casitas! Partner and I went out ofr a practice day and on arrival, was greeted by several boaters doing a tourney today along with my good greats and great fishermen, Mark and Bob Tull.

      Beings only my second visit to Casitas, I was hopuing for a great day as the temps were up and it appeared that fish wee heading to bed with the warmer temps. Headed out to our first stop but it was pretty filled with head-streachers looking for beds. We elected to hit another ppoint and started tossing weightless rigs, Partner hit a fair keeper and we kept hugging the shore line working it very slow. BANG! Partner hooked into a beast and he worked it to the boat finally in range of the net and I loaded her in. A very nice 9-8 24 incher! We moved off to another section of the lake and started wirking different baits and looking for possible points to hit during the upcoming tourney. A few more decent keepers arrived in the boat then BANG! Partner hooks another 'pig' and this time she headed to deep water. After a sort battle, another toad in the boat! 10.0 and 25 1/2 incher. A horse! Partner had a slight case of 'palsey' trying to re-hook bait and needed a short rest period for his heart to catch up! Nice day- Weather was out and it was in the 80's. This should bring the fish up within a week if this patteren holds.

      Talked to my friends and a heafty 29 pounds took the tourney today -- They didn't fair as well nor did I. I had a harse day but partner scored huge with probably close to 32 pounds for the day on 5.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Wont say where we caught them nor what we used but it wasn't bed fishing! There are there -- fish it slow!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another great day for me. Launched at 9:30 and fished until 4:30. I caught 9 -quality- fish. My best 5 went: 5-6, 4-12, 3-9, 3-8, 3-2 for a total of 20-5. I also lost at least 5-6 other fish that either spit the hook or wrapped me around tules and escaped. I caught the majority of my fish using a shakey head worm, although I did take the 3-9 on spinnerbait. I fished mid-lake and north lake today.

      Tips: Go fishing. The bite is great even with all the tournaments and other fishermen there's still PLENTY of room to fish and many fish to be caught.

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      Water Temp: 53-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Congrats Brian on your little 15lb limit on your idiot bait. I had one a little over 22 dragging, but I'm just an old guy. JERK

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Things sure have chaned since the last time out a couple weeks ago. The water temp is 4 degrees warmer and the fish were all shallow on rock shore with wood or steep structure. Rich caught the first fish right off the bat at the first place we fished in the A.M., a 2 pound smallies on a spinner bait. I followed up a couple minutes later with a 2+ spot on a jerk bait. We had 5 in the boat and off the water at 1:30pm.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Reaction was the ticket today with a fish on a jerk bait, 2 on the spinner bait, one worm fish and a jig fish. All the bites came on the pause.