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Saturday, March 10th, 2007

  • 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.

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      Water Temp: warmer

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started Jack's Shack caught a two pound spot, then a three plus smallie, two more bites, wasn't paying attention, talking to someone. Later on no boates so I quickly moved up river past underwater bridge to "lovers leap"(rock ledge dropping straight down into main channel, one of my secret holes). Fish were stacked up awaiting water to rise for bedding. Immediately I caught a five pound plus black and on the very next cast was a clone, fished another ten minutes still could not hear any boats coming up the lake and whammo, another fiver(all blacks), then about three casts later I caught a four plus smallie. Total was over twenty one pounds. Dumped them and headed out to Jack's again to sit it out and get a bite to eat. Could have thrown swim baits like R.Graves but I've done that many times and have been very sucessful at it, however I take a different light to it now.
      City: sac

      Tips: Take time to understand what time of year it is and like I have said before , "they are moving up" Check out structures close to bedding areas, that is where they will stage, crawdads are the favorite meal right now. Eight pound test is what I recommend. Jigs caught all my bass today, 1/4 oz, brown, open hook.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for most of the day. Caught a lot throughout the day. Fish seemed to be located on rocky points between 10' to 35'. Also caught a few off of trees. All were pretty much around 1lb with a 5lb 12oz LM mixed in. Caught 5 smallies also. Plastics were the ticket. Green worked the best, but other colors worked. We drop shotted, carolina rigged and the shakey head worm all seemed to work.
      City: Kelseyville

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: partner dan, and I killed them today. Dan Nailed a #7 on his second cast with a chatterbait, and then continued to knock the snotbubbles out of them for the next half an hour, he couldn't do any wrong with that damedable bait. No matter where he thru it, there was a big bass waiting for it. The smallest fish of the day went about #2, and there was only one of those. The bite cooled down after the early a.m., but picked up where it left off about 11.00 this time it was my turn, and I got them all, (cept) 1 on the same lookin chatterbait.
      Only other fish came on a superfluke. Total for Dan 11 bass, for me 8, but I would love to get out fished like that any day of the week. all in all we had a #28 5 fish limit
      City: auburn

      Tips: just get out there, and you cant go too far wrong

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out on the water about 7:45 this morning. Wind was kicking ass from several directions pushing my little Nitro all over. Managed to get 2 on tubes on the first 2 points on the right side entering Santa Felicia. Got tired of running the trolling motor constantly to keep the boat straight. Decided to drag Normans around the shoreline instead of fighting the wind and found 4 more on the east side by the entrance to the narrows. All fish were about 1.5lbs nothing big. Very suprising that there was not alot more "Lake Lice" with the hot temps. It wasn't a bad day but not as great as it has been.
      City: El Segundo

Friday, March 9th, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Can someone post directions to this lake? Where to park to have lake access? Thanks in advance.
      City: mountain view

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 54-58.9

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Clarity about 2 feet. Water temp: most places in mid-to-upper 58s, some places in the mid 54s. Fished from 6:15 pm till 2:30 am. No moon until 1 am and it was too low to make a big difference. All fish but one was on jig, other was senko. Two fish before dark (jigs) and about 8 or so after dark. No bites on anything else. A few fish were shallow but most were about 12'-18' (that we caught). Many metered fish out deeper in 18'-50' with no takers. Overall, quite slow but what do you expect for a no-moon night and cold temps and fog banks floating by? Day jig was Hemphill special with shortened 5" Yammy craw and night jig was Vypr black/chartreuse with 5" #180 Yammy grub. Smelly Jelly seemed to help. Caught fish about 1/2 way back in coves and main body but all but one were near points.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Watch out for the debris near the launch ramp when loading your boat - tons of it. Tip: partially pull on and off your trailer 3 or 4 times before trying to put it on trailer. If you hear squeaking, it means there is wood stuck between your hull and your trailer bunks and you should reload. After you pull trailer out of water, visually inspect to see if any large wood is stuck between bunks ahd hull. If so, relaunch and reload.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: One person guide trip, starting on a main lake hump nice flat day, overcast. Got one smallie on a jig. Then went to the bank between Spanish flat and Berryessa marina fishing nothing banks and small ricks we got a bunch of fish in 15-20ft using a sniper bolt 4" brown got about 6 fish there then hopped around the south west bank and caught a bunch of fish using the bolt and also quite a few on a small pumpkin jig w/brn grub trailer. After about 20 fish we went to the north side and only got fish here and there mostly on the jig some on a shaky head in 5ft of water using a purple ghost 4" worm. Caught a strange large mouth (cross?) with red eyes cool looking fish forgot my camera or would show a pic. About 35-40 fish for the day when the sun broke through in the afternoon the bite slowed.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: We worked shallow to deep from 5-30 ft most of the fish were in 15-20.A we work the baits at a moderate speed. www.ezbass.com

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bite is wide open. Bass can be caught all over the lake. Anyone looking for a guide trip call or email me (209)604-8222 fishwranglers bass guide service

      Tips: You can catch them on just about anything right now, 2-4lbers are easy to come by.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are moving up and are aggresive, I had a 15lb limit within an hour throwin a spinnerbait. Everyone else was fishin out deep.
      City: clovis

      Tips: Throw blades and cranks in the trees let all the old guys drag worms!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First off "cabo man" big Jim isn't lieing because ive been getting in on some of the same action that he is talking about except ive been using plastic worms.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Not really a tip, and hate to do this on here but im sick of hearing people complain about other people trying to post some helpfull information on here for you all to use,and bashing them for trying to be helpfull! so if you cant show some class like big jim said stay away from the website because its hear to help not complain becuse you cant catch fish and mad because other people can!

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my dad and his golf buddy out for a lesson in bass fishing. Lots of fish caught with the drop-shot and tubes. Fish are between 20 to 2 feet. In the afternoon the fish were up shallow - lots of fun sight fishing...even more fun for 2 rookies. We ended the day with about 25-30 bass up to 4lbs. Saw some really big bruisers but could not get them to bite.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: The fish are in full prespawn right now. Get your best polarized glasses and head to the lake.

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out in Rock Creek and found the water color more stained than other areas but managed a couple small bass and then moved to main lake where we got on some nice shallow banks and worked a chatterbait and tube with great success. Fish were caught on virtually anything we threw, blades, jig, dropshot, tube, crankbait and ripbait. Lake is really starting to open up and with another week and more clearing, CFW will be on fire! Headed back out in the morning as I can't get enough of a good thing.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Dropshot in 17-20' with Aaron's Magic and they seemed to like any color chatterbait and the 2 I had broken off were 1/2 oz white/chartruese. Jig fish were on brown/orange with Yamamoto #180 grub. Just throw it.........they'll eat it.

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

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club next Clear Lake Tournament is April 14th and the bite should be great. In the meantime I would like to invite you to attend our next meeting at 7p.m. next Wednesday at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Ross England who will be talking about his winning swimbait techniques,which is being used right now to catch those Clear Lake lunkers.
      Our tournament this month is on March 17th at Lake Sonoma. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Log ont rebc.net or call me at 707.758.5762 for more info.
      City: Santa Rosa

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

      Report: fished for about 4 hours today. caught only one fish. it was about a 2lb spot. saw a couple other people out on the water.
      City: oregon house

      Tips: try fishing shallow with reaction baits

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: good day today caught a nice limit biggest was 3.6 lbs purple, key color roboworms 6in. between 15-30 ft cottonwood arm
      City: modesto

      Tips: pay attention bites real soft

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My boy Rico and I fished my best spot and caught 6 females each.All over 5#s,but they were full of eggs. We kept 1 to eat and released the rest.
      City: richmond

      Tips: Throw lizards and top water baits. I can't give to much info, it's fishing. Catch and release when bass are spawning. Think like a fish!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Made it up to the lake for a few hrs today to see if my predictions would come true. Looks like things are right on track. A 5 deg increase in water temp has prompted the fish to start back toward the bank. I caught a 6.69 LM and a smallie almost 5 plus a few other good fish. They were in 20-30' and pretty agressive, Can't wait for the tournament on Sat.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: I was fishing pretty slow but the bites were hard. I caught a 3lb LM on a gitzit about 5' from the boat during a rapid retrieve. This opens up a whole bunch of possibilities.