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Monday, March 5th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished yesterday and had a damn good day rippin'. I caught and released 10+ fish, the biggest, a near 7 pounder!! I was fishing out of my 8'kick boat when disaster struck me. A huge 35 ft. day day cruiser was doing about 60 inside the bouees and threw up a 4' wake. A series of unfortunate events led to me flipping losing a rod, an oar, and two boxes of terminal tackle. My waders filled up and luckily I didn't lose my life!! So really catching the fish lost it's worth because of the accident. I was just glad to still be kickin'!!
      City: Upper Lake

      Tips: try some rippin for big ones bebe!!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day with 1 pound largemouth on the first cast using my favorite cartreuse jerkbait. Spent the next few hours fishing shallow cover using senkos with no luck. Fished a point half way up the lake and caught a 1 pound smallmouth and a 1 pound largemouth on the cartreuse jerkbait. Made another pass on this point and caught a few small stripers, some just larger than the 18 inch limit. Came back to this point later in the day and could not keep the stripers off the chartreuse jerkbait. By the end of the day me and my son had a total of 29 stripers , 3 largemouth and 1 smallmouth bass.
      City: Dublin

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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

      Report: went out sun. between me and my buddy we caught 5 bass and lost a few.the five we had would have went about 13. 3 3s 2 2s crankin and dropshottin
      seemed like others werent doin so hot so we were happy
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: posting a late report. went out sunday and got into good fish. avg. fish was 4-5 pounds, with big fish for the day a 11 pounder. caught them all fishing slow. everyone i talked said the bite was tough but its not you have to figure the fish out. george could be telling the truth don't hate on him because you can't catch fish right now.

      Tips: no tips sorry i fish a lot of tournaments.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Overall a tough bite but still managed some good fish.there must have been 30 boats in franks tract
      And fishing for most was slow.strippers and pike were crushing spinnerbates but bass were pretty hard to come by. every day is different right now with the warming trend . supposed to be 80 degree this weekend. Fish On.
      City: isleton

      Tips: creature baits have been getting bites.

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      Water Temp: don't know

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey there What Ever,

      It was slow on Sunday but there were fish to be had. I caught six, two dinks and 4 keepers over near Isleton. the two largest were in the 4 to 5+ range. I can send yo a picture of the larger one, if you like. Soooo .... maybe George did catch a six lber, or maybe he just can't judge size but don't say he didn't catch any fish. I did.

      -Perry-
      City: Orinda

      Tips: caught 5 on HuddleBugs, fished reaaaallll slow. got one on a dropshot.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished for stripers in Broad slough but no takers. My 10 year old son wanted to toss crawdad pattern crankbaits around Sherman Lake. In one of the backwaters, while I am casting for "linesides", he decides to hook into a 7 lb. female largemouth. He managed to land it on a medium shimano crucial spinning rod. This kid gets better every season. I am giving up my new addiction for stripers and getting back to Bass. The females seem to be loaded with eggs just like the 2 beasts I recently caught at Contra Loma.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Fish the slack waters with cranks and senkos.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Man what a day...launched at 9:30AM and started fishing shortly thereafter. Best day of the year so far for me. I caught and released 16 fish with my best 5 coming in at 18.7 lbs. Caught several nice 3-4lbers and a beautiful 6-10 toad. All fish were taken on a shakey head worm just north of the county park. I lost numerous fish as well and noted that many of my bites were VERY aggressive, they were savaging the shakey head worm I was using BIG TIME.
      City: Petaluma, CA

      Tips: Hit the tules with a shakey head worm.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from an inblatable boat from 7am to 3pm. Trees on the south side completely out of the water. Water is very muddy and ice cold. Did not have any bites. Tried everything in my box. Talked to 4 other guys during the day, they had no bites either.
      City: Sunnyvale

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Del Valle all day on Sunday. The water level is really low. Lake was drained to avid the flooding they had last year. Water had risen 5' due to rains last week. Run-off from snow is keeping the water cold. Headed out at 7am, tried fishing shallow at first. Caught a 3lb trout on a 6" senko. Then we lost it when the stringer came loose. :(

      Threw everything in the arsenal. One missed bite under structure.

      One guy in a kickboat said he caught an 18" striper.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Fish slow and deep. With the water as shallow and cold as it is, the bass are hessitant to move up.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the north fork area first with crankin and ripin, got two smallies. As long as we had ripples on the water that was working ok. Jigs worms and Lizards on a split shot fishing in 20-30 ft near Beal's Point also was working. Find the warmest water and start looking for the bed fish in shallow water around small rock with sand. The south fork did nothing for us this trip.
      City: Rocklin

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      Water Temp: 53+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished sunday and monday evening for 1.5 hrs and landed 2 fish on each outing. Kreature baits up shallow and throwing a watermelon tube. buddy got nice 3+ Lb spot on a rip and another on a spinnerbait shallow. This warm weather really seems to be moving the fish up shallow.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out in main body, nada, fish have moved to up river or creek channels. Tried one of my favorite creeks, threw swim bait nada, picked up a jig and whammo, 10 lbs for three. Wind changed, coming from northeast, my next spor the wind was going wrong way. Went past Jack's tried the old bridge, two bites, probably trout. Met up with a friend of mine , we shared catches and shot hte bull. His catch included a kicker and he took a photo of it. We dumped all our fish and left to go up river.
      City: sca

      Tips: Like I said yesterday, the fish are starting to move as me and another friend each caught them in four feet. We saw a youngster catch twoo around us. Take it up the creeks and prespawn areas. Good fishing, jimbo

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      Water Temp: 47 - 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Six other boats on lake. Nice weather. Water was MUCH warmer in shallow water near the banks than the center of the lake. Picked up a nice smallie, 4 pounds, trolling for trout just east of the boat ramp. The smallie took a rainbow needle fish, behind flashers, in about 30' of water. Another boat had a couple of 15" trout caught on nightcrawlers behind flashers.
      City: Middletown

      Tips: Watch for floating wood! Lots of tree limbs floating all over the lake. Many are hanging vertical with only a small amount of wood showing on the surface. KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT!

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: Clear

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I heard ole Rob stuck a 6.8 pound slob the other day. What a stick that guy is!
      City: Lafayette

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the fish sure are moving up caught them all day 15 ft. on 6 inch purple punisher texas rig biggest one of day 6.2
      City: modesto

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got onto the water at 1300 fished middle fork points and coves through spinners and rip's "nothing" fishing was tough had one bight on a splitshot 4 1/2" worm. Good Luck!!!
      City: Oroville

      Tips: Don't take them from me!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished today behind all the recent storms we recently had. Fished up North and the weather was cool with a slightly steady breeze. My partner ripped a few fish early but then it just became tough!! Fished then came on Soft plastics fishing SLOW!!!! A little frustrated over the production of number of fish lately. Fished seemed really scattered and were at all different depths. If anyone can make a suggestion, please let me know
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: I need the tips vs. giving them.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water about 8:30 fished main body points with jerk baits, cranks, blades forgot the swimbait, jig and drop shot. Finally around 1 pm while drop shotting i hooked a 5.04 Smallie and then about an hour after that a 2.5 black on a darterhead and that was it for the day. Sunny and warm. Spoke with a two other boats and they said that they did not get a single bite all day.
      City: Lincoln

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One of our nicest days ever on San Justo... overcast sky with little or no wind all morning. Lots of trout anglers catching many of the 1800 lbs of trout planted last week. Many bass anglers, too, bringing total boat count to 17 at one point.
      John got two nice bass (2 lb 15 oz and 2 lb 7 oz) within first 30 minutes, both caught on T-rigged green pumpkin Yamamoto craw in 7 feet of water on a main lake point. Both were very subtle bites, noticed only because the line moved to the side. I made a lot of casts with a 10" Castaic Platimum swimbait in trout finish searching for cruisers but only managed to move a lot of water. Also tried craw-colored cranks and lipless lures, spinnerbaits, buzzbait, Tiger Tube, Swimming Senko, PowerBait lizard, chatterbait, and weedless spoon with craw trailer...no bites on any of them. Fished from the water's edge out to 25-30 feet but no takers.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Water temperature remains 54 degrees and we saw no evidence of beds even though there is a full moon. Apparently the recent cold rains and hail have kept the water too cold for the start of the spawn.