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Saturday, February 17th, 2007

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake hoping to take advantage of a recent hot bite. As it usually goes when chasing reports, the bite slowed from what was being reported. That did not stop us from picking up a handful of fish on jerks and cranks, but it was a long day of searching. Our biggest two went 5 and 6 pounds. All fish were caught in dock areas where the ends of the docks were sitting in about 12 feet of water. Cast toward the shore and work your bait along the dock pilings and hang on!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Thanks to all those who sent me tips and suggestions on my inquiry post in the forum. You guys are great. Don't be afraid to ask questions in the forum. Plenty of helpful folks willing to point you in the right direction!

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My freind will and I decided on collins today have not been there in about 8 months but it can always be fun with good size bass plentiful.Today was no diffrent.started at 10:30 ran to the east side of the lake started with jigs and worms in about 17 to 30 feet with no bites then the wind picked up at about 11:25 so we decided to move to the bank with spinnerbaits and cranks on the big chunk rock within about 15 minutes will hooked in to a nice largey (3lbs) on a white on white revenge spinnerbait in about 2 feet of water fished for about 30 more minutes on the east side then the wind switched so did we over to the mouth of elmers cove and in about three casts I stuck a nice spot(4lbs) in about 1 foot of water on a norman deep little n summer craw 10 minutes later in about 5 feet and on the other side of the mouth on big chunk rock picked up another nice spot (3lbs) finished our day an hour later with no further bites
      City: grass valley

      Tips: In cold muddy water the book says go slow go deep always remember fish cant read. Do what the lake dictates dirty water warms faster than clear and with recently stocked trout that like to cruise the shore in dirty water the big fish moved up to get warm and feed. Use baits that diplace alot of water and make noise

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We caught all our fish on main lake points on fist size rock flat points. We used jig heads with watermelon or green pumpkin twin tail hula grubs. Kimberlee (8 years old) had the biggest fish of the day at about 2 pounds on a home poured 6" worm drop shot rig!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: If your fishing slow...............slow down! All our bites came when we barely moved the bait.

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      Water Temp: 8.6 Eary, by 11

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water color was mudier upstream, Brown's Ravine was clearer. Fish and game planted trout yesterday about 10a.m. so I started out with swimbaits all around Hobie Cove with no bites. Left there and checked out river upstream, bad conditions and little bait showing. Came back to main body using jerk baits, dropshot, jigs, swimbaits, still not even one bite. I left at around eleven, maybe tomorrow will be better with this weather system moving in.
      City: sac

      Tips: If they don't bite, go small and slow, if they still don't bite go home and do some "honey-dos". Good fishing Jimbo

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went trout fishing and caught a limit off of the L-dock. While I was trout fishing, I was watching this guy named Rob just slamming the bass. Not sure how many he caught, could have been the guy from the previous post.
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: Follow Rob around, the guy must be a Lafayette Reservoir Legend or something.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a great day. Caught lots of fish and made 9.15 for five. Caught fish everywhere from 10 to 25 feet. Was just trying everything and got bit on hula grubs, dropshot, texas rig. Colors were browns, clears, and purples. Nothing on the Spro swimbait, tried the floater and slow sinking; man do those look good swimming! One on a chatterbait early, no jerk bait.
      City: Madera

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass are still 25'-50' deep.
      Fishing is decent with guys getting 10-30 fish per boat on the usual plastics.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Use your graph and find the fish.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 49.4 to 50.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 9:00am. Fished the lower McCloud for a total of 22 with the largest going 3.5 lbs. Best 5 weighed 10.6 lbs. The bite really slowed after noon. Most of the fish came on a HDI #109R in 20 to 40 feet of water not to mention the largest one and oh yes, the BLONDE in the back caught the 3.5 as well as 12 of the 22.
      City: Cottonwood

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lakes dead right now.
      Wait till some warmer weather.
      City: Modesto

Friday, February 16th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 56.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Drop-Shot day! 20 for the boat 6 over 13". All caught in water between 10' to 20'. Nice warm day.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Shake, Shake, Shake!
      Tight Lines!

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      Water Temp: 53.00

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hooked six good fish later in the day.
      jigs and other baits.
      City: s.j.

      Tips: go fast and slow.
      good luck.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took a client to Berryessa yesterday to show him some new techniques and some new areas to fish. Unfortunately, being a fireman just getting off-duty, a late call made him an hour late so we didn't get started until 10:30 am. We fished Makley for awhile and had a pretty good bite drop-shotting and one on a jig. As we hit the narrows, one wall produced 4 dropshot bass, including his first one ever! I sensed there was an early bite and we missed it. I was expecting the bite to pick up in the afternoon but it clouded up again and fishing was slow. He actually caught the last and only two we caught near the end of the trip. We wound up with 12 bass, including a 2-3 largemouth and two 2 lb spots. All the rest were quality except one dink. Nice limit near 10 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Most bass appear to still be quite deep as we didn't catch anything in water less than 25-30 feet. When the north end gets murky, bass will be more shallow up there. The morning dawn 4" Robo worm was the favored lunch of our bass. Aaron's Magic also worked. Our top bait was the drop-shotted Basstrix chartreuse/blue plastic 3" minnow. I was surprised the bite was as slow as it was considering the water temp is rising nicely. Many bass are still on winter walls and ledges. Horizontal movements for the shallows really havn't started yet - at least in the south end. Look for 57-59 degree water - then things will pop!

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      Water Temp: 54 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner & I hit the water about 9:30. Fished in Markley cove caught 1 sm bass. Headed for the
      Narrows and fished the coves & points with plastics. We caught 7 or 8 bass, but the bite seemed slow today.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: Caught most dropshotting with a flashtrix shad. Also Morning Dawn worm on a darterhead. Points seemd the best 20 to 40 ft.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-56.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Only had 4 bites for three fish, Big fish was a 7.5 on a crank bait the other two fish were 3.? and a 2.0 found lots of fished stacked up in the mouths of marinas, and deeper water say 20' but couldnt get them to do anything.

      Some more sun light and these fish will move right up on the bank. The day before we went out the pond was pushing out huge weights.
      City: Antelope

      Tips: Slow down, look for deepwater access, fish the points. Pay very close attention to water temp!

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Mildred Island area, rip bait and lipless cranks caught fish at tule points and islands.
      City: holt

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: i dont know

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: what a wonderful day arrived at lake around eight fished out of my float tube with lucky craft pointer sp in kind of a ranibow trout pattern caught 4 nice bass 3 smallies 1 spot and a salmon. biggest was 3lbs.got most of my bites probally in 3-9 foot of water. all of theme had eggs in them for one so get ready for pre spawn.got alot of strikes from salmon
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: slow down and think about how your working the bait.and dont give up. if you want to catch some of those salmon go throw out a minnow under slip bobber. or you can mooch for them

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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Check tips.
      City: ANTELOPE

      Tips: Water conditions is just like Jimbo said.... I fished from 8:00a.m.- till 4;00p.m. without a single bite. Tryed it all. SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TIME.

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

      Report: LAUNCHED AT JONES VALLEY, THERE WERE LOTS OF BOATS OUT ON A NICE DAY.UPPER PARKING LOT HAD ABOUT 15 RIGS IN IT AND LOWER RAMP WAS FULL. IF YOU GET OUT EARLY YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARK AT THE RAMP, THERES ROOM FOR ABOUT 10 RIGS THERE THEN ANOTHER 10 OFF THE ACCESS ROARD GOING OUT TO THE SECONDARY RAMP.FISHING WAS GREAT IF YOU JUST WANT TO CATCH 1 1/2 TO 2 LB FISH. WE FISHED ON THE MAIN LAKE BETWEEN JONES VALLEY AND BRIDGE BAY AND CAUGHT AROUND 20 PLUS FISH ANY WHERE FROM 20 TO 40 FEET OF WATER. MOST CAME IN THE DEEPER WATER.CAUGHT MOST ON TEXAS RIGGED WORMS IN GREEN AND BROWN COLORS, AND CAUGHT A COUPLE ON TWIN TAIL GRUBS, WHICH WAS PUMPKIN SEED COLOR. ALL THE FISH WERE SPOTS.
      City: ANDERSON

      Tips: IF YOU WANT TO HAVE FUN USE A ULTRA LITE ROD WITH LITE LINE, THOSE SPOTS WILL GIVE YOU A WORK OUT GETTING THEM TO THE BOAT.IM TALKING NO MORE THEN 6 LB TEST LINE AND FEATHER LITE ROD.

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water this afternoon for 2hrs. It was really windy on the main lake and difficult to hold boat position. Caught 5 nice fish up to 3lbs on drop shot, TX rigged robo worm and brushhog from 3-20 ft along rocky shoreline.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Find a place that is blocked from the wind. Where the wind current and calm water meet is where the fish are. Had a couple real pole bending hits in those areas.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The water is getting stained up North, but that did not stop Joe Miller and I front find 30 plus bass. Cranking and riping first thing in the morning and changing to JK jigs and dart head for the rest of the day. Use brown/purple was the best colors.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: fish slow and 25-40 ft