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Friday, February 2nd, 2007

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 41-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today was my day! Launched out of Granite Bay around 8:30 and was fishing with my good buddy Bruce. At 12:40 she hit! A long 45 seconds later she was in the boat! A 10.8 LARGEMOUTH! About 27 inches long! My lifetime personal best!!!
      City: ANTELOPE

      Tips: t

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 1:00 to 5:30 and caught 10 bass to 4lbs. Caught 9 of them on a chatterbait and 1 on a brush hog in 3 to 10 feet of water. Water is usually like chocolate milk this time of year, but is very clear right now with the lack of rain.
      City: novato

      Tips: Lighten up your colors, try to go more natural. I was yoyoing the chatterbait and getting a lot of hits as it fell. I think a spinnerbait would work just as well, just very your retrieve.
      CATCH AND RELEASE. High mercury count in this lake (It's posted around the lake).

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ya George, this lake is extremely shallow. I have not caught any bass in Shadow Cliffs lately,it is very slow right now.

      P.S I have a spinncasting reel, but im looking into a baitcasting reel. I dont want a serious one, but maybe one under 80 bucks. Does anyone have any suggestions?
      City: p town

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two of us fished 2.5 days (Friday,Saturday, and Sunday). We tried many different techniques to catch fish, drifting live minnows worked the best. Of the 70 fish we caught, all but five were on minnows. A few on senko's, and a couple dart headed worms. Most of the fish were down a minimum of 20 feet to the bottom in 30 to 80 feet of water. We did not see any fish in the back of any coves and the further back a river arm we went, the less fish we saw.
      City: Rough and Ready

      Tips: They seem to only want the real thing (minnows, minnows and an occassional senko). I would not go out without minnows!!!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1boat.2 persons. started at 9am at jackson got 4 fish on drop shot in 10 foot deep with in 20 mins.3 shakers, 1 keeper bout 3.lbs fished catfish cove no takers on anyting but a 4"in roboworm saved the day.decided to just fish the entire lake 20 feet from shore got a total of 35 bass 2 biggest were 5-5 one half others 1-3 ponders did manage 1 fish on a blk/brn about 1 pound. finished the day ay 4 pm
      City: bay area

      Tips: fish are deeper now and NOT on the banks. banks will come soon about 6 weeks. fish slower and finese style as the fish are cold and dont wanna chase bigger baits. so a finese worm they figure they can take down with out much effort.
      good fishing!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake at 930am. 11 fish with the largest at 2.75 lbs. 8 dropshotted at 16' to 25'. 1 swim senko on top of a point,13'. Caught 2 on a white x-rap jerkbait.Used warmouth and aaron's magic in 4"and 6". Launched at Cappell and never got past the Big Island.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: All our dropshot worms were within 6" of the weight.

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      Water Temp: 50.0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Family day today so we started out at 11:30am. We ended the day at 4:45pm with abotu 12 fish from 11" to 2.5 lbs most on drop shot and a few on shacky head worm. Brown and green worms worked best for us today. Tried the back of cove in the narrows and got good action. Good luck out there.
      City: San Bruno

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      Water Temp: 47-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 2 timed last week. Early morning bite slow but there hitting on slow spinners off the banks then brown jigs with brown grub trailers. Work the steep drops around the dam. Crawdads are good. Even the drop shot's slow. The water temp's starting to warm up a bit things should get better soon.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Slow down don't be afraid to throw deep hard baits in reds with a slow retrive. Shad and bluegill spinners also in the mornings. Have fun even a bad day fishing beats a good day at work.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First things first. Congrates to Capt.Jack in his recent win. Always good to here an honest report. I'll be giving Folsom a try this friday.... let you know how it goes. Future Pro Tour- Clear Lake event. There are two different dates listed on their wedsite.For the Northern Region the event is listed on MAY 5TH. If you check the information secion- check in time is April 5th AT 5A.M.DOES ANYONE KNOW THE EXACT DATE OF THE CLEAR lAKE EVENT?
      City: antelope

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ Markley 10am. Started dropshoting pts. @ the last "No wake sign". 2 bass 1sm & 1
      2.5 lbs. Headed for the straights & 5 more. All 2 lbs or slightly better. Quit around 4pm.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: All but 1 fish caught dropshoting using Flashtrix in Morning Dawn. Worked sides of pts & kept moving. 1 on darterhd & worm in 5'.

      Brand New Lowrance 334 very cool!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club next tournament is February 24th out of Capell Cove.We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Our next meeeting is Tuesday February 13th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker will be Rich Thiel a well known Lake Berryessa guide who will be sharing his winning fishing techniques with us. For more info log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762.
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 42-45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Like the previous report, fish really slow. My Partner and I won the REBC club tourney on the 20th with 17.71 lbs. with a 4.96 kicker. We focused mainly on rocks and ledges dragging worms so slow it was almost like dead sticking. The bite was so soft, but if you didn't wait until the line moved to set you wouldn't hook the bass. Be patient and you will catch fish.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The next Redwood Empire Bass Club Tournament will be February 24th at Berryessa out of Capell Cove. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Rich Thiel a well known guide will be speaking at our next meeting on Tuesday February 13th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758.5762.

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 45-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water is nice and clear and trout are being pulled out from the docks and buoys. The rain didn't seem to affect the bite in a good or bad way. Just wanted to post that if you are going after trout here stay out of the east cove. The trout don't hang out there at least right now. All other areas are solid. Usin chartreuse power for whatever thats worth, but eggs and worms are workin too.
      City: concord

      Tips: Go Fishin

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rick Tietz and I went to Amador today for some relaxation after the ISE shows and to see if we could get some frozen bass to bite! We fished from 11 am to 5 pm and actually caught a few. We sucessfully dodged about 100 trout boats and found some areas to fish, mostly in the main body. Rick had three bass up to 4 lbs and I landed two - about 3 1/4 and 2 1/2 lbs. Our limit was around 15 lbs and the bass were caught on jigs of various color combinations. No one color seemed best. Rick had several bites on his spoons and a Basstrix plastic minnow dropshot rig, but missed them all. I missed about 3 on jigs. Most bites were very sluggish but Rick caught two of his bass (including the 4 pounder) just before dark and they nailed his jig. A south breeze blew most of the trip which caused the day to be rather cool. That might have slowed the bite some but we wern't complaining! The zillions of shad in the lake were hard to locate - maybe they froze to death!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We really didn't catch any bass less than 25 feet deep. We caught two offshore but most bites came on steep shoreline points. Don't forget to deadstick your lure on occasion, and above all else, work it SLOWLY until the water warms a bit.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 52.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Best Winter day on Anderson ever. Together my son and I caught 19, 12 of which were at least 15". We lost two pigs at the boat. Both Drop-Shot and Ribbon-Tail worms were the ticket. Worms shallow and Drop-shot deep. All were caught on the windy side of the banks.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Pressure bites!

      Tight Lines!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 50?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hiked in to Annadel and reached the lake at about 5:00pm. pretty cold on the water, wind and air temp of about 45. caught a nice fish again on my first cast, about 2.5 lbs (17") on a green senko (same as my report from sunday). when i was taking the hook out i noticed the tail of another less fortunate "baitfish" sticking out of the gullet. pretty cool and indicative of some pretty active feeding, i'd say... caught another one of about 1.5 and another much smaller shaker. hooked and landed three, total weight of about 4.5 lbs. nice results for about 40 minutes of fishing.
      City: petaluma

      Tips: all fish were caught with the senko texas rigged. i threw it wacky for a while, but didn't get a strike using this method.
      Catch and Release!

  • Westchester County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 3 bass and 2 trouts.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Bass were caught on 4inch pumpkin lizards. Trouts were caught using 50count size worms on a floater in early morning. Leader was about 18 inches and don't cast out too far.

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

      Report: The only fishing report I can post is what my friend told me from fishing last week. Fish heavy jigs in 30 to 40 ft around submerged trees in brown/orange or black/blue covered with smelly jelly and work it really slow. When the bass bite you will definitely fell a "THUMP". Drop shotting Robo MM will work also.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The Redwood Empire Bass Club next tournament is at Berryessa on February 24th. We welcome all new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Rich Thiel, a well known guide will be speaking at our next meeting on Tuesday February 13th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane.Log onto rebc.net for more info or call me at 707-758-5762. See you there.

Monday, January 29th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 49 ------50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Last Sunday at Berryessa the lake was like being on the ocean. Lots of wind and
      whitecaps. Coming from
      Steele Park the only place I could go was Capell Cove. Once I passed the five
      mile an hour zone the
      mountains protected me from the wind. I went all the way to the end at 1.9 feet
      of water and fished all
      the way back. For those who have never been in Capell Cove, there are alot of
      trees, bushes and rocks in
      the water. This structure is great for bass better in the spring but I didn't
      do that badly now. I caught five
      large mouth bass the biggest one was 2.7 pounds. Three small mouth bass largest
      one 1.8 pounds and a
      few spotted. The water temperature was between 49 to 50 degrees. Not a bad day
      of fishing considering
      the elements. Dino at Spanish Flat informed me that this weekend the fishing
      was fair. People were
      catching bass in seven to forty feet of water and trollers for trout were
      trolling in the upper ten feet of
      the water with needle fish and castmasters behind flashers. If you are
      interested in a daily fishing report
      I would call Dino or Mike at Spanish Flat the number there is 707-966-7708.
      February 14th - 18th I will be
      at the fishing show at the Cow Palace hope to see you there. The pictures with
      this email are to show you
      the baits and scents that I like to use. 'til next
      week................................good fishing!!!!!!
      fishingconnection.net If you would like to share any fishing stories or tips
      please call me at 650-583-3333 or
      email me at bestguide@hotmail.com
      from ALBERT BROWN LIMIT OF TROUT
      Subject : RE: FW: RE: Oh Happy Day,I finally did it.

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      Hi Sid
      I thought you might want to know the details. Well here you are:
      Bait = Live minnows, on a # 8 hook. Hooked through the mouth and eye ball
      Line = 10 lb test Fluorocarbon line, with a 3-4 foot leader , attached to a styrofoam red and white bobber. Two 1/4 dia split shot were used for weight, spaced 15 in apart on the leader.
      Water Depth = 22-25 feet
      Location = from the shore at the bait house, dock # 6, Steele PArk Resort
      Water Temp = 50 deg F
      No Wind
      Weather = It rained the night before, and it was cloudy and overcast most of the day. Air temp 55 degs
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      www.projectpridelostchild.com
      Sid # 650-583-3333
      TROUT REPORT FROM SHORE BY ALBERT PLUS PICTURES
      Hi Sid

      I thought you might want to know the details. Well here you are:

      Bait = Live minnows, on a # 8 hook. Hooked through the mouth and eye ball

      Line = 10 lb test Fluorocarbon line, with a 3-4 foot leader , attached to a styrofoam red and white bobber. Two 1/4 dia split shot were used for weight, spaced 15 in apart on the leader.

      Water Depth = 22-25 feet

      Location = from the shore at the bait house, dock # 6, Steele PArk Resort

      Water Temp = 50 deg F

      No Wind

      Weather = It rained the night before, and it was cloudy and overcast most of the day. Air temp 55 degs

      Fishing Events for YBAC for 2007

      Tips: SEE YOU AT THE COW PALACE BOOTH PROJECT PRIDE FEBRUARY 14 thru 18th FISHING SHOW.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: FREEZING 45.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: BAD BAD BAD...fished Sun & Mon only 1 stipper between Holland & Franks on a Levy rock wall right as a seal passed by...Disco no good couldnt even mark fish...lots of dinker hits but nothing serrious...tune up the lures and boat git readi for March and spawn bit to git ya bit...stay home this weekend and watch the super bowl bout the only excitin thang on the Delta now...best of luck to all else
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: stay warm, get ready for spring...pray for spawning and summer again