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Sunday, January 14th, 2007

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: pretty cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Notch! After reading your report, I took my two young nephews to the half moon bay spot and parked. My 13yr old nephew caught a 6lbs trout and my 8yr old nephew caught a 2lber and also lost a 4lber! They had a blast. Caught on night crawlers on the bottom.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Be patient and fish sloooow.

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

      Report: Fished about 2 hours Sunday afternoon in Woods Creek arm, found fish(on the graph) on the North side. Caught one, 4.5 lb, on a craw colored jig in about 12 - 15 ft. near a rocky point.
      City: Modesto

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out on big point south fork , too windy to fish appropriate depht, moved to deep ravine caught three blacks, moved out went upstream to break caught 12 blacks. Rest of day enjoyed lunch and tried to get my permit for 07 but marina ewas closed, left lake. All fish caught on 5 inch swimbait in dephts 40 to 65 deep. Kokanne color was the ticket, had about 18 lbs, caught about 14 fish incvluding two trout about three or four pounds a piece. Also one five pound squaw fish. Like I've said forget about bass'n 101 do what you thin k get the fish.
      City: sacto

      Tips: Deep slow for most fish and bigger bags. Sure some will be shallow. No spots today, wonder why?
      Good fishing, Jimbo

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

      Report: I heard of catch and release but I can decide if I want to release or not. Caught 2 largemouth about 2-3 lbs on rattle traps and 2 trouts on marshmallow bait.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Go early to lake and use bright colored lures.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 2:30-5:30pm in warm springs arm. Found fish on steep walls/points with some cover and small rock in about 10-30 ft of water. Got bit, but couldn't set the hook right for the life of me. Had three on out of about 10-11 hits, but all came unbuttoned at the boat. 1oz jig n' pigs in brown/orange & black/blue with lots of smelly jelly were what they liked, fished extremely slow. Tried shakey heads, blades, no go. Bites were light taps, no hit and run.
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: Set the hook better'n I did.

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Markly Cove at 8:30 stayed on south side coves entrances and points. 35 to 40 fish biggest going 3.11lbs.
      City: SAC

      Tips: Fished Rod Strainer jigs and Yammamoto Hula grubs. Cought multiple fish when I found grass beds.

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my little brother. Launch out of Capell. We went to the Narrows and caught our first three fish on 1 oz football heads with spidergrubs. After the first hours this bite died. We proceed to catch fish on a 3/16 shakey head. We stayed on banks ith sun and caught 17 fish. best 5 went 13 lbs and biggest spot was 3.5 spot and 3.5lb LM.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: Slow, Slow, and Slow.

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

      Report: fished for about 4 hours. caught 8 fish from 1-5 pounds. caught them while dropshotting chartrues plastic worms. caught them all near the pine acres fishing dock
      City: sacramento

      Tips: try getting out around 9am

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

      Report: FLASH!!! River closed! Frozen! (how long before this is a reality? LOL)
      City: Stockton

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold 31 degrees at launch 9am water was rough no bites left at noon still better than doing anything else
      City: Roseville

      Tips: when its cold go slow used a jig head with a white grub no fish today

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: cold!!!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: if any body can be advice on swimbait fishing that would be great, cause now that i have a graphtec swimbait stick i woeld like to no how to fish with it
      City: ventura

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      Water Temp: cold!!!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fish were active with 8, 2 to 4 pounders on mornong dawn robos
      City: ventura

      Tips: just barely shake the worm

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

      Report: Q: If I were to go to folsom tomarrow and chuck a swim bait what should I look for, and how deep do you think I should fish.
      City: Cool

Friday, January 12th, 2007

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: cold azz ice..

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: windy cold... Hopefully everyone had a safe Holiday Season.. I will see all of you soon..
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Take care , Keep warm.. these dog's don't wan't to get "bit".. crank it.. deep diver... / see ya soon.. Zack

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: cold 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good luck to all the guys and gals on Sat at the Big Valley 100% tourney. MY son- in law and I decided not to fish because this lake is beat up. We found 1 place all day that was holding fish. Very tough bite. 2 on splishot 1 on dropshot 1 on brass-n glass 35ft not what i would call a wide open bite. I know what your thinking! fair weather fisherman,WRONG were doing the travelers this year so we will pick and choose. See you all at McClure in a couple of weeks for sure, love that lake. Bye the way all the fish we caught were 16"+ really was a tough decision not to fish the tourney.
      City: fre

      Tips: Keep it slow and keep it wet. Mikes ugly was what they wanted.

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Coyote Lake is down to 7100 acre feet, and the launch ramp is closed due to low water levels. Shore fishing is very slow due to water clarity. Lake will not be stocked with rainbow until water levels reach at least 15,000 af. If you have any further questions please contact me at 408-842-7800
      City: Gilroy

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went down to collinsville for 5 stripers to 5 pounds on butterflied shad good luckeveryone
      City: san jose

      Tips: baits been working good and wait till later in the day to find some good fish

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 45-46

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake at around 8:30 and there was a steady cold wind coming from the north that really made things tough..started out fishing the island to the right of the launch..started in 40 ft and worked all the way into about 23 ft with no hits at all..dragged a hula grub and 6 inch robo..also fished a dropshot along with the occasional casts with the rip bait just trying to put something together, fished both sides of the island with nothing and then started hitting the points with the same baits and started out deep working our way in..finally after about 2 hrs with nothing i hooked up with a 2.5 in about 30-35 ft dragging the hula, thought we may have been onto something..only hooked up one more time dragging the hula grub on a diff point in about the same depth, but the fish weighed 3.4 so it was a little better...but that was it
      City: Salinas

      Tips: i wish i had some..i talked to one guy who said they caught 11 but with the conditons of how they were i kind of doubt it..wait for a low pressure system to come though and it would help the bite a lot, i just wasnt able to really put anything together..have fun out there

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 45/47

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: left bigbreak marina 8am fished dutch slough and big break with jigs rattln raps no fish went to sherman lake was able to scratch out two limits of stripers on shad colored ratlin raps shallow water weed beds cranked slow over weeds
      City: antioch

      Tips: fish the afternoon hours on the end of outgoing tide fish ran to ten pounds

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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out the last to days and fished in Disco. The striper fishing has slowed down alot. Water temp is just very cold and there moving slow. marked alot of fish in only a couple of bays. caught one fish 10lbs. and had alot of hits. Seen another fisherman hook one spooning about 7lbs.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: drifted a blue gill no luck. but the Hair Razor is still the ticket. let it hit the bottom and real very slow almost dragging off the bottom. good luck