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Monday, April 24th, 2006

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

      Report: Caught two bass drop shotting chicken livers. Also one bass shaking clams through the cabbage boy what a fight.
      City: Tracy

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: planned to go bass fishing with new pole and reel. conditions poor. cold and drizzle. tried anyway. no luck. switched to trout. caught six trout. 5 were small. threw them back. kept one fish 16'' 2.0 lbs.
      City: day street park

      Tips: wait till next week, if the weather heats up.

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      Water Temp: dont know

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: my summary is..good luck..
      City: san jose

      Tips: try everything that ya can..I will see you out there... good luck..by the way all of you know me.. take care and fish safe...

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

      Report: FORGOT TO SAY ALL OF THOSE FISH WERE RELEASED.I DONT EAT FISH,I JUST SPANK EM.
      City: SF

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: OUT ON THE NORTH LAKE BANK FISHING FROM 1 TO 4....SEEN TROUT POPPIN AND JUMPIN EVERYWHERE....SOON THIS GUY PLAYING WITH HIS DOG TOLD ME THEY JUST PLANTED TROUT SO WHAT DID I DO?....SPANKED ABOUT 12 WITH A PANTHER MARTIN....LOSS ABOUT 5 OR 6....ONLY ONE OTHER GUY WAS CATCHIN THEM AND HE WAS USING A KASTMASTER....EVERYONE ELSE COULDNT BUY A HIT BECAUSE THEIR LURES WAS TOO BIG. ANOTHER WIERD BUT COOL DAY...NO COMPLAINTS
      City: SAN FRANCISCO

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 57 - 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 bass early on Cranks
      1 more later on a Blade after wind came up
      sight fished a 4.8 male and an 8.2 female (got em both).

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 3 fish total, 4.5, 5 and one little fishstick. 2 good ones on a jig/grub, little guy on a chartreuse spinner. North end of lake.
      City: San Anselmo

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cloudy day and little wind. Seemed to be perfect fishing day on the north end of the lake but didnt catch any bass. Tried Roboworms, crankbait, brush hogs, 6" purple worms, and even white/red spinnerbait and didn't get a hit. What's worst was seeing fish under the boat with my Garmin 250 fishfinder. First year back to bass fishing in 10 yrs..........need more practice!!!!
      City: San Jose

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We are getting the begginings of an algae bloom and the water is now above full pool and still rising. Water cleared up quite well from Johnsons to the dam and the rest of the lake is a week behind. Lots of trout and crappie being caught during the trout derby. I was pretty much all alone on the lake on Sunday and I swung for the fences but came up short. I am still getting my best fish of the day flipping but I threw the Huddleston for hours without any love. I got 3 flipping fish but only one was a keeper at 4 pounds. The rest of the day I spent visiting areas I rarely fish and was able to catch senko fish and ripbait fish by the truck load but very few worth the effort except for a rare 2 pound smallmouth. Best smallmouth turned away at the boat rather than eat my ripbait so I went back to the spot 15 minutes later and got her on the forth cast using a senko. Big red eyed tiger striped gorilla. That was fun. I sure missed the largemouth and am puzzled by the lack of enthusiasm of the largemouth in general.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Brown with red flake....Or anything with red flake was consistantly better results wise.

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The Lake is still muddy in most places and stained in most of the rock creek. Hit the water early 7:00 am and headed up the Rock Creek, water was 59-60. Using spinner bait first right off the bank picking up our first 12 smallies and a few largies from 1.5-3.0 lbs. Some must be spawned. Switching to dark color JK Jigs for the rest of the morning getting another dozen or more.
      Good clouds for the first part of the morning helps the fish to stay up shallow. Sun came out and the fish moved out. He did move up the Bear Creek, but the water was 5 degs. colder.
      Stay in the Rock Creek area for now. Leaving at noon the a fair bag of 13 + lbs for our best five fish.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Use dark colors until the water clears. Green Pumkin, Blacks, Purples and a good scent.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 64.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday we went up and started fishing the underwater trees. No luck untill we moved up to the dam side of the lake when the wind came up. Spotted some fish in thir beds. We hooked 3 on the main island.
      City: Ventura

      Tips: Dropshot!! Try small, bright colored robo's.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry, last report temps should have been 49 through 56, not 66!
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: 49-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time on this lake in about a year. Spent 3 hours with a friend starting around 4:30 pm just after a tournament finished up. In spite of the fish being pounded, we (my friend) managed 4 or so fish up to 2.5 pounds. There was a jig bite (black jig and Hemphill Special) and a split shot bite - tried other baits with no hits. Main body was surprisingly cold (49.6) but sheltered coves went as high as 66 degrees. Our usual spots weren't so good - probably a good idea not to go right after a tournament.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Our fish were evenly split between shallow (6') and deeper (18').

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

      Report: Went out to Loch Lomond. Water is still very dirty due to the recent rain. its just starting to clear up. I drug worms, jigs, crainkbaits, spinnerbaits you name it through all the coves. got nothing.
      City: ben lomond

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

      Report: I know everyone is ready to go fishing...Mendo is starting to fish well, (out of boat or float tube) Sunday I launched out of North ramp, and fished the west side of lake from my kayak.
      landed 4 nice small mouth and one Largemouth in a few hours. Best luck came on a shad colored rattle trap, but also had luck on black rooster tail and shad colored diver (crank). Get out, have fun, catch and release.
      City: Santa Rosa

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

      Report: OUT ON THE PONTOON THIS MORNING AND STILL MANAGED TO LAND TWO SMALL FISH 1 TO 2 POUNDER ON A SMALL SPINNER IN THE SOUTH LAKE.ALSO SEEN LOTS OF BIG GOLDFISH AND CARP SWIMMING EVERYWHERE BY THE SHOOTING RANGE .STILL WISHED I COULD OF PICKED A BETTER DAY BECAUSE THEY WERE HAVING A TOURNAMENT ON THOSE LONG BOATS RIGHT AFTER I PUT THE BOAT IN THE WATER, SO I HAD NO CHOICE TO FISH IT OUT.OTHER THEN THAT IT WAS A NICE DAY ON THE LAKE.MIGHT TRY THE NORTH LAKE SOON!
      City: SAN FRANCISCO

      Tips: I BEEN SEEING ALOT OF PEOPLE THROW ALL TYPES OF CRANK BAITS (WEIRD LOOKING ONES TOO) WITH SUCCESS SO KEEP YOUR LURE OPTIONS OPEN.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went after crappie but caught many bass. Find a cove with running water or you can actually see the fish swimming around. Also caught some trout while fishing for crappie.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Gitzit tubes and rip baits but you can throw many other things and get bit right now. Throw a rip bait to find fish and use something else to catch them all.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: non shivering morning temps,waterstill muddyin some parts & stained in other parts, quite a few stunted fish in the 12inch size, nothing big,biggest was 3.5 & 2.75 released to do their thing. Stomachs were huge. Overcast most of day, water couldn't heat up then when sun came out it got windy. Motored in & out of the arms& didn't see any fry.
      City: NorCal

      Tips: be patient,coming real soon!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the results of the 3rd Jason Fisher Memorial Scholarship Tournament. 1st- Mr. and Mrs. Noga: 24.33 lbs with LM Lunker of 7.61. 2nd Dave Richards and Rob Milovic: 19.85 lbs. 3rd-Randy McDaniel and Jim Boitano 15 lbs (all smallies) 4th-Shawn Maples and Jim Bartlett: 11.92 lbs with smallmouth lunker of 5.02. Total number of fish weighed- 27, for a total weight of 101.64 lbs-a 3.76 avg.
      As too how I did, My clients and I enjoyed a beautiful day on a beautiful lake and thanks to their generosity, we were able to raise almost $500.00 for the fund. In 3 tourneys with very poor turnouts we have raised almost $900.00. My heartfelt thanks to those of you who have supported this good cause. The next tourney is May 6th. The sign-ups will be at The Yellow Jacket where there will be breakfast available. Ask someone who has tried it and they'll tell you the breakfast is worth the trip.
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      City: Weaverville

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First time to make it to amador this season, had 2 fun days of Bass fishing, I thought the bass bite was pretty good for amador,with clody and cool conditions and little wind to speak of on satuday as I woke to the rumbling of about 7-8 bass boats,I thought conditions might be that there would be lots of pressure but when we got out on the water about 8:30 the first hour of fishing we had already caught a limit of fish between us largest being 4'14" and several in the low 3's a couple of 2's all in all about 30 fish caught the first day. Sunday fished and lake was pretty melow from the day before and the bite was hot got out even later than sautrday hitting the water at approx. 9:02 amd by 11:30 had fished one certain area that I knew would be hot and it payed off on this certain point it offers a variety of features, that bass love and I would have to say we probablly caught 25- 30 fish in this one area with the biggest fish going 7'15" I must say I really love fishing this lake.It was a great first time out here. I hope with the increase in fees tha past two years they will keep up with the maintance and overall cleanliness of this facility by summer it tends to look like a dump instead, Sad to see even worse there are so called fisherman who cant clean up after themselves yet.
      City: Topaz Lake area

      Tips: Can you say wormin, throw it, and stich it and you'll be a nailin bass all day long. Oh and dont be suprised if theres some early season top water a HAAPPENING!! There was a certain cove that you just might get lucky in wait a min, I think it had a creek in it..he he..Be back her May 5-7 so that the Mighty Triton will dominate these waters once again