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Sunday, April 16th, 2006

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

      Report: went out for a few hours and got skunked but i did see romster hammer that big ol bass off the dock!!! and yes that fish probly went to about 8 #s i saw it first hand i even gave him the hook he used to land that moster!! CONGRATS MAN KEEP ON FISHIN!
      City: pacifica

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Saw few interesting report in this lake. I never fish here. Please give me some reference of what to use, colors, and location.

      thanks. any information would be greatly appreciated.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: good luck fishing

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out for about an hour today. i managed to one bass today and she was a whoppin 8pound female. caught on a 4"purple yammamoto senko in the toolie in the south lake on the pier
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: the lake is very slow because of the cool water, but keep on tryin and you will land your bass.

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

      Report: Launched at 7:00 am. Fished in the Windy Gap area for the first 20 minutes and the wife caught 4 fish up to 4 pounds. The first two were a 4 and a 3.5 pounder. Next two she caught was 1.8 and 1.5 pounds and all four were caught within 20 minutes of fishing a slit shot red robo worm. She had 4 fish to my zero as I was fishing a drop shot rig with hologram shad color and didn't get a single bite. I started to catch fish by about 9:00 to noon with over 15 fish but all small fish below 1 pound. My biggest fish of the day was 1.6 pounds. My wife got me beat because she also caught another 10 more fish before we left home. Windy Gap area is great and this weekends upcoming tournament will be very competitive as fish are on at this lake. I was out of the water by noon due to rain.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Drop shot or split shot weird colors that you think other anglers wouldn't throw. Red and pink (morning dawn/bubble gum) were great colors for today. Work it slow.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I know it's Easter but the kid's are gone and the wife so OK GO.Got there about 7:00 and of course when i launched the boat it start's to rain.First few came on plastic worm's texas rigged.Then the wind came up pretty good switched to Crawdad colered crank's for the rest of the day.Never went any farther than bee rock.Lake look awesome and i was at San Antonio this Saturday to visit mom and dad and the water is in the parking lot at northshore.
      City: SALINAS

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went to the island. i was on a float tube. used a purple and green robo worm texas rigged and caught probably 2 dozen bass weighing from 1 1/2 pounds to about 4 1/2. if you can get to the island go fishing there its wide open.
      City: riverside

      Tips: jig off the bottom slowly

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

      Report: I will be fishing the lake for the 1st time on the 20th-23rd. Help on a good area for bass. Also, what is working well; worm, crankbaits, colors???

      Thanks for the help
      City: San Mateo

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

      Report: Happy Easter! Fished Yorty again. Weather was extreme! Gusts of wind knocking branches off of trees to hail storms to sunshine...all within 2 hours of me being there. Caught one small 1.5er. Drop shot rig again with a white slugo with black speckles. Fish are hanging tight next to submerged debris. I am guessing with the week forecast fishing should start picking up.
      City: Cloverdale

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56.4

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FYI: The free launch was closed due to high water. Went to launch at Monticello and only one side was open to launch. The water is way too high, so be careful when launching.
      Fish still plentiful but no size. My brother-in law and I caught about 15 up to 2lbs on senkos and drop-shotting. Every stop we caught fish but you had to find clean water. East side very muddy, fished the south side for most of the fish although we moved to Big Island to catch some SPOTS, holding tight to brush. Left at noon. it was my brother in laws birthday and it was beginning to rain.
      City: South San Francisco

      Tips: Look for clean water, SMB holding outside; SPOTs tight into brushes.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Really close to the cover, Caught two, both pushing 5lbs. Caught fishing a watermelon Brush hog on a split shot rig. Fish were only about 5 feet deep.
      City: Ukiah

      Tips: I think everything is working but water melon brush hogs are the key...

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: slow fishing in am,picked up after noon,drop shot ox blood robo 4.5,1-5 feet,rocky areas

      Tips: ox blood robo 4.5 inch,drop shot,shake fast

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished dawn to dusk on Saturday and the fish really put on the feed bag. I think they liked the extra foot of water they had over last weeks dropping of 3 feet. I caught fish on everything everywhere. I fished the clearwater portion of the lake and early on got into a senko bite that literally went on all day long. The afternoon bite seemed to produce some better weight. I could have put away everything in the boat and just used a ripbait and a senko. Spring has sprung and they are not looking like they are going to hold up much longer. I never did see a largemouth on a bed during my entire day on the water. Big fish was a five pounder that I flipped under some nasty stuff. I could not get another flip fish over 10 inches so I stopped flipping and backed off my presentation. I'd rip a bait until I got to a likely spawn area then I'd plunk the senko in the areas infront of what I'd been flipping. Bingo! They would flash on the way out to eat the bait and run like hell after they did get the bait. I had a 3 pound largemouth tail walk 15 feet and dawg me like a smallmouth. All and all I felt my Saturday was epic and worth remembering. I don't often get to fish a senko so it was fun to experiment with them. I saw a lot of folks tossing blades but I was happy with my set up and didn't want to fuss with something that was working. I tossed my huddleston for hours for nada and flipped my 3:16 mission fish but was unable to get anything going so I just caught fish. 3 of my smallmouth I considered to be "chunk style" but the rest were respectable with the ocasional runts in the mix. Two of those three came on senkos and the other was on a ripbait. My two better largemouth came flipping and on the same senko that I caught all my fish on.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Brown....jigs,senkos,worms....Ripbait was Tennessee shad in nature which I made long,long casts with and with wicked rips with my 7 foot rod I eliceted just as many strikes as a slower rip pause technique. I guess you just have to be at the right spot at the right time. I observed packs of up to 10 fish all largemouth cruising the backs of coves but they were all less than 12 inchers??? I wonder what that means?

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out hoping the weather forecast was wrong. We ran into wind and rain, and the water never got warmer. It stayed at 50 degrees all day. Found a bass here and there, up to 2.5. All on a dropshot. Hardly felt the bite.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Wait for the warmer weather!!

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      Water Temp: 54.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rough week from the 11th to the 15th. Heavy rain and wind on Tue & Wed. Water stained at Konochti with a 10lb on Wednesday and a 10+ on Thursday on plastics. Several good fish on minnows for the boys; all around 3-4lbs. All around good fishing trip, with boat bildge working overtime.
      City: CARMICHAEL

      Tips: Our fish were taken in shallow water. Find the coves without wind.

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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took two quality fish (a 5 and 4.75) just south of Konochti resort ripping a Staysee 90. Conditions were fairly tough with some pretty strong wind gusts so I headed back to the marina after about 3 hours of fishing. I did stop and rip one more fish just before calling it quits. Total for the day 3 fish for 11.75

      Tips: Today my color choice for the Staysee 90 was Ghost Tennessee Shad.

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      Water Temp: 48-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well for a blown out windy lake the fisherman from Basin Bassmasters did ok. We launched out of the State Park @ 6:30am and fished the North end for a few hours, but nothing. So Dennie and I went south and got our limit in Jaco Cove in front of some tules about 8 ft of water using a 4" green lizard. Buy noon we did not find anymore fish in the south so back north above the State Park into some shallow tules in 5-6 ft.
      Saw a fish jump in the back, put my lizard on top of him and got our biggest fish for the day. (3.0 lbs). First place was Joe Miller and Tom Ericson for 10.30, Dennie and I got 9.50, Jim Malm and Quency 9.14. Very tough day for all of us. Maybe the weather well get better soon. No fish on the beds yet.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: Wait for a better day.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a small club tourney launched out of Blue Oaks. Caught 10 fish 1 smallie used jigs and worms. biggest was 5.2. Total weight 5 fish 10.89. Big fish of tourney was 14.84 winning weight 22.72.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Fish slow in about 5-20 feet of water. Some fish are on beds.

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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I want to take my nephew fishing at DP tomorrow, can anyone tell me some good areas to fish from the bank??? Preferably for bass, but he's not paticular...(Trout, bass, anything...)

      THANKS!!!
      City: Merced

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started north fork on reaction no takers in the 48 degree water, back off to 52 degree tossing jigs and found servearl a 2.5 and 1 at 3.11 and one almost 5 all spots. Went up the South fork found a few on jigs most were in the 2 pound range. Total fish around 15-17 best 5 around 17 lbs. Threw spinner, jerks, cranks, jigs nothing else. All fish came from 8-15 feet.
      City: Licoln

      Tips: on the jib bite don't set the hook when you feel the tick, give it a couple of seconds then pull up until you feel the load and then just lift. the hook will still be just inside the upper lip. if you set to soon they will drop it.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Pete,
      The brass and glass does make a difference with the water clarity being so mudddy. The clicking of the brass and glass sounds like crawdad claws and will call the fish into the bait. Shake the rod with loose line for 15-30 seconds and then give a slow lift of the rod tip. Work the bait all the way to the bank. I got out on friday for a couple of hours, Joe caught a 6.0 on a brush hog (same fish I caught the day before on a chatter bait) 4.55 on a chatter bait and Joan (7yrs) brought a 5.0 to the shore only to drop her rod tip and watch that fish swim away. She was still very excited.
      City: novato

      Tips: Catch and Release