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Thursday, April 13th, 2006

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, what a nice day at Berry, sun out and no wind. Fished the south end. Water temp up to 60 in the afternoon! Caught evenly mixed bag of smallies and spots. Did not catch a lot, but all of them were a little bigger than average. Tried back of coves thinking the fish could have been spawning with the full moon. We had no luck. Caught all fish on the points.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Dropshot and darters worked for us, could not get the crank or spinnerbait bite going.

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

      Report: Wow...tips from Zack. That sure would be something. David is obviously jumping at the opp to get some tips from you.

      We are all anxious to hear what you got. Anyway to pay lots of money for those tips rather than give out personal information?
      City: Fremont

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Put the boat in at a private ramp outside of jago around noon.It seemed like someone fliped a"spring time"switch cuz it was like 75 degrees.We started off at one of my favorite rockpiles in jago and my wife stuck a 3 on her second cast draggin a splitshot rig.I couldent get bit but the fish were there so we camped out for a couple hours,so she sticks a 6+ an hour later and im still skunked!finnally got into a bunch of avrage keepers,that died out and we went to horseshoe bend where i stuck a couple of dinks and a 6+, again draggin the rig.decided to go to a bay near richmond park where i proceeded to rip a buttload of dinks and nailed one fiver draggin a robo.I saw a few double digit fish that looked like they were thinking about it (prespawn!!!)but the weather is gonna turn to crap again so who knows
      City: lower lake

      Tips: water on the south end is crazy clear(up to ten foot vis)be as quiet and unseen as you can.splitshot/dropshot continues to produce for me and everyone ive talked to,tight lines!

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      Water Temp: 47 to 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Big A, A good chioce for plastic worms would be Robo Worms 4" to 6" in Aarons Magic,Margarita Mutilator,and Oxblood and if you like try other plastics in Green Pumkin and watermellon green. If you want use live bait and you should have A lot more fish. Good luck I will be going out of Red Bud this Saturday.
      Blue and Silver 195 Ranger 200 Merc. Hope you and the kids have A great time!!!!See you on the water I will be the guy wearing BassCat gear in the Ranger.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Most of my fish have been caught between 10 and 20 feet deep. But that changes by the day at Clear Lake.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hi. I am going to be fishing out on Clearlake with my nephew next week. I have never been on this lake. I would appreciate any info on lures and colors I should use. I am planning to launch out of Lucerne. Just out to have lots of fun and catch a lot of fish, even if they are dinks.
      City: Discovery bay

      Tips: N/A

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off today at about 1:20 PM near Channel Point. I pitched a Senko around for a while near the tules and grass but with no results. I began flippin the tules on the point to the right of the dock and caught a 1-13 and a dink on a Bloody Bug Sweet Beaver. I fished my way to the point on the other side of the dock. Once at the point, I caught a 1-11 on a brown jig w/ 4" Brown Super Pork Bubba Frog on the inside of a weed line. That fish was a small female which released some eggs after I caught her. I caught a 1-5 on the flat before the swim lagoon on the Beaver which was also a small femal full of eggs. I missed a couple others on the Beaver as well. Later on in the evening,I saw some smaller males moving up to the tules and they seemed to be looking for spawning areas. I saw a few bigger females out further. I tried to catch them but it wasn't happening.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: The weather was awesome today. The fish are starting to move up the the beds. The big females are still holding back some. Target tules, weeds, and subtle drop offs with plastics or jigs. Work the lure fairly slow and methodically through possible spawning and staging areas.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I see nobody posts here anymore, well I'll pick it up. Grabbed my pole at the fist sight of sun and headed out, and cought a 3 lb on a white buzz bait in the first 1/2hour on the grass beds by douglas. It was about 9:45 I decided to walk around the lake, just moved to Mather so I didnt know better, and wasted a couple of hours.
      City: Mather

      Tips: I havent seen bluegills around so I can only assume there main food source is frogs..sounds like top water fun to me!

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FROM 6 TO 1 AT THE SOUTH LAKE ON MY PONTOON BOAT AT PUMP HOUSE AREA..MANAGED TO SPANK 2 BIGGEST WAS 3.5 ON MY BOGA...THREW MY FAVORITE SPINNER ALL MORNING WITH NO LUCK..SO I DOWNGRADED TO A SMALLER SPINNER AND HOOKED UP...I ALSO LOST TWO FISH ON FISHING MY PURPLE SENKO T-RIGGED AT THE ABANDONED PIER IN THE SOUTHLAKE....ONE RAN STRAIGHT INTO THE TULES AND GOT ME HUNG UP AND THE OTHER HAMMERED IT AND I WASNT PAYING ATTENTION AND I SET THE HOOK TO LATE...THAT WOULD OF BEEN 4 FOR 4 IF I WOULD OF LANDED THEM....ALL IN ALL HAD A HECK OF A DAY WITH THE ACTION AND THE WEATHER....HOPE ITS LIKE THIS MORE OFTEN

      Tips: THE FISH WAS WAY MORE ACTIVE TODAY BECAUSE THE OF THE NICE WEATHER AS PREDICTED

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for a few hours in the afternoon, caught 4 fish, biggest was 6.0 lbs. Caught one on a brush hog and three on a chatterbait.
      City: novato

      Tips: Fish dark colors visibilty is about 2 in. again with 3.5 inches of water we got on tuesday and wednesday.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on my tube. caught 11 fish all 2-3 pounds. Action is wide open at the dam.

      Tips: Use purple or green robo worms, or WM/RED senkos wacky rigged.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: For those of you that are planning on going to the Yorty Creek section of Lake Sonoma, it is closed due to storm damage. You can still walk in though, expect a 10-15 min walk. Fished from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30p.m. with no luck. Tried several techniques but no takers.

      Good Luck!

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

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

      Report: Thanks Roland for the feedback. My big test will be at the Future Pro next week at Clear lake! We'll see how the offical weigh in goes compared to the handheld scale. All indications for a smack down tournment- weather will start clearing on Monday with four or so days of sunshine and low 70 degree temps! I was lucky enough to run into Kent Brown at fishermans warehouse in Rocklin today.He just came back from Clear Lake, fishing with Jimmy Reese, and slammed over 40 fish each in a day! He had the proof,a ripped up right hand with plenty of teeth marks and scrapes- with of course a little bit of dried blood! Real nice guy- he pointed me into the right direction of the swimbaits I was inquiring about. Thats it, I got everything to knock them dead next weekend.( I hope) I will be competeing in division 1- usually their is only araound 20 or so boats in that catogory. ANYWAYS THANKS FOR THE FEEEDBACK!
      City: antelope

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: o-heim - I have the Black one. The one they have on Cabelas is white, and I'm not sure if they are the same unit. I like mine (fiancee bought it for me for Xmas) because it is simple and also allows you to record the fish for a total weight. Not sure if its accurate, I would need to compare it to an official scale to do so :) Later - Roland (California Delta Chambers/USA Fishing Reporter)
      City: Sacramento, CA

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: guessing at..55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: with all of the water that flow's..and right now.. alot of debris.. floating..and under. is what you can't see... this time of year..Hank...pick out what crawdad color ya want...remember.. they are on the move also..
      City: san jose

      Tips: this time of year with the water being up..crawdad's alway's do what they do... from green to red.. try a combo.. Remember.. never slow.. throw a deep diver fast.. you will be surprised.. thank's fish safe and watch out for the other person, that just bought a jet ski..

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was hard cuz of high pressure frnt. top h2o bite good,worm & fluke good till 8:00 to 9:00 then all on worm after that only dinks males tight to tullies. saw some big hens but cuold not get them to respond.
      City: salida

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 54.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: try the drop shot baits!!!!!!!
      City: Tehachapi

      Tips: DROP SHOT BAITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: dont know

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I havent been out..busy working..
      City: san jose

      Tips: Hey Zippy..like I said haven't tried it yet.. great color and the retrieve is perfect.. Allthough . to make it right .. email me if ya want..or send a message on this and we can talk person to person...

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56.4 20-50 mph

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the day off and went fishing . big supprise'went to the trac and got blown all around finaly found a place out of the wind and started throwing senkos wacky of course caught about 15 fish 5 4lbs 3 5lbs 5 2plus and one 10lb thats right 10lb what a blast no one out fish up and a big bag of baits . i was told they closed the delta when i got off the water.
      City: elcerrito

      Tips: found beds when water was low and fished them when water was high . for more info contact bay tackle at 510 235 - 2032

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Yes it was on the news Delta closed until friday , maybe longer!
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got some dirty water tips for you...
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Whiskey Slough always has dirty water. A buddy of mine caught his biggest fish (10) out of there this time of year in the morning when the water looked like coffee. The bass are going to be more spread out, but we had just as much luck flipping the bank as we did in the clear water near Mildred and Franks Tract. There are still bass lined up in dirty water you just have to find them...