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Saturday, April 15th, 2006

  • 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

  • Palo Pinto County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: haven't been out lately but thought i'd post something since there is no reports this year. heard of a couple double digit fish so far this year and trout planting have been going on. hit and miss good days, pinto always seems to turn on the nastier the weather gets.

      Tips: spinnerbaits, jigs, beavers

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Oh, Yeah!!! John smoked'em today! He caught 16 bass ranging from 4+ to l+, mostly 2 1/2 lbs. He used a Brush Hog he modifies in water from 4 to 8 feet deep along mostly the rocky banks. He gets near shore and casts parallel to the bank. He had another 15 hits he missed, and lost two at the boat. He REALLY had the pattern for today, skunked his Dad BIG TIME! I managed only one 2 1/2 lb bass on a Speed Trap crankbait, in Delta Craw finish within a few feet of a rocky point. I tried to repeat his pattern along a lot of muiddy bank areas but could not duplicate his success. Even another extensive rocky bank on the north shore did not produce for me with the basically same presentation John was using, even with the same scent. Today was John's day to be "in the Zone."
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Fish the rocky banks, in the 4 to 8 foot depth range, and use dark crawfish imitations.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What are thunder trout?

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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

      Report: The day started out somewhat frightening for my buddy (bassin b) and I. We had to drop the boat in at Markely Cove Resort instead of the free Capell launch are because of flooding. I

      Tips: Don

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys. I am new to this lake, we are planning to go out tomorrow. Any suggestion of what to use? ANd which spots to try? Any information would be greatly appreciated.

      thanks.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: good luck Fishing. Delta closed, that's why we are going there.

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

      Report: Sweet, I'm good to go now. Crawdad's do what they do...ok, i'm with you. Alot of debris, floating and under, is what you can't see...this helps a lot. Watch out for the other person, that just bought a jet ski...oh man the tip's don't stop. Thanks zack!!!
      City: Fremont

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Wet

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We launched 2 kayaks from Russo's after getting conflicting answers about kayak vs closure. We killed running no more than 1.5 miles from put in. I yakked at least 25 fish with the best five going maybe 20#'s. Spinnerbaits both white and chartruese were the ticket, fishing inside out. I may be out there again tomorrow.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Hard to fail when you have NO COMPETITION!

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just FYI: Delta is still closed until Tuesday noon
      here is the site you can visit to confirm
      http://www.dbw.ca.gov/PressRoom/2006/060414Delta.asp thank you,
      City: San Francisco

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 56-59 with very

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We started our morning heading for the Delta and hoping to have fun with some pre-spawn bass. That was not to be because of the Delta closure imposed by regulatory agencies. What to do next...so we decided to head for Lake Camanche. We did not have our lake fishing gear with us but we managed to have great time catching & releasing 20+ bass averaging 1-2 pounds. All our fish were caught by split-shoting 4.5" worms on structure with deep water access. There were plenty of trout trollers and they all seem to be doing well.
      City: S.F.

      Tips: 4.5 worms in pumpkin seed with chart. tail. Good luck.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: late start at 2pm (mostlyly breaking in new lower unit). South was still heavily stained to muddy. Windy day. fished shallows and bluff walls with jigs, spinnerbaits, dropshot and swimbaits. only caught one small dink on a power ringworm or all things. stayed till 7pm.
      More than a few folks completely ignored the speed limit and were up on pad - one idiot even had the nerve to go blasting by the marina on full pad. I stayed under 12mph all day.
      City: belmont

      Tips: water temp dropped thru the day, maybe the cold north wind blowing had something to do with the bite as well.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out today in my tiny 10 foot boat. Launched at Granite Bay and fished up the shoreline heading north. Fish were staging and caught them on literally every point I came across. All fish came on dartheads, talked to another boat throwing blades that said the reaction fish were hitting. It was my second time out at Folsom so I just stayed small to build some confidence. Great day on the water, 20 fish caught at the end of the day.
      City: Roseville

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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from about 1000-1400. Caught five biggest right at 4lbs, smallest 1.5lbs. Had about 10lbs in all. Caught a couple on a crankbait and 3 on a jig. 2 largemouth and 3 spots. Seems like the fish are staging and ready to move up. Most of my fish came off or rocks.
      City: Lincoln

      Tips: Fish seemed to be holding around 8-10 feet on points leading up to flats. Good luck.