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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50.3 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake at 7:00 AM. went up the Pit River arm. Fishing slow, with us catching 9 keepers for the boat and 6-7 dinks in 4 1/2 hours. All caught on worms and grubs dragged really slow with long pauses.
      A lot of boat pre-fishing for the FLW tourney coming up. Heard of a few decent fish caught, but only caught from 1-2 lbs for our boat. off the lake by noon.
      City: Red Bluff

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 2 of us fished today. Caught 4 keeper size stripers (largest 8.0 lbs) and 2 bass (largest 3.5 lbs). All of them caught on 3/4 oz shad colored Rat L Traps (color code 53). It was cold out there. Not too many bites. Both bass were caught in 5-6 ft of water around an island in the San Joaquin. Stipers caught in Hog/Sycamore sloughs. Tried plastics and spinnerbaits, but no bass bite on them.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Glad to have my Fish Hedz mask. Bundle up when you're out there. We were only traveling around 35mph and you could feel the cold.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Did anyone hear about the 25lb bass that was caught from Lake Dixon?
      City: San Bruno

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to try for Bass and actually did great. Caught three good fish....a 2 lb, 4 lb, and 9.2 lbs. I believe this beets the record, however, I hiked in 3 miles from parking lot at marina side and would have killed her to take to have her pic taken. I did get pics w/ cell phone and she measured 26" with a belly that hung 10" from her back....full of eggs. These fish are starting to move shallow. All caught on swim baits.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Fish the edges of flats next to drop offs. Lost one fish shallow on a lipless lucky craft crank bait...threw the hook when she jumped. Guy at the marina said the bass fishing hadn't started to pick up yet. I guess this is an untapped resource as I would say the fishing was great. Saw a few bruisers cruising the shallows.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the south lake by the boat docks for about 2 hours slow rolling a chartreuse spinner and tossed around a 4'senko green pumpkin ...didnt get any takers but I did bump into Mike Aston and chatted for awhile .... Mike thanks for showing me how to post...all this time trying to figure out how to post and in the end the darn submit report was in front of my face the whole time! I'll be back tomorrow ...my spinner has a date with one of those fat females swimming around =)
      City: san francisco

      Tips: fish slow and most importantly fish with confidence

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Three hours and two cigars at the Lake today. Fished both North and South Lakes. Threw a 4"smoke colored Senko on my spinning rod. Drop shot a 3" light green YUM caterpiller grub along the tules. Split shot a 4" pumpkin green wooly hawg inside holes in the tules on the inside of piers...nothing today...To take a kesson from Norm Mackenzie - "When you fish at Merced, you are looking for one fish, that one bite."

      Met a fellow basser named Pete today. He is a cool dude. Hope he had some luck, today.
      City: Daly City

Monday, March 20th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 48 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Monday, March 20, 2006 - Conditions were cold and rainy. Arrived around 9:30am, and drove to south cove of the lake. Absolutely NO bites. From there went to Bear Creek - water was very merky, but a couple of bites - NO fish.
      Conditions show that fishing will be awesome this year when water clears up.
      City: marysville

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rain & then more rain w/ little wind w/ morning temp from 38-42. Bite was non-existent all morning as rain pelted the south end. When rain stopped, bites were in the south/west end of lake on finessing pumpkin tubes & blk/red senkos. We caught 14 fish when rain stopped from 11 am to Noon.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Fish the walls and docks. We had no luck w/the robo worm oxblood (flavor of the week). We changed it up by texas rigging tubes (yamamoto pumkin) and Senkos (blk/red). Tube landed a 5.2 lb LMB and the senko landed a 6.1 lb LMB.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Any stillwater flyfisherman out there who have fished Contra Loma for bass or trout? Any input on fishing this lake with flies or for other methods for trout would be appreciated. I know this is a Bass webpage but I live 5 minutes from this lake, have a small boat, and would like to get my young kids into some fish.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 53 to 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well another weekend of good bass fishing at the lake. There are some nice bass to 4 pounds being takin on jigs in lite pumpkin green with ( 208 ) yamamoto single tail grubs watermelon red/black flake. Also baby brushhogs are good right now in 8 to 15 feet of water senko's are starting to pick up also.TRAFFIC is heavy on the weekend and the lake is up high and there alot of good areas to fish now and will get better as the bass are starting to move and stay up in shollower water top water really is going to take off soon.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: Carloina rig baby brushogs or lizards 18 inch leader works very well now fish in 8 to 15 feet of water around rock piles and flats or long points with deep water on either side hold bass to 4 pounds.Jigs in 1/4 to 3/8 oz work real good right now. Ill be at hensley as its starting to really pick up there now so ill give this lake a rest for now. Good luck here any questions e mail me at markinman50@aol.com

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a day fish with my dad and got a total of 74 fish 2 of them where 4lbs smallmouth rest where all about 1.5 to 2.5 class. and 5 nice trout an th grubs two of the trout were 22in. the bit was all day in about 20 to 35ft. of water anthing work in any coller we where useing hullagrubs and crawdads. One of the funses days on the water my dad and i hade ever hade.
      City: Woodland

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

      Report: Mike the Ultrabite Black Bass scent works great, I caught alot of big bass with it.
      City: s.f.

      Tips: they work real well with the Standing Yabbie made by River 2 the Sea.

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished South Lake today for 1 hour. Stayed with a black and blue jig and pumpkin green curly tail grub trailer. Flipped the tules around bank and off of the DPW pier. No luck today. I did try out a bass scent called Ultrabite Black Bass. It smells like decaying shellfish. If you have ever ate steamed whole crab and thrown away the shells, afterwards your garbage smelled like holy hell...well you get the idea. It is made in the U.K. I really have no idea if the stuff works, I'll keep using it when I jig fish and I'll report on my success, or lack thererof.
      City: Daly City

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      Water Temp: hot

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I caught the world record squaw fish usin a bobber and maggot behind a 15" senko, good eats
      City: city

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just a short update on whats going on this time of year. We have had snow all month 3FT of new snow the past couple weeks. The lake level is up pretty high already,with alot of run off to come also. right now the only launch open is at the dam. Just a reminder that we are still working on the large mouth recovery project. So please pratice catch and release this sping and let them spawn. there is lots of smalies out there that can pull your sting.
      City: chester

      Tips: If your planning a trip in the next few weeks you might want to bring along some long johns.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished calero on sunday and got a couple fish on the rock walls with crankbaits. then started throwing rattletraps on the flats and got housed fought the fish for about five minutes got her right to the boat and she shook the hook off. she was around 8#s. very disapointing!!! also got bite throwing brass and glass s-20 worm with light line.
      City: femont

      Tips: fish are starting to move shallow. the big girl was right next to shore. reaction bite is on its way up. have fun

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We fish George's turkey shoot on sunday. Ran south and hit a few spots here and there, with no luck. Threw blades, cranks and senkos. Kept running south when the wind started blowing. Tried a dropshot, Hit our first fish. Threw a senko, hit our second fish. Just kept moving. Had a limit by 11:00, Them picked up the crank and now we are movin. Cranked rock banks and culled out the smaller fish. Ended the day with 11.40 Thanks George, it was a fun day.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Stay out of the wind and keep the line wet....

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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I had turkey shoot out of Lundberg sunday. It was beautiful day , wind picks up later, I caught most of fishes in the morning, can't find any spinner bait fish in the tule, switch to plastics, lots of fishes. nothing big, all 2lber and 3lbers,lost few bigger fishes, overall had great time, we took 2nd place, 10.55lb, 1st place kevin and dave with 11.40lbs, 3rd place ken&Gene 9.40lb. have good time on water, we will do this again soon. thanks
      City: el cerrito, ca

      Tips: fish slow with zoom trick worms, berkeley worm.

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to CFW and tried fishin this morning, my buddy Rich and I caught some local chatter that the Bass were doing decent around some of the coves on Chart. Tubes. It was a really nice morning...so, armed with a great bit of fishing advice we gave it a heck of a shot!! But the wind picked up and it got a bit nasty, so off the lake we went at about 0930. It was rather chilly out there ta boot. The water temp wasn't too bad saw alot of 50-51 degree areas, but on the south/south east side the temps varied from 48-46. We'll get'm next time!
      City: Plumas Lake

      Tips: None really to offer sorry Yall...

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: UNKN

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Heard that fish have moved in and were on bed. Warmer weather this weekend should prove a better bite. Water was clear and fish were seen in the 8-20' foot range.
      City: Santa Maria, CA

      Tips: Swims were working for some. Creme or Blk/Red jigs at 20' were semi productive. Oxblood Robo's were still bringing in smaller weights but still good keepers