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Thursday, March 24th, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 11am. Fished the bottom tide. Went to Mildred. Throw senkos, chatter, spinner, square bill and swim baits. Started on the outside weed towards deeper water then moved in to the bank. Found the fish near the solid tulles. Caught all fish on senkos. Only fish chasing was an 20" striper on a swim bait. Wish I hand more for you all just can't find em.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched at Lime Saddle about 6:45 am and fished till 10:30 am. Darn windy to begin with, hate it when it blows hard early morning. The wind didn't hurt the bite any, managed 14 spots today, but no large ones. Best of the 14 went right at 14", but too dark to get a decent picture. Most all other about 13", like the one in the picture. Fish were much more shallow today, all fish taken less then 25 feet, most in the 20 foot area. So odd fishing the lake when it's nearly full, can't remember where to fish from 4 years ago, so hunting new locations that hold fish well. One location gave up 5 fish today. Still lots of wood, be careful, as it rides low in the water after getting so water logged this winter. All fish taken with roboworm sculpin, loved that bait today. Fished mostly the N. Fork going towards the main lake from the west fork and a couple locations headed to N. fork from lime saddle. Pictures in Fishing Forum.

Sunday, March 20th, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched 715am at Paradise and eaded to Columbia Cut where we had decent luck a few weeks ago. Water was muddy or very stained. We only managed an errant shaker striper while throwing lipless cranks, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, and wakebaits. Decided to try plastics and jigs....big donut, nada, nuthin, zip. Moved up to Little Connection and hooked up 1 2lber on a black neon 5" senko, lost it at the boat. Moved just around the corner from the sheds at Tower and picked up a couple more shaker stripers. Went up the Moke and same result only managing one shaker striper...and that was on a senko...go figure. Moved up to Sycamore and brother hooked up a nice one slow rolling a red/orange Dandy spinnerbait through the sparse tule flats... looked to be at least 2.5 possibly 3. ...again, lost it at the boat tryin' to lip it. Moved back up to 14 mile and the rain hit us so we left about 230pm.

      Tips: Not qualified nor do I even have a clue....couldn't find or entice a black bass to save our life. Don't know if anyone else had same or better or worse than we did. Sure would be nice to get a few tips. I have none to give. What happened? Any tips Cooch?? Anyone??

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got somewhere near 40-50 fish on assorted baits fish were eating everywhere from rock, tule and mud banks. biggest was about 5 1/2

      Tips: rage craws on shaky head, swimbait, drop shot, spinnerbait, crank, jig, and topwater eatin it all

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

      Report: Fish on, dude, perfect storm today lots of fish. The Serge and I did pretty good for ourselves today. Fished all over the lake still lots of debris. Guy caught 5lber in boat right when we go to our spot. Can launch at enterprize now. Pics in forums. Go fishing

      Tips: Can I get a booyah

Friday, March 18th, 2016

  • Lake County
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      Report: clearlakeoutdoors » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:11 am

      I was out yesterday . There is clear water and there is muddy water ,your choice on what to fish.I had better swimbait bites in water that was stained. Water was in the mid 50s.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched around 7 am. started with spinners, chatter baits and deep diver cranks, got a few bumps , then tied on a speed trap and caught some were around 25 bass most around 2 lbs and a few close to 5lbs. Off the lake by two thirty.

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Report: What a shocker, to get on a lake and feel like one has never been on it before. The water came up 70.64 feet since my last trip 3/3/16. So different, had no idea where to fish. Launched at Lime Saddle about 6:45 am fished till 10 am. Water looks real crappy, but the fish had other ideas, great trip today for me. Managed to land 13 fish, 4 largemouth, the rest spots. Large fish today a nice 18" LM, 3 others right at 14-14 1/2". All the spots were larger today, all 14" to 14 1/2". So much wood in the water, decided to just fish the general Lime saddle area. Roboworm sculpins did it today. It was like the boat gate got opened, so many boats, like it was mid summer!! Pictures in fishing Forum.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

  • Alameda County
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      Report: Another 500 lbs. of rainbow trout was just planted into Lake Chabot.

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  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish Lafayette today in my Float Tube caught mainly small fish drop-shotting small Robo worms had one big bite on a Texas Rig brush hog but lost it in the tulies,fish are definitely moving up didn't see many on beds but did get 12 to 15 bites and landed most

      Tips: Mainly Dead sticking my drop shot small shakes

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

Monday, March 14th, 2016

  • Lake County
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      Report: Clear Lake this week 3/14/2015


      Well, as usual I am two weeks late with this. Whether the flu, or internet service issues, these past two weeks have been a challenge. Oh yeah, I will be doing this for the coming year once more. Thank you WBass.
      Ok, on with it.

      As of this morning the lake is at 7.53 Rumsey, with “full pool” being 7.56 we are there, and the lake will most likely see 8.0 Rumsey by weeks end. Water temps are in the low to mid 50’s.

      So, yes, as most have heard, Clear Lake has been at its finest since the first week in February. No, the rumors of 40 lb bags were not rumors. Trust me, I’ve seen more than one guide service put the hurt on em’ to that tune, and I too was fortunate enough to have six big bags over a ten day period in mid February. We are truly spoiled when you find yourself amongst five or six other anglers, and you are complaining about a 34 lb bag.

      This past weekend had some big weights and big fish weighed at the Fed event and Charlie Almassey had a GIANT this past Friday. I believe we will see some more of that short term, but with the lake becoming much more busy over the next month with the Lake Commerce, WON Bass, and FLW Costa, I suspect the big weights may become a
      tad tougher to achieve. Still the fishing is quite good.

      That’s the way it was, and now with this rain and wind tapering off, I suspect a more stable bite over the next couple of weeks is to come.

      To point, the lake being FULL is changing everything versus the past couple of years, especially up north. The lake is starting to fish as it had back in the early 2000’s.

      Swimbaits, LV500’s, TN70’s, Glidebaits, and ARigs have been the go to’s this past month, and with the first wave already up, there should be a second push with the warming waters this week. Primetime fellas, now’s the time!

      Stay tuned!

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  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Second time on this lake and first time by myself or without a 5mph speed limit. Launched around 0700 from Folsom Lake Marina at Brown's and headed east into South Fork. Stopped on the inside edge of the first point I came to and picked up a 1.5 spot on a Frenzy Nail. Fished up the bank from there and graphed a few, but no more bites.
      Explored all the way up the fork stopping here and there and went as far back as the mud line.
      Fished the point on the north side of South Fork where it emptied into the main lake and caught several there, none over 2.5.
      I heard there were largies in North fork, so I went that way until I hit the mudline there and then found a good-looking largemouthie spot. Second cast there I caught a largemouth. Only another 2.5, but it made me happy and brought my weight to 11# and I called it a day.

      Tips: Frenzy nail with a blue plastic and Martens madness on a drop shot worked best all day. Most fish were fairly shallow.

Sunday, March 13th, 2016

  • Riverside County
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      Report: Diamond Valley Marina
      March 13 ·
      This is an exciting catch! Duncan Ashley caught this 5.92 lb rainbow trout near the West dam using a jerk bait. This Houdini fish got past all of its predators while traveling from the North East end of the lake to the South West end!

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      Report: Aly and Jaden McKenzie had some fun on the water! They caught these bass using Senkos

Saturday, March 12th, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Report: From Cooch's Fishing
      The past couple weeks finding quality fish up feed has improved with the cooler temps, rains and wind. Water temps have come back down to normal, 55-57 when launching and stable at 58 in the afternoons. There are a few isolated areas where the temps reached 59-60, but all we've found up in tose warmer shallows are virgin bucks looking fer someone ta give em a lesson bout spawning. Hey little one, it ain't time yet. We're getting close, these stable 57-60 degree temps allow them eggs in the big hens to mature. Much like the chicken eggs we all learned about in grade school, there's an incubation time that must occur in a female bass that allows the eggs to develope to the point where they start pushing her to the bed room! That period is definately here! Trips out this month, we've caught a lot more shallow agressive feeders up on the tulle edges, up shallow on the tulle island points and just out of protected current flows. We've also found a good number of quality fish off the bank, way off the bank near the ledge and drop in the flooded ponds. These fish are just sitting out in the grass, waiting to make the move, yet gorging when the oppurtunity presents itself. Our number one bait of choice the past two weeks has been a DragonFly Claymore wih some sort of big black blue gaudy trailer. That bait is nearly 8" swimmin thru the water, and it's makin a commotion in a vibrating jig the bass have never seen. It's too easy fer them to zero in and take that easy meal. Lots of baits are working out there, but if you will cover a lot of water crankin, weather it be a V-jig, crankbait or big spinnerbait, yer gonna find those 25-35 lb sacks yer hearing about in all the tournaments here the past two weeks! Oh yeah, toss that big Senko or Kut-tail too, ya just never know when a big gurl is gonna slurp that thing!
      If your interested in a Delta trip in March, I indeed have dates available, rain or shine we go!

Thursday, March 10th, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north side of Mildred island around Whiskey slough. Action was hot on sub 2lb bass. Best action was on rock levee points with some tulies. I was throwing a craw colored flat sided crankbait. Probably caught 25 and could have caught that many more if I just focused on that pattern all day. I was looking for larger fish so I was flipping the bases of tule clumps with a creature bait. I was catching the same size fish but working a lot harder for them and they seemed to be lethargic with a lot less fight in them compared to the crankbait fish.
      Not sure what the larger fish were doing but I could not catch them like in previous trips.

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

  • Alameda County
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      Report: Another 1,000 lbs. of trout was just planted into Chabot today.

  • Shasta County
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      Report: From Shasta Lake
      Good morning Shasta Lake Fans!!!
      I hope all of you are enjoying this rain, we certainly are! Seeing the lake come up as fast as it is and the continuous rains are such a relief for all of us on the lake. Also the anticipation of a fantastic and full summer is increasing! grin emoticon
      Since it has been awhile for a comprehensive update, let me give you some bullet points to where we currently stand....
      We are 21.25' higher than last year to date.
      We are 17.28' higher than last year's highest level.
      We have surpassed 3,000,000 af of storage.
      We are currently at 68% of capacity.
      We now have 300+ miles of shoreline.
      We are just 3.85" shy of surpassing last years total rainfall
      (Season is Oct 1 to Sept 30). That total may be passed by the end of this week with the current storms!
      I have included several different comparative pictures to show the impact of the water inflows that we have received. Please enjoy and share!!!
      May you have a wonderful day! grin emoticon
      Lake Level Report (03/09/2016 at 07:00)
      Lake Elevation: 1012.32' (54.68' below full pool)
      Lake Elevation (2015): 991.07' (75.93' below full pool)
      Storage: 3,105,245 af (estimated)
      Storage (2015): 2,638,754 af
      Outflow: 975 cfs
      Inflow: 26,689 cfs
      Precipitation (24 hr @ dam): 0.00"
      Precipitation (Season @ dam): 47.62"
      Precipitation (2015 Season @ dam): 44.50"

Friday, March 4th, 2016

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 59 - 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fun in the rain yesterday! Fish are starting to make there move to the shallows. Found them on inside points leading into coves and flats also found them in the backs of coves. Jigs and senkos did the trick, majority of the fish were in 2 to 10 ft. of water. About 15 bites, biggest was 5 plus. Saw some surface action, strippers chasing trout, tried swimbaits but no takers.

      Tips: Nows the time, even in the rain. Have fun!