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Saturday, May 14th, 2005

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

      Report: Calero is used as a transfer lake as it connects with the reservoirs to the south (anderson, coyote, uvas & chesbro). water is then pumped to perc ponds and other water storage areas.
      City: Santa Clara

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59-66

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: It was high tide at 9:30am, it gave us sometime to work the backs of the tules. We spent the morning in Beaver Slough working senkos, jigs,sweet beavers and worms and working on finding the best colors and locations. Blades did work for one 3 pounder and the other 9 came on senkos and jigs. The tide only moved 2 ft so the bite was short and slow. We worked the rocks on points and shallow docks with drive ways.
      City: rocklin

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish on 12th and 13th, and caught tons of fish.Nobody was on the lake do to Mother day weekend.All fish tight on tules and docks.Been fishing Clear Lake for years and never seen so many fish on beds.Nothing huge 2-3lb.Never had so much fun. If you want to catch fish head up to lake soon!!
      City: Danville

      Tips: Sencos fished wacky no weight. Color not important.Remeber to release all fish where you caught them.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start, 7:30 AM. Many prefishing for Sunday tourney. I was just out for fun. Motor did not start,--bad battery. Fished with trowling motor only south of the dam and caught 10 fish, largest 4 and 5 lbs. Appeared fish were pre-spawn. All caught on dart heads.
      City: 69

      Tips: 4lb Flourcarbon line with dart head and 7 inch FX Robo worm in oxblood.

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      Water Temp: 65+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: bass are starting too show in good numbers now the lake is still coming up slowly and there are a good number of bass in the 2 to 4 pound range being caught on a variety of lures senko's are at the top of my list right now with a jig a close second watermelon with red & black flake senko is a good color right now for shallow fish jigs on the points work well to in brown with a twin tail watewrmelon red & black flake yamamoto grub in 1/8 oz jig. Good number are being caught. the east side of the lake is still closed and rattle snake are starting too show so be very carefully if you are bank fishing
      City: kerman

      Tips: fish the senko's wackly style or texas rigged it doesnt matter and fish them shallow early morning or late evening is best times too hit the water
      jigs are best used in 5 to 12 feet of water off the main points

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This is for (Sly Park) Jenkenson Lake Went two weekends in a row on this lake previous saturday and this sunday the smallmouth fishing was on FIRE Got to the lake at 8:30 Limited by 9:15 5 best weighed in at 14.25 lbs all bass were returned to spawn 3 females caught in deeper water at about 19 feet deep. split shotting 4 and 6 inch senkos modifed with orange and green flouresent colors on the end, also the gitzit. All but two of the bass were caught at the north end of the lake. 22 bass in all in about 3 1/2 hrs.. laughing silly.. too much fun. The wife well she dominated this time..I taught her to well.. next time.
      City: Topaz lake

      Tips: fish it slow and feel the line the bite was soft on the non-bedding fish. Of course on the bed smallies try to take your arm out of your socket.. and use light line .the water is extremely clear

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      Water Temp: 60-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ok First to start off I was'nt fishing at Folsom lake, But this lake is about 5 miles from Browns Ravine plus this lake is not on the list of lakes to choose from.
      Ok so there i was i walked to Cameron Park Lake tackle and all, all alone it was about 7 in the morning. I had just bought a frenzy shallow diver and it was perch color i cought about 12 bass in the 1-4 pound range on the frenzy. In mid afternoon I landed it big with a 10 lbs large mouth it felt great to get my first 10 pound fish.
      City: Rescue

      Tips: Cameron Park Lake has a lot of lunker bass i know cause i see them in the shallows early in the morning grubs work well and things that imitate bait fish

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 69 to 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the daughter up for a hot afternoon of fishing. Arrived aroung noon, fisned until 3:30.
      Caught several small spots. All fish caught on 4"
      sinkos and 4" t-rigged worms. All fish was from bank to 20 ft. Fished main lake all afternoon.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Alot of fish to take a kid fishing. Color of plastics didn't matter. Early morning bite would be better for qualiy fish.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 5/13-5/14. Caught fish from 3'-15' deep, tight to structure. Most fish were dinks, with one 4-1/2lber on a red flake 4" grub. Did well on topwater first thing in the morning.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Don't hesitate to try different techniques, we caught them on plastics, rip-baits, spinnerbaits, and topwater.

  • Butte County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Bill,

      I was one of those zoo people so, stay off the name calling. This site is for fishing reports only, NOT a site where people like you can complain.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Keep your personal business in the circus. THANX

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished late saturday Bidwell area fish larger no hens wacky fished magic worm in shad color with small nail in head released some 20 pluss fish parking lot a ZOO pepole parked where they please brought boats a nd parked them in no parking areas and left them turn around area.high speed on the lake in slow zones WHERES OUR OVER PAID RANGERS????
      City: Chico

      Tips: STAY HOME ON WEEK ENDS OR MOUNT A CANON ON THE FRONT NOT THE ELECTRIC MOTOR other wise fishin was great fish slow give the fish time to see the target

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Second time at this place...can't seem to break the largemouth code. Fished midday using mostly plastics with tiny success. Managed just one dink on a drop shot (California Rig?) I've read enough to know that getting a bite at SP can be tough but quality fish are definitely there. Thus, I will return...hopefully armed with new tips from you.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: I'm asking...please share a few nuggets pertinent to SP. Big thanks!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished the island pond,lotsa tubes out there this weekend. caught 6 keepers including one that went over 5 lbs.
      City: P-TOWN

      Tips: yamamoto anything...

  • Shasta County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing with a jim from montgomery creek and tim from halfmoon bay,on the 12th launched at bridge bay @0515 and ran to ski island where we picked up several spots and 1 smallie on topwater, decided to go up the sac. stopping at several points and coves, catching fish at each stop, wound up on the bridge at charlie creek where they were stacked up caught a few before i made a mistake and lost my balance and fell off the boat so close to the bridge i struck my right wrist on the concrete bridge and broke my wrist.
      I waslucky enough to be with two experienced anglers who took charge and got me and my boat to the dock at bb, tim stayed with the boat and jim rushed me to the hospital, thanks jim and tim
      and those of you who have already e-mailed me.
      City: Redding

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Flaot tubed down right shoreline for a little ways this morning. used a drop shot, texas rigged worm and a couple of crankbaits with no success. quite a few people fishing off the dam and surrounding area for trout, saw a few caught. the bass must be down at the creek end of the lake to spawn.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: the water is CLEAR! wind picks up before noon.

Friday, May 13th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished White's Slough from the bank for 3 hours after work, tough to do during low tide given all the weeds on the levee side I was walking and since the frog didn't get any attention. Found one area where the weeds broke up and caught a long (20+ inches) skinny 5 lber on a Senko. Bottom of tail was red. Now for the IRONY, my best fish of 2005 came walking the bank and not from my boat that's been unlaunchable the last 2 weeks due to a broken trailer. Also tried a spinnerbait in the few areas that were open enough.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: When fishing for largemouth from the bank remember high tide gives you a lot more fishable water and even though the amount of fishable water during low tide is limited and requires stout tackle when its really weedy, there's still good fish to be had.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not fearing the "Friday the 13th" curse, I ventured out to find some fish for my son and I for the Golden State tournament. Idling out of Granite I had no idea where I wanted to go, but made the decision to fish water I had rarely ever fished. First spot I stopped at I caught a couple of small fish on a darthead w/ a 4.5 in. Robo. Then I got popped real hard but the fish dropped it. Shoke it a couple a times and got popped again. Setting the hook hard made this fish mad as I expected it to be a small fish by the hard bite it gave me. After doing a little break dancing on the deck of my Ranger to keep up with this fish, a beautiful 6 lb. 13 oz. Folsom Spotted Bass came on board. Big, fat and full of eggs, I believe she was a bed fish on a bed in 12-14 ft. of water and she went back in after some pictures. Caught probably another 20 fish or so, but nothing of the quality of that beast.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: I've been dartheading all year and saw no reason to change now. The Golden State tournament should be off the hook.

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

      Report: Fished rainbow from 2-5 pm nothing not even a bite
      City: Union City

  • Shasta County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In @ Antlers 5:45 am blades 1st small ones rip no go wormed a nice spot 3+ on Grnwny on darter some others not as big moved southjust before goose crank was workin workin workin a lot of nice fish on ffshad crank crank crank alot of fish 1:00 alot of boats everywhre lota traffic wentback up past RVland and marina rip some on swclown end of day 3:45
      City: Redding

      Tips: careful boats+debri and rattlers are out on shore remote..some real IDOTS on the water shouldn't be drivin a boat.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i heard about this lake from this website and it sounded pretty good. So i grabbed a map and figured out where it was and drove out to it. I started walking around 9 am didn't get back to my car until it was almost dark. It was the most walking to the little amount of fish i have ever done. I must have walked 10 miles around the rocky steep bank and ended up getting poison oak and about 10 ticks. The total for the day was 1 stupid little 1 pound bass. I would have to say it is worst fishing i have ever done. I don't suggest wasting your time, you are better off sitting in a corner twiddleing your thumbs.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: stay home