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Friday, May 6th, 2005

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: HAVE BEEN A BERTH-HOLDER SINCE 98.LOVE TO FISH..BROUGHT BOAT UP FOR SEASON,CAMPED IN YORTY CREEK ARM..GOT CAUGHT IN 20 + HR'S OF RAIN..UNDER A 8 BY 10 QUICKSHADE WITH JUS'T ME IN MY WIFE..THAT WAS FUN...THEN TENT LEAKED ..YAHOO MORE FUN...CAUGHT CRAPPIE 14 TO 16 INCH..I HAVE PHOTO'S..POURING DOWN RAIN..3 FT..MINNOW'S ON SLIP BOBBER'S..
      City: SAN RAFAEL

      Tips: FISH THE BACK COVE'S IF YOUR LOOKING FOR CRAPPIE...BASS ON BANK'S,FISH ZIPPER'S ,TROLLING NOTHING TRYED EVERYTHING,

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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: beside bad fishing, whomever compiled lake list, should better take a good look at what the lake names should be. with cold front moving in & water levels down about 10 feet, fishing was tough. water is so clear, you can see the bad boys swimming around, you know they can see you! once rain started, bite was on, tons of dinks, all was catch & released with a few in the 3-4 pounds category. Rain stopped & was bite.
      City: x gg & sm bridges

      Tips: make super long casts with Senkos, don't let them see ya!

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

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

      Report: Stayed at the Narrows Resort for my B-Day weekend. Trolling for trout was excelent. Limits in 1 hr. Fish were biting 2-10 feet of water; fishing with flashers, 20in leader and small lures.
      City: middletown

      Tips: Troll as slow as possible, 40 feet from shore, south end most productive by Pine Acres Resort.

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

      Report: Thanks

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Mick- I called yesterday, they still open at 8am, unfortunately. They also said they dont have any plans on opening earlier.

      Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thursday in the pouring rain from 2-7pm. Not a breath of wind, but boy did it come down hard. Let up about 5pm. Had another 20-25 fish day, with a little better quality this time. Had 5 or 6 fish over 3 pounds, but they all looked like they were spawned out. The fish has the bodies to be over 4 lbs but had no bellies what so ever. Fish were still relating to the brushy pockets. Caught most on flukes and senkos, but did have a couple of really cool fish hit a buzz bait and a spinner bait. Both of those fish came out of heavy cover and were very exciting to pull out of the cover and land. Bummer part was I couldn't duplicate that bite anywhere else. I think some fish are still spawning, but I feel at least one wave of fish has already spawned from evidence of the fish I caught and fry I saw in the bushes. Can't complain about 25 fish days, but have had much better days on Eastman during this time of year. The next few weeks should still be good especially with the top water bite taking off.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Still had to force myself to slow down to get bit. Most bites coming on the pause of the fluke. Just give it a couple of extra seconds between jerks.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: Don't kNow cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Top water action using spooks all morning 8-11am. Caught 2 bass. One about 15inch and the other 18 inch. Also caught 1 small trout 10inch. Sorry, took fish home.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Use top water action and fish parallel to bank.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 62F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This is my back yard lake. It has a lot of big Carp, big Crappie, big Catfish and small Bass.
      The 60-70 Bass I caught last Sunday were beatup post-spawn hungry fish. All but 4 were dinks and my best 5 went 8.2#
      City: Tehama County

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Amazing - saw only one bass boat on the lake today. So what if it rained ALL DAY!! After our great day at Pardee on Monday, I took my Minnesota client to dreary Clear Lake today - a lake he has always wanted to fish. The scenery was dreary but the fishing wasn't! We had bites all day - many from small bass however. I even caught a big bluegill! We caught 25 bass with about 5 in the 11-12 inch size. The rest were good quality with his largest at 4-10 and mine at 6 1/2. Thankfully, he caught most of the quality bass and we put together an 18 lb limit. All of our fish were caught on plastics - 4 to 6 inch worms, brush hogs, and the Sweet Beavers he picked up at Limit Out Tackle. I borrowed one of his baits since they were working well, and my first bass on a beaver was the 6 1/2. Hmmmm. We fished the Oaks arm and Konocti Bay, looking for rock/tule combination areas. In spite of the rain, it was still fairly warm and most of our bass were very shallow - 3 to 10 feet. Green pumpkin seemed to be the color of choice. We were Texas rigging most of the plastics. I think he will have fond memories of Clear Lake when his lakes are all frozen next winter, har!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Several areas had green slime on the rocks and it seems that some weeds are beginning to form. It will be interesting to see if the lake clears some this summer, or, when we finally get some heat, if it will turn dingy as last summer. That led to some fantastic fishing in the dog days of summer!

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: Didn't Check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On water from 2pm thru 7pm, caught five on watermelon baby brush hog, all in Bailey's Cove except one. Largest was 3.5, others averaged 1.5 with one smaller. Hopes were high when I landed first four fish before 3pm. Then the fast action turned to no action at all for the next three hours. Finally boated last fish in the small cove between Bailey's and the dam. Tried other baits to no avail, i.e., Senkos, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, cranks, Stacees, and even a frog. All fish released.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: I fished weedline edges and all my bites occurred on the fall as soon as bait hit the water. Be alert. Saw other folks landing a few fish, mostly on plastics, too. I'm still waiting for the rip bite to happen. Hope I'm there when it does.

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      Water Temp: 65-98.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero today from 8 to 3:15. Started slow had two fish by 12:30. One on a trap and one on a senko. Then it happened. I saw a couple bluegills swirl around a tree across from the inlet. Decided to split shot an Aarons magic worm because it looks like a bluegill. Started picking up More and better fish. Last 8 were on this rig. Tight to wood. 3 3lbers and the rest good solid 1.5 to 2. 1 dink thrown in as well.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Pay attention to what is going on around you. It may help you key in on a bite.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Mark! What part of the lake? What were you throwing?
      City: Morgan Hill

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: DIDN'T PAY ATTE

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: GOT BORED AT HOME, SO AROUND 10;30 AM I FIGURE WHY NOT HEAD OUT TO THE DELTA. I FIDDLE AROUND AND MANAGE TO MAKE TO LADDS BY ABOUT NOON SOMETIME. HEAD ON OVER TO MILDREDS AREA AND STOP OFF AT A TULLIE ISLAND. SECOND CAST OF THE DAY I BUST ONE OFF JUST OVER 3LBS. PROBABLY 7 MINUTES LATER I HIT ONE JUST UNDER 3. I HEAD ON OVER BEHIND MILDREDS AND PICK UP A COUPLE SMALL BUCKS, BY NOW THE WIND IS STARTING TO WHIP, SO I HEAD OVER TO WISKEY AND ON MY FIRST TULLIE I STICK A 2LBER. NOTHING AFTER THAT SO HEAD ON IN TO THE RAMP AND CALL IT A DAY.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: JUST GO OUT AND HAVE FUN!!!!!!!

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

      Report: Wuz on the water @ 0530 Packers went up the Mac deep caught a few on points with crank no big uns went into coves uzed darts with Robos few 2s no big uns back out up Squaw steep rock uzed new bait like beaver just runts grubbed a few 2s spinned a few one nice4+ no more rip and top pop a few no big uns getin dark crank a few and bam a big un no scale but 7+ out a time saw a huge fish of some kind roll HUGE just before we started the motor HUGE don't know? looked like a whale rollin Butcher out.
      City: Redding

      Tips: take camera always take toilet paper always

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass fishing really turns on at about 4:00p.m. Throw senkos right up close to the bank in rock creek and let it fall. Watch for any line movement or any ticks set the hook as early as you can though or else the bass will swallow the hook. Use dark colors. Bass were in the 1-3 lb range. The blue gill fishing has also turned on. I got a lot of .5- 1 lb gills.
      City: cv

      Tips: fish low and dark senkos

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish Breath ARE YOU A MONG

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Another solid day on delta. No real big fish, but a lot of solid quality. several 2.5 to 3.5 fish, w/ very few dinks. Like Lee bros., I also believe that most fish spawned out, some of the fish I caught would have went to about five or six lbs., but were spawned out. Great day on water.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: red/blk plastic's produced for me all day.

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      Water Temp: 63.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Best day on the delta for us so far this year. Got on the water first ight outta paradise and headed towards franks' hitting tules along the way with blades.Had a couple big threes early on and really steady numbers all day.Got to franks' with 15+ pounds and then we started hitting afew 4s and one 6.3 all on blades and beavers. Finished with just over 21 pounds,35+ total.
      City: PLACERVILLE

      Tips: fish deep tules when tide is out

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      Water Temp: 71.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started in the Rock creek area in 10-15' of water dragging 6" Zoom lizards behind a florocarbon leader. Picked up 15+ fish within 100 yards. Went to the dam and threw Bass Assasins on ultra light gear and got hit nearly every cast, had a ball with the 1-1.5 lb fish. Headed up into the river and tossed cranks on the cliff walls and got into sone bigger fish, averaged 2.5-3.5 with Firetiger J6 Rapala's, not as many fish, but much bigger. Have fun and take a couple small ones home !
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: Smaller line or Florocarbon will increase catch rates !

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

      Report: Had an unbelieveable day cathing somewhere around 40 BASS within 4 hours. Fished from 4pm till 8pm using only one lure, THE FLUKE. The fish were stacked anywhere around points, and trees. The average was about a 1 to 1 1/2 pounds with the biggest being 2.5 to 3 pounds on the "air" Boga Grip.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Use Jerk Baits and work them extremely fast. I was literally ripping them on top of the water, and the fish would just blow them up.