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Friday, April 22nd, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of orwood 630 am. Went to mildred/middle river. Fished outgoing tide. Caught about 25 fish up to 4 lbs. Threw senkos all day. Fish were buried deep in the weeds and threw bait in holes in the weeds. Tried trixie shad as a buzz bait but no takers. Had a nice red bass boat go out of his way to tell me my life jacket blew out of my boat. What a nice fellow bass guy! We need to look out for each other out there.... I hated the 45+ ft yachts which go by full blast with giant wakes which could swamp my boat if I didn't position it right.
      City: clayton

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      Water Temp: 61 - 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise and headed to 14 mile. Fished the 2 to 6 foot ledge down the slough with outgoing tide. Didn't fish it long enough as I only had limited time today. Then went to Pixley and fished tule clumps with weeds lines. That's where they were. Current was brisk with a headwind and had to flip the bait up on the current breaks. Fished Kreatures and 9L Senkos. Largest bass was 4 lbs. Storm coming in so I left for home! Looked like the Oklahoma dust bowl out there!!
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Bass bite is in full swing! Fished the trough between the weedline and tule clumps and targeted current breaks or slack water. Outside weed line only produced 1 Senko fish. Color didn't seem to matter but I primarily used black/blue Senko and black/chart Kreature. Good luck!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladd's this morning about 7 a.m. and headed north, towards the middle delta looking for some new best spots. That's always a challenge for me. About 1/3 of the new stuff I tried turned out to be fairly productive. Most of the fish came from tules, inside or outside it didn't seem to matter and the bait of choice was a brush hog. Ended the trip with a total of 24 fish with the biggest going 3.1, 3.4, 4.8. Off the water around 1 p.m.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Slow, Most of the bites were swim off's.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well the entire trip did not go as planned, but was still great! Started off launching at lucerne and working the tules with swimbaits.no luck. ran across the lake and worked the tule mile area-no luck.(lots of shad getting chased and eaten) I was convienced that this time of year was big bait-big fish.no go.Hooked up with my partner for an evening run on rattlesnake island(and surrounding areas)with a spinnerbait assult-4 hours no fish-ouch.Friday a.m.-rattle snake assult with 5 inche senkos(any color)and found the promised land! fish,fish, and more fish!no real big size, but landed numbers! Home for lunch and the standard afternoon nap, and then off for the evening bite.More of the same,fun times! Around 5p.m. the front came through. Rain, wind, and thunder skrikes around the lake! time to get off the lake. saturday morning-light rain, and 12-15 degrees cooler than friday.no worries, kept with the same pattern, and still did fairly well. Checked the future pro results for the day , and we would of come in about 25th place for the day.I can live with that. Average fish 3-3.25 lbs- big fish 4.5 lbs. no real size, but had fun!
      City: antelope

      Tips: For my experience-5 inch weightless senkos rigged texas style was the only way to go.for me,nothing else worked.Have fun.Had to come home a day early-family issues.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Awsome day I had with two clients from Danville, a father and son. The boy 7yrs old, became a vetern overnight. His first fish of the day a sweet 5.5lb largemouth.

      I started the day by the ramp to get some quik fish, dink, dink. We all were throwing dropshot rigs around 25ft. We were using the new on the market Quickdrops 3/16th and 1/4oz teardrops with a 9 to 12inch tag. Im moved within 15min's towards the dam area and decided to fish the dam's wall. Same thing dinks dinks dinks.

      With all the dinks showing I knew the larger fish weren't around. I moved to a break that I knew was at or around 25ft and bottomed out around 45ft. We were throwing roboworms in purple and green with no results until I went to the "Morning Dawn" (:Lovely Dawn:). The minute I but the worm on the boys hook. He caught the 5.5lb. For about 20minutes everyone including myself were in Ahwww!!!. Camera's were click'in and high five all around the boat. I just looked at his dad and said "we're playing the happy campers". From that point on we just fished slow and with a slight breeze we caught and release and even 20 fish. It was 3:15PM when we quit. In that 20fish there were only 2 dinks that came off of the break. The average fish weighted in at around 2.8-9 to 3fish over 3lbs. The Bite with the Morning Dawn lasted to around 11AM and then I switch a clear Hologram 5 1/2in with blue, black and purple flack. The bite continued to around 2PM and then slowed up. The breeze that we had diminished and so did the bite. Still one hell of a day. The picture of the boy will be up on Westernbass.com as soon has I can.

      Rich Thiel
      Delvalle Guide
      (925)292-5024
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Look for balls of shad around 18ft to 35ft a break line within that proximaty is a must. With the cold morning these past 5-6days are making the fish move to feed up.

      5 1/2 to 6inch Roboworms in Morning Dawn a must have...

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: SIXTYS

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: CAME DOWN FROM CARSON CITY FOR VACATION.WENT TO CASTIAC.DEAD.1 FISH.WENT TO CASITAS NEXT DAY,DEAD.NO BITES.NEXT DAY,DEAD,NO BITES.DECIDED TO TRAVEL SOUTH TO DIAMOND VALLEY.LAUNCHED IN A.M APPROX 7.WENT RIGHT TOWARDS DAMS.FOUND FISH IN BRUSH.BETWEEN ME AN MY BUDDY,PROBABLY 25 TO 28 LBS.PROBABLY 15 KEEPERS TOTAL.GREAT LAKE...
      City: CARSON CITY

      Tips: WE GOT BIT ON DROP SHOT 3 INCH OXBLOOD CURLY TAIL,SENKO,AND REEPERS.MOSTLY OXBLOOD 3INCH.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: IF you like the wind this is the lake too fish senko,s and lizards and baby brushogs are all good baits too use here. FRIDAY afternoon was a good day on the water one of my fishing buddy was up here and did very well on bass to 4 pounds the big ticket was watermelon senko;s fished wacky style in 3 to 10 feet of water all caught in the 5mph area the bass are starting to work the shallows now and there are some bed fish. IN 5 hours he caught 15 bass from 2 to 4 pounds traffic is heavy on week ends lite on week days. also watch for rattle snakes and some rock piles are not marked.
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: senko's dead stick them wacky style works best in watermelon color & also watermelon red/black flake

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

      Report: Whats up with the lack of reports here? I know people have been fishin the lake I've seen them! Perhaps no one is actually landing any fish?
      Not true. A local boy landed a 14 3/4 lb fat large mouth there about 4 weeks back! on hand poured worms I think he said. His picture of the fish made our local rags!

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a really great weekend at Almaden. The Bass were on. I caught all my fish on swimbaits. I caught 4 fish each day and all weighing over 7lbs. I'll put the pics up of all fish for this weekend in a few. Hope the bite stays on for next week.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I threw 6" persuaders swimbaits and fished it really slow then dropping it then, retrieve it again. When you feel a thump hang on....

      Good luck,

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bite was on today, 10 bass in 2 hours is pretty good. I got a couple of 4 pounders on a crawdad pattern crank bait.
      City: San Jose

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake wasn't muddy anymore, just pretty stained - just the right amount I'd guess considering the final results. Got a few bites from very small fish - they were too small to eat a jig but could eat a senko - caught maybe 4-5 of these 8 inchers. Finally got a few keepers in the 1 to 2.5 pound range. About 9:30 pm got an 8.1 then no bites for about 2 hours until I got a 5.7 followed by no bites for about 2.5 hours and then got a 4.8. A strong north wind came up that shut the fishing down but I finally got some quality fish that made up for a few slow trips in recent months. Five fish limit was a bit over 22 pounds. Most fish were in about 10 feet of water.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Cover a lot of water, fish the shallower sloping banks, and never count on the weather forecast. Always assume they're wrong and make sure you go on a night at least 48 hours from predicted rain because you may find out that the storm comes in a day early. I was wanting to go on Friday night but went on Thursday instead just to play it safe. I'm glad I did! Wind, clouds, and rain came in on Friday but Thursday night had nice thin clouds to filter the moonlight and the big fish were (finally) up.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 59-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did a single guide trip today. Fishing mostly in the southend of the lake (Dam), Narrows and front section of Wraggs. Northend of lake was off, no fish to be caught nor seen.

      Caught them down south ripp'in Luckycraft 78's and drop-shottin roboworms (Purple Ghost & A/Magic's)also shakin in 20-25ft of water off of points to main water. Ripped fish, all smallmouth on shale points or flats just inside of points. No largemouth where caught to speak of. For the coves I checked (about 10) I didn't see any fish that would of went over 1 1/2lb. The fish that we did catch were all post spawners. Also, noticed that there were no topwater action such has trout chas'in shad to the top. This should start the minute the water stables out. I would bet there is going to be a second spawn this year if the weather ever stables out or watertemp.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Concentrate on points or main banks to major depths. Worms, Greens, shad patterns work. Downsize on Ripbaits to either LC 78's or TD Minnows. Depths 14-30ft should get you plenty of fish. Look for a topwater bite comin soon to your neighborhood LOL!!!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ? no guage

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got home from work and decided to enjoy the nice warm evening until 10 p.m. Also decided to stay in the back yard this time for a change. From 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. got a total of 12 bass. Best five were 6.0, 5.3, 2.5, 2.4, 1.3 for 17.5 total. Buzz baits, Strike King's Magnum bleeding series flipping tubes, and senkos were the ticket for th night.
      City: Ladd's, Stockton

      Tips: It's a full moon phase now and most of the larger fish are more active after dark.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56 to 57 in the

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This week we finally got a warming trend with a couple of days of stable weather. I saw fish on beds these past couple of days and fish starting to move up and hold around the tules and docks. I had customers out this week that caught a 10.2 lber, a 8 1/2 a 7 1/2 and several in the three to four pound class. This Saturday we have the future pro tour going out of the Konocti Resort, there will probably be over a 150 boats in that Tournament so the lake will be a little busy. There is a small front expected to move through this weekend. If it's not to cold or windy, I think these fish will still hold and bed up. We have a full moon the 24th and this has been a DELAYED, spring and the fish need to spawn bad.
      Fish this week were caught on lucky craft lv 500's and small swim baits. The bigger swim baits have not seemed to work as well as the smaller ones. The 10 lber this week came off of a bed, the customer had a ball trying to get her to go.
      City: Nice

      Tips: Work your spawning areas, work outside as well as look inside. Throw the five inch mission fish in the tules and work the smaller River to Sea's on the outer edges of the tules. Use 20 lb test on your swimbaits and a rod with some backbone to it. I use a 7ft rod made by Phoneix and also a 7 ft Kistler rod. If your into bed fishing, now is the time to start looking. Feel free to e mail me for any additional info needed. (all of my customers fish this past week were all caught in the upper end of the lake)

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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there 7:45pm to 9:30pm. Got home 10:15. I ran to the lake for 15 min knowing exactly where I wanted to go. The sun dropped over the mountain and in 5 min I had my first fish about 1.5 on a white pearl fluke it jumped off right at the bank, no worries. I hopped back in the car noticing the full moon. This was just the night I was waiting for. Parked in Donolan with little light now that the sun was down. Ran as fast as I could to the spot catching my breath as I got there, adrenaline got me over the hill. Back at the spot the very first cast with a new fluke on yielded a solid 4lb. The very next cast the lure hits the water, sets for a few seconds, "twicth twitch" boom!. I set the hook twice on a fish that seemed not even to budge. After the second hook set my line goes light and the fish comes to the top of the water and shakes her head. "Oh my God",was all I could say. There was no one around and the silence is completely broken by the sound of this fish shaking her head sideways through the water. The fight seemed like an eternity. I probably had the fish in, in 6 minutes. The fish I estimate was easily over 10lbs. It was, not exaggerating, as long as my arm and full of eggs. I ended up catching five more fish to 5lbs. Did not bring my scale. But a few consecutive cast yielded 2 fish at 3+, 2 fish at 4 and one probably right at 5lbs. There a few fish smaller around 1 to 2.5 lbs. They bit after the bigs girls. All this damage was done in an hour. By far the best night of fishin ever for me period. I switched to a darker fluke when I couldnt see my line they saw the fluke just fine. Best five over 30! Wow unbelievable
      City: Oakley

      Tips: No tips really, I think this trip was just timing. Watch your line. The big one just made my line completely straighten out. When I couldnt see my line anymore I just reel the slack in a little and I could feel them swimming with it.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sumguy, Have a taste of your own medicine, Sumdude you forgot to mention theres no space before comma, also he said he got the same headache "got" thought you "had" ooh I forgot your too smart, please read your comment about taking English "and" writing "classes", uummm I think if you take English "class" writing is not seperate.
      City: San Francisco

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anybody Know the lake water temperature, I find it hard to belive that it is in the mid 60's When it is only in the mid 50's outside.
      City: Red Bluff

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: APARENTLY THEY ARE LETTING WATER OUT OF COYOTE BECAUSE WHEN ANDERSON IS FULL COYOTE CAN ONLY BE HALF FULL. SOMETHING TO DO WITH AN EARTHQUAKE FAULT UNDER THE DAM.
      City: Santa Clara

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A buddie and I hit Eastman shortly after sun up. Went to the dam and pounded the shore counterclockwise to the keep out section. My buddie Chris slayed some nice fish on a spinnerbait as I nabbed a 2pnd trout and two dinks on a drop shot and darter head. It was a little windy at the start, but it died down after a few hours. When the wind left so did the blade fish. Senko and drop shot fish took over after that.
      City: Tulare

      Tips: Wind = blades, no wind = plastic: (For us anyways) Q: can someone email with the reason for the closure of that nice looking piece of lake. I've only been to Eastman 4 times and I have always wondered.

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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sumguy if you got nothing to say about fishing please don't be an ahole and I

      Tips: Don't worry I'm considering taking english as my second language, after I finish it I won't be an ahole like you.