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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

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      Water Temp: semi cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for 3 hours today with my girlfriend, and neither of us a single hit until the very end of the day ...which ended up being 2 fish. Both caught on a cinnamon senko with a red flake. The first one was less than 2lbs ...the second was a hawg at 7.5lbs.

      Life is good!
      City: pleasanton

      Tips: Catch and release!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Could not help myself, still had to go fishing, but same conditions for me as last time. Saw no beds anywhere, saw some larger bass roaming areas with deeper water, stayed in warms springs arm this time, looks great, tough fishing for all we talked with, but we did catch some, and a few smallmouths,

Monday, April 18th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished between 0900-0630. slowwwwww. caught only 1 10 inch fish.tryed it all-everything in the box. today even the trout fisherman were bitchen about lack of fish activity.
      City: antelope

      Tips: only saw small males in the shallows-10-14 inch size. metered lots of fish between 40-50 feet around trees. not a good deep water fisherman yet.tryed it with no success.would like to go back soon(ON VACATION)lots of time.can anybody help me with t way i should fish this lake-many thanks!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Old River was very productive. Fished Persuader chart/white spinner baits and caught 2 5.5# fish 30 minutes apart. Wind was unreal. Also caught a bunch of 2.5#-3.5# fish on zipper worms green pumpkins. 35+ fish in the boat. Best 5 22.5#.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Keep casting and don't give up. Fish banks on the windy side.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught fluke, blade and buzzbait fish. Caught tons of fish to 6.11 lbs. Best 5 went 22lbs. Windy all day the bites were real agressive. Fished around Mildred area. Another successful day on the Delta.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Don't look for the calmer water. The Big fish are stacked on the windy side. Fish hard and stay focused.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the Delta bright and early this morning Fished around Bethel Island tryin to stay out of the wind. What a day! They just would not stop eating the Beaver! Can't say that I blame them. Got the first fish(7lb) right at sun up(see photos). The bite was steady all day with a bunch of nice ones for a change. Beavers, Blade and a Senkos did the trick. Best five a tad under 25lb. The water was really clear by Delta standards.
      City: Walnut creek

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: Warming

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started early, lake is warming...had a productive day! Caught six, all approx 2 lbs. One pushing 3lbs. Found one approx 11-12 lbs belly up by the dam - this fish was huge! I know there must be more...Be paitent, this lake will be extremely productive in a couple weeks! Where are those x-mas trees at?????? adoss@nckb.com
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Fished the tulies mostly. Fish are up getting ready. Fish slow.. Light/Bright colors. Texas. Finnese.
      CATCH & RELEASE ONLY. Lake is full of trout! And full of carp, we need to do something about the carp, they eat up the spawn. Early Am / Early Pm is the best bet. Go get em', there out there if you can be paitent. CATCH & RELEASE!!!!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On water at 10am from Red Bud heading North, However turned back due to monster swells and high winds (very cold). Seek protective areas along the east side of lowerlake. Caught 5 bass
      3 to 4 pounds on homemade baits. Shad all over
      even the ducks had a piece of the action. It got too windy to enjoy the rest of the day gone at 3pm.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Dress warm

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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday afternoon from 2:30pm till 7:30pm. It was tough fishing in the wind, but finally found some relief as far back in the 5mph zone as you can go. From 5:30 till 7:30 the bite really picked up. The fluke and senko bite I was hoping for finally materialized. I also had quite a few bites on a spinner bait. Those fish were all two cranks off the bank. These little cold fronts we keep having are frustrating. Saw lots of fish on the graph in the 15-25ft range but had no luck with the drop shot. Might not have been bass, but the marks on the graph looked great. A few more warm days and a full moon should help. The lake looks great a full pool. All the little pockets in the back looked perfect with bushes, wood, rocks, etc. in the water.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Bite should keep getting better if we can hold on to some stable weather along with the full moon.

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      Water Temp: Not Tested

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Keylolo

      At least someone's posting, I don't even know if there are some more people fish in SP, I haven't seen any much report. Have you fish there lately?.
      City: San Francisco

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: Still cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Kayaked south by the bridge and found very few fish in the mood to bite. Mostly small males to 1.5 pounds. The lake got tea colored and cooled off because they did another dump from coyote lake. I don't know if the spawn is going to be very succesful this year because of the way they are managing the two lakes! Wish I had a boat, I would head up north to some of the banks way in the back. The water should be cleaer and the temps more stable at that end of the lake.

      Tips: Find the clearer water and you will find a better bite with more agressive fish. North end!

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day on the pond. I caught fish consistantly all day. ( about three an hour) I don't know how the guys in the tourney did but the north wind blew and made the bite tough. I caught all of the fish in 0-15 feet really tight to the cover. I caught all but one flipping junebug brush hogs in the thick brush and laydown trees. I caught the other one,a two pounder, crawling a crankbait slowly along the bottom. I was surpirsed that the water temp was still so cold.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: With the front that moved in and all the wind, it made the fish move tight to the cover. Work the plastics methodically through the cover, if you feel anything different, set the hook. All the bites were really subtle. Good luck!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i saw 2 people catch 20 inch stripers off the pier in down town antioch on anchovies
      City: Antioch

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is anyone catching any striper.I would like to here about it.
      City: oakley

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a couple small bass texas rigging a 6" purple straight tail, and 6" Prow Craw all in the tulee's of Half Moon Bay, & Honker Bay. Lots of nibble's which I assume where more small fish. The Christmas trees are starting to pay off
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Put your time in, because it's always tough.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Huddelston swim baits thru the grass patches near nice caught 2 over 8lbs with in the 1st 2 hrs then went to senkos and caught several on the watermelon Red till about 11a after that could'nt seem to get bit after that.. Wind got worse and a little rain late in the afternoon hopefully will be clear thru the weekend for the BASS tourn this sunday..
      City: Kelseyville

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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT SUNDAY TOOK FAMILY ALONG.BIG MISTAKE HORRIBLE DAY OUT VERY WINDY ALMOST EVERYWHERE ON THE LAKE.MY BATTERIE'S MUST BE GOING BAD BECAUSE I WENT THROUGH THEM IN ABOUT 3-4 HOUR'S.ANYWAY'S THE DAY DIDN'T AMOUNT TO ANYTHING .CAUGHT MY FIRST CRAPPIE EVER AND A VERY SMALL BASS. NOT YOUR TYPICAL EASTMAN OUTING BY ANY MEAN'S . I STONGLY BELIEVE THE FRONT SCREWED THING'S UP .WHEN I LEFT ABOUT 5:30 THE WIND WAS DYING DOWN AND MY BATTERIE'S WERE TOTALLY DEAD.
      City: TURLOCK

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: headed to southfork first thing and hooked a nice spot rippin a fluke,that was our only luck there so we headed up north fork and nailed 8 more, 7 of them all spots and one nice smallie, all those were caught wacky wormin a purple robo worm and a chartruse senko...
      City: Lincoln

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday the 17th from about 7am-noon.

      The wind picked up pretty good around 9am and I had a decent rip bait bite. Only 3 barely over the slot though. Biggest was 15". I have problems catching big fish. Which is why i was fishing a rip bait that day. I was trying to catch bigger fish. Which I did overall I guess. Still not the limit of 2+lbers I was hoping for. Of course the guy at the sporting goods store made it seem like even my grandma was catching 3 lber's. So I must be an idiot :)

      So anyways I was fishing a Luckycraft Staycee 90 in Chartreuse Shad. Oh, and I was using 3 suspend lead dots on it to drop it down a few extra feet.

      I fished the north fork this time. Water temps were 58-61. I had the most luck this time on points within the north fork. Not much up in any of the coves. My budy in the back seat fished various colors of 4" robo worms drop shotting and managed 5 fish. I landed 17. But judging how prior posts claimed we should catch 100 we must suck. Arg.
      City: Chico

      Tips: Ask the people catching all the fish. Please brag and post your freaking reports so I can get a clue. This lake kills me :) If you caught more than 17 and 3 over the limit Sunday in the North Fork spill the beans please!

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished both sat and sun. lots of boats from tourneys. caught most of my fish on drop shot. but also caught fish on every thing i used not just the drop shot. found fish in about 15ft of water around trees and med. size chucks of rocks. avg. fish went 1 to 1 1/2 lbs
      City: elverta

      Tips: just about everything worked