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Saturday, April 16th, 2005

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

      Report: Started out @ 10 am, fished till 1:30. The normal weekend 5 boats per acre, anyway, heres the five, 6.8 5.4 4.8 3.2 = 20.2. lota 1 and 2 lbs.
      City: bethel island

      Tips: strike kings plastics slowww open water, but be ready at the docks. Fish the wall @ dusk the bass push the bait up the wall hope this helps good luck

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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had two clients out today, Randal & Bill, fishing was great, awesome weather but the catching was a lot slower than expected. Caught about 15 fish from the Break to Disco to Herman & Helens. Biggest fish of the day, a 7lb 7oz hen full of eggs came on a black blue Ziper in about 8 foot of wter. Next one was a 4 pounder client caught on a 9L Senko. Rest of em were all about 2 pounds and we caught em on Beavers, jigs, 9 Senkos and lizards.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Even with the warming, we did not see too many fish up shallow, nor did we se any makings of beds in predictable areas. Later in the day, we did find one area that had a number of visable fish. Also saw a number of big bass cruising the weeds and troughs out in the middle of Big Break and Franks, we're close and they are just waiting ta bust up to the bank!

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      Water Temp: ?? no guage

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ran the custom Valco bass boat to the back of 14 mile sluogh to avoid the week end crowd.. Got 8 fish for ten bites. Kicker fish was 5 lber flippen senkos. At low tide late in the afternoon had fun catching bass on a zoom super fluke to 2.5 lbs. total wt. for best five was 12 lbs.
      City: Ladd's, Stockton

      Tips: Looked for calmer water and fished slow. Tules was the pattern for me. also out side edge weed line a low tide.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladd's about 7a.m. this morning and didn't go too far. I made it a point not to run all over the place today. Just pick some good looking banks and fish slow. Not much happening early on, just a few small fish in the 1.5 lb. range. Things started to change about 11a.m. when the catching really improved. Stayed out until 1p.m. when we got tired of putting up with all the wave makers and headed in. The final talley for my brother and I was 26 fish, 12 of those were 3-5.1 lbs. A pretty good day for us.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Brushogs,lizzards,shallow,slow.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a couple hours early in the morning, (6-8am). Morning was overcast with rolling fog around 7:30. Cold morning made for a tough bite. Caught 4 cookie cutter bass of 10"-11", lost one about same size. Threw topwater, rip baits, jigs for no hits, switched to white spinnerbait caught one and threw smoky joe rat'l trap to catch 3. My brother arrived later to splitshot and throw tubes to catch two small dinks.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Wait for more stable weather for the fish to come up.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the north end with a client on Thurs. We thought that would be better with the scheduled wind. That part worked out fine, but the fishing didn't. The sun was out, but it was COLD. Everybody looked to be wearing winter clothing. We only boated three bass on Senkos and jigs, though my client lost a nice one ona Senko. Friday, I took two fellows out on the south end and, in spite of big rollers and wind, we did boat 14 bass, but only up to 2 lbs 11 oz. Our limit was 10 or so pounds. We were split-shotting 4 to 8 inch worms and did get into a great tule bank bite in the rough water. We tried ripping and swimbaits, but no action there. Green Pumpkin seemed to be the best color again. It was nice to feel a little warmth in the air for a change!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We found bass in the tule banks that had a rock base. We found some bass on off-shore rock drop-offs, but not many. This week should be better as more consistant warm weather will prevail!

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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I prefished on friday for a Basin Bass Tourament on saturday. I launched at 3:pm out of the free launch at the Oaks. Very windy around Rattle Snake Island. We stayed along Hwy 20 side using lizards in 4 " June Bug. Some nice fish in 2-3 lb range.
      Our tourament was out of Redbud @ 6:15am with light winds, so I started in Jaco Cove with my partner Dennie using spinners and swim baits, no luck. So we switched over to a worm in brown cotors, picking up two keepers and 10 non so keepers. Moving north ,not finding any keepers. Went over to the hwy 20 side picking up more non keepers. A tourament out of lakeport winner on Friday had 42 lbs to win on swim baits. Our winning weight was 10.62 for Jim and Quency using a june bug lizard.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: fish slow around rocks with tules

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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I prefished on friday for a Basin Bass Tourament on saturday. I launched at 3:pm out of the free launch at the Oaks. Very windy around Rattle Snake Island. We stayed along Hwy 20 side using lizards in 4 " June Bug. Some nice fish in 2-3 lb range.
      Our tourament was out of Redbud @ 6:15am with light winds, so I started in Jaco Cove with my partner Dennie using spinners and swim baits, no luck. So we switched over to a worm in brown cotors, picking up two keepers and 10 non so keepers. Moving north ,not finding any keepers. Went over to the hwy 20 side picking up more non keepers. A tourament out of lakeport winner on Friday had 42 lbs to win on swim baits. Our winning weight was 10.62 for Jim and Quency using a june bug lizard.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: fish slow around rocks with tules

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 7am- beautiful day. The water started warming up pretty quickly, caught a couple in the morning off the west banks using texas rigged lizards and a senko. Took a break and went to the south end for a couple hours, came back to the banks and the bush I pulled the fish out of earlier was fully exposed, when I had left it two hours earlier i could only see maybe 1 branch sticking out. It was amazing how fast they were draining it. STOP DRAINING THE DAMN LAKE!!!
      City: Los Gatos

      Tips: Swimbaits?? Very soon...

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out sat and the spot i wanted to fish was taken, so i fished another spot waiting for the boat to leave...i was shakn my 5" senko loose from a submerged tree my line started to move and i set the hook. at first it felt like a decent fish in a tree as i had a hard time movn her outa that tree..i really got worried as i noticed she was pulling the boat towards the tree..with the help of the trolling motor and a lot of luck i was able to pull the fish free from the tree..then i got a really good look at this sow as jumped...she was huge..anyway after a couple of surges straight down, she finally tired and we netted her, and took some pictures...she was 10.5# and beautiful..held her in the water while passing water thru her and 30 seconds she kicked, swirled, got me wet and was gone..
      that was our first bite of the day and the rest of the day was tough: 2 trout, 1 squawfish, 6 bass..oh yeh, never got another bite on that senko....good fishn
      City: orinda

      Tips: if you want to fish for big fish, fish slow.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and i fished plastics for half a day . Pulled in 10 largemouth . It was quiet windy . The dam was our best bet .Most of what we caught was there . Very soft bite . Del Valle rocks
      City: redwood city

      Tips: Bring your sunscreen

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have to agree with you Rick. Well put!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First tournament, first time on lake,around 11 am while site fishing caught my biggest bass ever 13.8 on a Yamamoto creature
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Look for fish on beds

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and I started about 7am went to south end of lake, caught 16 in this area. First fish a 3lber with split shot 5 ft of water all other fish catch with darterheads or dropshoting. total of 25 fish by 2pm. 2 under 12in all the rest were all 2lb or larger, the biggest I caught drop shoting with a 4" zoom dead ringer 7.5lbs.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: fish are in 2 to 10 feet of water, all hit the bait on the fall. seems like dark colors work the best.
      good luck
      Triton Boats Rule

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

      Report: Started at 7:00 off the lake by 12:30. Only three keepers one Spot to Smallies. Caught two on a senko and one on a jig. Lots of dinks in the willows burrned up a bag of senkos on small fish also caught two dinks on a rip bait.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: Was looking for big bed fish only found a couple of big girls cruising the shallows, none on beds. Lots of carp.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with shaun thursday morning, and caught a bunch of small fish, nothing over a couple of pounds drop shotting, split shotting, senkos and rip baits. Went out saturday evening for a couple of hours, caught a nice spot 3.8 and a largie just slightly larger on senkos up the south fork, went back over to the north and picked up fish rippin in the back of coves and split shottin 4" robo worms. Fishing just outside of Jacks Shack a buddy of mine nailed about a 3.5 lb smallie, gorgeous fish, and we got a few more small ones. I heard that it took 23lbs to win WON bass tourney out here on saturday.
      City: rescue

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: did something i thought I,D NEVER DO -FISH FOLSOM ON A SATURDAY(SKIERS ECT)FISHED FROM 0:100P.M.-:630. ONLY ONE FISH-BUT A PERSONAL BEST ON A SPLIT SHOT 7 INCH MAGIC WORM OFF A POINT IN MAIN BODY OF THE LAKE. A 4.97 LARGEMOUTH! ALL MOUTH!
      City: antelope

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took the family used senkos live bait minnows and nite crawlers and caught lots of Bass trout and even a couple Cats. even my 3 and 5 yr old daughters caught a bunch of fish. The fishin was great as always. Unfortunatly the road in is not gettin any better. Road in and out really sucks so best idea is to stay a couple days I have been here several times and the fishin has been great everytime..........
      City: Kelseyville

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      Water Temp: cold. low sixt

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: stuck about a five pound female there with a spinnerbait on saturday. only bite all day. drop shot lizards, topwater, split shot worms, flukes. nothing other than the one on the 'bait. the other guys on the lake had no luck.
      City: petaluma

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE!

Friday, April 15th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60 to 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at about 9:30am and started looking for beds. Spotted several nice fish on beds but none were very committed. Caught 10 fish for the day the biggest at 3.5lbs. My brother lost one at the boat that would have been around 5-6lbs. Caught most of the fish on spinnerbaits.