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Sunday, February 7th, 2016

  • Lake County
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      Report: From Clear Lake Outdoors
      Lake is in great shape and fishing is good for 48 degree water. ABA today should have some good bags.Our local club tournament yesterday took 26 + to win. I took third with 20.87. Fish being caught on A rigs, swimbaits , Rattletraps, Jigs, Dropsot, Chatterbaits, ripbaits . If it stays warm the bite should really turn on this week.
      Dave

Saturday, February 6th, 2016

Friday, February 5th, 2016

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 49-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally got to go fishin'! No one has posted for a while so I guess l'll be the 1st for the year. The lake has come up a little from all the rain and a little dirty, but not bad. 8 nice fatties managed to find our jigs & dropshot worms in the muddy water. ( 5 smallies & 3 nice Lgm to 3plus lbs.) It was a beautiful day to be on the water about 65 or so. Had to move around a lot but found the smallies on do nothing banks and lgm on big rocks in less than 15 ft. of water. Brn. jigs and grn. candy worms. It's going to be warming up next week and should improve the bite. Go get em'!

      Tips: Fish Slooooow.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got an early launch at Lime saddle at 6:45 am, fished till 10 am. Amazed at how much the ramp changed since my last trip lat week on Thursday. Water had come up another 23.41 feet in the last 7 days. Not bad for a slow rain week. Now 92.96 feet gain since our low water level, just another 157 feet to go. The lake is beginning to look close to normal! Crappy day fishing for me. Just one 13" spot taken in 35 feet of water. I hunted, and hunted, tried every bait I know, nada, could not locate fish today. Think the large increase of water made it a tough bite, at least for me. Temp went down one degree to 48* Ton's of large wood on the lake, some areas thick like a log jam. Be extra careful now. Better fishing next week, maybe I'll skip a week? Pictures in fishing forum.

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

  • Yuba County
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      Report: by greatwhite888 » Thu Feb 04, 2016 8:32 am

      Both Dark Day and Emerald Cove are open. I tried to go Tuesday morning but it was snowing pretty good as I got to Dobbins. As I started up the hill I saw a car that had slid off an embankment and several other drivers that talked me out of towing the boat up through the snow so I turned around. Was pretty sure I could make it with 4 wheel drive but didn't want to risk it while towing a boat. I'm sure whatever snow fell has melted by now though and the low Friday morning is supposed to be around 40 so their shouldn't be any ice on the ramps. I hope not because I'm headed up Friday morning as well! Good luck!

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Rivers end at 09;00. Had to go around the island, Hyacinth was too bad in front of pump station. Fished around Coney Island to avoid the Hyacinth. No luck, tried top water, spoon, and winter crawdad jig. Got desperate, and tried anchovies. Lots of small bites on main river next to Clifton Fore bay. Tried to make it back past the Hyacinth at the pump station and got stuck. Had to leave boat overnight. The pumping station boys pulled me out on the next morning. Thanks guys. Needless to say, won't be using Rivers End for awhile.

      Tips: It's not getting out of Rivers End that's the problem. The pump station gang clears the weeds during the day, but they go home around 4;30. After that the weeds just start pilling up. So getting back can be very difficult.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass are hold in in 18 to 30 feet water is stained water target isolated rock piles and humps vertical jiggin with a dead stick approach very slow movement has been working on bass to 3 pounds. Trout plant last week so active will start thing moving for bigger fishing in a week or so. Black/blue jigs arkie or football jigs 3/8 oz.or 1/2 oz. Trailers Yamamoto smoke black/blue flake 5" double tail or single tail grubs work.also junebug colors are also working 5/7 fish in 8 hour trip is possible per angler water is slowly coming up and is stained but fish are there if your hitting the right targets and fishing the dead stick approach.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally, Lime Saddle is back, so launched here, only 22 minutes from home. Got going about 7 am, fished till 10 am, leaving because the rains began and didn't want to get soaked. This trip was a tad better then last, first cast a spot. Fished about 8 locations, most in the north fork or the way to it. Managed to get 6 spots today, all the basic 13" range variety so typical of the lake. Most fish taken right at 40 foot deep, one about 35 feet. Water still 49 degrees, and lots of larger wood on the lake now, be careful. Lime Saddle water looked like mud, N. fork not as bad, but getting pretty murky looking. Pictures in fishing forum.

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      Report: Could probably launch at foreman now. Found one straggler in my hour of fishing before raindrops kept falling on my head. Pictures in forums.

Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

  • Yuba County
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      Report: by kraetzer » Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:30 am

      Got a random day off yesterday and thought I go up there - 10 to 15 trailers on the dark day ramp parking lot, guess the word got out :lol:
      Fished from 11am till 5pm mostly in the Willow Creek arm. Water temp was from 48 to 51 degrees. Watch out for debris!!! Big floaters all over the lake.
      Nice warm day and the water has some color to it, so we fished the 0 - 40 feet range most of the day.
      Got a couple of dinks and missed a couple of bites. I think we should have fished deeper. Later in the day we moved out into 60-70 feet of water and got a couple of bites and also saw some fish on the meter.
      All bites came on a shaky head with a mm roboworm and a brown and purple jig.
      No recommendations or tips but I think I will stay out deeper the next time.

      Good luck and tight lines.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Burr, brisk morning on the water. Went to the spillway and it was open, one lane, but better then gravel. Got launched a tad before 7 am, fished till 10 am. Fished the middle fork, where are the fish today, very few for me, got 2 small spots, 12 1/2" to small for a picture. Just could not locate fish today, fished 30 to 55 feet and just two bites, two fish. Tried several baits, nada! one of those days I guess. More larger wood on the water, so be careful. Water stained like winter rains do, still 49 degrees. Water is coming in great, 16 feet since my last trip on the 20th, not bad for 6 days. Up 64.67 feet from low water mark, now at 714.18 feet, only about 185.82 to full pool!!!! No one using the ramp!

Monday, January 25th, 2016

Sunday, January 24th, 2016

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Walked / hiked the shoreline at Brown's Ravine tossing a junebug 5" senko. Picked up a 13" smallie and a 14" spot. Was actually surprised to catch something much less two. The smallie was on the outside open lake side of one of the points I walked to. The spot must have just been cruising the shoreline and the senko probably landed on top of its head. Made me stay there an extra half hour but nothing else. Just had fun throwing a lure into Folsom lake again since we couldn't get out to the delta.

      Tips: Not qualified to give tips. But what I did.... fished slow. I was throwing out, letting it hit bottom, then walk a few steps and just drag the bottom, then stop for 2 mins., then walk again. Once I could see it was parallel to the shoreline, I'd reel up and cast at 45degrees ahead of the direction I was walking. Then do the same thing. got some good exercise too.

Saturday, January 23rd, 2016

  • Solano County
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      Report: From Cooch's Fishing
      The big fish bite was crazy on the River today, we got five toads, the first one being the only one that's worthy of posting. After nearly two hours of not getting bit with a black blue jig, I picked up the brown jig with the olive pork, very first pitch and was immediately rewarded with my first teener of 2016! That's the second 10+ ta fall for a jig in a week here for me! The bite was a slow grind, but really got good about 12:30-1:00p when we had that 45 minute gully washer of a down pour. I had Ray take a pic of the scale, 13lb 2oz, I'll take it!

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

  • Lake County
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      Report: We have had lots of rain. Water level has come up almost 3 ft. 4 more ft. and we will be full. Storms have been warmer than usual and lake temp has been in the 48 degree range. Water is stained to muddy around creek mouths but mid lake remains pretty clear.
      Fishing has been tough for most but ABA last Sunday produced some good bags and it took over 26 pounds to win. Jan and Feb. are still one of the best times for a really big fish and there was 2 over 8 pounds in the ABA. Also heard of a 11.5 caught last weekend. Still lots of Crappie being caught deep.
      There are fish being caught on just about all techniques .Swimbaits ,spoons, ripbaits and dropshots seem to be the best.
      Hopefully the rains will continue and we will have a full lake to fish this year.
      Not to many people minnow fishing yet but that bite is there if you just want to have fun.
      Dave
      Clearlake Outdoors
      707-262-5852

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The day sure didn't start right. Went to the spillway to launch and the low water ramp was closed, so went to the main ramp, closed, with water right to the edge of the concrete. Another week it should be open. Went to the gravel bidwell ramp, closed, so went to the concrete ramp, and lauched. Talk about getting ramp-ed around!! So, yes, Bidwell is open for now, no sign of parking lot work!! Left the ramp at 7am, fished till 10:15 am. More wood in the water, so be careful. Slow bite as expected, just 6 spots, nothing of any size, but one in the picture was extra fat. Water was not too dirty looking in the middle fork. Lake has come up 39.63 feet since hitting low water mark back on 12/9/15, and a couple days ago, came up 8 feet!! that's one heck of a lot of water in just 24 hours. Pictures min fishing forum.

      Tips: Tried the 3.5" Yum baby christie critter, half the fish on this, kind of like the look, almost a craw like look. Others on roboworms.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

  • Shasta County
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      Report: From Shasta Lake

      Holy soaked skies Batman!!! This rain has been tremendous the past 24 hours!!!

      The first 2 photos are taken two days apart, you can see that the water level is starting to shoot up rather quickly now. As a matter of fact, it has risen 3.36' in the past 24 hours (9 am to 9 am).

      The rain levels have been spectacular as well:
      01/16 - 1.97"
      01/17 - 3.65"
      01/18 - 1.47"
      01/19 (midnight to 10 am) - 2.13"...and climbing

      Let's put this into perspective of how much water this is...

      Last Friday, we had a storage of 1,569,318 af. Since then we have gained 169,561 more acre feet of water. That is the equivalent of 55,251,694,642 gallons of water...SINCE FRIDAY!!!

      Keep that rain coming!!!

      Lake Level Report (01/19/2016 at 08:00)
      Lake Elevation: 941.39' (125.61' below full pool)
      Lake Elevation (2015): 954.40' (112.60' below full pool)
      Storage: 1,738,879 af
      Storage (2015): 1,950,468 af
      Outflow: 1,070 cfs
      Inflow: 30,388 cfs
      Precipitation (24 hr @ dam): 2.48" (Estimate)
      Precipitation (Season @ dam): 28.21" (Estimate)
      Precipitation (2015 Season @ dam): 33.36"

Sunday, January 17th, 2016

Saturday, January 9th, 2016