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Saturday, April 16th, 2005

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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.

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Larry P. fished on 4-11and4-13. carol got a 3 and a 6 on 4-11 caught about 25 fish no crappie. 4-13 was to windy got blown out right after I found the fish, got a 4 and about 10 fish then could not take the 20mph wind any longer and said hell with it. call me if you want to go while I'm on vac. 4-24 to 4-30. weather gets warm place will be hottttt!
      City: red bluff

      Tips: what ever you use keep it moving so they don't loose contact with the vibration, I fished 1 foot visability water and caught good fish.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Dropped in with a buddy out of Paradise Friday and boated over 35 fish topped out with w/ 7 and 6lber. 8-9 quality fish w/ top five over 25lbs. Fishing will get even better post next full moon.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Senko bite consistent in the trough as well as a blade bite in the island cuts when the wind kicks up - Gotta love the outgoing tide!

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      Water Temp: high 50's to hi

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't get started until 8:00A. No bites for the first 3 hrs and the wind started to blow. It took a lot of hard work, but the 3 of us ended the day with 10 keeper size bass (best 5: 18 lbs) and 1 striper (6 lbs). Loss several large bass in the weeds and a large striper that went under the boat.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Move around -- we fished Frank's Tract, Potato Slough, Beaver Slough, Hog Slough, and Sycamore Slough. Fish were tight to cover. Caught them on spinnerbait, rat l traps, and plastics. Water temp in some of the dead end sloughs were in the high 60's.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I took my son Niko to Fished a Club Tourn. sat. and sun. Sat. we a strugle day for us, because I have not been back to this lake in over 2 yrs. Our first fish in the boat was a 14" crappie. tried everything (blades, rip, crank, swimbait) nothing. Switched to a 6" texas worm and started to get bumps. Niko drop-shot and started picking up my bumps.( No size) I switched to a black/blue tube and our first keeper 4#. 15+ fish with 1 keeper on sat. Sun. we had high winds and rollers. Did not run far, stayed in calm bays. 10 fish best 5 for 10.85 giving us 3rd place. Great job Niko!!! Club big fish for Sat. 9.75 and sun. 8.50
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Water is still cool. Go slow.....

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey, Scott, i lost your email address or i would have emailed you directly. Email me if you get a chance. I fished chabot alot last year and have some interesting things to tell you. Thanks for the congrats, the fish was awesome at Contra Loma, you have to come with me some time. Have you seen the pix in Walton's pond yet? I talked to a cousin of yours- a girl at chabot marina, i told her to say hi, to you. Take care Scott. Greg
      City: hayward

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

      Report: 3 hours on water. 4 fish on cranks and brushhogs.
      2 dinks; 1 keeper; 1 toad of 9 pounds on a crank. Primary lake points and leeward side of secondary points.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: think red craw colors. all my fish in last 2 weeks have been on red/black combo of colors.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the stats of the day:

      Fished from 12pm to 4:30. Caught the two 8lbers on a purple senko w/purple flake, the 3.5lb a pumpkin senko w/flake, the 2.2lb on a drop shot robo worm, and all of the 2lb and below on a black senko w/red flake.

      Weight/qty
      8.2lb: 1
      8.0lb: 1
      3.5lb: 1
      2.2lb: 1
      1.5lb to 2.0lb: 4

      For a total of aprx 27lbs.

      One of the best bass days I've ever had!
      City: pleasanton

      Tips: Catch and release!

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

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

      Report: Hey i got a club tourney at clear lake this sunday if anyone could email me a few tips on whats going on out their it would be greatly appreiciated.
      City: sacramento

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      Water Temp: 58 to 62+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: this weekend may be a good one for shallow bass senko's in 4 & 5 inch watermelon/red& black flake hooked wacky style.also brushogs in watermelom or pumpkin peper w/char tail works also carolina rig the hogs in 4 to 12 feet of water. ripbaits in rainbow trut pattern work in the early morning. in mid morninrto early afternoon jigs in 1/4 to 3/8 oz brown w/twin or single tail yamamoto grubs in smoke w/purple & black flake works well in 6 to 15 of water. theres a nice 3 lbs ave going here right now.
      City: kerman

      Tips: when fishing senko's pitch shallow and count down to about 5or6 and if you dont see or fill a bite reel up and cast again there will be fish up shallow and will eat that baitso be ready when they hit.i like useing a 6ft6in spinning rodspooled with 8lbs maxina green line. it is a blast too catch these fish on light line

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 57 to 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught over 200 in a three day period. Caught them on just about everything except topwater. Surface temp is rising about 1 degree a day. should be perfect this weekend. Caught them on every structure you can think of. You got to love Oroville! I think this weekend it should be top notch. It should be 100 fish a day this weekend. Wish I was there still!

      Tips: Carolina rigged 4 inch worms - any color will work. Caught a number of spinnerbait fish.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to rainbow lake today. caught few on dropshotting rigs. the lake is still slow, and the water level is way to high to fish around there.
      City: fremont

      Tips: fish slow, and find deeper areas. most fish are done spawning already.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the shadow cliff king is a stupid piece of shit
      City: p town

      Tips: just stay at home

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the fat bass are in!!!!! i nailed a 12 lb spotted bass on a senco in about 15 ft of water. i must of hit the mother load of fish. i caught 5 fish off this point that were all over 5 lbs. the water was clear enough to find these fish hangin off there beds. this has to have been the biggest spot i have ever got. my previous was 7 lbs. the fish are hangin off the flats. transitional areas like points before large open coves. fish are hangin in water from around 20 to 5 ft. they seem to be staying out in the open areas in the morning than moving into the shallows as the water warms in the afternoon. this looks to be a great year. these are the biggest bass i have seen in years.

      Tips: to get bedding female use the largest worm or leach you can find. or something big in a rainbow trout color. it may take 50 casts on the same fish but patience will pay off if you can find these guys. some fish are moving into the back coves but i don't think you need to waste your time just yet. fish the southwest or west faceing coves. the fish are really enjoying the sun right now. fish shallow 25-0 ft. for small bass fish the back coves. for big bass fish the flats. find areas of loose small boulders and rocks. these fish are not sticking to too much structure right now. fish the areas were you would never think bass would be hangin out. because they are there...........