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Monday, March 28th, 2005

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the 21st through the 27th at the Lake. Water temp dropped about ten degrees since the everstart. Fished LV's and caight a couple with the biggest going 9lbs. Averaged 2-3 fish a day until about the third day when we wised up and bought some jumbo minnows. Bite was wide open in the same areas we couldn't buy a fish in with artificials. Best five on fourth day went 31.5 lbs with an 8,7,6, and two 5's. On Saturday stuck an 11.4 and my buddy caught two more 10's in the same area all within an hour. I hated to resort to those old minnows but I was there for fun fishin for a change it it paid off big....Moral of the story.. if you want to have fun in the cold water with bad weather try some minnows otherwise tough it out for a few bites a day.

      Tips: Jumbo minnows anywhere you can catch pre-spawn fish.

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

      Report: A purple senko by the weeds near the dam got myself a pair of nice 2 lbs LM bass yesterday. Fished for an hour from 11am to noon in the south end using jerkbaits and crankbaits but no bite. Then I tossed jigs for the next two hours along the rock ledges on the west side of the lake, still no takers. Finally I decided to try the northern portion of the lake and bam...one fish after another hit my purple senko and roboworm by the weeds for the next hour. I even got a nice trout who couldn't resist the enticing plastic worm. Got off the water just before the pouring rain. A week of sunny weather will set Del Valle loose!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Purple senko (hooked straight or wacky style) and drop shot'in with purple roboworm will do the trick in the muddy water.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 1st time night fishing in delta i caught a 32 in stripper off a bridge. the thing was huge, took 'bout 6min. to real in

      Tips: mud suckers work great 4 stripper, so does shad. fishin at high tide is best

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      Water Temp: 55to 59 +

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: sorry for the missprint markinman1@aol.com
      City: kerman ca.

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      Water Temp: 55 to 59 +

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: good bite here on bass in the 3 to 5 pound range eary morning bite on spinnerbaits in char/white 3/8 oz willowleaf blades also lizards in junebug or watermelon carolina riged work well. mid morning work the brush piles and trees with watermelon brushhogs and 3/8 to 1/2 oz brown jigs w/lite pumpkin silicone skirt tiped w/watermelon twin or single tail (yamamoto)grubs senko's also work too in june bug or watermelon. fish are in 3 too 10 feet of water. boat traffic is very heavy on weekends 559-689-3255 for more info.
      City: kerman6

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: saturday was ok.. other than the rower's

      Tips: Invader..Lexington is one of the most windy lake's in the county..Look at it.. straight, north, south thing..the wind come's in at 8 am..blow's from the south.. then a res- bit.. the 1 breeze normally getting ya back to the launch area.. did well..Invader.. Keep in touch..I hope the water district doesnt draw this down to far to fast... Fish safe , catch and realease...Weigh them and remember to buy a camera. water proof one, 5 buck's. Zack

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58to60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: easter sunday, fished mildred island,26 total keepers.lot of small bucks. we did get three decent fish,7lb14oz,6lb6oz,3lb13oz. best 5 went 221/2lbs. winds came up later but the rain didn't come till the end of the day. beats staying at home having an easter egg hunt!!!
      City: oakland

      Tips: brushogs,sweetbeavers,tubes and one frog fish

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The snow water has made the lake cool down again, but a few fisherman were out on Easter morning before the winds kicked in. Glenn Sessions and I fished in front of the camp ground first, I have not been on this lake for a month. We started out with cranking, blades , rip n and no bass on points. We moved our way down the bank in 5-20 ft split shotting with a tiny sweet beaver green/bed flake claw finding two nice 3.5 to 3.7 lb smallie and spot. The winds started in about 9:30 so we kept moving into the coves in the North fork area founding more on brown/purple jigs with a # 180 grub. I did not find a fish on the beds yetm but i'm sure there is some. The main body got white so we headed in at 11:30
      City: rocklin

      Tips: change to bigger hooks and work the back of the coves.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched in near gail force winds. Lots of white caps and big waves. Went to the cove nearest the ramp to try to get out of the wind. Wind was still making it down the cove and making for bad fishing conditions. Still managed three to 1.5#. Got off after just an hour and a half. Just couldn't handle the winds. Good thing to cuz it started raining heavily a short time later.
      City: Ben Lomond

      Tips: Don't go there when a storm is rolling in.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 51 to 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of the spillway at 8:30am-Windy, Windy, Windy. Headed up the south fork under the second bridge. Started out crankin rock walls and had 2 slot fish in the first 5 minutes. Partner nailed a 3lb spot on a jig in about 20 feet. Nice fish! Wind got pretty bad so we started dragging a split shot. Resulted in lots of clone fish in the slot. 3lber was the highlight of the day. Talked to a couple of guys who had a 5 lb smallie on a spinnerbait and a 6lb largemouth on a live crawdad.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: As always, natural colors on this lake. Crankbait was the exception. Was throwing a citrus shad crank. Incoming water looked quite tempting so I fished all I could find-no fish-pretty cold though, temp around incoming was around 50-51. Fish are active though. Won't be long once the weather warms up.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: has any one ever caught any catfish at justo? any info tips ect would be helpful im gonna try for sum there thanks
      City: hollister

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

      Report: Fished a small tourny outa Packers on Easter. Got all my good fish on heavy(3/4-1/0) jig and pig. Hulas and darterhead worms accounted for a bunch of fish too. Caught over 20, including a 3.13 spot before getting blown off the lake around 1:00. Suprising the reaction bite was dead even with the wind, tried cranks, jerks, spins and even a real cal; nothing. Had 9.9 for four fish.
      City: Redding

      Tips: same old thing; brown, cinnimon, smoke, a. majic. Fish were spread out caught them from 6 to 60 feet, points and coves, best fish around 20 sides of points.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ended up going to sonoma today caught eight fish between two of us. Two were on a jig and the other six were on drop shot a 4 inch robo worm. It was a pretty nice day with the sun out for a couple of hours. Most fish were caught in coves with cover.
      City: windsor

      Tips: fish slowly and dont be afraid tobring out the dropp shot rig.
      ><)))'> BFK FOR LIFE <'(((><

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out yesterday from 6 to 9:30 AM and the bite was a little slow at first. Picked up a 4-6 smallie near the Ballpark early on, then a 2lb LM. Both on Pro Worms. Fished until 9 with nothing going on and decided to hit a couple of main lake points before getting off the water to go to work. First spot I stopped at, first cast, 5-12 LM. Next 20 min. produced 3 more LM over 4 lbs. Would have liked to stay much longer but the real world beckoned. Best 5 fish over 22 lbs. I guess the fire has started. We have recieved over 2" of rain in the last 10 hours. Experience tells me that the larger tributaries will blow out under these conditions and will wash in a bunch of debris. The Tailing piles that have been so dangerous around the ballpark are now deep enough to no longer pose a hazard. Now we have to watch out for debris washed in by this latest storm.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: I didn't get a reaction bite going, but heard of fish caught ripping and cranking. That should certainly should be working right now.

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day with calm water and very few ski boats. Caught 14 bass in the 1.5 to 2lbs range. All were caught on points in 15 ft early and then 30 ft late in the day. No reaction bite. All fish taken on a carolina rig brush hog and a split shot lizzard. Could not find any shallow fish.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish the bank to 16 ft early with soft plastics. Move deeper when the bite at that depth slows. Soft plastics on points where you can feel some vegitation.

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      Water Temp: approx. 55 degr

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Plenty of smallish males from 3 feet to 12 feet deep. A couple of 3 pound females at around 10 feet deep. No wind and a day full of action yielding over 30 bass for me and over 25 for my budy float-tubing the south end with Senkos. Most fish were found hovering on the top of brush/weeds. They are HUNGRY and the females will be up very soon. But the water is still a little cold.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: No weight and keep working the top of the brushlines as slow as you can. Guys fishing blades and crankbaits were not catching as near as many as we were with plastic.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Couldn't believe today..It was Awsome!!. Took two clients out today, out of Markley Cove. Started on points in main bay of the dam. Bite was slow compared to previous guide trips. So I went North to an area that I had written about. They were their big time. Set the boat down over 14ft of water and was going to Tx Rig and slit-shot them. One client set the hook on a smallie at 10ft and that told me something. I picked up a Rip Bait (Rapala's New XRAP) in Chartruas/Red Head, first cast 2lb Smallie over willows, third cast, another one. Handed the rod to a client, and setup two more rods. I kept the boat in 6-8.5ft of water and Ripped 12 fish in a 200yd stretch. Came back thru the second time and ripped 5 more. Caught 3 more by drop'in a senko hooked Wacky Rigged using a Doc Waton's weedless 1/0 Drop-shot hook. For the Fish that didn't want a Ripbait, this is the way to go. The biggiest of the Smallies with about 25% Largemouth out of 20 caught this way. Had 5 smallies that diffently went from 2lbs to 2 3/4lbs, probably 11 1/4 to 1/2lbs for best 5.

      Tried a long canyon within the narrows and we caught spots to 2lbs by Dropshot'in Morning Dawns and Tx rigged S-20 spade tails. Quit fishin at 5:30. I stopped fishing for 2hr's and just controlled the boat. Clients caught 30+ fish themselve's, one client was a total beginner.

      Rich Thiel
      (925)292-5024
      City: Livermore

      Tips: If your fishing the northend in the next week, look for willows in 6-9ft of water and rip a Chartruas XRAP (NEW on the Market) or a Luckycraft Clown Pattern SP100. Smallmouth love that color pattern. If nothing else try the wacky rig (explained above) and you should have a blast doing this.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 58.1 to60.1

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I got schooled today in big way by my copilot. He caught 19 bass to 5.5 lbs. I caught 2 bass to 2.5 lbs. At least I did not get skunked.
      It still was a great day on the water.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Rip baits will do the trick just as I found out.

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

      Report: Launched at the usual place at Sugar Barge first thing in the morning. The boat hasn't been used in awhile and assumed the batteries were charged since it was hooked up to the charger. Well, the starting battery was bad so we switched it to a trolling motor battery which worked but left us pretty crippled only running the trolling on 1 battery, not much power there. But that didn't stop us.
      Anyway, the fishing was slow for us. I caught 2, lost 3 at the boat. My partner caught 3, lost 2 at the boat. Not much size for us. Biggest was probably around 2.5 lbs. We went and fished near Mildred in the morning and went to Whiskey, Dissapointment in search for cleaner water and on to Franks in the early afternoon. Water was muddy at most places we went and stained in a few. Called it a day at 2:00. Fished were caught on senkos and beavertails. Nice to finally be out especially with the weather being so nice.
      City: Union City

      Tips: Check your battteries!! :)

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      Water Temp: 58.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge and headed up towards Mildred about 0700. Immediately caught 2 on Senkos, tight to tully and 1 on blades, again, tight to the tullies, very shallow. All three fish were 2-3lbs. A few dinks (1-1.5lb) after that. Headed to Franks at Noon and picked up several more 2lbs, on zippers flip into weed openings. NO Biggies. A few were full of eggs, ready to drop.

      Fun day with top 5 about 10-11 lbs.

      Tips: Fish not chasing, couldn't find them suspended either. Reaction baits did not seem to work today. Fish were tight into cover and pick-up on Senkos very light. Missed a few on the set. Water surprising, very clear 2-3', fishing in 6-7' of water.