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Thursday, March 10th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter out for her birthday fishing trip today. On the water at about 11:00 at North Shore. Beatuful weather and great fishing. Splitshot lizards and straight tail worms working well, color didn't seem to matter. Jigs producing better fish and more ferocious bites. One 5lb., one 41/2, a couple of threes and all of the 2 pounders we wanted. Fish on beds as well, all over the lake in shallow coves near wood. This place has busted wide open!!!
      City: Galt

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      Water Temp: 61.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Myself and a buddy got on the water at 12 noon fished till dark using lizaerds an boated 15 bass that were 2 to 5 lbs up shallow in 1 to 6 ft water...had a few blow ups on top water too...
      City: Atwater

      Tips: use lizz an keep them moving......good luck

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished both north and south lake. dropshotted and threw out jigs. no bites, no taps, no takers...the trout fisherman were out in full force though catchin trout left and right.hopefully the bite will get better in the follwing weeks.
      City: sf

      Tips: if u think you are fishing slow... fish 10 times slower!

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      Water Temp: 58 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: stripes should be here around the 20th. if the water keeps going down expect a short season. the water is already 58. as soon as it hits 63, 64 they will be ready to spawn. the local lauches are all in bad shape. prices have nearly doubled at all of them too. all of april will be the heart of the season
      City: colusa

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      Water Temp: 58 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: stripes should be here around the 20th. if the water keeps going down expect a short season. the water is already 58. as soon as it hits 63, 64 they will be ready to spawn. the local lauches are all in bad shape. prices have nearly doubled at all of them too. all of april will be the heart of the season
      City: colusa

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

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

      Report: fish shallow, jerry at Shasta... circus act at your lake ., ,,;. .,,. your ?/? is at airport road, west side, SV-CB. BN Tracking <3. b4 washington south tower 2floor-north tower 3floor...jerry your LZ IS HOT !!!!!!!. use your BLUE,The BLUE Is being used Against YOU. Your Wife Can Get This Info....!!!! LZ is Hot....!!!! If They Track They Will Try Rear Entry.... 86corrupt
      City: torrence

      Tips: get this to jerry waltman PLEASE.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: good day 12 fish all spots on senkos best four keepers prob went about 13lbs. still mostly small fish got only 4 keepers(watermelon,smoke colors) fish were tight in flooded trees fish slow! hope the weather stays nice
      City: carnelian bay

      Tips: tried jigs/rips/spinnerbaits all fish came on senkos

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day Saturday 3/5 with limited success. All fish caught w/ drop-shot purple worms. Threw jigs, jerks, spinnerbaits and NADA. Best 5 went 13.5 - nothing like it will be soon.

      Tight Lines!
      City: YC

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

      Report: I took my two boys and we went to our favorite spot on the East Cove. After about two of hours of nothing, my oldest and I saw a large fish swimming near the dock. I thought it was a bass os I decided to bust out with a jig and a red yamamoto. After the second cast, I landed a 6 1/2 lb trout. Blown away. I thought it was a bass. Great day of fishing.
      City: San Ramon

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Carp.
      Nicascio was alive with'em today. Went to snoop for crappie but could not concentrate on those with pods of 5-25 carp criusing by at very regular intervals.
      A #16 very dark woolybugger produced a few as did a clipped chart deerhair w/ CDC or marabou palmered thru it #8 top-water bug built like a wooly worm.
      Danged interesting to watch'em spook from bird shadows. Acres of'em. :-)
      Never did find any crappie... :hmmm
      Will the bass be far behind?
      ......lee s.
      City: Petaluma

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Pardee for only my second time - on Wednesday. I was looking for a nice smallmouth obviously, but spend a lot of my time metering and just looking around. I started about 11 am and quit about 5:30, fishing mostly in the river arm. I found the daytime to be deadly slow, but went back to some areas that looked good in the late afternoon. Sure enough, my first cast with a Rodstrainer jig produced a smallie almost 2 1/2 lbs. Immediately caught another about 2 lbs. I then dumped a good one between 3 and 4 lbs that looked to be a largemouth. Sure enought, I soon caught a largemouth a little over 2 lbs. I missed about 3 others. Wow, was it fun to fish a different lake.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I plan to return soon - I love the challenge of a new lake. I used a lot of techniques, including split-shotting with 6 lb test, but only had a bite or two during mid-day. Lots of lake to learn! I probably should have fished deeper.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 50+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today I fished with a Trophy Hunter from Burney. He called and said he wanted a big smallie to put on his wall along with his 14 lb Rainbow, 11 lb. Brown, 70 lb. King etc. I told him that chances were good but we'd have to take pics and measurements and he'd have to have a replica made. That was fine with him.
      We met at the ramp and headed for my very best " Hot Spot". NADA! Next best hot spot, NADA. Well, pretty quick it was lunch time and nothing to show but a few dinks. Now comes the moral to the story, " Good things come to those who wait." We head back to spot #1 and a 3.25 smallie lands in the boat. First good keeper of the day. Shortly another smallie near 3 comes to the net. Guides nightmare turns to an OK day. An hour or so later client says my 2 favorite words. " FISH ON " This time it's a 4.60 smallie! Mission accomplished! Thanks Mike for not giving up and being so patient. I have no idea what makes Trinity so tough occasionally, when the weather is consistent, conditions are the same as yesterday, but they just won't go. We saw a lot of fish cruising the shallows where we were fishing so we knew they were there. It just took serious patience to get them to bite. Best thing about today is that I'm on the lake tomorrow and seldom have I seen this tough a bite 2 days in a row. Stay tuned.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: A lot of the locals give me grief about fishing my Gitzits so much, Ask Mike what he thinks.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT FISHIN FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS IN MY FLOAT TUBE CAUGHT 2 DINKS ABOUT 12 INCHES LONG COUPLE OF OTHER GUYS HAVING LUCK ON CRAPPIE BY THE DAME
      City: SAN JOSE

      Tips: FIND THE CALM WATER AND YOU SHOULD FIND FISH

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 47-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Did not get out until 11am, the sun was out and no rain for the day. My boat was rear ended last week when I was towing it. So I wanted to fish but the inspection of the motor and hull was first on my list of things to do. After a run around the lake and a look for leaks the fishing line hit the water with a spinner bait in shallow waters with my first fish weighting 2.1 lbs. So I worked the shallow banks in front of 5% finding mor in about 5-10 feet. Moving around the lake that has came up in the last 2 weeks, my island tops are now to deep to work.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: work spinner baits, crankin along the banks

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

      Report: going up there 4th of july weekend any body know what to use for bass. Might try catfishing at night so it would help if someone gave me some tips.
      City: windsor

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anybody have any repots. I need tips on catching striped bass and catfish in lake mendocino
      City: windsor

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First day of the season, and it turned out to be a good one. The weather was nice and hot, and had been for the week prior. I float tubed the west end of the perc ponds behind the main lake. I caught 2 bass within an hour and a half. One of them was in the middle of cove, under a downed tree. It was a small 1.5lber. The other was right near shore in less than 2ft of water under a log. I saw it roll over, which made a huge splash

      Tips: Catch and Release!

Monday, March 7th, 2005

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: Mid to Low 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Club tourney on the 27th of Feb. lot's of cookie cutters in the slot limit. Ripped with Stacey 90's and Rivers2sea rip bait. caught some dartheading and texas rigging brown worms. Fish are starting to move.
      City: Red Bluff

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 57-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 11:00 Fished till 3:00. Bite was steady all day. I caught nineteen bass. Chart. Spinnerbait and Zoom Lizards 4- 6 inch. The largest was a 7.6 lbs caught on a Plastic Grub. most of the fish were small males. All the fish were caught between 4 and 15 ft in the submerged brush. The lake is way up. I found a few bed fish. This lake is going to bust loose soon.
      City: San jose

      Tips: Concentrate in the 0-15ft range. Through search baits till you find them and then slow down with plastics or jigs. Have a ball. This bite will be wide open soon!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at pleasure cove resort at 7:30 and only 2 trailers in the parking lot. Stayed in wragg canyon the entire day. Boated 29 bass, most split shotting 4" magic worms at 10 to 20' deep off points. Caught 2 largemouth and the rest were 50/50 smallies and spots. Largest fish was 2-12 with a pound and a half average.
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: Fish slow until water warms more.