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Saturday, March 5th, 2005

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE MAIN BODY NEAR BEALS POINT WITH TUBES AND SPLIT SHOTED ROBO WORMS IN OXBLOOD AND NEW AYU, MY FRIEND KEVIN LANDED 9 FISH OFF OF ONE SPOT, I ONLY GOT THREE,BUT I MISSED ABOUT 6-7 BITES,I SHOULD HAVE LET THE ROD LOAD UP A BIT MORE,WAS A LITTLE TRIGGER HAPPY.THE BITE TURNED OFF FOR US WHEN THE LAKE GLASED OFF
      City: ORANGEVAIE

      Tips: FISH SPLIT SHOTED WORMS,TUBES,DARTHEADES,SHOULD BE ALOT MORE FISH SHALLOW THIS WEEKEND AFTER THIS WARMING TREND.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water @ 8:30 and headed to the Dam area. Worked along west side w/wht spinner baits and brown jigs. Had 8 fish to 5.4 lbs. Fishing was slow but bass were good quality.
      City: Vacaville

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Correction on e-mail it is chapps62@yahoo.com
      City: Bakersfield, Ca

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: LBC was re-opened on Friday 3/4/05 after water level had been dropped due to flood control. The rangers told me the water level was in the boat ramp parking lot to the top of the ramp. On Saturday 3/5/05 the park was closed at 5pm due to flood control. With the water depth changes the fish have moved back deep, water was muddy, we (my wife & I) did manage to land 3 nice fish.
      City: Bakersfield, Ca

      Tips: Until the water level becomes stable and clears up fish deeper water, with slow retrive. Fish should be moving into beds, but they are in 20'.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to go out on Saturday for a full day session on the tube. Managed to hook up 1(3lb)& 1(2lb)working the tulles. A very nice day at the lake.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Work it slow.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to try Pardee today and had my best day ever, not for quanity but for quality. Only 3 samllies but they weighted an totla of 12 lbs. A 4lb 8 oz and one a 6 lbs even. Both were taken on purple on purple pig and jig and got in less than 5 feet of water in spawning areas, with deep water close by.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: When using plastics or jigs, after they hit bottom let them sit for a few minutes then drag them s l o w with NO extra rod movement. Just a steady S L O W drag.

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

      Report: I got skunked today no one was really catching anything
      City: Riverside

      Tips: Go to weed beds and use Rat-L-Traps

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was slow, fish are 30-35 feet. We caught our fish on Robo,s (Bold Blue Gill)throwing out towards deep water and bringing our worm uphill. Lake has lot's of debris. North end still has a mess. Need to be careful!due to debris everywhere. I was a little disappointed that you can't go al the way up the river channel like in recent years due to lots of silt that has come down the river. Rest of the lake is full. I think once the weather starts to turn nice the fishing should kick into high gear.
      City: Moorpark,Ca 93021

      Tips: Throws jigs, orange color crank baits, Bold Blue Gill, fish slow

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found fish in 45-50 feet of water. Average was 2.5lbs. Color did not matter much & when they took it, they really took it.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Fishing vertical structure

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at faireview at 5:30 nobody their.
      boated to the north end foggie up their.
      stoped at first tailing piles by the ball park.
      first cast a big black 5lbs 14ozs on a old rebel
      rip type bait 8"long in a rainbow trout color fished down that set of pileing catching 8 more fish up to 3lbs.
      Change to a smaller rebel same color but 6" long
      2nd pass 6 more fish nothing big 12" to 16" fish
      Moved to the next set of piles with 2 other boates. Caugh one more fish a 4lbs 3oz black.
      All the fish i caugh at the talling piles were blacks on rip type baits. Ran back to the south end of the lake fishing points with spider jigs
      4 more fish only 2 smallies and small ones.
      2 more blacks a 2lbs 7ozs and a 12"fish.off the lake at 2:30 only 3 boat trailers in the parking
      lot.Good day at the lake back soon to hunt that big smallie.
      City: Redding

      Tips: I caugh my fish fishing fast then stopping the bait and letting it float back to the surface
      then the fish would hit.The other boats I saw were fishing slow and catching fish also.

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      Water Temp: 46-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out with the Maine Guide, John Gray, once again. I've decided to make this a monthly habit - life is too short. This was actually a delayed Christmas gift for my 67 year old Pop, and my brother. All in all there were 4 of us fishing in two boats with John on Sat. and the first half of Sunday. You think he had to work hard? The bight was tougher on Saturday as we ended up with 20 fish over about 10 hours on brown tubes and smoke colored 4 and 6 inch worms. No reaction bites. The fish were caught in 5 to 25 feet of water on rock piles and rocky flats and banks.

      Sunday was a different story. The reaction bite was on. The two of us in my boat landed 13 nice fish from 6:45 AM to 8 AM. Almost all on reaction bites, rips and cranks. The largest was a 4.15 Smallie. The other boat had a bit of a slower day , landing about 6 fish in 3 hours of fishing. The bite was considerably more shallow on Sunday. The fish are moving up. We got them in 2 to 10 feet of water.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Take a trip to Trinity, you won't regret it. It is funny to watch the crowds follow John around and mimic his patterns. Most folks were out on the deeper tailing piles and there is no doubt the fish are there too ... but they are moving more shallow by the day now. THANKS JOHN!

Friday, March 4th, 2005

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Cranked for 45 minutes in teh rain before headed out to work. Caught two and snagged one on crankbaits. First fish this year was a 12lb + Koi, I snagged it! Fought it for about 3-4 minutes, got it to shore where it popped my 12 lb. line and swam away with my crank stuck in its fin. Then caught two bass crankin. Then had to leave for work.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Change your line every season. Bounce your crankbaits off bottom.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shaun and I went out today, got a late start about 10 am. Fished a hump by Folsom point for a few spots, biggest was a little over 3.5 on the scale. Next ran up the north fork, started tossing jigs up on trees, thump, brought a nice largie about 5-6 pounds up and lost him at the boat. kept working trees up the north fork with 2 more largies right around 4lbs on the scale. Its nice to see there are still some in the lake. Went back out to the main body, caught quite a few more spots and smallies up to about 2lbs drop shottin, split shottin' and dartheads. Overall a really productive day on Folsom.
      City: folsom

      Tips: Brown and purple jigs, as the water temp warms, these fish will be moving up and getting ready to spawn. North Fork seems to be clearer than the south, and warmer. Dark brown worms, 4 and 6 inch, and morning dawn all productive colors. good luck and tight lines

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mid week bass club tourny with my buddy Joe Bruce..Had a un day as me and Joe always seem to do.Fishing was real good or us starting about 9:00 and never stopped all day.It was rustrating in the size o the ish though.The bigger ones either bite or don't bite at all.Caught about thirty keepers and tons o dinks.Keepers today were 90% largies.Dinks were 95% spots...This changes daily
      City: sonora

      Tips: I ish this lake alot and I irmly believe that you should not try and wait these ish out.I you are not getting ish within ten minutes.....MOVE..there are tons o ish in this lake

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: East bay regional park district's webisite reported that a 14lber and 16lber were caught on swimbaits at shadowcliffs. Anyone have any information to validate this?
      City: San Leandro

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 54 - 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Skipped work and went fishing with dave, no rain just cold wind and cloudy at times. Started off in Cherry Creek and Dave picked up a nice 4.1lb Large Mouth on a Salty Dog Texas rigged, then he followed it up with a 1.5lb. But from then on it was me for the next nine fish with my trusty Drop shot rigged with a Pinky Tescadero, nothing over 2lbs but 5 big enough to take home the overall weight.One of the highlites of the day was watching the drive by Squirrel Hunters! All in all it was a good day, sure beats work.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Skip work ... Go fishing. But wait until the water warms up.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thurs (03/03) and Fri (03/04).

      On Thursday, 2 of us caught 7 bass (largest - 5 lbs)and 1 striper. Off the water by 1:00P.

      On Friday, 3 of us caught 6 bass (largest - 3 lbs) and 1 striper. Off the water by 12:00P because of the heavy rain.

      Caught majority of fish from the rocky banks on both days with Rat L Traps in the Franks Tract area. 5 lber caught on char/wh spinnerbait in 3 ft of water from a weed bed.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Appears fish are starting to stay close to the rocky banks.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: When you least expect it - the fishing CAN BE good! Second post-front trip in a row, but todays results were much better!! My client wanted to throw some swimbaits along with building his jig confidence. We started out of Markley Cove about 7 am. We wound up with an amazing 17 1/2 pound limit - which featured his 4-13 and 5-9 swimbait largemouth. He lost the biggest one - that would have been some limit!! He also caught a 3 lb largie on a brushhog and a 2 1/2+ smallie on a jig - which pleased both of us greatly. I had a big spot and several good fish on a Berkley Pulse worm. We caught 7 apiece but he was the star! What a good fisherman! I was helping him prepare for a tournament, so I can't say much more about where we were fishing or the swimbaits he was using. I can say that mine didn't work!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We found all sorts of confused bass - from 5 feet deep to about 30 feet. Bait was hard to find today. Again, I was surprised at the quality of the fish considering the cloudy morning and some north wind.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great day today, launched out of paradise point and stayed in the area all day. Had about 20 fish up to 4 lbs. Best five went 14 lbs. Best day all year, it was about time i caught a fish over 3 lbs for the year. That water is waming up fast.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: spinnerbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits and senkos

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 48-50F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 1st trip to this pond. Nice calm, cold morning, fishin' w/ my dad. Found lots of interesting structure throughout the main body. Four spots, 1.5 - 3.0 lbs (missed 3 other bites). All fish were solid chunks, in 5-15 feet. Jigs, hula grubs, & senkos. OK for a little over a half day. I'll be back.
      City: Castro Valley, CA

      Tips: Studied the map the night before, then spent probably 1/3 - 1/2 my time looking at structure on the graph. Not something I'm real good at, but it seemed to pay off.