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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my dad and brother out on Trinity for the day. Weather was cold and rainy but the fish did not mind. We trolled hula spins over the top of the rock piles on the north end. Together we landed 27 fish ranging from 1lb. to 4.5lbs. which dad caught they have the way of doing that. Alot of other fisherman out 13 boats all fishing the same area. I talked to one of the fisherman named John he was using crickets on the tree island break and he had a stringer of nice bass but only 1 smallmouth the rest were largemouth. We only caught three largemouth and the rest were smallies. The only thing we could figure is the smallies were more agressive for the reaction baits and the largemouth were a little more lathargic.
      City: Etna

      Tips: Go early to get a spot in the parking lot!!!!

Tuesday, March 1st, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 54.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried many things, but only caught fish on drop shot in 12' to 20' of water near rocky points around the narrows. Seven bass to 2 lbs. It can only get better.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Fish slow and if you mark fish continue to make presentations to them.

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

      Report: scraped up one dink on a blade. Fished from about five to sunset. tight lines!
      City: san jose

      Tips: a note to che the kangaroo - get with the program, bigger bait = bigger fish! are'nt you tired of catching 1/2 pound fish? your one short hand SOB!!

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today we headed out to the lake fished from 5:00pm
      to 6:00pm pitching senkos but unfortunatly had no luck... calero has great potential for this years fishing season..good luck and good fishing
      City: San Jose

      Tips: stop mo-ing it, you know who you are cause im tired of piggy backing you!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: go with big bait rig 4 magnum size sac arm spots.1oz. carolina rig with4-7" minnow baits (FLOATER) Bone or Albino with BIG FLUFFY WHITE TAIL.Use On Points with TRIBUTARY on it Throw Out To 70ft. of Water Let Sink To Bottom SLOWLY BRING BACK UP POINT ALLOWING TO REST ALOT & REST ALOT THIS RIG KICKS BASS YOU CAN JUST LET IT SIT AND GET BIT ITS THE BEST THING Since ? LIVE BAIT LOL.
      City: kennett

      Tips: DEEP CRANKIN THE RIP, CAN COVER ALOT OF ZIP...

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

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our club tournaments.As you can see from the previos post the tournament last Saturday was a huge success.We primarily fish a team format with two draw tournaments at the end of the year.Our next meeting will be at 7p.m. next Wednesday March 9th at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane.The next tournament will be March 19th in the Delta launching from Brannan Island. For additional information contact me at 707-568-1277 or log onto our web site at www.rebc.net
      City: Santa Rosa

Monday, February 28th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53 am -- - 55.7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two days on Berryessa, Saturday I pre-fished for the Federation Tourn. on Sunday. Very different days. Lot's of boats on the water Saturday as 100% had a tourn. with around 40 boats, I was told. Spent all day North for a decent day best five went 14 or so with no real defined pattern. I caught smallmouth on 3/8 oz. jigs on points in 25 feet as well as Largemouth on flats carolina rigging a lizard, a tube fish, swim bait fish or two, several rip fish and my partner Steve picked up a crank bait fish or two and since he likes to drag a worm that picked up some fish to.So 20 or so fish with 3 a little over 3 lbs several solid mid 2's . Now Tourn. Day was different very windy but a South wind however the water temp dropped 3 degrees overnight and really never got back to where it was on Saturday. I thought the reaction bite would be off the hook, not so. My Carolinma rig produced a lot of dinks today and most of our rip fish were slapping the bait rather than eating it. I was fortunate enough to learn alot today.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: When the pattern or bite changes overnight the fish did not teleport to another location on the Lake. The PRESENTATION did change. Adam , my back seat draw partner for the day whipped me real good with a drop shot bass trix curley tail on a ultralight fishing behind my C-Rigged lizard which went untouched, for the most part. It seemed that the fish reacted to the storm front by shuting down rather than turning on. I would have expected this with a Northern front but a Southern wind and rain, I guess that is why we go fishing. Good day overall, Adam was culling by 11:00 and I got attitude and turned loose my first few fish with the remark," I'm not weighing in that little fish", oh the lessions of life. ps, This is a good , well run circuit, give it a try. BASS Federation.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56to60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out monday an had another great day. launched out of big break at 9am. worked some of the break with little success,two small fish one missed bite. with the tide bottoming out we headed to franks tract. fished points on openings and started catching fish,moved inside and started flipping. ended the day with 30 fish exactly. biggest was caught on a buzzbait 5lbs.13ozs.also 3.12,3.11,3.10,3.05 best five went 20lbs2ozs.
      City: oakland

      Tips: the temp.continue to climb,last week we had 55to56,this week it went all the way up to 60 we talked to someone who caught buzzbait fish the day before so we tried. we caught the big one an had one other blow up.we caught fish on cranks,rip baits brushogs and senko.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: theres a lot of places and varity of stuff to use, most people tend to drop shot or use senko baits waitless or wacky. The boat launch area is ok, find a lot there, some would try the island with jigs or top water, mainly poppers or frog baits. every where else people tend to go with senkos any color works besides salt and pepper, but most bites are off purple.
      City: antioch

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      Water Temp: -------

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: by the way, addition to my last report: the water level is a little less than 5 ft before it reaches the top of the "line". the line u see where the water used to be.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: u can check the water height of most of the lakes around here on this site: http://alert.valleywater.org/gageresv-cross.html

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Mid 50s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Put in at Buckleys Cove and fished 14 mile and Pixlie Sloughs found fish on point off of wood and one of the rip rap all bites came on chartruse Blades.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: bite is starting to pick up

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well WE DIDNT CHUCK THE TACKLE BOX AT EM,,LIKE THOSE OTHER DUDES,,BUT SURELY THE BITE WAS TOUGH THEN..HOWEVER COMMANCHE IS ALIVE RIGHT NOW,,FISHED A NO MONEY TOURNEY AND WELL,THE BASS WERE ON HIT,,TAKIN GRUBS ,SEINKOS AND JIGGYS...MOSTLY GREEN....5-20 FT..BUT MOSTLY 12 FT OF WATER,GOOD FISH TOO. LOTS A 3'S AND SMALLER,,THIS LAKE IS CLEARED UP TOO..GOTTA STILL LOOK FOR EM THOUGH,,,I THINK THERE SCHOOLIN UP,,CAUSE WE GOT 4 IN 4 CASTS ,,THEY HIT HARD AND SOFT,,SO WHATCH THOSE SOFT TAKERS..THINKIN OF GOING ,,?GET OUT AND GOOOO...WEIRD THOUGH,,ALL OUR BASS HAD RED EYES,,WHATS UP W/THAT?BEAUTIFUL GREEN COLOR TO THEM TOO,,THEY WERE ALL LARGEMOUTH SOOO,DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT..
      City: Fremont,C.A.

      Tips: THREW CRANKS,,NO LUCK, FISH ON YA'LL ")

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 50-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The fishing is slow but if you hit the spot,fish-on....I would prefer spinner baits for trout 1-2'...And casting into the shallows for the bass...Use a worm 3-4'on the bass.
      City: ventura

      Tips: dont go into shallow water if your fishing for bass...Troll for trout if your fishing trout...Go into deeper water if your fishing for catfish...

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      Water Temp: 55deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i took my float tube out and dropshotted 4inch worms with a secret weapon that tends to catch fish everytime i use it so far. i caught two lg mouth bass, one 2lber and one 3lber. the best ive ever done here under the worst conditions.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: i caught them around 10am and 10:10am when it was barely drizzling, only started raining when i left at about 2:15pm. caught them around the same bank. they were fat and probably on beds. i learned awhile ago that SCR is ahead of all the other lakes in the Spawn, post spawn and pre spawn stages and the post spawn is longer bcuz of the coldness of the water takes time to get the bass active again. happy fishing!

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat and Sun. Sun day with the paulboro man. Managed 10+ both days but most fish 1 to 1.5 lbs with the biggest going 2 to 2.5. Threw a lot at em, Jigs, Blades, Traps, Cranks, but dropshot and splitshot got em. Tried to get a bigger bite but just couldn't find em.
      City: San Carlos

      Tips: Find fish in 5-15 ft. Robo's, Senkos, Iovino's, BBH's, all worked. Sorry but I cannot reveil the Paulboro Mans secret rig of the day.

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

      Report: Fished the narrows with a buddy from 6:30-12:00. We boated 15 fish all dropshotting. No takers on anything else we tried. 3 lb spot was our biggest fish. Rest were all around the 1 lb range (smallies and spots).

      Tips: Still learning to fish this lake. We caught all of our fish close to cover.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: saturday turned out to be a nice day got down to the lake at about 11 fished till 5. most of our fish came off steep points, cranking, small tubes, and brushogs. biggest went 2.5 all in all we got about 20 to 25 fish between me and my son, he had me down 7 to 3 early on, but the old man came back and put a whoopin on him late in the day. Took us awhile to find the fish, when you do find them they seem to be bunched up in one spot. All fish released to catch another day.
      City: brownsville

      Tips: brushogs down about 20 feet off points

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday morning hoping to find fish on the banks. Caught one dink up shallow then moved back to about 15-18 ft. We were able to land 3 solid fish on Carolina-Rigged plastics. Biggest fish went just over 3 lbs.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the evening from about three to six. Caught first fish on the shore, just to the right of the boat launch - about a 1lb or so, caught on a watermaelon senko. Continued to work the shore, landed a solid 5lb largie! caught this fish burnin' a blade. Fishing is definitely picking up.
      City: san jose

      Tips: blades and plastics!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50 something

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I caught 5 nice largemouth bass today. I think the real tough winter is over because I found several hungry fish. No luck from 6:30 to 8 fishin grass and rocks with the lizzard and jig but I changed patterns at 8 and started fishin the points, breaks and dropoffs where there was current and is was ON! 5 fish in 1 hour biggest was 2.5 and the smallest was a pound but the fishin was good for me on Old River/Italian. Gone by 10:30 and satisfaction was high.Can't wait till next weekend because it is time to catch fish in the delta right now. I had gone 0 for 3 in Jan/Feb here but 1 for 4 is good and no skunks expexted now through late Dec. Good luck to you all!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: I got em on 2 jigs. 3/8 blk/blu and 1/4 blk/blu.