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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: So, what's it like to fish a lake the day after severe thunderstorms, near tornados, hail, and heavy rain? Actually, not too bad - but not good for quality. That did not suprise me. My client from Nevada wanted to learn to drop-shot and he picked it up rather quickly as his first bass was a 2-10 spot. We got several more dropshotting and a few on Rodstrainer jigs. We found most of the fish on walls and flats - but deeper than the last trip. They had moved off the bank again in many areas as the water probably cooled a degree or two. I think we got 12 in the boat , but the 5 biggest were only a little over 9 lbs. It did not warm up much and thunderheads were forming again - beautiful sight - especially since it didn't rain. Unfortunately, not very good fishing weather - but an excellent learning trip.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: One or two good days of stable weather will put these bass on the bite again. The number of bites was fine, but not real good quality.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53to54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: was out monday, tough day only caught 11 fish to 3 3/4lbs. best five went 14lbs.4ozs. offshore weed edge only produced one ,the rest on flipping.(senkos&sweetbeavers) got off the water just as the lightning started.
      City: oakland

      Tips: my apology to those who've had to read negetive stuff. i wish i could enter all the tournaments,but i do have a real job. if there are comments or questions feel free to email me(an leave your email or phone#) these pages should be used for reports!!

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: flipped the break most the day and got nadda made a move into Dutch on the third cast with a blade 7lbs 8oz Toad two minutes later one dink.called it a day.
      City: oakley

      Tips: All I can say is stay positive and focus. good luck!!

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      Water Temp: 49-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The water was very muddy from the rain run off. Back in the coves the water temp was 55-57 degs. The main body was the place to stay using jigs, dart head, worms,lizards in dark colors. Using a scent and working it slow. The lake will be better when water clears up. Quency and I got 7 bits and two spots.
      City: rocklin

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy george and fished lucern area today and we wacked them. We threw baby brushhogs(junebug) color and caught close to 40 fish. We fished old piers and docks made out of wood in water from 4-10 feet of H20. We also threw deadringers(junebug) and did well. We swam the lures very slow on the bottom and worked it too. Tulies didnt pruduce much for us. Try spinner baits and ripbaits didnt do didly.
      City: daly city

      Tips: Swim your plastic on the bottom very slowly (jigs,or anything that has a curly tail. GOO LUCK OUT THERE!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: These last few weeks iv'e snagged about 15 bass. I've been using 6 and 4 inch roboworms. Margarita mutalater and brown are the colors that have been working for me. I have been catching them off the island casting out towards the North shore and Channel point dock. I have been reeling it slow and gotten lots of takers. Average size is over a pound but I've gotten some big ones close the 4lbs.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Try the slow retrieve using drop shot or something similar. Try casting on shallow beaches or flat area about 4ft deep. That's where iv'e been catching them.

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A beautiful day to fish. Fished Frank's Tract and the area where the San Joaquin/South Mokelumne rivers meet. Ended the day with 10 bass (largest 3 lbs), 2 stripers (largest 5 lbs), and a 7 lb salmon. The salmon clobbered a Rat L Trap right next to the boat - really surprised my fishing partner. Off the water by 1:00P.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Caught half the fish on shad colored Rat L Trap and half on white/chartruese spinnerbait (includes the stripers). Caught at least 6 shaker stripers on spinnerbaits.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50-53Deg.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today school co-opperated with my fishing schedual and let me start my day at around 3. as we launched my buddies pro-v by tracker we trolled around the Granite bay launch and only picked up 2 spots, 1 1/2, 2-3 pounder. we quickly figured out the bight, it was drop shot with morning dawn and jig with single grub trailer brown. we headed straight acrossed the lake to a rock pile we had on GPS and fished that and i quickly picked up 3 more spots in the 1 1/2-3 pound range. we moved over near the other launch and fished a deep cove that seemed to have some bait circulating through it. my buddy mike picked up 2 jig spots same size. at dark we ran back to the Granite bay launch and fished the beach area and the creek channel near the launch. RIGHT AFTER sun set i pick up a nice 4.3 pound spot on a fat-A crank bait. that made for a decent day of fishing. thanx loomis kid
      City: roseville

      Tips: drop shot morning dawn, jig hula grubs in browns and purple, crank ur crank baits fast with a 10 second pause. they are hitting the crankbait when it stops.

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

      Report: Here is the web site for Elk Grove Bass Club. They are a cool bunch of guys, I fished some of there tourneys last year.

      http://www.elkgrovebass.com/
      City: Sacto

Monday, February 21st, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Carbon copy of yesterday with maybe 5 or 6 fish in the morning. A lot of fishing presssure today as is the case with most holidays..and a stiff wind out of the south..As the day moved along and the broken sunshine turned to thunder storms fishing really picked up. My guide trip guest today was Vince Lazzeroni of San Jose, Ca and was a good fisherman..He had to call an early day so I stayed around for a couple hours and cought a few for myself. Carolina rig and jigs
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Windy banks were holding fish and not many boats..Find less pressured fish.

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      Water Temp: 52 at 7 am and

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at 7 worked the south side to the west trying to hang on in 20-30ft. threw senkos, drop shotted 4 inch custom worms, had a couple bites. 9:30 it started pouring rain went to spinnerbait 10:30 rain stopped and clear skys moved in ...turned into a nice day.moved to north west corner to fish submerged trees throwing spinnerbaits.graph showing quite a marginal amount of fish, no luck.moved to south east side working first ledge at 20-30ft hooked into one split shottin a robo worm (bold bluegill).weather played big part tough bite.
      City: merced

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back on Folsom to find the bass I missed on saturday at 9am with Quency. We started just out on the rocks in front of Granite Bay ramp using 4" lizards in green pumkin and a morning dawn leach. Before the rain came we got some small spots in 10-15 ft on rocks. We made our way to another rocky area that had a flat and droped into 30 ft. When the rain and winds came we had 9 spots and 1 largie. Most of the bass were on the flat with large rocks. No bits on jigs or rip baits.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: split shots with a 3 ft leader and slow. white ears worm.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48 to 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a day on the water, little bit of sun but mostly rain. the bite was tough lot of misses. Me and my partner farmed out a couple. Does anybody have any info on the elk grove bass club that fished oroville on the 19th.?
      City: Galt

      Tips: Fish real slow.

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This Lake as well as all the lakes in the area are in great shape and looks like were going to have great fishing here in the south bay this year. Guide trip today was with Nick Gorman of Redwood City, Ca and Colin Page of Foster City. Morning bite was slow and steady with a bite here and there from the bank to 40 feet. As the front kept coming the fishing got better. From lunch on these guys ended up with 20 or so keepers to 4.5lbs with about 15lbs for there best 5. One jig fish in the 6lb range came unbuttoned for some reason followed by another broke off big fish with 5 minuts of each other. Carolina Rig and jigs.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53to54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: lot of wind today, coming out of the south. still not a bad day. 13 fish total,biggest was4lbs.8ozs. best 5 went 18+.lot of boats out today, anglers choice& hook tournaments today.
      City: oakland

      Tips: brushogs,sweet beavers,lipless cranks

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on Clear Lake. Got a late start out of Konocti Harbor. Fished jerk and spinner bait from Shag Rock west. No takers. Put on deep diving crank and started getting bit. Seven fish between my brother and I. Top five went 10 lbs, largest 3 lbs. Dark skies and rain all day. Got blown off on Monday. Most fish 15 to 30 feet from bank.
      City: Sacramento

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: wet and windy, caught 1st keeper on a crawdad wiggle wart in about 5' water. My partner and I caught anywhere from 12 to 15 fish from 1.5 to 2 3/4 pd fish on worms and grubs. The bass where fairly shallow in less than 10' of water. Most fish were caught on flat points.
      City: salida

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: No fish. Not even a bite. Tried cranks, worms, spinners.
      City: Campbell

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

      Report: Went out fishing with trhe wife and had a decent day fishing.Could not get a shallow bite,so started to drop shot fish werte real lippy but ended up catching them down around thirty to fifty feet.brown and green brushhogs seem to work the best ,bites were very liteand only caught a couple of fish in every spot we stopped at .Every fish was very fat so not much longer for the bite to go off the hook.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Just let it set with a couple of twitches

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out between rains for an hour or so. I had one light bite on a robo leach, but missed it as I was lighting a cigar. In the end - got nothing but wet. An older Russian couple managed to take home 3 carp from the DPW pier...

      The south lake level is up, almost to the same height as about May-June last year. It just needs to warm up for a few days.
      City: Daly City