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Sunday, February 20th, 2005

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went to the horseshoe for an hour of exercise. caught a fat 16 inch largemouth on a crankbait. yes, she was caught and released alive. she had all the markings of pre spawn.

      water is really high and stained from the rains. almost no shore to walk around. really muddy. all the good drop offs are submerged. i'll have to start bring in the tube or boat.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: downsize and slow roll. they're right between the first and 2nd drop off. i can't wait til the blade bite starts. i guess that should be in a few more weeks.

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: club tournament 25 guys. Heavy boater fished by himself. 16+ lbs his kicker was 6.72. Dan caught it on a crank bait first cast across point. Fish are moving up and are hitting grubs drop shot split shot heck everything.I had 10.5 lbs drop shot rig on sides of points. Wood near by helped.Didn't find my jig fish like I wanted in 50 feet so I went to the bank. Maybe the heavy rains moved the fish shallow? Most of my fish were beautiful smallies. What a great fishery berryessa is.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: If you go in the rain fish shallow. If the sun is out I'd go deeper. The fish a definatly moveing to the back of coves to spawn now. Next full moon look out. Lizards and brush hobs good choice. Don't know why drop shot worked so good all of a sudden but use morning dawn if water is stained. I did and it worked. You still have to fish slow.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son Niko to my Club Tourn. on Sat. Weather did not treat use very well. We caught fish, Niko tied on one of my homemade Jigs for the first time. He caught 2 on Black/Blue. I hit 4 on the S20. Sun. We fished The Hook. Went to the same area. Niko tied on the same jig and bamm 3# first fish, Bamm 4# second fish. We were on fish. We had 4 by 11:00 and then Pop at 11:30 the trolling motor cable broke. Made it hard to fish, but we hung in there. Ended the day with 5 fish just under 11 pounds. Just our luck... Hope we made the TOC...
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Look for cleaner water. Try Jigs and 6-7" plastics. The bass are moving up and should just get better as the water warms.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I tried a 3 hour trip this morning, forgeting that it was a 3 day weekend - and there was a local tournament - wow!!! Anyway, I wanted to try some of my new G.Loomis rods and check out the jig bite. My first cast with the new GLX 854 produced a 1 1/2 lb spot on a purple Weapon jig in about 12 feet of water - that surprised me. I got 4 more bites, all on the purple jig, and 3 of them were nice ones - spots from 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. Tried to get my 5th bass, but it started raining and I wasn't in the mood to get wet!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I fished rocky points and walls - some far offshore for my jig fish. Most fish were about 20 feet. You have to fish your jigs a little faster at Collins because the rocks will cause them to snag up all the time! If I was there longer, I would have tried more tactics. I did throw rips and cranks for a bit, not no takers.

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

      Report: Miserable weather on hand Saturday but that
      didn't seem to bother the fish. Caught 5 LM bass
      in 5 hours from 4lb-6+lbs all on Texas rigged
      Yamamoto bait. Caught most in 8-15' ft of water
      or should I say chocolate milk. Bites were real subtle missed several fish due to just a little slack in my line. Best success was slowly jumping bait up off the bottom. 1 lunker channel cat 7lbs! and the dam thing fought hard.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Bring a little luck with you, it definitely helped me out. Wishful thinking>>>>I saw one clown with two bass totaling 16 lbs! On an F'n
      stringer!! I'd bet a steak dinner that the catfish taste a ton better than them old bass any day!! What a moran.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 47.5-51.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The day started out with the sun for the fisherman from Basin Bass Masters. Seventeen boats out at 6:45am, light winds to none frist part of the morning. The winds came in at noon and then the rain. With the weather changing it made fishing tought for some and good for others. 3:pm weightin was windy and wet, five teams came in with limits and some with none. The winning weight was 14.+ lbs for the best five. Morning bite was on a crank bait, rip bait. Other fish came on worms, lizards, jigs and hula grubs using dart heads. Draging your bait slow aroung rocks with drop offs.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: use hula grub on a jig head (football) and worms on a dart head. Brown and purple plastic baits.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Saturday for a couple of hours and got 1 small bass. Found that fish while throwing a Yamamoto bait and once I knew she was there I followed up with a 3" T rigged worm.
      City: Daly City

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50 - 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had the pleasure to fish the Elk Grove Bass Tournament at Oroville February 19th. It was a tough day on the lake that started out with beautiful sunshine and ended with rain, rain, rain. I did get on fish at my first spot at about 7:15am with one almost 15" in the boat on a crankbait. I missed 3 later on a jig, one while I enjoyed lunch in one hand. I had a great time fishing even though I didn't get to weigh in any fish, and enjoyed talking with the guys who were there early in the morning before sign up started. I missed the name of the guy next to me with the Ranger that had the pirate flag, but get hold of me sometime to fish if you are reading this!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Yellow cranks and watermelon jigs were the only thing I got bit on!

Friday, February 18th, 2005

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

      Report: Lanuched out of Capel Cove and started fishing a little north of rockslide. Started off crankning and did'nt stop all day! First fish was a fat 3.5 smallie wich was followed up by a sold 2 pound spot 10 minutes later! Caught about 6 1-1.5 spots and kept fishing crank (Norman DD22). About and hour before I left hooked into a good fish, jumped about 10 feet from the boat and I FREAKED out! Finallly fought it for about 30 more seconds before baoting a beatiful 7 pound largemouth! My new personal best. If your fishing this lake anytime soon start north of rockslide put trolling motor in and go slow up norther cranking.
      City: Calistoga

      Tips: Crankbait was Norman DD22 (color, white), tried jig with only a couple bites but no hook up. Good luck and have fun.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished four about an hour and only caught 1 bass on a white spinnerbait at the damn.

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow Folsom is on fire, seems like someone fliped the light switch on those spots and smallies! By far this was my best trip ever to folsom, I started over on beals point and worked my way all the way to granite by the low water ramp, switching between a 6" warmouth robo and a yamamoto spider grub from the bank down to 15 ft. I caught 13 between 1.97 and 3.64 mostly around 2 3/4 lb.fish but i caught 2 stud smallies at 4.09 and 4.32 on the robo worm. I was feeling lucky so I ran up by rattlesnake and boy was it on fire!! I caught 7 fish in the bend across from the ramp between 2.93 and 3.77 lbs. my best 5 went just over 19 lbs. my best day before today was just over 12 lbs last march.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: 6" warmouth robo worms on 1/4 oz. darter heads. 10 lb test big game line. and the fish really wanted the worm worked really fast. but the jig fish were more of a slower deal. Hopefully this will help someone else enjoy a day like today. oh yeah some guy was throwing a white buzzbait up at rattle snake and said he had caught 3 on it ?? go figure?

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

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

      Report: Why is it that all the lakes in the south bay opens at 9am? By that time the best bite is over. I used to live in the south bay and when we were able to park on the levee road, we would have the best bite around 6am. Now that there is no parking there and the lake opens late I don't see fishing these lakes along with jet skiers and personnal water crafts would be that productive. Tell you what I'm living in Stockton now and the motherload lakes are kicking solid bass just like Calero use to when we were able to fish it early. Just a shame.
      City: stockton

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Out today with good friend and awesome guide John Gray. First stop caught 4 smallies, up to 4lbs. The rest of the day going to different spots catching a mix of largemouth(5lbs) and smallmouth and one largemouth at 8.7 lbs. By far my best trip to Trinity! If you are looking for a guided fishing trip on Trinity talk to John Gray (The Maine Guide). That man knows fishing and his way around Trinity Lake.

      Thanks again for the awesome day! You were the cure for what I needed.
      Terry
      City: Redding

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: drop shotting is excellent, but aint the choice of fishing at least now. try twin tail yamamoto spider jigs and 1/2 once footballheads off rock points. tell me which bangs more fish this time of the year, captain dropshotter. fire ur droprods for awhile till the water gets alil warmer.. gl! lmao
      City: millbrae

      Tips: dropshotting?? nehhhgggg

Monday, February 14th, 2005

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

      Report: made a couple more trips to fish, did pretty well considering how cold it was. As far as this persons comments on the previous report before mine, My private bass lake was meant as a joke!!!! so lighten up. i seldom see anyone else fishing there for bass and i go almost every week. Second of all i cleaned my fish at home and didnt know they were full of eggs when i left the lake with them, so i am no longer taking them home to eat. And yes fish are used for food and there is nothing wrong with eating them. And from what i understand from fish and game, bass have been in this lake from the beginning of time. So you dont know what you are talking about. I post my email address with my reports so if you have a problem email me directly and dont use this report page to air your ignorance. And for the nice people if you need any advice on how to fish or where for bass on this lake i would be glad to help. jon

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

      Report: Heh Truth your an idiot. Guess ya must not get out to calero much. The ripbait bite will be smoking soon and the crankbait bite in September is unreal. Anyone who fishes Calero often throughout the year knows what I am talking about.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51to53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: another great day on the delta. got a late start but no rain till noon. missed my first bite,and then my second, i pitched right back, only this time i stuck her.it felt like a good one i figured 5 or better.well it was,11lbs. 4ozs. that was our first fish of the day.not a bad start. we just kept catching them. in all 26 fish,six four pounders one five the rest solid two's n three's. all the 4's, the 5 and the big one were weighed on my cull'm rite scale.
      City: oakland

      Tips: my last posting said the big ones were moving up.i guess so. to see fish look at the photo i posted. the fish are hungry, we used rip baits,senkos, brushogs and lipless cranks

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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the morning before it started to rain. Caught 1 keeper striper and 2 bass. We caught keeper striper (and 10 shakers). Decided to play with white/chartruese 1/2 oz Assassinator spinnerbait on the rocky banks and caught the 2 bass (2 and 3 lbs) about 50 ft apart.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Appears the bass have started to move to the shallows. Both bass were in less than 3 ft of water and hit the spinnerbaits within 5 ft of the bank.

  • San Francisco County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well I worked the lake for a few hours with my partners on our float tubes. Bite was really slow due to the cold water temp. I was the last one back and was re-working the tully line on my way back, when I hooked into a nice solid 5lb. fish while flipping a creature bait.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Water is still very cold. I caught that fish during the warmest part of the day.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the Fiance out for a Valentine's Day fishing trip. Started at about 1pm until the rain ran us off at 4:30 pm. First stop was up the east end of the lake between the Hwy 49 bridge and Parrotts Ferry bridge. Jigged and dropshot at 30-50 feet on a dropoff next to a secondary point. I caught one and she caught one (both under 1 lb) Moved up east of the Parrotts Ferry bridge and tried the same approach. I caught one more (again under 1 lb) but all I can say is nibble, nibble, nibble. It was nearly 1 out of 3 casts I could get a nibble but the fish were very lippy and would not take the bait. I nearly threw my back out trying to set hooks. Tried changing size and color, and also tried adding scent/flavor with same results.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Fish still slow and light strikes. Just a few weeks and it will be a different story!