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Monday, February 14th, 2005

  • 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!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Don't put away your dropshot as the previous report said. The dropshot can be very deadly and bring you lots of big fish if done correctly during this time of the year. If you want to catch guppies right now, go ahead and beat the banks. You can have em.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Staging

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Quency and I fished the narrows all morning, we fished points and down the sides into the secoundary points. Finding 20-25 spots, 5 smallies and two largies. Our biggest was 3.5 lbs. our five best was 13.5 lbs. Stay in 10-20 ft around rocks using jigs brown/purple, lizards, worms and brush hogs. fish slow , found no reaction bites. Some long banks with deep dropoffs work. never made it to the main body, next time.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: try using 4 1/2" worms, in any colors. look for rocks

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT SAT&SUN VERY NICE DAY ON SAT. GOT TWO SPOTS ON PERSUADER JIGS,1/2 OZ BOTH ABOUT 2 LB,S.TRIED JIGS AGAIN SUN. LIGHT RAIN OFF AND ON MISSED A COUPLE OF BIGHTS ON JIGS SO TRIED SOME TUBE BAITS IN 5-10 FT.GOT THREE 2 LB SPOTS, ALSO THREW CRANKS BUT NO TAKERS,MY GIRLFRIEND KARYN NAILED HERE FIRST SPINNERBAIT BASS IN SHALLOW WATER
      City: ORANGEVALE

      Tips: JIGS IN 25 TO 40 FT SLOW OR TUBE BAITS IN SHALLOW DRAGGING BOTTOM

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

      Report: Fished up river most the day and ended up with around fifteen fish to 4 lbs.Went up with the wife and she surprized me by catching five or six droppshotting. Fish were down 30 to 50 feet and hitting very litly, so u had to be on ur toes. Couldnt get a bite shallow so we fished deep and very slow, and had to watch fish finder and drop it right on them green and brown seem to do the best.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: fish very very slow, seems liked u have to drop it right in front of them

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched at tuttle town fished the imediate area to the right of the ramp throwing trout patteren swimbait..nothing...went on around to just before mormon creek throwing the swimbait and nothing so we headed to 49 bridge fished halfway into angels and nothing. we headed up river a lil ways fished steeper rock banks with laydowns and nothing i stuck with the swimbait the whole time and my brother was throwing the whole aresenole at em and we got somked had the sun stayed out for any length of time maybe it wouldnt have been so bad lake temp was the same whever we went
      City: modesto

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a small club tournament Sunday-Manteca Bassin Buddies. We had about 13 boats,with several guest boats showing up. Lake was pretty full, there was a trickle going over the spill-way.

      Fish weren't holding on rocks for us, all caught relatively shallow in weeds. We caught all of our fish on jigs, one on a baby senko. Others caught them on senkos, spinnerbaits, and drop-shotting. We had a winning weight of 13.90 for 5 fish (8 total fish for the day). Four other teams had between 10-12 lbs.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Seemed to be schooled up a bit. If you find a fish that is active, stay put. Look for weeds off of points. Real subtle bite.

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start, but arrived at Putah Creek resort by 08:30. Lots of bass boats there.What a beautiful day, and there weren't any ski boats!
      We caught 3 largemouth,2 spotted, and 19 smallies. The smallies were far bigger than the others. Largest 2 were over four pounds. All of the fish were over 2.5 pounds with the majority around 3 pounds. We caught them on cranks. Chrome/black speedtraps,dc 13 and 16 timber tigers, rebel craws with chart/orange. We kept the boat in 12'-18' of water all day.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fishing was really easy today, no challenge for 2 and 3 lb fish. Strikes were fierce, so hang on.
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      Water Temp: 52.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Eastside to joing the hordes of other bassboats. Fished points dropshoting and senko. Caught 4 (1.5-2lbs)immediately. Then nothing for 1 hr. Moved to Wagg canyon and caught 4 more, again, off points. Left at 2pm. Most were spotted bass.

      Tips: Bites were very light, except one that almost rip the pole out of my hand. Unable to set hook.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out first thing in the morning. Threw some reaction baits in the shallow water for the first hour without a bite. Moved back and dropshotted the rest of the day. Got 6 bass to 3lbs. All fish caught on 4" Roboworms.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The fish are still in their winter pattern. They should start to stage any time now...we just need a little more warm weather. Fish slow.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Greg, Don't believe everything you read. The water has been very cold and just breaking 50. Nobody has been getting 30+ days in Feb

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      Water Temp: 47-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My fishing partner I started out working jigs in brown/purple in a hula grubs with a 1/2 oz football jig a # 3/0 hook. Moving into the Bear Creek and way back in a cove in 10-25 ft, finding four keepers. Back to the opening of the creek,draging a jig we managed to get a 4.8 spot. The water is warmer in the Rock Creek aera, @ 50-52 degs.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: work from the banks to 25 ft slow.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WOW! Clear Lake was almost still today. Very little wind, sunshine, and lots of good fishin'. We caught over 75 crappie in less than two hours by Kono Tayee Pier and probably caught 50 bass on swim baits and roboworms the largest being 4 1/2. They were all fat little footballs. I caught a 4 pounder with a crappie jig and 4 lb test with an 5' rod. What a fun fight. These fat bass remind me of Trinity smallmouth. What a day!

      Tips: Swim baits seemed to be the ticket today.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got there at 7:30a.m. went up the north fork and could not get a bite.came to some water that we have done good on befor and got 14 lbs for are best five. we had a limite of smallmouth and a couple of spots.are bigest fish was a spoted bass that went 3.22lbs. are bigest smallmouth bass was 3.11lbs. we caught 15 fish over 2.00lbs. most of them were smallmouth.
      City: Lincoln, CA

      Tips: fish in about 32-40 feet of water this is the best time to go to the lake.

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      Water Temp: 54.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had to work a four hour shift so I did not get on the water till 3:00 pm and fished till dark. Since there was not alot of time I did not run alot. Much better than my past few quick trips, fish are starting to move up and then spread out. Better fish in 10-14 feet of water. Caught 6 bass and a big ole land locked salmon.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Carolina rig watermelon red baby brush hog got 3 nice fish and my main line broke on the set on the 4th fish, one that I never saw. 3 on a Luckey craft CB 300 crank at dark and the Salmon ate a Stasybe 90 sp ver 2 in Ghost. Fish appeared to be scattered over flats and anywhere you could find a buch of large boulders in 8-10 foot you had a fish or two. Stayed on the main body all afternoon.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went up for the afternoon and ripped around for a while but didn't get anything so I went over by Beals point and found fish in a creek channel from 22 to 32 ft. deep suspended. I threw a 1-1/2oz. chartuese pearl white spoon out and started ripping in of the bottom. About the third rip I got slammed by a 3lb. smallie. After catching and releasing 6 big smallmouth and several nice spots on spooning and drop-shotting Basstrix shad bait fry,I headed home.
      City: Sac.

      Tips: Although there are quite a few fish staging shallow, there are still good fish in deeper water. They seem to be suspended so try dropshotting about 3 to 5 feet up and rip a spoon way off the bottom to get their attention.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 10 mph limit on lake because of floating debris washed in from recent rains. The lake is up 60+ Feet from last few years. It was cold cold!! They haven't started moving up yet here. All the fish were caught in 30-50 feet. Very slow dull bites.
      City: La Habra CA

      Tips: No tips, other than just to keep waiting for that spring front to come through.... good luck!!

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GOT TO THE LAKE ABOUT 8:00AM LAKE IS ABOUT FULL AND WATER CLARITY VERY GOOD.WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK OF DINO POINT BUT NOTHING.FISHED RAT-L-TRAP AND HAIRAISER.WENT BACK OUT AND FISHED SOME MAIN LAKE POINTS SAME RESULT NOTHING.DECIDED TO THROW MY FAVORITE JERK BAIT.ABOUT THE FIFTH CAST FISH ON.ENDED UP WITH A DOZEN FISH ALL SMALL 18" TO 24".ALL FISH CAME OFF FLAT GRASSY AREA'S.MY PARTNER NEVER HAD A BITE.I FOUND THAT THESE JERK BAITS HAVE TO BE FISHED REAL FAST AND HARD JERKS TO GET THEM TO HIT.HE JUST WAS NOT WORKING THEM RIGHT.
      City: SALINAS

      Tips: BE CAREFUL OVER HERE GOT PRETTY WINDY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.ALLWAY'S WEAR YOUR PFD HERE BE SAFE.

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to the island pond with my bro...kickboats, no oars. First time we have fished this pond in years as we usually fish the lower pond. We ended up with three each. All fish were 2-3#, all healthy and fat. Caught pitching senko's, jigs, and reapers to wood. Only one came off tules.
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: Get the bait WAY back there; most fish were holding tight to shore in cover. Practice catch & release.