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Saturday, February 5th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53 deg-noontime

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Berryessa today for good ol' Fashioned Skunk!
      Got to the water first light, a large tournament was just firing off. Started off very foggy on the water, 48-Deg. Started to work points , and channel drop offs. Threw the jigs for about the first 2.5hrs. Then went to Dart Heads W/ Grubs. Worked from Shore to about 45' feet of water. Marked some bait but could not really target the bass, or other fish for that matter. Fog lifted and it was awesome, little wind, bright. The Water warmed to 54Deg. Started dragging some plastics, and had one on 1.5lbs broke off at the boat-that draggin' really tears up the line sometimes. So off the water at 2:45 for a big zero. All in all, great trip , the lake was awesome and looking good. Coming up well. Talked to other boaters, the same story, one or two fish. Spring is almost here !

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: cold BRRRRRRR

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing with my brother and my best friend today (2/5). Got to the lake at 10 am and left at 11:45 am. Only one fish was caught (2.5-3lbs).....bye me =) using a worm.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: still waiting for the water to warm up =)

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladd's. Only caught three LM and one striper. Rookie on the Delta!!! Got one LM on a tube off the deep weed edge in the Mildred area. Got one on a Senko in Franks. Went to White's, nothing, a bit colder water there. Got the striper on a Speed Trap off the main channel. Went to Fourteen Mile Slough and got one more LM on a Senko. Rough day for us. Six bites all day, executed on four of them. Lots of huge weed mats all over the surface.
      City: Hanford

      Tips: Lots of casts, you gotta hit 'em on the head. Use dark colors that show up in the muddy water.

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      Water Temp: 49 - 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wasn't muddy, maybe heavy stained? Anyway, launched out of Orwood and went to Disco. Threw a Staycee and found some grass on some rocks. Worked a jig for 45 mins, nothing. Threw a 4" Senko and got a solid 2 lb'r on the second cast. Fish hit it 10 feet from the bank in the grass. Pressure bite. Beleive it or not, I haven't thrown a Senko in over 3 years!! Went back to the Staycee and nothing. I saw a lot of activity in the cuts and were probably Stripers. Saw birds dive-bombing but I didn't bring any spoons to work the area.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Water is warming up and the fish are beginning the prowl. Get out before the next cold front comes in!! Senko was June Bug color. Staycee was Chart/Blue.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bite was horrible. The three of us threw the tackle box and caught only one 13" fish on a carolina rigged 6" morning dawn Roboworm.
      City: San Jose

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the WON Bass Vineyard Region tournament on Saturday. We had a total of 39 boats. First place went 27 lbs for 5 fish tossing mainly jigs around the tullys. They took home over $1900. Second place was 22 lbs also throwing jigs (i think). A lot of limits were brought in although may anglers described the conditions as tough. For myself we only had 10.5 lbs using plastics in watermelon/red and green pumpkin. We caught fish from 5' to 10'. Later in the afternoon we picked up a couple of fish on a crankbait around docks in 5' of water. Check out the complete results later this week at www.Wonbass.com under Vinyard region. Next tourny is at Clear Lake so come out and get in on the action. Get all the info at the web site.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Based on the top finishers, I would have to say stick with the jigs. Anglers were also catching fish on rip baits. We found most of our fish on the areas where the bottom was either rock or gravel.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Can anybody give a crappie report for the last week? I heard the crappie bite was excellent a couple of weeks ago. I just would like to know before I make the three hour trek up north. Thanks in advance.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Temp: 47-48.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We fished minnows and artificials. I was surprised to find most of the fish in the 7 to 10ft range. Targeted areas with bubbles maybe that's why. Caught 2 jig fish, 1 crank bait fish and 15 minnow fish in 4 hrs from 10am to 2pm. I had planned on fishing more artificials but the fish were so active with the minnows I didn't have time. I probably only spent 10 min fishing jigs for those 2 fish. Most fish 2-1/2 to 3 lbs. Big fish just under 5 lbs.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT SATURDAY VERY NICE DAY.TOOK A BRISK RIDE TO MOCASSIN FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. CAUGHT 1 SMALLMOUTH UP BY 49 BRIDGE.CAME BACK DOWN TO WILLOW NOTHING.SHOT OVER TO BIG CREEK MY KID SCORED RIGHT AWAY. DOUBLE WHAMMY.HOW OFTEN DO YOU CATCH A BASS & TROUT ON SAME LURE(KEEPER 3" GRUB) IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES SAME SPOT? ALL IN ALL OK DAY CONSIDERING I GOT SCHOOLED BY MY 7 YR OLD!
      City: turlock

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      Water Temp: ? high 40-low 5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out @ 7:00 am..........Slow missed one @9:30, ended up braking my rod in the process....I was throwing a senko...Then a Rainbow swim bait...0 I had some nice strikes but missed all of them! The water is really high right now so there a bit scattered..... I fished the damn/coves, shallow and deep!!!! got skunked but it's time on the water! Next few weekends are goinna be HOTT!
      City: Fresno

      Tips: SWIM BAITS>>>>>>>SLOW!

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

      Report: Spent the day trying something I don't do often..........jigs! I had no bites and only marked a few fish in the south arm and by the spillway! I hope to hit Folsom later this week and continue to work on the cold water approach to bass. Maybe I will try some C4!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Folsom is on the rise, get ready for the fishing to get better!

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      Water Temp: 45-48 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Jigs was the lure for the for most of my morning. Dart heads with hula grubs also. working in 25 to 35 ft of water on flats and deep drop offs. North fork around to brown's, main body. The warmer water is something to look for. Work them slow or just sit on them.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: brown/purple jigs or brown/brown

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough, Tough, and Tough - There is a ton of fish between 100' and 116' but to deep for me... Fished 1' to 40' the past two weekends with one bite! Should be a low weight at the WON Bass tourney this weekend. Good Luck to all...
      City: Yuba City

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 47-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with Jimmy Mac the Sonoma Veteran an my buddy Tiger the newly educated student of the game, who can read a graph like like he was born on a boat. We had a great day. Tiger started with a 3.9, on his secret go to bait, at 8:00. I followed with a 4.1 at 8:20. Jim got one at 8:50 now we are all on the board. Ten fish total, Tiger lead the pack with a 5.0 and a 5.1 and I had another 4.0. Best 5 went 22.1 lbs. 20+ other boaters out there not sure how they did, din't see alot of fish cought. Bite turned off in the afternoon when coincidently? the cloud cover came out with more wind and cold temps.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Don't be afraid to throw that swim bait, and the top water, work it slow. But for some of us old timers a good old texas rig ain't bad either.

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      Water Temp: cold BRRRRRR

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tried catfishing at night with my brother Saturday night (2/5). Got to the dam at 5:30 pm and left at 7:15 pm. We both where using anchovies. Only one bite for each of us.....no fish caught =( anybody have any information on this lake?
      City: San Jose

Friday, February 4th, 2005

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 days this week, caught at least a limit each day with lots of small fish. Brown w/chartrouse tail worms dragged across the bottom, 16 - 20 feet, caught most of the fish. My wife caught several with a crappie jig, including a trout.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Smallmouth, Spots, and Largemouth are schooled up together in the coves, fish with the electronics until you find them and then have fun.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: not much going on today, let's drop the boat in at Russo's (great place) and throw some blades. 3rd cast right outside the 5 zone........boink! 10 lb striper. OK, this is good, but where's mama black bass? a few hundred flips later with the jig, yep, a solid 4lber. that's it my friends. That's the beauty of it, no such thing as a bad day fishin'......gotta love this stuff, huh?
      City: walnut creek

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Clear Lake for the first time in years. Joined the crowd at Shag Rock fishing for crappies. Most of the crowd was using mini-jigs type lures on a floater (jig was anywhere from 3-6 ft down). Everybody was catching them. We were the exception and tried to fish without a floater on our jigs. Caught a few crappies. We were also fishing for bass on a carolina rig with minnows. Caught 4 bass (largest 2.5 lbs). We then decided to fish with floaters and started catching fish. Besides catching crappies, we caught 6 more keeper bass on mini-jigs (largest - 1.5 lbs). We probably caught 15 undersized bass on the mini-jigs.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Use your electronics to find the crappie schools. Use white or chartruese mini-jigs. The bass that we caught on mini-jigs were close to shore in the late afternoon.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 49-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 7:30. Started out on the left side of the narrows throwing jigs shallow, no bites. Moved out into 30 to 40ft. of water where we found most of the bait action. My partner Wayne and I started dropshotting 4in. senkos{Brn./Org.}and I a pumkin/red/grn flk. 4in. worm. Got bit 4 times, lost one. All solid 21/2 to 3lbs. Worked the area for a while and started moving around staying deep. We managed to catch a few more on a junebug worm and a white Ika. We ended up with 5 nice largemouths. A beautiful day on the water, it was like a spring day ,about 63.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Fishing was a little on the slow side, take your time. The lake is droping again about 5ft. down after the rain. It can make for a tough bite. Goodluck!

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dudeman, a tip for fixing your rod tip. Super glue is a BAD idea, as it will eventually eat through the graphite. Instead, put some mono inside the new tip before you place it on the end of your rod. Place the rod tip on the end making sure it fits snuggly. Then take a lighter and melt the tip on there, making sure you dont burn the graphite. It has worked for me, hope that helps!
      City: Oakland