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Monday, May 3rd, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my 4 year old for a few hours in the afternoon. We got 6 blow ups on kermit - mostly dinks and one 5lber that appeared to be spawning/bedding by the looks of the bloody tail...all fish were in shallow weedbeds...my son lost a 2lb fish on a chartruese spinnerbait...missed a few on a white flippn tube...Surprising no senko fish for us in the 3 hours we fished. All fish that we put in the boat came of the frog.
      City: Suisun

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Try near the dock by tha dam for crappie.
      Where did you get the bass. In the A.M. or P.M.?
      City: san jose

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Can anyone provide any tips on where to fish for crappie in this lake? I've heard that there are crappie in this lake, but have only pulled out bass.
      City: San Jose

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 80+ fish 7 over the slot only 2 LMBs. Biggest fish maybe 2lbs. The spots will eat anything!
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Be prepared to lose some skin on your thumbs!

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      Water Temp: 68-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Left bidwell this morning and it looked ugly very windy went strait to the south fork and it was glass and I never left. I caught more bass today then I have ever caught in one day 40-45 fish lost count. I caught all but 2 on a 4" brown and green tip worm the other two on a crank bait. Talk about fun I am going back tomorrow for more.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Fish slow with worms shake it and let it sit and watch your line A lot of my fish I did not fill just watch my line start going to one side or the other and set the hook. Watch your line.

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      Water Temp: untested

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I guess there are still people claiming 20 fish days at SPD, so very sad people out there that like to give false reports, Last time I'm posting in regards to this issue here. You can't do 20 fish days at SPD unless your day consists of a full year. over 15 years I've fished this lake and all the bass fisherman I've spoke with have never caught 20 fish. good luck and this report blows now because of stupid people.
      City: san pablo

      Tips: plastics is the best chance at a 20 fish day here.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out with a friend sunday at 8:30 started at woodchoppers went straight across into a little creek my friend pulled two little bass out of there on a green baby brush hog we cought five.The boat patrol is weird we were in float tubes and he asked us where are life jackets were and he said that you dont have to wear them just strap them to your float tube some how and he kicked us off the lake.Good day fishing though
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: try the banks

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished both Saturday and Sunday here. Got 2 bass 3+ pounds on a slow rolled plastic worm. Sunday targeted crappie for a few hours and caught and released 50 of them little buggers. GOt one slabber almost two pounds. Seeing alot of folks taking fish out of this reservior, even though there are signs everywhere about the mercury content. Don't mind them removing some of the panfish, but keeping a post spawned bass sure chaps my hide
      City: san jose

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

      Report: Day on the river with Dave McKenzie's Bay Area Backwaters Guide Service. Lots of fish which included smallies, spots, and largies. Senkos in current were the key with an occasional topwater and crank fish thrown in. Learned a lot once again all we needed was a striper to get the grand slam. I bet it happens next time. If you want to catch fish and learn, go with Dave, he puts you on em.
      City: SF

      Tips: Sign up for a day with Bay Area Backwaters Guide Service. It probably would'nt hurt to have a senko tied on as well.

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      Water Temp: 65+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two person guide trip with a couple of regular guests Steve Strain and Paul Caserez both of SF We decided to go up north and hit the smallies. Good choice, they were there and eating. They cought a mixed bag of smallmouth,spots and a few largemouth..Both good fisherman and they cought about 30 fish..Mostly smallies on Senkos but also cought fish on crankbaits, and topwater. Slack water held some bed fish and there are already some post spwan fish in fast current snatching up baits in current breaks & eddies. Always a great time with these two.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well sounds like almost everyone is stating the obvious, the Senko was hot for us today as well. Fished the main channel near Ladds and had a nice 4# fish on a white and shad colored spinner and had a 5# fish on a motor oil Senko. This is the first time I've really fished the Senko more than just a couple of flips and I have to say I'm a believer. Threw a little top water with no takers on frogs or buzzers. Most fish came on dark colored plastics. The last 2 days our big fish didn't hit until after 10:00.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Dark colors, get bit and work that area good and slow. Good luck

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for about 3hrs. last night from about 12:00am till artound 3:00am. The first two hrs. tide was at it's lowest and just starting to come in. Caught one small fish on a modified Senko. Moved down river for the last hour caught one 71/2lbr', missed several others all on 7in. Black/Blue Senkos.
      City: Holt

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 67-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Chesbro for a couple of hours in the morning. Lake is full. Caught 6 small bass on Texas Rigged 4" Robo Worms. We saw hundreds of small bass cruising the shore line. Biggest one in the boat was about 1.5 lbs. Most were 10"-12".
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Finesse baits in this lake seem to work best. Topwater should be ok if you can get there early or late in the day.

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

      Report: Fished from May 2nd to 6th and caught alot of bass.I fished all over the lake on different days just looking for a big one.I had a a few fish in the 5lbs range and one about 6lbs.Caught alot of 2 pound fish in the tules on brush hawgs,spinnerbaits.Caught bass on docks dropshotting,and ripping.The bigger fish were eating up a frog in the isolated weed patches around the lake.Over all it was a great week and I look foward to returning soon.
      City: Winston

      Tips: Look for clear water.Everyday was different with the wind changing directions daily.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: unknown...

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i banked it today for 7 fish total with the five biggest going 9lbs. most were sots but i did manage 3 largeys. all the fish were caught in the tress using a medium runner bleeding bait crank, and a 1/2oz white spinner. i got out there around 5 and left at dark so not to bad for a bank fisher if you ask me.....

      tight lines!....and always practice catch and release.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: the reaction bite is getting good. thats all i fished as im trying to fine tune my skills crankin.anything in a shad pattern worked good for my buddy also, but i caught double his amount,lol....oops! i wasnt sopposed to say that,lol........

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      Water Temp: Really hot fish

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Since everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon, let me elaborate on my last post. I have an eye witness ( from a very longtime and well respected Los Gatos family I might add ) to the incident where one of lgrc members put a piece of wood over the ventpipe on the dam because it was to loud for there precious little ears. Notice how it is now covered so you can't get at it? How many years, how much money,how have we gone without a stable water level? And what about the poor fish that die every time they get sucked into one of those 480 volt 40 horsepower pumps?
      City: LG

      Tips: Sink the F*&%$@# LGRC. LATE.

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

      Report: There are very few lakes around here that have a shape and/or depth to allow for putting in a net, each lake almost has to have a custom net to do that too. Add to that the time,money and bodies it takes to dive and attach it and you're really talking about a commetment. Don't think you'll be seeing many of those events happening anymore. Maybe if you went to a trout farm. Though fish were caught at both laakes, to me a successful event is one where people learn enough skills to be able to come back another day, when it isn't so busy (as it was that day)and rig, tie hooks etc. on their own. I think this learn to fish clinic did that.

      For bass, hit the many tulles there are here and fish shallow with swimbaits, as the fish are either spawning or soon to.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I ran across this discussion when it first started, and I'm surprised it is still raging strong.
      I haven't fished San Pablo for about 10 years, so I can't comment on how fishing is now. I can say that back in the late 80's to early 90's, bass fishing was pretty good at times. By good I mean limits or near limits (and yes I have had 20 fish days for the boat). Split-shot original weenies and witch's T were the consistant producers. We had a couple of regular customers who only fished Worm King original weenie's, and bought them by the hundred just for SP. I had good bites fishing Shad Raps with Fire Jon in the back of the Preserve in his old little aluminum. I've had fish to 7.5 on Zara Spooks from the ramp side of the Preserve, and the largest I had come over the gunnels of my boat (13 Whaler) was a 14.75, weighed at the HQ, then released where we caught her.
      Scow canyon also produced pretty consistant results, as did the point and shoreline across the Wall. Most trees had fish.
      I had very few skunks.
      I am no super star fisherman guru, nor do I claim I can produce these results today. I just want to share some of my experiences with this lake. Please take it for what it's worth.

      Thanks and tight lines,
      Brian K.
      FISHNFF

      PS. A year or so after the lake opened, we had 100+ days on crappie (all small) across from the ramp. For years after than, only caught a few! go figure.
      Also had limit days fishing cats in those big dips across the ramp. Chicken livers with a sliding weight.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Keep an open mind and hate the Game, not the Player!

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got to Trinity Center just in time to see a good # of boats running up from the So. end. Must have been a club tourney going on. They occupied the community holes right off so I tried some stuff I hadn't tried in a while. Sometimes the fishing gods just smile at you. Caught 2 LM on a senko first 2 casts, both over 3. Fished along the bank another 100 yds.or so with no takers. Turned around and went back over the same area with a model A and caught 5 more between 2.5 and 4.5. Some guys were still on what used to be my favorite honey hole, so I figure maybe some of those fish would like that crankbait coming from a different direction so I started down that same bank again. Shortly the crankbait stops again. This time it's a 6-13 LM. Eight fish in the boat, best five around 20 lbs and its almost 7 o'clock and I'm thinking this is the way Trinity is supposed to be this time of year. I spent the rest of the day hitting spots I hadn't visited in a while. The fishing slowed somewhat but certainly stayed better than it has been in a while.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Crankbaits were hot early but today I caught fish on gitzits, Pro Gold and Mean Green Pro Worms,senkos, spinnerbaits, and one nice SM on a Long A. When Trinity is hot everything works, when it's not, slow way down. When fishing really got tough around noon a Pro Gold worm fished weightless on a 1/0 hook around willows kept the action going.

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dropshotting roboworms. 10 fish. to 4 pounds shoulda had 12-14 fish but was missin hook sets. my buddy on the front of the boat got 4 and he never been bass fishn before.
      City: Cupertino

      Tips: dropshot rockpoints with weeds on them. cant tell you the secret worm though