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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WON Bass held its April tournament on Saturday. There was a total of 36 boats and 34 limits. The bite is on right now, however most of the fish are only 1-2 pounds. The average weight for 5 fish was only about 8lbs. Big fish for the day was a wopping 13.46 lbs. An amazing bass for any lake, especially Berryessa. I'm told it was caught on a 4" worm.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Try ripping and crank baits early, then switch to plastics. Drop shot produced for us in the afternoon. Work the secondary points and the deeper areas near spawning beds. Colors: Green Pumpkin or watermelon.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't have long to fish today so we launched out of downtown Stockton and stayed local. Not a bad decision. Caught 6 keepers for 18#. Had 2 4.5#ers. Saw some people fishing the pro-am and they seemed to think it was slow. We boated about 25 fish, launched about 7:30 and off the water by 11. Fish were holding on points and we found a good pattern crankin.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Try a bait you have confidence in and when you get bit try to duplicate the environment and conditions you were in. If you can do that you can develop a pattern by moving around and fishing "positive water". Learned that from Randy Pringle. Good luck

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Saturday and Sunday.Bass Reapers Club Tournament.Saturday fished points cranking and split shoting.Bigger fish cranking a Bill Dance Fat Free shad in Tennesse shad pattern at about 10 feet real slow over the rocks up to 3lbs for 13lbs for 5 fish.Sunday tried same pattern,slow.Tried jigs and small robo worms.5 fish to 9.5 lbs.Big stringer for the club outing was 16.5 lbs split shoting baby brush hogs on Sunday.Specially rigged.Secret color.Bigger stringers brought in Sunday.Them boys had to run to the bait shop Saturday night to by more of that special bait.Some real nice fish brought in Sunday.Great weather,great friends made for a great weekend.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Didn't see no nest yet.Lot of fish crusing 5'-12' deep.Water clarity to 14' Saturday morning till boat traffic disturbed bottom.Don't pass up trees, but make long cast to them because of water clarity.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day caught 3 fish.1 spot, 1 large, and 1 smallie. All dart head fish.All were small except for the spot, it went 3+.never had any luck at folsom but starting to see some changes in the past couple of weeks.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: morning dawn!

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Lexington on Saturday. Good day. Got a limit! Here

      Tips: The magic depth was 17 feet. From shore, just cast out toward deep water as far as you could, let your bait sink to the bottom, then work it back slowly. Hang to the bottom.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: didn't care

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried some night fishing on friday the 2nd and we had a great time. We caught a lot of bass but nothing real big. It was kind of nice to fish the lake without all the pressure you usually have during the day around here. We had almost no wind at all the whole time we were out. We launched at lime saddle at about dark and made a short run to our favorite night time spot and hooked up right away on yo-zuri jerbaits. We then switched to fat raps and caught a fish about every 5 minutes. We closed the night off with a little live crawdad fishing. we had a few bites on them but we had no luck other than that.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: I can't tell you exactly where we were but I can tell you to look for areas with small rock right on ledges leading to shallow water if you want to use crankbaits. We were using chart/blue fat raps and silver/black DT10's. The almost full moon is the reason for the fast action, so take advantage of it while it is here. Dress WARM!!!!!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: headed to yorty creek with my float tube, got on the water at 2 30. right away i started fishin the riprap by the parking lot. fished it with a spinnerbait. came to a point on the riprap and through a brush hog, black with red flake. as i was reeling it up to make another cast, had a follower chase it right to my tube. came upon a cove inside of the cove and saw some stumps and a nice looking laydown. 2nd cast to the stumps i got a pickup on the brush hog and set the hook, fish didnt have it all the way and i just ripped off the brush hog in its mouth. started throwing into the laydown, 3rd cast got hit and landed the first fish of the day, i healthy 3 lber. threw back over to the stumps and had the mushy bite, so i reeled up quick and half-assed set the hook and had a real good fish on for about 2 seconds, pulled off. a cast with a senko, watermelon w/ red flake, to the laydown produced a 2 lber. after that lost 1 fish in anoter laydown, and landed a 1 lber in some grass on the brush hog. Nothin on the spinnerbait. only fished for an hour and a half in one small spot. fish were on wood in less than 7 ft. of water.
      City: windsor

      Tips: plastics in heavy cover, preferably wood.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I am not a park ranger.
      Real Bass fishermen are sports and don't break the laws!!!
      City: Redding

      Tips: You have nothing to fear from the Park Rangers as long as you obey the laws (like drinking and boating, drugs and boating and driving, ect).
      They are there for you.
      Why should you watch out for Rangers if your not breaking the law?

Friday, April 2nd, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The first day of the Anglers Choice Pro-Am was blown out by high winds so a few of us ran up to Amador for a turkey shoot from 9 to 3. WOW!! That little pond is flat out on fire! Several guys caught bass over 7 pounds and Bill Siemantel put on a swim bait clinic with 5 fish for over 30 pounds.

      My best fish went 3+ and came on a Senko pitched up next to a laydown tree. But I saw dozens of bucks on beds with 5 to 8 pound females cruising nearby. They will all be up on beds this week with the full moon. If you choose to fish those beds, please practice catch and release. As long as you release the fish quickly, they should just go right back to the bed.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Trout colored swimbaits fished slowly on prespawn/post spawn migration routes can deliver some great fun.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-59 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boy, was it windy out there. 3 of us launched out of Paradise Point at 6:00A. Fished the points of tule island. First 15 minutes, caught 3 stripers on Rat L Traps. Spent most of the day trying to hide from the wind. Fish were scattered. It was a "one slough - one fish" day -- only caught 5 keeper large mouth (largest - 2lbs) and a few small ones.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Caught bass on both Rat L Traps and wh/char spinner baits. Fish were all in shallow waters or next to rocky bank.

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      Water Temp: aprox. 66-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing at the slough this week has been difficult and frustrating. Weekend before last caught many fish in several different locations on several different sizes and many different colored Senkos. Caught first big fish of the year (10lb.)on 7in. motor oil/red Senko.+ many other respectable fish. This last week I've only managed 1-2 fish per day with the largest a 5lb.'r that I caught last nite on a modified Senko. Help !
      City: Holt

      Tips: When a cold from comes upon us, Do the fish relocate to deeper water or do they still stay close to their nesting grounds ? Help me be more productive !

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 3 days on the lake wished I had my partner with me. Fri morning got up and watched the Stratos regional blast off in some very high nasty wind decided since I wasn't in the tournament to wait till it died down which turned out to be about 11a launched with my 7yr old daughter glad I was in a 20ft Stratos it was till a little rough went into Rodman started catching fish right away on small plastics went to pitching a 6" Junebug Keeper tootsie Roll worm into the very deep cover and that is where the bigger fish were managed to find one fish a little over 9lbs Quit about 2:30 and the best five went about 27lbs. Went back out 1st thing Sat morning with my 10yr old son the weather and water were the best went back to rodman did the same stuff and boated about 17 to 18 lbs for the day. Even and bad day on Clear Lkae is better than a great day at work but thes few days were pretty good for me and the kids
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Deep cover medium to large baits don't fish to fast take your time don't try and force feed these fish and you should do well. For Camping the willow point camp ground right next to library park is under new management for the last couple years and Chad the manager has really fixed the place up nice it is recommened

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A friend and I went out about 4 pm after the 30 mph winds we've had for the past two days died down to under 15 mph. It has been a couple of years since I've been on Folsom. We went up the south fork and couldn't get bit until about 30 minutes before sunset. Then we picked up our first fish, a nice 4.6, on a big black jig and about 20 minutes later, another 2.5 on the jig. I thought it was interesting that we caught the fish on 20 lb. XT (didn't bother to change line before trip) in relatively clear water. It makes me wonder why I bothered with 6 lb line for so many years back when I fished the lake on a regular basis. Both fish were relatively shallow. We didn't try drop-shotting so that bite might have been better.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed the main back lake with two other avid anglers. Caught a total of 9 bass ranging from 13in-17in. Caught most on 5' Senko's however I did get one on a Spinner at around 10:15. The fish are biting right now, great time to be an angler.

      NO MORE BITES.........
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Fish the tullies on the left side of the lake between 6am -11am should be no deeper then 6 ft.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got on the lake @6am. pretty windy. tried to stay away from it all day and we did. my friend and i landed about 30 fish. 18 were keepers. and the rest were dinks.two came unhooked both being atleast 4lbs. one i think might even have pushed 6lbs. owells we landed a few over four today too..all in all it was good...
      City: san francisco

      Tips: proper hooksets and a LOOMIS rod w/ a CURADO SUPERFREE.................i LOVE fishing....

Thursday, April 1st, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started to Launch at the Break this morning but it was really windy so we changed up and went for smallies, 1st trip for them this year. One person guide trip, tought day, we got 12 in the boat and lost almost as many. A couple of 3 lbers but most were 1-2lbs Since the wind was blowing 20-30 mph we we limited to a spinnerbait and Rattle trap. The only spinnerbait we caught fish on was the Assassinater Southern Shad 1/2oz and the Trap was a Baby Bass colored one , I forgot the name its the one with the eletrode in front of the eye. The fish were all on deep rock banks, pre spawn, bend in the river lots of current and semi out of the wind.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Fish fast , reel slow and cover lots of water. NO doubt when you get a bite. When the water warms a little more and the river get clearer the bite will be on.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm wandering if anybody could help me out please? I'm stuck to the bank, but love bass fishing. I do pretty good at some lakes, but I want to try the delta. Does anybody have any ideas on places or on techniques for good bank fishing for bass on the delta? I need it to be somewhere in the Lodi to Tracy area. I can't go to far beyond those areas. Thanks a lot.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: Save money so you can buy a boat!

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished for about 3 hours with my nephew, i managed to catch a 5.1 beautiful largemouth near the island,on a grape plastic worm, I released her after taking several pictures. The only other fish we caught was a ten inch dink on a brown jig,near the third dock. It was extremely windy out. IT REALLY CONCERNS ME THAT THE WATER HAS BEEN KEPT THIS LOW, IT SEEMS TO HAVE CONTINUED TO DROP SINCE MY LAST VISIT IN FEBRUARY. IF THIS KEEPS UP IT WILL RUIN THE BASS FISHING FOR YEARS TO COME. VERY FEW OF THE BASS FRY WILL SURVIVE.
      City: antioch

      Tips: Fish the deeper weedbeds, with the water being low, all tules are out of the water. water is stained use brighter colored plastics. HOPE THAT THE POWERS THAT BE, LET THE LAKE FILL UP.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: So SP Rob where you been? Catching any whoppers on Pablo(more than your 6lb best)? Had any 20 fish days? Any clients? Just checking, I have been fishing there and I haven't seen you at the ramp! I haven't had any 10 fish days maybe I should book a trip. You licensed? Insured? For real?
      City: Walnut Creek

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out @ 6am. Ran up the pit. Fish seemed to be at the mouths of the creeks still? caught 5 by 8:30; out at 8:58. Windy.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Fish were spiting up shad.