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Sunday, March 28th, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I'd try Pardee for a few hours on Sunday morning. Was decent--not great. Fished until noon and got 8 fish. 1 beautiful smallie at 4 lbs., 1 largemouth at 3 lbs, and the rest all smallmouth in the 1 1/2 lb. range. Took fish on a variety of baits. Oxblood keeper worms, flukes, smoke grubs. Fish were scattered--5-20 ft. deep. Saw a lot of cleaned areas and fishing cruising.
      City: Galt

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

      Report: I agree with John Gray, fishing is still very slow at Trinity. Fished today with a client from Redding, only boated 3 fish. 1-LM @ 3.9 lbs. 1-SM@ 3.0 lbs and a 1.5 lb SM.
      Still a wonderful day on this great Lake. The fishing this year is like nothing I can remember, this lake is normally on fire for reaction baits this time of the year, but all my fish came on plastics.
      City: Redding

      Tips: A trip to Trinity can be very rewarding or it can kick your butt

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake @ 0800 and fished intill 1800. Cought around 25 fish. one 4 lber and all the rest around 1 1/2 lbs. fished in the shallow coves using spinnerbaits in green and watermellon splitshot lizerds. fish are shallow so throw them right on the bank and deep in cover. will be on the lake on 3-29-04 all da hope to see you out there.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: get there early the lakes are starting to get crowded. fished one cove with four other boats lined up to get in it.

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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out at 8:00 took me and a friend about 21/2 hours to catch.started at the dam (nice) went to the right there was a cove with a lot of weeds pulled a 2lber out the one the same size off rocks right next to it.used texas rigged baby brush hogs and like a purple kind of texas rigged baby brush hog.real windy.
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: just wait and youll get one

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

      Report: Took my son out and fished all day Saturday in Central Delta...Day started slow...two 2.5lbs on topwater around 9:00 AM then nothing until after 11:30. Caught two 4+ fish on Zippers in deeper water 8-12 feet on rock/weed walls. Caught a couple smaller fish on the same bank with a Black/Blue Revenge jig...Wind picked up and I started throwing blades and rip baits in shallow banks with wind blowing into them and the bite took off...Nothing big but several 2-4 fish and these fish destroyed the bait unlike the jig/zipper fish which were pressure only takes. All in all a great day on the water with the little tyke.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Considering the pressure these fish are receiving deeper water areas near spawining shallows seem to be the ticket. Caught fish on wh/wh with gold blades and NC Shell lucky craft 100. Find areas where you can run a bank without running into another boat and you'll really enjoy your time on the water. Stay safe. TG

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crystal clear water down to 12 ft at times, day was sunny and breezy. Caught one on my second cast on a witches-t. We got two more later on a senco. Lake looks really bassy. Jigs and cranks didn't work for us, just worms. Bass maybe in the 2 pound range.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: New to this lake so can't give any tips. Maybe it just wasn't our day. Bring plenty of tackle, lake is snaggy.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ~55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Caught a nice 3 pounder on Thurs using a shad colored senko. Went out around 7AM on Friday and got skunked. We did manage to get a few bites, but no takers. On Saturday, we caught a bunch ranging from 1lb-5lbs using a chartreuse 3/8oz spinner, shad patterened flukes, green colored spooks with sparkles, and a smoke colored senkos. Fished again on Sunday and got a bunch of hits on a chartreuse spinner, but coudn't land one in the boat.
      All fish were caught in the north end of the lake. We tried the south end, but didn't get anything.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: Not too many fish in the tules. Look for submerged islands. Fish slow.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 87

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out twice with a friend last week and did very well. Both trips we caught several fish in the 5-7 pound range including a nice 8 1/2 pound female sitting on a bed. The lake is wide open so have fun.

      Tips: Caught almost all of the fish 8-10 feet from the shore. Try keeping your boat approximately 20 ft from the shore and work a spinner(white) slowly away from the shore.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing this morning at 5:30 and tried fishing Parish Cove, Vinton Gulch and Spring Valley. Did well in all of them. Fish were slammin the senko rigged texas without a wieght. Spotted a big bass in the shallows at Parish Cove she had to be at least 8 pounds. I tried to get her to bite but she wasn't sticking around to see what I had to offer. For once I caught more largemouths than spots! That's a nice change once in a while but it doesn't happen much. For me anyway.
      City: paradise

      Tips: I'm not sure if the color matters too much on the senkos. I had fish bite every color I tried. ( I stayed away from bright colors ) I had only one srike on a jerkbait but by the way those bass were boiling on the shad I'm sure that you can catch some nice fish on them if you stick with it. Fish shallow!

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      Water Temp: Not Tested

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hi I'm a regular fisherman on a this lake both for bass and trout but I found out I got more skills or Luck on trout I wanna start Volunteer fishing Instruction to the beginner or just starting to get into fishing specially young kids 16 below some adults are welcome too and you have to have your parents permission be doing it every weekend Saturday mostly If you know a group or any clubs who want to join please drop me an email and be glad to help
      if I'm gonna have enough people then I'll Start
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: I'll tell you when we guys meet

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed the main back pond saturday from 7 to noon. Pulled 5 bass out with best 17 1/2 inches and pretty fat. One was a 12 incher the rest around 14 to 15 . Used Pumpkin with purple/green flake with chartrouse tails 5 ich senkos. Great day on the water, a little overcast . The bite is starting to pick up..
      City: Dublin

      Tips: If you have a tube just fish about 20 yards from the bank and throw towards all tullies , logs and tree cover..Good luck to all
      Happy Anglin

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well, sat was the day of my derby at sugarloaf cottages up the sac arm, and i had fun, except for having my engine die and i came in like 3rd to last place. Caught fish on worms, and brush hogs, one of the brush hog fish had a crawfish in its mouth, so i guess they want crawfish now. it was real cold, and horrible weather on fri, so the fish turned off almost. anyways work the rip rap and steep banks.

      Tips: brush hogs, and brown green worms are best now, fish will pick up later with warm weather. good luck

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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: For my 14 b-day got up early and headed out to packers bay. launched at 7:30 and headed over to waters gultch on the sac arm. first ten minutes picked up a few dinks. around 8:30 it picked up caught about 9 fish within 1 hour all weighing over 1 1/2 pounds on my new favorite shad colored grub/worm thing.(ha). Headed up the arm a little further and found some bigger steep rocky slopes. within the first 30 min i had caught three fish pushing 2 1/2 on the same bait then caught the best smallie i have in a while, a nice 3 pounder off a rocky point. then went up to the sugar loaf area and landed my personal best bass at shasta a huge 4 1/2 pound prespwan spott. that just made my b-day.
      City: Redding

      Tips: There are fish everywhere off steep rockey banks and points suspended in about 25-30 feet. today they were taken shad colored anything. the is NO STRIKE the line just gets very heavy. its great fishin.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Heard how easy the bass fishing was and had to give it a try.Got up to the lake around 06:30 and was surprised by the rain. It only lasted an hr or so, but at least there wasn't wind. My good friend and I fished from 06:30 until 14:00. His frist 2 casts produced 2 bass,even before I was done rigging.After about 10 fish, we decided to photo all the bass we caught. We ended up with 49 bass, smallies and largmouth. Only 5 were dinks, most were males in the 2 lb range, but we did get some up to 7 lbs. Even caught one while putting the boat on the trailer. Over all, if you want to catch a lot of bass, now is the time to take a kid fishing. All the fish were in less than 8'. We did try Yorty, and in 2 hrs of fishing we only managed to get 5 bites, so we went back out on the main lake. It seemed that if there wasn't any mossy weed, we caught fish.Wood,rock and chunk rock with a flat produced best.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Release any females caught. Put on sunblock BEFORE fishing. Use barbless hooks.Used watermelon senkos w/blk flake and red flake (2 dif colors). Fish wood, rock and roads in less than 8'. Fish no moss.Take a lot of pictures. Have a great time. email me if you want more info.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Float tubing from 3PM to 6PM. Caught one trout and two bass. The trout hit a 1/2 ounce Rat-L-Trap that I intended to fish for bass. What an aggressive trout! Continued fishing the Rat-L-Trap for half an hour with no hit. Switched to Senko and caught two bass (6 and 12 inch).
      City: Palo Alto

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 51+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with a couple of Sacto gents today and found the fishing pretty slow. But as often happens, the bites we did get were quality fish. Topped by a pair fo 3.5 smallies. Never touched a LM go figure.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Fish were caught on Model A's, gitzits, and darthead worms, all in approx 6'.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 57-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out to Whiskeytown for my first tubing trip there in over a month..got in at the second pond heading west on 299 at 11 am..fished till 3:00..got 5 fish at the second pond on a pointer 78 ghost pattern..I think the key was fishing it on really light line(6 Lb)got a limit for 7-8 lbs..with two 2+ spots..noticed some beds that were vacant some fish have already done their thing..best fish came on steep banks..but also got fish on the slower tapering banks..The water is schedueled to come back up around the 15th of april..
      City: Redding

      Tips: small Lucky craft rip baits..and splitshot too...lots of weeds so its very hard to jig...Go to Phils and we will hook ya up with what ya need...

Friday, March 26th, 2004

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 57-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I guided a father-son team Saturday that wanted to learn some new techniques of worm fishing. It started off kind of slow, but by 10 am the fishing really picked up - or the folks just got better!! We found a school or two of largemouth and spots and landed 17 of them, mostly split-shotting 4 and 6 inch worms by Berkley and Camanche Jack. Our largest bass was 2 lbs 6 oz. Green pumpkin, junebug, and morning dawn seemed to be the best colors. I think we got one on a ripbait early. We tried cranking some with no results. We found fish quite shallow in a few coves - as shallow as 5 feet. They did seem to be near brush. Two large bass followed one of their worms right to the boat but turned at the last minute. We also used #221 and #222 5" Senkos. While it was a cool day - a post front day with the sun coming out at 9 am - the wind wasn't a problem until the end of the trip. I think they will do well in the future - they said they learned a lot about the lake and how to fish it.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Be very aware of your jigs and worms and what is happening under the water. Many of our "bites" were not bites at all. A few of the bass were on without us knowing it. Spring bites can be very subtle. If you are in doubt - set the hook!! Very slow presentations still seemed to work the best. Big bass are still deeper and have not moved up yet. April should be the month.

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

      Report: I haven't fished Trinity in quite awhile. Is there a boat dock at the dam ramp?
      City: Redding

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I haven't fished Trinity in quite awhile. Is there a boat dock at the dam ramp?
      City: Redding