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Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out about 10:00. Started throwing a black and red Bobby D jig with a reaction innovations sweet beaver trailer black and red. Stop at the first cove to the right of the lagoon and worker a weed bed in about 3ft of water. I got bumps on the jig but no big takers. Then followed it up with a Grey Ghost worm in green, and bam the fish showed up. I got 3 in about ten minutes all about 2.5 to 3lbs. Saw a lot of bed fish some are very spooky, in fact all of them. The ones I caught I had a good angle on so they didnt see me. I saw a fish just pass the the third dock that looked like a whale. The fish was easily ten plus. She swam off and I could still see her in 3ft of stained water, and the male that was with her looked a solid five. She was way to spooked to be caught. There are already fry and baby bass swimming around so if you arent on the lake now your gonna miss out.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Get some good polarized glasses and pay attention to water swirls and splashes the fish will tell you where they are. And be patient good fishin

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake around 7 a.m. my buddy Curtis got 2 fish. One on the second cast on a crank bait. Then one much later on a wacky senko. I got 4 fish the bigest two weighed in at 6.0 and 7.5! The other two were 2 & 3 pounds. All senko fish texas style. bass are in pre-spawn still. The little males are getting ready in the shallows, while the big girls are waiting in the wings. Love those large ladys! The carp are going off and stirring up the mud. I'll be out there next wensday, see ya.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Senko, Senko, Senko! Why fish with any thing else? Thanks Gary Yamamoto!

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was decent, just missed the spawn.New size limit 12 inches, got about 13 fish on 3"purple mist split shotting 2-15 feet. good luck all.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: MGM is still in business but in the process of moving to a new location. John Coyle, the owner, can be reached at (530)246-3663 most weekdays after 9 AM.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out there around 8am. Hooked up my first bass aroun 8:30 dragging a tube bait. She went around 3lbs. After that nothing for about three hours. Started hooking in to them when I started to drag my bait around flats. The biggest was a 5lber. All in all it was a good day of fishing, better than working. I must have hooked into a school cruzing around the flats. Caught about 15 that day. Not every flat was productive. All of them was nice clones. All was averaging around 1 1/2 to 2 pounds.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Dragging or carolina rigging would be your best bet. Take it slow, but some of my bites came right when my lure hit the water. keep searching their on the pre-spawn mode.

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day. Caught 16 bass, all shallow. Used white tubes, lizards and plastic worms. Some fish on the beds and others crusing the shore. Nothing big yet.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Fish shallow and keep moving.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58 to 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw the first cast at 10 and caught fish til 6:30 on the last cast. Caught 10 smallies and 1 largie. 4 drop shottin and 7 on blades. Bite was consistent all day long. Best five went for 12 lbs. I love smallies, such a good fight! Took my girlfriend and one of my buddies out on wednesday and both of them caught there first bass ever. My girl caught 2 and buddy caught 3 nice spots and lost one near the boat. (ROOKIE) I caught 3 and missed 4 bites, off day, in 3 hours we boated 9 fish and had a great St. Patties Day.
      City: Davis

      Tips: Drop shottin, crankbaits and blades, tight lines!

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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry can't give out to much info, have the Future Pro tourney on Saturday. All I can say is that the bite is on. Caught 29 bass. Spots, smallies, largies, fish were there and biting. One good smallie on blades 3.2 rest on plastics. Going to be a fun tourney. I think everyone will catch fish. Best five was just over 11, but not enought to win. Need to find the bigger fish. Going to lake again on thursday. Good Luck on Saturday.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Have fun and don't run out of the hot color of plastics that are working.....

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: Boilin' Hot

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got back out there after em before work. Landed 2 males small as hell. Saw many fisherman scopeing beds. Best fish I saw was ~12lbs. Couldn't get her to go, her stubborn little boyfriend wouldn't leave my bait alone. Tryin again before work tomorrow. Boy I love the Spring.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED AT JONES VALLEY AT 6AM AND HEADED UP THE PIT. WINDY AT JONES PUT UP HIGHER ON THE PIT IT WAS CALM.FIRST TWO HOURS THREW BLADES AND RIP BAITS. CAUGHT FISH ON BOTH BAITS BUT NONE OVER 2LBS. MOST CAME ON THE LUCKY CRAFT POINTER MINNOW.AROUND 9AM STARTED FISHING JIGS AND CAUGHT 20 FISH ALL OF THEM SPOTS EXCEPT FOR THREE AND TWO OF THOSE WERE NICE SMALLMOUTH AND ONE WAS A INDANGERED SPECIES ON SHASTA A LARGEMOUTH WHICH WAS 2.2LBS LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GETTING READY TO RAISE A FAMILY SO PUT HER RIGHT BACK IN THE WATER.SO SHE CAN GET STARTED.GREAT DAY ON THE WATER. THE COSTCO QUEEN GOT BEAT ON THE CATCHEN END AGAIN BUT NOT BY MUCH,
      City: ANDERSON

      Tips: LARGEMOUTH CAME OFF THE BANK WITH A JIG IN SHALLOW WATER.TRY GOING DOWN THE BANK WITH A RIPP BAIT AND A SPINNER BAIT EARLY MORNING I CAUGHT FISH ON A WHITE 3/8OZ BLADE AND A GOAST POINTER MINNOW EVERY THING ELSE ON JIGS AND A COUPLE OF WORM FISH.

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

      Report: Fished Yorty from 7 am till 330 pm. Caught 21 LMB. Best 5 went about 14 lbs. Biggest went about 3 1/2-4 lbs. Got 3 on crawdad pattern crankbaits early morning got the rest on plastics. Fish were all over the place, seemed to hit on just about everything. Was a great day on the water/bank. Thanks Dad had a great time!

      Deacon
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: fish near tules and you cant go wrong.

Monday, March 15th, 2004

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hooked 8 bass to 2.5 pounds. All fish were shallow (less than 5 feet deep), near the banks and tules. Used SENKOS, caroline rigged brush hogs and drop shotted Roboworms. Left at 1pm.

      Tips: Bring sunblock! Fish the banks and tules.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at packers at 5:30 went over and found a couple creeks feeding into some trees flipped a big football head jig-and-pig, good results second cast picked up a nice 3 pounder after that was slow until around 8:00 caught 2 more 1 1/2 pounders then called it a day.
      City: redding

      Tips: bite as a little slow fish lots of water real slow.

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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out today and had one of the best days in a long time. I have fished the banks of Jones valley for six years now and not many have been like this one. About 25 bass in six hours time{7am-1pm} and all from the bank.I had one 13" small mouth and the rest spots ranging from 12-17".They killed a fast shaking worm near bushes in 8-15 feet of water.The more clear the better.
      City: REDDING

      Tips: Clear green and brown mothers finest worm in 6" worked the best from the boat ramp down to the J.V. mouth.(BUSHES)

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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I launched at jones valley about 6am; and took off up the pit to reynolds creek. water was 54 and falling as I was going up. caught one at the mouth of reynolds and started working my way back to the ramp. Fishing was slow today.caught four dinks by 10am. they all bit light colored worms, in about 10-20 ft of water. All fish were 11-12". I had went out friday and the bite was better; and fish bigger. The bite was REAL SOFT today; caught one by just setting the hook when I got ready to "reel in".VERY windy for my little 14` gregor. So I got out early.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: don`t forget the plug.

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

      Report: float tubed all afternoon up at yorty creek. threw spinners, cranks, plastic craws, worms, top water, all colors and no luck until about 5:00 pm. I got back in the weeds right where the creek comes in and found the spawning beds. Hooked a huge fish on light line with a split shot rig, 6 inch red worm with blue streek. fish are really white but fight good and fun to catch. endend up catching only one but lost two to my light tackle.
      City: rohnert park

      Tips: try to get back into the weeds with heavy line and most likely a bait cast rod and reel(flippin stick) throw brush hogs or big spinners ito the weeds and let them drop on the beds.

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58*-64*

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Drove up saturday mornin to meet with a couple of buddies,dropped all my nonessentials off like cloths and food.Arriving about 6:15,My partner already at the door,like a big dog ready to take a pee,and so we head out.Begun throwing spinnerbaits in shad pattern,well Chris picking smallie afterr smallie,one of them a 3.5lber,i hadn't yet felt the rythm.The rythm was a slow role and i think my blades were too small and fast,so i tried another of my home mades with some more thump and well that hit it home for me.We were nailing them dead all through Putah Creek.Spots,more Smallies and an occasional largemouth.should of cranked,however didn't,afternoon came and it heated up,not the bite,but the climate and water.It slowed up and we resorted to yamamoto grubs ,watermelon w/red flake ST.,@about 12-18ft.It was kinda of difficult to remember what was under all that water,that was the highest i've ever seen it.The bite sure seemed to taper down as more boats arrived.There was a tourney at the south end and not many made to the north,So we got bass throught out the night and the next morning and sat. day and got the heck outa there around 4:30.I'm tired now fellow bass fisherman,The bite is pretty nice however,alll species of fish biten,picked up a 4lb cat on that grub."Anyways".
      City: Fremont

      Tips: HAVE FUN AND GET OUT THERE EARLY FOR THE BEST BITE I THINK,DO SET HOOKS,CAUSE JERKS ARE FOR FREE,IT MIGHT BE A LUNKER

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      Water Temp: 56-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent today guiding Norman & Lucas Bowden. Young Lucas fished our Pro-Teen last year for the first time, got so hooked on bass fishing he convinced his dad to buy a new Triton, now they're fishing the Future Pro Tour together. The purpose of this trip, and the next 7, is to work with these two in showing them how to, not only patter and catch seasonal bass, but to effectively prepare and fish for a tournament. And did I mention ta have some fun!

      We started our day at Markley going over the Lake map, the species in the lake and seasonal patterns. I explained to them, to win on this lake, you need to pattern the largemouth first, the other two species will follow and fill in your bites. Then off we went to go find some fish. We sarted with a jig-n-pig, a ripbait and a Jig-n-grub. First cast dads got a nice 2 pound spot on the brown purple jig-in grub. Cooch then misses two fish on the jig-n-pig and ole Lucas is now putting down the ripbait. 15 minutes later I put the first largemouth in the boat on the jig-n-pig, three keeper spots are added to the well before we move and fish a laydown tree and I pull another 3+ largemouth out of it with a bigger fish trailing behind(obviously the female!) I then put a 9 Series 215 SENKO in Lucas' hand and commences to put 4 really nice spots in the boat. We bounced around all day catching a total of 22 keepers and a number of shorts. Best five, which included 3 largemouth(7 total), that went just over 13.5 pounds. The water was purty stained up by afternoon due to ALL the boat traffic on the lake, WOW, this weather sure brings em up to this lake early! Coming back through the narrows to Markely was like ridding down the San Jaquine heading to Ladd's at 3:00 on a sunny June afternoon. Great fishing day, and not too bad a catching day ta boot for a lake that's yet ta pop wide open.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Brown - purple 1/2 oz football jigs caught the majority of our fish. The largemouth & smallies ate the pork, the spots took to the double tail 209 trailer. The Senko worked well in clear areas. Our fish all came in the top 10 foot water zone on steeper rocky banks, with the three best fish coming out of the tree top of lay down trees. Fish have still yet to move in numbers, look for them on the deeper transition walls. Late afternoon, rip the mudlines!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out the day in the break. Could not help but notice the AM water temp in the 60's. Tried ripping a clown lucky craft, flipping Senkos and a PBJ bump in the tules but no takers. Started throwing a Persuader double willow (wht+char) farmed a 4.0 @ the boat and landed dink.

      Headed to Franks' and caught 3's and 4's+ slow rolling the blade. Caught 4 fish from 11:00 - 12:00 weighing over 15.0.


      Ryan
      City: folsom

      Tips: All of the bites were pressure bites!!! Set the hook on everything, I would have had that first fish had I known.

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      Water Temp: 62-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-fished a few mornings during the week down south with fair results. Focused on a shallow flip bite near spawning areas. Blk/red jig, watermelon/red senko, blk/red and watermelon red brush hogs all produced a slow but consistant bite of 2.5 -4lb fish with a 6.10 thrown in for good luck. Sat headed out to the Break for a change of scenery. By 9am (around the high tide turnover)my girlfriend and I boated 15 fish with several 4's and a few 3's. Sun, fished the AC semi-pro and headed back to the break. Almost 2 hours without a bite, then came the tide change and Bam! 5 for 16.32lbs put us in 8th with a small check. Unfortunately, I farmed a 4+ right at the boat which would have moved us close to 3rd. But that's why it's called fishing and not catching.
      City: TRACY

      Tips: Morn water temps are holding in the low 60's. We found several fish already starting to bed in protected areas.