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Sunday, February 29th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 53 deg.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out late but did not mater ish didnt wake up till 11:00 anyway. I only got a ew bites but they were nice 2+lb at boys. One on a senko and the others on a worm about 20t deep. water looks great just a little cold still. No thunder trout this year or what?? Havent seen those orange reaks cruisin the shallows at all.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: ished slow, then slower then slower, then I inally got some bites.......

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47.9-49.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 0615, lake is down to 22.15 t, air temp 39 degrees. The oldest boy up or his annual bet or breakast. He has lost 13 and won 2. Back over to same area as yesterday iguring a quick one on a blade will get my breakast paid or. Get a bump on third cast then nothing else. move to my 2nd spot and get a pull down on a jig but it hopped o. Russell is getting a bit nervous, start looking around and the ish I ound yesterday are no where to be ound. Pull out to another spot and start looking deeper and ind them in a deep cove and get taped again but nothing there. Run to another spot and stick a decent one in 35 t and the boy is on his knees praying it will hop o but it doesn't and in the net goes a 2.33 spot. Fish a bit more and nothing else. Had 7 in the boat yesterday beore 9 AM and only the one today at 9 AM. My stomach is growling in anticipation so o we go to the Giant Orange, me with a grin and Russell with a lighter pocket. This boy just won't learn. The ish sure moved around since yesterday, got out at 10AM, 63 degrees and only 14 rigs in the lot. Bryce, your jig saved my bacon, again. Debris load a lot less today, the north wind yesterday pushed a lot onto the banks, lat water or the most part today.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 47.9-49.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 0615, lake is down to 22.15 t, air temp 39 degrees. The oldest boy up or his annual bet or breakast. He has lost 13 and won 2. Back over to same area as yesterday iguring a quick one on a blade will get my breakast paid or. Get a bump on third cast then nothing else. move to my 2nd spot and get a pull down on a jig but it hopped o. Russell is getting a bit nervous, start looking around and the ish I ound yesterday are no where to be ound. Pull out to another spot and start looking deeper and ind them in a deep cove and get taped again but nothing there. Run to another spot and stick a decent one in 35 t and the boy is on his knees praying it will hop o but it doesn't and in the net goes a 2.33 spot. Fish a bit more and nothing else. Had 7 in the boat yesterday beore 9 AM and only the one today at 9 AM. My stomach is growling in anticipation so o we go to the Giant Orange, me with a grin and Russell with a lighter pocket. This boy just won't learn. The ish sure moved around since yesterday, got out at 10AM, 63 degrees and only 14 rigs in the lot. Bryce, your jig saved my bacon, again. Debris load a lot less today, the north wind yesterday pushed a lot onto the banks, lat water or the most part today.
      City: Redding

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tip for float tubing: Make sure your waders DONT leak!!! That water, on average, is about 50-55degrees and if your waders leak than it sucks a lot!

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 52 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fourteen boaters in a local club tourney with a ive ish limit. Winner had 11 lbs. 3 oz. w/the big ish o 3 lbs. 11 oz.. He caught his ish dragging plastics in Green Creek. 2nd place had 10 lbs. 5 oz. pitching jigs in Black Creek and 3rd had 9 lbs. 4 oz. also jig ishing in Black Creek. Our ive ish totaled 8 lbs. 8 oz. caught split shotting craw colored our inch worms around boat docks in Black Creek. The males have started moving up to groom beds.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Pitch jigs or split shot worms, green craw or purple ghost, in likely bedding areas.

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched about 8:30 and went back to the river arm to ind alot o muddy water so came back to the main body and started ishing points like everybody else. Looked like everyone else was drop shotting so I thought I'd start working a darter with a minnow and got nailed by a 5.1# trout. Worked on around the bank and pulled out the spinner to hit another large trout. No bass today. Guess I need more practice on Amador, but @ $30 or 2 people to ish rom a boat(+ gas rom Stockton)...I'll have to stretch out my practice sessions.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: No tips here, I need some mysel

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL A FRIEND AND I LAUNCHED OUT OF RIVERS END MARINA TODAY @ ABOUT 8:15AM. I HOOKED UP WITH ONE AS WE FISHED OUR WAY OUT OF THE SLOUGH, ABOUT 1 1/2 lbs. BLADES. 54 DEG. WATER AND ABOUT 2 FOOT VIS.. DIDN'T HOOK UP AGAIN UNTIL ABOUT 1:00 PM, THIS ONE WENT 5 lbs. (NICE) SAW A COUPLE FISH CRUISING NEAR ITALIAN SLOUGH. I HOOKED UP A DINK ON A SENKO (ITALIAN) AND MY BUDDY HOOKED UP @ ABOUT 4:00PM, A NICE KEEPER. OVERALL A TOUGH DAY BUT MANAGED A FEW FISH. STILL LEARNING THOSE DELTA WATERS.
      City: SAN JOSE

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 6 quality bass all on dierent baits. 2 about 4lbs came on craw speed trap and at Ika. The rest about 2lbs - slow rolled char./gold blade spinnerbait, red/black tube crawdad colored grub and 8" zoom red/black lizrad. all plastics rigged texas. Speed trap and spinner reeled real slow. The 3 biggest had crawdad tails sticking out o every opening.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Water less muddy than expected. catch one/check or crawdads. I it has crawdads sticking, out the bite is on. Only lasted or 10 minutes or me.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 47-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well, inailly gettin the boat back out and not a good start. Managed to get 2 today one one was 3lbs and the other 1 lb.Everyone told me to ish deep but it didnt work or me.So i ished in 2' to 5' o water and got em on a shad pattern spinnerbait. Should be turnin on reel soon.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: purple shad spinnerbaits

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

      Report: great ishing day got out late around 2pm but the weather was great. only second time ive ished this huge lake but i always seem to hook up here whether im ishing around the dam trolling or trout, or shooting the coves or bass. tried my luck in the mcloud coves caught a ew small bass in some o the shallower o the coves i could ind. was shooting some crank baits and some strike king spinners, had best luck on spinners in 15-20 eet o water in the smaller, shallower coves. saw the boat next to me hook up twice while i was ishing one o the coves near them, shortly ater i hooked in to a nice 2.2lb largemouth, caught another small one sha tiny ortly ater. ished more random coves with no luck. traveled back towards packers bay where we lanched at and stopped periodicly and ished coves and hooked up with another small bass and a buddy i was with inally hook up with one.overall a great day..
      City: red blu

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      Water Temp: 47.6-49.7

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: In at 0630 at Bailey Cove, air temp 39, lake at 19.86 and muddy in coves, ran over into the lower McCloud and the mouth or 7 by 9AM, irst 2 on blades and the attest was a 2.8 smallmouth, had 5 more on jigs and no dinks. best ive went 12.58 and they hit the jigs with a decent "thump". Lots o debris especially out in ront o bridge bay and around the bubbles, not a lot o big stu but huge clumps o small stu in scum lines. Most o the stu you need to worry about was blown to the banks the past ew days. Got out at 1030 with 40 rigs in the lot at 60 degrees, wind out o the north at 5-7. Very pleasant morning.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at sunup and pulled out at noon. Weather was perect all day long

      Tips: Fish slow. I burned lest than one gallon o gassoline. Use dark colors - I used dark green (my Grey Ghost). The very sot outished my irmer baits. The very small six inch worms worked better than my larger worms - not sure why.

Friday, February 27th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Some guys are catchin em but no luck or me out o Lazy this aternoon till 4 on high tide. Fished Widows/Italian or a couple o hours. Drop shot, Texas rigged lizzard, and jigged but not gettin this winter/spring thing at the Delta. I hear about the limits and 25 lb. bags but 0 or 5 trips in 04. I saw A ish caught right in ront o me...a dink but a ish. Texas rigged brush hog blk/red
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: A guide maybe. I I knew the trick I would share it. Good luck Mikey

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey good to see that they put this lake on here. As the current Largemouth Record Bass holder let me tell you a little about the lake. O.K. so I got lucky and caught a 6lb Bass there in December. I have fished the lake 2 times for Bass from a boat and 2 times from shore so I am no authority. Sorry to see that Sturgeon Kid got hosed on the boat rental. As far as the lake it is good sized with not much shore structure. This lake is packed with trout so the Bassin should get good soon. I cruised it with my portable fish finder and found some great underwater structure in places. I tried to find as much info as I could about the lake before I went for the first time. Not much info out there. I did read that when they filled it there were 9 farm ponds that were absorbed. Rumor has it that they shocked the ponds prior to filling and there were largemouth in some up to 9lbs! SO maybe there is a huge one in here already. The lake has great potential and gets very little fishing pressure. Half the lake has no shore access and you can only put rental boats on the lake. This along with the insane boat rental prices will keep pressure on the lake low. If you want any more info or have some to share drop me an email.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Small plastics splitshotted and the good old drop shot.

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

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

      Report: John Gray,Do you ever catch ish under 4 pounds? Keep it real.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: Go ishing with John.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004

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

      Report: Gave it a shot today looking or big ish and got one on a Lucky Crat Moonsault CB 350. About an 8#... OK, so it had whiskers, but it was a lot o un. I was thinking I had the lake record on my hands and was yelling at my riend to get the camera out.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: The rains raised the water temp but today was pretty clear and cold. Just need a little stability weather wise and the lake will start to produce.

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Despite some rain and a little wind my buddy and I decided to give shadow clis a shot on our day o. we ished rom 6:30-10:30. Tried the back lakes throwing a brown worm and red senko with no luck. Then we hit the main lake on the second dock and caught a bass on a large krocadile. The lure was maybe 10t o the dock and deep. We tried the ar dock and I got a good bite o the red senko but no more ish were landed. Good luck & stay dry
      City: Danville

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 55 and up

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: we dicided to stop by CFW and give it a try. the water i up to the top.only managed a ew ish around 2lbs on 6'' straight tail in june bug..the water is a bit murky still.only ished or about 4hrs so we didnt get a chance to ish my spots.ound the ish in about 10' o water.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: the bass we caught seemed to be eeding on baitish,there bellys were ull.the lake should heat up and when it does you better hold that rod and not look back.typical plastics work...baitish = bass!

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Visited Hennessy earlier in the week ater the heaviest o the rains and ound it so chocolate-colored that I just turned around and went home. Came back Tuesday, and the color had turned somewhat greenish so I decided to throw a little rom shore.Started out at 2:45 pm at one o my lucky spots with no success. Tried another area that looks good on the road up to Chiles Valley, but again, no luck. I was thinking o heading home, but stopped at another spot that has been good to me. Tied on a black jig that I had recently repainted with a purple kalen's grub with lakes in it. I decided to add a worm rattle or a little extra noise. Got a real light bump on the irst throw toward the edge o some dried up tules. Threw back to the same spot and the bait just got hammered. Brought it to shore and the largemouth measured 19.5 inches, 6.2#.Switched to my other rod, rigged with the brightest colored spinnerbait in my bag. About 20 minutes later, stuck a 3.5 on this rig. This was caught on the other side o the same stand o tules.For the rest o the time I was there, I just kind o switched back and orth between the two rods and caught one more largemouth that hit while quickly reeling in to throw another cast. This one hit the jig setup but was only 12 inches.Fished about two hours total and headed home.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Read Larry Hemphill's article on ishing chocolate water. I put a worm rattle in the grub or noise, and replaced the gold willow lea blade with a chartreuse Colorado on the spinnerbait. Thanks to his suggestions, I think the little adjustments I made to the baits, and throwing to heavy weeds were the dierence between a little and no success.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 44-46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I'd go up and beat the storm. Glad I did. On the water @ 8 and started picking up nice ish by the Ballpark right away. Checked out a ew avorite holes and ound ish everywhere I went. South wind has packed the tailings up by the river with debris so turned right around and went back to the ballpark and picked up where I let o. Don't know why I let there in the irst place. 9 ish total 2 smallies and 1 Lm, all over 4 lbs.(I've got pictures) O the water by 10:30. Fun morning.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Mr. Mellow please contact me, I seem to have misplaced your #.