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Sunday, February 1st, 2004

  • Palo Pinto County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake on Superbowl Sunday. Was the only boat out there! It was nice. Marked a lot o ish by McGregger point and again at Stumppy point. Turn-over has them scatered in the colume, water temp. was down so we ished the bottem with worms. Motor oil with red lak and chartruse curly tail did the trick. Had several hits and got one onboard, 3.5 lbs. Water level is high. Lots o cans. Keep a tight line and pack your trash.
      City: santa cruz

      Tips: ish are there, go slow. worms & jigs in dark contrasting colors do well.

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

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

      Report: Anderson is now open! Arrived at 8:00 and ished until 5:00 PM. The wind kept us o the main lake points. There was a good bite on plastic, but you had to anchor to catch them. Caught 20 ish on rock out o the wind. Caught mostly small ish. The largest was 1.7lbs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish plastic worms on rock points. Color didn't seem to matter, but size does.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 44-46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: January can usually be a tough time catching bass especially when dealing with 30 degree temps in the morning and water only in the mid-40's. That's why I was so amazed that we were catching ish on crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Not just dinks, but 3-7 pounders. We ished on riday aternoon and caught 4 ish or over 10 lbs in only a couple o hours. Look or bass to be hanging around the outside edges o tulleys near the deeper edges. On Saturday's WON Bass tourney the bite slowed down, maybe because o the clear blue skys, but we managed 5 keepers or 24 pounds, with a 9.65 kicker (jig).
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Slow roll blades through the tulley or crank the edges. I you want to slow down try brush hogs and jigs in brown/black in the same areas. The ish are stacked up in some areas so when you ind one, there will be more.

Friday, January 30th, 2004

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: use texas rigged/carolina rigg 4" to 6" magic worms. they are magic.
      City: sonoma

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey bob,Exact location isn't a big concern here. You have located the ish and thats all you need. For baits i was throwing a 4" purple worm with chart. tail, 3" brown worm chart. tail, and a 3" senko black/chart. tail. The senko isn't made by Yamamoto, its made by tikiman. The line is 6lb rom the hook to the reel and 2lb rom the hook to the sinker. I the sinker gets snagged you will not lose your bait and hook. Remember ish very slow. Good Luck
      City: Livermore

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the mid week tourney out o lunborg.. one limit came in with 13.5ls we got our bites all day . caught all our ish but all small keepers 6+ total one guy comes up and says we only have three. irdt ish out o bag 2lb...second ish 3lb..third ish 9.81 what a hog. says they caught all three drop shotting a our inch worm !!!!!! team with limit said they caught all theirs on our inch worms... we caught ours on brush hogs and jigs.. see what we did wrong ????? guy with hog didn't say where as he has a tourney this weekend but did say in the last couple weeks hes caught several over 6 drop shotting
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: small slow and then slower....c'mon spring !!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: warm enough

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Managed 8 ish rom 10:30am-2:30pm on slow rolled blades up to 4#(Largemouth! Hallelujuh!)in staging areas o the North Fork main points. Didn't make it to the South Fork but I'm sure the pattern would have worked there also. I didn't have the quantity I would have liked, but the ish were all over 1.5 lbs. I got a little tick on a jig and ended up losing about a 3.5# spot near the boat. Didn't throw plastics at all since that is what works most o the time anyway. Blade bites are un since you rarely ever miss a ish.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: What ever spinnerbait you have conidence in. I used primarily a single colorado and also a colorado/willow combo rom 15'-25'or my ish. I got "porked" by the jig ish that got o and I usually use plastic trailers (dammit!), but the water is still very cold.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time ever ishing Contra Loma. I headed or the long rock wall across rom the launch and got a nice 4lber on the dropshot ater about an hour. Cranked another nice 2lber about an hour later and got another 1lb on the dropshot around noon. I even got a nice 18" trout trolling back to the boat launch. All in all the lake has potential I will be back. I ran into Sturgon Kid there today and he was troutin with a riend.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: purple 4" robo worms on the dropshot in about 20' o water.

Monday, January 26th, 2004

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

      Report: Fished the south end o the lake ishing my avorite deep docks and ish were there and some on my avorite o shore ree but we watched a guy catch 1 lb ish ater 1 lb ish on real worms and a bobber in a shollow spot I never have done well at so ater he let we hit it and caught 1 to 2 lb ish ater ish on minnows, real worms and I caught 14 ish on split shotting 4 inch green weenie and 3 inch purple leech, I saw a ew guy catching ish on some type o shad rip bait. The ish we were catching had the shad chased up into the shallows and that is why we were hammering them. Between my brother Benny, riend Kenny and mysel we landed 50 ish in 2 days. 14 ish on lures and the rest on minnows and worms. All ish very much alive and still in the lake.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: On 1/24 the backseater had 7 ish beore I had one ish in 4 1/2 hrs and I could not igure it out, we had same hook, same color line and same lb line and same size weight but I noticed that his weight was old and dark and mine was new and shiny so I swiched to old weight and started catching ish immediately and wound up beating him by 2 ish by days end. (TECHNIQUE) 1/16 TO 1/4 split shot with 2 1/2 oot leader and drop shot hooks, you can ish minnows, real worms or small plastics all with the same rig.

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: well i went out to try my luck again this morning.it started out bad when i went to pick up my buddy but be had a late night.went to loma ,and ater the irst ew minutes i had 2 ish and anither bite.the next 4 hours zip,zero,nada.ant to top it all o i got a ticket rom a cop or not having a ishing permit.
      City: antioch

      Tips: 4 bucks can turn into 100 bucks.get your permit

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I looked around the north end or about three hours Friday aternoon - actually played a lot with my new Lowrance color X-19. What a unit!!! The past two mornings were very cold and seemed to slow the bite a lot, at least or me. I ished a little and had three purple jig bites and landed one 2 pounder. Saturday I guided a ellow that wanted to learn about south end structure. We started near Rattlesnake and ater a boat let one o the rocky areas we ished it about 10 minutes later. I suggested he throw his Staycee ripbait and he got a 3 1/4 right away. Ater looking at a ew more areas we ran into some bait and started to catch bass ater bass. We were drop-shotting a Yamamoto Kut-tail and that seemed to do the trick. We also used some Basstrix minnow baits. We even caught 3 crappie!! Ater 11 am the ront cleared and the north breeze came up and shut the bite o or us. And it turned cold! We wound up with about 20 bass and a 12 1/2 or so pound limit. I threw a rodstrainer jig and did get a quality 2 3/4 lb ish. Most o our bites were about 10 to 20 eet. We could have caught a lot more, but the purpose o the trip was to learn the lake better. I could have stayed in that good area all day - it was un!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We saw a big shad dieo in Honeymoon Cove. Hundreds already dead and lots dying as we watched. The past ew days must have done them in. Water is a nice color in the south end and has cleared some in the north. I just wish I could have been there a ew days earlier when they had the 64 degree aternoon at Lakeport.

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

      Report: In @ 7am; ish are deep; in coves and walls. use jigs in dark colors, drag real slow.caught 4 by 11am.
      City: Anderson

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 40s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough Day! Out in the drizzle rom 7:00 till 2:00 or a grand total o 3 dinks. All caught drop-shotting in 30-40 t. Found a ew bait balls but nothing that led to any quality ish. A quick early morning reaction bite per other boaters but we didn't ind it. We launched with a local bass club who, in the darkness, asked us, a couple o strangers, to hold the prize money. HAR!! Good group o guys but a little too trusting!
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Cranks early or reaction bites then go to plastics.

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was shitty here today. No bites at all. Fished mostly plastic in the coves, ishing o the bank (which is my problem). Hoping to be on my boat by March and turning in a positive ishing report.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Can't wait till March!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out ishing this aternoon at about 2pm till 430.cought a small limit o trout on worms. i had 8 total bites.not bad or just a ew hours
      City: antioch

      Tips: worms, mightcrawlers,wigglers what ever you want to call them get you a worm blower and have some un.that is utill the bass start biting

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water is crearing to a nice stained green. Drop shotted a brown jig most o the say. Fish aren't real active yet, but managed 4, w/ the largest 4 lbs.
      City: Santa Rosa

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished calero on riday...very nice day under og till 12....some some busting bait @ the dock. Fished drop shot one ish...brown jigs the other on the rock wall. Red mouth indicates...the starting o eeding on craws...spring here we come. Marked tons o bait with ish ollowing LOTS and marked very big ish on the inder stacked up arches, couldnt trigger the bite . Ended up with two one small and one 3.5lbs. Great day!
      City: san jose

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: been going out to loma the last ew days and the trout ishing has been really good.ish the east side with powerbait or try loating a night crawler.but i think everyone knows that.it was unny today i was one o the irst guys out there and i thought i was going to tear them up.it would o happened i i had some night crawlers.any one ishing with worms had ish.me no worms no ish.but the day b 4 anyone ishing power bait got bit and they would'nt touch the worms.
      City: antioch

      Tips: or all the trout guys watch out or the rock piles on the east side when the lake ills up.my buddy tom and i are getting ready or the bass in the spring,summer and all.you might want to check them out now b 4 the lake ills up and you cant see them.unless bill knocked them all over.those silly trout guys.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cuaght 3 bass along channel points. used 3" reapers while lipping. 4" Don Iovino worms mojo shotting. a 2,3, and 4 lbers. down to 12 t.
      City: stockton

      Tips: down size and very slow.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First boat on the lake Thur 1/22.Very chilly.We managed to catch a ew bass all smallies nothing huge all about 2lbs but at and liveley.My buddy dave used his ly rod all day had many hook up on various streamers.I was throwing split and drop shots.lake seem to be still low,looks like it could come up about 15 to 20 eet.
      City: REDWOOD CITY

      Tips: ish rocky points with lat near by.remember cold = sloooow