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Saturday, January 10th, 2004

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

      Report: On the lake by 8:30 and o at 4:30. Four ish caught. This was the slowest I have ever seen it at Calero. Big ish was 3lbs. Drop shot, carolina reg with each ish coming on a dierent color. Not much o a pattern.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I wish I had tips to give!

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

      Report: ished sugar slough early, tossin baby brush hawgs, caught one right o the bat, around 4 pounds easy, real nice ish. missed a couple, had a ew good bites, then tied into something that pulled my rod in the water, broke my line. I retied, turned the boat around, and tossed back to the bank, wham, on again, (this time with my drag way down)wound up ighting this ish or over 5 minutes, winds up being a 13 pound striper, on a baby brush hawg???? caught a smaller one on a rattle trap an hour later, that was it, nothing at all ater 11:30 or so, no bite, so went home and cleaned the ish or a nice dinner.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: slow and slower, light bites

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED TRACY BASS TOURNAMENT. HEY WE WON SLOW DAY TUFF BITE. 3 FISH FOR 11.84 BIG FISH 7.52 THAT WAS THE HI-LITE OF THE YEAR. FISHED BABY BRUSH HOGS IN JUNE BUG. AND BITE STOPPED AT 11:10 OR SO WE MUST HAVE TRYED EVEY THING IN THE BOAT FOR 2 MORE FISH NOTHING WORKED. MUST HAVE BEEN OUR LUCKY DAY.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: FISHED WOOD ONLY WORKED IN THE MORNGING. EAT LUNCH BECAUSE FISH WON'T BITE AFTER LUNCH MUST BE FULL. HA! HA!. OH SLOW SLOW SLOW.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at sunlight, irst boat there. Me and my partner started by the dam in 50 to 60 eet. No bites until about 9:00am, and then it was on, irst ish was about 2.5 pounds caught by my buddy in about 45 eet. The little ish hit like they were monsters, and the big ones were very hard to detect the bite. We caught ish all day some slow times but a great day on the water, was almost like spring warm and not much wind. We stayed in one general area all day ishing rockpiles as well as dropos. Talked to a couple dierent boats, and they said they were having a tough day. We inished about 3:30pm with 17 ish total. What a day in January, ish were all nice and at with the biggest at 3.2 and the average about 1.5, but we did have two ish that went 3 pounds and a ew that went a little over two pounds. We will probably be back here next week since hensley is a little tough right now, I went last week and only got one ish.
      City: coalinga

      Tips: Fish are still pretty deep here about 40 to 50 eet being the best area to ind ish, dropshot worms and you should get them to bite, in a couple weeks we should see the bigger ish start to go a little shallow. So have un and enjoy the nice days to come.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the McCloud arm and caught 11 spots on Saturday. Big ish was 2.01 on the Berkely scales. The 4 other best ish were a 1.14, 1.13, 1.10, 1.08, and a 1.06. These were all very healthy ish. Smallest ish was just under a pound. I caught two ish on 3" hula grubs and then went to a 3/8oz brown jig with a 3" black pig. The bites on the jig & pig were very agressive. Key on the muddy points with patchy rocks. Ater you catch the one ish on that point, move on. Seemed like there was only one ish per point. All in all, a pretty good day. Enjoy your ishing!
      City: Redding

Friday, January 9th, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The latest rains have raised the water level up about 15-20 t! The level is still way down though, but it's looking more promissing! A ew more good down pours should do it!
      City: Scotts Valley

Thursday, January 8th, 2004

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: late aternoon, partly cloudy. Fishing the point on the south side between the swimming pool and Tule island hooked a 5# bass on a panther martin #4 holographic. It was quite a ride since I was targeting trout w/ ultra-light tackle. This is the third 3#+ bass I've caught on a trout spinner since Thanksgiving. It was on the retrieve and not the all. Also earlier that day I got a CARP in the small cove on the west side. I didn't even know there were carp in here. Should we be releasing Carp? I also noticed large schools o extremely small(1-1.5") shad swimming just under the surace. Perhaps the bucket mouths are relating to the miniature bait ish. It looks like we're going back to yellow alert, so perhaps they'll let uslauch again soon
      City: Antioch

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Heya Juan....been to the lake lately???My dad came by last night and said she is WAAAAy up!. Wish you listed your email so I could email you! Let me know if you've been up and how you've done when you read this!
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Tight Lines!!!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was tu or everyone. Ran into some Cohos last night but that was it. No bass bites the whole weekend. But we're also ishin rom the bank so I guess that's our problem.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Water temp needs to rise!!

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

      Report: The road down into Bailey Cove has been cleared.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished sonoma rom sun up til noon only one small keeper. Wierd thing was i was at my little honey hole right as the sun broke the water and the bass went on a crazy top water buet. This time o year I had no top water in the boat but i threw out my blade and hooked up instantly and lost a ew others. With the water temp at 49 I've never seen a top water bite in eb. I thought maybe trout until i started hooking into them. I don't know you tell me. The visibility is unreal also, I think we are going to have a great spawn.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: Wait or the water to warm a little then it's on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o whiskey at light and got irst ish drop shoting around 8am, went 2lbs. Not another nipple until 2pm and that one never made it to the boat. Slow day out there.
      City: Livermore

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: funny to see that a little rain will scare so many fisherwomen into canceling tourns i would win.
      City: lakehead, ca

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I've been reading these reports for a few years now mostly to find out water temp and depth. But in the last few months I've seen the name Tad Gumbman and was wondering if this is the same Tad from Burney that I used to race motorcycles with thanks Randy Winship
      City: midland ore

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

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters to fish our club tournaments. Our first meeting of the year will be on Wednesday January 12th at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway And Snyder Lane at 7p.m. Our first tournament will be at Berryessa on January 22nd and next month on Lake Sonoma on Febuary 26th. Log on to www.rebc.net for more details.
      City: Santa Rosa

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

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

      Report: Night ished the Old and Middle Rivers and Connection Sl. on the 3rd. and 4th or about an hour at each location each nite. Caught 4 Stripers to 5lbs. on the 3rd. One in the Old River and 3 in Connection and only caught one ish about 4lbs. on the 4th. also in Connection Sl. The Shad have deinatly moved rom these area's. Time to do some travelin' I guess ! Goood Luuck !
      City: Holt

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Loma with Alex today, closest thing to action I got happend while testing the action on my new Lucky Crat Gunish I got a boil but not rom a bass turned out it was rom a small brown duck looking bird that was swimin around eatin shad, I thought he was just a duck and would ignore my lure but nope he tryed to eat it. Glad I didnt stick him thoughlast thing I need os to take the hooks out o some carnivorous duck har. Fish are relating to rocks but with the terror alert at HIGH they wont let boats or loat tubes on the water so good luck ishin the dam or any other rocks rom shore, plan on loseing some jigs texas and carolina rigs.Tom
      City: Pittsburg

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: just wanted to know i anyone has ished the back lakes recently. let me know i ya have any tips...TIGHT LINES...stay warmgone ishin
      City: Oakland

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

      Report: just a note to clarify on redding bassers turkey shoot on sat. jan. 8th. as of right now the planned launch site will be jones valley. the last word we received is the ramp will be open for business by saturday. if this does not happen, the alternative launch site will be silverthorn resort. see ya there!
      City: anderson

      Tips: according to the gm at silverthorn there is lots of parking and ramp is in good shape.

Monday, January 5th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A half day guide trip today with father and son team Jeff Silva from San Ramon and his dad Pat Silva of Union City.To sum it up in one word it was Brutal. The mud is creeping in from the north and the lakes getting smaller. I couldn't find a consentration of fish. They did there part and put 8 in the boat with a only a couple of missed fish..I just couldn't find em on this day. The lake is coming up slowly and bait is 20-40. Jigs and 6" worms were getting bit in the am and things shut down after 10:30..
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I wouldn't be afraid to throw cranks and blades right now. fishing will pick up with stable weather but thats not going to be for a while..It's still fishable at this point. On a good note the crappie bite is wide open on deep wood!!