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Wednesday, April 9th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My Friend Ben and I went there last Sunday @ about 10:00 AM I'm surprise that when we get there there's not much people ishing in the Main Rec well maybe its because o the weather its kinda windy partly cloudy we tried bait Charteausse and rainbow ben got 3 good ish one caught on lure (1/4oz Crocodile)i got 4 bites and landed only 1 i heard the Derby is going on now i'm planning to join but i might get busy within this 2 months well i wish i can go ishing this weekend
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: look or regular anglers and try to watch their set up that might help

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very slow ish were in 30+ eet o waterTuesday ound ish up the McCloud arm about 12-13 inch range all the ish were either on 4 inch worms, drop-shotting, or hola-grub. Most o the ish had crawdads stuck in their throught. Most o the people that I talked to said GO TO THE PIT..... Their are ish their but I did not.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Fish deep and very slow

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed to Sonoma looking or a hot bite and struggled to ind ish. Landed a nice 2lb'er on a spinner bait and lost several using jigs, senkos and crankbaits. Spoke with several other anglers on the lake and they reported similar conditions, tough bite and small ish. Must be pre-rontal or something. The hot spinnerbait bite that was there a week ago disappeared. Bites were suttle and inrequent, but we must keep trying.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Best bite was o the main lake down toward the "S" turns around allen wood and rocks. White blades with Chart. trailer or senkos.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2003

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

      Report: hey guys great work on the ishing...but ar as i know there are no "SPOTS" in amador...only lorida strain and actually a very ew smallies have been caught...but great work guys
      City: sacramento

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Ladd's about 2 today and hit the rip rap just behind the marina at the deep water channel. Hooked up on a striper irst thing, then 3 largemouths,biggest only about 3lbs. and inished o with another striper. Everything came on a white and chart. spinner. 2nd bass broke my gold blade o and I only had a silver replacement, go or the gold. Not alot o action ater I lost the gold blade. O the water about 6:30
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Fish all came in about 2-3 eet o water and liked the gold blades on white and chartruse spinner.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched @ 730am. started up around shoreline and small coves up towards jackson creek arm. tossed #194 Senkos and boated #'s o spotties rom 1-2.5lbs. my buddy(whos birthday was on that day) kept switching between topwater poppers, purple worms, and gitzits, with no strikes. yet he reused to use my aresenal o Senkos.Bad move! It took him 15 ish o mine later to inally land his irst bass. there was a hot submerged tree close to the bank that yielded more bass or me including a 3.5# largemouth.(also had a lot o hangups along the branches and did break one o my cheaper rods due to careless action). beore we got to the bear river arm, hooked into one that was 5# or better but ended up coming unbuttoned. i did use a ew other baits, but 90% senkos and all o my ish were caught on them. did not ish the south side shoreline. ended the day with 24 bass,only one o them largemouth, lost on 5 or 6 other strikes, and the largest was the big spotted o 6lbs 11oz.Thats pretty darned big or a spot, never hooked or seen a spot that big beore. did not have my digital camera with me not expecting any trophy ish, just my digital scale, but would have loved to have gotten a picture. thats like a once in a lietime catch or a spotted bass! shes back in the water though, since Catch and Release is always preached, as my buddy ound out watching me tossing every ish back to the water. I elt bad or him or he only landed 2 ish. weather was beautiul that day and only a ew other boats out. looks good when the lake is ull like this.(and no damned waterskiers or jetskis.)they will be there soon, very soon. get out there. preerably a weekday.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: very ew surace breaks. invest in some senkos and ish them SLOOWWLLY! and on the bottom weedless and weightless.deadstick 'em with an occasional twitch or drag. or just drag them along in 8-12eet o water. Stick with a 1/0 hook and no wide gaps. may lose some ish

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south today in new york cove and saw alot o bass rom 2-8 lbs getting ready or spawning lots o males on beds but no emales locked on hard. one 3 lb on ripbait several on luke and split shot worms and lizards 1-2 lbs. Let new york cove and went into another in the south and saw about 50 ish cruising around in one cove 1-4 lbs.Lots o ish to be caught here should be on ire i the weather holds
      City: sacrament

      Tips: look or big emales on beds and bring your carp bait

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

      Report: Started ishing at about 8am trying the small coves. I originally planned ishing or bluegills but no bites. While trying one cove, I spotted a bass and decided to try to get it to bite. Threw everything at it or over an hour but no bites. When I thought it got spooked and swam away, it just kept coming back to the same spot, sometimes with a ew riends. Zilch or the day but the weather was nice and sunny.
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: Bass seem interested in the senko I threw but wouldn't bite.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I got on the lake about 8am and started down the bank throwing reaction baits, I did see some 5-7lb ladies on the nest so I continued down the bank. Caught a 2lb male then I snaped my troling moter cable. I did see some o these"Thunder Trout", man they look like reaks o nature but I hear there a lot o un to catch, none or me, home or more repairs.
      City: San Lorenzo

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

      Report: I want to thank ABA member Jack Freitag and his partner or taking my ish to weigh-in at Sunday's tournament ater my boat ailed to start and I had to be towed back to Packer's Bay. I also want to thank the gentleman who did the towing. All o these guys went out o their way to help. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!
      City: Central Point, Oregon

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53 to 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my son and my riend and his two kids. Started around 8:30am and ininshed around 2:30pm. We landed 8 ish rom 1 to 6 lbs. on Black and blue pig and jig. We ished in trees near the shore and late in the aternoon caught two o a point when the other bite stopped. We ished senkos, spider jigs, baby brush hogs to no avail. Hope this helps. God Bless.
      City: san bruno

      Tips: ish slow and hard.

Monday, April 7th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Camped rom Friday through Sunday. Had a great trip. Fishing was slow as we were working or reaction ish and water was still pretty cold. Picked up a ew hens in the trees and western coves, but in deeper water. No crappie, to be expected with the water so cold. Sorry to say we got 5 squaw ish rom 1.5-3 lbs. Never got so many so large. Not a good sign or the bass ishery.
      City: redding

      Tips: Water should warm over the next several weeks. Bass bite should come on real soon now.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ran and ished the custom Valco bass boat up 14 mile slough to the y insection and back. 6 bass or 14 lbs.,a 4 pound kicker. Flipped tubes, spinnerbaits, and lukes. I even had a couple blowups on a rog, but was not pilled under or a set. had un all day. back at Ladd's ran into Don Payne and Bobby Barrack (BB). Bob had a real nice live well o bass. Looked like three 8 pounders, to bad it wasn't game day.
      City: Stockton,Ladd's

      Tips: Looking or warmer water. High blue skies or bass into thick weeds or deeper water.

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Holy crap, can't they keep the water at a constant level this year? LoL. It seems like or the past ew months now, the lake level is all the way up one week, then back down the next. Just last Wednesday the lake was uller than I'd ever seen it in my lie, and now this week, it's lower than I've seen it so ar this year. I'm sure that it doesn't help the spawn at all. I saw a ew spots let high and dry that looked like they were obvious bass beds. Also...I saw a lot o bass ry in a lot o places...what's with that? Anywhere rom 1-4"...are those rom late spawning all bass...or rom early spawning bass this year? Just thought it was kind o weird...Anywho, had trouble sticking any decent sized ish...but I caught 5 rom 1.5-2lbs. I ished the island and lipped a senko to the tules. I could see two 3.5-4lb bass that were sitting next to these two tule clumps, but they were very skittish. I couldn't get anywhere near them without them takin' o...they'd come back ater a ew minutes, but I was still never able to get anywhere near them. To catch the ish that I did, I slapped on my waders, and just waded around the island on the outskirts o the tules and lipped the tules with a senko...5" smoke w/ silver lk. The water was just shallow enough to where I could walk along the outside edge o the tules without it going over the top o my chest waders. It was un...can't get the loat tube in, so it's the next best thing. haha. Actually, I thought they wouldn't let me do that either, but I did it anyways, and a ranger walked by and just asked me how the ishing was, so I guess it was all right with them...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: I dunno...this alling water seems to have pushed big ish away...where to? I'm not quite sure...probably o shore a bit and hangin' around some ledges...but can't get to those right now!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rough Weather! High winds and swells. Fished rom 3pm til 6pm. Hit my irst ish on a baby brush hog on a darthead bouncing o the bottom near the dam. Lost a ish on a senko on the east side o the lake. Hooked and landed two more at the launch ramp. Considering the weather I was happy w/ 3.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Brush hogs and senkos did o.k. Anybody have any suggestions?

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: lauched rom Lime Saddle. Fished the west branch and caught 12 ish. one was over 15" and the rest was under. got back to the truck to ind a ticket on the windshield. my buddy has season pass but they increased it $2.00 per day without telling anyone to pay or the rebuild o the marina. It is going to cost around $60.00 or the ine. It's crap.
      City: chico

      Tips: don't get caught without paying the EXTRA $2.00 or the launch.

Sunday, April 6th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out again on Sunday to one o the windiest days I have ever ished on the Delta. Found very ew areas that were ishable without waves crashing on the bank. Manganged to get 3 ish, biggest @ 2lbs on jigs and senkos. Better luck next weekend.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Hope this wind lets up

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Big Creek rom 8:30 am to 12 pm. Bite a little slower than last week probably due to the cold ront that came with the recent rain. Split shot 4" & 6" green craw pattern worms caught us six with the biggest going 4 lbs.. Bites were just pickup pressure.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Fish on secondary points just outside spawninng areas in about 15' o water.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 10 am to 1:30 pm just south o Tuttletown. 4 bass to 17" (about 3 lb) on 6" plum colored/glitter worm, carolina rigged. Many other bites and hook sets let me with hal worms! Probably dinks. Broke o a good sized one.DANG.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: gently sloping points, and small islands 10' to 20', with rocky structure

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      Water Temp: Still cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed both ponds rom 6:15 to 2:00; caught 11, (6 on island pond). As usual, the larger ish were caught on the island pond

      Tips: Still need the extra socks...