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Friday, March 28th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 57-59.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I headed out with my girlriend Saturday with high hopes. She likes to ish alot slower pace than I do and that is ine. Did not really do that much ishing. All the ish I got were on the drop shot. Biggest went just over 2.5. We watched a lady reel in a 70"+ Sturgeon on False River. It took her about a hal an hour. he weather was really nice. Maybe too nice or the Bass. Tried 4 dierent drop whot worms and came back to old reliable roboworm leech in Aarons Magic color. Good luck out there.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: I think the spawn is upon us.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish scattered, typically no more than 2 ish/spot. Decent quality, caught a total o 14 ish, 9 in the 3-4lb range. All caught on 4in worm in deeper water (15-25t)
      City: stkn

      Tips: tried 6in worms and jigs. no luck. switch back to the 4in and started getting bit again.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my spot. Can't tell you where or I would have to kill you! Ha Ha.Sunrise perect. Buzzbait-nothing,spinnerbait-nothing,rattle-trap nothing,crankbait-nothing.Then I tried a senko watermelon with red lakes. 4 bass all over 5#'s. caught and released.
      City: San Pablo

      Tips: Start shallow and try everything you have.

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      Water Temp: 60 - 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a beautiul riday, so Joe & I skipped work & went ishing. Got on the Lake at about 9:10, motored up towards the dam with the masive 4 Stroke (5hp) . We started ishing at 9:00... 9:37 joe hooks up, a 2.3lb.Large mouth.Then it's my turn...9:39am and I get a 3.1lb.Large mouth, worked the wind drit all the way down the the north shore until 6:00. We were working the points and alling trees, about 4:00 joe caught 3.9lb & 3.8lb Large mouth back to back.All in all a good day 9 ish total all caught on plastic worms rigged split shot, sure beats working!
      City: Paciica

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey PAT I'd love to release them but sometimes some are already bleeding so there's nothing i can do intead o birds why not poeple right by the way is this PAT is the riend o late paul Nice to see you are looking on the report Sir it might help i you also post some i might go ishing this Sunday with my buddie i im able to go i'll post the report and i hope to see you there
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Best spot Pines, Oak, Steps, and Main Rec. but make sure your early Regulars thats their targets

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: darius, sounds like you were catching over limits. you should quit when you caught your limit and leave the rest or others to catch. you can also release the lightly hooked ones.
      City: el sobrante

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Norht end o the lake on Friday aternoon. Weather nice. Caught about a dozen bass rom 8-inches to 3.2 lbs. They didn't seem to preer any one bait. Caught bass on 6-inch worms, black and blue jigs, and baby brush hogs in watermellon with red lakes. Did not get a bite on Senkos. I did talk with a guy who had caught six bass to 3.5 lbs. cranking. Don't now the color.
      City: Novato

      Tips: Try several baits.

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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got on the water about 5p.m. and paddled my pontoon boat over to a nice little spot and threw the brush hog a couple o times, no love so I tossed a watermelon w/red leck senko, saw a little tic on my line and took up the slack , it elt like a snag until it started moving - so to make a short story long I landed a beautiul 10.2 # bass... I took a couple o pics and promptly let her go
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: throw everything you have at them and hope or the best

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Anglers World Team Tournament was held on 3/15/03 Final Results were:Dave Smith and John Anderson 9 lbs, 5ozJim Rice and Gary Sanders 9 lbs, 3ozAdrian Smith and Marcus Lampley 9 lbs, 1ozRichard Hunt and Ray Romeo 8 lbs, 11ozPete Vanley and Chuck Meyers 8 lbs, 1 ozBob Perry abd Bobby Perry 7lbs, 8ozSteve Mirante and Joe Pinella 7 lbs, 4 ozMike Hubbard and Mark Hale 6 lbs, 14 ozMost anglers reported catching ish on jigs in the north end.The next tournament is 4/19/03 at Lake Berryessa , launching out o Putah Creek. Everyone is welcome to ish. Contact Anglers World at (510) 243-1300 or details.
      City: El Sobrante

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, don't eel bad twoody. I've been ishing that like since I was 3...so that's 15 years now, and I didn't catch my irst 5+ rom Contra Loma until just last year. However, it seems like once you break that 5lb mark, it's no sweat! LoL. Ever since that irst one, I've got no idea how many bass I've pulled out o that lake in this last year that were 5+. Just this year alone, I know I've caught close to 10 that were over 5. I think that I'm just really starting to get those bigger ish on this lake igured out. This is a report or 03-26 and 03-27. On the 26th, I went out and did some ishin' with my riend, Ken. He just had to get out there ater he heard about my 8. Anywho, I did all I could to try and get him on some ish, but the wind was HORRIBLE and he just couldn't seem ta get that senko into the right holes. I told him exactly where to pitch on each cast, and then once he got it in there and gave the senko a chance, I pitched in and ollowed up with a jig. He didn't catch any, but I ended up with 3...(3#, 1.5#, and 3.5#). Those irst two came on the jig, but ater that I had a 3-4lb eat the jig deep in some tules and she wrapped me up pretty good and I ended up losing the only jig I brought with me. So then I switched over to pitching a 5" chart/white wacky-rigged Kinami lash (basically a senko...lol). Then that's what I caught the last one on. Inact, I'm pretty positive that I caught that last one the last time as well. She was sitting in the EXACT same spot next to some tules. She's deinitely got a bed there I'm guessin'. LOL. ANywho, now yesterday (03-27), I walked up over the backside o the lake (west o the dam), so I could ish this end o the lake. 1/2 the water I wanted to ish though has been closed o! They've got the trail blocked o way beore the dam now. So I started in that cove on the backside there. I decided to pitch the jig all day and see i that did just as good as the senko. It did. I caught 5 ish and each one just got bigger. LoL. (3.5#, 4#, 4.5#, 5.5#, 6#) Once again...wind was HORRIBLE...sure makes things tough...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: There are deinitely some big ish out there right now to be caught. Senkos and jigs seem to be the ticket. Senkos...doesn't seem to matter...any size or color. LoL. I orgot to mention I also caught a ew ish on a pumpkin colored Snoozer's "Alien" the other day when I caught the 8...it's a senko wannabe. Jigs...I do have a preerence...with the water being airly muddy right now, I preer a 3/8oz+ in the greens/browns at this lake. Bass Stalkers in Green Craw, Melon Pepper, and Pond Scum have all caught the ish...all used with a Pumpkin Pepper Green & Gold Fleck Claw Chunk trailer.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very nice SK. Ive been ishing this lake a long time and still havent hung a bass over 5 pounds. I'm sure the ish and everyone else appreciates you letting mama go back to the beds.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DECIDED TO TRY SOME SWIM BAIT AT COYOTE . PARTNER AND I THREW THEM ABOUT 40% OF THE DAY ..NADA.. we got our keepers and a dink biggest keeper was 3.5 and looked almost ready to spawn .. due to high winds we ished most o the day down south trying to stay out o the wind as much as possible. all our keeper ish were caught on the cut tail worm rom yamamota. only other bite we got was the dink and another i lost at the boat on a white willow/willow spinner bait .. we made one run to dam to throw swim baits or about 45 minutes but ran back to south end because o wind . we ished rom 7 till 3:30 when it was time to head back to ramp lake looked like clear lake on a bad day / luckily its a short run back to ramp
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: wait or better weather and keep swimbaits on at least one rod..

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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: DECIDED TO TRY SOME SWIM BAIT AT COYOTE . PARTNER AND I THREW THEM ABOUT 40% OF THE DAY ..NADA.. we got our keepers and a dink biggest keeper was 3.5 and looked almost ready to spawn .. due to high winds we ished most o the day down south trying to stay out o the wind as much as possible. all our keeper ish were caught on the cut tail worm rom yamamota. only other bite we got was the dink and another i lost at the boat on a white willow/willow spinner bait .. we made one run to dam to throw swim baits or about 45 minutes but ran back to south end because o wind . we ished rom 7 till 3:30 when it was time to head back to ramp lake looked like clear lake on a bad day / luckily its a short run back to ramp
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: wait or better weather and keep swimbaits on at least one rod..

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was very windy on the main arm so I decided to go up the south side at 8:00 a.m. Fishing very slow to 10:00 a.m. using black 7 inch worm. Broke out a shad colored crankbait and started hammering the shoreline. Ater about 1/2 an hour got one ish to the boat at 1.8 lbs. I ound some shallow lats and hooked 4 more about 1 to 2lb each. One cast later landed a nice 4.1 lb emale ull o eggs! This one made my day. Landed one more 1lb and headed back to ramp at 12:50 p.m.
      City: Windsor

      Tips: Shad colored crank bait has been the best so ar this year or me. Spinner bait also good option in wind. Dark worm's and Senko's also good choice when not getting blown all over the lake!

Wednesday, March 26th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in Elk Grove Bass' March tournament on the Delta on March 15. The weather was wet and windy on the way down to B & W Resort, had to pull over twice because o the downpours. Fished hard all day with little to no luck until the last hours o the day. Moved into Sycamore with the Mrs. throwing Senkos (her avorite) and mysel throwing a texas speed worm. I caught the irst keeper (2lb.) with just one hour remaining. Then the Mrs. hooked a 4.5lb o a island point, 25 minutes let and 2 minutes later, she hooks a 7.5lb. and were o running to the weigh-in. Only ive boats but the weights were 5.94, 9.02, 12.12, 13.74 and our winning 14lb even. The Mrs. caught her two biggest ish ever, 5 minutes apart.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Never give up and stay ocused, we ished hard all day or a ew dinks, but that last hour paved the way. Next Elk Grove Bass Tournament is April 19th at Redbud, Clear Lake. E-mail or Inormation at EGBassPres@aol.com, events open to 15 non-members, new member season starts in October.

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

      Report: To the person who wrote give me a break about a six pound spot beingcaught by some angler who sent in a report.What's so hard to believeabout that.Just or the record acouple o years ago while ishing a local club tournament in ebruary I caught and released a 5.9 pound spot.I caught the ishwaking a spinnerbait across the surace.
      City: woodland

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Friday aternoon about 4 PM. Fished the south ork, mainly o deep points leading into coves, irst one produced 8 ish, couple o dinks to one that weighted 3.5lb. Moved to a ew other similar areas with the wind blowing in the same diretion, picked up a ew more. 1.5lb to 3lb,Most came on white colored plastics, splitshotting. Missed one on a jig, hard hit, but not ocused...oh well, 2.5 hours o ishing and we caught 15 ish...perect way to spend a Friday late aternoon.......
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: Fished very slow, dragging plastics, mostly white to clearish.......some emales deinitely moving up in the late aternoon.....emales, at with eggs, handle with care

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Give me a break 6lbs SpotAt lease call it a Large Mouth.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 57-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today was perect ishing weather.Light misty rain and lat water or most o the day.Fished with two wonderul people today,Roger Williams and Kathy Kendrick o Oakdale.We were greeted by 55 degree morning temps which sugested a shallow bite.Well we got into an area between the bridges that had numerous spots going into spawn.Ater taking several ish drop shottin, we went to lukes and t-rigged worms and caught alot o ish.The bite keeping us in the same general area or over our hours.No real big ones yet,but alot o nice quality ish.Should be wide open this weekend.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Start ishing beding areas.It's time

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: City: Santa Rosa