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Sunday, March 23rd, 2003

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ish last week on riday and caugth ishrom 4lbs to 15lbs. best 5 would go 35lbs.next week ished won bass and weighed 5 lbsor only 3 bites 3 ish. Thought I learnedsomthing last weekend but to no avail I'mlost again when it counts. I don't think I'll ever get a handle on this @#$ lakeunless I ish it 20-30 days a year or 2 years. I ished Texas worms 6" with a lightshake in 1-15 eet. throught the big troutabout 150 times and not one bite on a limitworm purple weeine and a robo peoples wormand oxblood light red lake DUH!!! Only caught three small bed ish in 3-8 eet deep!
      City: n. hollyweird

      Tips: Don't have a clue!!!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My Buddies Ben and Elmer went there last Friday about 11:52 am We saw couple o regulars Like Philly Julio Pat and Others Well it was really a nice day First its Kinda slow then they told us they just dump 3,600 lbs so we tried lure BOY it was Great ish everywhere start picking up @ about 1:30pm Fish there Fish here we end up giving up some to our neighbor ishers Caught Our limit poeple are asking us i we rent a boat when they saw us cleaning our ish NOPE we did not all caught on shore
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Ater they Dump Try using CASTMASTER or SPINNER BAIT 1/4 oz Rainbow on side or BLUE STRIPE For more TIPS See us in San Pablo when you are ishing MAIN REC.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 48-53'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Finally ound ish moving up and in the backs o coves. Went out with "jerry" yesterday out o Packers. Fished the sac. arm only. Found most o our ish on secondary points, and all the way back in some creek channels. Nothing over 2 lbs. but alot o short atties.25 in the boat, many more missed, in our hours. Jerry used a hula jig, I used darter headed plastics.All colors.Getting good, get out and get your line wet.
      City: SF/Redding

      Tips: Swim the jig. When yiou get bit, eed them line, then set. Dead stick the darter head ater shaking it. Feel pressure, set the hook. No reaction bite or us this date.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake Sonoma, Saturday, March 22

      Tips: Fishing is easy. Many o the bass are spawning. Some have inished - smallry already swimming. Fish slow. Lots o ish in the brush and some o the points. Next two weeks will bring even easier ishing. We are about three weeks erlier than last year. Same or our vineyards.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Three words. Smallmouth on beds!!!!!!! Man are those little guys aggressive. Wish it hadn't been overcast and windy. Saw quite a ew beds even in the bad conditions. Caught 31 ish with 25 being smallmouth the other six were spots. Biggest was a 3lb smallie on a lucky crat pointer. The water is gin clear. Fished the narrows to big island. Good luck.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Rip baits and blades or covering water. Tubes and robo worms or the bed ish. The bed ish were in protected coves with wood in them.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the custom Valco bass boat out as ar as light 22 checking out some spots. Only caught 3 bass today. Big ish was a 3 pdr. on a spinner bait. With cloudy skies today I used coloered blades. Also caught the other two on small zippers mojo shotting riprap and rock.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Looking or warmer and calmer water. Got pretty windy today.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the South Delta and Central Delta. Caught 14+ ish on a variety o baits. Started o with white/white spinnerbait and went without a bite...Changed to 1/4 ounce all chartreuse and nailed 3 ish a 2, 2.5, and 5.5 on a tule island with lay down logs...Bite stopped so I went to central Delta and began cranking my usual white DD18 on a rock wall and caught a 4+ largie and 8+ striper...Put the crank away getting tired rom a battle witht he lu all week and ished a red senko and caught two solid 2.5 ish. Moved once again to a rock wall on the old river and threw Black/Red jig and nailed three quality largies rom 2lb to 3lb...Put the jig down and caught 5+ small 1-2lb dropshotting inside Disco to end the day.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Bait needed to have chartreuse or red in it to get bit. Best ive went around 17lbs which or me is a good bag. Fish were bunched up. Weather was perect. Most ish were caught in 5-10 eet o water with some current. Rock seemed to be the key or all but the spinnerbait ish.

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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! what a dierence a week makes. The water was up to 2 degrees colder and really murky. I didn't help that there was a 6 oot tide today either, or that a storm was rolling in, or that the wind was really blowing. On the water at 6:00 and had my irst bite about an hour later, missed it. Nothing or the next 4 hours. I tried everything everywhere. Finally threw out the drop shot and had a limit in about an hour. Nothing big 2lb was the biggest. Then the bite shut down. Not another bite all day. I cranked, bladed and threw the jig. Hey Roger i you read this sorry I missed you today(Sunday) I lost your address and phone number. Hope you did good out there today. Drop me a line or give me a call.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: I have been on a solid pattern or about a month, guess the spawn is on and my pattern is not?

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Want to give a big thanks to the blue Fisher that towed us in rom near the narrows. You have gained the respect o at least two ishermen who were in a world o hurt. You came out o your way to check on us and spent 3 hours o your ishing day to get us in. Wishing you calm waters and great days on the water.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Help others and the avor will be returned to many-old. That is what truely makes a sportsman.

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      Water Temp: 62 surace

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to the lake yesterday with my 3 year old son. Fished next to the swimming lagoon or about 1 hour beore my kid ell into the lake. Pitched jerkbaits or a little bit with no luck. Tied on a senko and had a decent size ish take it, tried to hand it o to my son but jumped o. Hooked another one 10 casts later about 3 pounds. 2 bites, one ish. Sure wish I could get my boat back in here. Just my luck as soon as the ish start to bed.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Senko

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out to the lake at about 9:00 A.M. Started ishing around channel point where I saw some ish eeding on the surace. I used a shad colored Rat-L-Trap or a while there but didn't get anything. I also tried a shad colored spinnerbait but had no luck with it either. Walked over past the swimming lagoon and tried ishing over there. Didn't get anything though. I saw a bunch o tules moving around and pitched a jig in there with no luck. Walked down some more towards the dam and stopped a little ways past the dock over there. I tied on a shad colored crank bait and started ishing it. On my ith cast I was bringing the lure through some tules and thought I got hung up. So I ripped my bait out o there and I saw a little bass on the end o my line. It was only about 11 in. Tried some more with the crank bait but didn't get anything. Let at 3:00.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: The only ish I got came on a shad colored crank bait.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Worked the west bank in the south end to the bouy line. Landed two bass, including a chunky 2-3lber, on a 1/4oz gold Kastmaster using a slow retrieve. Unsuccessul in generating any bites using other lures i.e. swimbait, crankbait, plastics.
      City: San Mateo

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

      Report: (reply to the report below) Hmm.. well i guess ill be the one to tell you that i you did actually catch a 12 pound smallmouth, it would be a world record, do you know the dierence between largemouth and smallmouth? Smallmouths over ten pounds are almost unheard o.
      City: Petaluma

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found the ish all week to be o and on.The ishing is ready to break wide open.Periods o some days red hot and others totaly dead.Hey, thats spring ishing.Not near has predictable as winter.Fished Anglers Choice today and weighed a nice bag o 12.53. My excellent partner, Joe Bruce, really put the better ones in the bag today.The unny thing was that are good ish were males.Drop shotting caught all our ish today.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Start looking shallower now.The blade and topwater bite is going to start on the next heat spell.This lake is ull o ish.Somedays here can be great.Don't get discouraged.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing has been real slow. dragging worms in about 20 eet works, got one on a crankbait and one ripping but no size at all 12 13 inchers thats it.
      City: oroville

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Piru today or the irst time in serveral months. I was surprised at how low the water still is. Fished with my sister out o her Bass Cat. Got on the water about 6:45 with the intent o catching some jig&pig ish. Unorturnately ater an hour and no bites my sister picks up her drop shot rod and immediately gets slams but misses the ish. I inally decide to give up the jig and grab my drop shot rod and bammo!! she hooks into a ish. A ew minutes later she lands a at, egg laden 10 lb. 11oz. lunker. We immediately take it over to the marina to be photographed so we can re-release where she caught it.Turned out to be another drop shot day as ater returning the ish where she caught we proceed to catch more ish on the drop shot, although the next largest only being 3 lbs or so. Our best 5 ish would have went about 18 lbs.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Drop shot on the old water lines in about 15-20 eet o water. Pull your bait uphill till you hit the break, shake it lightly and then let it drop back to the bottom, then hold on.

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

      Report: Still looking or anglers or Mar. 30th on Shasta. All anglers are invited to participate. Boaters are guaranteed their boat. For a lyer or ino call 243-7348. Thanks, Tony
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry this is so late, but still wanted to share some ino. Weekend beore last, the American Bass anglers Club had their tournament at sonoma. Friday was a beautiul day and those that preished just hammered them, but Saturday turned cold and we got a little drizzle on and o. Well you guested it, the bite got tough. While ish were caught all day, the big ish came in at just 3.83lbs, on a brown and purple jig with the tail end o a baby brush hog in junebug. The winning weight was 13.84 by yours truely. Ron Cormier is still on a roll coming in second, ollowed by Hampton Kennon a very close third. For ull results and pictures, go to www.ambassanglers.com
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: 4" senkos on a 3/0 hook weightless. Cast it near shore on a slack line and watch the line. They took it well, but wait 2 ull second to set the hook. I lost my irst two strikes, so I waited longer to set and it worked great.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Warm Springs area or smallies rom 7:30-9:30. No takers on the usual solid baits (cranks/worms/craw). Moved to Cherry Creek and ished it hard rom 9:30-3:30. 8-10 boats in that arm. Saw no other ish taken. Very slow bite. Managed 2 largemouth about 2lbs each on texas rigged worms. No bite on the blades, rip baits, or cranks, which all got bit 2 weeks back in Yorty Creek. Several weak takes on the worm that came up empty.
      City: Larkspur

      Tips: The ish deinitely need a stable barometer and a week or so o 70+ degree weather beore the bite will come around again.

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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got to the lake at 8:00a.m. started to cherry creek lttle rain but ishing was excellent.brother in-law caught the irst ish. a little over 12inch.stayed in cherry creek till noon and ended catching 12 bass rom 1-6lbs. used senko and spinner bait.