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Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back agin or another season. Started out late this year. Shouldve been ishing 3 weeks ago. Blame it on all the rain! Went it early am, very oggy morning. Quite a ew boats already on the water.We tried all the hotspots on the lake starting with Yorty creek. We threw yellow spinnerbaits to no avail, switched to senkos & inally got some hookups, nothing to brag about, in act noone will ever see these ish as they were released as ast as they were unhooked. The digital camera is still at zero. Best was 3 lbs. skinny & very pale. Need a week o hot weather. Going to skip a couple o weeks, next week going to hunt a private ranch or the opener o Turkey season, 2nd week going down to La Paz or some R&R! Lake is super ull & really too cold yet! I think with the rising levels the ront that's coming in pushed ish deeper into a no action mode.
      City: san rancisco

      Tips: Fish really slow with worms & ix your up house & wait til it gets warmer! Plus gas is way too high

Friday, March 21st, 2003

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

      Report: John Fernandez and mysel went to Calero last Friday rom 11:30am to 2:00pm. The lake is really low right now. We started in the back cove with no luck or the irst hour or so. We then headed to the rock wall opposite the launch ramp ater all the pleasure boats let. We caught 3 ish o the rocks with earthwork 4 1/2" Roboworms an another on a Luck Crat Pointer 78 Rip Bait. We then proceeded to the southeast part o the lake were it is only 1' to 1.5' deep right now and I threw my Pointer 78 in the shallows. Next thing I know it gets killed. I yelled to John (Get the net, it is at least 15lbs. Anyway when I inally got it up it was hooked in the back and it weighed only :)6.25lbs. Sure was a rush though.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thought with the 6.2 high and 0 low tide it would be Katie Bar the Door. Boy was I ever wrong!! The water actually dropped one degree rom last week and I couldn't make them bite anything. Got one that was barely a keeper at 8:45. At noon I started cranking outside weedlines until my hands hurt and landed a 1#, 2#, 2.5# & a 3#. Managed to scratch up a ew ish and enjotyed the day with my daughter in the boat.
      City: San Ramon

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't get out until around 1pm. Threw my avorite Viper blade which is usually money but had no takers. I noticed that I actually scared some ish with it which was surprising. So, went to plastics and tried to inesse these skittish ish. They wouldn't touch my lizard or tube. Not a typical Delta day or me. Went or a dierent type o reaction bite with buzzbait and proceeded to catch 2 ish in a row, a 1# and a 4#. Then or the next hour and a hal caught 5 more ish up to 2.5# and missed several really nice blow ups. The bite suddenly shut down and was o the water by 5:30pm.

      Tips: Persistence and experience pays o once in a while.

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

      Report: went to pinto to help the kids derby rom 7-10 then the presedent o the pajaro valley rob, and me went out in the lake he was lipping and he got 1 ish that weight was 3 lbs. I was looking or a big ish and through a big swimm bait and got one about 3 1/2.the week beor i lost a big one on the swimm bait.you can see the ish ollow your bait.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: ish with a big swimm bait to catch big ish.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water about 8 am went directley to my hot spot in cherry and banged the irst keeper on zipper jr. in about 2 t. o water. My partner also got on the board earley with a couple o spinerbait ish.about an hour later i swith to small speed trap and nailed a nice 3.5 lber.my budy still with his spinerbait kept on putting in the boat,but nothing huge.From cherry we worked backed twards the dam and over to the warm springs area picking up ish all the way.Once we got to our spot in warm springs we the action picker up a hal click and we both inished the day with 12 largeies and 1 smallie each. What a day.Will be back in May or our anual riendship tourney among our best riends.
      City: REDWOOD CITY

      Tips: make alot o casts.stick with the basic stu.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow. Had the day o a lietime on Trinity today. Took my tourny partner and his cousin out and did we score. 1st spot third cast an 8 lb LM. Next spot, 2nd cast 5.5 LM. 20 min later a 6.4 smallie. A short time ater that another 5+ LM. Best 4 ish right at 25 LB. The only dierence between Trinity and Clear Lake this time o year is that Clear doesn't have smallmouths.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Gitzits took all o the LM and a Pro Worm leech took the smallie. Go GIs! We love you all.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: john gray haven't seen a report lately hows the ishing on trinity now thinking about giving it a try thanks
      City: redding

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT 7-8 KEPPERS BY 2 OCLOCK MY BUDDY HAD CAUGHT ONE BUT JUST PECKERS ALL OF THEM JUST KEPPERS. WELL HERE IT GOES HE YELLED GET THE NET AT THAT TIME I TURNED AND SAW THE FISH JUMP THE FIRST TIME. AND I SAID HOLLY S####### ANYWAY THE FISH WAS WEIGHED AT FISHERMANS WAREHOUSE IN MANTECA BY TOM SHULTZ A WHOPPING 17.24 LBS. I TALKED GENE FROM HOOK/LINE/SINKER THAT HE KNEW OF THIS IS THE 4-5 BIGGEST BASS EVER CAUGHT ON THE DELTA. IF YOU KNOW DIFFERENT PLEASE E MAIL ME
      City: HUGHSON

      Tips: BEEN FISHING THE DELTA SINCE I WAS 16 YRS OLD. I.AM 46 NOW BIGGEST FISH EVER NEVER QUIT TRYING

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      Water Temp: 55-29

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at irst light this morning (lundbourg), threw crankbaits and blades till I was blue in the ace, NO FISH or 1 1/2 hours. Put on a Senko and got one 3.8lbs. Worked my avorite senko on my avorite water or another hour with no takers. Went back over my water with a 6 inch Iovino Morning dawn and started getting ish. The next two hours I was able to get 6 more ish all about 2.5-4.0 with one just under 7.0. I igured the bite was on and threw my crankbait and blade or an hour, still no takers. I don't get it???? Went back to the worm and got on a pretty good bite o 2.5lb ish.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Got a couple shallow but the bigger ish were deeper. I love to crank and throw blades this time o year, I thought the blade bite would be on ire, WRONG. Want a good quick limit? WORM WORM WORM !!Good luck !!

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, as ar as water level and clarity goes...the lake is down about 2t rom it's ullest, and the water clarity seems to be about 2-3t. But as Josh said, as long as the national security level is still up, there's not going to be any boats or anything o the sort launched at the lake. I learned that today mysel as I walked up and over the backside by the dam with my loat tube, only to have a ranger come screamin' around the lake in his truck to tell me I couldn't launch. Eugh. Lousy Iraq. So I just set my loat tube and gear down right there on the rocks by the dam and ished the rocks. Like I reported earlier...there's a TON o shad along those rocks right now and bass eating them, but the majority o those bass were just the small males. Well, I'm not sure what it was today, but bigger ish did indeed move up on the rocks or those shad. I started o just chuckin' a shad colored Rat-L-Trap. I saw the loads o shad and the bass bustin' on 'em, but I immediately noticed that the size o the splashes amoungst the shad were much bigger today than normal. Maybe it was the wind blowin' against that bank pretty good today that brought the big girls up there. Well, I was speedin' my Rat-L-Trap along the rocks when all o the sudden it just came to a dead stop...like it got stuck in the rocks...so I kind o jerked my rod reel quick to try and ree it rom the rocks...only to have my rod jerked back in the other direction! Pulled in a nice 5.5lber. GREAT ight. She just didn't seem to want to give up. Almost thought I had mysel a striper on a ew times with the way she was ightin'...strippin' out line and everything. Real CHUNKY ish....deinitely a pre-spawn emale. Anywho, nothin' would hit the Rat-L-Trap ater that...proceeded to try a spinnerbait and jig-n-pig along the rocks with no success, then I tried a suspending jerkbait also in shad pattern. I stuck another good and FAT 3lber with that, then lost what elt like to was one about the same size. Ater that I started gettin' hungry and packed it up or Carl's Jr...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Shad pattern lures sure seemed to do it today...

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a heads up, they are not allowing any boats/loat tubes on the water until the terror alert goes back down. I couldn't get on the water yesterday in my kick boat.
      City: Pittsburg

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 49.5-52.0

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 2:00 pm until 6:00 pm on new water. Looked at the north ork and the temp. was 48-49 so I did not even put the Min-kota in the water. Went to the south ork and New York with a little better temps 52.0. Picked up three ish all quality spots on yum tubes and one on a baby hog. Had to let it sit on the bottom in order to get bit. The water is up at least 5 eet over last Thursday aternoon and the temp is down 3 deg. or so. I would expect a slow bite or the next ew weeks due to illing with snow melt. Interesting thing happened in New York,all o a sudden the bass were breaking water everywhere with what looked like shad being chased. My buddy states I think it's carp but no you could see the small mouth coloration perectly. About that time two ish and game pontoons came around the corner, one on each bank shocking the ish or I suppose a count. Glad I was not swimming. Where are the lice when you need them?
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Slow plastics almost deadsticking on the bottom. Nothing on any reaction bait used. The ish we caught were in 10 eet or less and we ished out to 20 .

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Played "sick" rom work amd ished the south ork with plastics and caught 5 ish to 3 lbs. Fish were in 8-10 eet o water it was a great day on the lake. Thanks to Bass Tracker or the Excellent report! BILL DANCE would be proud o you!! :)
      City: Placerville

      Tips: Fish the Bill Dance grub!!

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

      Report: Hello bass ishing people. On 3/12/03, I caught a 12 lb. smallmouth on a Berkeley pumpkinseed 4" worm. This was around 8 am in the morning. One hour ater I arrived at the lake. I had just gone up to the lake the day beore (The weather was nice and warm)where I saw some trout being caught and some bluegill or redear being caught as well. But this day, the weather had cooled down slightly. I started out plugging with the 4" worm slowly in the same area where I saw these ish being caught. I kept telling mysel that something (small bass) should have hit it by now but I knew something was wrong. No wonder the big bass were in (spawning)and perhaps this is why I didn't get any bites right away (They were on patrol - eeding). When this big bass hit I knew he was huge. I had a ight on my hands. He jumped three times. It took me about 5-7 minutes to bring him in. I had just added 10 lb. test line Tuesday night. The last time I caught a big bass at Lake Hennessey (10 lb. smallmouth bass) was back in 1993. I was very blessed to have caught this bass. I caught this ish about 40-50 yards let side o the boat launch on the bank. I didn't have a boat. Lots o underwater grass and structure. Don't be ooled. Take care and have un. Robert (Woody)
      City: Vallejo

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dennis. Do not know what Velvet color theywere talking about, but remember Bobby Vinton's song. BLUE Velvet. So try a blue shark color i.e. MF's, MGM or Robo worms/plastic. Just a suggestion..
      City: susanville

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the whole day at the lake shore ishing or my Birthday. First got started ishing or trout at the Marina with one small bow.In the aternoon I decided to try at the Steel Docks and ound one ish sitting on a bed and was able to piss him o on a 4in Magic Worm. Went 13 inches, threw him back.Around 2:30PM went out to the coves and points above the spillway and walked the banks. Spoke to another guy that was bank bassin' and said he hooked over 20 bass over a 5 hour period.I tried it out with my texas-rigged Magic Worms and stued 3 ish within a two hour period then it slowed down. Got another ish on a Carolina-Rigged Brush Hog, and one last ish on a blue jig&pig.Kept three ish or some ilets. Good day o ishing!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Worms and Jigs are the way to go. Tried the reaction bite with nothing. 12-15t o water in drop-os and points are where the ish are.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Orwood about 7:30. Picked up one 13" ish on Frank's Tract. Hit Disco Bay and various sloughs to get one more 12 incher with crankbait. O the water at 2:30. Tough day or two ishermen. Excuses: alling barometer, poor tide timing.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Should have stayed home and organized my tackle.

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: better senko bite today,water very clear in the early morning,ished rock slough and disco area got a limit o 2#'s, then went south but not much going on down there, couple ish on spinnerbait outside weedline,o the water by 3pm,better than working anyday.
      City: castro valley

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I'm looking or Joe Kopp. Sent an email my way interested in ishing my region but I lost his email address. Anyone who knows him please orward this to him or give me his #. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. My # is 530-243-7348
      City: redding