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Sunday, March 9th, 2003

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have ished the bass cove area twice in thelast week. I am the guy rom michigan that Jason reers to, in his post.Between the two o us we ished jigs, crankbaits, senkos, worms, even jerk baits and tubes in the coves. I saw 8-9 ish between 1-5 lbs. No takers, almost got the ive pounder to take a castaic trout, in shallow water. i let the lure sitting nose irst in the water, and the ish came within three inches, but would not take it. Me and jason both theorized that the mini coldront had backed the ish o. Usually in this long o ishingI can usually get my Chabot average o one ish per our to six hours o ishing, not so this time. Jason is good especially with the jig, he got one bump in a shallow brush illed cove.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: bass wanting to move up to prepare to spawn, shaking worms with a rattle might work, also dropshotting, I have a eeling working a black jig, slowly might be the ticket or one o the bruisers.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Any one ish this place lately? Is it still too muddy?
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Small Change Bass CLub TOurnament rom Fresno. Picked up buck bass along tulies...all ish were holding to cover and deined structure...managed to hook a 10lb pig...using plastics and senkos all day...got another big bite on a brush hog ..never saw it..took me into the tulies and broke o..ish slow and ind shallows with deep water near..thats where the hogs hang out...ish the deep holes and dropos.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: stcik with worms and senkos...go small when the bite gets tough

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 54-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: man ,it must be an early bite...Got on lake at one to let my girlriend learn to drop shot on all the easy ish i've been catching .Didn't happen..Bite was shut down.Could not catch a keeper.Maybe ten dinks.Most o those bites at 55...Thats ishin...
      City: sonora

      Tips: Read the report beore mine.He got them..

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

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      Water Temp: warming

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

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      Water Temp: warming

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
      City: LIVERMORE

      Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

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      Water Temp: warming

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
      City: LIVERMORE

      Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

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      Water Temp: warming

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
      City: LIVERMORE

      Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished up the Cherry Creek arm o the lake on Saturday the 8th o March. The water was perect or color and temperature. Visibility down to about two or three eet. Most o our ish were tight in brush cover. Our ish were mostly in the shade

Saturday, March 8th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 50-55 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a little report...Walked the banks above the spillway rom 2:30PM to dusk. Slow action but got two ish on a 4' Magic Worm. Took a while or me to ind the ish, but once I ound them I got quite a ew strikes. The ish were picking up the bait pretty sotly which suggests the water temp is still a little cold. Finished the evening ishing or Crappie at the Marina. Ended up with 6 slabs which are being prepared right now or the rying pan!
      City: Sacramento,CA

      Tips: Go Deep. Deep drop-os adjacent to points were where I ound ish.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Future Pro Tour tourney. A team event with best 5 or team scoreOnly managed 4 keepers or 7.34 pounds. 2.5 biggest. First tourney ever and we were 35 out o 88 boats in our divisionMy partner Tiger, made it a great experience and we are looking orward to the next one.Winning team had 19+ as they scored a 12.93 hog to blow away the pack. Top 10 inishers under 10 lbs.We caught ours on Senkos and Jig/spider grub.Majoroty o ish caught on drop shot ~ guess we better learn that technique!Many thanks to Vince or putting on a great event!!!! and thanks to Terry and Rob or all o their invaluable advise
      City: Paciica

      Tips: SLOW down! Dropshot i you got em.

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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Buddy and I ished Berryessa Sat. Started at Berryessa Marina and went over to the east side. Caught one trout and one smallmouth there. Moved down to Lillte Portuguese cove and landed 4 spots and one smallmouth. I the min. size was 12 inches we had about 4-5 pounds or the day.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Caught all my ish on a purple jig w/a june bug trailer. Buddy caught his on ringworm in Salt & Pepper chart. tail. Fished the bank mostly since I can't seem to get bit in deep water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing around 8am. O the bank at the Grizzly lat area. My irst came on a 6" purple cruly tail worm it was a 16". Them I walked over to the lats dicided to throw a salt and pepper with green zipper worm. Caught 1 that went 20" about 3 pounds.
      City: Chico

      Tips: Bite is slow and sot. Try the shallows even though you don't think any are there they are.

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

      Report: Found a couple o at emales in about 4 oot o water. The irst ish came on a spinnerbait. She was at!! Modest guess would be 8lbs. (Got her on the trailer hook) Second ish on a jig. Pitching in the same area, I hooked into a 7 pounder! Another at emale, just a tad slimmer than the irst.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: I was wondering i anybody knew what the results o the tournament Saturday were? I think it was hook line and sinker. Wonder i my 10lb would have got big ish? Thanks or any ino.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished inside Discovery Bay all day...Used Brwn/Brwn jig, Withes T Zipper Texas Rigged, and Carolina Rig 4 inch roboworms...Caught 15+ ish...5 in the 2.5 to 3.5lb range, 5 in the 1.5 to 2.5 range and the rest dinks...All good ish came in water at least (8-12) eet deep. The bank was ull o little ish or the time being. Missed several jig ish early beore inding my irst 3+ lb...Water was clear...Every point had at least (1) good bite on it...Still no large ish or me this spring, but I'll keep trying.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Jigs...Moderate success pitching to 4-6 eet o water and crawling the bait slowly back to the boat (15-20) eet out. Most bites came ater hitting rock or dock. The witches T also produced solid action and I need to remind mysel how eective a bait it is rom time-to-time. Depth and structure were keys to getting good bites. Stay sae and enjoy the water beore Ski season takes shape. TG

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      Water Temp: 65-66.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, well, well what a day. I think that I actually ran into the guy that posted below this one. He said at the time that he had 25 bites with one ish. I eel his pain. I missed the irst 10 bites I had. Me and my buddy inally managed to get a ew small ones in the boat. I casted out and my line started moving away real slow? Thought it was the current but, the more I watched I knew something was up. Set the hook and ater a great ight a nice 10lb Bass(actually 9lb 15oz but I rounded up) AWESOME! Kept ishing till dusk when my buddy hooked into a steelhead? The thing was about 23" and it ought like a champ, irst one o those I have seen or heard o being caught. What a day biggest bass ever! She was so beautiul and ull o eggs! Good luck out there!
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Throw the senko.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished a ather-son team at the north end on Friday, hoping the sun would really warm things up. Friday was to be a bit cooler and it was. I wish we had the weekend weather a day early. I watched and talked to several boats (actually the anglers!!) and ound ishing to be rather slow compared to last week. Tuesday and Wednesday nights were very cold and that probably slowed things down a bit. We did not get the big bites we did last week but did manage to land 9 tournament keepers and one short. The biggest was only 3 1/4 pounds on a 128 pointer minnow. The jig continued to be good or 2 pound bass, as was the sour grape brush hog (a good spring color!). We targeted walls with rock on them and scattered tule clumps that were slightly oshore. The action did pick up in the aternoon but the water temp - even with the sun out - only increased 1 to 2 degrees - probably because o a steady breeze rom the south. I like it when we have a 4 to 6 degree rise in an aternoon. That should be just around the corner! It will be interesting to see what a good storm this weekend will do to the ishing. I it is cold, we will be back to a slow period. I showed them a lot o new spots and we had a great time!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Because o the clear water we downsized the size o our brown/orange jigs and that seemed to help. I threw swimbaits o and on, but no takers. There just didn't seem to be many shallow ish like there were last week - or we just wern't in the right places. At least we saw a big ish - a guy got a 9 pounder on a minnow and released it unharmed. We ound a lot o our jig ish in the shadows o docks, in about 5 to 10 eet o water. Shadows are important with water this clear!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 51 - 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6:30 to 3. 6 keepers and 5 dinks. Partner had 3 with a 2.65. No reaction bite. Saw a couple o cruisers but they weren't interested. Best bite was spider grubs in 20-30 t. Dropshot 1 keeper and 4 dinks. Dartheaded blue worms worked also.Fish are really healthy and at but none showed any signs o bedmaking.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Bottom contact seemed to be the key. Dropshot leader was only 4 inches. Blue worms and purple grubs.