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Saturday, March 8th, 2003

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today till 12:30 p.m. I have not ished morning or some time.I didnt get into any rip ish everyone is talkin about, so I threw jigs.Caught a total o seven that was 17 lbs combined weight.Fish are moving in, but not exactly red hot yet.Best ish was just under our pounds,the rest o them were between two and three.Very decent day or size. Also watched the weigh in or Newbass Folsom teams.Winning weight was just over twenty lbs.Almost everyone had limits, large ish was ive lbs ew oz.
      City: Granite Bay

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 49 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Made the long drive to Oroville or some pre-ishing with my buddy rom Colorado. Time to teach him what Drop-shotting was all about! Launched out o Barret's Cove with a good wind coming rom the north. Immediately headed or some less windy main lake points and ound ish in 20+ eet o water. My buddy caught a nice 2.5lb on his irst drop shot. Way to go John! We continued to ind small ish on many points, but a ew held bigger ish, so keep searching. Later in the day, we headed into the backs o coves lipping a jig and I landed 2 nice 2+ blacks and then the surprise o the day, a 4.5 black. Woohoo!That was it, time to head home and celebrate. We had a great day on the water and best 5 ish coulda went or over 12. That could've taken irst at the WON teams, but we all know that it never works that way when your IN the tourney. har! har!
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: Typical stu is working good. Drop shotting witches tea w/chartreuse tail and green weenies. Jigs were brown and brown.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 54.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I'm between boats so I walked the bank @ deer creek rom 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. I missed two on a brush hog and caught a nice pre-spawn largemouth pushing 4 pounds on a 6" Keeper oxblood with the orange belly. This ish was so egged up it could barely swim!
      City: Reedley

      Tips: I think the spawners are staging about 20' deep o o spawning areas.(hard to say rom one ish)

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat aternoon. Windy. Caught 2 LMB 1 and 2 lbs. Jigs 10-14 t. o rocky pnts. Slowwww.
      City: Eureka

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

      Report: Fished the Dinasaur Point area rom 7 - 2:30. Big lake is almost to its capacity. Not one ish caught by any bankies that I talked to and very ew (small ones) by boaters. Very non-productive day or ishing overall.
      City: San Jose

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out about 8am, went into Big Back Bone and started on points with no luck (drop shot,split shot, and blades).Stopped o in a creek bed where water was coming in, drop shotted a 082 Keeper with green/red lake 30'to 40'started picking up some spots. Stayed with that pattern or the rest o the day, 14 ish total or the two o us (all spots), nothing over 2 pounds. Keep the lines wet and the reports coming, still trying to learn Shasta (We use to be Delta Rats!)
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: 082 with green and red lake, our ish came on a Shad Power Bait 3", shack on tight line.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got up there with my boat at about 3:30 pm. went to the south side, tried senkos, only got one on, then it came o in about 10 eet o water along the weeds. no one was really catchin any. another week o warm weather, and it will break lose.

      Tips: wait or warm weather, catch and release only

Friday, March 7th, 2003

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished yesterday with my ather,best day ever, we caught 16 ish with best ive as ollows one 8lb,6lb,5.5lb,5lb,5lb or a total o 29.5 lbs not bad or limit.The day was windy all day, we caught all our ish on current areas with rock.
      City: winters

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday morning or about 4 hours started out in the coves by the spillway with no luck. Threw a castaic swim bait or a while with no bites. Then headed to the mountain spring area and hooked the irst ish about an hour ater getting started caught in about 15 t. a decent 2.7 on a ootball headed jig trailered with a Kinami DT hula grub. O o the same wall about 10 minutes later hooked into another ish this one weighing 2.5.Partner hooked up with a small bass on a 7" crawdad colored culprit worm. Continued working deeper into the cove with no success, then headed back to the same wall and hooked up again into a 2.6. Began heading back towards the camp dock and stopped to ish the camp dock cove. Caught a 1.6 o the rocky bank. Partner managed to catch one more ish on that crawdad worm this one was a 1.9 in the cove next to the camp dock. All the ish I caught were on the same combo I mentioned earlier and all the ish had a raw lip rom looking or dads. Most o the ish were in about 10-20t.o water we ished rom 6:30a.m to about 10:30a.m. Had a blast as always, the banks were lined with ishermen searching or the elusive Cutbow.
      City: Carson city,NV

      Tips: Brown,Orange. Crawdads, need I say more?

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: With bad tides I put the salt water rods up and thought I would start this years bass ishing. "wrong" The ishing started but the ish catching was slow. Hit the water about 8 and ater 8 hours I only had 6 ish to show or my eorts o hitting points, under water humps and bumps and what ever else looked ishy and I could think o rom markley to the P-creek. Three ish on a crankbait (red craw) 2 on a robo worm (brown) and one on a watermelon senko. Lakes ull and clear and I didn't see any cursers but I would think it would be any day now. Fish were berryessa ish 3/4 to 2lbs
      City: woodland

      Tips: I tend to ish things to ast. go with any slow very slow (drop-shot carolina) just slow and natural in color

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Skipped work on Friday and took my buddy rom Colorado ishing on the Delta. Launched out o Big Break and ished the early morning outgoing tide -wind was also going early. We lipped a ew 2+ in the tules in and around the break. Tried cranking and spinnerbaits on some walls; nothing but some stripers. So we ollowed the down tide to the Central Delta. We again lipped a ew more 2lb'ers in Franks but not much else. Headed over to Lighthouse marina and picked up 2 nicer ones (4+lb) on a senko & a Bacon under some docs in the shallows. Not much else, but sure better than working. My buddy enjoyed the Delta and wants to come back soon. Total or the day - 8 ish; best 5 just over 14lbs.
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: Try lipping a creature bait in blue/black or Grape Neon.

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished delta yesterday with ather,best ive black bass as ollows one 8lb,6lb,5.5lb,5lb,5lb or total o 29.5 lb limit not bad all ish came on rocks with current. We had a total o 16 ish with some in the 3to4lb range all ish came on cranks near ranks tract.
      City: winters

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished senkos near orwood caught 3 on black/blue senkos all under 2 pounds also caught one on a white spinner bait ished or 12 hours only production was during the incoming tide
      City: manteca

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Has any body got a ishing repoert on the black bass in the delta i have been working to much and am out o the loop please write some reports someone tell me a good story
      City: Elmira

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out o Mocassin up to Woods Creek. Got our in the 2 pound range. Drop Shotting a dark blue , our inch plastic with red metal lake. Had to practically drop it on their head. All ish were between 30-35 eet and quite sluggish. Got one 7 pound up towards Tuolumne o o some stick ups at about 25 eet two days beore. She was quite at and didn't put up much o a ight. I was quite suprised when I got here to the boat because I was expecting a much smaller ish. Both times I got blown o the water by 2:30.I'm going out right now (3/9) and taking my wie with me. Why is it I never do as well when she comes along? I'll let you know how it works out.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Drop shot. Be sure when you tie your Palomar that the hook aces up! Don't weed proo your rig. Just run it through the irst 1/2 in. o the plastic you're using. Careul around structure or you'll lose the rig. Bounce the wieght o the bottom to get thier interest and use your avorite attractant. Almost orgot......30 to 36 tag line ater the hook.

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: trolled riday morning in the wind. got 1 each @ 10 and 11 #s and one shortie. we lost a ew others. what a blast on lite tackle. would have limited out, but the wind made it hard to maintain trolling speed. anybody ever catch any kokes out o this lake?? they planted a whole bunch 2 years ago. i they survived the stripers they might be catchable size by now.kevin 'padrino'
      City: san jose

      Tips: caught one @ 15' t and one @ 25' but marked ish all over (12-60')

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out around noon and got 1 buck up shallow. Saw a nice 7 pound emale in about a 1-1/2 t o water. Caught my ish on a 4" berkley power worm. All in all pretty slow day.
      City: LIVERMORE

      Tips: get ready or spring ishin'

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Played hookey rom work and spent the day at the lake and am real glad I did. The ish are up shallow and airly aggressive. Caught 17 total, 3 LM (all over 3) and 14 smallies (all over 2) 7 best smallies just under 19 lbs. most ish taken on a gitzit. MUCH better than working.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: I had a lot o ollows today but couldn't get a reaction bite going.Weird. Oh well the gitzit was working well in 8-15 t.

Thursday, March 6th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out looking or the lip bite everyone is talking about. It is not there. Or at least not today. Worked against the tide today. Not sure why. Put ish in the boat on the same pattern or the last three weeks. Flipped Mildreds, Whisky , Taylor , nothing. Went back to what we knew and caught ish.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: Buzzzzzz

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladd's this aternoon about noon. Fished till 4 p.m. I managed to boat 6 ish on 8 bites, the biggest was maby 2.5 lbs. They all came on white or chart. spinnerbaits on the rocks. Nothing else worked or me today.
      City: Stockton