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Sunday, March 2nd, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: COLD 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GOT ON THE WATER ABOUT 5:30 AM IT WAS COLD.AIR TEMP WAS 30 DEGREES WIND WAS BLOWING ABOUT 20 MPHS. FISHED UP THE RIVER ARM ONTHE ROCK WALLS.I HAVE'NT FISHED PARDEE SINCE I WAS A KID WITH MY GRANDPA 30 YEARS AGO.I HAVE NEVER FISHED WATER SO CLEAR. YOU COULD SEE 25 PLUS FEET.AS SOON AS THE SUN HIT THE WATER THE BITE WAS ON FISH AFTER FISH AFTER FISH.MY PARTNER AND I COUGHT OVER 40 SMALL MOUTH IT WAS GREAT.I HAD NEVER BEEN SMALL MOUTH FISHING BEFORE.WE STARTED OUT TROLLING FOR TROUT (HATE IT PARTNERS BOAT NO CHOICE)BUTIT WAS TO COLD .HIDE IN A COVE UNTIL SUN HIT THE WATER.TALKED HIM IN TO THROWING SOME GETZ IT TUBES AT THE ROCK WALLS AND IT WAS ON.
      City: Ione

      Tips: SMALL TUBES WEDGE AND PADDLE TAIL MINNOWSWE WENT THREW ALL OF MINE AND CALLED IT QUITS AROUND 1:00.THE BITE WAS STILL STRONG RAN OUT OF ALL MY SMALL BAITS.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry.......we orgot to mention that the ish we caught that day were trout.
      City: pittsburg cali

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the back pond this aternoon. Float tube. Senkos, jigs, spinnerbait, spook and not one hit. 4 guys ishing worms and minnows had one hit all day. Probably will improve with a little warming o the water. Was cool and caused the legs to cramp ater about an hour.Bill

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

      Report: To all anglers interested in ishing region 5 B.A.S.S. Fed tournaments: The irst tourney is Mar. 30th at Shasta out o Bridge Bay. Entry ees must be received by me no later than Monday Mar. 23rd whether mailed or hand delivered. Please include a phone # as I will let all anglers know the oicial check in time. Any questions eel ree to email or call me at 243-7348. Thanks and hope to see you on the lake. Tony
      City: redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i got on the water at about 9, drove to warm springs. my dad and i ished black jigs the whole time, didnt get nothin. 2 bites, thats it. I tried a senko and a spnnerbait, and nothing. i dont know how everyones catchin all these dam ish. When i was up there,no ones was catchin anything. my Guess is that warm springs is too cold, but i dotn know, anything will help.
      City: joisdhoisadh

      Tips: ish slow, ish are movin up or spawn. catch and release only, good luck.

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      Water Temp: 60 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On water at 10 A.M.. Tubed to a steep bank with brush. Worked a 6" worm rigged braa and glass. Got bite, had to give some slack line or the ish to take the bait in. Nice 2 1/2# ish. Worked area with an casts, picked up 2 more ish about the same size. Moved up on a saddle with grass and brush. Made serveral casts and inally got a tick. The emale was real white telling me it had just moved up rom deep water. She went 4.52#. Had a total o 12 ish. Was o the water at 3:30 P.M.. Best 5 would have gone 16.42#. The lake is about to bust open.
      City: Santa Rosa, Ca.

      Tips: Fish are begining to move up and will be crusing. I you ind ish work the area well. Stay with natural colors.

Saturday, March 1st, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Hollands and decided to head to Mildred. Cold and windy until about noon. Got my irst on a Senko in 2 t o water close to the weeds. A ew casts later a nice 5lb on a senko. That was it or a ew hours. Decided to a little trolling or stripers and got 7 to 5 lb on a chrome/black diamond shad. All in all not a bad day, just wish I could get more black bass.
      City: W

      Tips: Throw the senko. Try and stay out o the wind.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished or trout got 3 and that was it no size
      City: brownsville

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished up in the river and the water is still very dirty. There are a lot o trout isherman on the lake. Bass ishing has been Ok but nothing special. Catching most ish in depths greater than 10 eet. The water is still cold and the ish are not very aggresive. Give it a week o warm weather and the ishing should improve. For the spots ish rocky banks
      City: Grass Valley

      Tips: use worms and ish slow

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Made the season opener, was on the lake by 6:15am. Tried or bass or irst ew hrs, buddy landed a nice 2.8lbs'er on custom colored mop-top. (it sat next to some pink worms too long!) anyhow, it did the trick once. It was the only bass between us all day.Went or trout when moving between sopts and landed 3 not even trying. I hooked up a nice hold-over on my ultra-lite trolling a roostertail shawllow. Water is very clear,and level is ull, still cool. Every rental boat was used, the lake was busy! Saw bass, cruising the shores line but they wern't interested in anything I was tossing at them. Loch Lomond Lok-jaw's!
      City: ScottsValley

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 2nd Time! Fished Tue. with Frank & Lance rom Sacromento and had a wonderul day. Started a bit windy then got oggy then it was summer time! Easy limits were the rule but no big ish, all were just good better then keeper size. all ish came on trolled bait around 30 eet deep in over 100 t o water in and around Gooseneck and the Dam.jihn@justish-n.com Stripers, trout, Bass209 5298364 Trips still open or www.justish-n.com
      City: modesto

      Tips: Fish bait slow, broken backs astGood luck

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the big lake on Fri and Sat. Found early limits to 18#s both days. All ish were caught on trolled bait 30-35 eet deep.Fished Lone Oak Bay both days and caught several other ish each day, all released to ight again. People were catching ish rom the bank as while others on broken backs. One man said he caught a six ish limit throwing plugs to the Dam. Trips still open Call John @ 209 5298364 orJohn@justish-n.comwww.justish-n.com
      City: modesto

      Tips: Good Bait Check Oten, Make sure it rollin good

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished san luis today, it was real rough early (around 7). tried by the levy, but was too rough. then it calmed down and was a gorgeous day. we trolled rom dino pt to quien sabe point and up towards the creek. scored 8 ish, 2 @ 12#s (caught by the beginner o course). were caught @ 25-35' on trolled bait.
      City: san jose

      Tips: be sae, troll slow and make sure the bait looks good and is spinning well.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wie and I had a great day at San Pablo today. We got there at sunrise and as soon as the sun came up, started catching 1 1/2 and 2 pounders. She caught her irst real "lunker" 5lbs. 3oz. They took her picture and gave her a ree hat. She was very excited........as was everyone around us.We used rainbow power bait. It seemed to do the trick. Launch ramp area was hot today. Hits came every 30 to 40 minutes. Lost 2 and missed 2. Still had a good day. We will be back.RB
      City: Pittsburg, CA

      Tips: Rainbow Power Bait with 30 inch leter.

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

      Report: SHOWED UP LATE AGAIN AROUND 2 PM WEATHER WAS A LITTLE CLOUDY FISHED IN SOME COVES ON MY WAY FROM THE DAM BUT TO NO AVAIL.. FLEW ALL THE WAY FROM THE DAM OVER TO JONES COVES AND TRYED WITH SOME SPINNERS SOME SENKOS AND EVERYTHING I COULD FIND BUT COULD NOT HOOK UP TODAY.. STARTED TO SPRINKLE A LITTLE, SHOT A FEW MORE COVES THAT LOOKED PERFECT TO HOUSE SOME BASS BUT HAD NO LUCK..WATER WAS NICE AND LOGS AND STICKS THAT WERE IN GREAT NUMBERS YESTERDAY UNDER 5 WERE NOT THERE TODAY WATER WAS CALM UNTIL ABOUT 6PM WHEN WE WERE HEADING BACK
      City: RED BLUFF

      Tips: IM NEW TO THIS LAKE AND HAVE FAIRLY GOOD SUCCESS TROLLING FOR TROUT BUT WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE ALL THE BASS HANG OUT .. WHAT ARMS ARE THE BEST FOR BASS ?? IF YOU HAVE ANY TIPS THEY WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED THANKS TO THE GUYS A PHIL'S PROP'S FOR ALL THE HELPFUL POINTERSFONZIE'S BOAT MOTOR REPAIR

Friday, February 28th, 2003

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I usually do good here but got skunked this time not even a bight tried everything rom brush hogs to senkos the water at almaden is low
      City: manteca

      Tips: ish somewere else

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Drop-shotted and cranked 11 ish,a 3.4lb and 3.2lb or the best two. Got them on primary points at Haines Cove and Wraggs Canyon.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: Water is very clear. Natural colored baits seemed to work best.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing or trout was good a ew bass here and there
      City: brownsville

      Tips: ddep and slow

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey SturgeonKid, I was just wondering what type o waders you picked up? I need a new pair mysel hopeully one that has a higher back on it to reduce water intake when i'm loat tubing. Any help would be great thanx.-twoody13
      City: Antioch

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

      Report: Fished rom 8 a.m to 2p.m. Things started a little slow, no ish or the irst hour or so. Got the irst one,large mouth about 1 1/2 lbs. on a cinnamon spider jig in about 15 eet. a little urther down the same rock bank , landed my best o the day, a little over three lb largie. Later in the day started drop-shotting green robo worms and started getting more action. Ended up with 8 ish two smallies and six large mouth. Fish seem to be moving into more shallow waters. Good luck
      City: Hayward