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Wednesday, February 5th, 2003

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ---------------

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went ater work and started ishing by 12:45. Don't have any money, so thereore i ished rom the shore...oh well. started to the right o the marina, and caught 3 ish in 15 minutes, 2 largies and a smallie. biggest was around 3.5 was a little slower the rest o the day, only got 2 more. let by 4:00. lake is clearing up alot, and saw a nice groupo o peopl on the lake, mostly ishing real deep. who needs a boat anyways!?!?
      City: Hayward

      Tips: ish are movin in a litle. all ish caught on tubes and jigs.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone ish Lexington lately? How's the water clarity?
      City: Stanord

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Back at it around 9:30.Went in search o some more (productive)deep cover.Lake was like glass, perect or deep water probing.On my third spot I was rewarded.Four nice ish.Two blacks,one spot and a chunky spot-red eye cross.Serched about a dozen more spots and ound two more with ish.Nine keepers or the day all on the main lake at 35 eet.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: The bigger emales and the dinks seemed to have slipped back into the depths.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on water @ 9:00a.m, headed to South Fork, started throwing rip baits, caught 5 trout in about 8 casts. 1 nice bass 2.5lbs, rest o ish came on 4" plastics, lizrds & stick baits. Drop shot & split shot 25' - 35' water, rocky points.
      City: Rancho Cordova

      Tips: Fish were not aggressive, work baits real slow

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003

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

      Report: In regards to the guy who wants ino about tournaments that can be done rom an aluminum boat, Newbass does a semi pro tournament series that has two catergories one or 1 -99 hp and one or 100 and above Ithink thats what the two categories are look up newbass.com

      Tips: newbass

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 7:15.Noticed that the temp had dropped two degrees.It was very cold so I headed or the west banks.Tried rippin or 45 minutes and to keep warm.Nada on the rip.Headed or a point and threw the big jig.Nailed a chunky three right o.One more jig bite than zip.Headed back into angels creek and got hit hard ive times on the drop shot at 40 eet.Missed two and the other three wrapped me.Played around until 11:30 and still one ish.Decided to head up the river.The lake was like glass so I stopped to hit a deep lat on the way.Good choice.Seven keepers(6 largies) and two trout.All ish at 35 on the drop.Went up past the bridge amd got one more spot split shotting.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: The bite is staying the same as the weather.There just there waiting or a change

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good Report Stan,Everthing You Posted, Worked.Should Do Well This Weekend.Had A Great Pre-Fish
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Go Home, I Already Caught All The Fish.Just Kiddin, Okay Not ReallyHope Everybody Has A Good One !!!!!Phils Has Everthing You Could Need.

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      Water Temp: 48-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: lake report or you WonBass olks, The lake is hovering around the 37t mark and releases have slowed as the incoming amounts have slowed, The water has a nice green tinge to it and is clearing rapidly, some areas have visibility exceeding 12t. Still some decent chunks o wood adrit all over but mainly in the middle and upper Pit and the Sac arm north o the gooseneck. Temp at night getting down into the upper 30's, midday as high as 65. You should expect a little cooler temps over riday night and saturday morning. Some debris moved back into the lake with the unusual wind out o the east today. Lake temps have warmed to 53 in the midday hours, early morning will ind temps as low as 46 in a ew areas, especialy well upstream in the McCloud. The Won Bass team event last weekend was won with just over 15lbs. Good luck to you all.
      City: Redding

Monday, February 3rd, 2003

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

      Report: FYI...The Rangers are cracking down on illegal parking at Calero...especially the bailey cove area. $35 parking ticket
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Bring license, park legally

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First o all, I wanted to give big thanks to the olks that responded to my last post and provided us with tips - you guys are great! On to the maiden voyage... I'm sure glad there was nobody on the water to see us make a ool o ourselves when we couldn't igure out how to trim the boat correctly. We eventually igured it out and headed to Sandmound Slough or some ishing. The water is still muddy, but ound a spot near the tullies that was about 5' deep with a light to medium current and very weedy. The weeds seemed to ilter out most o the crap in the water which made it a bit clearer. Tossed a watermellon w/blk lake senko (weightless) straight into the weeds, tik...tik...set the hook hard, he's on! 3lbs! Ater I let him go, I realized that he didn't give me a ight. Maybe the water is too cold(?).
      City: Hayward

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Whew! Nice day o ishin'! Once again, no loat tube today, just bankin' it. I ished rom 12-5. I started o with my c-rig like I was usin' beore and throwin' it out to deeper water. I must've ished that thing or about two hours beore I inally got ed up with ishin' that slow without a hit. I did notice though that it was nice and warm and sunny out today. So I thought...ya know, I wouldn't be surprised i these ish have moved up shallow on me today. So, I grabbed my spinnerbait rod went back into a cove that had been pretty exposed to the sunlight all day, and started pitchin' it around and in the tules. Fourth cast...SLAM! 4lber. I ended up catching 6 ish today, and every single one o 'em was in 2t o water or less. I caught 4 o them on a spinnerbait and the other two on a jig. Big ish today went 5lbs...that one ell victim to the jig. There was a trout isherman not to ar rom me when I caught it, and he said...hey, good ish, probably a good 4lber. I told him...naw, that's a 5lb ish there. So he pulled out his digital scale to see who was closer...sure enough, 5lbs exactly. Smallest ish today was a chunky 3.5lber. Must've had about darn near close to a 20lb limit today.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: When we get a ew days o consistent nice warm sun like this they'll move up shallow and eed real good. They were all gorging themselves on shad today. The lake is LOADED with shad right now. I saw hundreds o 'em today. Spinnerbait ish came o o a white 3/8oz spinnerbait w/ a 4" plum colored twintail grub trailer. Most o them were all actually right in the middle o the tules. I was just crashin' my spinnerbait right through 'em and slow-rollin' it back through. Jig ish came on a 1/8oz inesse blk/blu Bass Stalker Jig with a black and blu lk Claw Chunk Jr. trailer.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well a lot tougher bite than a week ago. With water temps dropping rom 58 to 52 degrees the bass seemed to back o the shallow lats and are ar less active. We caught about 8 ish, best 5 was 14.78 lbs in a T-Shoot. Lucky the rest o the ield only caught 4 ish a piece. We ound our ish on jig-n-pigs ish around brush and timber in 5 to 15 t o water. A ew came early on a Revenge White/Chartreuse spinnerbait. As soon as this cold weather leaves us and the water temps get back to near 60 this lake will bust wide open and be un to ish. Look or a good spinnerbait bite to turn on again. But or now just slow down and ish slow with jigs or Skeet's creature bait. Congrats to Verbouge or the big ish o 4.97 lbs. G-Manp.s. Eric, try to clean up your language on the orum please...thanks

Sunday, February 2nd, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: don't remember

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry or the late report. Fished 100% teams out o Markley. Partner and I hadn't ished the lake since June 1st 2002. Since 100% is a 7 ish limit we just hit points in the narrows. We tried reaction(rippin, blades, cranks) but didn't get touched. We caught around 15 keepers(all less than 2lbs) dropshotting and shaking(glass & brass) worms. Most o the ish were 15t but did catch some as deep as 50t. We weighed in just under 12lbs or 7 ish which was good enough or 10th out o 45 boats. Felt pretty good since we didn't preish. I'll take the points. Most o the ish were spots with about 1/3 being smallies. We only caught 1 largemouth on a jig. It was less than 1lb.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Most o the ish were on points in 15-30t. Clay banks were better than rock. Can't beat witches "T" or baby bass robo worms or colors.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Out o B & W at 7 am. Up the Mokulumne or a short strike on a Delta Craw Speed Trap. Did not boat the 1st ish until 9:30, a 15" black on a watermelon Senko. Nothing else until 11:15 & by now we had moved to Willow Berm Marina. A 14" black again on the Senko. 3rd and last ish at 1:15 o the rip rap just outside o B & W. Another 14" and again on the Senko. A cold and windy day.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Cranked, split shot and texas rigged worms and brush hogs. Only caught ish on weightless Senko.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went "sailing" on Sunday. The lake is ull but still a little cold. Bass were scattered and I only managed 3 small ones on a dart headed worm. All I could do with the wind was drag the bait and wait or a hit. I got nothing on crankbaits.
      City: Yuba City

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went with my little brother and got a ew bites o powerbait and crawlers. A couple kids next to us caught their limit using chartreuse powerbait.
      City: Hayward

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Northen end o the lake or the most part. Stating at 6:30 and getting o the water at 3:30. Fish came on Brush Hogs and rip baits Best ish went 6+, came tight to the tules on a Brush Hog.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Watch the birds as they will give away where the ish are.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat and Sun or 4 hrs each morning. Caught a total o 6 bass. Fish ranged rom 1.5 to 4.1 lbs. No pattern. Caught ish on Senko shallow to crank bait deep to drop shot in 15-20 t o water. Could only get on ish per presentation then had to switch bait. Very slow. Should be better in a ew weeks.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Keep switching baits. The ish seemed to have moved a little more shallow than a ew weeks ago. Saw most ish in the 15 t range with a lot o suspended ish that would not bite anything.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: well, i inally got out to try out my new minn kotta bow mount trollin motor, and tried my luck on the lake. tried this big long cove or like hella long time. Got there at about 8:45 am. it was soooooo uckin cold, dress warm. we didnt catch shit. using spinner baits, and senkos, and brush hogs.the guy in another boat caught a 5 pounder. i got one small bass to the boat on a baby brush hog in standin timber. i talked to a bass dude that hella knew what he was talkin about, and he said that it was too cold, and in another couple o weeks.he caught 8 on jigs.

      Tips: hella cold in morning, dress warm, (unny how there were wake boarders out there) anyway, use jigs, and ish will be hella better in a couple weeks. good luck,catch and release only

Saturday, February 1st, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in turkey shoot this weekend put on by Todd rom Anglers World. Launched out o Pleasure Cove at about 7am. Fog was a little thick so my partner Chuck Dyer and I decided to start ishing in the narrows. We put 2 in the boat right away on a lucky crat deep diving crank bait in the irst 20 min. Then the og looked to clear up some so we decided to head up to Putah Creek to see the conditions o the water and maybe catch a good ish. We ished a couple o spots that we normaly ish but had no success. Went to another spot where the water was a little clearer and on the irst two casts my partner got bit both times, however he was unable to hook up. Then on the third cast he gets bit again and the ight was on. When he got it to the boat and I netted it we were both saying that we ound the spot. The ish weighed in just under 5lbs.The ish came on a brown jig in about 15 to 20 t. We continued to ish the area or about 5 more hours with only one more ish. The wind picked up pretty bad and it was very diicult to eel your bait. We moved to some other spots back on the main lake with no success. At about 1:15 we decided to go back to the narrows to inish out our limit. The wind was ripping across the lake at 25-35 mph with 3-4 oot rollers. I speared a wave about 1/4 mile rom big island. So we changed dirrection and went through the long 5 around big island, boy what a ride. When we got back in the narrows we quickly illed our limit lost a couple more culled out a ish and started to dy out. We weighed in 10.02 or 5 and 2nd place. First place was 10.10 or 5. Thanks to Todd or the touney and the big ish option. Look orward to the next one.
      City: Concord

      Tips: I you are looking or numbers and a lot o culling 1/4oz ish go to the narrows. I you need a kicker head to Putah Creek. You may not get bit much but it could be a good one.