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Saturday, April 27th, 2002

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 5:45am, headed up the lake & ished trees with 2 hits early, so small, couldn't hook em. Fished most o day with hit here & there. Bset was 2.5 lbs, practiced catch & release. Wind was howling then stopped completely, then came back. Miserable & ustrating day, not much happening on this lake. Moon messed us up. Was in Cabo last week & windy there too, got out & spotted 20 Blue Marlin, hooked & released 3 around 140 lbs each. There were no tuna anywhere. Dorado were small. Had one illeted & shared with others at resort. As we let, weather turned nice. Fun trip with the guys anyhow! Probably, see you guys next spring....Happy Fishing
      City: SF

      Tips: None or windy conditions, stay home & watch the Giants....

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      Water Temp: airly cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went loat tubin at SCR today. Pretty good time or the irst time ive ever loat tubed. Saw a 3-4lb Bass swimmin around....wouldnt take anything o mine... TROUT people are doin pretty good.....Orange-rainbow powerbait caught some people some 14 inchers...Got Bit by trout in the Dam area...Thats it....
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Trout bite: quick and early.... Bass: ind some area that no one can walk to and under trees..

Friday, April 26th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I just read the previous report and thought I could shed some light on his "no bass" report. Phil - don't eel bad. I went with the tacklerep (Rick) the very next day at the same time (3 to 8 PM). I really didn't go with the idea o repeating his great catch, but to prove my theory that when big bass eed a certain day or night, they don't repeat the eed bag the next day. And I was interested in what the incoming cold ront would have. Well, to put it mildly, timing is everything!!!! In the ive hours we ished, I caught one 10" bass and Rick caught one close to 2 lbs just beore we quit. I believe I heard the expression "I can't believe this!" at least ten times rom my good ishin' buddy!! The lake had totally changed - baitish, bluegill, and bass! And so, the old adage - "you should have been here yesterday" - is alive and well!!! I believe another riend o mine was ishing the lake the next night too, and did very poorly.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Actually when you hear the ishing was great a certain day, you might want to wait a day or two beore trying to repeat the good report. I oten like to ish a lake when I hear the ishing is slow. I will wait or a warming trend and then go. It usually has to get better. Or the ish simply are deeper than most anglers are ishing.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Orwood or a day on the Delta with Partner Grandpa Ed. Wind was howling, raining, thunder, lightening all the signs or a horrendous day. Ed's irst cast with Senko nails 4+ largie and I lock up a 2+ on ch/ch spinnerbait. The tide is high and were in 4-6 eet o water. The thunder gets a bit close and we're thinking time to head or the hills, but change our minds and run into Disco. Proceeded to catch 20+ ish up to 5lbs. Ed catches all his on Senko (watermelon/red lake) and mine come on Norman white crank, mad man craw, black/blue jig, wh/wh spinnerbait. I decided to not throw a senko to learn some new baits. The key was SLOW...SLOW presentation. Made me a bit nervous. Grandpa had his best day ever on the Delta because he was a patient man. Let Disco with easy 20+ bag and went to lunch. Got back in boat and headed to my avorite transition spot LOW TO HIGH and pulled out the Red NORMAN nailed two nice ish...Grandpa with his trusty Senko hammers another 4 pounder. I decide its time or me to use a Senko and we continue to catch ish. Last cast caught a 6+ pound emale with eggs still in her.
      City: discovery bay

      Tips: Caught ish on every bait we threw. Senko hit the big.gest. I used watermelon/black lake and Black with Blue lake. NO WEEDS/NO ROCKS/NO TULLES NO FISH. Too ast no ish Throw Senko...and shake it. Feel the tick...reel down and ish will be on the other end. I you count the little guys we had 40+ ish. Best 7 were 28-30 lbs. Fished all in the South Delta.

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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just as Mark Lassagne reported below I ound the bite to be wide open yesterday. Launched at Sugar Barge under partly cloudy skies. Wind was not bad in the morning and was actually dead calm or a couple o hours. I took advantage o the conditions & put on 1/16oz brass and glass with woim and slayed them. I was ishing looded islands out o current in 2-4 t o water. Fish were very agressive and I caught a ew topwater and blade ish too, but the main pattern was shaking woims with brass and glass. At low tide I targeted deeper tule berms with very little current on them using 3/16oz weights. Caught around 35 ish total, but was surprised I could not ind any at emales up around the ull moon. I know many o the larger ish have already spawned but there should be plenty o smaller ish still ready to go. Maybe they were out on the 1st break as I pounded the shoreline stucture all day. Many 3# ish though and lots o un on the water. Hope this ront doesn't kill the bite or the weekend! I ished the Franks Tract/Mildred Area and kept the T-mtr down burning little gas. O course that's easy to do when the bite is wide open! Tight Lines,Mike Birch
      City: Danville

      Tips: Find protected areas out o the current as this time o the year. Most o my ish were caught lippin rather than pitchin yesterday. Keep T-Mtr on slow/constant and electronics o to minimize noise.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladd's at 7:00 and headed or some back slough's to get out o this lousy wind. The bite was really on. I don't know i it was the tide , the moon or what but the ish were as agressive as I've ever seen and they all wanted a watermelon/red lake senko. Lot's o shad schooling in and around the shallow weed beds and it seemed like the bass were all over them. Five times I was able to catch two ish in the same spot, bang, bang. Once, two bass almost collided going or the senko at the same time just as it hit the water. All the action lasted till 1 p.m. when things settled down to a normal pace, a ish here and there. Total or the day was 38 largemouth and one 6 lb. striper that put up the best battle o all. Largest was 4.9 lbs. with the average about 2-2.5 lbs.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: The ish were shallow and I haven't seen any that looked spawned out.

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

      Report: CAUGHT THE BEST BASS OF MY LIFE AND 3 MORE OVER 5LBS. my big ish weighed 10.52 and was released with the others. I caught all my ish on a Lake Fork super spook with a matching MARKS TAIL NO.017 OLD PEACOCK. I would have never caught these ish without this web site. you all told me the lure and how to get a hold o Mark 530-275-5995. I caught all these ish right ater dusk. till about 9:30pm. thank you to all o you who made this happen.P.S. RANGER BOATS RULE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      City: RIVERSIDE

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was up near the salmon alls road bridge and pulled in a 13 inch largemouth in the dark o o a berkly renzy lipless with a holographic inish. Would have stayed out there but the ranger came around and it was time or the area to close down or the night. Tried worms and got nothing and within the irst ew casts o the lipless it hit. Nothing to really brag about but its working. See ya on the lake.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: 3 to 5 eet o water is where it hit.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy Keith rom Medord,or in town or a little ishing, we went in at centimundi and the debris is all gone thanks to a south wind, in at 540am air temp 50 and the lake is at the 8t level, Keith ran us over near Dolly Point in the Sac and we hit them good right o the bat, my biggest at 2.6 came on a jig and the rest were dinks, Keith asks me how the breakast bet with my son goes so I tell him that the next legal bass(12 inches) wins breakast, he promptly boats a ish and we measure it at 11 3/4. Back in we both go and I get the " breakast bass" at 12 1/4! Keith, thank you or the breakast at the Giant Orange! we ished some more or around 20 total, I won the big ish award or the day and Keith gets the most ish award and the privelege o buying me breakast (giggle) we tossed some MGM worms or a ew and used the 156,157 and a new one the 158, most came on jigs in 6-25 t. Keith used his killer clear worm or about 7 ish.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: EXPECTED 80-90 DEGREE WEATHER, BUT THIS IS REALLY NICE. I HAVE BEEN READING YOUR REPORTS FOR SOME TIME NOW, IT IS GREAT TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE HELPING OTHERS. I REALLY THOUGHT THE BITE WOULD GET BETTER BUT IT SEEMS TO BE GETTING WORSE. THE MGM WORMS ARE GREAT, AND ALMOST ALWAYS WORK WHAT EVER PART OF THE LAKE I HAVE BEEN TO. WE LEFT THE HOUSEBOAT IN BASS COVE LAST NIGHT, FELT LIKE A HURRICANE THIS MORNING. COULDN'T GET THE TOPWATER BITE I HAVE BEEN GETTING,SO I TRIED THE RICO 519 WITH A MARKS TAIL NO.047IN REAL SHAD IT WORKED FOR FISH UP TO 2lbs. BUT NOTHING BETTER GLITTER/BLUE FLUKES WORKED ALSO. THE FISH SEEMED TO MOVE DOWN DEEPER TODAY,SINCE WE ARE GOING HOME TOMMORROW I WAS HOPING TO CATCH A BIGGEN, BUT WE HAD A GREAT VACATION, THANK YOU BRIDGE BAY MARINA FOR THE RENTAL.I GOT TO GO I PROMISED THE WIFE I WOULDN'T GET ON THE COMPUTER UNLESS IT WAS URGENT. I WILL KEEP READING YOUR REPORTS YOU HAVE HELPED ME ALOT. THANKS MIKE S.
      City: WATSONVILLE

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WATCH OUT FOR RATTLE SNAKES AT THE PONDS. I ALMOST STEPPED RIGHT ON ONE. WALK VERY SLOW AND LOOK WHERE YOURE WALKING. The ish were out though in the ront corner.
      City: redding

Thursday, April 25th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One person guide trip today, out o Lundborg, windy, overcast low outgoing in the morning. The water is starting warm back up. Started in Little Franks had 6 blow up on my avorite Buzz bait, (Cht/cht all metal blade in blade Persuader) caught 2 both small missed 2 good ones. As the tide bottomed out the could were coming in so I went to a nice weedy rock back with a good drop o. Client was using a senko throwing it up on the bank and dragging it through the weeds he had abour 30-40 bites losing lots o ish getting about 20. I was throwing the buzz bait and got 30 or so hits caught 25 most good oones a 7, couple o 5's, 4's, 3's. What a day we caught a ish or got bit about every 3rd cast or 3 hours. Best 5 about 25lbs
      City: Concord

      Tips: Senkos in the wind 5" watermelon red was better that 6" keep you rod low and drag. Buzz bait client didn't get any you had to put the bait on the bank an drag it o, i it sank under water no bites.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished one evening and ollowing morning. Hooked into three bass ( biggest got away, naturally)two on spinner baits, one on surace plug. Weather: Dark sky with showers
      City: Mtry

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      Water Temp: 60ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got 1 13in trout in the irst hour (8:00AM) not a bite till noon. ater noon not real productive. Orange powerbait seemed to be working o the dam. Too windy or the loat tube,
      City: Los Banos

      Tips: Looking or ellow tubers or local lakes. contact me via e-mailthanksBret

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 59.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at centmundi again but the debris is really piling up and was 2 eet deep this am, air temp 49 lake at 8.32t and slowing down now, should start losing water any day now, ran to the mouth o Big Backbone and tossed a spook or about 5 minutes with 2 misses by small ish, started throwing a jig and got 18 in the boat by 7am, ran a little urther into the big backbone and got 3 more on a jig and went to worms as the sun came up ater seeing a lot o cruisers, 14 more on the MGM-156 and the MGM109 with the biggest at 2.9 on the 109, I let a dozen or so o the 109's laying in the sun which lightens them up and they worked great, 10 o the ourteen came on the 6 inch 156, caught 2 more on the way out, one on a 6 inch #54 spade tail and one on a new worm the mgm#158 hunter which won a tourney recently. Back in at 1010am airtemp at 69 and had a time getting out because o all the debris, u might want to go to Packers and avoid centimundi until the level drops about a oot or we get a good solid south wind.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: You Are Welcome J.T., I Tried The Lake Fork Spook With A Matching Marks Tail No.017, You Are Right, It Does Work Better, THANK YOU !!!!. Fished Pit And Squaw Caught Numbers O 2lb. Fish, Big Fish Just Over 3lbs. Spinnerbaits Working Well Also. Good Fishing TOM
      City: redding

      Tips: Buy Your Lures At Phils.....

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Looking or Dan, Just got a tube mysel, looking or a ishing buddy. Contact i intrestedBret
      City: Los Banos

Wednesday, April 24th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: With ino. that the ishing was good on the 23rd and a good moon cycle, I headed up to Amador or the Big One. Started about 8pm and ished hard. Finally about midnight, swimming a 10" power worm, I boated my irst Amador 10 pounder. Unortunately, it had whiskers. I guess with a little ront coming through, a bit o cloud cover and water temp dropping, the bass said "not tonight" Fished till about 2:30am, not a bass bite all night. Caught a couple o huge crappie in 25' o water on a rocky point split shottin' 3" shad grub. Long drive home at 3am w/no bass!
      City: Lotus

      Tips: Nope!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Tower Park Marina at 8 with the wind blowing pretty hard. Fished Beaver Slough with no ish seen at the mouth, midway, or ar in. Other boats had same experience. Ran down to Disappointment, and ished Senkos, loating pink worms, lukes, white spinners, brush hogs, 5" tube Texas rigged, rattle traps and speed traps. Tried tight in tullies, inside and outside weedline, and on the rip-rap. Pulled one 1-1/2 pounder rom the tullies. Only a couple o other bites all day. Ran into one boat that said they had gotten "15-20, using this and that". I guess we never did ish "painully slow", like some o you have suggested.
      City: vacaville

      Tips: According to one o the regulars, Hog opens up beore Beaver and Sycamore. Never had such a tough day on the Delta, but usually ish out o Big Break. Any suggestions or the East Delta appreciated.

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Put in at Granite Bay at sun up to white caps . Ran up to Rattle snake bar area to get out o wind ound a ew calm coves with willows and wacky rigged senkos (186 5") and pitched into the cover,scored a ew 3/4 - 2 pounders.Wind remained most o the day until 4pm or so when the wind calmed down and water warmed a bit used same rig in open water,in 9-15 t depth range at beeks bight area start catching spots to 3 lbs. and the bite was more requent and aggressive.
      City: Sacto