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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Only 2 all day. North end closed. Caught the 2 near the closed end bouys, west side, in some small coves. One on a suspending RatlnRogue in silver and black 1.5#, the other on a TexRigged black worm 2#. That was it.

      Fished Harris cove hard without a bump.

      Algae globs starting to form.

      Got real windy by 3pm.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Go to Naci.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 58.6-63.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Want to catch a bunch of spots? Now is the time. Caught 28 on jigs, soft plastics and cranks. Most 12-15" with 2 to 2.5lbs.
      Great time to take a kid fishing. Fish north side rock walls and banks.
      City: Northridge

      Tips: Keeep your bait in the water and bring bandaids for your thumb

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 59 to 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started fishing at 6:30 , with my dad today , started out slow, fish on beds were skechy and managed a few here and there. fished til 5:30 last 1/2 hr. we stuck 8 nice fish on reaction baits, we managed around 14 lbs. 5 best.
      City: tehachapi

      Tips: best fishing late in the day on jerk baits.

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

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      Water Temp: 58o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tri Valley Meet was filled with a good 39 boats today. Cloudy day and still a few spots of sun but very few. Very slight winds much of the day with heavier winds coming in late in the day making it almost a perfect time to fish Lopez.

      Partner and I hit on three nice smallies with good weight in the 1st 45 minutes then everthing headed deep. But it was still a decent day with about 9 and change in the scale but winners were in with good loads. Saw a 34+ hit the scale from the winners at last meet so they have things figured out.

      Most big bags were out of Whittenberg area

      Next month is San Antone Apr 25th
      City: SM

      Tips: Drop shot worked for us against the walls in 25-35 foot. Jigs and brush hogs and whacky were used by some. Didn't see any beds yest in the back. Some in whittenberg which probably got hit hard - but - so did the fish!

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bite was very slow Saturday. Threw jigs, swimbait, worms, jerkbait with nothing. Finally switched to a roboworm on a shakey head to pick up 3 decent fish. The cold front moving in really changed the bite from earlier in the week.
      City: San Luis Obispo

      Tips: If nothings working try something different.

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice warm day. 4 lb. and 3 lb largemouth .Two dinks.
      City: Maricopa

      Tips: Hit the rocky points with wind at your back.

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took my wife out fishing, a great day for fishing. caught 11 bass, my wife got 4, alot of bedding bass and sight fishing, all but 2 on worms saw alot of fish, nice to see a good population, all were cauhgt and released.back on there beds.
      City: tehachapi

      Tips: polarized glasses help spot the fish.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well the Lakes coming up its right at the bottom of the new ramp.Started out by the first rock wall on the right and first cast with a pop-r I picked up a small Spot.Fished down a couple hundred feet and picked up four more.Then ran over and fished the coves on the right past Bee rock with 6" Robo worm Texas rigged (Arrons Magic)and cought all the spot's you wanted.All the fish were out on the points and just a little ways into the coves.The farther you went in the worse the fishing.Then I ran down and fished across from Las Tables and switched to cranking all those little cuts with a Wee-r.Not as many fish but all better quality between 2-2-1/2 lbs.Then ran to the back of Las Tables and started at the five mph line.I threw a small 3" Chart.grub and cought 5 more spots three Crappie and two White bass.So I guess what I am saying is the Lake is fishing fantastic.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Just do what I did and take a Kid now is the time.

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I got A late start 11:00 my fist trip of the season. first fish 2 lbs on arron's magic 4" strait tail. next fish a dink on a Lizard, then A couple more. Later I got two more on brushogs. Big fish was 18" at least 3 lbs. 6 fish total. Margarita's on
      City: Pismo beach

      Tips: Fish were close to the bank and the bite was real soft.

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 64.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished another success bass tour.on sunday 3-15-09 finished 2nd with 11.30 lb. for 5fish with a3.32 2ndbig fish day was overcast with a fairly good wind had alittle trouble in the morning so just tryed to stay focused. no bed fish,just could'nt see them due to the wind and cloudcover. went back on thursday 3-19 caught lots of bed fish 8.63lb was bigfish biggest5 were 21.64
      City: porterville

      Tips: waters clear fished just about anything white for bed fish and watermelon candy splitshot lizards are doing very well also have fun and help the fishing be good for our kids and grand kids by practising catch and release it works! see ya on the water.

Monday, March 16th, 2009

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 2 trout. A 17.5" and a 19.0" at 2nd boat ramp area. Nice trout plant DFG. No bass. Couldn't go upriver. Engine trouble. Putted around on electrics.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Don't keep your boat engine for more then 30 years. Heh Heh.

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Here are the results for the Visalia Bass tounament on March 14th. First off let me tell you that the lake was on fire. I could only account for 11 fish that were over 3 lbs. but many more where in the scales since we only weigh 1 from each team. I can tell you that of the 35 teams that a 10 lbs. limit and a fish in the area of 3-3 1/2 lbs would get you back some money. Not today, weights in the 10-11 lbs range and big fish in the 3 1/2 -4 1/2 lb range got you nothing today. Here are the top 3 for today.



      1st place Gary Coker & Victor Diaz 20.91lbs 2nd big fish 7.34 lbs

      2nd place Ken Borba & Russ Huffman 17.10 lbs Big fish 8.60 lbs

      3rd place Randy Weldon & Jim Tatum 13.28 lbs



      You had to have 11.78 even to cash to for 7th place.



      Most fish caught in the river area using Swim Baits and jigs from 2'-18'
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Go fishing

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: some water is clear depending on location. Started in las tables caught some small fish drop shot and darter. Moved to main lake around bee rock and started catching better fish up to 1 3/4 - 2ish lbs. Waiting for it to warm just a little more.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: throw darter and drop shot - worms in red color.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anybody know why trimmers is closed off?
      City: visalia

      Tips: Dont go fishing there!

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 61 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddies and I fished the South Fork Cove area the evening of March 14, 2009 throwing 4" Senkos into the submerged brush. We caught a few around a pound, a 1.7 lb bass and a 2.7 lb bass, lost an estimated 4lb bass as it threw the hook within feet of the boat. Caught a few more bass dropshotting down the channel of South Fork on Sunday morning, March 15, 2009 to include a 2.5 lb bass.
      City: Simi Valley

      Tips: Throw senkos into the brush all over the lake, dropshot any channel slopes you can find.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Clear to stained depending on where you fish. The place is on fire after the sun gets up. Worms (wacky and shakey) fished shallow got lots of bites, and jigs fished in 15-20 caught some solid fish. In all only a couple around 2#, but lots of 12-15" fish.
      City: Vandenberg AFB

      Tips: Go fishin' and catch spots all day long

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

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      Water Temp: 54'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished dam area early morning with a jerkbait. Picked up 2 spots and a rainbow trout. Ran back up river and found several boats. Picked up 1 black and 3 spots of a bank dropshoting a purple worm 45 feet deep. Headed to main lake and picked up a few more fish. Best 5 went 5-6lbs. Bite seems to slowly pickup but size and weight has been at a minimum.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: most fish 40-60 feet deep still.

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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      Water Temp: 53o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A practice day at the Lopes with a fishing buddy.
      Hit Whittenburg on a first stop and we were greeted with some very cold conditions to say the least. Saw a few guys out in the same area bundeled up tight against the conditions. Slow going for sure. Tossed blades into the weed stickups [as was others] looking for crusing fish but no takers. Headed to Vasquez area with jigs against the banks and walls with nothing. Over to the dam area to get out of the wind but it still followed us. Tossed a few jigs and started to dropshot. Partner pulled in one keeper after three breakoffs in the rocks and I pulled off three lighter jigs as well with nothing. Two younger kids to our right pulled in maybe two smallies [really small] and that was it. headed to a few other good spots but nothing hit. Used a drop on the point just out of the marina where we finally were showing fish but still nothing. Wind was really pulling us around and we elected to call it a day at about noon. Cold out, hungry and alot of casts with no much to show. Warmer waether may help.
      City: SM

      Tips: Being it is March, no real sign yet of fish moving to shallows for pre-spawn. Maybe in a few days... Weather helping.

Friday, March 6th, 2009

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished for about 3hrs and caught 1 2lb spot with 1 missed fish on a jig. trolling mtr went crazy so decided to troll on the way back for trout. caught cookie cutter trout to 2lbs all on daiwa dr. minnows, 5 total.
      City: napa

      Tips: daiwa dr. minnows gold black back & prism green back

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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      Water Temp: 59o -61o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold! 28o when I hit the main gate. Shorts off - Levis on! Headed to the river to check out the situation as there were several trainlers at White Oak but saw no one. Hit passed the first dock entering the narrows and saw several boats mored. Must have had a breakfast or something going on at the campsites. . Back was empty at the stick up's but tossed a few anyway. No takers so headed back towards the dock area and the rock walls. Tossed a jig on the transition areas and popped a heavy! 7+ and the nice guy that was just down from me trolled up and said good catch - shes a heavy. Who ever it was THANKS! Never got his name. Toosed back in the same local up and down the banks and lipped another good 4+ so there were in there and I left them be.

      Headed towards the 5mph coming out and hit the sunshine side with a few others in the area. Went to a drop and it hit the water and she hit me. Good solid 3 1/2 male on a Robo in 18feet.

      Hit a few more smaller ones and called it a day at noon.
      City: SM

      Tips: Big gal was on an old Gilly Jig I got from Gilly just a few months before he passed. Wish I could locate that color combo again. Only a few left now. Black.Brown and purple flake jig with a Trigger june-bug trailer. Drop was on a Robo oxblood light red/flk straight tail 5 in. and a Robo ?? sorry.. some you don't give out.