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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

  • Washoe County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing is very
      City: taft

      Tips: stay home

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone have any info for bass fishing on this lake if anyone does that would help thanks.

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished from about 4 am till 11 am caught 5 little slow still im not sure if its still not warm enough or what. Looked to be a tourny up there but not sure. Did well on the rocks thats about it.
      City: Visalia

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on lake at 5:15 am. Breeze was starting to pick up. Fished Brown Cove by the rock pile with senkos. Caught 2. Wind started to pick up so we went to Boulder Gulch , started ther with cranks, nothing, tried Spinnerbaits and whammo, that was it. Caught probably 20 fish in 45 minutes, 3 to 5 lbs.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Get off early, we had gust to probably 45-50 mph

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 46 fish over two days, crappie, trout, largemouth, blue gill. Early morning, late afternoon, salt/pepper crappie jigs.
      City: Castaic

      Tips: In amongst the weeds, you lose a lot of gear but it's worth it.

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 68-71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a tourny with our club, wind blowing 1st thing and all day. Started cranking in rip rap next to launch ramp, got 3 keepers in boat then flew over to cove with poophouse in it. 3rd cast on main lake point hooked into and landed a 9 lb pig by 7am. Bite slowed way down and some dinks and one more keeper ended our day with a limit and a win for my son and I. The big fish puked up 17 shad in my livewell.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Look for the balls of shad chunk and reel, watch your electronics

Friday, May 30th, 2008

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Aaron's Magic @ 8-12 feet, Bass to two pounds.
      Breeze and wind disruptive at times.
      City: Saugus

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Smaller fish on beds, bigger fish just now showing up, caught 12 in three hours, split shot 6" black curly tail, biggest was 7 1/2. 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM.
      City: Castaic

      Tips: Lower lake is slow, upper is wide open.

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 5:30 am. Clouds & little rain. Fished up lake by freeway side of slick rock. Fished till 10:30 am. 19 fish 3.2 lb biggest one. Couple of 2 lbers and some 10-13 inchers too. Crankbaits and chartuse senkos. Left before the skiers all came out.
      City: Visalia

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A day to practice at the Lopes -- Early start at 6AM and NO ONE was checking boats! I asked the Ranger as I was alreay tagged, but he said there would be someone at the dock. Nada! No one around at the dock launch so I hesitated a little and waited. Two other boats arrived and did the same. After about 25 minutes, we all put in the water and parked our tow rigs.

      Wind came up by maybe 6:50 or 7 not real bad but as the Lopes goes, be prepared. Lots of green top layer in the back past Vasquez almost like the back end 'turned over'. Nada on anything on the screen in the back and I worked the stickups with tops and cranks and chatter jigs with no takers. Headed towards Vasquez and hit the east side of the walls with spinners, cranks, jigs, senkos and creature baits with absolutly no hits on any of my fav bait combos. Wind increasing by 8:30 and I started tossing rip baits. By 10:15, I headed back to the marina and hit the south end with still no takers or hits. Frustrated as the wind picked up and I was having fits holdibng the boat so I trailered it and headed to the decon station for a new tag.

      NOTE!! No more releasing bilge water on the ramp! Read the SIGNS.
      City: SM

      Tips: Terrible day!

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry, we had 26 anglers on 13 boats, not 26 boats.
      City: Fresno

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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sierra Bass club launched 26 boats saturday. There were approx 10 limits turned in. The winner had 10+ lbs with a 5.85 kicker. Second place had 10+ lbs with a 6 lb kicker. 3'd place had 9+ lbs. 4th place had 7.90. There was some reaction bite early on cranks, rips and topwater. Quality fish were caught on senkos and worms. Lots of little fish caught, keepers were hard to come by.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Fish cranks 5-10 feet early. Fish slow slow slow later in the day. Brass and glass w/ small worms. Shake it near the wood.

Friday, May 9th, 2008

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 69 degree

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 1 fish 14.5" on live bait. Saw 1 other boater catch 2 small fish. Looks like they were using white jigs or grubs. Talked to one other guy and he didn't catch anything. He had an expensive boat though. Fished from 8am-2:00pm.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: None. Maybe these fish get hungry at night.

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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As a part of my Dad's (Earl Dodson) 70th birthday week, we decided to get his line wet after a 10 year plus drought. And what better way to do it than with some serious BLUEGILL fishing. San V is known for it's monster bluegill and Redears and we hit it just right this time around.

      We caught 30 plus during the day. Our best 17 (9 bluegill and 8 redear)tipped the scales to 17.05 lbs! My dad caught a 1.25 lb redear (best of the day!). We used medium nightcrawler pieces, meal worms, and redworms worked mainly in 10' with a split shot. Tompkin's cove and the Chimney were the most productive areas.

      Just wanted to thank my Dad for a nice day of fishing with his son!! Can't wait to indulge ourselves with the first bluegill fry in years!!

      Your son,
      Mark
      City: San Diego, CA

      Tips: medium night crawler pieces or meal worms in 10'-20' near tules and rock.

Monday, May 5th, 2008

  • San Diego County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing at jenkinson lake today got on the water at 6am got a few on a pearl xrap throwing parellel to the bank in about 8 ft of water. then I started picking up fish dropshotting robo worm hologram shad 4 1/2 curly tail all were males and shooting spunk all over. if you never have fished this lake it a great smallmouth lake there are some large mouths but smallies are the prodominate species most people fish for trout, their was only one other boat fishing for bass. I ended up with 10 fish for the day.
      City: carmichael

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good day on the water, we launched at 6:30, very very foggy be careful off the water at 1. The bass were hungry and feeding heavily, all our fish came on a jerk bait and a lipless crankbait, over half the fish caught spit up shad and were fairly shallow, 6-8ft.
      City: SLO

      Tips: Use something that resembles a bright shad and work fairly fast.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 59 - 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 6 :30 am. Found out tournament with 42 boats on the water. Went across from 2nd ramp & up. 4 small ones on senko. Wind blowing hard all day & bad after 11am. Went by the dam for 3 -12- 14 inchers. Went to slick rock and drop-shotted 3 more small ones. To much traffic and fishermen. Everyone was spot hopping. Wind made it hard to present lures at the spot.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: None

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 63 to 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I just spent a week at Nacimiento. The Lake is at 39% capacity due to major work being done to the spill way. The lake is down 20 plus feet from last year. This means that the bass beds have dried up and the spots were this. We caught 75 spots and 50 big white bass. The whites were a very early bite. 0530 hours and it only lasted for about 2 hours. The big bite was in tip creek and las tables. We were using bill lewis rattle traps, and cast masters. The whites were big and none of the female had spawned due to the water level. There was no debris in the water and the rockey points were the hot spots. The County has taken over the camping area and a new corporation has taken over the trailors and store. They dont have there act together yet but give them time. This corporation should do a good job. Bobby out!
      City: San Diego

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 64-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 4pm. Started catching fish right away. Went 1/2 way up lake on the right past 2nd ramp and threw senko's at all the cover and chatterbait around the trees. Went all the way till camp ground. 3 - 3 lbers, 10 around 2-21/2 and 15 between 10-15 inches. Broke off big one by a tree. 7 - 8 pm big ones showed up.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Fish are roaming around. Run and gun style.

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: wacky worm sinko,dark,split shot pearl-purple 4 in curl tail,drop shot small fat worms 4in,brown,slow,lake was windy,inside walls and rocky areas
      City: la canada

      Tips: slow,pressure bite