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Monday, December 24th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 44 to 48.0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: More people trying for trout than bass here. Bass fishing has slowed here bank fisherman are using powerbait to catch trout & boaters are using blades and nightcrawlers. Bass are on the small side and are in 15 to 30 feet of water here. 1-559-673-5151
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Patience here works wonder too.

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 11am with my nephew's from Arkansas. Cold and little windy. Caught a few on drop shot and some on spoons. 16 fish total. A few close to 2 lbs. Had to run all over to find some that would bite. Went to 14 different spots. Lots of fish out in the middle suspended 45-65 feet. Left at 4pm. Tight lines. Brian
      City: Visalia

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold weather and cold water. Went up at 11am. Got 10 fish. 4 keepers. jigs and spoons at 41-48 feet and every fish ate the bait. They must be starving. Heard they extended the ramp at Success Lake. No boats been on there for 3-4 months so I'm going to go there during the holidays. Tight lines.
      City: Visalia

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 51.9 to 54.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The trout are in here also and more people are fishing for them more than bass fishing. Bass are in 18 to 30 feet of water and are hitting on jigs and drop shot rigs. Rock piles points trees brush piles and drop offs are holding bass. Mid morning into the afternoon the bite gets better. Traffic is very light.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: I like drop offs & points this time of year here target and area and fish slow.

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

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      Water Temp: Low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit up Margi this afternoon. Fished from 12:30 to dark...Lake is in full swing turn-over, water is Rootbeer color every where and cold.... Over all very tuff fishing.
      City: Paso Robles

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 6 am with buddy mark navarette. Cold and slow. Finally caught a few on jigs. A few on dropshot. Counted 36 boats and so close that when you caught a fish someone would get close by and cast towards you. Need some cold rain to get the cray's off the water. They will drive right next to you on plane or go by between you and the bank. Stay safe and good luck.
      City: Visalia

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A trip to the lopes after a pretty long absence.
      A brisk morning when I hit the water and was glad that I had gloves! Certainly needed them today. Headed towards the back by Vasquez and elected to try a jig near the rock walls to the east of the Vasquez inlet. Started with a black/blue set-up with a blue smallie beaver as a trailer. Hit on a nice chunky 2to 2-1/2 pounder then within a few minutes, another nice keeper pushing the 3+ weight. Switched to a Osprey Talon near points but didn't get a hit so went back to the jig. Yanked on another nice 2-1/2 heavy making me happy I went back to the jig selectionMoved off looking for other spots and stopped in the small cove adjacent to Whittenburg but no toakers today. Headed to the back by the bridge but only managed a small smallie. Went back to the dam area and tried a slow retrive smallie beaver with no action. Went back to a brown/watermelon jig and finally got a taker that was pushing close to 4#. Then yikes --- trolling motor decided to give me fits and I called it an early day. Was just a loose set screw that let the gear nut unscrew. Oh well, never know till ya jerk it apart and take a look-see. All in all -- a nice day even if it was short
      City: SM

      Tips: Slow retrive a jig near the rock walls. Seem to be where the fish were holding in about 17 to 25 foot. Top water wasn't working yet.

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

  • Washoe County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISH STEEP BANKS WITH ROCK,DROP SHOT,JIGS,POINTS,LOOK FOR SHAD BALLS,DROP SPOON,22-35 FEET
      City: LA CANADA

      Tips: DROP SHOT SLOW,JIGS SLOW,SPOON BALLS OF SHAD

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well thought I would go here to miss the Tule fog over in the big valley but it was REAL bad down here.The ramp and dock was packed with bank fisherman...fisherwomen.So I just fished from the ramp down toward's South Shore with my Electric motor.Threw topwater and crankbait's not one bite.So I ran directly across the Lake and threw a Jig and nothing.Saw a few fish break water and could tell they were Stripr's.Threw Rat-L-Trap,Lucky Craft Jerkbait Shad pattern,Zara Spook nothing.Put on Husky Jerk in Ghost Color and ended up with 9 Striper's all 5lb cookie cutter fish.Fight like heck fun day.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: As soon as the fog lift's the bite is over but it was scary thick.The amount of Shad around the Marina is unreal.

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived here early and had the boat on the lake at 8:00am. Fished down by the dam. Hardly any wind today. Good fishing, boated 3 large Cats,
      and 8 Stripers. Best bait was Anchovies. Stripers wee hitting in the top 10', Cats on the bottom. Very few boats out today, maybe 8 at the most plus a couple jet skis. Left lake at 3:00pm. Kids fishing at the launch ramp were getting nice sized trout (est. 1-2 pounds).
      City: Apple Valley

      Tips: Get here early! Bring your own bait to be on the safe side. Office/Tackle Store was closed when we came in to clean our fish, not sure if it was even open today.

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 8am. Windy and cold. Bright sunshine too. 2-3 boats aready there. 1 - 15 inch across from 2nd ramp to the right by the road. Small school of shad busting over there till 9. Fished the point from 1st ramp with about 8 other friends and bullshitted for an hour or so. 1 fish there and them caught 3 little baby's off the dam. That houseboat still sunk against the dam shure looks perdy. 5 m.p.h. buoys line out across the lake from the marina so you have to get off plane and tickle on thru till they fix it. This lake has too much pressure on it. Looked across at 10:45 and counted 19 boats all on the same holes that everyone in tulare county knows about. I don't mine but that awesome bite of years past will not come back till we get some good water years. Tight lines and good fishing.
      City: Visalia

Friday, November 9th, 2007

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      Water Temp: didn't check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Excellent fishing! Not sure why but everyone else complained that it was hard, and called it the dead sea. We seemed to catch fish anywhere from 2' to 60' Spoons, dropshots, and jigs. Go point to point on the main lake and look for bait with fish slashing from 15-60'. Drop spoon and hold tight, red hooks seemed to help, but not sure if the feathers helped or not. Big Brown and purple jigs with super hog trailers in 47 feet worked well.
      Fish are FAT and heavy, barfing shad. We probably caught 40 keepers and 20 shorties.
      Shad colored dropshot worms with a #4 or #6 nose hook
      City: SoCal

      Tips: Look for bait and jerk a spoon above and below the bait.

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 8:30 til noon. Partner caught 4, I got 2, one was 7 lbs., the other, a 5 lber
      City: Fresno

      Tips: fish slow and shallow

Friday, October 26th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched just before sunrise. Concentrated on mainlake points with sharp drop offs. Got four fish (1 smallie, 3 largemouth) in about 30 minutes on the buzzbait. Scratched two more fish on wacky rigged 5" senko in pumpkin. All fish were legal with the biggest about 3#.Off the lake at 10:00 when the wind kicked up.

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: BASS FISHING HERE AS BEEN HIT AND MISS FOR SOME ANGLERS.BASS ARE IN THE 12 TO 15 RANGE AND HOLD OFF OF POINTS DROP OFFS NEXT TO CHANNELS AND AROUND ROCK PILES. EARLY MORNING CRANKS IN PEARCH OR FROG PATTERN SEEN TO WORK BEST. MID MORNING JIG FISHING PICKS UP AND WILL LAST MOSTOF THE DAY. I LIKE TO TARGET THE BASS RIGHT OFF THE BAT IN THE EARLY MORNING WITH A 1/4 OZ BULLET HEAD JIG WITH BURNT ORANGE/LIGHT GREEN PUMPKIN SILICONE SKIRTED JIG AND 5" SINGLE TAIL YAMAMOTO GRUBS ( 208 ) WATERMELON RED BLACK FLAKEAS MY TRAILER OR A 1\4 OZ BULLET HEAD JIG BROWN RED FLAKE SILICONE SKIRTED JIG W/5" YAMAMOTO SINGLE TAIL GRUB (208) WATERMELON RED/BLACK FLAKE OR A (284 )ROOTBEERW/LG.RED&SM.GOLD FLAKE GRUB TAKE LONG POINTS DEEP WATER BOTH SIDES OR DROP OFF NEXT TO CHANNELS YOU CANT MISS THIS TIME OF YEAR.
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: SLOW IT UP SWIM THAT JIG MAKE CONTACT THE BASS WILL HIT.

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 67 - 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: O.K. leroy here it goes. In sept before last visalia tourn. pre-fished with the eventual winner Mark navarette. We stoped counting after 60 fish. a few 4"s and 5 over 3 lbs and lots in between. 1 week later caught 40 but they all under 3 lbs. 1 week after that only caught 25 and nothing over 2 lbs. last sunday night on the 7th mark & i fished till 11pm a left them biting. lots of 2 lber's. Then on wednesday the 11th took my buddy robert. started slow and took off from there. 30 fish with a 6.8 lb kicker. Filmed on the camcorder. Now how's that for 5 trips. Had the boat in the shop for 2 1/2 weeks for repairs. Can't keep running at 70 mph all the time. could cost some money. But it's hauling the mail again so tight lines and good luck.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: deep divers and worms. so close you would not even have to start the motor.

Monday, October 15th, 2007

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

      Report: Brian can you please email me I have some questions about Lake Kaweah. Thanks

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

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      Water Temp: 69 main lake ,7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: in a recent won bass tournement over the weekend it took 10lbs and some change to win it, me and my partner took 6th place with 7.55 pounds, had to weed through the small one to get to the bigger ones, we found that some fish have moved up, but still graphing lots of bait fish deeper in the 20+ range, with cooling water temps look for bait fish to start moving up, and of course the bass will be close behind, oh yea we caught our fish on plastics, and a couple on jigs, i herd that two or three of the bigger ones weighed in came on spooks, good luck Marv.
      City: Taft

      Tips: fall pattern means focuse on the bait fish and you will find the bass, and also hooksets are free.

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      Water Temp: 66o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A romp to Magi to get in a day of 'scouting' before the 'Off Limits' starts for Gold Coast. Pretty tough out today -- Temps were low and it certainly was warm jacket weather until maybe 1:30 when the sun finally took a peek. Started at a point looking for jig fish but no takers - Tossed senkos and resulted to a dropshot still with no takers. Saw a few club members saying that they had three good keepers [gee? where was ours?] Partner landed two very nice keepers totalling about 9+ pounds on a spot we certainly will revisit and with a lure we certainly will use again!

      One really good thing today was a black bear in the 5mph zone by the dam, walking close to waters edge then abrutly, swimming across to the other side. Got somewhat closer to take a few snapshots of this 'close encounter of the bear kind' with him looking at us as he was churning water and he finally made landfall. He dashed about 10 yards up a hill, stopped, turned sideways to look at us then ran at a lope up to the top of the hill. He looked small from a distance but seeing him closer up on the hill proved that he was a fair sized 'blackie' in the maybe 150 pound range or possibly close to 200. A decent bear for sure and it was great to see one of these critters close in to Margi! A good sign that the area can support some of these great animals.
      City: SM

      Tips: Look for fish and keep working your favorite bait - Possibly the front pushed them off today buit, they will be back! Start getting your winter stuff out. Some fish seen crusing closer to the top following smaller schools of shad. Watch the birds! A good clue shad are close by.