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Saturday, May 7th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 64 to 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well started at 6:30am a little cool but the wind was calm, started past the 5mph bouys my partner throwing a senko and me throwing a lizard. We were fishing close to the bank flipping to visible structure. My partner hooked up with two fish in the first thirty minutes, both about 1.5 then I missed one and that was it for awhile. We moved around the back to a couple spots and nothing. We headed out of the back and went to the east side of the lake. Looked really good but we were still struggling to get fish in the boat, we tried an assortment of plastics, crankbaits, and spinnerbaits with no results. So I decided to trhow a jig, caught one on my second cast a nice two pounder, so finnally maybe I got something going, about ten yards down the shore I got bit and it was the biggest bass of my life and it was at my favorite lake. Ten pounds even a beautiful fish. Check out photos. I caught the fish in six feet of water on some rocks right off of a point at 9:01am on a black and blue jig. I was so excited I could hardly fish but I was able to pick up three more fish up to 2.11 and my partner caught a couple fish in the 1 to 2 pound range. We called it a day at 1:00pm.
      City: Coalinga

      Tips: Get ready for postspawn it should be soon all are fish were caught from 3 to 10 feet. It was tough right after the storm but I guess going every weekend helps out in the tough times. Good luck to everyone and God Bless.

  • Tulare County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 2 hours in the evening. Caught 7 fish, two were dinks the others 2-3 poinds. Fished near trees that were sticking up and under water. fished in 10-15 feet of water. used senkos, watermelon and shad colored.
      City: Three Rivers

      Tips: Catch and Release.
      Would like to catch some crappie out of this lake, anyone have tips on where and how?

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 7:30 nice and foggy and wanted to fish the south end of the lake since the
      shallow's are closed again,thats ok with me anything to help the bass.well it's nice to know this lake we were able to get to bee rock pretty easy.started on the outside and picked up three smallmouth about 1.5# each.continued to go into bee rock and fished the large grassy flat's thought for sure they would be there "not".shot accross the other side to fish the rocky structure and right of the start we picked up a dozen again all smallmouth about 2#.gave up here went to harris creek nothing fished the slidee picked about four more same size.decided to finish the day in the northshore cove by the old ramp couught about five more.one thing intresting it was just black and full of shad unbelievable.dare i say let's go catch some striper's saturday i think so.
      City: salinas

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished rocky point for crappie,,,not a good as two weeks ago...my son and i caught 34 by 11:00
      most fishermen gave up on the spot at ten o'clock.
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: we used blue and white crappie jigs.

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: haven't the sli

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from shore on 2nd boat ramp. Used 4 lb line w/a bobber & 1/2 worm. Caught (and released) a couple of keepers of largemouth. Had a big one break the line...big boy still has the hook & trailing a bobber. Keep an eye out for him. Hope he doesn't get hung up somewhere. He fought hard on my ultra-lite & deserves to swim around & get even bigger. Even caught a crappy crappie. Ugly fish. Lake's coming up daily.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Have fun. Don't crowd the other fishers..... Sometimes the silliest setups will surprise you w/catching results.

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

  • Washoe County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is open and the bite is all over.
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: anything

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

  • Tulare County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished at Slick Rock and caught a 2 pound bassjust under 15" on a silver kastmaster trolling it really slow at noon when I was fishing for trout. Had another huge bite about 20 mins later. Assumed it was a HUGE BASS 12 plus pounds. Got away because it muscled me when it went deep towards the submerged trees. Cussed the rest of the day!
      City: Lemoore

      Tips: If fishing anywhere around the lake especially on the banks, remember what the countours of the area are because when the water rises, you'll know where the trees, drop-offs, or rocks are at and almost guarantee a fish a week later.

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water at sun up and ran to las tables. I can't beleive how high the water is. I have never seen it so full!! The bite was fair. There was a lot of baitfish everywhere but not a lot of fish. It was similar to a fall pattern with suspended fish chasing bait.We ended up the day with one big crappie, 22 white bass and a lot of spotted bass up to two pounds.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Unless you can find bait it will be a long day. We caught all of the fish with rip baits, top water and plastic grubs in shad patterns. The bait is small. So throw five inch yammamoto grubs or three inch kalins.( they are about the same size as the bait. There are a lot of suspended fish that are related to bait.

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got on the lake at 5:45 in the mornning started at the first cove got one big fish there but she broke me off at the boat. fish was in about 5 to 10 feet of water fishing green brush hogs all day. got 15 fish 11 small ones 4 big ones. big one of the day was a 4.8"
      City: visaila&delano

      Tips: fish brush hog in green color nice and slow close to rocks and of the points

Friday, April 29th, 2005

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 50-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday Picked up a 4.00 largemouth on a carolina rigged lizard. Fished Sat. caught 5 spots on a spider jig. spots tring to bed
      City: Lemoore

      Tips: Fished slow used green pumkin with red flakes
      spider jigs and lizards.

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      Water Temp: 60 to63 +

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: senko's and 1/8 oz brown jigs w/twin tail watermelon w/red&black flake (yamamoto) grub senko's fish are in the weeds 2 to 4 feet of water jig fish are in 8 to 12 feet of water the bigger fish come on jigs bass are 14 to 17 inches with a few fish too 2 1/2 pounds trffic is lite on weekdays. good morning & evening bite.
      City: kerman

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

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

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      City: NkGaafnCO

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Sunday, April 24th, 2005

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Small mouth and crappie bite was hot this weekend. Robo worms and curly tail grubs seem to be the best bets.
      City: Reseda

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 37 fish all on sinkos or bright green 5 inch worms in about 8 feet of water fish wear biting all day
      City: coalinga

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005

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      Water Temp: 58 to 63 +

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well this weekend turn out be be very good for bass anglers. senko's and rip baits ( shad ) color
      were the baits too use in the shallows anywhere on the lake. the bass are 13 to 17 inches long 1 to to 2 pound fish are the norm. senko's in watermelon or watermelon red/black flake work wacky style fished shallow.Early morning or late evening around 4:00 pm til dark works on both senko's or rip baits.IN 4 hours my partner and i had 23 bass on rip baits from 14 to 17 inches long. lake is very high and some rock piles are not mark with bouy markers and also if your walking the banks watch for rattle snakes it that time of year.
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: senko's fished wacky style in shallow water rip bait's also lizards & baby brushogs al work now.early morning or late evening are your best time too fish.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: french gulch is getting some more bites caught quite a bit of crappie but still needs to be a bit warmer for them bass...
      City: ridgecrest

      Tips: bright jigs pink yellow worked great

  • Tulare County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished after the tourney. Two of us caught 10 fish on baby brush hogs, yamamoto grubs and worms. All about 2lbs. Seem to like the green colors. All fish cuaght around trees outside of horse creek. Fishing would have been better, but the fish had been fished hard from tourney.
      City: Exerter

      Tips: Watermelon with black flake seemed to produce most fish.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at first light. Throwing jerk baits on main lake. Boated three fish in an half hour. Biggest being 3.5 lbs. When sun came up started throwing senkos. Mostly dinks the rest of the morning. Moved back out to main lake point around noon and buddy and I boated two more nice large mouth. That was about it. Off water around 1:00pm
      City: VIISALIA

      Tips: water still unstable. coming up slowly. shouldn't be long and things will really begin to happen

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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Some areas have cleared up a lot in the past week, while others are keeping torn up by the winds every afternoon. Last week I caught a few prespawn fish down by the dam, and quite a few post-spawn on the main lake. Today, I think they were all either on beds guarding fry, or post-spawn.
      City: Vandenberg AFB

      Tips: Senkos and drop-shot were the tools of choice after the weather moved in. Last week there was a good shallow bite in the morning, and a good jig bite later in the day, but it was OFF come trny day.

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at about 7 am. Fish were spread out around the Trimmer, Sycamore, and Big Creek areas. Had to work for the 6 fish boated. No size to to the fish. Mostly worked the shallows and rocky points.
      City: Hanford

      Tips: Drink 8 glasses of water a day.