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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went after the White bass and had good success. Caught 17 nice ones up the narrows, about 100 yards down from where the river comes in. Used 1/8oz. rapala's, silver and black. Saw hundreds of them in the river, not biting there, just spawning. The females are not in yet, but I am expecting them any day. I did catch the biggest male I have ever seen though. Just troll, you'll find them. Going back again on Saturday with my son and his friend.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Troll til you find them, then troll back through again. Good luck.

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I started at sun up and left at 1:00pm. I went to deer creek first. No bit some fish suspended around 23 feet. Next I went up river no bit. Came back to Windy Gap and no bit. Finaly lost one at the boat about 3lbs. and boated one about 2 lbs. Both spots. I tryed drop shotting, spiner baits, split shotting, crank bait, and spider jigs only luck on a drop shot rig about 12:00pm in windy gap. We had a few Bass chace our lines to the boat but no commitment. Weather was great but fishing was just a tough day for us.
      City: kingsburg

      Tips: Keep Fishing.

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was tough at first. The water is very muddy and made it tough to figure out. Then went way back into creek arm and the water was clear from incoming water - that was the key. The fish are stacked up in the clear water. We caught quite a few fish in each creek arm and up the main river once we hit the clear water. The lake is way up and there are some awesome waterfalls.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Spinnerbaits, inline spinners and small cranks were the trick, fished at a moderate to slow speed.

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 7 fish. One large mouth and 6 smallies. 3 good smallies 1.50, 2.00. One crank fish no size and the rest split shot brown worm red flake. Lake is low some one tell me why naci looking real good try that next.
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: fish slow let it warm up a little.

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

  • Mohave County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water level is 1/2 foot down on the lake, watch out above Devils elbow the river is way down(not pumping hardly any water out of Davis Dam. Small mouth bass are already moving up on beds around the main lake and some back waters on the river. Fishing pressure is heavy due to Everstart early this month, last week WON team's 50+ boats, and now WON Draw estimating around 150 boats.
      City: Lake Havasu City

      Tips: Went out last saturday during the rain and able to get a jerk bait bite going. Five largest were over 16lb., 5lb largemouth was the kicker, the rest were smallies. Drop shotting was working but for smaller fish. Spinner baits were also working in the river(shad color).

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the gold coast trny saturday and managed a couple of fish on jigs/creature baits.
      City: Vandenberg AFB

      Tips: Most fish came on jigs, senkos. A couple on spinnerbaits. Find decent water clarity shallow and slow down.

Friday, February 18th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Just gettin started in this fishin stuff. Got a 5 lb striper sun. Guess its a good start. Any clubs arround so a novice could learn?
      City: atascadero

Thursday, February 17th, 2005

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in stormy weather for about 3 hours from 2 till 5pm. Caught one nice one. My first swimbait fish. (8lb 2 oz) Got her fishing from shore off a rock point near the dam. 9" Castaic rainbow swimbait. She hit like a freight train. It was a great feeling bringing her in. Took some photos with my new cell phone and released her unharmed and healthy.

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Ha Erik from Bakersfield, I heard you suck at Kaweak. Lose the Bobbers Buddy.
      City: not bakersfield

      Tips: Stay your B-ASS in Bakersfield.

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 7 fish by 1pm prefishing for our tournament. caught them all right around the mouth/lip area...haha! not telling much else until after the tournament this saturday.

      Tips: keep your bait in the water at all times

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 40-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out by the ramp shallow 8-10ft got some strikes no fish....When to the flats w/ a spinner bait nothing.... switched to a robo and wen't towards the back caught 2 @ 5:30pm they are comming up! The water is high so it's hard to tell whats what! SENKO's trolling them slow!
      City: Fresno

      Tips: SLOW SLOW SLOW!

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for about four hours, caught one nice two pounder. Any fish right now is nice.
      City: Fontana

      Tips: Caught it on a Mazuto green crank bait in about 4-6 feet of water

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PICKED UP DAD WENT DOWN TO NACI.GOT ON THE WATER
      ABOUT 8:00.MUST OF HAD SOME SORT OF FLOAT TUBE TOURNAMENT ABOUT 15 OF THEM.WENT STRAIGHT TO BEE ROCK FISHED CRANK'S FOR ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES NOTHING.THEN WENT AND FISHED THE BANK'S ACCROSS FROM LAS TABLES AND PICKED UP TWO SPOT'S ON TEXAS
      RIGGED BERKELEY POWER WORM 6" MOTOR OIL.NOTHING FOR AWHLIE SO WE HEADED UP TO THE NARROW'S LOOKING FOR CLEARER WATER.NOT MUCH CLEARER THERE BUT WE ENDED UP WITH 13 TOTAL.BEST FIVE ABOUT 10LBS.ALL SPOT'S ALL ON PLASTIC'S.
      City: salinas

      Tips: LAKE IS ALMOST FULL ABOUT 15' FROM HIGH WATER MARK
      FISH SEEM TO BE SCATTERED AROUND BUT THE LAKE LOOK'S AWESOME AND THE ARE LETTING IT OUT QUIT ALOT.

Friday, February 4th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 55 - 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Two fish one blade fish and wormming. Both pushing 3lbs. Fished for about 3 hrs.
      City: Orange

      Tips: Wind was blowing about 10 -15 mph. Lake is full pool and dirty.

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      Water Temp: 55 - 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Two fish one blade fish and wormming. Both pushing 3lbs. Fished for about 3 hrs.
      City: Orange

      Tips: Wind was blowing about 10 -15 mph. Lake is full pool and dirty.

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 50 - 58 F

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water clarity still poor due to storm runoff. Lake level at ~ 55% capacity. Lots of large debris on surface near Harris. Caught one smallie on RI sweet beaver on pegged Texas rig, missed another fish on same; caught another smallie on 4" handpour Senko on darter head...that was it for the day!
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Told by park staffer to fish "rocky" shoreline areas for smallmouth, but there aren't many good rocky areas to speak of due to low water level. One fish caught along rocky shoreline, but other was caught in shallow water on isolated submerged brush, so no real pattern.

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On water about 11:00 or so. Headed to Elizabeth cyn right off the bat. Water looks like chocolate milk! Wind was whippin' on he main lake, so the coves were the only likely choice. Hooked into a good fish and lost it. Spoke to a couple of the locals, and they said that there were a few fish caught in the elizabeth cyn area on worms and spinnerbaits.
      City: Tehachapi

      Tips: Don't take any tips from anyone else, get out and fish!

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

      Report: Got on the water around 9am. Headed straight for the back of the narrows. The water was gin clear with about 10-12' visibility. Threw several different t-rigged plastics but not even a bite.
      Turned the boat around and started fishing stained water with structure. My partner and I ended up with 9 fish between the two of us, the biggest one going 1.9
      All in all it was a good day. We should've had at least three more fish each that we either missed, broke off, or got taken down into trees.
      City: Atascadero

      Tips: Fish stained water in the narrows. Points, drop offs, blow downs, etc. Fish were tight to structure and held on when they bit.
      A few more weeks of this weather and it should be really good. Hopefully the whites will start showing up in big numbers....

Monday, January 31st, 2005

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off the morning in Windy Gap. Only one fish on drop shot. As the water began to warm, I ran up river and began throwing spider jigs. Picked up eight fish in about three hours. Nothing big, five largest at 9 pounds.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Talking to locals, it seems the jig bite is starting. Something to think about. Good luck.

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

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      Water Temp: 50.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the new boat out to break in the motor. Got roughly 3.5 hours of fishing in. Fishing Windy Gap and Lawless Cove and blanked in the new boat. Fished drop shot w/ colors brown and green. Tried a small brown jig, dart head combos, etc. and the fish didn't want any of it. Didn't see anyone catching fish.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Go to McClure until the cold fronts pass through.