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Saturday, May 15th, 2010

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 73.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tri Valley Meet -- 39 boats on hand -- Foggy start but sun out and a warm 84o by weigh in. Last boat out as we pulled the 'calling boat' draw [payback from 1st out last time]. Hit the banks and coves and partner scored a crank fish on 2nd cast but it bailed off early. Moved off to some other coves near Snake Creek and scored a nice 16" on a Baby Bass Senko. Nothing hitting on cranks so picked up the dropshot rod. Scored - scored - scored. Five casts, 3 spots. Robo Oxblood red flake in the mudline was workin! Had a limit by 11:45 but could not cull any. Everything after 12 was too small. In with 6, and one floater [drats!] for a 7.48 on the day. One guys in weigh line had a beast large mouth in the sack and would go at least 5 if not a 6 pounder. Tied everything down and headed home. Still, a decent day.
      City: SM

      Tips: A tip for Tri Valley fishers. Get a Black fish bag! ********************

      All except one keeper was on dropshot in the mudlines close to banks. One jig fish was and a few on Chigger Craw shaky head

Friday, May 14th, 2010

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Finaly got a boat and hit the lake. Bass have yet to spawn. Trout trollers were all doing well. I was skunked for 5 hours until the wind picked up and I limited (released) in 30 minutes on a blade. Sherrif was laying bouys all day and we all know that means goodbye Bass lake 'till fall.
      City: Oakhurst

      Tips: Fish from shore, the Sherrif is in the water. The budget is tight and he needs to write tickets.

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 66-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Visalia Bass had a tourney on Saturday. Most of the teams were able to scrap out limits but the big fish were hard to come by. Several in the 5 lb range were caught but putting a quality limit together was difficult. 12 lbs and change won the tourney with 7 lbs being middle of the road. Huge turnout with over 50 boats competing. Most fish were caught shallow and on worms, lizards, sencos or other plastics fished in a variety of ways.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Fish slow moving baits and be patient. Expect to catch a few fish but don't expect great numbers.

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my wife for a casual half day of fishing, got on water at 9 and fished till 2:30. She boated 7 on plastics and I got 7 on rxn baits and missed a few slapping at it. Had to fish rxn baits fast in ultra clear water. Could have caught smaller bass on plastics all day. Bite was a little slow when wind wan't blowing.
      City: clovis

      Tips: The ramp at Deer Creek does not have a lot of parking now that the water is coming up, so if you are not their early good luck competing for a parking spot.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

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      Water Temp: perfect

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: crappie fishing is really hot right now.. caught about 80 crappies.. used small minnows with bobber..cant wait to go back..been going there for the last 3 years now..
      City: fremont

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Crystal clear water, you can see bottom in 20' Caught 30 plus bass on most everything we through incl. spinnerbaits, cranks, traps and plastics later in the day. Best fish were early on the reaction baits. All fish coughed up bass fry,1" long.
      City: Oakhurst

      Tips: Get there early if you want to power fish

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went with my fishn partner, my dad and had a fun day. started out quick, but ended slow. we managed 9 fish from 2 to 3 lbs water was really clear 15' or more. one of the bigger fish was a fat smallie , first one we ever caughtr in 20 years of fishn castaic.couldnt get any reaction strikes.
      City: tehachapi

      Tips: splitshotn and texas rig oxblood and blue smoke

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      Water Temp: 61.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tri Valley Meet::: 47 Boats on hand for what started to be a great day as we got first out with a #39 boat draw. Yehaw. Proved fruitless as 1st stopped netted NADA so we moved off to second stop. Still a hard go of it with maybe 20 little guys but 11", 12-7/8" aint cutting it today. Wind came up and made fishing tough as was the call for many. Some good heavy bags hit the scale today but we exited before it was over. Why they call it 'fishing'. Very Tough day with 1 in the well. Sad...
      City: SM

      Tips: Dropshot took our only keeper. Senkos failed to produce anything big. Heard swims took some big bags.

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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good early rxn bite (for bass up to 2 lbs and several trout). Bite slowed down by 9am and most fish were 12-20 feet. Finesse plastics for the rest of the day for smaller fish. A few still hit rxn baits throughout the day coming out of the deeper water. Water level is good and more is coming into the lake.
      City: clovis

Monday, April 19th, 2010

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got up at 4pm. debri on my spots from last week. Went to 3rd stop and found fish chasing some 2-3 inch scool of baby bass. School kept going around the cove in a circle so stayed on them till 6:30. Caught 8 fish with 3 1/4 black the biggest. Ha 30 + bites in that spot. lost a good one on a swimbait. 5+ . Caught one more by the outhouse on the wall and left at 7:45 pm.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Spinnerbaits and senkos.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 10 am. DFG truck in front of me as iI see ramp . I let him dump the trout and then launch. Pull out from 2nd ramp and figure i will catch a few trout and then go up lake. I pulled 200 feet off the ramp and start throwing a rattle trap. Got Hit 1st cast, trout on 2nd cast. looking for boils and casting to them. On my 6th trout ( throwing them all back in) i have a 7 inch trout on and Big momma comes up from behind 15 ft from the boat. I'm like OH S**t. The bass is huge. 11-12lbs easy. i try and move the trout away and she opens up and trout GONE!. I hit my button and wait a few seconds and light her up. Boom there she goes in a circle and comes back the way she came up. headed straight for the boat she opens her mouth and spits my trout right in front of me. i watch her swim away. WOW! The guy in the gregor boat is watching in disbelif. He could not belive i lost it. Glad i did but what a cool 3 minutes. Left and went by dam & grease cove and hit 8 bass up to 3 lbs on senkos and baby brush hogs. left at 3pm.
      City: visalia

      Tips: chrome blue rattle trap and dark plastics. 5 - 15 feet deep.

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Belong to a small club.I fished bass lake 4/11/10. Cold and windy but had a great time. Lots of small fish don't move bigger fish are right behind them in deeper water. Fish slow in 15' of water shallow and deep. I took 2nd place with big fish. Several big fish were caught Sunday.
      City: FRESNO

      Tips: Fish slow 15' of water shallow and deep.

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Visalia Bass Club results. 42 team 94 bass weight in big fish 4.69 lbs winning weight 11.70 fishing very slow limited bites per team quaify fish. Most caught on plastics. (worms lizards). water level keeps coming up
      City: Visalia

      Tips: fish slow

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake at dawn and headed to the upper end. Started throwing blades, shallow crank,and lipless crank with no takers Swiched to a senko and soon had my first keeper 2.5lbs. After a while with no bites went to a brown jig with a green pumpkin baby brush hog trailer. Caught four on the jig 1.5-2lbs. All fish came from 12 feet or less.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Go fishing!

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      Water Temp: Nice!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Yea but ya had fun Jason!
      City: SM

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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very beautiful Lake
      first trip to S margarita
      marking quality fish @ 40 foot
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: bring Cash LOL

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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      Water Temp: 61.3

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: A visit to try a new jig from my lure maker in North Carolina. Hit Vasquez and tied on a Blu/Blk ZG Jig with a matching trailer from Trigger X baits. One small fish and missed the second. Switched to the Red Craw ZG Jig with a watermelon trailer and scored on a nice smallie. Worked the walls near the Miracle Mile without a hit so moved off to the cove left of Whittenberg and scored another good 2-1/2 pound smallie and a decent 3-4 LG. Seems to work good with this new '1 foot ever 3 sec fall rate rather than 3 feet a second normal jig fall rate.

      For more information on this unique new jig. go to:
      http://www.customluresunlimited.com/zero_gravity
      City: SM

      Tips: Cloudy day and a little windy.

Monday, March 29th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice warm day . Good fishing bad catching. Only had a couple takers. No fish in boat. water stained but clearing. Loaded out at 3 p.m. so I have nada on evening bite.
      City: Maricopa

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bass here are also shallow i drove from eastman to here this afternoon and also threw green pumpkin 1/4 oz jigs w/4" twin tail grub watermelon red/black flake (208)and caught several good solid 14 to 15 inch bass on flats this lake was very busy today also with boating and bank fisherman.
      City: madera ca.

      Tips: jigs,senko's,baby brushogs,lizards, blades char/white will all work here now colors here same as eastman junebug, black/blue, watermelon red/black flake. green pumpkin,bas are moving up here also and will stay up now.

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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      Water Temp: 57+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished here last weekend (3/21), threw everything in the tackle and got two fish we never got to see. Husband fished today with a buddy and he got nothing and his buddy got a 2.5lber. Fished all day, windy as all get out both weekends. Im ready for the hubby to take me to Eastman. First car there last weekend and not a place to park when we left...total zoo.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Threw spinners, soft jerks, every plastic color out there and only caught with Senkos bullet weight or weightless. Both fish we never saw were in 20+ feet of water...nothing in shallows.