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Thursday, April 19th, 2001

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: City: Simi Valley

      Tips: I'd like to try loat tubing/lyishing lower Castaic.Anybody have some advice....eective bass bugs/lies or productive areas o the lake? Thanks!

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 60-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the Lake at about 9am, started in Horse Creek but my riend Willie "O" was sitting on my spot. Spoke to him briely and he said he only had two ish since 7am. Went out to the Main Lake lats with no luck. Went to the Greasy Cove Area and started nailing them. Caught about 20 ish all day long not a lot o quantity but a Hell o a lot o QUALITY !!!! Best ive ish went 22lbs with three over 5.0 lbs, one over 4.0 and one about 3.0. The rest o the ish were 1.5 to two pounds. Caight all the ish on plastic in 2-15 eet. Water is up about our eet rom Tuesday and so are the good ish. Wish I didn't have to work this weekend!
      City: Hanord

Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A wierd day. Went to the south part o the lake to start 2:00pm. Split shotting with various colors. No bites, no ish. Move into a cove with lots o cover, trees, grass real good cove. Got my irst stike on a texas rig..ish on..ish o.The only word I can use is subtle bite..very tentitive. Both my son and I had a couple bites but not serious.Moved to the edge o the dam and caught about 12 1-2Lbs using 4' texas green & brown pro worms & salt n pepper 6' again you had to really watch the line. The bites were almost unrecognizable. My son struggled a bit losing lots o rigs in the rocks.Moved rom dam back to where the water comes in untill dark a ew bites ater that...a storm ront moving in ish moved to deep water....mostly.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Stay in control o the worm at all times...Keep it moving slow as possible without it hitting the bottom. Colors green & brown 4' keep your hands clean. set with any resistence.

Tuesday, April 17th, 2001

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! You can SEE the ish right there!! They are right now on the spawn! You can see them rubbing thier sides to loosen the eggs up. For anyone walking the bank with good sunglasses you'll ind ish! Slow crawling you rig is still best! I igure we'll have another week or so o this and then we start "post-spawn" or some o the ish.
      City: los angeles

      Tips: For the bank angler I would suggest keeping low and not moving around i you don't have to. Light line( I was using 4lbs test) a good bait hook and live nightcrawlers "ly-lined" worked best today. 6 ish, best was 4lbs. Nice day on the lake, very pretty! Look out! Here comes summer!!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: CATCH AND RELEASE............
      City: castaic

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE.........

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 58-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a bad morning but I was at success,then we headed or Kaweah.Got to the lake at 11:00 tried a number o baits and no ish.At around 12:00 noon I started throwing a white super luke and BAM a 13.5 large mouth, what a ish. I was using 8lb PLINE and ought the ish or about 10 minutes she did not want to be caught. I was ishing with my great riend Frank Lanares and he was stretched out laying on the deck to net the ish, TANKS FRANK. We met up with another riend o mine Bill Kunz and put me on patern and we cought ish the rest o the day with a 5 and a 6 to go with the 13.5 close to a 30lb limit thanks Bill.
      City: Lemmoore

      Tips: When discourged keep at it. Work the luke real slow allowing it to all slow.

Monday, April 16th, 2001

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Big Bear with a co-worker and caught 29 trout, all between 14 to 18 inches. They were all nice and at. Started ishing around Grey's landing, caught nine there, then went down to Juniper point and ound the rest o them. We kept the biggest ive which were all about two pounds.
      City: Apple Valley

      Tips: power bait, rainbow color

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing has been slow but we manage to hook a ew most o the time.While Eric, well his average weight this past 2 years on the lower lake has been 5 lbs+.Even though most o the time they are 7 to 13 lbs. Most people know the big ish potential here is best or trophy bass.We have the pics to proove it.Well good luck to all who ish our Trophy Lake.
      City: Castaic

      Tips: Plastics,7'' power worms.All year black has picked up bass at an average weight o 5 lbs.

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

      Report: On the water at 7:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Caught 50+ spotted bass, no large mouth using primarily a rootbeer with gold metal lake Zoom 6" lizard. They hammered it. Caught many keeper size with alot o dinks. Great day on the water with best riend Matt
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Zoom lizard in the backs o coves.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the week at Nacimento vacationing with amily in theOak Shores area. Fished ive days in the mornings and caught45 white bass and caught and released over 200 spotted bass including a ew smallmouth. Lots o ish below 12" but somegood ones around 2lbs also. Thanks to the tips rom Ron McKibbenwho reports regularly on this page and got most o the ishon 4" green colored roboworms and blue white Senko baits anda ew on top water. Did the best in coves o the main lakealthough there are ish all over in the back o coves. NoLargemouth caught, but warming water should change that bite soon.that bite soon.
      City: Long Beach

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      Water Temp: 53-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom dawn until 1pm and caught around 8 ish, the biggest at 6-7lbs. Allish were caught on Senkos. Tried Senkos, lukes, 4" purple powerworms. Fishwere caught in the Jackass Canyon bays across rom the White Oaks boatramp. It was a beautiul day on the lake with a cold morning that warmed up ast once the sun came up. Water temp was around 53 degrees when we started but by noon most bays were up to 59 or 60. Only bad part o the daywas hitting a deer at 50 mph on the road to Margarita...that can ruin yourmorning!
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Watch or deer

Sunday, April 15th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Big ish in southork. 20-25 ish by 10:00 rom 5lb to 12+ had to go Carolina rig ba hog in 12-14 eet on the lats. 14.8 and 16.3 then had to go and catch my breathe. By 1:00 wind started to blow, throwing pointer 100 caught 10 ish rom 3lbs to 7lbs.
      City: Bakerspatch

      Tips: Let's get it on...

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ive straight days mostly irst 3 hrs o am. All the spotted bass you wanted on the dropshot, any good looking area with wood / rocks. Best color was Black Grape 4 1/2" next oxblood. Good aternoon crank bite once the water stained up and the wind came up a bit. Crawdad at rap #5. Cranks worked best toward backs o coves on secondary points. Couple topwater ish irst thing on splashits also try swimming a darterhead through bait areas, look or grebes. By last day o trip water was up to 65 - 66 but rain on the way. Wished I could have ished all day every day but the wie and 14 month old at the campsite called... Also boated the narrows and made a cast or two in between beers and it was automatic with the dropshot. Basically ish were everywhere, all spots..
      City: Orange

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I caugh a our pound catish on a nightcrawler,me and my riend robert wher ishing or striper with andchoves,no good.stay with big top water plugs or the stipers. P.S big bait or big ish !!!!
      City: phelan

      Tips: Go or the big ones!

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I caugh a our pound catish on a nightcrawler,me and my riend robert wher ishing or striper with andchoves,no good.stay with big top water plugs or the stipers. P.S big bait or big ish !!!!
      City: phelan

Saturday, April 14th, 2001

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: sergeant J......the lake is that good or those who know how to catch big ish. sorry or your dink luck. i you ever whant some lessons on how to catch ish over 15 inches get a hold o me.....you know how to ind me........and oh by the way the police and ire games is at the delta so you might not catch any ish cause there arent a whole lot o dinks there.har
      City: visalia

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: sergeant J......the lake is that good or those who know how to catch big ish. sorry or your dink luck. i you ever whant some lessons on how to catch ish over 15 inches get a hold o me.....you know how to ind me........and oh by the way the police and ire games is at the delta so you might not catch any ish cause there arent a whole lot o dinks there.har
      City: visalia

Friday, April 13th, 2001

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ron W.,Why do you have to get all these Tulare County Residents excited about Kaweah lake right now? It hasn't been that good. We've been catching smaller bass (12" to 15") all over the lake on weightless 6" worms (all colors) and luke type baits, salt/pepper/chart-tail in the shallow areas on north shore and south shores. Split shotting 4" worms always works here but haven't gotten anything big so ar this year. 2001 Police/Fire Olympics ishing tournament in August at the Delta is ours baby!!!
      City: Visalia

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GREAT DAY ON THE WATER!!!!ARRIVED AT DAYLIGHT,FISHED UNTIL 3:00P.M.WE CAUGHT 40+ FISH,ALL SPOTS.4"OX BLOOD AND GREEN WEENIES.WENT THROUGH 100+WORMS.WILL ONLY GET BETTER AS IT WORMS BACK UP.
      City: VISALIA

      Tips: 5 TO 15 FEET.FISH EVERYWHERE THAT HAS ROCK.MOSTLY MAIN LAKE.BACKS OF COVES WILL KICK IN WITH THE LARGE MOUTH AS WEATHER BEGINS TO WARM UP.HAVE FUN ITS WIDE OPEN!!!(catch&release)

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at irst light. Launched at third marina went straight out to irst cove I saw.Using a texas rig with dark 4' purple landed a 3LB second cast in about 8" o water.3 cast later another a little smaller.10 minutes one more about 1/2 lb. Moved up the lake and ished the banks looking or the spawn.No bites ...tried every color in the box...still learning.Trying out new equip. Didn't get another bite but my son got a strong hit on a 5' salt & pepper worm a hour beore we quit.All in all a un day!
      City: Clovis

      Tips: All ish were caught dragging real slow on the bottom.Gonna try split shotting next trip.