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Tuesday, April 30th, 2002

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took 11 guys on houseboat or 6th annual trip. Friday wentto Riverview and caught some trout, SAT made our way to O'Brien and you iceskate on top o the houseboat, weather was not good.Sunday the guys started catching bass like crazy. Should have the house boat in by 2.00 pm got in at 5.00.Too much un Me and my partner had to illet 24 bass or the city olks all legal.rom 12" to 15"Top wter ell o and switched to plastic grubs
      City: Lakehead

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished annual Forest Service tourney this past weekend.Some heavy weights were brought to the scales with over32# the winner. Reaction bite went down with the weather.Plastics were the rule. My In-laws ished well and tookseventh place throwing Senkos and Predator worms.Congratulations Steve and Jim!
      City: redding

      Tips: Senkos in Watermelon/black & Greenpumpkin/black.3" Predator worms in colors #758 & #790. The #758 is aBluegill pattern that works real well when targeting post spawn ish. Good luck!

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I heard rom my dad who heard rom one o his co-workers that Stevens Creek Reservoir got emptied a couple o years ago........They took out all the ish and moved them somewhere else....So there arent that many bass but there are, i saw some.
      City: Santa Clara

Monday, April 29th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Two person Guide Trip, Launched at Lundborg, High tide in am, wind was howling 20 plus, Trying to stay out o the wind and ind a place these guysd can ish, one guy spinning rod only. Stayted local or the irst 2-3hrs and ished real shallow. Spinning rod guy w/whiches t 6" worm gets 3 close to 2lbers in the weeds draggin, guy up ront lippn june bug/cht 6" zipper get a couple then a nice 5lber. The whole time I'm dead stickin a rog in the tulles, I miss one air size, then I get a 4lber and miss one good one, the rog ish are in the tulles about 1 t o water, rog sitting or about a minute or two. We just ished down the weedy lat bank and caught ish ever 100 eet or so ishing real slow. Some ish pre spawn, some post. Th ewind died down a little so we ran ove rto a rock/weed wall a ew miles away. The spinning rod guy draggin the 6" worm gets a 5.6lber, had to weight it his biggest ever. (lake guy :-)) The guy up ront was throwing wtr melon senkos/red lake behind the weed line almost low tide and gets about 10 down the bank, I ind a 4lber on the Persuader Cht/Cht buzz bait and a couple on a wht/cht 1/2 spinnerbait. I give the spinning rod guy a speed trap and he starts inding a ish here and there to 3lbs. Stayed around Franks all day used 3 gals o gas and caught lots o ish. Best 5 a little over 20 could have used that Sun
      City: Concord

      Tips: Spawn and post spawn ish ish slow, we ound ishing real slow and quiet we caught more ish, especially when they are shallow

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my buddy went out on sunday, and ished the struture by the rattlesnake bar area and we caught 10 total in about 4 hours ishing, so it was pretty slow.We ished the points and ished struterted areas.I it was hotter i think they would be biting a little bit more, then what they did sunday.We were throwing black magic worms, and pumpkin seed brown craw magic worms.
      City: rio linda

      Tips: Use 6" inch worms, magic worms, mostly any color, but mostly balck and brown.And throw a spinnerbait once in a while!!!!!! goood luck!!!!

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 65-66 deg's.

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 5 pm. Went to north side and caught 12 ish on senko's (black/ red lake) 6 inch. And got 5 on jigs (pumkin-green/lk).9 1/2- 10 lb or 5. Biggest at 4 lbs.
      City: visalia

      Tips: Work it real slow.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 63 - 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thursday Aternoon through Sunday Morning. Thursday & Friday bite was hot, 60-80 ish. 1-2lb. range. Saturday was windy and bite was very tough. Sunday morning was the calmest o the 4 days, and we nailed 6-8 ish until we had to head home. Most ish came on Bomber Long "A" in bright Crawdad and any kind o texas-rigged worms as long as they were purple. Caught 5-6 ish on Yozuri popper just or kicks.
      City: Galt, CA

      Tips: Best ishing was around rocky points in river end o the lake.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 61degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went with another meathead on Monday and stunk it up. Can you say Prespawn? At least that's what we think.We caught a couple in Cherry on a spook and a jig. Thought I hit the jackpot when I stuck a ish on a Mr.B jig with a yammy twintail in Cherry also. You guessed it, a reakin 15lb catish. Good way to check your tackle. Everything held up great except it was the wrong ish on the end o the line. Caught a ew on senkos and a ew on lukes. Only saw a couple o males up guarding ry. Had a good thunk on my jig ishing verticle on a tree o o a lat. O course I had my head up my !@$$ on that one and missed him or her. The lake just was not right. It's was not the Sonoma I know. The most important part o the trip was, and a lot o people orget this, was that I had FUN. Thanks Meathead.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Wait or a warmup and then start throwing topwater and senkos. Also start getting ready or night ishing and watch out or the TROLL.

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Congradulations to the guys who did well in the ABA So.Oregon tourney. 21.5 lbs or a our ish limit, Outstanding. Local boys Rob and Dave made a great showing with 20.5 lbs or 2nd. Chris and Robert had lunker with a 7.5 large and inished third with 3 4lb. smallies or 19.5 lbs. Does this tell us anything about the quality o the Trinity Fishery. All these quality ish on a ull moon and the day ater a cold ront. Wow!
      City: Weaverville

Sunday, April 28th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early out o B&W and got one crank ish early(bait was being chased everywhere)Tried buzzbaits ,spinner baits and cranks with no urther success.Switched to senko and nailed a 3# and a monster 10+ right up in the tules on a lat area.Took a photo and released her right away.Scale is on it's rom Cabela's.Thanks to Jonah at Hi's Tackle Box or turning me on to the custom colored Senko.What a thrill.I'll post the photo and hope someone can give me a better guess on the weight.I've got a 10# at Berryessa,Clearlake and now the Delta!! I am stoked.
      City: Napa

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      Water Temp: 59 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o b&w resort . ished gary yamamoto ishing was tight today in the north delta . 4 bass in 4 hrs got one blow up on buzz bait . nothing else , all were in the 3 lb class ished tules tight . threw some blades got one on blades and rest on worms plastic that is . had a late start today . wasnt really in the mood wanted to just get out and get ready or the summer tourneys. sounds like the south delta is your best bet . c u on the water .......
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: get geared up or a hot summer.

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      Water Temp: 45-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LOT'S o CARP, HUGE, GIANTS, right at mouths end o Stanislaus River and Delta, just happened to catch one on top water chartruse spinner bait (by luke accident) about 15-17 lbs, while ishing or bass. Would love to catch more but don't really know what they bite on. Just want to catch and release. Any suggestions?? tried bread, cheese, corn, powerbait, and clams....anything else? This things are enourmous and put up a hell o a ight and are un to try to reel in. Anyone out there no the secret to what they like??? Let me know. I'm going again next weekend by Kayak! thanks. :)
      City: Manteca

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      Water Temp: 61-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started at daybreak at ranks,lipped jig,nothin. pitched zipper and it was on.went back over jig water and stuck a 6.2,5.0,4.9 and 3.3 in 1 hr.proceeded to miss 4 more then boated 2-2.5s. headed to lil mandeville and started w/luke,got a wild hair and picked up buzzbait and boated a 6.7 and 4.1 back to back, missed 3 more and split. these ish were on a summer pattern,spawned long ago and heald and eeding heavy. bites were very aggresive. 26.9 or 5 will take a check.
      City: sacto

  • California
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to camp ar west today and cought 10 spots in the rock creek arm. All in 4 to 14 eet o water. Cought them all on white spinnerbaits with silver blades.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: let the spinnerbait sink into the bottom and keep it in their strike zone.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great Day. 2nd time at Folsom and it was a beauty. Started out at 6:15 hoping to get a topwater bite. Tons o ish jumping but no takers. First ish was a spot or my partner and guide Mike (Tiger) Madsen at 7:15 on a wacky senko. Then I got a nice 1.9# spot on a senko. Then another spot. Then Tiger hit a 2.9# largemouth. Then another spot or me. We ished till 5:00 in several dierent areas and ended up with 25 ish in the boat (and released). 4 LMB, 3 SMB, 18 Spots. My brother Steve was with Greg Miles in the other boat. Steve got 7 including 2 LMB one went 5.2# (Steve makes the club) and Greg did manage to catch one himsel. Most all ish on Senko's - mostly watermelon (black and/or red lake)very subtle bite. We ished alot o brush, alot on the shallow side when we could. Steve was ishing Grubs on points and drop os.
      City: Paciica

      Tips: Gary Yamamoto knows his stu.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We started ishing about 10:00am. The bite was airly consistant or the irst three hours or so. Worms and Senkos were the only thing working or us. No reaction bite at all. Even without any wind the ish were still only 5 to 10 eet deep. I am still trying to igure out where all o the big ish are. I read all o these reports and talk to people that claim to have cought 12 and 13 pound limits. Then I ish in the Chico Invitational and out o 71 teams the best weight is 10.7 or so. I geuss those 16 to 17in ish must weigh 3 pounds. Well I weighed two at 17 inches and they only weigh between 2 and 2.5 pounds. We cought some largemouth but they sure didn't have much size to them. We ended up with about 40 ish, best ive went about 9.5 pounds.
      City: Chico

      Tips: Fish slow, the water hasn't warmed up yet. The ish are shallow but they aren't really agressive. Dont be araid to do a little "dead sticking" Good Luck.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ish pulled out to deeper water, due to inclimate,weather did manage a small limit on spinnerbaits and spooks early in morning,alot o boat traic I hope others did better than me. I SHOULD OF STAYED AROUND MANZANITA ROWS ON SOUTH SHORE OF BRIDGE BAY. GOOD FISHING TO ALL TOM
      City: redding

      Tips: TERMINATOR SPINNERBAITS WITH WHITE BLADES AND HEDDON SUPER SPOOK IN "REDFISH WITH A NO.020 MARKS TAIL IN "SMALLMOUTH"

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: un day on the lake. got to lake at 8am to cold to be early 41 air temp. started in cherry spotted bed ish roght rom the get go and practiced my bed ishing untell 2pm, 23 total and switched to a crank. got 12 on the crawdad crank. had to leave by 330. all told sweet day on the lake, ish rom 11/2 to 6lbs males still on the beds bigger ish came on the crank.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: crawdad color crankbaits down to 10t stop&go, mini tubes and jigs or bed ish

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA Oregon South Tourneyment at Trinity 4/28/02. We ished the ballpark area and the lats swimming Mother's Finest Hooktail Grubs or suspended prespawn ish. Caught tons o Smallies and a ew largemouth. Ended up with two smallies and two largemouth or 14.75 lbs or ourth place. First had 4 largemouth or 21.8 lbs.
      City: Eugene OR

      Tips: Mother's Finest Hooktails (available at Phil's Props in numerous colors) on 1/4 oz darter heads swam at various depths. Blackberry Wine and Smoke Hologram were working. Also caught a ew splitshotting MF Fidgets.

Saturday, April 27th, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well there it goes i never write in reports i just like to read them but this time i just could not resist my sel i had to tell other people besides my wie and kids what a great day i had and like they say i rather be lucky then good and saturday i was lucky, the day started rough up at 4:00am try to wake my boys but no luck so i'am o to the lake crossing the state line the electronic traic control sign said chains required beore kirkwood i kept going beore kirkwood there was a lashing sign chains required but no cal trans i kept going again it was snowing hard the trip normally takes me 2 hours saturday 3 hours 45 min, i'am in the water at 8:00 am this time i desided i was going to ish the south side o lake i started in ront o launch ramp my second cast into some brush i pitched a 5" senko #297 a 3 1/2 4 lb bass hit it on way down that was a good start and thats what i did just thru my senko shallow and into brush cought 14 bass on senko the biggest was my irst ish the rest were between 1-3 lbs took a break to have lunch at 1:30pm, last saturday i ished amador also and it was slow bass ishing that day so i headed back into Jackson Creek to look or croppie i cought 12 nice croppie and like 20 blue gill ( released all ) so i'am o to Jackson Creek to look or croppie again all the way back into the creek i start with my ultra lite set up with a green croppie jig, croppie were tough cought 4 in 2 hrs and 6 blue gill but this is when my luck kicked in o to my let rom where i was ishing i started hearing bass busting surace so i head over there to check it out and bass had shad anbushed in between some vertical rocks and shad were jumping every where i had a rod setup with a 3/8 oz Terminator dbl willow chart. spinner bait thru it in the middle o all the action i let sink or about 4 sec beore i started my retrieve started crancking and a bass hit it like a reight train it scared the @#!%$ out o me i was not expecting that took me about 10 min to bring bass in it was a nice bass pulled my digital scale it weight 11 lbs 6 oz i did noticed 2 big sores on the side o ish like gashes anyway i put bass in my live well to take back to marina to weight it in their scale but bass was going crazy in live well and the live well on my tracker is small it was banging all over the place i elt bad considering it already had couple o big sores i didnt want bass to get ingured any more i had a heck o a time pulling it rom live well it banged my hand couple o times but i got it and looked at it one more time and releaded it beautiull ish, well that was the irst one my next one same way just thru spinner bait back into boil and again another bass hit not as hard but still a good one this one 9 lbs 8 oz i cought 2 more 8 lbs 4 oz and a 7 lbs i kept throwing but it looked like bass were inished eating and everything just stopped no more shad jumping no more boils it was 5:30pm and i had to start thinking about going home i didnt catch a sigle ish today on my 6" carolina rigged lizard so i igured i had about 1 1/2 hrs to try headed to the main lake points and started throwing my lizard cought 3 bass 1 1/2-3 lbs 6:30pm start packing all my gear o water at 7:00pm, and the way home well thats another novel but it was well worth it.
      City: Gardnerville, Nevada

      Tips: Have un ishing practice catch and release