Fishing Report

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Monday, April 1st, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake with my wie, son(6) and daughter(3) on our 21 oot iberorm.Not exactly a state o the art bass boat, but I get parelell with the shoreline in the river arm & the breeze moves us just right. I was using a 6 inch magic worm ,splitshotted on 4 pound test on a ultra,ultra light.First ish was a 19 inch smallie ull o eggs & about 4 pounds that my son reeled in.We snapped a pic and set her ree. Then my daughter reeled in a couple 12 inch smallies. We then trolled up the river arm, caught a 11 inch rainbow. We then tied up to the log jam and threw out power bait to see i the kids could get some more trout. No takers.So I went back to the worm & hung a nice largemouth. She jumped once then started taking drag. I told my wie to take over the boat and chase the ish so I wouldnt run outa line.Soon this ish wraps itsel around a sunken branch.We had to go back And orth a ew times,& I couldnt ree her.Finally I give the rod to the wie & start pulling in the ish & stick by hand. Finally got her in the boat-21 inches & VERY ull o eggs! Took some pics & set her ree.Man I cant beleive how good that lourocarbon P-line is.Great day on the water, saw lots o deer & turkeys too.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Fish the river arm with plastics on very light line. Can see the bottom in 20 oot depth.PS dont tell all the trouters how good the bassin is at this lake, I almost always have the shoreline to my sel!LOL

  • Washoe County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The best day o the year so ar blk grape on split shot 2to3lbs small mouths we got 11 ish there was shail rock rom the mountains had allen were the best spots we also got 4 lg mouths one 5lbs 2oz pig n jig 3 on spinner bait
      City: reseda

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 7 fish, 5 smallmouth/1 largemouth/1 crappie that thought it wanted to eat a crawdad colored crankbait. Didn't see any bedding fish, water dirty from all the boat traffic. Most of the fish came on 4" purple Senko tight to structure in shallow shaded water.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Fish during the week, the water shredders tear this lake up on the weekends.

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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 7 fish, 5 smallmouth/1 largemouth/1 crappie that thought it wanted to eat a crawdad colored crankbait. Didn't see any bedding fish, water dirty from all the boat traffic. Most of the fish came on 4" purple Senko tight to structure in shallow shaded water.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Fish during the week, the water shredders tear this lake up on the weekends.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: DIDN'T START FISHING UNTIL 7:30 AM. WATER LEVEL 10-12 FEETBELOW FULL POOL SO MY PARTNER,TOB, AND I WANTED GOOD LIGHTBEFORE LAUNCHING. EAST SIDE OF LAKE REAL SHALLOW AND MOST BOAT DOCKS HIGH AND DRY. SCOUTED MOST OF THE MORNING, LOOKING AT PRIMARY POINTS AND FOLLOWING THEM OUT TO 10-15 FT. DEPTHS SEARCHING FOR DROP OFFS. TOB CAUGHT A NICE 4-5 LBS LARGE MOUTH OFF A ROCK PILE IN 15 FT. W/ JUNEBUG ZIPPERSPLIT SHOT RIGGED. SAID HE JUST FELT PRESSURE. WE DIDN'T TRY IN THE COVES, WIND STARTED UP AROUND 10:30,SO WE STARTED HOME. I BLANKED AND HAD TO BUY LUNCH, RATS!
      City: APPLE VALLEY

      Tips: NORTH SHORE LAUNCH RAMPS CLOSED FOR EAGLE NESTING, BUT BIG BEAR MARINA ON THE SOUTH SHORE OPEN TO PUBLIC $10.00. LOOK FOR ROCK PILES AND DROP OFFS IN DEEPER WATER. FISH SLOW.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had to go ishing beore Easter estivities. Launched at 7:15 am and was o the water by 9:50 am. Landed 7 largemouth, about a 2.5 pounder was the largest. Plastic worms in dark green / white were the ticket. All ish were caught in 2-7 eet o water. Pretty good day or less than 3 hours. The day beore, Vern Sherman joined me and we landed 5 in less than an hour. It took us all day to ind 'em, but we ound 'em. Same thing, 3' to 7' o water on sot plastic. Gotta' love spring time!
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Fish are movin' up. Plastics in the shallows. Fight 'em ast and release 'em quick.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 63 to 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I ished the 28th annual Badge Packers Tournament on Saturday. With a little or rather a lot o luck we ended up winning it with over 32 pounds or six ish.The biggest was a bit over 13 pounds, and that wasn't the big ish or the tournament.Our next biggest was over 7 pounds and believe it or not, neither o the two came o a bed. The 13 came o a topwater irst thing in the morning and the 7+ on a senko adjacent to a brush pile with airly deep water nearby. We started out with a ew one pound plus ish, then got lucky with the 13 pounder in an area we had seen som really BIG ish in while pre-ishing the day beore.We did a little bit o everything rom top water, to carolina rigged 6" worms to split-shot worms to senkos, trying to improve our overall weight. We managed to improve things until our smallest was just under 3 pounds. My partner says, "A nice three or our pounder would really help out now". I told him,"Heck, i you're gonna wish.....then wish or a ive pounder". Well......not ive minutes later he boated the 7+. This was one o "those days" I'm sure we'll both remember or a long while. Our hats o to everyone who participated and hopeully had as good a time as we did. Thanks to those whose hard work helped to make the tournament a success.
      City: Antioch

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

      Report: took my 8 yr old son and started at 530 am in greasy cove. he was useing minnows and kicked the pants o o me with numbers. i limited useing luke and senko. 5 biggest was about 17lbs with a 6.8 kicker o o a bed. this ish was released immediatley to return to her bed. ound lots o bed ish with some huge ish on them and had a 10 lber i was playing with. i caught the buck and was working on the emale and actually missed her twice on the hit but ran out o time and had to release the buck and take o.
      City: visalia

      Tips: i you catch a ish o their bed please release them so they can continue their dance......thanks

  • San Francisco County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well i was bored this past sunday so i took the dog to the south lake at the beach. didn't expect to catch anything but walked away with three 14" to 15" trout in about 2.5 hours time. i was ishing yellow power bait with a short 10" leader beore the sliding sinker, shorter than what i normally use. the trout seemed to be very actively eeding as all the ish i caught hit the bait as it was sinking or being retrieved, moving. a guy comes down trying or bass, i had never seen a bass pulled rom this lake but heard o it. well his second cast pulled one out. a ew more casts and he pulls another one along the weeds on the east end o the shore. couldn't believe it.
      City: san rancisco

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

      Report: do you still need a permit to ish here? i so, where do you get it?
      City: san rancisco

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! What a dierence a week can make, mixed with an ever changing air pressure! The weather was MUCH better this Sunday, however the ishing was NOT! Everyone I saw out on the lake was (or the most part)looking or nesting ish because that seemed to be the best bite going or the day. Mysel and one other riend scored only two ish, one on the irst cast o the day, which slipped the hook hal way in, and then 21/2 hours later I was able to piss o a nesting bass with a spider jig rigged "drop shot" stlye. That was it, 8:00am to 1:00pm, 2 ish, eghhh!!!! Tough going! The air pressure was jumping up and down all morning, 28.25 down to 28.10 and then anywhere in between! I believe this alone put the bite really o today. Then the other issue is that the bass are on the beds RIGHT NOW and are more interested in making baby bass than chasing anything or ood. Once we get past the "post spawn" phase at this lake the action should pick-up considerably!
      City: Los Angeles

      Tips: The wind is coming up around noon now and that always makes the ishing on any lake tougher. Like I said nesting ish are oering the best hook-up possibility or right now. This is not my avorite kind o bass ishing, but it seemed this was about the only thing working or a lot o people today. Drop shotting gizits or spider jigs worked or the ew bites we did get! I you do look or the nesting bass, you'll have do it beore the wind comes up. Live crawdads were reported to us as working also, but we did not check into that rumor. The camp grounds were heavy with people this morning and so was the traic on the way home. I you drive out early in the morning, watch out or the very heavy og along the reeway. It was so thick that we drove right by our exit!!! Watch out! Good luck!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught on 1, but had many spring time bites. Using a watermelon w/ red and green lake. I caught it near the bench. Many other bites near the bench. Went behind the island but its getting too weady back there.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Practice catch and release. Senkos are very good now.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: WARM TO HOT !!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: HEY JERRY, WA WA WA .........WHEN THE FIHING IS NOT SO HOT IT'S FUN TO WATCH THE LADIES.BESIDES THE BOAT TRAFFIC IS GOOD FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY REVENUE. OR DID YOU FORGET WHERE YOUR PAYCHECKS CAME FROM ? SINCERLY, YOUR LOCAL REVINUE WATCHER.
      City: LAKEHEAD

      Tips: HIGH POWERED BINOCULERS.

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      Water Temp: WARM TO HOT !!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: HEY JERRY, WA WA WA .........WHEN THE FIHING IS NOT SO HOT IT'S FUN TO WATCH THE LADIES.BESIDES THE BOAT TRAFFIC IS GOOD FOR THE SHASTA COUNTY REVENUE. OR DID YOU FORGET WHERE YOUR PAYCHECKS CAME FROM ? SINCERLY, YOUR LOCAL REVINUE WATCHER.
      City: LAKEHEAD

      Tips: HIGH POWERED BINOCULERS.

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      Water Temp: 51.9-54.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I knew better, I should have stayed home, in at jones valley at 0530 with 40 rigs already in the upper lot, no parking let down by the ramp, its all uder water, ran up to Blue CAnyon looking or some riends and ound them, starting throwing a rip bait or 2 dinks on the way back in and caught another on a jig behind their houseboat, Steve and Carol got up and we ran up near Arbuckle when we came up on some big stu loating midchannel between Sugarpine and Arbuckle, ished around there or a bit or 2 more dinks and went back downstream and started running into all sorts o boats coming up the pit including 3 jet skis, air temp at 54 and saw some ski boats also. We talk it over and decide to move so Steve and I run over into the McCloud and look over the area o Greens Creek and decide on a place. I run him back and drop him o and decide to get o the water, go into Jones Valley and the idiots have shown up. You know, the ones that can't get a boat into or out o the water. Climb the hill to get my truck and get back down and manage to get my boat out as one citizen center punches the loat with his ski boat and removes a big hunk o iberglass, talked to Rex rom CDF who tells me that the houseboat companies have more rentals going out with the college kis starting mothers day than last year, it wil continue through memorial day. First time I have seen olks skiing and jet skiing in March. Won't be long and I will be ishing at night.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: calm waters in the morning with air ishing. used a FX worm on a tx as well caralina and produced a total o 5 ish. any plastic seemed to work and no particular water depth was established. the aternoon the bite was over and then the wind started to pick up.ish quality was between 1-2 lbs but the weather was great.
      City: s

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

      Report: It was Easter Sunday. The weather and lake was Beautiul. I Caught one 2 1/2lb. bass. Their was no one else out ishing. 1pm-5pm.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: I used a Green jig. shallow in spawning areas near bushes.

  • Calaveras County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: There here!! Daughter and I ished rom Thursady aternoon through today and never let the creeks. Fish are lockin on the beds. Put on your glasses and get sneaky. We caught and released over 50 ish this holiday with the largest going around 4lbs. Bigger ish are up but couldn't get them to eat the bed ishing stu, gitzits, ikas, pearl hogs,loatin worms etc. etc. Most all our ish came on senkos both wacky rigged and texas. Some o the larger ish are leaking eggs as we landed them. Please practice catch and release!!

      Tips: Senkos, loating worms , Hobie sunglasses

Saturday, March 30th, 2002

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the 30th of March I guided a father and son (Nick) on Berryessa, started out one the front of Wraggs Canyon and teach'in the technique of Rippin to Nick, Nick fell right into the rythem of Rippin putting two fish in the livewell. Went into Gains Canyon and spent some time in there with only 1 smallmouth comin by rippin. Headed North around 10nish, spent the rest of the day there with founding the fish shallow. Caught fish rippin and with senko's from 3-7ft of water. No fish were caught after 2PM per say. The lake is still unstable, but what the weather look's like, it is promising for a good spawn.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Rippin right know seems to be your best producing technique. Water color can very depending on location that you fish. I'd recommend rippin first and then going deeper with worm's in brown's, split-shottin slow... Shallow fish in less than 4ft throw senko's especially on the east side of the lake. The lake overall still hasn't turn wide open, but can at any given time.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: John and I took out our riend and sponsor Russ rom Fishin' Depot. out or what we hoped would be a great bass-striper combo trip. We went up to a couple o places in Whites where we have been on a good bite or quite some time and immediateley got on ish. We were throwing rips and lipless cranks and proceeded to nail 15 striper to 11 pounds and a dozen bass or so to 8'11 by noon. I was shocked when the big bass came up thrashing with my rip bait in it's mouth, because I thought or sure it would be a striper. I must admit that we did get some nice bass on a Senko as well. Around 1 we headed to Mildred and stuck some good bass up to 5 1/2 pounds on plastics. We inished up at three with our best 7 going 32+. God bless the delta.
      City: roseville

      Tips: One o those days you wish you were in a tournament. Fish were caught in all dierent depths which is typical or the delta this time o year because the ish are all in dierent stages. p.s. I you're looking or the best selection o Yamamoto baits, then you really need to check out the Fishin' Depot in Granite Bay.