Fishing Report

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Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

  • San Bernardino County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i started to ish at 5:30am. i didn't catch anything, i was ustrated, by 7:20am i chang to a live baits (shrimps) i cast as ar as i can, when my 17lbs. line pulled straight i though it was my shrimp that pulled. But when i jerk it back,i know it was a ish, when i reels it in it was a 13lbs. striper. Me and my riends caught 6 striper 6-15lbs. range. We also catch couple large mouth bass on a black plastic worm. It was a good day ater all.
      City: long beach

      Tips: Be patience. Oh, yes bring live shrimps.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 53/56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake (ramp) about 8:00am Had to rewire Ign. systemto coils (TIP MAKE SURE BOAT RUNS BEFORE LEAVING FOR LAKE)Anyway ished north at the water all two BASS 2#/1.7#hit Cherry Creek points & drop os @ base o tree stumpstwo more 2/3# and Shirley caught one Crapie 2.6# mostly used small minnow plastics. Switched to FLW Crawwith small split shot in creek inlet Bammm Shirley's irstSTEELHEAD 26" NEW at Bass Fishing Any Tip's rom localLake Sonoma isherman (or women) THANKS
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: GET THOSE FISHING BOATS&MOTORS READY BEFORE HAND

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      Water Temp: 53-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma was on. My buddy and I landed 21 and had at least 30 bites. Size 1-2.7lbs. Most o the ish were in less than 15 eet and we got a bunch in the 3-8 oot range. Caught ish in Yorty, Cherry, and Warm Springs. Hits were usually pretty solid and the ish were hot. Weighed a 9.8 or a loat tuber without a scale. Beautiul ish. Too bad he planned to take it home. We need more ish in the lake like that one, and the spawn is just around the corner. The larger the ish the more important it is to return it to the water so that it can spawn and create more particularly well adapted specimens that are un to catch!
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Bottom hugging crawdad imitators - jigs, plastics in browns and greens. Wood was good though not required.

Friday, March 1st, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went loat tubing saturday on water at 3:30 o at 8:30 ish were very active.Caught 9 ish in the 1 1/2 lb to 4 1/2 lb range best 5 would go 16 lbs no monsters but alot o action as we missed as many as we caught. Fish were caught on 7 1/2 inch worms beore dark and 10 inch ater dark.nothing on jigs.We would have caught more but did not want to stay during that ater dark lull till they start bitting again. Any suggestions (would be greatly apreciated) on that ater dark lull, ishing usually dies until 11 pm them turns on again,I've haven't yet developed a good pattern or that time period except to ish very deep.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: worms small and dark. they are very lite biting just a slight weight dierence when you move your worm.smaller ish at 10tor less lager ish caught in 15-20 t. Ater the sun goes down dam it was cold (could have something to do with the ish shutting o though )

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I orgot to mention in the last report that I did catch and release both the 10 lber and the 2.5 lber. Even though I had another isherman get very upset because he wanted to eat it, I threw it back right in ront o him. Sorry buddy, catch yer own!!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: CATCH AND RELEASE!!

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was the morning o 2/27/02, rented the boat and headed back towards Honker Bay. All it took was two casts back there and stuck a 10.2 oz hawg. Stuck it out or another 3 hours and eventually caught one more (2.5 lber). I caught the big one on a 5" Senko and the other on a Texas rigged worm. Very good day or the tough Lake Chabot!!!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish your oering all the way back to the boat; not just right in the cover.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I have a report - just havn't had time to post it. My good riend Rick Tietz and I decided on Tuesday to see i anything would bite at Clear Lake ater the tournament crowd let. While it wasn't a great trip, we - I should say, he, did pretty well. WE made good decisions but HE caught all the ish - except a 12 inch bass which I was honored to catch. Ater all, we are looking or small bass at Clear Lake. arn't we? We started ishing areas near Red Bud in the morning, but only got one ish - a 4 pound rip ish. Pulled the boat out and went to Lakeport. It was calm and beautiul. We ished deeper tule clumps at the mouth o creeks and ound a ew nice ish. The highlight o the trip was Rick sticking a 6 1/2 pounder on a Basstrix swimbait - a company he reps or. I mean this ish ate it whole!!! He got a 4-14 on a jig and broke o a big ish near Rodman. I won't tell you what I caught my monster on - don't want you bothering those dinks!! We wound up with 7 bass - not too bad. Rick's limit was 22 1/4 lbs!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Jigs were working ok, better than Senkos, at least that day. Fish still seemed to be on outside edges, hear deeper water. No aternoon rip bite happened.

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

      Report: Two o us ished all day. Got 3 small ish on plastics. No luck on Senko, rip bait, spinner bait, jig, crank, etc. Wind was terrible!!!!Kid in a loat tube cought some nice bass.
      City: Paciica

      Tips: Been here a ew times now, this lake ishes dierent every time. Our ish on 4" plastics this time.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started about 8:30 got irst ish (2lb) while buddy is parking the truck,then another as he is stepping in the boat both these ish were on a blade.For the next our hours the bite was on, all on blades.I tried cranks,worms and jigs, nothing.So back to the blade and back to catching ish.Final count 15 ish all between 2 and 3.5 lbs.Overall a good day.
      City: livermore

      Tips: blade color didnt matter.just slow role it on rocky banks and points.

  • Benton County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did the opener today. Very windy but managed two bass beore 8:00am- First ish was 3.1lb and second was a beautiul 5.9lb. Missed several others. Both ish realeased ater a quick photo. There were trout everywhere-had a hard time keeping them o the plugs.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 54-58?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished naci or the second time in a week. went there last sat.with my brother-in-law. we got 13 between the two o us on sat., and i got 13 again today. it was almost 50-50 between a drop-shotworm (oxblood and brown w/chart. tail),and a hula grub. all o the ish came out o 8 to 15 t except 1 that was on a bed.
      City: gilroy

      Tips: 4" worms and hula grubs in reds and browns

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son out today and we were on the water at 10:00...Went straight up the river to ish water I haven't been in all year.The boy put the irst ish in the boat on a drop shot at 35.Soon he was playing in the boat with all my old worms...The bite today was still deep and it was good.35 to 60 and the ish were mostly 2 1/2 plus....O the water at three with about 13 lbs....
      City: sonora

      Tips: I think I am going to loose this bite with the irst warm spell..But it sure has been un or almost 2 months....Best winter here in years!!!!!

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: tryed nicasio or 3 or 4 hours,caught one little guy on white/silver spinnerbait,saw/talked to about 6 other ishermen who were ishing bass,only one caught a ish that day,however ive heard some pretty good reports recently on the ar upper end o the lake,closest to town. everybody has been ishing spinnerbaits,primarily whites and chartrueses.
      City: san raael

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: best day i have had in a long time at san antonio,got 5 smallies rom 1# to 2 3/4,down by the dam--bee rock--harris creek.all on senko,s.4 inch silver-blue,8# p-line,o wood under water.got them rom 8;30 to 12;30,lite wind blowing,you can see the ish in about 4 eet o water,had a good day there wednesday,got largemouth,over 17 bass,would have had about 16.00# or 5 bass.god bless bears93426
      City: oak-shores

      Tips: try senkos on wide gap hooks,

Thursday, February 28th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Disco and ished the South Delta. Caught eight ish...Largest 10.6 lbs. Caught (2) on crawdad brown/orange tube bait, (2) on a white norman crank, 2 on white/chartreuse blade spinnerbait, and 1 on watermelon/red lake senko, and 1 on junebug zipper. Top (7) went 20+ lbs. Two largest were caught on the crawdad tube. Weather was sunny and windy. All ish caught in less than our eet o water around points and submerged trees. Still learning my way around the delta, but I am beginning to ind higher quality ish.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: For size use a jig. The crawdad tube has netted a 10.6, 7.5, and 5.5 on my last three trips. I threw (8) dierent baits during the day.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: cold?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out tuesday ater work with my 6 yr old(more teaching than ishing)only had a couple o hours so couldn't do as much as I wanted but did get 1 on a carolina rigged worm. Lake is down a couple o eet and still cold but ish are stagging o the pionts so it could be good i you ind the schools . Sorry bubba didn't mean to be rude but even the pro's have slow winters i'll see you out there this weekend with no kids and plenty o time. Good luck.
      City: livermore

      Tips: as soon as the salad grows back i'll knock em dead

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: AWESOME DAY OF FISHING! We arrived on the lake at 7:30 AM and began ishing the points o the main body. We had our irst hook-up within the hour. We caught and released a total o 35 ish, both largemouth and spots. The largest was just under 2 lbs. We were using homemade lizzards, amber blue.
      City: Bakersikeld

      Tips: Position the boat in 25 eet o water, cast to bank and retrieve real slow.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: up at 10 am. worked greasy cove till about 12 pm with not even a nibble. moved to the dam and nothing then to the point and nothing. about ready to give up at 130pm but decided to try the trees. probably 3rd cast nailed a 5lb 8 oz on a spinnerbait. that got me back into it again. worked the trees or another hour or so with a couple misses. then moved to the point again and caught 2 small spots on green weenie.
      City: visalia

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing P: Senkos are a plastic bait made by Yamamoto. Theyre like a at worm. You can buy them at Fishermans wherehouse or any shop that caters to bass ishermen.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the south ork did pretty well, 13 ish total, 3 over the slot. Mostly buck bass up shallow in the sandy areas, emales still out a little deeper in the rocky areas.ished mostly spot spankers and green weenies, ish did hit hard when they picked it up. wind was tough at times. good luck
      City: brownsville

      Tips: or numbers ish shallow better ish still out in deeper water