Fishing Report

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Wednesday, February 20th, 2002

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

      Report: Weather was very nice today however the bass ishing wasn't. I saw people with trout (very small), but I didnt' see anyone else giving the bass ishing a shot. I ished the coves to the let o the boat ramp with senkos, spinnerbaits, lizards, and dierent colored 4 inch worms. I caught 4 bass on senkos a week ago but today not even a bite. I couldn't get a bass to hit anything iness. So ater about 4 hours o ishing without a bite i decided to slow roll a red and black spinnerbait. My second cast I hooked onto about a 2 pounder but he shook my hook beore i could get a good look at him. About 20 minutes later on my second to last cast I nailed about a 5 pounder or so. I wanted to stay longer but I just couldn't miss my class so i'll have to wait or next time. One ish and I let a happy guy.

      Tips: The bass didn't want anything to do with a worm. Try crankbaits or spinnerbaits sloooooooooow.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED BRIDGE BAY. FISHED ROCK PILE AT MOUTH OF PACKERSBAY ON WEST SIDE, CAUHT 4 FISH IN 15 MINUTES, ONE WAS A 3LB.WENT OVER TO BASS COVE TO FISH INCOMING WATER, I WAS ABOUT 100YRDS. WHEN A GUY IN A CHAMPION BLOWS RIGHT PASSED MECOMES RIGHT OFF PLANE IN FRONT OF me AND STARTS THROWING HIS BLADE,(this happens 3 more times SAME GUY IN 1 DAY.)YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, I HAVE 4OZ. SPOON ALREADY RIGGEDUP SO NEXT I SEE YOU I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU, FREE NO CHARGE!!I FISHED INCOMING WATER MOST OF THE DAY AND CAUGHT SOMEQUALITY FISH ESPECIALLY ON THE SAC. WHITE SPINNERBAITSROLLED ON THE BOTTOM WAS THE WAY TO GO.
      City: SHASTA LAKE

      Tips: keep a 4oz. spoon handy you never know when you will need it.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2002

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught an 8 pounder and a 4 pounder on a tequila sunrise roboworm. I was sight ishing one o the ingerlings rom shore and ound these two attys setting up what looked like pre-spawn beds. continued to cast all around them, and inally one struck! deinately worth my trip!! Didn't see many people catching anything else?? Musta been my day!?
      City: hollywood

      Tips: maybe in another month or so...it's gonna catch ire!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started out on island pond around 8am. Weather didn't look good. ished wall rom 8 to 10. Had no bites until around 9 when I was twitching a black with red lake curl tail and nailed a nice 2+ lber. No hits around the tules. Let back lake around 1 and went to ront. Fished along docks and about 1/3 o the way to the pan handle I hit a beautiul 5+ lber on a small crankbait. Other than that not too much action.
      City: Sunol

      Tips: try a variety o baits

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys I orgot to mention in my last report the I am sponsored by Vic's mobile marine. Victor Van Orden well service your boats at your home or at the dock. He has 15 years experience in outboard, sterndriveand inboard engines. I have an older 1985 ranger that he rebuilt and runs better now then when it was new.He is awesome!! His number is 530-275-1382 Cell number 530 - 524-5596, Toll ree 1-877-641-7184. Give him a call i you need any work done.
      City: Redding

Monday, February 18th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: about 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my uncle. Nice day o ishin!! caught stripers- one 12 pounder, one 8 pounder. Many smaller ones caught.
      City: Sac

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      Water Temp: about 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my uncle. Nice day o ishin!! caught stripers- one 12 pounder, one 8 pounder. Many smaller ones caught.
      City: Sac

      Tips: -

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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Paradise at irst light in hopes o inding some good bass or the New Bass Tourney on the 23rd. We went to our trusty tourney areas that we have let alone all winter and ound ish right away on a variety o baits. Now the trick is getting them to bite on a completely opposite tide this weekend. Fish were up tight on points and up against the tule walls. Ater we ound the bass, we decided we could go run up into Potato and have un with the striper. Caught 10 ish up to 6 pounds, but had to work a little harder or them today. All ish caught on rips and rattle traps. Got o the water at 2:30.
      City: roseville

      Tips: We are already inding water to 57 degrees in some places, so the bite will be wide open beore you know it. Deadsticking the senko and dark plastic bite was good or us. John lost a really good bass on a rip bait.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Finally got on some ish. Did the usual anchor ishing or striper a ew hours with my ishing buddy and started at about 9:00am in ranks. Caught 3 within the 1st hour all around 3lb.. Tried to get the spinner bite goin in Taylor since water temp was about 53 but no go. Went back to the breaks in Franks and caught 4 more between 2-3 lb. My buddy ended up with 2, 1 undersized shaker and one about 2lb. Done by 2:00pm. Total count 9 ish, largest 5 went about 15lb.
      City: stkn

      Tips: I either got very lucky or am getting better. 7 o the 9 ish came o o a lipped brush hog or 6in worm. The other 2 came o a speedtrap. couldn't get a spinner ish. All ish came near or in moving water.

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

      Report: Got out on the water at day break, ished long main body long points. Had amazing results, using LUCKY CRAFT RIP BAITS MATCHED PERFECTLY WITH MARKS TAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!RIP RIP AND PAUSE seemed to work best the bite lasted or about 3 hours with 5 ish over 2 lbs. with the biggest one over 3 lbs. Then I switched over to brown jigs with super pork and landed 2 more that exceded 2 lbs. and 1/2 dozen keepers.
      City: Sac

      Tips: LUCKYCRAFT SUSPENDING RIPBAITS WITH PERFECTLY MATCHED TAILS BY MARKS TAILS AT WWWMARKSTAILS.COM

  • California
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      Water Temp: 52 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or six hours and managed only two strikes. One strike was a 17 lb 3 oz black bass, which was boated ater it hit a 9 inch MS Slammer. Panic set in. Where is the camera, where is the electronic scale, where the hell is the net? One ish and enough excitement or the entire day.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Never have caught more than 3 bass a day at San Pablo, so why not throw a big bass bait, everybody else was.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or bass around the dam and the water tower rom about 1-5. Didn't get a bite. We used senko's, crankbaits, craw jigs, and brush hogs. Didn't see any action really, very ew trout and only talked to one person who caught a bass. Better luck next time.Scott
      City: san leandro

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 46.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Shasta today with Rippin' Rob rom Dawn to Dusk! Had an absolute antastic day on the water despite the occasional rain and drizzle. Fished main body points in the Sac River arm. Caught 20+ ish each. Not much size (10" to 14" bass and one 4" perch) but lots o un. Caught ish primarily in 40' to 60' draggin' twin tail hula grubs, drop shotting, or shaking 4" worms on dart heads. Got a ew up shallower but less consistent bite. Lookin' or a un time get a hold o Rob at basshull@aol.com he'll treat you right!!Tight Lines,Gary
      City: Magalia

      Tips: On Jigs: Slow...slow...and slower!!!On worms: sot, small shakes and then dead...bait then gains a little weight...ie. pressure bite...set the hook!!

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: got up with my kayak at 3pm, the lake is ull, so thats good. went down to the south island, tried there, with my senko and nothing. Kept goin down along the shoreline and got a very lite bite, came o though. ound this cove and casted out and noticed my line moving o to the side, reeled in the slack, and got a nice healthy 3 pound emale. took a picture, then let it go, then ound out i had no ilm, dammit.

      Tips: use senkos along shoreline, and look or points in tulies, or coves. catch and release only. good luck.

  • Nassau County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out o my buddy's boat. Fished rom 8am to noon. Nice day but no ish or bites. Only 2 other boats and they were empty too. Graphed alot o ish in 48-55 eet but no takers. Tried drop shot, jigs, and spoons.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Stay home and ish somewhere else.

  • King County, Washington
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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not a bite. Fished rom 30' to 60'. Talked to a couple o guys. Nothing going or them either. I was told that I should have been here yesterday (that sounds amiliar).
      City: Oly

      Tips: deep

Sunday, February 17th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday Feb. 15. South Delta, as usual. Got out late, and looked or clear water, used rip bait or 8 quick ish just to conirm they were still around. Better size, enough 2+ lb ish and one over 3 to make it interesting. Decided to ish the rest o day in general area and Widows/Italian or another 8 ish, making 16 total. Jig ish would not go, but put solid 4.5 lb ish in boat on Senko - gotta love that bait!. Also several on spinnerbait and T-rigged worm (smaller ish) in dirtier water. Met some good olks on water as well.Good luck and God Bless,Rob T
      City: hal moon bay

      Tips: I will be the irst to admit that my good ortune is very condition speciic, and has much more to do with luck than skill this last couple o months. For what it's worth, the ish are deinitely staring to get more active and moving up. Likely won't get back out on Delta till ater Clearlake tourney, so y'all save one or me. Durbin, call me, I have some new ino. or you.

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      Water Temp: 45-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Bass all went to Arizona or the winter. They will be back when the water temp reaches about 55. There is a good amount o snow up in the high contry so the run o will be substantial. The lake is about 6 t. lower than it was at this time last year. Rocky point is not producing the ish it did last year because o water depth. A 16+ was caught on the big trout in Jan. It is getting mounted. It ate the bait and the bait could not be removed. The lake is healthy again ater the summer die o. The die o did not eect the bass. Mostly crappie and squaw ish. RIP Dick
      City: Kernville

      Tips: White cranks deep. Watermellon red lake dropshot in 36+. The big trout on hot sunny aternoons

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT TO CAMANCHE TODAY AND PREFISHED FOR A CLUB TOURNEY COMING UP THIS SAT. GOT ON THE WATER AT DAYBREAK AND STARTED AT THE SOUTH END. STARTED WITH 6 INCH OX BLOOD WORMS AND NAILED A 3.5 POUNDER ON MY SECOND CAST MOVED OFF THAT SPOT AND WENT DOWN A COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS TO ANOTHER SPOT THAT MATCHED THE ONE I HAD BEEN ON. HOOKED A NICE 2.5 POUNDER THERE. AGAIN I LEFT THE AREA AND MOVED ON SO I WOULDNT COMPLETELY WRECK THE AREA'S I HAD LOCATED FISH ON. WENT TO TWO MORE AREAS WITH THE SAME KIND OF STRUCTURE AND SAME DEPTHS AND CAUGHT 2 MORE NICE FISH AROUND 2 TO 2.5 POUNDS. OVERALL I HAD ABOUT 13#S FOR 5 FISH SO IM FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THIS SAT. IVE TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SAID THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING SKUNKED AT CAMANCHE BUT I FOUND A PETTERN THAT IS WORKING FOR ME. SORRY I CANT TELL YOU MORE UNTIL AFTER SAT.I WILL SAY THIS WHAT IM DOING IS PRETTY UNUSUAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT IT IS WORKING. WISH ME LUCK.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: HERES A HINT .......SPEED.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: orgot inders

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday the 17th rom 9:30am to 2:00, Fished 4-5 inch jumbo minnows and caught one 4 1/2 lber, we had 3 people in the boat and 1 ish caught and all 3 people have caught a ton o bass using minnows in the past but the cold ront that moved through put a stop to the bite this trip. I was watching a guy ishing a school o bait ish and he would not move or 1 hr I watched him ish one tight spot, beore I let I asked him i he was ishing a school o bait ish and he said yes, he said he just dropped a 4 lb at the boat and just beore I let He landed a 6.8lb on a carolina rigged 3 inch brush hawg, it looked jun bug in color. He did better than us using minnows but I have done that beore using a jig, Me and my riends were using minnows and not catching any so I switched to artiicial and caught a ew.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: As everbody knows, ishing ater a cold ront can be diicult so ish beore ront or wait a ew days ater it passes or best results and remember to bring your ish inders, ater 10 years o bass ishing, this is the irst time and I think I would have done much better with them.