Fishing Report

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Sunday, February 17th, 2002

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

      Report: A note to Mike - keep throwing 'em back... you're doing the right thing. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a trophy. You mentioned you've got pictures. Next time take the weight measurements too (girth and length) along with the photos or markings and ship them o to someone that does iberglass mounts. We ound a guy in Fullerton at the Fred Hall show that does incredible work. Honestly, they look more like real ish than the live mounts I've seen. But be careul, I've seen some really truly hurrendous iberglass mounts too. I'm not here to advertise - so I won't post the guy's name here. I you're interested just send me an e-mail and I'll send you his contact ino.Also wanted to ask you guys what the best time o year was or a trip to the lake. Last year my buddy and I had the best trip I could imagine with a 7+ and a 5+ in the same day. Not a lot o numbers though and my partner wasn't so lucky. We were there the weekend beore Memorial Day weekend. Is there a better time or numbers o ish or weather??Thanks.
      City: Stevenson Ranch

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This lake has gone down the tubes... We got out beore lunch and caught 1 Largemouth and 2 Smallies. Slow the rest o the day. The numbers on this lake have seem to declined? what gives? use to be able to catch 20-30 ish a day with some toads in the mix. Anytime o the year. Has anyone noticed else noticed this?
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish a jig in 15' o water o the structure... They smacked the heck out o it. Duh Jigs all the way!!!

  • California
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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 cowbird issue was over turned by the legal system, so there is no longer a 335,000 acre t. limit. 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 waterdepth. A 16+ was caught on the big trout in Jan. It is getting mounted. It ate the bait and the bait could not beremoved. The lake is healthy again ater the summer die o. The die o did not eect the big bass. Mostly crappieand squaw ish. Two 7lb. sisters caught on jigs 2/16.
      City: Kernville

      Tips: White cranks deep. Watermellon red lake dropshot in 36+. The big trout on hot sunny aternoons. Don't orget jig & pig.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 51 to 53 degree

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Despite wind and rain, was able to put together a semi productive day. Main lake points seemed to be the productive pattern. Working 4" and 6" plastics on darters very slowly. Bite was very subtle. Was able to pull up a couple on blades later in the aternoon when some color developed on wind blown bank. About 20 ish in total between two o us. All spots, no smallies or blacks.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: 1/8 oz to 1/4 oz darters depending on wind with dark color plastics. From bank to 15 t. Work slow.

  • California
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed the main pond rom 8:00 to 3:30. Only had 3 bites all day but managed a nice 4+ lber on pig-n-jig. My buddy only caught one small one (Senko).
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Wait 'til it warms up.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Bailey Cove at 6:30. Fished the McCloud all day.My buddy and I caught 33 ish on the day. We didn't catch many big ish, but not many real dinks either. 1.15,1.13,1.10 and 1.8 were the big ish. Every ish was taken on 39 colored worms. Couldn't get bit on the Hula grubs that had been working well in the past couple o weeks. Many o our ish were taken in 10 eet o water or less. Reddish brown banks with rocky points were the key to the more shallow ish.
      City: Redding,Ca

      Tips: Fish very slowly. Sometimes just let the worm lay on the bottom ater shaking it or a while. Can't beat a 39 worm.

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a tournament on Sunday, shasta Cascade bass anglers. Did very well, I won it. The ish are on the move they are hungry,and are changing there locations dailey,so you have to look or them and pay attention to the subtleties o nature. Nature will tell you what she is doing i you liston. Last weekend I got second place in the sunday redding bassers, and I sat on one point or 5 hour culling two pounders by noon. This sunday things changed I couldn't catch anything on that point. So I had to go look or ish and just started down the bank,I couldn't ind any good ish on the points, they had moved to the cuts and on the washouts.I never caught two good keeper on one spot. I just targeted the same structure every place I ished. Unortunatly I lost a six pound pluse ish at the boat reaching or my net. Would have liked to weigh that one in. Caught everything on jigs in the mouth on the Sac. Brown on Brown. Try throwing them to the bank and shacking them all the way back to the boat and hold your boat in 50 eet o water.Stopped to take a brake and drop shotted three ish and none o them were as big as the jig ish.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Throw jigs, jigs and more jigs. Try shacking the hell out o them.

Saturday, February 16th, 2002

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

      Report: I don't have time for all the specifics they ask for above but I just wanted to give a big thumbs up to Mark's Tails. They made a beliver out of me. HEY MARK I know you check this site once in a while and those ripbait tails you matched up for me helped me to have one of the best fishing days I've had in a long time. I was having what I thought was a good day, some 3 and 4 pounders and a couple of 5's, using LUCKY CRAFT rip baits with the tails you matched up for me, when I decided to put your tails on matching rattle traps. I was dragging along the channels and BAM he hit like I couldn't believe. I landed a 6.5 spotted bass that you wouldn't believe I can't wait to try your tails on Orville tomarrow!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS MARK

      Tips: I haffta tell ya, these tails make all the difference in the world, check out his website at www.markstails.com he can match any lure you ask him to he is amazing and better yet the results are incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Head o to Franks Tract about 7 am and started ishing the outer tule banks where the water seemed clearer with a little current low. Once the sun hit - about 8 am - we started having some luck in the shallows where it was still pretty clear and there was some depth nearby. Landed three (1.9, 5.1, 1.7) and missed others. Ater the conditions changed we went exploring up in Potato slough as conditions dropped towards low tide and caught a ew others to 2 lbs. ishing tule points where depth was present. Nice to have a good day ishing and catching or a change.
      City: Union City

      Tips: While most strikes were rom senko's - all were ishing in the clearest water with depth on the other side o our boat. We ished close and quiet and caught them at the tule edge as well as in the irst set o weeds.

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      Water Temp: 53 -56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished yesterday rom about 12:00PM to 5:30. First three hours I caught about our, biggest was about 2.5 pounds. I thought well the waters still a tad cold and at least I got out ishing. I was all the way down Sandmound, (57 degree water temp. back there). About 3:00 it started getting cold and I headed back to the Barge where I launched. Stopped at the ive mile an hour signs and started ishing my way back to the launch ramp. About the ith cast with a bright chartruese spinner bait I stuck a our pounder. Destroyed my spinner bait (don't have titanium). To make a long story short, I caught about 20 mostly at two to three pounders in and around Franks Tract. there here....

      Tips: A couple o Senko ish, one crank bait ish and the rest, crawling a chartruese spinnerbait (overcast day

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished till 2:30, nothing.Then i remembered the huge balls o bait i saw on my graph in the narrows,(pond smelt,shad?)At 55-70 eet deep,tied on a spro jig in white put some shad smelly jelley on and letter down.Dried about hal way through the narrows,bam 2lber.(bass) Then BAM! a 10lb.catish,then a 3lb. catish and then my son AUSTIN,catch his irst catish almost 4lbs.
      City: ELK GROVE

      Tips: I beleive i just didnt ish deep enough and slow enough Eariler in the day

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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well, the bite was tough. I ended up squeaking out a small limit but the ish were deinitely not active. one cranking, one split shotting, one on a jig and two shaking. how's that or a pattern??? my limit weighed just under 7.4 lb. and the tourney winner had 4 ish or around 8.8 lb. the winner said he cranked all o his ish but the bite shut down by 8:00 or so. not a bite ater that. sorry, not much inormation but this lake is going to turn on any day now. the water temp was a ull 2 degrees warmer than last week.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Camanche with my buddy Rich. Been several years since we ished here. But no luck. Out about 0700 and ished all morning with no bass, a ew hits we missed, and one nice trout. Talked to a ew other boats, they were having a tough go o it too. Nice day, good water, good temperature, just no ish. Picked up another nice trout trolling. Maybe next time....
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 52.4

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got skunked....Could not buy a bite and caught a nice 21/2lb. rainbow on a stick bait. I talked to a guy at the dock where a tournament was weighing in a he said 6.5 lbs. was the best total.......Wow did the barometric pressure turn o the bite or what? We tried twenty kinds o worms drop shoting and I tried several stick baits. Twelve years o bass ishing and still learning. Good Luck. Should o stayed on Folsom.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Stay home until it warms up.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 8:00 am and split shot silver grey paddle tail worms. Immediatly caught a ew spots on steep banks in about 15 t. o water.I igured they were on a hot bite so decided to try some dierent stu.I jerked a luckycrat pointer and hooked one ater about twenty minutes.Then cranked and hooked one on the second or third cast,ater throwing twenty more minutes I had no more action. Let the main body to go up the Bear arm and ish the steep walls and had no luck at all. Ater two hours o skunk decided to go back to the main body and ish the warmer coves.Water got up to 53 deg. and I had a great time ishing the brush and trees. Any tree or bush in seven oot or more o water seemed to hold ish. I ished that pattern or about two hours and caught ive more, all told a nine ish day.
      City: Granite Bay, Ca.

      Tips: weightless 5'' senkos in the wood. Color did'nt seem to matter.The bite is tension.

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

      Report: I live up here on Clearlake, have a deck over the water with a ramp leading down to my dock and boat . Moved up here rom Orange County over a year ago.This last 2 weeks were the best or me as ar as ish size. On 2/2/02 I was out or ten minutes and landed a 9.2 oz Large mouth . Went back in with it to get some pictures and let it go . A ew days later ishing or Bass I got a 3.4 oz Crappythought I was hooked up to a bass until I got it in the net.Than on the 7th I got a 9.6 oz, and an 8.4oz Bass in 2 casts. So Im happy all o the ish I released but Im wondering should I have one mounted one o these day.Oh well stay dry, and Good luck to all.
      City: Clear Lake Oaks

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Due to a noncooperative boat we didn't get out Friday until the aternoon or a couple o hours (1:30 to 3:30). The weather was unstable most o the weekend, spotty showers and a light breeze Friday which made or an interesting blade bite that didn't hold through Saturday. A small club tournament produced ish to 2.5 lbs, with most ranging around 1.5 lbs. Rocky points were the best producer with sot plastics in 15' to 25', imagine that? A ew ish were a tad bit more aggressive taking an occasional rip bait, blade etc... ...but not requent enough to ill a live-well on Saturday.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Now wouldn't that take all o the un out o the hunt? Ok, only or the kids, green weanies ished too slow or me will stretch your lines rom time to time. Good luck and Happy Hook'in...

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, what should I do? The last ew weeks at D.V. have not been what I am used to. Last winter at this time 25 to 35 ish days were the norm. Two weeks ago I spent all day at D.V. and had 3 bites and missed them all. My irst time skunked at this lake in probably 8 or 9 years. The 2 trips prior I scratched 3 or 4 bass. No trout or salmon on the troll. No catish on stink baits and not even the sign o a striper near those big plugs I have been tossing. The water is cold and still pretty high or D.V. at this time o the year. The good thing is it is not the color o coee. The lake has retained some o its beautiul green tint.Well, I was thinking Amador, New Melones or D.V. Once again I chose D.V., as you just can

      Tips: Go deep!

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53'F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hello again. My buddy Chris and I headed out a little late. We got on the water around 9:30 am. We started out on the penisula. The wind was a little strong, so we worked Beale's point. Nothing. It wasn't until the wind died down that we caught ish. We eventually went back to the penisula when the wind died, and there we roped some nice ish. Working the rock pile and the shoreline. I caught 3 nice ish. 2 spots and a 2.5 lb smallie. I love those smallies. Chris hooked into a couple o nice spots also. The ish seemed to be a little more aggressive as the weather gets a little warmer. This may be the year or a BIG ONE. Lets hope. I'll see ya out on the water. Look or team Rope a Dope.lol. Good catchin.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Chris used split shot worm, and I caught all mine on a split shot tube(browns and black leck). Slow rollin and hoppin it every now and again. Check lines or kinks, I lost a nice one due to that act.

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: no idea, wish i

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around the main rec area. Trying out my new swim bait. Its got good action but nothing was hitting it. Decided to go to the handicap dock and drop shot some 4" worms. Hoping or maybe a shaker or two. That i was snagged in the tules but hooked up with a solid 3 pounder. Very surprising! Fished around the whole dock with an uplited conidence, went back to the same spot and hooked up with a 2 pounder! One o my best winter days rom shore in a long time or this lake.
      City: Moraga

      Tips: Small worms, color doesnt seem to matter. Catch and Release.