Fishing Report

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Tuesday, February 12th, 2002

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: we ished Angles Creek area rom day break to 12;30 pm.Caught 5 blacks & 2 spots rom 14 in to 2 1/2 lbs.Fish were scattered & very sot bites.They were caught on 6 in worms,tube bait & jig with grub trailer.Got one hit on a crankbait,didn'i try a spinnerbait & didn't throw the crankbait to much either.
      City: Riv

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 44.7-45.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got my boat rigged with a new pinpoint and new batteries, ixed up motorguide and moved the X-65 back alongside the console, got up this am and its 54 degrees at 615am, very pleasant, went and put in at Bailey Cove at 645am, irst boat there, air temp 53 and the lake is up just past the 35t mark. a little too dark to due a setup on the pinpoint so ran up the McCloud near the erry with one one right o the bat on the MGM 157 4 inch, another one 20 t down the bank but it jumps o, both were small and just barely legal, moved west to Ycotti creek and stick on a Rainbow worms #99 and start iddlling with the pinpoint, gets things ready and drop the 99 down o the bow and watch it all on the pinpoint, dropped it on some ish and one o them grabs it, at 1.8, down the beach or 3 more on the 99 and all clones at 1.6. stck on a MGM 109 in 4 inch and get two more o a big submerged rock in 13 t. iddled around some more with the pinpoint and ended up completely impressed with this machine. Had all the rigging done at Phils by Stuart? and a very clean job at that, u would never know that anything else was mounted on this boat
      City: Redding

      Tips: the 7420 costs $400 but was well worth it, i u need something rigged on a bassboat go see Stuart? at Phils.

Monday, February 11th, 2002

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

      Report: Thought I would give another go at them stripers so I decided to go and give Patatoe Slough a try especially ater my riend told me how well he did just a ew day's beore. I launched at B&K about 11:30 am and the ishing was slow until about 4 pm at which time I nailed a 5.5 Black Bass in about 2 t using a rip bait o the edge o some lone tullies. Moments later landed a 4.4 striper in about 5 t using the same rip. Warmer day's are coming!
      City: Citrus Heights, CA

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

      Report: My riend and I hit the water on Monday at 12:30 with his new boat. Pulled up to the tullies on the southside o the lake and had our irst bass in the boat by 1:00. Worked the area or 2 more hours caught 2 more bass. MOved to the North side near the Worldmark resort picked up 2 more hanging near submerged wood. Tired Horseshoe Tuesday morning and got nothing moved back to the tullies on the southside and picked up 2 more ish and ended the day at noon. All in all a great trip! Total o 7 bass 28lbs. (6, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3)
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Make sure you have your bait lined up. We put in a lakeport and inding minnows during the week was tough.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 44-47 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Kaweah Bass tournament. 20 people , bill reeves-lindsey, 9.04 lbs. or 1 place(5 ish), george rosales-visalia, 3.28 lbs. or 2 place (3 ish), dave davis 3rd place (1 ish) 2.37 lbs. Big ish- reeves 2.37 lbs. Paid out $ 640.00 back to anglers. Next meeting March 5th. and next tournament on Sunday, March 10th. I caught 1 ish or 1.15 lbs and 7th place. Altogether my non-boater and I caught 2 crappie and 8 bass. 50-60 eet. Fish shut o at 8:30 am.
      City: Visalia

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing the dam area is producing nice ish around 50' mark.the ish seem to be staging or the spring due to the nice weather. Mark your calendar, McClure/March 9th/Glenda 892-5252. Try a circuit without a membership ee (one time only @ McClure)The lake has dropped a little in preparation or the snow melt. So the ish are a little suspended, drop-shot/grub time. I think you will be pleasantly suprised @ the generous pay back, and people who listen to the angler, with a boat at the end.
      City: Hughson

      Tips: Slice leaches and mop-top Yamamoto's seem to be getting the job done. Shad patterns

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mark your calendar! March 9th / Newbass / Glenda 892-5252We ished @ Don Pedro and the "pay back" was generous! This next event @ McClure is one time only trial, ish-and-no-membership (only or the McClure event). So get out there and see i the proo is in the pudding.I do not, am not employeed by Newbass. I just like the circuit. They do a pretty good job and listen to the anglers needs. The ish are moving up and easy to catch..hold on!!
      City: Hughson

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ARRAIVED EARLY WENT 2 THE BLUE ROOM AND DID MY THINK. PUT MY BOAT IN THE WATER AND PUT MY FISHING UNIFORM IT WASCOLD. AS I WAS PARKING MY TIN-TRUCK I FOUND A PINK FLOATINGWORM. I TRIED TOP, BLADES AND JERK, NO LUCK. WAS TIE IN A JIG ANDBUT BEFORD I THRU THE PINK WORM YOUKNOW HAVE SOMETHING INWATER. I HEARD A BIG SPLASH THOUGHT IT WAS A CARP. I WAS ON 3O'MY POLE MOVED STARED RELLING IT WAS HEAVY JUST DEATH WEIGHTIT WAS A NICE 4-5 POUND SPOT. GOT BITES ON JIG, DOWN SHOTING,SPLING. I STAYED ON 30-40' ALL DAY.
      City: FRESNO

      Tips: JUST GOT LUCKY.

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

      Report: Does anyone know when this lake re-opens or ishing?

  • California
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      Water Temp: Not as cold as

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tubed the ponds. No bites on the island pond. Had only 3 bites on the main pond; caught 2 small ones on black/blue pig-n-jig. One was in the tules, the other in the middle.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Slow and thorough.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started today in the late morning about 11 and ended at 1pm. Thought bite would be good with this nice weather but it is still slow. caught one on a black senko in about 10 eet o water. Very light tap. nice 2#er and that was the only bite o the day
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish are still slugish so use a slow presentation.

Sunday, February 10th, 2002

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Should have believed the thursday fishing report in my local paper that said the "fish have extreme lock jaw".That wasn't necessarily the case. The fish had disappeared from the 50'to 0' areas. We fished all day in all my favorite areas and only got one 17 1/4 " smallie. We checked points, wood,weeds,deep,shallow,nada.Got the smallie dropshoting in 43'. Couldn't see any fish on the graphs either. Hope these fish move up a little in the near future.
      City: Sabn Leandro

      Tips: I'm confused,,,,,,,they catch loads at Clear Lake this weekend, and we struggle at this lake......

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Should have posted this on Sunday night but got tired and next several days got busy. Launched out o south delta on sunday morning at 9am ater waitng or my buddy who was 2 hours late. Stopped to pay or launch at dock on way out. Saw guy in tan Hawk bass boat coming in that I had seen launch earlier. He asked i I had a scale he could use. Sure, had my trusty 0-50# digital no lyin or guesstimating scale. He pulls up to the dock next to me and my buddy jumps out on the dock to take the scale to him. I'm trying to ind rope to secure my boat when I hear my buddy say ," OH MY GOD!" I turn around to see the biggest, greenist lunker I'll probably ever see. This pig weighed in at 17# 3ounces on my scale!!Another senko victim- Thank you Gary Yamamoto. Guy said irst cast landed him a 2# and second cast hooked the 17# 3ouncer. Said she didn't even ight, just loaded up the rod and he reeled her in and she rolled right over at the boat.Said he knew it was big by the way the rod was bent but didn't imagine it would be that big.Still can't get over how absolutely huge that ish was,especially those big round protruding eyeballs that looked like they came o a 25# rock ish that was just quickly reeled up rom 350 eet.The rest o my day and any ishing day ater rom now on didn't even compare . Caught one 1.5# on brush hog and at end o the day hooked a nice 5# striper on a clown colored jerk bait. Took a picture and let it go. Can now inally say that I've caught a striper while ishing or largemouth.Buddy blanked and said he thinks my boat is bad luck because out o 5 trips on my boat, he's only caught one bass. Fine with me- stay o my boat and use your little 12 ooter.

      Tips: No mystery here, as always Senkos rule.Water temp started o at 48 and by 2pm was up to 52 and even hit 53 in shallower areas.Day time high was around 69.

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started on the rock wall ,on the sunny side,at the narrows.It was 9:30 heading towards china gulch i was throwing a storm suspending wiggle wart in crawish.I would throw it out and crank it down and just kill it and let it suspend,it produce a beautiul 8.lber.Also had another bass about 2lbs.come o at a point by campers cove.
      City: Elk Grove C. A.

      Tips: Crawish pattern crankbaits (suspending) steep banks or wood near deep water Tried other baits ,just couldnt get bit on them Careul on those deep ish,catch and release,and have a great day ishing see-ya PAUL-N-SONS

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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started on the rock wall ,on the sunny side,at the narrows.It was 9:30 heading towards china gulch i was throwing a storm suspending wiggle wart in crawish.I would throw it out and crank it down and just kill it and let it suspend,it produce a beautiul 8.lber.Also had another bass about 2lbs.come o at a point by campers cove.
      City: Elk Grove C. A.

      Tips: Crawish pattern crankbaits (suspending) steep banks or wood near deep water Tried other baits ,just couldnt get bit on them Careul on those deep ish,catch and release,and have a great day ishing see-ya PAUL-N-SONS

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      Water Temp: 49-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started on the rock wall ,on the sunny side,at the narrows.It was 9:30 heading towards china gulch i was throwing a storm suspending wiggle wart in crawish.I would throw it out and crank it down and just kill it and let it suspend,it produce a beautiul 8.lber.Also had another bass about 2lbs.come o at a point by campers cove.
      City: Elk Grove C. A.

      Tips: Crawish pattern crankbaits (suspending) steep banks or wood near deep water Tried other baits ,just couldnt get bit on them Careul on those deep ish,catch and release,and have a great day ishing see-ya PAUL-N-SONS

  • California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out and hit some sotballs around on Sunday morning, inishing up around noon and decided there was enough time to take a little trip to CFW. I love this little lake because it has all the ish that Folsom has in it with about a 1/4 o the pressure. The two guys I went with are just getting in to bass ishing, but already have the bug. I have been taking them to the delta quite a bit, but this lake ishing is a much dierent animal.around 2:30 we started ishing and I told them that I was going to start out dragging a majic worm and that they should either throw a darter head or a jig, just to mix it up. We didn't get anything or the irst hour or so, but that didn't matter because the weather was gorgeous. Around 3:45 Tim sets into a beautiul 2 1/2 pound spound on a w/red baby b-hog. About 5 minuts later I hit a 1 1/2 pounder on a witches T darter head. John had a ew hits as well but missed them. We worked the area or another 20 minutes or so, but couldn't get any other action. To inish out the day, we worked a wall with some good rip-rap and structure and got one more 12 inch spot on a darter head.
      City: roseville

      Tips: Noticed that our ish came out o 10t o water. Not a horrible day or three hours o ishing. It did eel good to use some light tackle or a change. The weather was a bonus.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 47'C to 53'C

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy Chris and I headed out on the water at about 7:00 am. The sky was clear blue and a little brisk. We decided to start at the north side o the peninsula. With the trolling motor the still on the schnide, we had to limit our pick up and move to another spot tactic. We ished or a 1/2 hr or so and moved to Beales Point, thats where we had to re-rig the trolling motor.(nice huh). From there we worked the wall just north o Beales Point. NOTHING. We threw everything under the sun. We inally regrouped and decided to try a little urther up the peninsula to the north. Thats where we caught all our ish. We only caught 4 but they were all 2 1/2lbs.+. I caught a nice smallie o a rock pile in about 12 t o water, that seemed to be the magic number.12 t, on a gitzit tube, and the spots were hittin the same color worm (Motor oil). All ish were caught on plastics. Couldn't ask or better weather and the water temp is on the rise. So not the greatest day, but it beats workin. See ya out on the water. I want to shout out a hello to my Dad. Capt. Bitteroot. Thanx or gettin me started.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Brown/motor oil jigs ,worms or tubes seemed to work or us. 12 t o water and slow across rock piles. Look or warmer water 50'C and above. Good luck and be sae.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was nice warm day and the sun was out . The ishing was good but the catching wasn't so great. Had a ew strikes. Caught a 14 inch catish on live crawlers. Guys on the ramp said out o 20 boats in a tourney the caught 3 ish. I guess that speaks or itsel. Hopeully it'll pick up soon.
      City: Visalia

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks to the big dogs rom Santa Clara Bass Busters have checked in with their reports. I will just add a ew extras about where. We got nice small keeper ish across rom Nacimiento Resort Marina. We went ar up the river but did not get any keepers split shotting and drop shotting. The Jig bite was air, slow walkin the jig down the bank. Main lale points did pretty well.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: There is a rip and crank bite early in shallow water on main lake points.