Fishing Report

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Monday, January 14th, 2002

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 51.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PUT IN A PACKERS AND RAN DOWN JONES VALLEY WAY. IT WAS A COLD RIDE BUT WORTH IT THE FISHING WAS HOT.WE STARTED OUT WITH TEXAS RIGGED 4 INCH WORMS AND STARTED CATCHING GOOD FISH UP TO 3 LBS AND THEY WERE SPITTING OUT 2INCH SHAD THEY WERE FOOTBALLS. SUN CAME OUT AND WE GOT A LITTLE FEELING BACK IN OUR HANDS.AND DIDNT MISS QUIT AS MANY. THRU A JIG A FEW TIMES NO TAKERS SO STUCK WITH WHAT THEY WANTED. WE USED ONE COLOR OF WORM ALL DAY AND THERES NO NUMBER BUT ITS PINK AND BLUE AND SILVER FLAKE. THEY LIKE THEM BIG TIME. MOST EVRY FISH WAS IN WATER FROM THE BANK TO ABOUT 25 TO 30 FEET THERE WAS A BASS BOAT SPOONING AT THE BRIDGE PIERS AND I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR SUSPENDED FISH THIS TIME OF YEAR. NOT MUCH STUFF FLOATING ON THE SURFACE ON THE LAKE WHERE WE WERE , WHICH SUPRISED ME WITH ALL THE RAIN WE HAVE HAD, WE FISHED POINTS, CREEK CHANNELS , AND ROCK BANKS WE CAUGHT FISH ON ALL OF THESE PLACES AND ALSO CAUGHT SOME IN A BRUSH PILE THAT HASENT BEEN UNDER THE WATER TO LONG. FISHING IS GOOD NOW AND ITS GOING TO BE EVEN BETTER IN THE DAYS TO COME. I DID GET BIG FISH TODAY BUT MY WIFE WAS REAL CLOSE, ITS ABOUT TIME I GOT HER HA HA
      City: ANDERSON

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

      Report: Fished saturday and a buddy o mine caught one on a senko. We ished rom 11:30-2:00 got bites all day on senkos and dead ringers. Saturday went out in the morning at 8:30 and got bites on dead ringers all morning untill 11:00. Caught one and lost another good one.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: We used brass and glass and worked it real slow added lots o smelly jelly.

Sunday, January 13th, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found ish right away in 40-50t. useing mornig dawn and kuroi lazer Duh!!! spoons . The wall up in Jackson creek and several o the points just down rom there are stacked with bass. they seem to be starting to move into the creeks with the rising water. Also ound some nice bass 2-3lb.+, in a couple main body coves with the same pattern.
      City: Sac.

      Tips: Look or schools o bait in the backs o coves where the bottom is a least 70t. then look or the bass holding next to the channel edge in 40-50t. Morning dawn Duh spoons seemed to be the best lure.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got a little spanking in a club tourney with 9.8lbs- winners had almost 13lbs. Didn't get on the jig bite or the cranks, but ortunately my partner landed a nice 3.8 spot when we broke out the split-shot. Blademan also got help rom the back seat when his partner put big ish o the event in the boat, a 5.87lb spot. They were ishing or the big bites with jigs and they placed third with 11.8lbs with only our ish.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Consider the eect o a rapidly rising lake level

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 46-47 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up at 8:30 am with buddy and his son. Fished some humps and deep drops with drop shot and caught 7 small ish(8-9) inches. Went to steep walls and got 7 more with riend getting a 15 incher. All were in 37 eet , every ish was at that level . Went to point going back into cove straight across rom the dam at 2:45 and broke one o , had the rod doubled over . Very , very cold
      City: Visalia

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the WB team. Foggy/overcastday. Probably caught 30 ish between the 2 o us.Best 7 went 11.16. 14.9 won. Jigs, spider grubs and 6 inch worms were the ticket. Never got a ish/bite on a reaction bait. Lake got hammered this weekend.Saturday tourneys and preishers probably totaled 150-175 boats. Lake has come up about 30t since BASS. Funny thing craw dad baits work but the ish are gorging on shad. No crawdad parts in the live well.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Fish are all over. Key is to ind a school o larger ish and wait them out.Bite can be very subtle.

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: we caught all kinds o great whites.....a ew tuna...oh and a mackrol
      City: usa

      Tips: dont eat beore going in the water..youll get a stomach ache

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished the bank at Deer Creek or about 3 hours early Sunday morning. I used powerbait and nightcrawlers but didn't catch anything. I you know o any good method o catching ish at Pine Flat, please e-mail me.Thanks
      City: Fresno

      Tips: I shouldnt be giving suggestions on catching ish!

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Club tourney out o Packers. 20 boats, 8 non-boaters. I headed inside Bridge Bay or 4 quick ish in an hour. 1 on a pointer minnow, 3 drop shotting a 6" MGM 157. Headed over to Little Backbone and ought the 2-3 waves at the mouth o the Sac. Heavy north wind blowing. Inside Little Backbone and drop shotted the same worm on rocky walls or several ish. Biggest was 2.52# (my big or the day). One other culled out a 13" rom Bridge Bay. From there up to the Squaw to some willow trees I'd done well at the week beore. Texas rigged a MGM 109 in the willows in 18'. Really had to coax this one. Finally got it to bite and it went 2+# that culls another out.Up the Pit to a long tapering point and cranked a 3/4 oz Fat Free shad or another 2+#. Cull again at couldn't improve the rest o the day. Still caught lots more ish but all under my smallest at 14.5". Weighed in 9.49# or second place. Winning weight at 9.9 or so. Biggest ish was 2.8#. Water temp was around 51 degrees most everywhere I went. Wind blew all day. Watch the debris.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Don't be araid to throw that drop shot up into 6" o water and drag it down. It works when the ish are shallow.

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished small club tournament saturday found fish on steep banks in 10-15 feet. caught 10 keepers bigest was 1.6 lbs all came splitshoting 4.5" worms and 3" leech. fish the narrows near Portuguese cove. went up to Putah creek, water very muddy 1' visibity.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: try morning dawn, original, smoke purple flake had to fish slow but they would bite hard

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 47/48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I launched out o Paradise, due to og I was not able try the areas I wanted to. I like to have various locations where I'm catching ish so when tourny day comes, I have more than one speciic area to go to. I made the loop rom Bishop to Whites, Honker, south on Disappointment to Fourteen Mile slough. Picked up six on blk/blu jig and watermelon red senko. Missed a ew strikes also. Nothing big, maybe largest was 2 lbs. Nothing on slow rolling crank and blades. Water clarity in Whites area had good visibility.
      City: Sac.

      Tips: What ew I caught came on south and east acing rip rap with deep tullies and weed lines.

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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club tournament (Santa Clara Bass Busters)on Saturday. Foggy, cold, slow. Water clarity was much poorer than was expecting. Fished main channel. Mostly threw delta crawish red speed traps and rattle traps. Didn't get a single hit. Tried throwing small plastic worms split shotting in various colors. No luck! Eventually got 3 ish on 1/2 white and 1/2 green senko's. Largest was 2.62lbs caught on the outside edge o the weed line at low tide just as it started back in. Other two were up against the bank in 1 to 2 oot o water under a bush over hang. Both were maybe 1.5lb'ers. Top team had 5 ish or over 11 lbs. Second best had 4 ish or ???? (didn't get) and my teams 3 were good enough or 3rd out o ten boats (twenty anglers). Hey, you guys out there interested in a great club and a lot o un ishing tournaments should check us out!
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: trick seemed to be to watch the line or the pickup (line would lick) and then raise the rod tip slowly to check or the ish. Pickup was very subtle.

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      Water Temp: 41???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Hook series, oggy but calm all day..Cold on the runs..Our temp guage said the water temp was 41, but I think it was warmer than that..Tried several places on the Break and Ironhouse, no luck..Ran to Taylor Slough and inally ound some ish in the tules..Flipped Senkos into the ront edges o the shoreline tules, and some o the blown down ones..Pumpkin/black lake and red/ black lake did the trick..Pulled out 6 with the largest being almost 4#..Finished with 6 weighing 12.96 pounds..GREAT DAY..
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SENKOS

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught ive ish ranging rom 2.5 to 3.5. No big bites today.Got most ish o rocky structure up near the dam.
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Slow slow slow... the water is so cold now. Most ish seemed to be in 10-16 eet o water.

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

      Report: Misty & oggy start at 7 am working a crawdad crank w/no hits the 1st 1/2 hr.. Switched to split shot 4" green weenie style worms & had a limit in the boat by 9:15 w/the biggest going 2 1/2 lbs.. Missed a couple drop shotting 1st a shad pattern luke & then a morning dawn curly tail. Dead or the next couple o hours & then mid-lake picked up three dinks & two more 13 inchers.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Work split shot worms slowww on outside weed lines o o gentle sloping rocky banks.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing the dam area with drop-shots and split shots is producing some nice spots. go slow in about 40'-50'. ished smaller baits or bigger ish.
      City: turlock

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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom 7am to 1pm..Fished horse shoe area & between the two ramps.Caught 18 spots rom 13 to 15 1/4 in. & 4 rom 12 to 13...We caught them on senko's,skirted grubs,4 in worms & leach's...Fish were caught in 15 to 30 t o water.
      City: Riv

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 50'-53' C'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Greeting to all, What a weekend. It was just a mad house Sat. Three tournies. 45 min. wait to launch and to leave. It was a mad house. Kevin and I inally got on the water about 8:30ish. The og was so thick or another 2 hours, that we had to stay airly close to the ramp. Oh, and speaking o ramps, someone needed to put a sign up at the spillway saying it was closed. We ished between Saddle and the Spillway to start o and we caught 3. I caught a couple o dinks and Kevin caught a nice 2lber spot. We ished there until the og dissappated and then moved up the North Fork. When the sun came out, the bite was on. We tageted rocky points and lats. It seemed to work. We each bagged to more nice ish. That was until I roped a 4 1/2lber. She was a long thin spot. She is going to be nice this spring. We caught a lot, missed a ew and the 9 we caught were deinetly some good lookin bass. I'am stoked about this year and everyone else should be too. Good luck to all. We'll see ya out on the water.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: We tried a lot o things and the things that were producing were jigs and worms. 7" pumpkin seed curly tails and 1/2 oz rootbeer gitzits. Jiggin really slow, just keeping contact with the bottom. It seemed with the worming the leader had to be a little long. Usually Im about 12 to 14 inches. Sat. it was 16 to 18 inches. Pulling SSSLLLOOOWWW. That seemed to be the ticket or us.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in ast antlers at 7am and very cool at 35 degrees, water at 47, ran to the I-5 bridge abutments or two real quick on jigs, ran over to another at dobbs creek or another and keith went to a jig, we moved around a bit or 8 total and I was reezing to death, ended up down by Sugarloa and let, lots o debris and u can't get on plane because o it, almost 2 miles o stu loating in big rats o logs etc. no size today. I went to a 1/2oz ootball head which seemed to work better than the 3/4 oz, guess they wanted it alling slower.
      City: Redding

      Tips: twin tail skirted grubs by yamamoto and chompers by Bass Pro shop did the trick in pumpkin pepper and smoke tinsel

Friday, January 11th, 2002

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched the boat at 8am. Me and Dave Fished up near the dam till noon and only got 1 small 2lb ish.Quit at noon. Brrrrrr, it is cold.
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Slow down. I am now using 12" power worms in Grape sparkle.