Fishing Report

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Tuesday, April 10th, 2001

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing app 6:30am Main lake area,caught one 14 in on a craw colored crank & a ew on worms.Went into Piney cr. caught ish on worms their too.Fished the river area & caught more ish.I lost count at 20 & i belive that most o the ish were blacks.All ish came out o 2 to 15 t o water & only 4 or 5 looked too have eggs.Most o the ish were 13in too 2 1/4 lbs.WE quit at 1:30 pm...
      City: Riv.

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

      Report: hit my honey hole where this time i got zilch.proceded up the creek and ound a hump where i sat or the next 5 hours picking o every dink in the place .....but seriously i caught 21 ish up to 3.1 lbs..not bad but not real good either.
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: shake worms and ish spots that dont recieve alot o pressure you might surprise yoursel

Monday, April 9th, 2001

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ? fished the ba

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw Carolina rig straight tail worms and light jigs. Caught 15 fish, 9 from one point and over 100 feet out. Did not catch anything in close to the bank. Fish have definately moved out but were biting once you got it to them. Natural no flake colors were the best. Use sent and fish slow. Couldn't get bit with the normal plastics for this lake (brush-hogs, lizards, etc.), only the 4" worm. Bite should get better this week with the steady temp. forecasts.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: ? fished the ba

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw Carolina rig straight tail worms and light jigs. Caught 15 fish, 9 from one point and over 100 feet out. Did not catch anything in close to the bank. Fish have definately moved out but were biting once you got it to them. Natural no flake colors were the best. Use sent and fish slow. Couldn't get bit with the normal plastics for this lake (brush-hogs, lizards, etc.), only the 4" worm. Bite should get better this week with the steady temp. forecasts.
      City: Mountain View

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 59-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 4/8 rom 8:00 AM to 6:45 PM and caught 10 spotted bass, 1 small mouth, 1 white bass and 1 4 lb carp that took 10 min to land, man are carp strong, pound or pound they are tronger than bass. Anyway back to bass, caught my ish on 4 inch purple worms and 4 inch green weenies, I caught two o my bigger spots on 5 inch senko, talk about a do nothing rig, I just tossed it out there and they hit it as soon as it hit the water. Caught 1 spot on down shot rig but most ish on 1/16 dart head. What I like about Naci is that even with ull moon and unstable weather the ish still bite. Spoke with a couple o guys that has 10-15 ish ea also.
      City: Milpitas

      Tips: With the weather I had ish were in 5-10 eet o water, could not get any top water going, Go with natural color worms on a 1/16 or 1/8 oz dart head and you will catch ish.Fished main body points and coves and caught ish in both places. Catch and release, bank the carp.

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I are very much on amateur side, but managed to do OK on SAT in crazy and cold conditions. started off with two smallies and a small spot just after launch in Capell cove on Rapala countdown. headed across lake to Farmhouse, and he hit a smallmouth on every point with the same rapala while I shook up some some 1.5-2lb spots on variety of plastics, I picked up one 3.5lb largemouth on green weenie, but most fish came on yamamoto spider grub. Despite MARBLE size hailstorm that lasted 45 min in afternoon that must have dumped the water temp, we totalled about 18 fish even mix of smallies, spots, and largemouth
      City: SF

      Tips: Who knows, I'm just a simple caveman, these coldfronts confuse me?

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 57deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished white slough area from 700 to 12:30 partly cloudy 10 to 15mph wind water pretty clear for the delta the tide was just starting to go out caught three good bass to 3lb cranking a 1/8oz chart/blue speedtrap over vegatation,about 9:30 I started pitching a bigboy jig brn/purple in color with a brown chomper trailer at the weed edge felt a tick set the hook and landed a 10.4lb hog and continued to fish the jig along the weed edge and landed a 4.2 and a 3.5 in the same area..Keep a sharp hook.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: fish are spawning openings in weed might have a bed keep your bait in there longer as if you were sight fishing

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a down-pour dodging kind of day. I'd move my custom Valco in and out of docks during the showers. I worked the afternoon/In-coming tide while I watched the Valley Bait Basser's come to the weigh-in. Cuaght 6 bass today. Best 5 fish came to a total of just over 15 lbs. I had a 6 lb. kicker. Cuaght one on a char./wht. spinnerbait. One on a Blk./Blu. Senko. My other 4 incuding the kicker were cuaght on a 6" jun./char. Budda Worm, 3/16 brass wt., and a glass bead. The bass were holding tight to cover. The Bass Buster boat is almost complete. Soon I will be installing my custom live well. All I need now is a 15 to 20 hp motor with a safty kill switch. Then the Bass Buster will be bust'n loose in the tournaments. To Ken and Steve, pretty soon I won't need to look for a partner to fish with, but it would be nice to fish off of somebodies Ranger.
      City: Stockton/Ladd's Marina

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 1400. Caught 3 right o the bat on the north side o the Ski Arm - split-shottin oxblood AA's. Moved to a Ski Arm cove and scored 1 more in about 15 eet, nice 2.5-3.0 emale o a secondary point on A.Magic. Windy day. O the water at 1800.
      City: Santa Clarita

      Tips: Slower is better. Try draggin when the wind causes a challenging current.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: colder

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Virtual dock talk. When you're lost as much as I am, what's an angler to do? Take last year at a two dayer at Shasta or example. Ater the irst day someone said check out the Pit. I said ok, but how do you launch a boat in one? We had a limit well over 4lbs on the irst day, so on the second day we learned how that arm got it's name. Another 4lb plus limit! At the scales, observers thought we had a bag ull o green shad. Post ront today stopped the reaction bite cold. 11 on darter heads in the south- including two 3lb spots Dylan caught and our smallies. I'd say he back seated me, but he ran the ront or a while. Ater trying to dead stick in hurricane like conditions the batteries were toast. Luckily my casting arm (normally hanging limp at the end o the day rom reaction baits) was rested enough to pull start my Mercury 90 six cylinder.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Rapidly cooling water temps will slow them down in spring. Downsized to 4" worms and ished real slow.

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

      Report: got up there at 11:00 and let at 3:30. i had a great day today. the ishing was wide open. i bought a dozen jumbo minnows at sierra sporting goods. i caught a ish on each one o the minnows. average o 3.5lbs each. i was out o minnows by 12:30. so i started throwing a white spinner and began catching the crap out o them with that. i had one break my line so i went to a green and blue spinner and they loved that too. i couldnt miss today. over 20 ish biggest was approx. 4.5 and smallest was a dink. i had 2 in the 4 and a hal to 5 lb range. a bunch o 3s and 4s and a ew dinks. all in all one o the best days in a long time or me.
      City: visalia

      Tips: i was supprised that the weather didnt turn the ish o. they are hitting big time the bite is loose.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold ront blew in and made it a really cold day. The air temp in the morning was at 34 degrees. I managed to boat three bass using plastic worms around 5 to 10 eet deep. I lost two and had 8 other hits, but was unable to hook them due to a dull hooks.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Always keep your hooks sharp!!!

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north west corner o the lake catching 4 ish.Lost 1 and caught 1 on a ripped pointer minnow around isolated weed patches.Caught a 5+ and 3 more keepers, split shotting a 4 inch baby bass pattern, straight tail worm. I'd pitch it into the base o the tules rom 20 to 30 eet.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Bass are still spawning. I've seen nests as deep as 5 eet when the water is clear enough. Back o the tules to see them. Lots o bass ry to 3 inches around.Someone told me that 3 inch ry are 2 months old. Wow. That means a ew ish were spawning in early ebuary!

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished club tourney. Launched at 6:30 went to north end in the gravel piles. Caught 1st ish(13' largemouth) on shad spinnerbait. Front seater caught two on clown Rogue in 5min. I switched to a clown Rogue and ished it allday. Total or day was 12 ish or ront seater and 11 ishor me. Front seater inished 1st with twoish weighting9lbs I inished 3rd with 6.90lbs.Fish were in about 12'to 15' o water.Beach
      City: Redding

Saturday, April 7th, 2001

  • Plumas County, California
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      Water Temp: 42

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow ishing, but we did connect with two. ish luckycrat, pointers and some grubs. water cold and wind a actorbut it will improve. Watch or hazards, as the water is low. And new one's areshowing up.
      City: susanville

      Tips: work the stumps and rocks. ish should start moving up

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Thursday aternoon and night, and Friday. Only averaged about 8 ish per trip - very windy both trips, with rain and heavy wind on Fri. Caught most o our bass on 5 and 6 inch Senkos in black and watermelon colors. Biggest was only 3 pounds - we did not get the big bite this time. I saw a lot o bass on Thurs, but only 2 big ones. Most o our bass were quality - 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. Clients did pretty well, considering the weather. They did miss several bites. We ound some bass in the coves, but the bigger ones were on points. Couldn't ish jigs well because o slime and weeds.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Fish or the bass you can see, and in the brush. Slow moving plastics seems to be the key now. Please release any big emales you catch!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I almost decided not to go ishin with the weather being windy,rainy,cloudy,hailing and just plain cold and nasty.I had 4 layers o clothes AND raingear.At 8:00 my soon to be dead uncle{harhar} nailed a lietime best o 9lb 10 oz!He cought it on 6lb test!The ish inally came to a sudden snagged stop on the TOP o a bush.I told him to maintain pressure and not to move that I was going to ull throttle it right at the bush and just beore the trollin motor hit the bush I would net it.Well it worked!We snapped some photo's then we took more pics then we set her ree.I got 10 ish on 6 lures up to 4lbs.No pattern.I've never seen as many shad as I seen here!!Incredible!!We were blessed today!
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Be persistent and please practice catch and release!!!! We got bit on worms,grubs,jigs,spinnerbait,crankbait,senko and sluggo.We used line rom 6,12,15,20 and 50 lb test.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I almost didn't go ishin due to the hail,high wind ,clouds,rain ect...We stuck it out with our layers o clothes AND raingear!At 8:00 my soon to be dead uncle{harhar} nailed a 9lb 10 oz beauty.He cought her on 6lb line!She stopped ighting as she got tangled on top o a bush!I told him not to move and that I was going to ull throttle at the bush and scoop her at the last second beore the trollin motor hit the bush.Well it worked,and ater some photo's and then some more photo's we set her ree.We battled weather and ish all day on a variety o lures.No real pattern,just be persistent.I got 10 ish on 6 dierent lures up to 4lbs.Also I seen the most shad I have ever seen!!Incredible!!
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Have un,be conident and release the ish or another day or night.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south delta Saturday. Stuck 7 fish to 3.5 lbs. All fish came on jig 10+ ft. by current. off riprap. Bites were soft. More of just a pickup! No fish on the Senko!???? Win got real bad after 2pm. Off the water by three. Nice day!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Jig, Black, Deep, Slowwww

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I've certainly noticed the same thing about the Yamamoto baits. Though they're soft and tantilizing and the fish love 'em, I can't help but think it's part of Yamamoto's grand plan to make them fragile. At about 60 cents a pop, it adds up fast if you're using them all day---which I'll probably be doing, along with a lot of other guys this spring. The quality fish make it worth it, I guess. If someone came up with a kevlar senko and charged $5 a pop for it, we'd still save money. Or something made out of used tires.... Tips: Try Burger King fries. They may catch just as many fish, they're a helluva lot cheaper, and if they don't work, you can eat 'em.