Fishing Report

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Friday, April 6th, 2001

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nothing to report except a buddy that said I should quit sharing intel on the web. Sharing inormation? I said consider the source (me). He said yeah, nevermind. So at the risk o continuing to lose respect, I'll check in ater the weekend at Oroville. I'm having un. I I want to be respected, I wouldn't tell anyone I'm into bass ishing. I like Nascar too.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: The bad weather can prolong the spawn.

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish have exploded on the scene. My son and I caught 4 bass and 8 crappie ishing 2 hours at Lexington. We used plastic worms and Castiac Plastic Shads to hookem. Fished the scull boat launch ramp and surrounding shore. Released all ish, including 2 bass that went close to 8lbs. Other guys caught several ish. Unortunately they had dinner in mind and kept anything they caught. Time to get the boat tuned up and head out!
      City: San Jose

  • California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: cold ront turned ish o. ound a ew spots around points past trimmer up to 40 t deep. had better days, where did the sun go?
      City: visalia

      Tips: ish slow, ish small

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished points and coves and caught two 1 1/2lb. ish. I inally made my way to the northern part o the lake where I caught a 1 1/2, 2, and a 3 pounder. Caught one on a plastic worm and the rest on crankbaits.
      City: Salinas

Thursday, April 5th, 2001

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

      Report: I'm planning a trip to Almanor the irst week o May. does anyone know when the Hamilton Branch area is opening or ishing? I know that it closed in November. Any ino would be greatly appreciated.
      City: Sacramento

  • Benton County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great time ishing here, but the weather was cold. Bring very warm clothes i ishing in the morning. Fished rom 7:30 to 3:00. Fished rom the shore, about 25 eet out. Caught our trout. One was 14 inches, others +10. Used power bait (green). Tried worms, no luck.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Dress warm. Lake is beautiul, sit back and enjoy. Fish trout in the morning, bass later in the day.

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAPRIL 5, 2001 Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 54-58 FThe irst major spring warming was erased by a persistent wind which mixed warm water withcold. Fortunately the entire upper layer is now starting to warm so all o the heat was not lost. Bass spawning was delayed and will now occur the next time water temperatures top 60 degrees. Abrupt warming ollowing a cold spell allows bass to nest and spawn simultaneously resulting ingreat ishing. Continued cold stormy weather means that bass will spawn haphazardly usuallyover an extended time period resulting in only air ishing. Watch the weather ollowing the nextcold ront or an indication o expected ishing success. A calm, stable period means great ishingwhile a series o storm ronts will allow only modest success.Striped bass respond like black bass to changing weather. Last week

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: had a number o things to do this am and boy, am I glad I did, got in a Bailey Cove at 330pm,, air temp 69 water at 52 lake up to 19.80 t ran over to squaw creek and ound Steve and Carol and went down near horsecreek point or 3 with one to 2.46 on an MGM #109 at weenie, ran over to the pit near blue canyon or 8 more between 6 and 7 pm to 2.4 on the #109 at weenie, got carol in my boat to work on her casting and she missed 4 or so and inally hoooked a smallmouth when she noticed her line moving and said"why is my line doing that" she stuck him good and we hooraahhed her husband who was sitting a bit o our bow. great people and we had un.
      City: Redding

      Tips: had numerous hits while the bait was sinking and also missed as many or more than I caught, the #127 4 inch was smacked repeatedly but I couldn't get hooked up.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out o Bridge Bay at 6:a.m. crossed those big rollers on the Sac. to the Big Backbone, started throwing jigs and worms in places I have had success in the past, No Takers.About 9:30 I run on a huge ball o shad, the salmon and trout were hitting them hard, Tossed a little white spoon in them and boated 1 salmon at 4.5# and a beautiul 7 pounder. Headed south and picked up a 1.8 spot on a MGM 106 worm, only hit o the day rom a bass, I must be losing it. That ball o shad was the most I have ever seen,Amazing
      City: Redding

Wednesday, April 4th, 2001

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

      Report: City: sanjose

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

      Report: Hey was fishing around the bacon island area with senkos on the weekend, did well with bass on the outside of weedbeds. But man, went through like ten senkos in a course of about an hour. The fish were ripping these baits up. Anyone else have the same problems with this bait. Hey just as long as its working its fine with me, I guess I'll just stock up on em. Good luck.
      City: san jose

      Tips: senkos in any color.

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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off on low tide catching a 5lb and a 4lb in the first 10 minutes, then caught a couple more in the 2lb range. Then stuck a really nice one,7.5, and flaged down a boat so I could get a couple pictures. All of these fish came on black and blue senko's. Tried a blade for about an hour and had no luck, so I went back to using the senko's. Caught about 15 more fish in the 1-3.5lb range, then stuck a 4.5. Then I broke one off on a hookset because I did not retie after catching all of those fish. With about half of an hour of light left I lost one that was 5 to 6lbs, and caught a couple more dinks, under 12in. I fished from dawn till dusk, and stayed near Franks Tract the whole day. Caught somewhere between 20 and 25 fish, with the best 5 going around 25lbs. By far the best day I have ever had.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Fish inside weedlines in about 1-3 feet of water. All of the fish were on flats that were out of the curent and close to deeper water.

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      Water Temp: 60 - 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite today working the cove (my back yard.) I took a friend from work out for the first time. We cuaght mostly dinks to about 1.5 lbs. One on a fire tiger rapala, two flippen' 6" junebug/char. plastics tight to cover. Could not find any aggressive bass. Low tide and windy this morning.
      City: Ladd's Marina

      Tips: Water clarity needs toget better.

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with a guide today was so cold cold ront shut down most o the bite but did manage 7 ish up to 6 poundson live crawdads on the upper lake.they are deinately there and ready just ish smart and slow.ish arent moving to ar o cover put it in their ace
      City: canoga park

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6am too 1:30pm.Caught app 25 spots & blacks..We spent the irst 45 min. throwing cranks,top water & jerk bait..NOTHING...Changed too worms & tube baites,caught ish rom the ramp too the dam area,they were caught ron 5 t too 25 t deep.Seven ish over the slot,most o them were rom 13in too 15in.Six in worms,color didn't matter.Lots o missed pickups,the males are cleaning house(spots).They will p/u the bait by the tail too move it o their beds.
      City: Riv.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Exactly a week rom my last report and it was dierent. I stayed in the south ork or more action and the ish seem to have moved back due to the cooling weather and water temp but was able to maintain a airly good blade bite ishing it slower and deeper than last week with plenty o at slot ish and about 3 over the slot. Wind picked up pretty good and in the aternoon I looked or calm and deeper water and got the Senkos ready or action and boy did I ind it. Those Senkos are truly amazing, sometimes you see and eel something but most o the time it's a pure deadstick or 2 minutes, pick it up and there's a nice ish on your line. Got many slot ish, one smally and about 6 spots over the slot........what a blast! Batteries and my body took a beating today but was worth it.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Using a 3/8 chartruese, tandem willow lea spinner with a grub trailer to get it a little deeper and worked it slow. Fish came o rocks and points. Using Senkos in watermellon throwing it about 10 t rom the bank into 12-15 t o water and doing nothing or 1-2 minutes and there were plenty o ish.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry or the late report. Fished mouth o Squaw and Pit on 4-2,3,4. Found better ish on inside main points early,moving to shade and outside willows midday on keeper oxblood and Berkley 4" iness in motor oil. Once 3:00 came change over to the brightest chartreuse worm you can ind and splitshot red clay/sotball rock bank as slowly as you can and the action is hot.It seems like the quality is better this year as we boated around 20 ish 1.5 to 3lbs each day. The aternoon being much more productive or us. The days were 80 degrees and a little breezy but it will get back ther soon I hope. It always takes me a while to recall how slow the Shasta crawl really is.
      City: galt

      Tips: Chartreuse in the Evening, and don't orget, I your not getting bit at Shasta you are moving too ast.

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      Water Temp: 52-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with the olks rom Reno again, Steve and Carol. In the water at Bailey Cove at 0630 at 43 degrees, lake at 20 t and rising slowly, water ast the ramp was 52 degrees, ran over with them to the Squaw and went uupstream near Museum Gulch where Carol and I worked on her casting while Steve promptly caught a 1.6 spot on an MGM #109 at weenie, Carol was using the same when a 1.8 lber inhaled it in 20t o water, wind really blowing at 15-25 with gusts to 35. Moved downstream near horsecreek point but got blown o in the 3 ooters runnind down channel so ducked into baxter gulch or 2more, a 1.8 and a dink on an MGM #127 4 inch worm, these were inhaled, no taps, they really went ater them. Steve popped one more and we went back to their Silverthorn houseboat with the wind picking up even more. Dropped them o ater a lieing session and ran over into the McCloud and turned the corner into some 40 knot stu and 4 ooters, bounced my way back to Bailey cove, water up to 55 degrees, air temp around 53, very rough conditions with more to come and rain expected late riday and all day saturday, nobody doing the salmon at the dam due to unsae high wind conditions. the ish have backed o the shore a bit but plenty can be ound in the 13-25 t area, they were in the rocky stu today, nothing much up on lat mud spots as would be expected this close to the spawn.
      City: Redding

      Tips: irst time or the MGM #127 4 inch, gonna have tos get some more, the 5 pack i bought got inhaled, missed a couple too.

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

      Report: ished the back cove o stevens creek right by the boat launch in an area o a allen tree with a 6inch green senko and caught a three pounder. On the next cast I saw a big emale, had to be at least 6 to 7 pounds come right up to the senko about to enhale when a one pounder came right up and swam o with it. Damn!! The little ones are always aster. Never saw her again though. Worked the senko in a jerk method about one t or six inches bellow the surace.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Yesterday the baby brush hog worked but today I tossed the senko with good results. hey inally landed one over a buck here.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: No biguns today.A pretty good jig bite though.Limit by 7:00 with two 3lbers in it.I tried a variety o baits worms,grubs,lukes,craws all work.The jig bite was at 10 - 15 t and was stronger at low light conditions.I used 20lb big game and cought about 20 or so ish.I was thinking about downsizing line to catch more and bigger ish but evertime I try this I brake o what appears to be good ish.I set the hook pretty hard.I eel i I don't that more ish spit it out at the boat or sooner . Does anybody have any suggestions???PLEASE E-Mail me thanks in advance.This was a warm no pressure calm sunny day.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: The ish are scattered and stacked.Jigs worked better or me this time.Keep your bait clean!