Fishing Report

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Monday, March 26th, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Want to have some fun, go to berryessa. Got on the water at 7:00 and what a beautiful day. Made it a point to fish anything but water that I have fished before. Hooked 10 fish, landed 9, best weight for 5 fish was 10.5. When I wasent fishing I was just thanking my lucky stars of having this lake so close in early spring. Only saw three other bass boats. Lake was like glass for most of the day.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Water is clear, fish are on the points staging for a couple more weeks. Dartheaded all the fish, 4" worm (will tell you the color after the Reapers)

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 60ish?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the boat ramp and caught 15 fish best was 3# femal with a big belly. It was very windy and it made it hard to feel the bites but a magic worm did the trick and they wouldn't let it go helping me catch them. I moved to the calm side of the ramp and started throwing top water and the second cast produced a 2 pounder. The next cast in a calm pocket got destroyed by a 5# male. The fish was in a foot and a half and in front of a guy who had been fishing there for a long time with no bites. He was in shock, hehehe. Fun day.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: I down sized my rig to light line and heavy weight to fish in the high wind. The bite was not easy pickens as it was the week before but they are still there. The water temp has come down from the receint front that moved threw and I was finding them way off shore as far as I could cast. 6" worms in light colors were the best. The 4" worms just didn't get the bites for some reason.

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      Water Temp: 60ish?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the boat ramp and caught 15 fish best was 3# femal with a big belly. It was very windy and it made it hard to feel the bites but a magic worm did the trick and they wouldn't let it go helping me catch them. I moved to the calm side of the ramp and started throwing top water and the second cast produced a 2 pounder. The next cast in a calm pocket got destroyed by a 5# male. The fish was in a foot and a half and in front of a guy who had been fishing there for a long time with no bites. He was in shock, hehehe. Fun day.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: I down sized my rig to light line and heavy weight to fish in the high wind. The bite was not easy pickens as it was the week before but they are still there. The water temp has come down from the receint front that moved threw and I was finding them way off shore as far as I could cast. 6" worms in light colors were the best. The 4" worms just didn't get the bites for some reason.

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

      Report: Launched out o B&W this morning 5:15 a.m. Went and ished the tule island to the let, throwing senkos and spinnerbaits. Not a bite... About 8 a.m. headed or Frank's Tract. We got 3 senko ish (green pumpkin and natural shad), and one on a 2.5 inch pumpkin tube on jig head, all 2 lbs. Headed to south end o tract, and ished the outgoing current in the tules. Got 2 more on senko (natural shad), dragging senkos along the tules in current. Ater that, bite shut o, only got 7 ish on the day. Nothing over 2 lbs.
      City: vacaville

      Tips: Bass should be turning on here REAL ast. Gotta be patient.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished near the Stockton area in those back coves, and was killing them with my white tandem terminator spinnerbait. Just targeted edges of the weeds, and was hitting on a fish every 20 or so yards. All males, in the 3 to 4 pound range. Wasnt burning the bait, but had a steady retreaval. Going to fish Calero back in San Jose tomorrow so look for my fishing report there. good luck.
      City: san jose

      Tips: titanium wire spinners, well worth the money. Had mine for two years, a little paint chipped, but still runs straight and true.

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      Water Temp: 40

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went fishing in Lodi Lake and I pulled in a black blass 21 inches. long and waighed in at 5 lbs.
      City: Lodi

      Tips: I used a rubber lizard

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went up today at about 1:30 caught 1 on a rubber worm it was a keeper. caught another on a rapalla. both in greasy cove. moved over to the damn about 3:45. the spots were in and me and my partner caught some nice size ish. lotta hits still a little rusty. the big ish are in greasy cove cruzing. couple days o warm weather and they will be stageing. the bite is gonna get hot. mark my words.
      City: visalia

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to Lex Saturday, about 10:30. Level is up somewhat, but visibility bad. Wind was up. Caught 2 - 2lbrs. in 1st hal-hour. Quick releases. Caught 'em on dark green Baby Bush Hogs ished on mod c-rig. 1/8 oz bullet kept about a oot up rom hook by small splitshot. Ater wind got up stronger, couldn't catch anything, anywhere, on anything. Let about 3 PM.Release 'em. Good chance they'll grow.
      City: scotts valley

      Tips: Slow draggin' worked or me.

  • San Francisco County, California
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I have no idea why Lake Merced is on the report list. The City o San Francisco and the concessionaire are doing everything in their power to kill this lake and are pretty close to making it reality. Cal Trout has joined in the ight to bring water levels and quality back to what it once was. But until that happens, Lake Merced continues to be an eyesore, ecological disaster and a 5 star carp ishery.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Dough balls and garlic ona pencil bobber will get you a limit o carp.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a tourney last saturday,2/16.Fished around Angels cove in the timber with a rat-L-trap and all I caught were trout and one 2lb. bass.Decided to go up river a little bit and ended up near the bridge.Come to ind out the FBI had made a huge discovery o 5 bodies with concrete Nikes on at the bottom o the lake.Holy crap!Thats riggin' reaky!Anyway,got third in the tournament and had a helluva story to tell when I got home.Good Luck
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: I you get snagged under the bridge in the middle o the lake,I'm just warning you,but be aware o what it could be,you'll either have a at reward on your hands or the hand o some guy who pissed o the maia.Don't say I didn't warn you.

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

      Report: AmericanBass put on a Tournament Sunday March25th. A 6.84 Bass was taken in by Leo Battle o Chico. You will be able to see the pic at The Bulletin next to the last page online at http://www.lakeorovillecity.com by the coming weekend. Nice going Leo!!Reporting Bass Tournament News at Lake Oroville.
      City: Oroville

      Tips: Caught shallow on jigs.

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got to the lake at 6:15 this mourning, launched my loat tube and was on my way. caught my 1st. ish at 6:30 nice 18" bass. caught a ew smaller ones between there and 10:30 a.m. the sun inally pokes it's head out o the clouds, and i started to seee bass everywhere on beds, schooling out deeper in about 10 - 15' o water, and thats when they got alittle agressive everytime i went by a bed i was attacked repeadly until they chased me o, was a great illing and site to see the insticts o these bass, as they hit o my legs, ins, and tube. bass are agressive and i you get a chance get out to perris and you will have a ball.
      City: Moreno Valley

      Tips: All day i was ishing a reverse green weenie on a split shot rig. stayed till dark caught alot o bass this day. heres another tip try useing a green line, it is less visible in this clear lake. works well everywhere else to.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 56 - 59 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went tubing on Sonoma on Monday, March 26. Caught 4 ish - 3 on split-shot 4" Green Weenie Magic Worm, one on carolina-rigged 6" green pumpkin lizard. Cranks & blades - nada.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I you'd like ino about Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club, send me an e-mail or check out our website, http://scbbbc.homestead.com.

Sunday, March 25th, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 7am. Started o throwing a blade with no luck. Picked up the jig rod and stuck a 2lb'er. Around 9am me and my partner started to sight ish. We caught atleast 20 bass all on 3-4" worms texas rigged. FIshed all day and the last hour o the day we tried to get a reaction bite. Partner nailed a 2lb ish 10 minutes beore dark on a shad rip bait. Bass were busting shad all day long, hopeully a good reaction bite will start up soon. Sure is un watching those big 10+lb ish cruise the shoreline and dissapear into the shadows. O and on rain until 9am. Worked a good 6lb ish or about and hour and could not get her to strike.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Sight ishing is on right now with small plastics. Good luck out there and make sure to release them!

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

      Report: I'm posting this with hopes that some one out there in the fishing community can help. On Sunday night,03/24/01, sometime after 10:00 p.m. I had all of my fishing gear stolen out of the back of my truck in the vicinity of west college ave. and Stony point rd. in Santa Rosa. my gear consisted of; One G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. spinning rod with a silver rear drag quickfire reel. One FLW burnt orange medium-heavy 6 1/2 ft. baitcasting rod with a red Quantom baitcasting reel that was in serious need of a tune up. One Bill Dance blue 7 Ft. medium heavy baitcasting rod with a silver baitcasting reel. One red 6 ft. medium action spinning rod with a silver rear drag spinning reel. one green plastic flat type tackle box with a white double lid(creates two level storage)filled with numerous plastic baits, hooks, wieghts, etc. One brown and ivory split lid tackle box with side latches and six trays(3 small and 3 large) filled with numerous crank baits, spinner baits, top waters, a box containing Cabella's 31 piece jig kit, a box containing a 5 piece scum frog and popper frog kit, Castaic threadfin shad and many other blade, spoon and swimm baits. If any one comes across any of these items or can assist in there recovery in any way please contact me at 546-3401 or e-mail me at randy@ren-o-masters.com. As most of you can understand, fishing is my passion. Please help if you can. Thank you
      City: Santa Rosa

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

      Report: I'm posting this with hopes that some one out there in the ishing community can help. On Sunday night,03/24/01, sometime ater 10:00 p.m. I had all o my ishing gear stolen out o the back o my truck in the vicinity o west college ave. and Stony point rd. in Santa Rosa. my gear consisted o;One G-Loomis medium-heavy 6 1/2 t. spinning rod with a silver rear drag quickire reel.One FLW burnt orange medium-heavy 6 1/2 t. baitcasting rod with a red Quantom baitcasting reel that was in serious need o a tune up.One Bill Dance blue 7 Ft. medium heavy baitcasting rod with a silver baitcasting reel.One red 6 t. medium action spinning rod with a silver rear drag spinning reel.one green plastic lat type tackle box with a white double lid(creates two level storage)illed with numerous plastic baits, hooks, wieghts, etc.One brown and ivory split lid tackle box with side latches and six trays(3 small and 3 large) illed with numerous crank baits, spinner baits, top waters, a box containing Cabella's 31 piece jig kit, a box containing a 5 piece scum rog and popper rog kit, Castaic threadin shad and many other blade, spoon and swimm baits. I any one comes across any o these items or can assist in there recovery in any way please contact me at 546-3401 or e-mail me at randy@ren-o-masters.com. As most o you can understand, ishing is my passion. Please help i you can. Thank you
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: wanted to get the boat working so decided to "troll" around Calero, launched around 1:00pm anchored and fished the back cove after running the engine around a few laps. Used power bait and shrimp, no bites had a good time swappin stories , after awhile fish started to jump near the shore, friend had mentioned they were carp jumpin but I though they were bass, switched to hula popper but still not hits...oh well it was good to be out fishing though
      City: San Jose

      Tips: maybe go for rubber worms, purple in color, or try minnows

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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time out at Colero in couple of weeks..Wind blew but and there was more traffic than I thought there would be, but the bite made up for it..All fish cought in the top 5'..10 or 12 fish on a jerkbait..2 on blades and 3 or 4 shakin a worm..Best fish went around 3.5 - 4lbs.. fished from 9:30 to 6pm..
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 58-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: wanted to get the boat working so decided to "troll" around Calero, launched around 1:00pm anchored and fished the back cove after running the engine around a few laps. Used power bait and shrimp, no bites had a good time swappin stories , after awhile fish started to jump near the shore, friend had mentioned they were carp jumpin but I though they were bass, switched to hula popper but still not hits...oh well it was good to be out fishing though
      City: San Jose

      Tips: maybe go for rubber worms, purple in color, or try minnows

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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time out at Colero in couple of weeks..Wind blew but and there was more traffic than I thought there would be, but the bite made up for it..All fish cought in the top 5'..10 or 12 fish on a jerkbait..2 on blades and 3 or 4 shakin a worm..Best fish went around 3.5 - 4lbs.. fished from 9:30 to 6pm..
      City: San Jose