Fishing Report

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Friday, March 16th, 2001

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

      Report: Went out around 9 o'clock to the middle pond the one with the creek. I caught our. My riend caught ive. The biggest ish was around three lbs caught by me in the creek with a grub. We caught our ish on purple worms and grubs. The ish were located in the tules or deep in the structure. I think spring is coming very soon so get ready.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Get ready or the pre spwan

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      Water Temp: N/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a 2# in the little pond using a texas rigged Zipper worm in cinnamon/red lakes color. The ish was hard in the tules. My riend lost about a 3# in the same pond. He used an arkie salty crawler. Lost a couple more in the irst pond.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Tulie dipping seemed to work pretty well.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with big daddy( gary delbridge) to prepare or the castro valley bass classics tourney on Sat and Sunday, caught 4 in ten minutes in the mccloud in 25-30 t, lake up to 27.20 t and starting to warm up, mine came on an MGM #109 weenie, gary was dropshotting his own secret stu, water clearing in the lower arms, 5 knot wind out o the north, temp going in was 46, coming out was 67, Scott Lagan also up or the same event popped 6 in the McCloud on a MGM witches T 3inch curly tail and 4 inch aarons magic worm on a drop shot. Out agian tomorrow and sunday
      City: Redding

Thursday, March 15th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of the Break yesterday at 7ish. Stayed in the Break and surrounding areas all day til 3pm. Not alot of fish but the ones I did catch were pretty good. Had four for about 15 pounds,a 6,4,3,and a 2. All were caught but one on a red/black jig thrown into tulle clumps in current. The 4 came on a red crankbait in the rocks. Water is still muddy in and around the Break. All the fish were caught with current nearby. I think thats still the key. Didn't get bit in the Break at all.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: With the water warming up, look for transition areas near spawning flats that have current

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

      Report: sir i do not apriciate liers on the chabot reports. DO NOT BELIVE THIS REPORT !!!!!!!! i know that this is not true and when people leave reports like this the lake gets extra preasure and just ruins the already crappy ishing!thank youRyan
      City: cv

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

      Report: Float tubed it rom 7-11am. Got my irst 3 slow rolling and pausing a single colorado blade. One went about 6 lbs. Got one later on a 5" pumpkin/black lake senko, and lost one on a timber tiger
      City: San Jose

      Tips: dunno just starting to explore this lake

  • California
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      Water Temp: 62-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there about 6:00am. ished coves. caught 6 bass( 1.5-4lbs)used minoes, night crawler, and carolina rig.
      City: resno

      Tips: stand where shores open up, throw to end o shore, and cast slowly. works or most lakes.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The ishing was pretty horrible the water was muddy but starting to warm up. I caught one bass who looked like he was preparing a nest because he had a red coloration on his lower ins. I also lost one, both ish were caught on chartruse senko's w/a 1/4 bullet sinker in less than 2 eet o water. I could not locate any staging bass. Fished rom 7:30 til 3:00, I talked to 2 other boaters and they didn't get anything. Good luck
      City: Salinas

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two ish on---one very strong o end o rockpile by launch.Water temp 53 dg -----going to get much better
      City: Roihnert Park

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out and tried dierent baits om spinners to crankbaits. one hit o the spinner which was a 1 1/2 lb. threw plastic 6" worms and produced 3 over 5 lb. slow day but ish'em slow.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: use 4-6" worms in the darker colors

Wednesday, March 14th, 2001

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake thought there was a tourney going on doesn't any body work must have been close to 20 boats fishen today saw a few friends today also anyway caught some bass on a rodstrainer tandem chart/white skirt and gold indiana blades,c-rig watermelon brush hog man i missed one that almost took the rod out of my hands,and also on a rodstrainer jig 3/8 0z brown/green/chart/ with a zoom brown frog with the ends dipped in chart. most fish avg. 2lbs with one bass going 3+ .when the wind picked up the dinks came out all 13 in or less.saw ayoung guy fishen near the ramp within a 1/2 hour he caught a limit throwing a small red/brown worm on a dart head al the fish were dinks but hey fishen is fishen also saw a couple throwing rip baits close to the ramp and they also were slamin them..
      City: san jose

      Tips: bass are starting to move up next few weeks they should move on the beds. fish right know in 5ft to 10 ft parallel look for flats next to deep water and have fun the bites range from hard hitting to line just moving be ready.

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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake thought there was a tourney going on doesn't any body work must have been close to 20 boats fishen today saw a few friends today also anyway caught some bass on a rodstrainer tandem chart/white skirt and gold indiana blades,c-rig watermelon brush hog man i missed one that almost took the rod out of my hands,and also on a rodstrainer jig 3/8 0z brown/green/chart/ with a zoom brown frog with the ends dipped in chart. most fish avg. 2lbs with one bass going 3+ .when the wind picked up the dinks came out all 13 in or less.saw ayoung guy fishen near the ramp within a 1/2 hour he caught a limit throwing a small red/brown worm on a dart head al the fish were dinks but hey fishen is fishen also saw a couple throwing rip baits close to the ramp and they also were slamin them..
      City: san jose

      Tips: bass are starting to move up next few weeks they should move on the beds. fish right know in 5ft to 10 ft parallel look for flats next to deep water and have fun the bites range from hard hitting to line just moving be ready.

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

      Report: made a mistake on the date on my report it should be 3/14/01 instead of 2/14/01

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Clear Lake several times this past week - day and night - with mixed results. I had two clients lose big bass, one in the tules at Rattlesnake Island which we saw. It was 8 lbs minimum - his rod was just too light or a good hookset deep in the tules. He almost got her to the boat, but not quite. He was using a red shad 8" Zoom Dead Ringer worm. Yesterday, clients lost 3 or 4 ish, but did manage to land a 3 1/4 and a 5. I was able to land a dandy - 10 lbs 14 oz - on a brown/orange Rodstrainer Jig with a #180 5" Yamamoto twin tail grub. I caught her o a break on a rockpile near Rattlesnake Island. I was accidentally using 10# test line - maybe that is why she bit at 10:30 in the morning in bright sunshine and clear water that was dead-lat calm. Those are the great questions o bass ishing - i only bass could talk!! Big ish like that don't make many mistakes in the middle o the day in open water. The night ishing has only been good or quality - not too many bites. Rattlin' Weapon jigs and "Big Dipper" Magic Worms have been the best baits at night. I have ound the bass in the south end to be moving around a bit, and are diicult to locate. Fishing seems to be on one day and o the next. Some have said they are even hard to locate on the meter. Another three or our weeks should do the trick. The bass need sun!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: For the next week or two, especially in the south end, I would throw jigs, and then more jigs. Ripping is taking a ew, and crankbaits are catching some big ones, but not many. Senkos are working or some.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in greasy cove today rom 2:30 to 4:30 and caught 3 ish in the 2 to 2.5 lbs. range. Like posted earlier it was strange to see the ish chasing shad this early. All ish were caught on a pearl/blue slug-go.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Water was much warmer in greasy cove and the ish were active. Remember catch and release!!!

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      Water Temp: 50 to 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went up today with my partner. it was real slow, we ound a lot o ish just hard to get them to hit. i had about 7 or 8 hits only stuck one. i guess i am rusty. my partner got some hits as well but got skunked. it was kind o a strange day cause we started out on the main point and the water was about 50 to 53 degrees. we went into greasy cove and the water there was in the mid 60's. that isnt the weird part, the ish were chasing shad and going nuts back there so i threw a zara spook and right when it hit the water a huge ish jumped right next to it. not a hal a second later i got a 2 and a hal pounder. the ish were lopping all over the top back there so i continued to throw th spook with not as much as a bump except or a shad that hit it and stuck himsel. we went back to the main point and the ish started suracing there so i began to throw the spook again when suddenly i observed a seagull type bird dive bomb my spook and hooked himsel. that was the best ight i have had since december when i caught an 11.4 sitting in the exact same spot. inally i got the bird to the boat and unhooked his beack irst, bad move cause he was hooked in the wing as well. he wouldnt let us get to the wing. we tried to unhook the wing but it was buried in deep and the bird was wigging so i had to let him go. so i you see and here a bird lying with a spook in the wing just realize that he was a catch and realease. anyways i dont think anyone else caught any ish cause it was real slow. tried yamamoto grubs, worms, spinnerbaits and spooks.the latter is the only one that produced.
      City: visalia

      Tips: try greassy cove till the water on the main lake warms a little more. watch out or the loating wood.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 1pm. Jerry, that must have been you I met on Dry Creek Road towing that purty white/red Ranger.I headed to a spot where I caught a 2.5 pounder last week directly across rom the rock pile at the mouth o the Pit. Spent 3 hours in the general area with a carolina rigged twin tail Yamamoto and did not raise a strike (it worked last week). Even tried drop-shotting a live night crawler, a technique I've used in the past to locate deep ish, but no takers. I could see 'em on my electronices, but no luck. Tired o the wind, I headed due north to a cove at the mouth o the Squaw around 4:30 and ound glassy water AND ish. Went to my trusty tube with a split-shot inserted into the cavity and got 5 ish in an hour and lost as many more, none smaller than 14 inches with 15 1/2 inch the biggest. The encouraging point is that I missed double that many at least. The "take" was undetectable most o the time, but the "spit-out" was unmistakable. I literally had a take on nearly every cast. And they were SHALLOW! It was like ishing Shasta in April or May. Many takes were nearly right at the shore line. I kept getting hit until darkness orced me in.
      City: Palo Cedro

      Tips: Is the spring pattern here? Sure seemed like it today. My bait o choice is BPS Magnum Flippin Tubes in pumpkin pepper and green pumpkin. Slip a split-shot inside the tube about hal way, so it will quiver and circle on the drop. Watch your line! Set the hook on the aintest o resistance.

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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with John Mcnemar again in my boat this time, got in at Jones Valley at 615 am, ramp parking is just about done or, maybe 7 spots let, air temp 39, waster ast 46 and the lake is asround 27.20t, not rising as ast as the dam is starting to dump at a higher rate. Ran up the pit to the area near Flat Creek where john popped a 2.1 spot on a 6 inch brown jig in 31t o wster, I had somehits on my bps twin tail grub but they let go, moved inside a cove and took a 1.8 out o a creek channel in 17 t, we banged asround a bit then ran downstream near Arbuckle where I got out my MGM 3 inch beaver tail in witches T and banged 5 in a row in twenty minutes to 1.8, john lays down his jig rod and orders up some o my worms, I hand him some #125 MGM's in green ghost 2 in a 4 inch curly tail and he gets bit right o the bat. John has not ished worms much but this aternoon changed his mind. Had to hide my MGM's. We ran back down to jones valley and the water temp had risen 2 degrees since the put in , out o the water at 1235. might rain a llittle tomorrow, this weekend promises blue bird days and little wind, it is still very cold in the AM running upstream. the early ish were standard rubbe band pull downs, the later ish were hitting with some authority.
      City: Redding

Tuesday, March 13th, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I guided some nice olks Saturday aternoon and night. We had a good trip, catching 10 largemouth and a rare Warmouth bass. The largest was 2-14 and the smallest, 12 inches. I elt pretty good about the number, since a cold ront was just leaving the area. The highlight was a 15 year old girl catching her irst FISH - a 1-12 bass on a Zoom junebug lizard. We ished the Carson arm in the aternoon, and then Mountain Spring in the evening. Ater dark, we tried Rock Creek, but no takers. We did catch some on main lake points, about 15 eet deep, all on worms. I threw a jig 'til I was silly - not a bite! Actually, I did that so my clients would eel good with all their worm ish!!! A very nice trip!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The worm bite seems to be pretty good, day and night. The jig bite is good during the day. A ew days o sun will get the bass moving to shallow water.

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launch out of Berryessa marina and my partner and I made our way up to the north end Putah creek. Soon as we got to our spot I made the first hook up on my own rendition of the whiches T copy and the second and the third all the bass were solid 2.0lbers. My partner and friend switched his worm and started using the W.T. and he started catching nice smallmouth and largemouth bass. I then swithed to a spinnerbait homemade and blasted a nice 4.0 largemouth then hooked into a 3-1/2pounder switched one more time to a lucky craft pointer minnow and stuck 3 nice bass. We had a good day and had we started eariler we may had caught 30 or even 40 bass that day instead we only caught 25.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Try witches T's, Salt&pepper with chartruse tail 4'' worms spinnerbaits and anything else.