Fishing Report

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Saturday, March 10th, 2001

  • California
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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: North Bay Bassmen out o Benicia had our March tourney. Several smallmouth and a ew largemouth caught. Fish were in the coves in 10 to 4 eet. Winning weight was 9.9 lbs with 4 ish caught in the narrows using white spinnerbait. Most ish caught Texas rigging 4" and 6" Salt & Pepper worms, S&P mop tops and grubs. We had the entire lake to ourselves and had a great time. Great campsites also. I had good luck with 6" Trigger gold shad worm.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Fish worms slow, look or bait ish back in the coves. Largest ish caught, 3.8 and a 3.6 were caught on points in the narrows.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the BFL. Threw Zipper worms on a darthead and brown/purple jig in Bear Creek and the South end. One bite on the worm or a 2-10. Was getting bit on the jig but they were not taking it, just hit and run. Partner lost two on the worms but caught two in last 15 minutes on dropshot. Colors were green-wienie and Aaron's Magic. Good weather should crank-up (no pun intended!) the reaction bite.
      City: Salida

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Wal-Mart BFL. Only landed 2 or 4#. Had the bites to do OK, but did not put them in the boat. I was working largemouth in 10-25 eet o water on the west side o the main body. Fish were relating to bolders and chunk rock. No reaction bite or me, did best on brown purple jigs and carolina rigged lizzards.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Bite will change quick with the upcoming spring weather.

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      Water Temp: 51.4/54.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not much to tell today. We didn't get up to the lake till about 7:00am and ished till 3:00. We started deep, out by the damn, shaking worms and caught only two small ish around 50 eet. As the day progressed we began to ish shallow using split shot 4" worms and drop shot. We caught three more ish doing this but a two pounder was our biggest. (When I say shallow I mean less then 30 eet which, as o late, seems shallow to me). Gradual points with brush seemed to work the best.
      City: Riverbank

      Tips: It looks like the ish are inally strating to move up. I'm guessing next week will be pretty good ishing. Just my cent worth.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Honey Lake Bass had there second Tourney. It was better than I had expected. The weather was clear and a little wind was nice, instead o heavy wind and rain like it has been. The bite was still slow or my partner and I. But congradulations to Wilson and Siton o Westwood on a job well done. They used Gitz-its and caught a nice limit o ish on the north ork. We started ripping irst thing and stayed with or most o the morning. Caught a couple o nice ish ish to weigh in but not enough to place.
      City: Susanville, CA

      Tips: ish hard rip and blade in the morning.Brown with purple Flake Jigs, Grubs, Six Shooter green weenies on darter heads. Husky Raps in clown and blue & silver, and White spinner baits. Fish are on the bank up tight. Don't orget those lucky Gitz its Green and red Flake, Good Luck

  • California
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      Water Temp: N/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 9 to about 2 and nothing. Tried jigs , sot plastics, and spinnerbaits. Talked to a loat tuber in the Island pond and he had 5. 2 on spinnerbaits and 3 on texas rigged sot plastic. A lot o people catching thunder trout in the main lake.
      City: Livermore

  • California
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      Water Temp: 55 - 59 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club ished Spring Lake on Saturday, March 10. Winning weight (4 ish) was 16.80 lb, including day's big ish o 7.22 lb. Second place was 3 ish or 10.98 lb, anchored by 5.91 lb toad, & 3rd was 4 ish or 10.71 lb. Other noteworthy ish included hawgs o 6.14, 5.43 & 4.91 lbs. Twenty-seven anglers participated. Bass went or spinnerbaits, swim baits, & various jigs & sot plastics lipped into tules.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: For more ino about club, send me an e-mail or check our website, http://scbbbc.homestead.com.

Friday, March 9th, 2001

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 50 - 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished tues. evening and stuck a ew ish on darterhead worms. Fish are really shallow. Just beore dark hit some spinner bait ish as well. ished 3:00 - 6:30 with a ten ish total. Largest went about 2.5 lbs.
      City: Granite Bay

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 43-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: had three e-mails this am regarding the Big Daddy Special so here's the story, My riend Gary Delbridge is the original Big Daddy. He was here a ew months back and we went ishing. He knocked the heck out o the bass with this green worm. He gave me some and went home and didn't tell me where he got the worms, everytime i ran out he would send me some more. About a month ago, Gary let the cat out o the bag on the Forum and told those who read it that the Big Daddy Special is a worm made by Rainbow Worms. The color number is #99. They come in 4 inch through 8 inch. So, or those o you asking about the Big Daddy Special, that's the whole story! It is one outstanding worm and i won't be telling anyone how he taught me to rig them! jerry
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 44.6-47.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: those are early am water temp, in the water this morning with my riend John and his Nitro at 0515 at bailey Cove, lake up to 30.60 and on the rise, water a bit dirty in the upper arms and some good sized junk loating around, wind came up at daybreak out o the north at 10-15mph, we went up the McCloud hitting points or 11 ish to 2lbs, on MGM 103 and 109 weenie worms, I didn't pitch any Big Daddy specials as I only have a ew let, olks starting showing up about 730 Am, most are pre-ishing or the Shasta Cascade event on Saturday, they expect approx 66 boats, caught ish as shallow as 10 t and down to 28 eet most were caught above 20 t, one guy reported a blade bite early beore sunrise in Hirz bay, lots o shad inside Hirz Bay right now, they generally take o as the sun comes up. Going to be a busy couple o weeks coming up, good weather reported to be on the way or the next ten days or so, the wind will be a problem.
      City: Redding

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

      Report: hit the lake early cought 1 2#10 oz. nothing ater that a riend cought 1 4# about the same time, another riend had 1 on but lost it. all at about the same time none o us even got a hit ater that

      Tips: we used brush hogs red and black gliter

Thursday, March 8th, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-53.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was tough for me .I caught 4 fish 1 on a 1/4 oz dart head / 6 in weenie worm .The other 3 were on rip baits up to 3.5lbs. The key for me was to find clear water,but the warmest clear water you could find .The creeks are real muddy.A lot of submerged islands are not marked so be careful where you go blasting through.
      City: Livermore

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished all day mostly in the dry creek side. got 5 in the 1/2 to 2lbs range on an assortment o plastics. started getting windy in the aternoon and it was getting hard to control the boat. it started raining abotu 4:30 so we packed it up. still hoping or one o those 20-30 ish days in read about in these reports.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: i could use some.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2001

  • Plumas County, California
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Have been out several times, since the last post. Theish are still taking spoons/kastmasters jigged near thebottom, especially in the areas you locate bait pods. They are taking small gitzits near the bottom. My partnerand I have been getting some bass and lot's o salmon andbrowns. AS this weather clears and it begins to warm it really should get better. Have un, dress warm and try to timeyour trips between storms.
      City: susanville

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 54 ^

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't do all that well. Got a few taps with the walking worm, in orange, yes the one "as seen on TV", save your money!!. Did some drop shotting with live minnows, but bait shop (you all know which one) only had 4 jumbo's and a bunch of sickly mediums, most of which died in first two hours. But the good news is....the lake is getting full, the water is getting warm and those big ole bucket mouths are moving up. Partner got a nice 4.2lber in afternoon. its just a matter of days guys, and the bite is on!!!
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: talked to a few who did ok with Brush Hogs in black and orange. Fish slow, and with all the water flowing in, there is stuff floating all over, be careful. tight lines.

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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day without a bite. Fished jigs, worms, spinnerbaits, cranks, lizards, and nothing needs to clear.
      City: SJ

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      Water Temp: 54 ^

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Didn't do all that well. Got a few taps with the walking worm, in orange, yes the one "as seen on TV", save your money!!. Did some drop shotting with live minnows, but bait shop (you all know which one) only had 4 jumbo's and a bunch of sickly mediums, most of which died in first two hours. But the good news is....the lake is getting full, the water is getting warm and those big ole bucket mouths are moving up. Partner got a nice 4.2lber in afternoon. its just a matter of days guys, and the bite is on!!!
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: talked to a few who did ok with Brush Hogs in black and orange. Fish slow, and with all the water flowing in, there is stuff floating all over, be careful. tight lines.

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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day without a bite. Fished jigs, worms, spinnerbaits, cranks, lizards, and nothing needs to clear.
      City: SJ

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon. Spent a while looking for fish near the spawning areas with no luck. Finally moved onto the spawning flats and BINGO. Just waited to long to look where I thought they might be from the start. Only managed to land on that went about 3# and missed a couple of other bites. Never felt the 3 bite, felt like the lizzard was just dragging accross the bottom. I then noticed the line moving a little sidways and gave it a check set. Other two bites were also very soft. Fish were very shallow <2 feet of water.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Looks like this nice weather has brought at least some fish up to spawn.

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      Water Temp: 50-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Whiskey Slough @9am and fished the rip/rap tule areas nearby for about an hour with cranks and jigs with no luck. Flipped a 1.25#er around a dock on a reaper. Nothing else in Whiskey. Went to Mildred and flipped some tule flats around there for about 2 hours with black/blue jigs and red/black jigs- nothing, not a single touch. Water temp around 53-55. I couldn't believe it. These were ideal spawning areas (1-2ft of water at low tide, good protection, sparse tules some weed). Must not be spawning yet. Fished the bottom of Mildred where the water flows in and out with crankbait (red speed trap) and a 3/8oz duh shad colored spinnerbait. Lost a 2+#er at the boat on the spinnerbait and caught a 2-3# striper (hit like a truck). Cranked and flipped in Whiskey on the way out no luck. Very slow day, maybe because of the bluebird skies and high pressure post front thing. Thanks to Terry for lending me his boat, my engine rebuild is taking months thanks to the OMC thing. Scott
      City: san jose

      Tips: Maybe the upcoming weather will put the fish on more of a bite. I saw a number of boats out did anyone have a good day, if so how?