Fishing Report

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Sunday, March 4th, 2001

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish the 100% Future Pro with my partner. We thought we were going to have a reaction bite early. Partner stuck a 2.52lb spot irst thing and then we didn't catch another ish till later in the day. We tries jigs to noavail. Our other 3 ish came on 6in brown weenies o steep rocky points down to 20 t. We insihed 7th, last in the money. Conditions were not avorable. 50+mph winds and rain kept us wanting to go home.
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: 1st place inishers ished jigs all day and had a 20 ish day. We were not so lucky. They ished brn on brn jigs in shallow water.

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      Water Temp: 46 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 100% tourny out o the spillway today. Fish were in 10 to 20 eet o main lake points. My partner and I boated 4 beore the wind blew us o our bite. Try dartheading grubs and worms, greens and browns. There was no reaction bite at all in the morning. Tried it all: rip baits, blades, cranks, and traps. Couldn't even get a jig ish. Good luck to anyone else, its gonna stay tough until some nice weather comes through.
      City: Laayette

      Tips: BE CAREFULL IN THE WIND. IT WAS VERY VERY ROUGH OUT THERE TODAY. Stick to the Delta (its got bigger and better ish)

Saturday, March 3rd, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner got 6 (5) after one shook off on the liquid side of the boat. I was tired of netting his fish so he tried to swing a two pounder. Didn't matter- the weigh-in was at 3:10 not 3:30 like he thought. Shakin 6" green weanies 3/16 darter head on a point in skier's cove in 30ft. Reaction bite was there- two lb smallie on a blade over the weedline. Partner didn't give reaction bite time to work.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Plastics deep off points for numbers, slow roll spinnerbaits for big fish off weedline. Water will warm to 55 by July if we're lucky.

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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner got 6 (5) after one shook off on the liquid side of the boat. I was tired of netting his fish so he tried to swing a two pounder. Didn't matter- the weigh-in was at 3:10 not 3:30 like he thought. Shakin 6" green weanies 3/16 darter head on a point in skier's cove in 30ft. Reaction bite was there- two lb smallie on a blade over the weedline. Partner didn't give reaction bite time to work.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Plastics deep off points for numbers, slow roll spinnerbaits for big fish off weedline. Water will warm to 55 by July if we're lucky.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the NewBass Tourney out of Markley Cove. Caught 6 fish over 13" and a handful just shy of that. All the fish came split-shotting in the narrows. Fish were between 20 and 35 feet deep
      City: Suisun City

      Tips: SLOW

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the late report, phone line was down ALL weekend. Fished Calero from 8:30-4:45 on Saturday and found a great bite. Really windy until mid afternoon. I hooked 13 and landed 10 of them. Really nice fish today, I managed a 5, 4, two 3's, and the rest were all solid 2lbers. I threw small jigs and zipper grubs right around 10' of water. I also managed to get 3 of my smaller fish on a shad colored Fat Free Shad crankbait....nice change of pace. The water must have warmed up a little bit because I didn't get any short strikes today, and the fish fought REALLY HARD. Great day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Keep fishing slow but don't be afraid to pull out a crank or blade, especially if it's windy and/or cloudy.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of a kickboat today. hit rocks across from ramp. Kind of slow. very windy! One fish 4 lbs. Baby brushog(red,black,green) in 12 ft of water. Hit like a freight train. saw other fish caught. Some on blades, some on plastics.
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Just bought my first pair of solar bats. I like'um!

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the late report, phone line was down ALL weekend. Fished Calero from 8:30-4:45 on Saturday and found a great bite. Really windy until mid afternoon. I hooked 13 and landed 10 of them. Really nice fish today, I managed a 5, 4, two 3's, and the rest were all solid 2lbers. I threw small jigs and zipper grubs right around 10' of water. I also managed to get 3 of my smaller fish on a shad colored Fat Free Shad crankbait....nice change of pace. The water must have warmed up a little bit because I didn't get any short strikes today, and the fish fought REALLY HARD. Great day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Keep fishing slow but don't be afraid to pull out a crank or blade, especially if it's windy and/or cloudy.

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of a kickboat today. hit rocks across from ramp. Kind of slow. very windy! One fish 4 lbs. Baby brushog(red,black,green) in 12 ft of water. Hit like a freight train. saw other fish caught. Some on blades, some on plastics.
      City: San JOse

      Tips: Just bought my first pair of solar bats. I like'um!

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: me and my dad went fishing at san pablo starting at 6am. WE fished off a point next to a big point throwing powerbait from the bank didn't catch any trout except a bite around 8am off the point using charteuse powerbait but we lost it because there was no more jerking from the pole. No bites from any one else except another bite which was also lost. the water still needs to clear up and the bites will become hot.
      City: millbrae,ca

      Tips: use charteause powerbait off the banks mostly from the points.

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      Water Temp: 50-52 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of whiskey slough fished tully flats in 1 to 7 feet of water. In a 200 yard stretch caught a 5 13 and 5 7 on crank baits switched to a blade, and caught about 20 more fish on a blade. Was doing so well, I tried my luck with plastic caught a few heavier fish on plastic. It was truley the best day on the water I've ever had! The best 5 fish was about 24lbs.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Fish zipper worms, fire tiger, crank baits and chartreuse blades in grassy tulley flats.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: SOME WHERE IN T

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I STARTED FISHING "FOLSOM POINT" AROUND 11.30 AM IN MY KICK BOAT.I ALWAYS NOTICED EVERYBODY WAS CATHING FISH WITH THISE PLASTIC WORMS CALLED SENKO'S,SO I WHENT OUT AND I BOUGHT A FEW BAGS EARLY IN THE SEASON.I TRYED OUT THISE WORMS ON SUMERGED TREE'S AROUND THE POINTS AND NOTICED AGGRESSIVE BITES ON THE FALL THE FIRST FISH I LANDED WAS A HAWG #8.5 LB FEMALE BLACK BASS.THAT FISH WAS DRAGGING ME EVERYWHERE IN MY KICK BOAT UNTIL I LANDED IT.THISE WORMS WORK GREAT.
      City: ELK GROVE

      Tips: SENKOS,SENKOS,SENKOS.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i went up or about 3 hours today. i didnt catch a darn thing. i used spider jigs,worms, pig and jig,cranks,spinners and rip baits. i got about 3 hits in three hours and couldnt poke a one. the day was nice and warm and the wind was blowing but the ish just arent ready yet. a couple more weeks to a month and it will be the beginning o the prime. i worked the main point to about 40 t and tried the damn ound the ish just couldnt poke em. i also got back to greasy cove and the ish were there they just wouldnt hit.
      City: visalia

      Tips: watch out or the loating wood; its everywere.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched about 6:30, got a slow start. Got onto a good pattern or 12-14 in spots by 7:30. Fishing main lake points, but they had to have river rock on 'em. The standard points without it held nothing. We were throwing hula grubs. Tried reaction or a while, nothing. The only bite we got going was with the hula grubs, and some o those bites were subtle. A ront was on top o us with ugly gray skies and cold wind that made the boat rides very cold. With a warm spell I think the ish will be stacked up making their transition. They're just parked o o those main lake points waiting to move up. Some o the areas that worked or my partner two weeks prior didn't pan out on this trip.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Plastics on the main lake points with river rock. Another 4 degrees in water temp. and I think it will bust wide open or reaction baits rom main lake points back to secondary points. Yahoooo.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished the won bass tourney today at New Melones. We started out throwing reaction baits in the backs o coves with no luck. We then backed o and ished these same coves at about 45 eet and caught two pretty good blacks shaking paddle tails. Ater that my partner caught another two pound black throwing a jig up shallow in the same area. We then spent the remainder o the day throwing cranks and spinner baits but only managed to catch two more 13 inchers. Our inal weight or ive ish was 8.63#s. Not good enough or a check but it kept us alive in the points race.
      City: Riverbank

      Tips: I did hear o a ew people catching ish shallow but the majority o isherman were still ishing deep.

Friday, March 2nd, 2001

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

      Report: Skipped work at lunch time and headed out to the lake. Started fishing at 1 with a red persuader jig I got at the fishing show. Fished about 10 to 15 feet of water on the point straight across the lake from the launch ramp and got a small 2lber. Picked up the jig so slowly I couldn't even feel it until I saw my line moving. was the only boat on the water, wind started to pick up at about 3 and started to look ugly. Worked the jig the rest of the day in about 15 feet of water, seems like thier starting to stage. Managed to catch my limit for a small total of 11 lbs. All fish bit very softly, might of missed a couple mistaking them for bump against rocks. Just waiting for the water to get warmer, then the hogs in this lake will start hitting.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Worked a Persuader Jig along the south shore in 15 feet of water very slowly and pay attention to your line. Most pickups are slow and gradual. good luck, and tight lines.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Skipped work at lunch time and headed out to the lake. Started fishing at 1 with a red persuader jig I got at the fishing show. Fished about 10 to 15 feet of water on the point straight across the lake from the launch ramp and got a small 2lber. Picked up the jig so slowly I couldn't even feel it until I saw my line moving. was the only boat on the water, wind started to pick up at about 3 and started to look ugly. Worked the jig the rest of the day in about 15 feet of water, seems like thier starting to stage. Managed to catch my limit for a small total of 11 lbs. All fish bit very softly, might of missed a couple mistaking them for bump against rocks. Just waiting for the water to get warmer, then the hogs in this lake will start hitting.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Worked a Persuader Jig along the south shore in 15 feet of water very slowly and pay attention to your line. Most pickups are slow and gradual. good luck, and tight lines.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Left granitebay ramp at 6.30 with mr.bass moniker himself.If you've been reading his reports you know he has bad carma right now.Well we headed north and had a double first shot out of the cannon.We preceded to bag around 20 fish in a few hours.We caught a few shallow fish early and then went in the 15-25 foot range.Fish are there just be patient and try differnt methods. Bass moniker now has a smile on his face.
      City: citrus hts

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 59 to 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished or 4 days straight with the last day 4/1/2001. What a trip! We had an incredible time! Perect weather and over 260 bass on the deck between the two o us. We probably lost another 100 and missed hundereds o bite. It was wide open! We could have caught more but we decided to explore the lake some. Mostly spotted bass with a ew smallmouth mixed in. We also caught a 15" bass with bright red eyes. Amazing looking ish which I have never seen beore. Is there a sub-species o the bass with bright red eyes? Most o the ish were in the middle and south orks. The North Fork had cooler water and less ish. I understand there were larger ish in the North Fork but I would rather have the numbers and have the larger ish mixed in.Those o you who care, the ish were mostly slot ish with maybe 40 over the slot. I have had some great trips at Oroville and this was probably the best. What a lake! In the our days we were there, the surace temperature in the middle ork increased 3 degrees. I you're going, better hurry-up.
      City: Danville

      Tips: Carolina rigged six inch morning dawn worms. Also caught some on Gitzits and grubs. Plus there was an awesome evening top water bite. First time I have experienced this on Oroville.

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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hitting white grubs, spinnerbaits and even on chuggers! Fish along trees and brush. I landed iteen, 5 on top all between 1.5 -2 lbs. I saw at least 40 ish caught by other anglers.ound water to 59deg.
      City: reno

      Tips: stock up on topwater+spinnerbaits