Fishing Report

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Tuesday, February 13th, 2001

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

      Report: Fished the far dam from 8-10 Missed one right away in about 10 ft of water Landed a 4 lber at about 9:30 in about 7 ft of water on pumpkin/green spider grub with an extra pumpkin grub trailer
      City: San Jose

      Tips: fish grubs SLOWLY with an occasional pause

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the far dam from 8-10 Missed one right away in about 10 ft of water Landed a 4 lber at about 9:30 in about 7 ft of water on pumpkin/green spider grub with an extra pumpkin grub trailer
      City: San Jose

      Tips: fish grubs SLOWLY with an occasional pause

  • California
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      Water Temp: 40

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: testing the waters
      City: San Jose

Monday, February 12th, 2001

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

      Report: Fished the Dam from about 12:30 til 4:30 Partner landed a 3.5 lber at about 2 in about 10 ft of water on a pumpkin spider grub. About 4 o clock I landed a solid 3 in 5 ft of water on a green and pumpkin colored spider grub
      City: San Jose

      Tips: fish grubs and jigs SLOW

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Dam from about 12:30 til 4:30 Partner landed a 3.5 lber at about 2 in about 10 ft of water on a pumpkin spider grub. About 4 o clock I landed a solid 3 in 5 ft of water on a green and pumpkin colored spider grub
      City: San Jose

      Tips: fish grubs and jigs SLOW

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner darrel and i went up at 9 am. Darrel got one that went 7.4 lbs. I got 1 at 3 pm that was 14 1/2 inches. Used yamamoto grubs. 25 35 t.
      City: Visalia

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o Jones Valley and headed or the Squaw arm. On the water at 9am irst ish came at 9:10am. Felt like a wet dish towel until I set the hook.(2.0lbs) Proceeded to catch three more, all o which had a more deined take.(1.05-1.13lbs) Moved around some and caught three more including a 1.11lbs smallmouth. The wind came up so I moved to a main point and spooned up a 2.02lbs spot. All the other ish came on brown jig and twin-tail trailer. The water temp. was 47-48 degrees. Not a bad bite considering there was still snow on the shoreline. O the water at 2:30pm.
      City: Redding

Sunday, February 11th, 2001

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 40 to 44

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Oroville one the 10th and 11th. On the 10th I ished rom about 7:30 to 10:30 AM but the wind rain and snow were more than I wanted to put up with. I had about 6 bites and set on two, one 2 + one about 1 +. The best ishing and size were in the middle ork. The ish were in 25 to 40 eet o water. I was using a + oz jig, purple with purple pork. the walls I was ishing were all most straight up and down. I would try to keep my jig on the wall all the way down. The ish were taking the jig very sot. I also had 2 worm bites. On the 11th I started in the middle ork middle ork middle ork. I mist my irst two bites o the day then got my irst ish a 2 +, missed the next then got another one. About 11:30 I had three and moved to the south ork. I got one got one more there but it was only about 13 in. Just ater 12:00 I move to the main lake, I had not had a bite on my worm so I stopped ishing it or the rest o the day. I had change to a Super pork Jr. to try to stop the short bites I was getting. I put 4 more ish in on the main lake ishing the points in 30 to 45 eet o water. At the end o the day with all the rain and snow I had 18 to 20 bites, 7 keepers and 5 or 11lb 12oz. Rick K o Ca or Champion Boats and BOB's Marine
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Till the water warms up some go deep and use the jig. Brown or purple.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Braved the elements and ished in the rain and hail on Sunday. Managed to land 1 @ 1.5 lbs on a june bug colored zipper lizard. Had a couple o other bites on a jig but couldn't hook up. I you don't mind the weather, now is a good time to go. We only saw a ew boats all day and the parking lot was empty.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Fish rocky area very slow.

Saturday, February 10th, 2001

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

      Report: City: concord

  • California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dropshot bite was on. Most o the ish came rom 45-50t. The bait was right above the ish on slopping points in the main lake. The weather was nasty but the catching was great. Most o the ish were 14 to 18". biggest 3lbs.
      City: caruthers

      Tips: Fish are still deep but do act like they are getting ready to stage. All plastics 4" or smaller. Color didn't matter.

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: in the 40's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: caught 2 largemouth keepers back to back on 4-1/2" hand pours (peanut butter). 24 t o water. draggin it texas rig. light line.light sinker. irst thing in the morning. the bite only lasted15 minutes. it was raining. i tried dropshotting... nothing. another boat was running and gunning rom point to point throwingcranks... he caught 4 smallmouth and 1 largemouth. i didn'tstick with the crank long enough. saw a lot o ish on thedepth inder... could have been carp or stripers. otherwise, itwas a beautiul day. very little wind in the morning. the windkicked up around 12pm.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: get'em while they're hot... it doesn't last long.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 46.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out this am to try out 4wd and we did slip and slide we went to Jones valley. and 6" o snow orcasted so chained up this morning so we wouldn't have to later. Caught one ish in the ort creek and went point hopping up the pit or another ten or so. We caught all but one on a brown jig and the other on a 6" worm in green. Only caught 2 under 1.75# and none over 2.0#.
      City: Anderson

      Tips: Slow Slow Slow!

Friday, February 9th, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was really windy and cold today.The backs o my hands were stiining up!I seen 2 toms 22 or 23 hens,a couple o deer and Bald Eagles.The wildlie here is pretty cool.As ar as the ish ,they won today.I landed one 2lber and broke o what began to eel like a quality ish.Ocourse the one that gets away is always better right!Trolled up a 4lb trout on yellow/white rapala.Broke one o on a Blue rapala.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Only two bites or me at 30-35t on jig.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a late aternoon-night trip with a client on Thursday as a very cold storm was moving in. We got the trip in beore the rain, but not the wind. We were limited as to where we could ish - too cold to be in any wind!! We ished jigs 90 percent o the time, because we were looking or big ish. This time, we were successul! He caught a 1 and 2 1/4 pounder beore dark in the main body. They were about 30 eet deep. I missed two at about 40 eet. Right ater dark, I landed a nice 2 pounder in Mountain Spring area, and I missed another. As the clouds got thicker, the bite picked up a bit. Yea, right - instead o one bite an hour, we got TWO bites an hour - WOW! But about an hour ater dark, ishing a little cut in the main body, he got the bite we were waiting or, and hoped we would get with the incoming ront. We were surprised how shallow this monster was, about 10 eet. Ater an amazing ight or water this cold, I netted a beautiul 8 lb 11 oz bass or him. Ater photos, we put her right back where she was caught. He caught it on a Weapon jig with a Yamamoto grub trailer. We each caught another bass in the Jackson arm, his about 2 lbs and mine about 1 1/4. Six bass to 8-11 - not bad or the middle o winter!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Shakin' worms and jigs have been the best or me this winter. Night ishing is slow because the bass just hunker down in all the weeds that are available. As the lake ills, the areas rom the inside weed edges to the bank will be good when the lake warms a bit.

  • San Diego County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: we started on south shore and threw or trout we got there about 5:30 buy 6 we had our limit each total o 10 trout. it was exciting or us because we hadn't ished poway in a long time. when we got there it was like heaven we were throwen tubes yellow/white south shore is the key to this lake because it is so close to the boat dock well you should just go and ind out i its worth it or not well i know its worth so have un
      City: poway

Thursday, February 8th, 2001

  • California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: only caught 2 largemouths. my mom caught 1 on a live minnow dangled rom a bobber. and i caught 1 on a rapala loating minnow. i just used the stop-go method because nothing else would work. cast right under the brush reel really ast then stop i did that two times and one came darting right rom under the brush and grabed it on the run. turned out to be about 3-4 lbs.geuss they just werent biting. problably dueto the cold ront.
      City: chico

      Tips: used loating minnow under brush and the stop-go method your garinteed to catch one.

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 47.5-48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a tough bite for me today..Only 4 bites all day..They were all solid 2.5 - 3+lb fish..Cought two shaking a 6" worm and two on a brush hog..20-25' Had to work for the bites...fished from 9am to 5pm.. Nice day to be on the water though..light wind and all to myself.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Just keep fishin

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      Water Temp: 47.5-48.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a tough bite for me today..Only 4 bites all day..They were all solid 2.5 - 3+lb fish..Cought two shaking a 6" worm and two on a brush hog..20-25' Had to work for the bites...fished from 9am to 5pm.. Nice day to be on the water though..light wind and all to myself.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Just keep fishin

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Chilly and breezy was an understatement so I ran to the bridge headed to south fork and maintained some cover from the wind and fished the deep water wall and picked up 3 with the smallest going 2.6 lbs on a jig. As the wind slowed down, so did the fishing so worked deep walls in 25' carolina rigging a 4" worm very, very S-L-O-W, almost dead sticking the bait and picked them up as fast as I could drop it in the water........once I got the right length of the leader. Very good day with all fish over the slot.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Working a brown/orange 1/4 oz Rodstrainer jig with Yamamoto grub trailer in 20-25 feet and when they ate the jig, they really slammed it. Carolina rig was initially set for 36" and never got tapped until I kept lowering it and when I got to 14", they ate it up. Was using a Magic worm in a light orange and tan color (can't remember the # or color) and dragging it extremely slow with a 2/0 straight hook which was a switch from my ordinary offset worm hook.