Fishing Report

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Sunday, January 7th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49 to 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Have been having some great days on the water lately, but yesterday was exceptional!! Went to Franks Tract, and fished open cuts from main river into the tract. Caught many stripers in a very short time, then latched into a 5.12 lb Blackie. After weighing her, I proceeded to work the same patch of water, then whammo! got a 9 pounder. Took a picture, put her back, and continued to catch many more fish in the 2 to 4 pound range. After crankin all these fish, I went right over to the tule wall and started flippin my favorite Iovino worm, and caught a couple more quality fish. I started fishing at 8 am, and was off the water by noon, and caught at least 15 bass, and 8 to 10 stripers.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Shad pattern Speedtraps slow as possible, and basically dead stick the worm

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 50 to 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: one ish all day about a 2 lbs trout
      City: gridley

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out at about 8:30am wanted to try dropshot out or irst time. Tried blus and rockpiles in the narrows and by the dam. Started o in about 25 to 35 eet o water wacthing the graph.ound a school about 33 eet caught one largemouth about 1.25 o 2" blue ghost reaper, ished area or about 25 min with no more bites. moved to dam area ound some larger schools in 55 to 60 eet o water, caught two more largemouths one 2.25 the other about 1.75,ound some more schools in the 55 to 60 depth range but could not get them to strike . I think i could have got some more ish but i had to pack up early and go to work. Oh well get em next time.
      City: hayward

      Tips: Most o the ish seemed to be in the 55 to 60 oot range probably due to the bright sunny no wind days that we have had. No smallmouths ,they usually like the brown colored plastics over the shad and blue ghost colored ones i was using,did not try any brown or green worms.Just A thougt.

  • Bayfield County, California
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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 12 bass 1 smallmouth and 11 largemouth. All ish were 35 to 45 oot deep. Shaking worms on the botton Texas rigged with a glass bead was the best method. We also caught some using a Hopkins 1/2 oz. spoon. Largest ish was about 1 1/4 lbs.
      City: Mad River

  • California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well,ished the dead sea today with no bites what so ever.This little pond is sure tough,cant give any report on how i caught ish.Does anybody have any advice on how to catch these ish in this pond!!! thanks Von
      City: santa clara

Saturday, January 6th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day in Disco, ishing was tought there with only one small keeper in a couple hours or cranking and jigging. Started running east to ind some clearer water. Hit a couple low low areas and ound 53 degree water and was marking and seeing a lot more activity. Caught ish on Watermelon/Red lake Senko, lipping a black lizzard, a white spinner bait, and a crappie jig. Ended the day with my irst limit o the winter although best 5 would have only gone about 9# with the biggest a 3.5#. Fish came out o water rom 2.5-10 eet with the best ish out o 10 eet.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Color did not seem to be as important as getting the bait in their ace and ishing it slow. With the crank and blades I crank them as slow as I possibly can to get them to wobble or turn the blades.

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Rivers End .Fished around Coney Isl. Caught 6 fish cranking speed traps 1/4 color didn't matter.All fish were caught on deep wood. with current . Tried Jigs and senko no luck. Im not sure if this is new but Rivers End had discount passes.Buy so many lauches get some free.
      City: Livermore

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

      Report: City: Sacramento, Ca

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-48 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught ish rom 0' to 50' with most caught on c-rigged shad type 4" worms. Caught about 15 keepers between the two o us rom 1-3+ lbs, all blacks. Later in the aternoon started catching the ish much shallower as the sun went behind the steep banks.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Slow and move between 25-50' and as the day goe on try up shallower with reaction (small ripbait)

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today I promised to take my wie and dog ishing. Weather has been comortable and the ish have been cooperating. Wasn't so much concerned about my wie but the dog had me concerned. She is a great house dog and a beautiul choc. lab weighing 90 lb. When she gets outside or even suspects she is going outside she gets very excited and hard to control. She's just a teenager (3 yrs)! I have always wanted a good ishing dog so with my wie along thought it was time to start getting her out. What a mistake. Beore I could even wet a line I was ready to pull the boat out and go home.Thought I would make it a little easier on my sel, so I bought 5 dz jumbo minnows ($54.00!!!). Figured it might get expensive teaching my wie how to deep ish artiicial.We hit most o my usual spots. I tried to keep the boat in 30 t o water. I know a lot o guys are hitting the 50 to 60 t depths but I have ound the active ish are holding at about 25 t.Best 2 spots today:1.let hand side o lake ater the narrows where irst bay starts, rocky shoreline2.in ront o spillway (right below log barrier which is sitting on shore due to low water.)We used simple outits, spinning reels with 8# and 6 t Fenwick rods. A hook, minnow and split shot was all that we used. We would try to bounce the bait right o the bottom. All day long I only graphed ish 2 times and they were solitary ish (no schools) hugging no more than 3 t o the bottom.The bites were mixed. 1/2 were aggressive and very noticeable (hard to miss all that line ripping o an open spinning reel) and the other 1/2 were just a slight sensation o weight on the line (like some weeds were picked up).Between the 2 o us we landed 16 or 17 bass (lost count). 3 were smallies in the 2 to 2.5 lb range. 2 largies about 1.5 and the rest were solid 2.5 to 3 lb ish. The wie's largest weighed just over 4 lb. My largest or the day was a beautiul and FAT 5.25. The ish were all large and healthy and put up a great ight. Only 2 ish broke water and the rest stayed deep. We had several hits that we lost (dog in the way, helping wie with a tangle, etc). In act I lost 5 in a row (2 the hook came o ( better practice my knot tying!), 2 wrapped in trees and 1 came o 5 t under the boat. We also missed several ish on the hook sets. The minnows were probably too large and we should have let them eed some more. We wound up using all the minnows but 6.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Fish a little shallower than traditional winter days. Wether has been warm and bass are eeding hard on crawdads and shad. Stay close to bottom and ish slow.

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went ishing last tuesday was there at 7 am only one there or a while ,,there about halan hour usen 2 poles one with worm the other i use a spinner or power bait ,,caught a nice trout ,,that was it went back to day landed 1 trout not much happen there lots o talk o the south end is where the ish are
      City: concord

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north arm.Tried a little cranking had 1 ollower.Partner tried jerk baits ,nothing.Went to dart heads and drop shot.Started catching ish.4 inch worms in blues,oxblood or green weenie were thw best.Stayed on the same 200 yds o steep rock all day.Caught 20 ish,2 over slot.Best 7
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Watch or ish on depthinder and when you see one drop on it.Be patient,Caught ish most o the day but 8 came in 1/2 hour around 11 am.1/8 th oz dartheads with 4 inch worms

  • Fresno County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Im starting to think this lake is a eeding ground or stripers. Friend o mine is a diver and says the caves up by the 35 bouys are ull o stripers. Bass were deep 35 -70 eet. Mostly dinks.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Go with what you know! Or stay home and clean your gear.

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 8am and joined my brother who had been in or an hour or so. Water was way low, down about 40 eet. Fished across rom the resort or about three hours. Got one spotted bass that was barely a keeper and two dinks. Dave did about the same. We ished several areas that normally held ish but had a very, very slow day. It was a beatiul day to be out though. I was ishing shirtless in the aternoon (only in Caliornia!)
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: I you got any, post them.

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

      Report: FISHED FROM GLORY HOLE EARLY MORNING HOOK SOME NICE BASS.COUPLE OF 3# AND GOOD FISH FOR A WEIGHT OF AROUND 12#.FISH CAME EARLY MORNING TO ABOUT NOON.
      City: FRESNO

      Tips: USE A PURPLE HULA-GRUB FROM SHORE OF ROCK TO ABOUT 20 FEET.THE REST CAME EITHER SPLIT OR DROP SHOOTING.

Friday, January 5th, 2001

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: aprox. 53 or so

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the nite bite thats right night ishing, yep it's cold but,catching good ish in act two weeks beore at night about (9:30pm)caught a 10+ on a big brush hog(june bug)with a glass rattle in it,texas rig caught about 20+ ish it was a memorable night.any way back to the 5th we got out right at dark and ater 1 hour my riend ron got one,a spot just under 4 lbs one a white crank bait then another and that was it or that.then went over by the damb on main point where i got the 10+ two weeks beore and bam bam, bam. a 3+,4+,and 2+ large mouth caught all ish on brush hog total about 12 ish but all good ones.
      City: modesto

      Tips: big baits worked a little aster(make um hit) good luck.oh and most ish in less that 10 to 15'

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Re: Jones Valley loat. Call this number and report any and all complaints 530-238-2824. We are paying these people to do a job and they are not doing it.
      City: Red Blu

Thursday, January 4th, 2001

  • Plumas County, California
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out yesterday, rom 9pm to 3pm. calm water, nice sunshine and blue sky. Was really nice out. Could not locateand spoon any smallmouth, but those pesky german brownswere un anyway. Also caught two small salmon, that struckthe spoons. Horizon/chrome have un..
      City: Susanville

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-48 deg's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy je and I went up at 6:30 am. to catch an early bite some o the guys were telling me about. Nothing till 8 am. when I got a big bite by the dam and she had the pole doubled over and then she came unbuttoned under the boat. Kicked mysel all day or a slow hookset. je caught 1 on a jig #286 and 2 while drop-shotting a #240 slim baby senko. The water has dropped 3 degree's since last week and everyone on the lake has said it has realy slowed down.
      City: visalia

  • Palo Pinto County, California
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      Water Temp: 40-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake about 3pm and started ishing senkos and nothing. tide a 1/4 ounce jig and went to thoes deeper mud piles and got a 4 pounder.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: ish slow and be patient. good luck!