Fishing Report

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Friday, March 3rd, 2000

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

      Report: Left work a littl early Friday and fished Calero/Bailey cove area. Caught 5 from 1.5 to 2.5 lbs spinnerbaiting shoreline. Fish really nailed bait, felt much larger than they actually were. Saw several other fish caught, all pretty much clones of each other. All bucks, looks to be first wave of fish moving shallow. Should get better if weather gives us a break.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Left work a littl early Friday and fished Calero/Bailey cove area. Caught 5 from 1.5 to 2.5 lbs spinnerbaiting shoreline. Fish really nailed bait, felt much larger than they actually were. Saw several other fish caught, all pretty much clones of each other. All bucks, looks to be first wave of fish moving shallow. Should get better if weather gives us a break.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Big Break and fished about 5 hours. It was windy in the morning but after noon, the wind died down. Tied was incoming. Fished the meatwall, Dutch, Ironhouse, and the break. Managed only three fish, all from flippin' the old reliable black and blue jig. Biggest went to 3 lbs. All fish came off of rock bank no deeper than 7-8'. All three fish hit aggressively. Tried crankin' in the break with no luck.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: I kept the jig moving, doing my version of Cooch's claw wave. I call it my "keep the jig moving, and don't let it settle inbetween the rocks" method.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 49' - 51'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went loat-tubing in rock creek arm coves. just landed 1 tiny bass on sot plastic. ish inder was reading ish holding at 22' deep o o points/curves. couldn't get 'em to bite. water is still a bit cold and stained. i'd give it a couple more weeks. 'twas a nice day out anyway.
      City: berkeley

      Tips: the bass love the plastic worms at CFW. all the ish seem to like sot plastics. we've caught sunish there on small rubber grubs and trout on 4" power lizards.

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 53 to 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south end o the lake most o the day . Fish still at about 25' to 30' t. Caught 1 large mouth about 1pm on purple magic worm at 20'that went about 1.5lbs. My buddy caught 1 smallie late in the aternoon on a shad rap at about 10 t ater a shad boil.Coldnt keep the trout o the rubber worms or the jigs.
      City: Markleeville

      Tips: Fish real slow, smallies are about ready to spawn and largies are ull o crawdads.

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      Water Temp: 52-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Met a couple o buddies rom Markleeville at Pardee on Friday or some bass ishing. The bass ishing was slow or us. We landed 2 (one largemouth on a purple magic worm and one smallmouth on a shad rap). We also landed ive trout to 15" on our bass tackle and a yellow mini jig. We ished the south end o the lake or most o the day and inished up in the river. Great day to be on the river. We saw deer and even a bald eagle.
      City: Concord

      Tips: From our lack o ish I don't have any suggestions. I have a hard time with ish that are deep.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 17 ish. Most were between 12 and 15 inches, nothing big but a lot o un. Caught them on 6 inch worms in Salt and Pepper with a chart tail. We split shotted in 40 to 60 eet.
      City: Weed

      Tips: The slit shotting seemed to work better than anything, caught 15 out o the 17 ish

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: can't stay out o the McCloud, wind at 5-10 out o the north,temp 75 degrees, caught 12 to two lbs, lost one in ront o Kamloops that might have been 2 1/2-3lbs, most taken out o 8-15 t o water, started seeing a ew cruising in 4-10t around the willows, my riend was in the pit, said he boated 7 to 2 1/2 and things are picking up over there. Find the water coming in and toss ur stu into the mud line and move it slowly, bites today were a little more aggressive but still sot. Lots o pre-ishing going on today, one o my avorite coves had three boats in the back o it. Rain is supposed to be on the way but not as erocious as the past ew storms.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a beautiul aternoon out on the lake. Yorty Creek gate closed, so you have to walk in, but it is well worth it to be one o only a couple people ishin. Got three largemouths all over 3#, and all on spinnerbait. Lots o action in the weeds right where Yorty Creek comes into the lake. Tight lines!
      City: Santa Rosa

Thursday, March 2nd, 2000

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 1PM,ished bluegill grubs in shallow,grassy coves and caught 3 approx.1 1/2-2lbs..We moved to the back side o the lake and ished lats near boulders where water was coming in and picked up 5 more about the same size.These ish took several colors o worms,black/brown spinnerbait and a craw colored crankbait.Fish seemed airly active considering the incoming storm,it was cold and windy.windy,windy,but worth it!We never got bit in anything deeper than 10'with most in 4-6'.
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Watch line or movement.....each bite is dierent.Spinnerbaits and crankbaits were CRUSHED!Worm bites ranged rom line moving sideways to the telltale tick,tick.....even had 1 ish pick it up and swim it back towards the boat....pay attention.

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Bad day....Water very muddy caught one ish in 3 hours. Try back nex week.
      City: san jose

Wednesday, March 1st, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Berryessa and found the bite to be slow. Found spots back in the coves and had 10 fish. The best was 5 for about 8.45lbs. Fished the narrows and I think the better fish are at the north end.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Try shacking in 15 to 25 feet of water. Watch your debth finder to locate fish. Fish are stacked when they are found. Also another good bet is a jig in the brown color, with a brown pork trailer. The spots are getting in the pre spawn mode, the bite should realy turn on for them shortley.

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 11 to dusk. Jimmy caught 2 (both about 3.5 lbs). He skunked me again. He caught both on jigs in about 15 feet of water on rocky bottom.
      City: So San Francisco

      Tips: Fish your jig slowly. Jimmy would let it sit still for a minute or so. Fish the rocks. Give likely areas several casts.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 11 to dusk. Jimmy caught 2 (both about 3.5 lbs). He skunked me again. He caught both on jigs in about 15 feet of water on rocky bottom.
      City: So San Francisco

      Tips: Fish your jig slowly. Jimmy would let it sit still for a minute or so. Fish the rocks. Give likely areas several casts.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south delta from 10 to 4pm. Cranked a small one in the back of rock slough, then flipped a keeper near Cruiser Haven on a brush hog in shallow water with dead tullies. At 3pm I finally got a good fish (5lber) flipping same brush hog, this time it was in dark green tullies. The fish was very aggressive on attacking my bait. Cranked and bladed as much as flipped with not as much luck. Total
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Don't know, maybe flip jigs and large plastics in healthy tullies near spawning flats.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of ladds again water still muddy still alot of debries floating around fished from 1:30 too5:00 flipping jigs, cranking speedtraps, and throwing spinnerbaits in tulies and rip rap got bit ounce on the jig and missed that one talked to one boat, he got two dinks on a jig. need a couple days of decent weather and the bite should change at least thats what i keep telling my self.
      City: modesto

      Tips: SOMEBODY HELP ME I KEEP GETTING SKUNKED ON THIS DELTA

  • Benton County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, everything co-operated or The Loch's opener except the ish. Me and my ishing buddy were the irst in line and the irst boat launched o the season. The weather was great with lat calm water and warm sunshine up untill about noon when the wind started to blow. Even then it was still nice. Only problem was the ish weren't biting. Started out with plastics, tried jigs spinners and cranks. Fished all around the lake. Had one bite on a plastic worm, but missed it. Very ew other olks reportd any catches either. Did see one 5-6# caught on a jig.
      City: Ben Lomond

      Tips: Fish somewhere else till the water warms and clears a bit. Visibilty was as little as 6 inches.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: warm today, 58degrees with high overcast, went back to the McCloud, lost a nice ish near shallow point, went up above kamloops and caught 22 to 2 1/2lbs missed probably 20 others on sot pressure bites, salt and pepper gurbs on1/2 and 3/8 oz jig heads. ind a place with a lot o water coming into the lake, ish today were caught at 8-25 t and are deinitely moving up. also caught a ew on yoshimura black and gold sot plastic. no wind, riday is supposed to be good weather and I can't wait to get back out there.the new ranger is a blast!
      City: Redding

Tuesday, February 29th, 2000

  • California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Issy on Sunday. On at 6:30, o at 9:00. Ok when we launched, then the wind, rain and snow blew in. No ish. Went and had breakast.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Beore the storm, the ish were already moving up and staging. Fish shallower than you think you should. Start ishing up the North Fork. When the water level raises, the ish will start moving up the South ork. The water level is still very low.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WE HELD OUR FIRST TOURNAMENT SUNDAY 27TH, ALL IN ALL THINGS WENT GOOD. THE WEATHER WAS THE ONLY THING THAT DIDN'T COOPERATE. 31 BOATS PARTICIPATED,AND 27 OUT OF 31 WEIGHED IN 7 FISH LIMITS. 1ST PLACE WENT TO THE TEAM OF CAREY EDWARD AND KEVIN JOHNSON WITH A TOTAL OF 18.58LBS AND A BIG FISH OF 4.12LBS. SECOND PLACE WENT TO THE TEAM OF STAN McGEE AND DON WILLIAMS WITH A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 17.64 LBS AND THE SECOND BIG FISH OF 2.98 LBS. THIRD PLACE WENT TO THE TEAM OF SHANE HAWKINS AND BOBBY ROCHA WITH A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 14.68 LBS. THE WINNERS SAID THERE FISH CAME ON JIGS AT THE SOUTH END OF THE LAKE. SEE YA AT NEW MELONES ON MARCH 26TH 2000
      City: DENAIR

      Tips: THE FISH WERE AT ALL DEPTHS.SOME CAUGHT THEM ON REACTION BAITS BUT THE BETTER FISH CAME ON JIGS ( DEEPER). IT WONT BE LONG BEFORE THE BIGGER FISH MOVE UP.