Fishing Report

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Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day on the lake. Started off slow in the morning with fish mostly caught on senkos. After 3 P.M. the water temperature started to rise and the bite was on. Spinnerbaits around docks worked the best. Fish mostly south of Konocti Casino. Smallest fish was about 2.5 and most were around 3-5 LBs.
      City: Portola valley

      Tips: Stay out of my fishing hole.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 59- 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A lot of fish looking to spawn, if the weather stays consistent the next full moon should be real good. Now's The Time !!! Goodluck! Also looking for trolling motor repair. Plese post if you know of one. Thanks!
      City: Bay Area

      Tips: Senkos and Flukes got me 20lbs. for 5 fish, 6 lbs. was my biggest.Lemon and white flukes, watermelon red senkos around spawning and backs of coves in 2 to 8 ft. of water.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-55.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Folsom for the first time this year and had a decent day. All fish came on blades from 5 to 10 feet of water. All fish came off a 1/2 ounch Persuader Chart/White spinnerbait with gold Colorado blades. Caught spotties in the 2's, a 3.6 and a 4.5 all on same bait.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Fished shallow coves/flats, cast up to the bank and slow roll back. Changing reel speed or a stop and go created more bites. Good Luck ~

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      Water Temp: 52-55.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Folsom for the first time this year and had a decent day. All fish came on blades from 5 to 10 feet of water. All fish came off a 1/2 ounch Persuader Chart/White spinnerbait with gold Colorado blades. Caught spotties in the 2's, a 3.6 and a 4.5 all on same bait.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Fish the flats, cast up to the bank and slow roll back. Changing reel speed or a stop and go created more bites. Good Luck ~

  • Fresno County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good action on spotted bass but on the small side. Plastics and jigs worked best for us today. Minimal traffic on the lake today. Lake appears to be around 80% full. Should explode next week.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Small plastics and finesse jigs in brown and orange are working well.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today with my son again. Was tough. Didnt get on the water till almost 11 oclock. Fished south fork to see what was going on. Picked up a couple of slot fish on grubs in about ten foot around noon and then nothing for almost 4 hours.got one more on a rip bait next to a waterfall. My son was pretty down but finaly got on a salmon bite that made him happy, lost 4 but did manage to land three. all on rip baits.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I cant say too much but i'm hopping that a week of this weather will help."sure it wont hurt"

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just finished a small club derby with 12 teams. Only one team actually caught their 5 fish limit. Most others caught 2 or 3. I caught my 2 spots on 6 inch redish robo worms. Yesterday I caught a 3 pounder on a spinnerbait and a 2 pounder on a jerk bait. I heard the team who caught 5 was fishing anything green. such as senkos and worms. It was extremely tough out there. Incredibly windy and apparently the lake is dropping a foot a day so the fish a very confused and not biting.
      City: Marin

      Tips: If you want numbers, green worms. size, spinnerbait and jerk baits. Oh and my fish were caught in around 15 feet of water on rocky shorelines.
      Good luck!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm coming down to Shastsa next week. No body's done a posting in a month. Whats the H20 Temp?
      Any fish moving up yet? Is it a normal spring on the lake this year? ie:Sencos and M/F hand pours in the trees/willows? Sure would like a heads up
      Thanks
      City: Lakeview, Ore.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, talk about a lot of water. Never seen the lake that high before. Looks like they are pumping it out as fast as it comes in. Nice day on the water, started in the main lake, too windy so moved to Warm Springs. Managed to catch a couple fish in transition areas. Fished mainly the jig and D/S, but the jig was the winner. Wind seemed to die down later in the day, too bad we couldn't stay longer. Good times on the way!!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish deep brown water, try reaction baits with transitions areas. Avoid the main lake when it is really windy. Also, if you are in a canoe know where you are going before you venture out into the main channel otherwise you might get lost. I guess they found the Marina though, didn't see them later.

Friday, April 1st, 2011

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9:30am to 4pm and no bites. We fished points and bays. The lake was beautiful with all the water falls, just could not find fish. We tried drop shot, texes, jigs, crank bait, spinner bait even top water in first thing in the morning.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Even if you can not find fish the trip was worth it for just for the beauty of the lake

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Yea. 70 degrees. Fish south end today. Out of Lazy M @ 7:00. Hit Widow Island. Water was 58 deg. Partner caught a 3.4 right off with a green weenie. Next 1.5 hrs was slow. Tried Shad Rap, Green Weenie, Watermelon weenie, white Spinnerbait, bl/b jig. Nothing to write home about. Left for Mildred Island south end. Started catching dinks (2 lb or less) on the green weenies. Dead stick for 0 seconds with SOFT bite. Went back to Italian slough where it was 70 degrees in the back. water was chocolate. Finished the day with 4 more dinks in the last 15 minutes. Off the water by 2:30.

      Tips: I did 2 days in a row in this sun and I'm fried. I don't know how the pro's do it in that Florida heat. If you haven't figured it out by now, I'm almost always gonna report fish caught on green weenies.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished upriver to get away from the 20 boats that were in Cottonwood. Fish seemed to be holding in 10'- 20'. Fishin really turned on when breeze picked up in the afternoon. Biggest went about 3 lb. Lost a 4+ at the boat. Overall fishin was good. Lots of bites.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Dark colored plastics seemed to work best. Caught a few on crankbaits.

      Im looking for a new fishin partner. (catch n relase fisherman here). Your boat or mine. Help each other out the the cost of a days fishin. Maybe fish some tourneys someday as well. Email me.

  • California
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      Water Temp: warm enough

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I love this warm weather and how the bite is probably on fire back there in the back lakes... but we're not allowed to go fishing back there... thanks a lot you enviro-commi's, I hope you're happy scrambling to find a steelhead in the arroyo all while the public parks and state are losing revenue from a lack of fisherman. Once I see evidence of a reasonable closure I'll shut up, but until now this is bull...
      City: Back Lakes

      Tips: I'm guessing the males are coming up on the beds while the big mama's are hanging back... can't do anything about it.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 52 -64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just what the doctor ordered... a beautiful day at the lake. Sunshine thoughout the week brought the water temp and the fish up. The lake level is still high, but down about 6' since Sunday (the highest I've ever seen the lake). Started off in Yorty Creek, fishing the sunny side's with the boat in about 20', throwing Drop Shot next to trees and submerged bushes. My son Sean hooked up 1st with a 3.2 large mouth on a Oxblood Roboworm, then I picked a 3 lber up on a Morning Dawn w/chrt tail. Sean got two more, then we moved to Cherry Creek and started throwing a Chrt/Wht Spinner bait (Silver/gold Willow blades, slowed rolled) off the edges of the flats and picked up 6 fish (nothing over 2.5lbs). Caught all these fish just outside of the weeds 5' - 10' deep, had a lot of misses too. Went to the backs of some of the fingers in Cherry and didn't see or catch any fish. Headed to the dam and Zach picked up a smallir on a white Spinner bait. Nice day, sure beat going to work.
      City: Pacifica

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: THE LAKE IS CLOSED AT YORTY CREEK DUE TO FLOODING.............
      City: Santa Rosa

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

  • Mason County, California
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      Water Temp: getting warmer

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Been itching to go with the warm weather. But then I forgot with all the rain that it would be muddy. It's super muddy and lake level has risen. I have never done well there when the water is like chocolate. Tossed big bulky baits for zip. visibility is 0-6".
      City: san jose

      Tips: Check webcam for water conditions before you go out.

      http://www.world-cams.be/webcam/1883/morgan-hill-anderson-lake

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Been years but I decided to leave the south Delta for action on the east side. Got to Ladds @6:00 I was the first boat there. Before I could get into the water there were 5 boats that beat me into the water. First stop Turner cut. 5 minutes I caught a 2.3. No action for the next 1.5 hrs. Left for Kings Island (near the Marina) Nabbed a 5.3 Slow rolling a white spinnerbait near the rip rap. Finished the day at about 1:00 pm within sight of the Marina with 16 lbs. Nothing under 2# All but the 5.3 with a green weenie fishing the shade side of the vegetation at about 3'- 6' of water.

      Tips: The water was like chocolate. Don't expect too much action, just boat the ones that hit you. I only had 8 bites all day but able to boat 5.

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: well today started with a bang...caught a 4lber on a swimmer first thing and Im thinkin Finally...then two hours without a bite so I go back to flippin the brush hog and nothing,a slight breeze rippled the water the tide dropped out so I pick up a buzzbait and 20 minutes later the big girl eats! pushing 10!then 5 hours without a bite and I dont know what to think so I start chuckin a senko andsomebody flicked the switch! the bucks have moved up nothing over 3 though.Fished till dark and picked up about 10 fish in the evening on a spook.

      Tips: JUNK fishing today no solid pattern to speak of outgoing tide was better both of em 13 hour day today but most bites on the green pumpkin senko.

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      Water Temp: 57-64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Muddy-Murky-Stained Nice 5 1/2 this afternoon and not much else to speak of. Don't think they've moved up yet should be soon though. fished middle river

      Tips: darker colors needed for them to see it. Motor oil/red senko a good choice right now.

  • Lane County, Oregon
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This lake used to be a top producer of bass not just along the coast but anywhere in oregon many years ago. Nobody seems to know what happened to it.
      Last time i fished it it was full of stunted perch which may be part of the problem.
      Perhaps some sort of algae bloom or even over fishing caused this lake to be a dud.
      Wonder if the ODFW have bothered looking into it.
      Would be nice if just a little of our licence fees went to Oregon's warmwater fishery.