Fishing Report
Sunday, March 27th, 2011
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Trinity Lake
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Water Temp: 46
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: fished the southern end of the lake for a few hours. Pretty bad weather- hail, snow and rain. Landed four smallies all above 2lbs, with one over 4lbs.
City: weaverville
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011
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Berryessa Lake
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Water Temp: 50-53
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: My partner and I fished the Future Pro event today and killed em on crank baits!!!! It took over 22 pounds to win, we ended up in 3rd place with 19.5 pounds. We fished main body stuff mostly in the vineyards area SHALLOW. we caught 18 fish on crank baits and a couple on jigs all fish were over 3 pounds with 2 over 5. Wind blown points were all we fished and worked great for us.
City: roseville
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California Delta
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Water Temp: ??
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Mobile Homes were floating in chocolate milk around their cars at Wimpy's parking lot. Mokelumne River is now Mokelumne Ocean.
City: Cameron ParkTips: Winterize your automobiles at Wimpy's Mobile Home Park.
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Columbia River
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Water Temp: 42-43
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Went out for a few hours Saturday in The Dalles pool. It was COLD. Did manage to hook 8 and land 6. Fish came from 5-25ft. Mostly all on soft plastics in the deeper range. Fish ranged from 2-3.5lbs. Nothing big but they are out there. Was not finding the fish schooled up which is odd for this time of year. Picked all of them off here and there.
City: LyleTips: Dress warm and good luck.
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Went up to yorty today to check it out , I had to walk down because the gate was locked due to flooding. Ive never seen it this full the parking lot was under water i fished for about a half hour with no bites useing a 3:16 blue gill swim bait untill I got rained out. It should get alot better soon when we get some good weather.
City: healdsburgTips: It needs to warm up and clear up and the bass will be slammen.
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Tahkenitch Lake
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Water Temp: 48 - 50
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Crater Bass held a tournament at Tahkenitch lake on Saturday March 26th. 10 boats took part in the event. It was a tough day fishing with the winning boat having five fish for around 12 lbs. Most fish were caught on senco's or jigs in the North Arm. Fish were scattered from 2 feet to about 15 feet. The lake was very full but the bass did not seem to be up in the flooded areas. The largest fish was about 3.5 lbs.
City: Central PointTips: Fish around 8 - 10 feet on points. dark colored senco's seemed to work best with a slow dead stick presentation.
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 51
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Launched at Rivers end and stayed South all Day. Fished Docks, Then went to Victoria/Union,then to Italian. Threw Spinnergaits and Craw Cranks. These fish are Bunkered Down Again. 3 Largemouths all day for about 6 pounds. Tough Day, Poor Condions.
City: ConcordTips: Stay inside until the wind and Rain stop, Alot of Debris Floating in the water, and the Temp has dropped about 5 degrees in the last week or so. BEST part out there today, No Presure and NO WATERSKIERS.
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Camp Far West Lake
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Water Temp: 47-49
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Fished a work t-shoot with conditions looking better than I was imagining they would be. Main lake and Rock is heavily stained, but looks like the Delta and fishes pretty good. Bear River is thick enough to plow and needs a week of good weather to straighen it out.
My partner and I weighed 14.52 lbs.with a 5.39 BF. Two jig fish and the rest of our limit came on crankbaits. All of our fish were in 5-10 ft. of water on a shallow point and hit the crank when it was digging the bottom hard. One other team had a limit for 11 lbs. that came in the shallows north of the Spillway.
City: RosevilleTips: I wasn't planning on a good day, it just worked out that way. The fish were ALOT shallower than I thought they would be and were alot more active as well. With the water color, stick with the bottom bumping baits like a jig or crank and work them slow.
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Lopez Lake
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Water Temp: 61.2
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Lots of trash floating on the lake still so be careful!
Wow! Level is about 15 feet from the base of the spillway. Hasan't been this high in several years. Great to see water in the lake bringing back some old fising haunts..
10AM arrival and headed straight to the back. Short stop near Vasquez to checkout the coverage in the back of Vasquez.. Nice! Setteled just past the last dock about 20 yards in. Started with our Bucket Mouth Jig in Wtrmeln/Red with a Wtrmeln trailer. POP! Smacked a nice 3 in 3 foor of water. Pulled three more in, went flat so switched to a Senko. Blasted two in a row over 5 at the boat. Busted off in some tall weeds. 9 total for the day with maybe 21 pounds. Good day -- Heading back Monday
City: SM
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Millerton Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Friday was a beautiful day, a gift not to be wasted. After 2pm, hiked the banks at Winchell Cove on the opposite side of the marina. Found a little shelf and tossed out a River2Sea craw and pulled out two two pounders within 10 minutes of each other. Tried different presentations in the same location but to no avail. Walked further East to hit more banks, pulled in a short fish, and that was it for the day. Little craw was all that seemed to work that day.
City: FresnoTips: Uphill bottom bump plastic craws
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Thursday, March 24th, 2011
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Cullaby Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: I have fished this lake on many occations and have done very good at it. The water is a tea color and plenty of cover for Mr Bass! In summer months I have done very well with jigs flipped up under the tree limbs or next to laydown logs and have pulled out some big fish. The crawdad population must be high in this lake because any bass that I have ever kept have always had crawdad in thier tummy's. I have also done good with crankbaits along the shore bumping the logs with them. One of my top lakes to fish, not very big and easy to figure out a pattern and locate the fish.
City: ReedsportTips: Fish slow, they are in the lake!
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 50.5
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: awesome day yesterday. fished for three windy hours with 7 fish coming in a 45 min period which included a 3.1 and a 3.9. all fish caught on reaction in 3-7ft water, working fast through the rocks. love days when you can fish like that! 6 of 7 were spotted... all fat and white as wool.
Tips: don't give up too quickly on a pattern you know should be working.
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Oroville Lake
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Water Temp: 51-52
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: went to the lake this morning to let the dog run and noticed the water level dropped and all the driftwood is sitting on the shore until they close the spillway and the level rises again. found a rattlesnake at perish cove, almost stepped right on top of her. It's a good thing it is still pretty chilly out or I might have had a rude begining to my Tuesday. Every year the lake fills up, the rattlesnakes get real bad around the shoreline. Today was was close enough for me to call it good on any further shore fishing for the season. Just boat trips from now on.
Tips: the lake looked to have dropped 5-10 feet the water was a bit cooler and a bit murky. caught 1 spot pushing 2 lbs and I didn't try real hard. she was caught on a wacky senko in green.
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Temp: 48-51
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Went fishing, caught fish. Hopefully this weather holds up and they keep biting. No real pattern, just kind of hit a mis. Tried to stay on main lake areas and then headed back into creeks. Most fish seemed to be in transition.
City: Santa RosaTips: Fish the main lake areas looking for transitions. Any bait will work as long as you paid 4.95/pk. or more. Really, bait doesn't matter, they will come out with another one the catches fish down the road at some point.
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
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California Delta
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Water Temp: ???
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: With my Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" still being serviced at Delta Marine I had no choice this afternoon but to walk the banks around Ladd's Marina today. Even though we have this bad windy storm blowing through the region this weekend the BITE IS STILL ON!!!
I caught my first duoble-digit bass of my career (10.5 lbs) witnessed by my friend and fishing buddy. I'm very greatful he was willing to take the time to come out in the rain with a Berkley Digital scale and his camera.
The huge bass was caught in about 6 ft. of water with a custom built jig, Brown/Orange flake skirt and a Berkley Power Craw trailer (Punkinseed/chartruese). She gave a good fight after smacking my jig.
City: StocktonTips: Even though we have bad weather this weekend persistance pays off. I did not see a single boat trailer in the launch ramp parking lot.
Also, I was wondering if the angler happens to be reading this report I found a 6" Lizard with a 5/0 super line hook in her if you were the one that possibly got broken off. :-)
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Emigrant Lake
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Water Temp: 45
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Fished for a couple of hours on Sunday. Caught one 4 lb. Large Mouth in a cove in 2 feet of water. Fish was next to willow bush. Caught the fish on a smoke and black flake hula grub. Fished in deeper water on points in main lake with two bites but no fish.
City: Central PointTips: Water is very dirty. pitch to cover and hope for the best.
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Folsom Lake
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Water Temp: 48 degress
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: I started on north about 6:30am and fished points and rock piles. I fished about 22-35 ft deep of water. I showed all sorts of presentations and got no hits. For the second week in a row I got skunked. Water was really murky and windy
City: Sacramento
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Saturday, March 19th, 2011
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Casitas Lake
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Water Temp: 60-62
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: This report covers the last three weekends for me at Casitas. It should be noted it snowed down to lake level on the weekend of Feb. 26th-27th when the fish were in full swing for an early spawn. I fished all three weekends with the same partner who had been fishing in deep water with big jigs at Piru and could not wrap his head around the fact that Casitas fish had been spawning in Feb. until I showed him all of the beds.The water temps initially started at about 57morning /59 by the end of the day, This third week just prior to a whole lot of rain on Sunday water temps started at 60 and I saw 62 most of the day under overcast skies. The first trip after it had snowed we caught fish shallow but while there were beds everywhere it was evident that the main portion of the fish that had built those beds had pulled off leaving slim pick'ns up shallow. The second week we did much better but were still lacking in numbers using the same baits as the week before, We sampled the lake and caught fish every where we went but not bed fish. They were at the entrance to the backs of coves in 10-15. This past weekend 3/19 saw us fishing in the middle of a WON tournament with 24 boats in the field. There were fish actively spawning on this day and it was fun to watch and move on. I did my best at keeping my partner from molesting to many of the locked on fish. We never had anyone around us all day as we again sampled different areas and found the fish much more active. I had 4 in the boat in the first 10 minutes of our morning of the 19th when I put down a senko and used a ripbait on an outside point. The fish were farther offshore than I would have thought and liked a slow rip pause retrieve. Color: Ghost Tennessee shad Lucky craft 127Mr.These fish would have been culled by later efforts easily but I found there location to be the bigger mystery. We moved along on the trolling motor from the back of a long cove towards main lake and found bigger females on dropshot worms on the entrance to the coves. Color watermelon candy 4.8 worm rigged wacky. These fish were offshore on the outside of the secondary flooded brush about 15-20 feet. That bite evaporated as we got closer to the main lake. I moved the boat onto main lake structure around noon and caught nothing in 20 minutes on my best stuff so I quickly left that and went back to the back of a cove and worked my way out. We popped a bunch of fish on senkos from 1:00 until 3:30.... Color: green pumpkin black flake rigged wacky weedless fished on 8 pound/10 pound flouro dbl. Uni power pro. The water was ultra clear but the storms pounding the area right now could help us out from the 15-20 foot viability that we have now. The outlook for April is very good as the fish that pulled off the beds in March are going to supplement the fish that had an April time frame.
City: OjaiTips: The water is clear. Use polarized glasses and fish the offshore 12 foot deep wood and weed edges. The spawning activity is evident everywhere in the shallows so focus just off those beds...or of course you can go around catching buck bass off of beds instead of the better quality to be had just a few feet deeper at this time.
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Cullaby Lake
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Water Temp: 49-50
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Well we had a club tourney here last week with 13 teams and fishing was slow. This being my first time on the lake I was hoping to see some big bags brought in based on the stories I have heard about the lake but for this weekend it was not to be. First place won with just over 7.5lbs for two fish. My partner and I finished second and got big fish with one fish for 6.95lbs. Five other teams also brought in one fish of varying sizes. Most of the fish were caught flipping blowdowns. My fish was caught on a chatterbait throwing to offshore structure.
City: LyleTips: Make sure you check your drap before you go out, I broke off a second fish as big as the first but broke it off because my drap was fully wrench down.
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Mead Lake
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Water Temp: 58
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Water Clarity 20+ swimming pool visibility, Windy, 2 - 3 foot waves, overcast, FULL moon, fish on beds but skittish, fished towards the narrows for protection from the wind. Drop shot, Texas rig, caught (11.5) lbs today (10) fish.
Last post asked about brush, looks like Havasu in some area's, come on out. It's on...
City: Las VegasTips: Be safe, wear your PF device.
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