Fishing Report

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Saturday, February 17th, 2007

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went north to muddy puta creek. caught fish on hula grubs and crank baits. Best five went about 13lbs. Talked to A guy that had 24lbs on friday and had 18lbs on saturday with swim baits on points. Looks like I need to learn how to fish swim baits.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Fish were from 5 to 35 feet deep.

  • Santa Barbara County, California
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      Water Temp: preety cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: sorry to say Bob D it was awsome for me, and it was my first time bassin at the lake. i shook purples and ox bloods on a drop shot rig, proven to be the casitas standby.nuthin to brag aboot in size, but a dozen bass is great.aboot a 2 pounder was pulled.
      City: ventura

      Tips: slow the shake down to a slow speed, small fish were 20 feet, if bigger fish are wanted DEEPER WATER!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 51-54o

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Summary??? You want fish today at Cachuma, you needed to bring your own! Tough is the best word here --- Water is really clear and we saw carp, bass and three huge, I mean HUGE catfish crusing by the boat. With conditions so clear, fish were scattering from twelve feet away when they say the boat. We sw bass crusing in as little as 4 feet off the banks in 3-8 feet of water but alas, no takers.

      I basically tied my tackle box on to my line, tossed it out, jerked, dropped, cranked and slow retrived it back and nothing in the box was intereting to anything, even carp! If we had to wight in, only one keeper for the day. SAD! Need that rain before the Gold Coast tourney next week! Water needs to have some stain in it or it will end up being a harsh outing again.

      Looking at the weather conditions for the wee may be the culprit. With the possible front moving in and the extra warm weather, the fish were being finiky. Saw a few boaters hitting on a drop but most takers looked to be smallies that probably wouldn't hang. Water temps are up which is a good sign but the lake is down a lot now and it still is a 'hunting' game for quality keepers. The big producer two weeks ago on the south end walls was a 'skunk' today.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Finding fish near the brushlines or drop off's may be the points to look for. Still looks like fish are holding in that 30-40 foot range and the thermocline was about a guess of 35'.

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 55 - 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We fished from 12:30 to 4:30 and pulled in a 5 pounder on a flourecent green jig. We fished the entire rocky back just opposite of the boat ramp.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The lake is really low on water at the moment. Watchout for rock islands...

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught two across from the ramp using a wacky rigged senko. they were both about 2.5 lbs and were in 10-12 ft. of water. Perfect weather!
      City: Santa Clara

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 3:45 p.m. launch until dark with 7 keepers, best 3.5 lbs. No giants but all were good fish. A couple of 2 pounders as well.Red color around the mouth...hmmm.Not sure why. The 3.5 had a belly of eggs. It was like 70 something degrees outside. Saw guys fishin/scouting for beds.Incomming tide.Been catchin em in all tide conditions.On fire with 7 fish in 2 hours!Git em!

      Tips: All my fish came on points with good dropoffs to 15 feet and current. Texas riggin plastic with 3/8 weight to get it deep. Jig did get me 2 but most action came driftin the plastic.Bass bite is hot if you can find em.Don't overlook the deeper/faster water.The fish are there.Good luck!

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      Water Temp: 54.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Absolutely beautiful day on Disappointment Slough. (7 am till noon) Fishing not so great. One small bass and one small striper on red/black/yellow Rat-L-Trap. Tried up close to the tullies. Tried outside the weedlines. Tried spinnerbaits, Senkos, jigs, creatures etc. Nada. The one bass did come out of the tullies so maybe they are beginning to move up. Had fun anyway.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Gotta keep your lines wet....

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 51 - 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Peter and I fished the El Dorado Bass Club tournament this last Saturday on a beautiful February day. We boated 6 keepers for the day on jigs either green and black or brown and black. Bite was very soft or just a slight weight that felt different then all the rocks, mud, wood or weeds. First place went to Gregg & Rod whose five fish total weight was 19.66 pounds with Gregg's big fish of 7.70 pounds. My partner and I were fortunate to take second.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Main body seems to have the bigger fish and we worked our bait very slow off of primary points or humps.

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: very windy,fished ski arm all day,25-30 ft,drop shot robo shads,green and blue,dead stick,partner fished back of fish arm in heavy wind drug jig along the bottom afternoon took appox 12 lbs
      City: la canada

      Tips: drag jigs along bottom 25-30 feet,drop shot small baits,dead stick,move very slow

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: friend caught an 8# lunker on a swim bait the fish hit it in three feet of water. The bass had eggs. They're spawning right on the drop offs. Good thing we had the swim bait. threw her back after a few photos. wooooo nice catch mark. This was his first big one!
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: use 8'' trout imitation lures

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake hoping to take advantage of a recent hot bite. As it usually goes when chasing reports, the bite slowed from what was being reported. That did not stop us from picking up a handful of fish on jerks and cranks, but it was a long day of searching. Our biggest two went 5 and 6 pounds. All fish were caught in dock areas where the ends of the docks were sitting in about 12 feet of water. Cast toward the shore and work your bait along the dock pilings and hang on!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Thanks to all those who sent me tips and suggestions on my inquiry post in the forum. You guys are great. Don't be afraid to ask questions in the forum. Plenty of helpful folks willing to point you in the right direction!

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My freind will and I decided on collins today have not been there in about 8 months but it can always be fun with good size bass plentiful.Today was no diffrent.started at 10:30 ran to the east side of the lake started with jigs and worms in about 17 to 30 feet with no bites then the wind picked up at about 11:25 so we decided to move to the bank with spinnerbaits and cranks on the big chunk rock within about 15 minutes will hooked in to a nice largey (3lbs) on a white on white revenge spinnerbait in about 2 feet of water fished for about 30 more minutes on the east side then the wind switched so did we over to the mouth of elmers cove and in about three casts I stuck a nice spot(4lbs) in about 1 foot of water on a norman deep little n summer craw 10 minutes later in about 5 feet and on the other side of the mouth on big chunk rock picked up another nice spot (3lbs) finished our day an hour later with no further bites
      City: grass valley

      Tips: In cold muddy water the book says go slow go deep always remember fish cant read. Do what the lake dictates dirty water warms faster than clear and with recently stocked trout that like to cruise the shore in dirty water the big fish moved up to get warm and feed. Use baits that diplace alot of water and make noise

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We caught all our fish on main lake points on fist size rock flat points. We used jig heads with watermelon or green pumpkin twin tail hula grubs. Kimberlee (8 years old) had the biggest fish of the day at about 2 pounds on a home poured 6" worm drop shot rig!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: If your fishing slow...............slow down! All our bites came when we barely moved the bait.

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      Water Temp: 8.6 Eary, by 11

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water color was mudier upstream, Brown's Ravine was clearer. Fish and game planted trout yesterday about 10a.m. so I started out with swimbaits all around Hobie Cove with no bites. Left there and checked out river upstream, bad conditions and little bait showing. Came back to main body using jerk baits, dropshot, jigs, swimbaits, still not even one bite. I left at around eleven, maybe tomorrow will be better with this weather system moving in.
      City: sac

      Tips: If they don't bite, go small and slow, if they still don't bite go home and do some "honey-dos". Good fishing Jimbo

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went trout fishing and caught a limit off of the L-dock. While I was trout fishing, I was watching this guy named Rob just slamming the bass. Not sure how many he caught, could have been the guy from the previous post.
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: Follow Rob around, the guy must be a Lafayette Reservoir Legend or something.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 50-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing has been pretty good. caught 5 fish 4+-one 6 pounds.....pitching brush in the early morning. crankbaits and spinnerbaits the rest of the day.pretty soon theyll be biting everything that moves tryin to put on weight.
      City: AG

      Tips: pitching brush in the early morning. crankbaits and spinnerbaits the rest of the day.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a great day. Caught lots of fish and made 9.15 for five. Caught fish everywhere from 10 to 25 feet. Was just trying everything and got bit on hula grubs, dropshot, texas rig. Colors were browns, clears, and purples. Nothing on the Spro swimbait, tried the floater and slow sinking; man do those look good swimming! One on a chatterbait early, no jerk bait.
      City: Madera

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass are still 25'-50' deep.
      Fishing is decent with guys getting 10-30 fish per boat on the usual plastics.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Use your graph and find the fish.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 49.4 to 50.2

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 9:00am. Fished the lower McCloud for a total of 22 with the largest going 3.5 lbs. Best 5 weighed 10.6 lbs. The bite really slowed after noon. Most of the fish came on a HDI #109R in 20 to 40 feet of water not to mention the largest one and oh yes, the BLONDE in the back caught the 3.5 as well as 12 of the 22.
      City: Cottonwood

  • Calaveras County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lakes dead right now.
      Wait till some warmer weather.
      City: Modesto