Fishing Report

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

  • Coos County, Oregon
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 100 fish today all 5 pounds a piece and they all tasted awsome... just kidding caught 2 fish both around 2 pounds. fished jigs and spinnerbaits slow and deep. spinnerbait fish caught in about 20 ft of water. jig fish hit in about the same. oh yea,they were both released.
      City: creswell

      Tips: when you think you are fishing the spinnerbait slow and deep, fish it just a little bit slower adn deeper. jig fishing is more of a personallure to fish everyone has theyre own way of fishing it. good luck and tight lines to everyone out there.

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 42-46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FINALLY...FINALLY...FINALLY!!!!! I went fishing today for the first time since early Dec. After shoveling snow for the last month and a half it was sure a treat. Trinity is always a beautiful lake, but with the snow right to the waters' edge, it gives beauty a whole new meaning. Got there just as the fog was starting to clear, and spent several minutes with a camera in my hand instead of a fish pole. WOW The fishing was a little slow and I really had to do some searching. The bass on Trinity this time of year are really tightly schooled and easy to miss. I finally found a good school and dropped a DUH Team spoon on em and watched a fish come up and meet it. First fish of the year, a solid 5 lb smallie. Well worth waiting for! I was afraid it might be a jinx but the next cast was a nice black so maybe not.
      City: Trinity Center

      Tips: It's hard to do on such a beautiful lake as Trinity, but you have to keep your eyes glued to the meter. The fish I caught today were in a school about the size of a pick-up in 32 feet of water on the corner of a rockpile that topped out at 24' and bottomed at 50'. If I'd have gone by 30' on either side I'd have missed them completely.

Friday, February 25th, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Friday from 9-3:30. Not great, 7 fish top 5 for 7.5lbs largest only 1.9 lbs. Stayed in the south, sun never really made it out. Decent wind, conditions fine, just didn't find a pattern. Caught fish from 5 - 25 feet. 2 on a jerk bait, one on a texas rig, one on a Senko and the others on Drop shot. My guess is they were deeper than I was successsfully fishing. Nothing on a rattletrap or deepdiver or slow spinnerbait or Carolina rig. 25+ boats at Capel ramp. Good luck to the Future Pros, Vince does a great job!
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Talk to someone who figured it out better than I did.

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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water clarity was between stained and clear depending on location. I was out "guiding" I guess that is what you can call it. It was my 12-year old nephew's first trip. I also had my Dad in the boat (a trout troller). I did spend far too much time re-tying and educationg ... but we had 11 in the boat. The boy caught his first two bass ... two spots. A 1.2 and a 1.8. We had a coupld of nice smallies both around 2 lbs. No size to any fish. Like Larry, we caught them off of points and walls 15 to 25 feet down on plastics and jigs. Not a bad trip at all.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: The slower the better. Best bite was off of steep walls 25 feet down.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Whiskey. Fished senkos, flukes and lipless cranks with 1 fish to 2lbs. Tide was out and water was dead calm with no movement whatsoever. Everyone I talked to was having a tough day.
      Went up around Mildred area and found some clear water with current switched over to a white spinner bait with white blades. Solid hookups lots of 4lbers and 3 lbers best five went 18lbs
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Stay focused and find a pattern that works. If yesterdays pattern fails switch up you will be suprised. Tight Lines and follow that tide if you want fish.

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Whiskey. Fished flukes, senkos and lipless cranks caught only 1-2lber tide was out,water was dead calm no movement whatsoever. Went out to Mildred area to find clearer water with current. Busted them solid on white spinner bait with solid white blades. Lots of 4lbs and 3 lbs. Best 5 went 18lbs. Fish
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Stay focused. Follow the tide and find a pattern. If your pattern from yesterday don't work change up you will be suprised. Tight Lines

  • Trinity County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my brother fished all day on the 24th and caught about 17 fish with the biggest one being a 4.0 pound sm. We only caught one lm all day. Everything bit the dropshot and dragging tubes the best. Oxblood seemed to be the best color dropshot worm and salt and pepper seemed to be the best tube color to drag. The bite was a bit slow. The bite seemed to be around 40-55 feet. We acctually found a pretty good bite right at dark with a norman lure crankbait and a rapala jerkbait. On the morning of the 25th the first half-hour produced 10 sm. We picked up 5 more sm before noon and then hung it up. Nothing over 3.3 lbs. Spotted 8-10 lm on tops of shallow rock piles. Maybe they are finally moving in!
      City: Eureka

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 50.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Redwood Empire Bass Club first tournament of the year was held last Saturday on the 22nd with 15 boats participating.The top team was Mark Urrizola and Steve Adams(angler of year 04')with 11.62lbs.followed by Chet Graska and Carson Riley with 11.01lbs.and myself and Brian Garland with 10.50lbs. including a 4lb.largemouth for biggest fish.All fifteen teams weighed fish with most of them catching limits.Plastics,rip baits and crankbaits all caught fish.Our next meeting is Febuary 9th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center on the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. The next team tournament is Febuary 26th at Lake Sonoma.The club is welcoming new members both boaters and non boaters.Log onto www.rebc.net for more info or call me at 707-332-7597.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Be patient and work your baits slow in 15 to 40ft.Football head grubs, darter head worms and drop shot worms in dark earth tone colors with chartreuse tips all did well.Work reaction baits off primary and secondary points and vary your retrieve.The smallmouths are very active. Good Luck.

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was the camera boat for Triton boats.After the shoot the writer for Western Outdoor News wanted to do a little Big Bait fishing. So to cut it short I caught a 6-pounder on a Huddleston Swimbait and a 4-pounder on a Optimum swimbaits. Then I had to go to work, I did want to call out oh well maybe next time.
      City: Camarillo

      Tips: Fish the Big Swim baits slow like crawl them.Also throw them in the sunken brush and hold on.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I did a real "teach the lake" trip yesterday with two great guys - eager to learn about structure. We spend the first half of the trip learning structure areas and fishing a little. We started at 10 am hoping for a good afternoon bite. It didn't warm up as predicted and an afternoon wind came up which later brought in some fog. Weird! We did get into a good rip bite - they had never fished Staycee 90's before! Caught lots of bass but none over 2 pounds. The chartreuse shad was again the best color. We returned to a rockpile that I said might produce a good fish before dark and the Weapon jig came through again with a 4 lb 11 oz bass. I think these guys will not be afraid to venture off-shore to find quality bass now! Wonderful day except for the wind.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The bait is still moving a lot. Some areas that had bait a few days ago were void of bait yesterday - maybe because of the amazing weather Monday. I was able to drop-shot a few on shad color 4 inch Senkos. They hit those hard! The jig was brown/orange. As amazing as it is to me, I broke off another big bass - this time on a crankbait (purple haze) near Henderson Point. I think I need to change my crankbait line more often - it was 12 lb test! My drag was probably a little too tight. Who knows?!!

  • Oregon
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      Water Temp: 40-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, here we go again, this time it was Lost Creek.. My grandson and his father-in-law and I went upriver thinking that we could find some smallies in the big boulders up there, but all we found was cold water... Fished all the way up until snow on the ground decided us to go back out to the main part of the lake... We went to the little cove directly across from the main boat launch, and found 48 degree water, but no fish... Didn't even see any on either graph... We threw jigs, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, worms, splitshotted, and dropshotted, but had only one "maybe" bite.... Can't wait until the water warms up some and I can leave my sweater at home.... Did have a BEAUTIFUL day on the lake though, the air temp was probably in the middle 60's, and it felt like late spring...... Beginning to wonder if I've forgotten how to catch bass though, it's been a long winter......
      City: Williams, Oregon

      Tips: Don't go where I go......

  • Mohave County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Water level is 1/2 foot down on the lake, watch out above Devils elbow the river is way down(not pumping hardly any water out of Davis Dam. Small mouth bass are already moving up on beds around the main lake and some back waters on the river. Fishing pressure is heavy due to Everstart early this month, last week WON team's 50+ boats, and now WON Draw estimating around 150 boats.
      City: Lake Havasu City

      Tips: Went out last saturday during the rain and able to get a jerk bait bite going. Five largest were over 16lb., 5lb largemouth was the kicker, the rest were smallies. Drop shotting was working but for smaller fish. Spinner baits were also working in the river(shad color).

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: So, what's it like to fish a lake the day after severe thunderstorms, near tornados, hail, and heavy rain? Actually, not too bad - but not good for quality. That did not suprise me. My client from Nevada wanted to learn to drop-shot and he picked it up rather quickly as his first bass was a 2-10 spot. We got several more dropshotting and a few on Rodstrainer jigs. We found most of the fish on walls and flats - but deeper than the last trip. They had moved off the bank again in many areas as the water probably cooled a degree or two. I think we got 12 in the boat , but the 5 biggest were only a little over 9 lbs. It did not warm up much and thunderheads were forming again - beautiful sight - especially since it didn't rain. Unfortunately, not very good fishing weather - but an excellent learning trip.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: One or two good days of stable weather will put these bass on the bite again. The number of bites was fine, but not real good quality.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 53to54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: was out monday, tough day only caught 11 fish to 3 3/4lbs. best five went 14lbs.4ozs. offshore weed edge only produced one ,the rest on flipping.(senkos&sweetbeavers) got off the water just as the lightning started.
      City: oakland

      Tips: my apology to those who've had to read negetive stuff. i wish i could enter all the tournaments,but i do have a real job. if there are comments or questions feel free to email me(an leave your email or phone#) these pages should be used for reports!!

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      Water Temp: 59-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: flipped the break most the day and got nadda made a move into Dutch on the third cast with a blade 7lbs 8oz Toad two minutes later one dink.called it a day.
      City: oakley

      Tips: All I can say is stay positive and focus. good luck!!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 49-57

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The water was very muddy from the rain run off. Back in the coves the water temp was 55-57 degs. The main body was the place to stay using jigs, dart head, worms,lizards in dark colors. Using a scent and working it slow. The lake will be better when water clears up. Quency and I got 7 bits and two spots.
      City: rocklin

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy george and fished lucern area today and we wacked them. We threw baby brushhogs(junebug) color and caught close to 40 fish. We fished old piers and docks made out of wood in water from 4-10 feet of H20. We also threw deadringers(junebug) and did well. We swam the lures very slow on the bottom and worked it too. Tulies didnt pruduce much for us. Try spinner baits and ripbaits didnt do didly.
      City: daly city

      Tips: Swim your plastic on the bottom very slowly (jigs,or anything that has a curly tail. GOO LUCK OUT THERE!

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: These last few weeks iv'e snagged about 15 bass. I've been using 6 and 4 inch roboworms. Margarita mutalater and brown are the colors that have been working for me. I have been catching them off the island casting out towards the North shore and Channel point dock. I have been reeling it slow and gotten lots of takers. Average size is over a pound but I've gotten some big ones close the 4lbs.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Try the slow retrieve using drop shot or something similar. Try casting on shallow beaches or flat area about 4ft deep. That's where iv'e been catching them.

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing at Hall's Crossing
      City: Monticello

      Tips: We had a great weekend at Powell. Six of us caught 178 stripers and 4 catfish. Most were 4-6 lbs. We were using silver spoons and orange colored lead headed hooks with anchovies. Fishing under the lights at night off the bottom. We couldn't get baited up fast enough. Excellent fishing weekend for all of us.

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A beautiful day to fish. Fished Frank's Tract and the area where the San Joaquin/South Mokelumne rivers meet. Ended the day with 10 bass (largest 3 lbs), 2 stripers (largest 5 lbs), and a 7 lb salmon. The salmon clobbered a Rat L Trap right next to the boat - really surprised my fishing partner. Off the water by 1:00P.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Caught half the fish on shad colored Rat L Trap and half on white/chartruese spinnerbait (includes the stripers). Caught at least 6 shaker stripers on spinnerbaits.