Fishing Report

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53Deg.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today school co-opperated with my fishing schedual and let me start my day at around 3. as we launched my buddies pro-v by tracker we trolled around the Granite bay launch and only picked up 2 spots, 1 1/2, 2-3 pounder. we quickly figured out the bight, it was drop shot with morning dawn and jig with single grub trailer brown. we headed straight acrossed the lake to a rock pile we had on GPS and fished that and i quickly picked up 3 more spots in the 1 1/2-3 pound range. we moved over near the other launch and fished a deep cove that seemed to have some bait circulating through it. my buddy mike picked up 2 jig spots same size. at dark we ran back to the Granite bay launch and fished the beach area and the creek channel near the launch. RIGHT AFTER sun set i pick up a nice 4.3 pound spot on a fat-A crank bait. that made for a decent day of fishing. thanx loomis kid
      City: roseville

      Tips: drop shot morning dawn, jig hula grubs in browns and purple, crank ur crank baits fast with a 10 second pause. they are hitting the crankbait when it stops.

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

      Report: Here is the web site for Elk Grove Bass Club. They are a cool bunch of guys, I fished some of there tourneys last year.

      http://www.elkgrovebass.com/
      City: Sacto

Monday, February 21st, 2005

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Carbon copy of yesterday with maybe 5 or 6 fish in the morning. A lot of fishing presssure today as is the case with most holidays..and a stiff wind out of the south..As the day moved along and the broken sunshine turned to thunder storms fishing really picked up. My guide trip guest today was Vince Lazzeroni of San Jose, Ca and was a good fisherman..He had to call an early day so I stayed around for a couple hours and cought a few for myself. Carolina rig and jigs
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Windy banks were holding fish and not many boats..Find less pressured fish.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 52 at 7 am and

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at 7 worked the south side to the west trying to hang on in 20-30ft. threw senkos, drop shotted 4 inch custom worms, had a couple bites. 9:30 it started pouring rain went to spinnerbait 10:30 rain stopped and clear skys moved in ...turned into a nice day.moved to north west corner to fish submerged trees throwing spinnerbaits.graph showing quite a marginal amount of fish, no luck.moved to south east side working first ledge at 20-30ft hooked into one split shottin a robo worm (bold bluegill).weather played big part tough bite.
      City: merced

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Back on Folsom to find the bass I missed on saturday at 9am with Quency. We started just out on the rocks in front of Granite Bay ramp using 4" lizards in green pumkin and a morning dawn leach. Before the rain came we got some small spots in 10-15 ft on rocks. We made our way to another rocky area that had a flat and droped into 30 ft. When the rain and winds came we had 9 spots and 1 largie. Most of the bass were on the flat with large rocks. No bits on jigs or rip baits.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: split shots with a 3 ft leader and slow. white ears worm.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 48 to 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a day on the water, little bit of sun but mostly rain. the bite was tough lot of misses. Me and my partner farmed out a couple. Does anybody have any info on the elk grove bass club that fished oroville on the 19th.?
      City: Galt

      Tips: Fish real slow.

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This Lake as well as all the lakes in the area are in great shape and looks like were going to have great fishing here in the south bay this year. Guide trip today was with Nick Gorman of Redwood City, Ca and Colin Page of Foster City. Morning bite was slow and steady with a bite here and there from the bank to 40 feet. As the front kept coming the fishing got better. From lunch on these guys ended up with 20 or so keepers to 4.5lbs with about 15lbs for there best 5. One jig fish in the 6lb range came unbuttoned for some reason followed by another broke off big fish with 5 minuts of each other. Carolina Rig and jigs.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 53to54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: lot of wind today, coming out of the south. still not a bad day. 13 fish total,biggest was4lbs.8ozs. best 5 went 18+.lot of boats out today, anglers choice& hook tournaments today.
      City: oakland

      Tips: brushogs,sweet beavers,lipless cranks

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on Clear Lake. Got a late start out of Konocti Harbor. Fished jerk and spinner bait from Shag Rock west. No takers. Put on deep diving crank and started getting bit. Seven fish between my brother and I. Top five went 10 lbs, largest 3 lbs. Dark skies and rain all day. Got blown off on Monday. Most fish 15 to 30 feet from bank.
      City: Sacramento

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: wet and windy, caught 1st keeper on a crawdad wiggle wart in about 5' water. My partner and I caught anywhere from 12 to 15 fish from 1.5 to 2 3/4 pd fish on worms and grubs. The bass where fairly shallow in less than 10' of water. Most fish were caught on flat points.
      City: salida

  • Oregon
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: APPLEGATE LAKE
      This was my first time out here so I took my fiance along. We fished submerged humps, ledges, and dropoffs next to the dam. Also stump beds and rock structures near Copper Ramp. Only fished the northern half of the lake today cranking spinner baits as slow as we could and used tubes, worms, and senkos but had no luck.
      Tried the same presentations at Selmac yesterday but had the same results.
      City: Medford

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Rod, I was just curious when western bass was going to add those lakes to the website? Hope it is soon cause I'm getting ready to start fishing Lost Creek and Selmac this spring, and I would like to have a place to check on those lakes.
      City: central point

      Tips: Thanks for the update Rod!

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

      Report: No fish. Not even a bite. Tried cranks, worms, spinners.
      City: Campbell

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

      Report: Went out fishing with trhe wife and had a decent day fishing.Could not get a shallow bite,so started to drop shot fish werte real lippy but ended up catching them down around thirty to fifty feet.brown and green brushhogs seem to work the best ,bites were very liteand only caught a couple of fish in every spot we stopped at .Every fish was very fat so not much longer for the bite to go off the hook.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Just let it set with a couple of twitches

  • San Francisco County, California
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out between rains for an hour or so. I had one light bite on a robo leach, but missed it as I was lighting a cigar. In the end - got nothing but wet. An older Russian couple managed to take home 3 carp from the DPW pier...

      The south lake level is up, almost to the same height as about May-June last year. It just needs to warm up for a few days.
      City: Daly City

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went to the horseshoe for an hour of exercise. caught a fat 16 inch largemouth on a crankbait. yes, she was caught and released alive. she had all the markings of pre spawn.

      water is really high and stained from the rains. almost no shore to walk around. really muddy. all the good drop offs are submerged. i'll have to start bring in the tube or boat.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: downsize and slow roll. they're right between the first and 2nd drop off. i can't wait til the blade bite starts. i guess that should be in a few more weeks.

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: club tournament 25 guys. Heavy boater fished by himself. 16+ lbs his kicker was 6.72. Dan caught it on a crank bait first cast across point. Fish are moving up and are hitting grubs drop shot split shot heck everything.I had 10.5 lbs drop shot rig on sides of points. Wood near by helped.Didn't find my jig fish like I wanted in 50 feet so I went to the bank. Maybe the heavy rains moved the fish shallow? Most of my fish were beautiful smallies. What a great fishery berryessa is.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: If you go in the rain fish shallow. If the sun is out I'd go deeper. The fish a definatly moveing to the back of coves to spawn now. Next full moon look out. Lizards and brush hobs good choice. Don't know why drop shot worked so good all of a sudden but use morning dawn if water is stained. I did and it worked. You still have to fish slow.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son Niko to my Club Tourn. on Sat. Weather did not treat use very well. We caught fish, Niko tied on one of my homemade Jigs for the first time. He caught 2 on Black/Blue. I hit 4 on the S20. Sun. We fished The Hook. Went to the same area. Niko tied on the same jig and bamm 3# first fish, Bamm 4# second fish. We were on fish. We had 4 by 11:00 and then Pop at 11:30 the trolling motor cable broke. Made it hard to fish, but we hung in there. Ended the day with 5 fish just under 11 pounds. Just our luck... Hope we made the TOC...
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Look for cleaner water. Try Jigs and 6-7" plastics. The bass are moving up and should just get better as the water warms.

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I tried a 3 hour trip this morning, forgeting that it was a 3 day weekend - and there was a local tournament - wow!!! Anyway, I wanted to try some of my new G.Loomis rods and check out the jig bite. My first cast with the new GLX 854 produced a 1 1/2 lb spot on a purple Weapon jig in about 12 feet of water - that surprised me. I got 4 more bites, all on the purple jig, and 3 of them were nice ones - spots from 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. Tried to get my 5th bass, but it started raining and I wasn't in the mood to get wet!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I fished rocky points and walls - some far offshore for my jig fish. Most fish were about 20 feet. You have to fish your jigs a little faster at Collins because the rocks will cause them to snag up all the time! If I was there longer, I would have tried more tactics. I did throw rips and cranks for a bit, not no takers.

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

      Report: Miserable weather on hand Saturday but that
      didn't seem to bother the fish. Caught 5 LM bass
      in 5 hours from 4lb-6+lbs all on Texas rigged
      Yamamoto bait. Caught most in 8-15' ft of water
      or should I say chocolate milk. Bites were real subtle missed several fish due to just a little slack in my line. Best success was slowly jumping bait up off the bottom. 1 lunker channel cat 7lbs! and the dam thing fought hard.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Bring a little luck with you, it definitely helped me out. Wishful thinking>>>>I saw one clown with two bass totaling 16 lbs! On an F'n
      stringer!! I'd bet a steak dinner that the catfish taste a ton better than them old bass any day!! What a moran.