Fishing Report

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Saturday, February 5th, 2005

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-48.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: We fished minnows and artificials. I was surprised to find most of the fish in the 7 to 10ft range. Targeted areas with bubbles maybe that's why. Caught 2 jig fish, 1 crank bait fish and 15 minnow fish in 4 hrs from 10am to 2pm. I had planned on fishing more artificials but the fish were so active with the minnows I didn't have time. I probably only spent 10 min fishing jigs for those 2 fish. Most fish 2-1/2 to 3 lbs. Big fish just under 5 lbs.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT SATURDAY VERY NICE DAY.TOOK A BRISK RIDE TO MOCASSIN FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. CAUGHT 1 SMALLMOUTH UP BY 49 BRIDGE.CAME BACK DOWN TO WILLOW NOTHING.SHOT OVER TO BIG CREEK MY KID SCORED RIGHT AWAY. DOUBLE WHAMMY.HOW OFTEN DO YOU CATCH A BASS & TROUT ON SAME LURE(KEEPER 3" GRUB) IN LESS THAN 5 MINUTES SAME SPOT? ALL IN ALL OK DAY CONSIDERING I GOT SCHOOLED BY MY 7 YR OLD!
      City: turlock

  • California
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      Water Temp: ? high 40-low 5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out @ 7:00 am..........Slow missed one @9:30, ended up braking my rod in the process....I was throwing a senko...Then a Rainbow swim bait...0 I had some nice strikes but missed all of them! The water is really high right now so there a bit scattered..... I fished the damn/coves, shallow and deep!!!! got skunked but it's time on the water! Next few weekends are goinna be HOTT!
      City: Fresno

      Tips: SWIM BAITS>>>>>>>SLOW!

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

      Report: Spent the day trying something I don't do often..........jigs! I had no bites and only marked a few fish in the south arm and by the spillway! I hope to hit Folsom later this week and continue to work on the cold water approach to bass. Maybe I will try some C4!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Folsom is on the rise, get ready for the fishing to get better!

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      Water Temp: 45-48 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Jigs was the lure for the for most of my morning. Dart heads with hula grubs also. working in 25 to 35 ft of water on flats and deep drop offs. North fork around to brown's, main body. The warmer water is something to look for. Work them slow or just sit on them.
      City: rocklin

      Tips: brown/purple jigs or brown/brown

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PICKED UP DAD WENT DOWN TO NACI.GOT ON THE WATER
      ABOUT 8:00.MUST OF HAD SOME SORT OF FLOAT TUBE TOURNAMENT ABOUT 15 OF THEM.WENT STRAIGHT TO BEE ROCK FISHED CRANK'S FOR ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES NOTHING.THEN WENT AND FISHED THE BANK'S ACCROSS FROM LAS TABLES AND PICKED UP TWO SPOT'S ON TEXAS
      RIGGED BERKELEY POWER WORM 6" MOTOR OIL.NOTHING FOR AWHLIE SO WE HEADED UP TO THE NARROW'S LOOKING FOR CLEARER WATER.NOT MUCH CLEARER THERE BUT WE ENDED UP WITH 13 TOTAL.BEST FIVE ABOUT 10LBS.ALL SPOT'S ALL ON PLASTIC'S.
      City: salinas

      Tips: LAKE IS ALMOST FULL ABOUT 15' FROM HIGH WATER MARK
      FISH SEEM TO BE SCATTERED AROUND BUT THE LAKE LOOK'S AWESOME AND THE ARE LETTING IT OUT QUIT ALOT.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough, Tough, and Tough - There is a ton of fish between 100' and 116' but to deep for me... Fished 1' to 40' the past two weekends with one bite! Should be a low weight at the WON Bass tourney this weekend. Good Luck to all...
      City: Yuba City

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with Jimmy Mac the Sonoma Veteran an my buddy Tiger the newly educated student of the game, who can read a graph like like he was born on a boat. We had a great day. Tiger started with a 3.9, on his secret go to bait, at 8:00. I followed with a 4.1 at 8:20. Jim got one at 8:50 now we are all on the board. Ten fish total, Tiger lead the pack with a 5.0 and a 5.1 and I had another 4.0. Best 5 went 22.1 lbs. 20+ other boaters out there not sure how they did, din't see alot of fish cought. Bite turned off in the afternoon when coincidently? the cloud cover came out with more wind and cold temps.
      City: Pacifica

      Tips: Don't be afraid to throw that swim bait, and the top water, work it slow. But for some of us old timers a good old texas rig ain't bad either.

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold BRRRRRR

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tried catfishing at night with my brother Saturday night (2/5). Got to the dam at 5:30 pm and left at 7:15 pm. We both where using anchovies. Only one bite for each of us.....no fish caught =( anybody have any information on this lake?
      City: San Jose

Friday, February 4th, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 3 days this week, caught at least a limit each day with lots of small fish. Brown w/chartrouse tail worms dragged across the bottom, 16 - 20 feet, caught most of the fish. My wife caught several with a crappie jig, including a trout.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Smallmouth, Spots, and Largemouth are schooled up together in the coves, fish with the electronics until you find them and then have fun.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: not much going on today, let's drop the boat in at Russo's (great place) and throw some blades. 3rd cast right outside the 5 zone........boink! 10 lb striper. OK, this is good, but where's mama black bass? a few hundred flips later with the jig, yep, a solid 4lber. that's it my friends. That's the beauty of it, no such thing as a bad day fishin'......gotta love this stuff, huh?
      City: walnut creek

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Clear Lake for the first time in years. Joined the crowd at Shag Rock fishing for crappies. Most of the crowd was using mini-jigs type lures on a floater (jig was anywhere from 3-6 ft down). Everybody was catching them. We were the exception and tried to fish without a floater on our jigs. Caught a few crappies. We were also fishing for bass on a carolina rig with minnows. Caught 4 bass (largest 2.5 lbs). We then decided to fish with floaters and started catching fish. Besides catching crappies, we caught 6 more keeper bass on mini-jigs (largest - 1.5 lbs). We probably caught 15 undersized bass on the mini-jigs.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Use your electronics to find the crappie schools. Use white or chartruese mini-jigs. The bass that we caught on mini-jigs were close to shore in the late afternoon.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 7:30. Started out on the left side of the narrows throwing jigs shallow, no bites. Moved out into 30 to 40ft. of water where we found most of the bait action. My partner Wayne and I started dropshotting 4in. senkos{Brn./Org.}and I a pumkin/red/grn flk. 4in. worm. Got bit 4 times, lost one. All solid 21/2 to 3lbs. Worked the area for a while and started moving around staying deep. We managed to catch a few more on a junebug worm and a white Ika. We ended up with 5 nice largemouths. A beautiful day on the water, it was like a spring day ,about 63.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Fishing was a little on the slow side, take your time. The lake is droping again about 5ft. down after the rain. It can make for a tough bite. Goodluck!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 55 - 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Two fish one blade fish and wormming. Both pushing 3lbs. Fished for about 3 hrs.
      City: Orange

      Tips: Wind was blowing about 10 -15 mph. Lake is full pool and dirty.

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      Water Temp: 55 - 58

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Two fish one blade fish and wormming. Both pushing 3lbs. Fished for about 3 hrs.
      City: Orange

      Tips: Wind was blowing about 10 -15 mph. Lake is full pool and dirty.

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 50 - 58 F

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water clarity still poor due to storm runoff. Lake level at ~ 55% capacity. Lots of large debris on surface near Harris. Caught one smallie on RI sweet beaver on pegged Texas rig, missed another fish on same; caught another smallie on 4" handpour Senko on darter head...that was it for the day!
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Told by park staffer to fish "rocky" shoreline areas for smallmouth, but there aren't many good rocky areas to speak of due to low water level. One fish caught along rocky shoreline, but other was caught in shallow water on isolated submerged brush, so no real pattern.

  • California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dudeman, a tip for fixing your rod tip. Super glue is a BAD idea, as it will eventually eat through the graphite. Instead, put some mono inside the new tip before you place it on the end of your rod. Place the rod tip on the end making sure it fits snuggly. Then take a lighter and melt the tip on there, making sure you dont burn the graphite. It has worked for me, hope that helps!
      City: Oakland

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 47.9-48.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Packers this am with a lot of other guys at 0640, 41 degrees with a lot of high fog and haze, lake at 64.5 ft down with just a little breeze out of the north, ran over into the Mccloud and stuck them good right off the bat. got two over 3 lbs and a dink and one over 2lbs in 20 minutes, added another over 3 at 0830 and 7 more small fish by 1030 whend the sun came out. Caught them on the hdi's in 109 and 35. Got most of the small fish on a variety of worms, the Rainbow 292 and 99, the mgm 66 and the mf 38, all in 6 inch with the mgm being an eel. most of the fish were deeper this am betwen 28-60ft, 4 of the worm fish were tight to a rock wall and suspended about 20 ft down so the 1/4 oz darter head was most effective. Called it a day a little early and out at 1130, 40 rigs in the ot and the air temp was 54. Best 5 went 12.81, a good day for me.
      City: Redding

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched outta Ladds this morning about 8:30, ran over to 14 mile started flipping a senco with no bites. I ran to mildered fished some tulie berms and my first fish went 5lbs, so i slowed down and worked the area throughly for no more bites. I fired up and ran over bye Franks...and agin no bites so i ran back to mildred fished a tulie berm down river from where i cought my first fish and started flipping a double wide beaver after about 20 minutes i get a 2lbr put the fieh in the live well turn right around flip in the exact same spot and got another...this one barely keppt, after about another 20 minutes go back to where i caught the bigger fish, i start flipping the beaver and lost a decent one and that was it for the day
      City: modesto

      Tips: used 7 inch senco and double wide sweet beaver in watermelon/red both baits didnt try another bait all day...was looking for the fat one.

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On water about 11:00 or so. Headed to Elizabeth cyn right off the bat. Water looks like chocolate milk! Wind was whippin' on he main lake, so the coves were the only likely choice. Hooked into a good fish and lost it. Spoke to a couple of the locals, and they said that there were a few fish caught in the elizabeth cyn area on worms and spinnerbaits.
      City: Tehachapi

      Tips: Don't take any tips from anyone else, get out and fish!