Fishing Report

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Monday, January 10th, 2005

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at day break,DIDN'T hook my first fish until 12:30 on a rocky point in the south fork.Continuted to hook 7 spots in 4 hours up to 3.5 pounds working the same point. Worked the same area because it was the only place I found willing fish.
      City: antelope

      Tips: Caught all fish on a watermelon senko in about 23-35 feet-worked verrrrrry slowly! Fun stuff!

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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold morning, no fog or winds for a nice day on the water. Joe Miller and I went out at safe sun light from Granite Bay. Our first stop was a Island top in the main body, o fish. Drove in the north fork to a rocky point and Joe found a 2 lb smallie with a brown/purple 1/2 oz JK jig.
      I switched over to a drop shot with a 3" minnow and found they like it. We got five keepers and headed home at 1:pm.
      City: rocklin

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Elk Grove Bass is starting the 2005 season at Folsom this coming Saturday, small club atmosphere looking for some new members. We fish a variety of lakes and you qualify for our Jackpot Round by attendance not by being the "Big Stick". Club is not for full time pros....thanks for NCBF for their forum
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: E-mail me if anyone is interested, we are a team type club with husband/wife, father/son, friends or whoever can make up a team, lots of fun....thanks again NCBF...check out our new site..http://elkgrovebass.com/

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at about 11:00am and moved along the road side or south side of the lake. My brother caught two and lost two all on a white spinnerbait with white blades. I threw everything I had and caught nothing. His best fish was a smallmouth about 2.5lbs.
      City: Vallejo

  • California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First time out this year and boy was I suprised, it was windy. Fished mostly back of coves to escape the gail force winds. Got bit around 11:15am, a nice 4lb fat with eggs. I was using a sinko with a 1 1/2oz football leadhead due to wind. A little later I switched to meth injected gold fish I got from my good friend Brian Thompson of Paso Robles. Man you should see those things take off when you stick a hood in them. In just a few minutes I had 6 nice crappie all in the 2lb range. Thanks Brian. I then went by the damn where I metered fish in 40ft of water. I forgot my tackle box with swim baits so I used a couple small trout I keep in the live well for just such a situation and wham, didn't get bit but I love the group Wham. Finished up the day in front of the launch ramp using a frog colored hand granade and got a couple of nice ones. All and all it was a good day fishing
      City: Templeton

      Tips: Heavy anchor and lots of chain, did I mention it was windy. Also check Fish and Game guidelines for hand granades. I told the ranger it was a cigarette lighter.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: GOLD COAST BASS CLUB will be having there 1st Tourney of the year at Lopez on Sat. Jan. 15th new members welcome be at the launch by 6:00 am.
      City: A.G.

  • Mohave County, Nevada
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      Water Temp: 'bout 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Carp fishing has been ok. Caught 3 fish over 10 lbs. with pieces of string cheese onb a 3' hook. Caught the first two sight fishing, about 3 feet from shore, last one caught on south end by dam off a shelf.
      City: Rancho Cucamonga

      Tips: Always experiment with bait. Carp will pretty much eat anything you throw at them, but always remember that carp are very easily spooked.

  • Stevens County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: high 40's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: lake has come up drastically with the winter storms we have been having. Currently, the lake is raising 1 ft/day, and has done so for the past 2 weeks. This lake is at it's highwater mark, passing a level it has not been at for over 12 years! With current conditions, this lake will be THE best lake in AZ, probably in the western US
      in the years to come!
      City: Scottsdale, AZ

      Tips: Pig & jig in springtime for excellent smallmouth fishing. Jerks, & spinnerbaits in the backs of shallow coves for largemouth. Drift a minnow tipped 16/th oz. crappie jig for fish averaging 2 lbs. or more!

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished local club tourney Sunday. Our "loaner" boat had a inoperable trolling motor and no electronics. we were forced to tie-up to trees in coves and work the area slowly. Caught 3 over 15" in the morning. Moved to see what the rest of the club members were doing. We found them fishing muddy water and very little in their wells. We went back to our tree and clearer water and caught two more for a limit. Used Robo "green weenies" and Berkeley Power Worms "June Bug."
      City: Valley Springs

      Tips: Up in the cove in shallow water where the clear water was entering. Bass were able to see our bait. Stay out of the muddy water.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took Linda, my wife, to Oroville Lake, on Monday, We fished from about 10am till about 3.30 pm. Linda had not been fishing for a some time. The last time she went, I think she only got a couple bass. So I was in the hot seat to put her on some fish. Not only did she catch some bass, but gave me a fishing lesson. Linda 13 Bob 8, with most of her bass in the 2.2 to 2.6 lbs range. Linda is a happy camper.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Most of the bass had moved out to 25 to 35 feet.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today with my partner, awesome day for winter it felt like spring. Cranks and blades all day. Best five went 11.32, caught about 40 or so fish, all solid fish. As we were gettin ready to leave a kid from durham stuck a 10.7 largemouth 24.5 inches long, 23 inches in girth in was a HAWG. It goes to show that the floridas are in there!!!!! Good luck to everyone.
      City: paradise

      Tips: Fish in 0-20 foot of water. Slow roll your blades and cranks.

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

      Report: Thanks for the reports ROGER B!!! KEEP EM' COMING!
      City: san Jose

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Packer's at 11:00 am. Went up McCloud arm and caught 7 fish between noon and 3:30pm, all over 13 inches.
      City: Red Bluff

      Tips: 3/8oz football head and soft plastics.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: more info- on redding bassers turkey shoot. date sat. jan. 15th at packers bay boat ramp. signups to start at 4:oo am. $80 entry $20 of this goes to big fish pot, 80% payout to 1 in 5 and top 3 big fish paid. blast off at safe light and weigh-in at 3:00pm.

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of markley's for the first trip of the year at 9am with the parking lot almost full.fished from 9-3 with about 8 bites and boated 5 keepers up to 2#. it was pretty slow, but it was a beautiful winter day which made it enjoyable...graphed alot of bait in the 40 to 75' depths, but caught my fish in 10-30' on plastics. i want to thank r. theil for his report as it gave me a starting point. All of my fish were spots and yes they were very anemic in color.
      City: orinda

      Tips: wish i could help, but i definitely wasn't on them as all i caught were lone rangers...

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      Water Temp: 51 - 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: First trip of the year with a friend .We fished from the dam to the south bank of big island.The water clarity was 1 foot at best, the clearest water is Markley area , however my best fish came in the main body, one slightly over 3 lbs and a couple of 2.5. Its all stained but very fishable.
      We ended up with a total of 19 , one l.m.,3 s.m., and 15 spots.Just like the previous post mentioned they were all very white.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Worms and jigs, when you find fish stay on them.

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      Water Temp: 53.0-55.6

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The water conditions are poor from the narrows up. the clearist water that was found was at markly and down near the dam. All of the fish that were graphed were all from 35ft down,
      City: MArtinez

      Tips: Fish SLOOOOW in clearist was if possible

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The water clarity was actually not that bad. And the water level is real high up. Got out there really late.(about 3.00pm) FIshed a bunch of spots with jigs but I got skunked, towards the end, my buddy got a little guy of a rock point on a junebug brush hog. Marked fish in the deeps but they are full with shad. I wish I could have tried to south end but we had to leave.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Bite should pick up in a few more days after the fish get used to the new water levels. No tips for now.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Angler's Choice tourn. out of Orwood today.Probably around 30 boats. Tough bite, we only had one fish and my partner Gabe got it on a rattle trap. I fished jigs, senko, and zipper worms without even a bump.Winning weight was around 17 lbs for 4 fish then it dropped off quick with alot of teams blanking.Our only fish came from Whites where the water was a little cleaner and a tad bit warmer, around 50. Rained off and on , windy and I wish my Fish Heads mask had gotten here this week. The rain stings at 60 mph. Oh well, Spring is a commin.
      City: Carmichael

      Tips: We did get a quick limit of 8 to 12 lb Strippers early which made for groceries. Rattle traps, spinner bait and a swim bait got those on the out going tide around 8 am. Wish I had a pattern, but not today. The weather changed today by the hour. Beautiful rainbows were everywhere.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished tourny out of Tracy Oasis today. No doubt about it, the bite was tuff for all competing. My partner Cliff and I had 3 fish for 8.30 pounds. Enough for second place. First was in the 10s. All in all, had a great day on the water, ever with the wind and rain.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Fish caught on black and red jigs from 10 feet and deeper, light currant and points. Did not find any fish to hit blades or cranks. Hope for early spring.