Fishing Report
Friday, April 9th, 2004
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Good Bass bite by the marina near the tulleys. Used senkos. Bass bite is pretty consistent through the day.
City: San Jose
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Diamond Valley Lake
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Water Temp: high 50's
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: 3 of us fished a variety of places today -- all the way from Beaver Slough area to Frank's Tract area. Keepers - 3 stripers and 11 bass (biggest - 2 lbs). Caught a lot of undersized fish. Fished weed lines or over the weeds.
City: DixonTips: Never know what you get when you toss Rat L Traps -- caught 2 stripers and 5 bass. Rest of bass and 1 striper on wh/char spinnerbait.
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Lexington Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Got the word right from the Horses mouth{san jose water works} this lake will never be full again maybe half if we are lucky, They are worried about the pipe that has been fixed and fixed again!!! they figure ground movement, so dont want to add extra pressure with a full lake, might wash away Los gatos
City: san jose
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Pinto Lake
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Water Temp: dunno
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: We went fishing in our float tubes for about 2 hours using Texas rigged baby brush hogs. Caught only 1 bass cuz had to take my friends gf home.... Very nice lake... I thought we would have had better luck.
City: Morgan Hill
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Santa Margarita Lake
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Water Temp: 60+
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Well bass fishing was tough to say the least. But the few we caught were quality fish. The five biggest went 6,4,3,3,and 2lbs. My buddy caught the 6. Only problem that was his only fish!!! Got you Rick. I caught one nice crappie as well. All in all a great time on the water with my best friend.
City: VisaliaTips: Get there at day break, and fish the grass banks where the shad are boiling. The bite will end as quick as it starts. Then move out and drop shot.
Jerk baits in shad color pattern worked best early. Tight lines to all.
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Shadow Cliffs Lake
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Water Temp: 65
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Tubed the pack far pond by the bridge on Friday evening. banged 3 fish, all on senkos, biggest being 17 inches. Great timeon the water, tyhe bite is picking up, shoudld be a great summer in the tube.
Attention all anglers...please release the bass, i see to many bass anglers keeping them,
City: DublinTips: tight lines, senoks and keep em moving, jig em around..
Tyes, Im an avid angler and very proud of it...
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 59-63
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: the lake is 21ft down and dropping slowly as they dump to lower the delta salinity, the fish are moving up in most areas of the lake and a number are already on beds, water clarity has vastly improved over the last week with visibility down to 15 ft in some areas, still some debris present but not for long with the north wind blowing and lake levels receding, 30-50 fish per day is not umcommon now with most being dinks with a few 2-3lb fish thrown in and a fair amount of 5lb+ fish showing up regularly topped by an 8.1 lb hog caught last week. Just about anything thrown in the lake will produce, The wife and I had 24 in 2 hours yesterday over in the McCloud. Just find some warmer water and have at it. Some of the coves have fish all the way in the back, others don't so don't spend a lot of time in any one location unless you are getting bit. My fish lately are coming on watermelon green 4 inch worm made by my friend Bryce(by the way, i ran out, Bryce, need some more) and the MGM 127 4inch and 157 4 inch and, of course, my own concoction by way of 1/2 and 3/4 oz jigs tied up by yours truly. The better fish yesterday (2.86) came on a 3/4 oz, the wife got hers on an old broken back rebel. If your looking for some fast fishing for spots then now is the time at Shasta Lake, it will only get better for a month or so.
City: Redding
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
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Cachuma Lake
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Water Temp: 67
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Fished for six hours and I only caught 8 smallies on drop shot Yamamoto cut tail plum. All fish came in 8 to 10 feet of water. The lake is busy right now with the spring breakers. I haven't seen that many boats on the lake since last summer. Looks like most people are bed fishing at the west end of the lake. I did talk to a guy caught an 8 pounder off bed in Johnson. What a fish! Good luck and be careful with all the activity on the lake right now.
City: Arroyo Grande, CaTips: Drop shot with your hook 12 to 14 inches above your weight. No reaction bite yet. There was a reaction bite last week but it is gone now. Probably because of all the pressure.
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 63.2
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Cody got two over 4 pounds today and Partner (me) caught a 6 and several 2-3 pounders today in the Mandeville area.
City: tracyTips: All came on Reaction Innovation baits and Revenge Blades...
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 56-59
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Spent the past 2 days with clients at a well behaved Clear Lake. The shoreline was beautiful, birds were singing, and the lake was calm or slightly breezy. Wow! The fishing was very good if you pretended you were fishing Oroville or Shasta. We caught 21 fish on Wed and 14 on Thurs - all except 5 at the 1 1/4 to 2 3/4 pound size - about a 2 pound average. And they are footballs. Also saw some small bass from last years spawn - another good sign. We saw everything except large bass and carp for that matter. Water is clear enough to see some bass if you look hard. They just havn't moved shallow yet, at least at the noth end. The early warm spell didn't speed up the spawning cycle because, I believe, it came too early. Now the water has cooled again because of the latest cold fronts, and as the previous post suggested, the spawn will be in later April or in May. Soft plastics and jigs worked well for us, as long as they were worked slowly. One of my clients on Tues caught his first bass on a jig, and another, and another, etc! He was very excited!! He was using the brown/orange Rodstrainer jig with #180 Yamamoto grub. I was using a purple/black/blue Rattlin' Weapon jig with #157 grub. Both worked well. I had one of the clients use a chartreuse jig which is good for shallow bass. He did hook a big fish but lost it. I lost a good one too. The black/red baby brush hog worked well in the afternoons, as did a Zoom cotton candy lizard in the clearer water we found. Berkley Pulse worms (6 inch) and Dead Ringers produced a lot of fish. We found males as shallow as 2 feet. The Senko bite is getting better - we caught several using colors #221 and #222. Most of the fish were 6 to 12 feet and tight to cover. We caught some moving worms slow through tules and I caught one rippin' and one on a Terminator spinnerbait first thing in the morning in offshore tule beds. Thurs client loves to rip but we got no more doing that.
City: Yuba CityTips: As I mentioned, fish were tight to cover, fairly shallow, after 11 am. One good pattern was to find shadows at the corner of a wall - a bass or two were always there. Drop-shotting didn't work too well for us - didn't get many on pilings. The fishing for big bass will improve soon. Remember, Clear Lake takes longer to warm up because of the wind factor and because the nights are cooler at 1300 feet.
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2004
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Amador Lake
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Water Temp: 63-68
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Had 3 trips sat/mon/tues,all three wanted (just to catch bass)size was not important so we splitshot,dropshot,brass&glass and pitched senkos from 0-18ft.Used roboworms,flash-trix,3.5 happy-hogs and 5in senkos.Most fish caught were in the 1.5-2.0 lb class with a couple that went 2.75 they came out of deeper water.If you want to go for BIG fish trow swimbaits basstrix,stocker trout,castaic the bigger the better 12in plus,until youre arm falls off!!!
City: RV park at lake amadorTips: (Blue sky)tough bite,overcast days bass bite really turns on also when clouds cover the sun,pitch senkos right on shore and shallow stick ups next to deep water.
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 60+
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Went on a guided trip with Dave Gleibe and caught fish just about everywhere we stopped. Probably 20+ fish, avg 2-3lbs with largest 6lb4oz. and lost another one around 6lb. Fish taking worms, jigs and spinnerbaits. Water very muddy and fish holding tight.
Tips: Still had to fish very s-l-o-w. Nothing on cranks or top.
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Water Temp: need temp guage
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: for the first time took "BASSBUSTER1" all the way out to Big Al's. it took the 20 hp merc. 45 minutes to get me there. that evening the wind was blowing pretty good and was unable to work my jigs or plastics effectively. tryed spinnerbaits and cranks there and through the five mile zone. no bites. by 6:30 started back for ladd's and waited for the sun to go down. using zippers and wild things by 10 pm hooked 7.6, 6.0, 3.4 pounders and missed a couple more on red/blk jigs. it was a good night.
City: stockton,laddsTips: the night bite is improving as the larger bass are moving shallower. all hooked in 3 ft. or less of water.
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: My good buddy and I took a trip to the delta today. We had heard the bass fishing was good. Good! It was the most unbelievable fishing experience of our lives. We were told to fish a wieghtless senko. The day started out ok. We caught a few average sized bass. We spotted a break in a levee, our boat could just slip through this small opening, we had entered this open area I dont know the name of it but it looks like a shallow lake. We fished around the whole thing for the next six hours. We had no Idea the delta had fish like this. We caught Six bass between five and eight pounds. lost an even bigger fish at the boat. i have never seen a black bass that big, It had to be over ten pounds. We also caught numerous three to four pound fish. Man can they pull!!! Needless to say we cant wait to go again. The delta is awesome!!!
City: SacramentoTips: six inch senko, Fish in trees and around weed edges. Also caught some fish on a spinnerbait.
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New Melones Lake
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Water Temp: 64.2
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Out at 3:30p, upriver between bridges. Fished until dark w/ 40+ fish between us. Almost all taken on 4in 082R, splitshot and texas. A few suicide fish on dinnerplates and ripbaits. Perfect day upriver, little wind and no competition. Mostly spots to two pounds (12' to 24'), a few largies w/ two 3.5's from up shallow. Richard, Modesto Castmasters.
City: SonoraTips: Small worms with red flake. On the bottom. Slooooooowwwww! Spots were clustered in 20 yard areas, largies spread along the bank.
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Water Temp: 62-67
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Went fishing with Nick Chip in the afternoon. We got on the water around 2:45. Tried for 2 or 3 hours to get out of the wind. We must of fished a dozen different spots before 6:00 pm. We picked up a fish here and there but by no means was it a wide open bite. Most of the fish were caught on spider grubs. Caught lots of red eye's, too. Big ones. All the spots and red eye's still had eggs. Every largemouth we caught had already spawned out. Most fish had pulled off a bit. No fish were on beds or caught shallow. But, at 6:30 pm, we tucked into a cove to get out of the wind, and then the fun began. There was a great top water bite right up until dark. I can't even remember how many fish we caught. We used everything from a Sammy to a Pop R to a Spit'N Image. Nick caught a largie about 4lbs, I broke off a couple real nice ones, too. Most of the fish we caught we between 2-3 pounds.
City: SonoraTips: If you want to treat someone to a really fun fishing trip. Get out to Melones now. The last hour or so before dark is magic. Start in coves that are wind protected and work the secondary points off main lake points. Have fun!!!
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Shasta Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Dont know who changed the format of the fishing reports,,, but SURE glad they did... THANKS...
City: Woodland calif
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Soulajule Lake
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Anyone was fishing here lately?
Any info? Tips?
City: San Rafael
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
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California Delta
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Water Temp: high 50's
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Two of us launched from Korth's. Fished the Mokelumne, Potato Slough, and Frank's Tract. Caught 9 keeper bass (most in the 1.5-2lb range) and 3 keeper stripers (4, 5 and 7 lbs). Stripers caught on Rat L Traps and bass on char/wh spinner baits. A lot of action in Frank's Tract fishing the shallows around tule islands
City: DixonTips: Toss Rat L Traps into water flow of any pumps that are running. Caught all stripers in 15 minutes at 1 pump when water was flowing.
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Water Temp: ?? still need
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: finally got off work to enjoy my 5 day easter weekend. PRAISE THE LORD!!!! as the sun was going down and during the twilight I was only able to hook guarding males, using spinner baits and flipping zippers. after dark was when the real fun began. hit most of my night time spots around ladds and started to nail good bass up 6 lbs. figure i had 25 lb. 7 fish limit by 10 pm. watched all the other bass boats come in for the day, i always enjoy that, thinking about my bass boat i want some day. any ways all the larger bass came on red/blk jigs. flippen around lit up docks.
City: stockton,laddsTips: just go out and have some fun and make the time time lol. i plan to run my custom vaclo bass boat "BASSBUSTER1" as far out as Big Al's in the next couple of days. Time to wake up the 20 hp mercury. OOHHYYAA!!!!!! SET THE WATER ON FIRE!!! lol.
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