Fishing Report

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Saturday, March 20th, 2004

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Fri. & Sat.. Caught fish in the Narrows, the big island and the east side flats. Mostly spots and smallies to 3 lbs.. Caught a few on crawdad cranks and wht/chart. spinnerbait. Most fish came split shotting 4" worms.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Most fish caught in very back end of coves or in 8' of water on the flats. worms had to have a chartruese tip for more hook ups. Best colors were grn. weenie, blue ghost, and salt & pepper. Talk to some other bassers who caught good fish ripping and throwing flukes.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great time fishing the Future Pro Tournament with 140 other boats. Winning weight was 15+ lbs. and several 6+ lbs fish for big fish. We caught fish on dropshot, spinnerbaits, jerk baits and 4" swimbaits to take 20th place. Learned a lot and had a great partner.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Fished were biting well in the morning but slowed down when sun hit the water. Fish are all over up against the banks in cove and some points. Good luck

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: mid 60s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Two person guide trip on Saturday. Had two good fisherman on board...Paul Coseras & Steve Strain both of San Francisco. We had a tough time connecting with fish of any size consistantly. They cought fish throwing blades,senkos and pitching brush hogs..There determination and willingness to stay with it did put some decent fish in the boat before the days end. Thanks guys
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Most our fish were in less than 3 ft in two or three isolated areas with a couple of dead hours mid day.Everyday is different right now.

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

      Report: Started at 8:30 a.m. and finished at 5:00 p.m. Great fishing day. Between the three of us we caught 25 spots smallest being 13". All released. Used 4" Pro Worms in blue streak and salt/pepper carolina rigged with mojo's.
      City: Colfax

      Tips: Take a kid fishing.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 65 to 67

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished from 12:30 till 6:00. Caught three and lost one.saw lots of fish shallow. Caught one about 3 on a bed.two smallies on cranks
      City: livermore

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

      Report: Me and my partner were the second boat on the water, not much wind everything looked perfect. Started shallow 1 to 10 feet, partner caught one quick that went 2.5 pounds. We did'nt get bit for about another 30 minutes, it seems like this lake is just being fished very hard right now. We caught fish all over the lake, but most of them were small, I broke one off near the keep out bouy line. We caught them on jigs worms and brushogs, all shallow. Are biggest fish was just under three pounds. We ended up catching 14 fish but not as good as I wanted to do. Oh well it was still fun and a great day. Good luck!!
      City: Coalinga

      Tips: Keep fishing a wide range of depths, fish are from the surface to 15 feet or more and there crusing all over the lake.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time post. Decided to give back to this great forum. Anyway, fished from 6-11 and caught 15 up to 3.5lbs. Fished the main body, fish were 4-10ft deep and were caugth on worms. Most of the smaller fish seemed to be in the willows with the larger fish on rocks. Just a general observation. Family came out at 11 and my 2yr old caught his first bass!!! What a day!
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Get out and fish! This weather is amazing!

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from shore for three hours this morning - knocking off around noon. There are a large number bass up in the shallows, probably due to the warm weather we've had for the last week and a half. Saw about a dozen fish today. Only problem was they saw me as well. Caught one in a group of four, on a "paddle fry" swimming minnow bait. Fish weighed about 3 lbs...and it was the smallest of the four. Released it right away.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Patience is the key. These bass are not that easy to catch. Watch out when accessing the water from the shoreline...tons of poison oak everywhere.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wasco Bass Club blasted at 600hrs for its 3rd tourn.of this year.Last week during pre fishing
      me and my partner had a great day landing approx.
      25 fish, small and large mouth.We were catching
      them on black spinners and crawfish red pattern
      cranks.Now on the day of the tourn.we couldn't
      strike a match in a major black-out.We caught about 15 fish but no keepers for weigh-in.We did
      land one for the scales at about 1000 hrs. when we thought all hope was gone.A monster 8.25 lbs
      black bass giving us a 9th standing.Talking about
      luck this couldn't had happen at a better time saving us from a Blank.O ya it was big of the tourn.And we also found out the fish are staging
      in the coves and flats.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: I caught that 8.25 bass on an aaron magic but for the best results use black lizards or green medium
      brush hogs and small skinner bear jigs with this you can't go wrong, yes they are on beds and staging up.If you don,t beleave me do it your way.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 61-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished our small club tourney . lots of sunshine and lots of fish .. mostly smaller fish but winners 13 + was headed with a 7+ largemouth . bite was good early for me. i got six in the first hour including four keeper fish .. one being 3+. off to good start . got one mor keeper the rest of day . i caught all mine except one on a jerk bait or spinner bait. couldn't get a plastic bite going . even drop shotting wasn't working for me all tho lots of other guys got plastics going ?? i fished early inside the cove that has all the houseboats anchored.. then went up river and later in the day came back . fished by myself and dumped one about four as i went for net and then turned another about the same just long enough to see big white belly . anyway had almost eight . it took 10
      = to get in the money ....
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: ghost color jerkbait and chart/white spinner bait worked for me . all fish almost ready to spawn . get up there for a fun day ...

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my partner got to the lake at 9:00 and man was it slow. Fished until about 2:30 or 3:00 and only boated 3 fish and I was ready to go home but stayed. Good thing too. After about 3:00 it was just one after another. Ended up with 20-25 fish with the biggest going about 5lbs. All of them in windy gap area on a pro worm paddle tail.
      City: Fresno

  • California
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      Water Temp: Low 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kickboat, launched from White Oak. To the left are some flat areas holding bass, a tourney was going on and watched a few being caught on a lipless crank shad color....for me 3 were caught using a Robo worm: Aarons Magic.
      City: Templeton,CA

      Tips: Bass reports from the lake are excellent!

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished small club from Medford, OR on Shasta last Saturday. I caught only 7 fish and nothing over 2.5, but all were keepers. I caught most of mine early on Lucky Craft jerk bait. Bite got very tough late, but I had some luck on crank bait. I was 5th with 7.4 lbs. First place was only 9.4 lbs. Not Shasta experts by far, but we had a great day and a good time. I want to thank JERRY for going out of his way to give me some pointers. The information was better than the execution. Art
      City: Medford, OR

Friday, March 19th, 2004

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 60 to 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6:30 to 9:30 this morning before work, caught 9 on a spinnerbait that has been working really well for me at Berryessa lately. 3.5 & 2.75 largie and the rest smallies, 2.25,2.0,2.0 were the best Five. Good morning bite today, great way to start the day.
      City: Davis

      Tips: Hit em early!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 7 to 10 AM. Took 5 on shallow running crankbait (shad) and 4 on watermelon brushogs. Nothing on spinnerbaits. Crankbait fish came from rock banks early morning and the brushog fished came from laydowns. All fish were small bucks about 3/4 to 1 1/2 pounds, all fish would have weighed. Good luck to all at the future pro tourney tomorrow.
      City: Suisun City

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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 7-12 today at the rockslide at the entrance to the narrows. First two casts, two bites but no fish. Boated 2 dinks on plastic and one on a rattletrap. Got ready to go and the big motor would not crank over. Dan O'Sullivan, owner of Lim-it Lures, stopped to help. When the jumpstart did not work he towed me all the way to Cappell. Thanks again, Dan. A great lure and a really nice fisherman. I wish your company much success in the future.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: Check the meter on your batteries before you launch. Save yourself the aggravation.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 61-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out wed morn down south, fliped senkos and brush hogs in spawning areas. First fish went 5.0 followed by two more over three. Boated about 14 but the rest were all 2's and under. Fri went back down south, bite was slower but the quaility was up. Best five went about 22.5lbs with big fish pushing 6lbs. We were deadsticking our baits in very shallow water and the bites were subtle.
      City: TRACY

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Rented a boat and caught about 6 bass. The biggest was about 2.5Lbs. we fished around indian cove by the tulles and got sooooooooooooo many hits. all fish were taken in about 10ft of water or less.

      by the end of the day, we headed toward the island... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      we saw bass that were easily 13Lbs!!!!!!!! no joke!!! i saw at least 3 that were that size and a bunch more that were in the 5-8lb range.
      we tried everything to hook these bad boys but had no luck. my friend used a jig and kept casting it in front of one... he pissed it off a few times because it hit, but my friend never hooked it. that one was easily 7Lbs.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: fish VERY slow. make sure you try several colors and if you can see the fish, the fish can probably see you... so get further away and keep trying.

      also, you definitely need to rent a boat or take your own to catch the bass.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Everybody I talked to said they got one or two fish today. Went to Alder point and meet some cool people who helped me out due to the fact that I am really new to fishing. Thanks Coolcatt!

      Anyways, no luck for me despite staying for 5 hours but everybody I spoke to said they caught 1-3 fishes. Anybody want to fishing tomorrow and teach a newbie? I'll pay for the boat, you teach me the basic! Thinking of going doing Chabot again or Del Valle either tomorrow or Sunday.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Talk to people, everybody is really nice.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a difference two days make. fished from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Skunk day only two bites and didnt hook them. talked to two bass boats and they had only two small fish each. Slow day for every one I guess?
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: can some one else post whats working? I shure dont know today.