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Sunday, April 29th, 2007

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Beautiful day at the lake. Same as last Thurs. Great bite along rocky edges on senko. Some fish on flats. Fishing with my 5 yr old GS and he managed 2 nice fish with drop shot. Follow fish a little deeper after 11am.
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: I sure wish tournament guys who e-mail me asking for info would occasionally report; then I would answer.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was a good fishing day for other people but just not me. The guy next to me today landed a good 2-3 pounder right off his second try. It was pretty calm weather over all hardly any wind till sunset.

      p.s. it was my first time fishing here so please email me tips on what lures you guys use. thank you.
      City: san jose

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Clearlake keeps kicking out fish. We picked up 16 bass. Considering there was an FLW Tournament on the lake Thur-Fri-Sat with 168 boats and there were a couple of local tournaments on Sunday I consider we did pretty good. There were times I could see and count a dozen boats fishing.

      We caught a few fish on drop shots, a few on senkos, a few flipping jig with a trailer. A few in the canals, a few on docks and a few on rock. One fish was 4 lbs and a ounce, two or three that were in the 3 lb range and the rest were all small. I wanted something much larger and I landed everything I hooked I just didn't get any big bites. The fish all appeared to be prespawn and the bite was very light either the bait would stop falling or I would go to pick it up and there would be pressure and I'd set the hook.
      City: Benicia

      Tips: Drop shot MMIII, white and black senkos, and flipping with jigs are all working. Very light bite, watch your line.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hi Mike from Petaluma, Im sorry you had a bad day fishing, if there is such a thing. At least your family was there. Try to remember that this is a family site when choosing your words.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished bass tournament this weekend. Started at Mexican Gulch at sun up and hooked an 8 pounder on a jig head with 6 inch green and black flake trailer on third cast. Pulled in a second 2.4 pounder 10 minutes later. After several other boats showed up we moved to Big Arm Creek just past the bouy line and hit a 5 pounder by the trees on a red and black spinner. Pulled in 8 other 1-3 pounders all over the lake mostly on 1/8 th oz jig heads with green or brown 6 inch trailers. Saw mostly males on the beds with females running 15-25 foot deep away from the beds. If we saw them, we caught them. Water was a little rough so had to work on areas that we had seen fish earlier in the week.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Hit bottom with jigs and slow twitch back to the boat. Run back up from deeper water (20-40 ft.) to the beds for the big females to follow and bite.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished a split shot rig caught about 15 spot up to 3 pounds fished mostly island tops with the best bait green pumkin lizards have fun the spots are biting
      City: roseville

      Tips: find island tops in about 10 to 14 feet of water and drag around doesnt take long to get a limit was off the water by 11 am

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Same as yesterday however bite was not on jigs but wacky 3" cut-tails on drop shot rig. had to change because action had slowed, left earl;y at 11:00. Bitye shut off at 8:00 as weather changed a little bit. Tried swimbaits, chatterbaits(i fish) and jigs. No smallies today and only two limits of spots.
      City: sac

      Tips: As soon as you see the bite is different cahnge right away for a better creel. Every day can be a different bite and you have to adapt to it. If you are fishing a tourny, go immediately for percentage, forget about other presentations. Bite will change throughout the day, so in your prefishing, try the percentage shots and while prefishing make many different presentations to see what is the deal.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: whent up chaut a few 2 lbers and one nice 6 lber all on a dark grey shalowe crank
      City: san jose

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 7AM with Mike Salca owner of Butte Creek tackle and my 7 year old son Zachary. Light wind most of the day. (Whats new) Fished until 445pm. Fished with spider grubs and dart heas for awhile. I stayed with drop shot blue worms. In the PM we switched to senkos in the trout color and were fishing them wacky style weightless in trees or bushes that were in 15-25 feet water. We ended up with approx 50 fish. Two went over three pounds. We probably had 12.5 with our biggest five fish. My son Zack did not boat a fish. He was upset because the day before, we fished a farm pond near the buttes and he caught 24 fish with the biggest going 5 pounds. It is very interesting on a boat with a 7 year old for 10 hours. When I got home I had to hit the MGD to calm my nerves. I'll be needing to restock by drop shot weights and hooks. It seemed like he could not stay out of the rocks(Including the ones on the bank). He had a good time. He would fish every day if he could. Thank you Mike Salca for trip.
      City: Magalia

      Tips: Hit the trees in deep water. Use senkos. Take a kid fishing when ever you can. It will be a merory they will never forget.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished friday saturday and sunday. Friday I had about 12 lbs on sencos inthe south end.Saturday and Sunday saw lots of bedfish and cruisers but hard to catch.Encouraging to see some quality fish finnaly.still majority of fish are undersized,we will have to keep an eye on numbers of small fish,may have to create another slot limit again since DFG wont.It seemed to work last time.I only had one smallmouth dont know whats happening to them,is anybody else getting any smallys?
      City: Eureka

      Tips: Catch and release big fish

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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my Dad Woke up at the crack o dawn and rented a boat. Tried scow canyon first and stopped at several places. There were fish jumping all over the damn place, one jumped about every minute. These fish couldn't have been trout, they didn't bite on anything. My gess would be that they were carp. ANyway, after trying scow canyon for trout and bass and getting only 2 bites, we moved on. Fished countless other places and finally stopped at Sandy Point. AT sandy point, we caught 7 trout in an hour and a half at around 2:00pm.Thats the thing i hate about san pablo, every time ive gone theres 1 or 2 overcrowded hot spots were u can catch a limit in an hour and the rest of the lake is shit where ur lucky to get 1 bite every hour.I dont know maybe we come here at the wrong time, this lake really frustrates me but it was fun once we started hitting the fish. The fish arent as big as they advertise, average was like 15 inches(which is not bad i geuss) but the damn website makes it sound like avergage fish is 3 pounds.All in all, a frustrating day at first, but turned out to be okay.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: This lake is definatley worth sum time and can be very productive, But Dont always come here, its hard to know how the fishing will be.DONT ALWAYS TRUST THE WEBSITE!

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hit the water today at 10:00 and fished until 6:00. only one fish for a days worth of work. i DID throw swimbaits a lot so that explains part of it but i threw shakey heads, dropshots, and chatterbaits too, with no takers - held back on the senko. finally got a 4-09 at 5:15 on a huddlebug. i was hoping for a lot better day since the temps are starting to rise and the full moon is this week.
      City: Orinda

      Tips: i have none. i'm "looking" for some for this lake.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My boat was out of the water for over a month and I couldn't wait to go fishing.The boat ran great and the bass were very willing. I took my 12yr. old nephew and my brother. I really wanted to teach my nephew some bass catching techniques. I started him throwing a Senko and within a short time he caught a 3. in Yorty behind the island off a tree. We then proceeded to move to the mouth of Cherry and my brother stuck two 2 lb. on a 6" Oxblood texas rig glass n brass. So far so good but no fish for me yet, so we found some more submeged trees and brush and I stuck a 3.5 on the same Oxblood worm. I tried to teach my nephew how to fish a worm up in the front of the boat with me and after a few misses and a few snags I decided to let him fish alone from the back with a 5" Green Pumpkin senko. Right off the bat he yells I got a fish and out of the water comes a 4lb that spit out the senko. I instructed my nephew that he has to set the hook before reeling next time. Boy did he catch on quick. He proceeds to catch 8 more bass 2 to 3 lbs while my brother nails a nice 4.5. I said enough of this and started throwing a senko myself and caught a 4 and many 2's and 3's. It was a great day for all of us catching 24 with best 5 going 18lbs. Now is the time to take a kid fishing.You will catch alot and make a kid happy.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Redwood Empire Bass Clubs next meeting is May 9th at 7p.m. at the Rohnert Park Community Center at the corner of Rohnert Park Expressway and Snyder Lane. Our guest speaker is Tony Franceschi a bass pro from the Delta. We welcome new members both boaters and non boaters to fish with us. Our next tournement is May 19th at the Delta. Log onto rebc.net or call me at 707-758-5762 for more info.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 59+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a fun day with a newby bass fisherman. Showed him how to deal with spooky bedding bass and he caught about a dozen with the largest almost 4 lbs. Other than the nesting smallies, wood in the water seemed to be the key. There isn't much of it, and all the fish in any given area are really keying on it after the sun has been on the water for a while.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Patience!

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was tough saw many on beds but they never attacked when you put a worm or grub on it they swam away.

      Tips: try the flats and TD minnows worked good but the bite was slow. white spinner baits didnt work.

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing was good to us today lots of good size fish water level nice and high maybe we'll see some cover on this lake soon lake lice are coming out in full effect 80 plus of them
      City: salinas

      Tips: never before a tournament

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: BEAUTY!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: BEAUTY!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 66.5-68.0

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a tournament on Sat the 28th of April in the central delta area and the winning weight was 35+ lbs all fish caught on beds. I agree with the last post about boat traffic and boat responsibility. Lots of boats,wave runners and jet skiers that just don't have a clue about boat safety. Made it down right dangerous to come in off the water even the marina's were difficult to get boat in safely. I wish I could say the same and not come back until the fall but I fish tournaments on Saturday's and don't have a choice but to show...Where's the Law when you need them?
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Be careful that's all I have to say and allow enough travel time to make it in to weight-ins safely...Good luck!

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      Water Temp: 62 up to 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at rivers end marina in Byron around 7:30. Ran up past clifton caught a few with blades and plastic. then decided to take a ride and find discovery bay. I have only fished the Delta a few times so wanted to explore. Found it and saw some carp action off Indian slough. Cast the weed line just in front of the action and my friend Doug hooks a 6.5 #er. Headed into the dock areas and started a steady pick around the back side of the docks in the shade. Sat was a hot day 95 according to my outside temp gauge,and water temp was 74 around the docks. fished Senkos in black and red around the docks. Ended up with over 35 fish for the two of us. Several 3 and 4 pounders.
      City: SF

      Tips: I do not think I will fish the Delta any weekends between now and fall. To many drunk wake boarders and boats that should be on the ocean flying around corners putting up huge wakes. Makes traveling very dangerous. Most of these people have no boating training or courtesy.