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Sunday, September 21st, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ok, I decided to write a report on this lake because no one else is. Went out yesterday with a buddy o mine at about eight and started with top water, and got nothing. Stopped at about nine and started hiking. We didn't get any hits untill we got to the steep clis. We ound the ish by working the banks real ast with blades and rattles. Once we ound them, we started using jigs, brush hogs, and senko's. By noon me and my buddy were making bets on who would catch the 100th ish! Even though we were still catching em every cast we called it a day. We lost count at 150 but guessed that we had about 180 ish up to six pounds. A lot o the ish were small, and some times you would reel your trape in with two ish on the end. I'm only giving this report on this lake, because would like to have another angler to talk with. Out o the three years I have been going thier I've only seen ive ishermen. Write a report i you go! Good luck
    City: Mill Valley

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77.1

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Centimudi at 0515, air temp a cool 70, lake is down to 47t and releases have slowed, motored over near big backbone and got into the middle o a bunch o trout(do they count?) and caught 4 o them on a rip bait. changed to a popper and caught the irst small spot, and I mean small, the bait was larger, started throwing jigs to try to ind some size and got bit twice but no ish, kept at it or 2 + hours with no luck. Ran back out into the main lake area and cruised the bank and ound a scadzillion ish on my meter in 26t and suspended in the 14-18t depth. Got out the dropshot equipment and dropped down an MGM#127 sluggo and it got blasted by a 1.6 spot. Went back in with a #109C 4 inch curly tail tight on top o some bigger that average blips and got my best smallmouth o this year ater it charged around boring deep 4X, get it up and slide it into the net, a nice at dinner plate looking ish that went 3.26lbs on the culemrite, Got over that one and caught 11 more(5 small mouth) on the 109C curly tail. The skiers and jet skiers started up around 0900 so I went home
    City: Redding

Friday, August 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We all did loat tube jousting and poped all our loat tubes and sunk to the bottom o the lake !!!!!!Help me:-)Peace,C.B.
    City: P

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: HOT

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: BENEFIT TOURNAMENT...at B&W Resort on the Delta, August 23rd, Saturday..or a member who's house burned.....e-mail or details or just show up, $100.00 per boat, 50% or amily, 50% being split 70/30 or winning bag and big ish....help out a ellow angler....thanks to NCBF or their orum..tell a riend.......thanks EGBassPres@aol.com
    City: Carmichael

Friday, August 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Overcast skies put hope in the heart and boy what a payo. Pegged a nice 7lbr on topwater irst thing in the am and managed a ew dinks ater that. Couple blow-ups on rogs later on in morning, o the water at noon.
    City: stockton

    Tips: RELAX....enjoy the act that your out o the oice...big bites WILL come!

Thursday, July 31st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 85-87 deg's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Top 10 ish-o was won by George Rosales o visalia. 2nd was Harry Boudakian and 3rd was Brian Chance. I was ishing a ledge in 36 t o water and dropping down to 47 t. All spotted bass, lost 2 good ones and had 4 ish or 5.54lbs. All beore 8 a.m.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Drop-shot .

Sunday, May 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 61 I heard

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the south end in my tube about 11:00 AM. The lake is ull and the water is warming. Hooked one on a crankbait out on the lats in about 8 t. o water. Moved in close to the tules and ound better action. Caught a couple more on a lizard but missed many more hits. Just couldn't get a good hook set on them ish.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: The underwater vegitation which is usaully getting tall by now is very short so the bottom eels clean when you ish it.

Saturday, May 10th, 2003

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    Water Temp: don't know

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Floated the island pond Saturday evening till dark. Caught a couple that were around 12". One was right up under the trees and the other was out o o the tules in about 6t. o water. Saw a couple busts on top but not enough action to recomend a top water bait.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: The underwter veg. is getting very tall so ishing the bottom is tough. Try and ind holes in the grass or edges.

Monday, May 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 54.3-54.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: the lake is down 1.5 t and murky do to the rains recently, it has cooled o a bit or the same reason, debris still prevalent and touhg to see with the north wind blowing this morning, got in at Centimudi, all the debris has been removed by Shasta Rec. Comp. Ran over into the lower Sac around Dolly point and little back bone or a dozen and all were small with one at 1.8 on a hula grub, the rest came on the MGM #127 in a 6 inch curly tail on a darter head. No real pattern today, caught ish rom the bank out to 20 t with most in the 6-14 t area. Didn't ind too many in the back o coves, guess the weather pushed them o, did see some some bass ry roaming around and my best guess is that the spawn will be over soon. I did notice that the 1.8 was at and ull o eggs, 2 others were as narrow as a ruler and the rest were small males. 43 degrees going in, 61 coming out with about a 12 mph wind
    City: Reding,Ca.

Sunday, April 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had the pleasure o having the "phennom" Jason Brown out tubing with me today. We got to the second pond at 1130 and ished till 5. caught 10 ish all day. 8 were Jasons 2 were mine.All came on my homemade brn and purple jig with a yama trailer. all largies except two. FIsh were caught on steep banks dragging the jig or hopping it. Jasons total weight was around 9 lbs and mine was 2. look or him to make big strides in the bass ishing world in the next ew years.HE HAS Potential.
    City: redding

    Tips: JIGS...JIGS...JIGS brn purple

Monday, April 21st, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Just wanted to conirm the inal day Weigh-in weight o local avorite Robert Lee.He brought 26.00 lbs to the scales to win hisourth B.A.S.S. tournament at the San Joaquin Delta.Way to go Robert!!! Total weight or The 4 day Tournament was86lbs 8 ozs.Fourth in the All Time standings or most weight in a 4 day tournament.
    City: Manteca

Thursday, April 17th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: You ishing at Almadedn(coleman) what bait set up you using? are you bank ishing?
    City: sj

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My dad and I ished up at San Pablo this thursday and we seemed to do well. Got up there around 6:00 AM barely any people. Weather was great and so was the ishing at times. We were ishing at Pines the whole day. Around 9:30 AM things started to heat up and the ish were hitting every 30 minutes. We caught 8 all together, and must o had 11 bites. We caught one 6 pound catish and everything else was trout. Ranging rom 13 to about 16 inches. I had one big trout on which must have been at least 7 pounds but my line snapped ater a 10 minute battle. But or the most part ishing was great and conditions were excellent.
    City: Millbrae

    Tips: Use nightcrawlers but not the whole thing. Cut in hal and use one hal o it. Inlate with air and put attractant on the bait. It is okay i the hook is exposed just as long as the worm is moving. You can put powerbait or any kind o sot bait i you want. And last, is to make sure you have a long leeder around two eet. GOODLUCK!!!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Does anybody no i you can take a boat out yet? Thanks
    City: Pittsburg

Tuesday, March 25th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: Santa Rosa

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lake Sonoma, Saturday, March 22

    Tips: Fishing is easy. Many o the bass are spawning. Some have inished - smallry already swimming. Fish slow. Lots o ish in the brush and some o the points. Next two weeks will bring even easier ishing. We are about three weeks erlier than last year. Same or our vineyards.

Thursday, March 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53.5-55.0

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the pm beore and during the storm ront that was coming in. The ish had moved back rom the lats and were on rock piles in 15-17 oot o water. Earlier , beore the storm I had the ish located in the lats 8-12 eet o water and scattered. We started Thursday looking or a reaction bite throwing a 90sp stasbe in ghost , rattle traps, and cb200's. Nothing shallow so ater 2 hours o nata we pulled o the lats and went to humps. We picked up about 10 ish the largest a 4.6 lb largemouth that my buddy caught crawling a yum tube. I caught my ish on a carolina rigged 9S senko in #301 color. The spots and smallmouth are about to pop.
    City: Sacramento,

    Tips: Learned a valuable lesson while carolina rigging today. I was lasy so instead o the leader and swivel I just pegged the weightabout 18 inches above the hook. I lost three nice ish at the boat on this set up beore I could see what was happining. The weight was acting like a pendulum since it was ixed and could not slide up and down the line. I was using 3/8 th oz. tungston weights. Regardless, once I became motivated to get unlazey and rig up a carolina rig like my papie taught me on Santee Cooper the problem was solved. Remember, it's only my opinion but EAT a spot or two and give the smallie's a boost.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Tue.3/11 with Frank & Lance rom Sacromento and had a wonderul day! Easy limits but on size today, just good better then keeper ish. All ish came trolling biat around 30 t deep in 100+t o water around Gooseneck and the Dam. Didn't see many ish caught but one person said they had a 13 pounder, so there must have been some bigger one's out there.John@justish-n 209 5298364 trips still openwww.justish-n.com stripers, trout, bass
    City: modesto

    Tips: Keep ish-n bait slow or broken backs astGood luck

Sunday, March 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warming

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got out around 1:30. irst spot nothing then my next spot i hit a huge ish. Throwing a 4" lizard and there goes my line. then i see it in the shade, most be over 14 pounds i think to mysel. It inally hits the sun and its a stupid carp. Got it in and it went probably 20#'s. this ish was huge. So anyways got 2 bass about a pound each. I was throwing a 4" lizard 6" lizard and a brush hog. nothing on a spinnerbait.
    City: LIVERMORE

    Tips: Water is warming but don't let the weather ool you. Still ish slow. Be patient.

Friday, March 7th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished yesterday with my ather,best day ever, we caught 16 ish with best ive as ollows one 8lb,6lb,5.5lb,5lb,5lb or a total o 29.5 lbs not bad or limit.The day was windy all day, we caught all our ish on current areas with rock.
    City: winters