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Sunday, October 14th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 68to73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 7am and fished the Moccasin area. The lake is really low so goodtime to mark some waypoints. The topwater and spinnerbait worked for us around stick ups. Lots of bait action in the 20 to 30 ft. range. Threw some swimbaits and got some bumps but no takers.No luck on dropshot but did get some senko fish. We left early to try and catch the 49er game...Sorry I did, should have stayed and fish more.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Fall bite is coming on, time to get out...Oh! and bring a radio and fish longer.Table

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water temp 72 in the AM later in the day 76 in places. A lot of followers with swim baits s-wavers,small swim baits etc,found jig fish near larger rocks in 35ft,dropshot fish using your favorite colors working. Shad balls 50ft begining to bunch up on the outside of coves,largies not far from them just waiting for the right time. Lake is down, good time to take pictures of your hot spots to remember for the up coming year.Mostly 2 lbs with a few larger ones chasing but not commiting just yet. For me between 11 to 12 lbs best 5. Good Luck and have FUN. Remember wear the live vest lake level is down.
    City: Merced

    Tips: Find the birds,finds the shad,catches the largies. Enjoy the day,cooler days and nights will be turning them on more. Keep a eye on the surfuce their chasing.

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished BBT tourney. Fish were on main lake points and shallow. We caught most on shad plastics. Other teams caught on a variety of techniques.

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 66 to 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lots of tournament action this weekend ABA had one out of Fleming. I don't know how many boats... around 30 maybe. We fished on the other end just to stay out of the way and found a lot of action of our own. We caught a lot of fish on dropshot 2lb average and topwater which got me my biggest of the day, 5lber. Saw a few cruising but nothing big or locked on beds.Goodtime to be on the water. Goodluck!
    City: Bay Area

    Tips: Fish your basic colors, greens, purples and shad pattern topwater. 5 to 25 feet worked for us.composition

Sunday, March 4th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ok, come on guys. I know that I am not the only one fishing. See too many oy Yoy All out there.Bass starting to move up whacked em on a C rig this past weekend, no no Alabama rig, wanted it slow and in their face . Bait ( decline). If you still want a limit of trout to off set the gas prices try the back of the creeks with a meps.
    City: Hughson

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

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    Water Temp: 52.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: overall clear, some of the drains were a bit murkey. I have recently moved here from NC and this is my 3rd trip to this lake. Granted today was in a storm I have yet to get bit on this lake from swim baits to crank baits, to drop shot. I know there are small mouth and spots in this lake and given the water temp I am excluding the florida stain Large mouth but WTF. I can go to MCClure and do well, so am I early or is this lake that much different?

    Cold as the begebers today, rain sideways, and I was the only vehicle in Bartlett cove Lauch. That should have benn a clue. But we don't pick the weather on tourn days so I went.

    Looking for a partner for the Randy pringle's new tourn this year, e mail me at my contact if you wants fish this circuit.
    City: Hughson

    Tips: fish I graphed were in 80 -120 feet deep. That is beyound my comprehension coming from the east coast.

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 79-83

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went from 730am.-300pm. Generally pretty tough, but did catch a few. topaters,wake baits, cranks, and spinnerbaits all got at least one. jigs and drop shot got zilch.
    City: atwater

    Tips: man the water is high and stained....lots of boat traffic.

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 76-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water about 6:00am and man it is a full pool, water is about a foot from going over the spill way.
    Started near Blue Oaks throwing a blade and cranks with no takers, moved out to a little deeper water looking for rock piles and caught a few small fish. Drop shot and dart head is the only thing we could get them to eat.
    We had eight fish with biggest one going about two ponds.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Great mudd line with water being up in the grass, seems like a blade, chatter bait or fluke would work some where on this lake.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launced out of Blue Oaks, water is about 15ft from going over spill way, level is up into parking area above ramp.
    Started cranking/spinnerbaiting spillway channel with no results. Moved to main lake points throwing drop shot and wacky Senkos. Picked up a couple two pounders on Senko; grnpnk/bf. Moved to Rogers area and kept throwing Senkos with better results; I stuck one about 4# and two others about 2.5-3#s. Brother cranks one a little under 5#.
    I started pitchen Senko to wood (shade side) and got several more. Hooked one that I could not stop, it came out of the water once and it was huge but it came unbottoned.
    Best five would be 16-18 lbs.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Pitch Senkos to wood in the heat of the day, fish both sides of main lake points concentrating on the first rocky areas off main lake points.

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Nor Cal Bass tourney looking for the big girls and could not find one locked on a bed in the main lake area due to strong winds. We fished main lake points and spawning bays with no success for the bed fish. We did catch about thirty fish total most running in the two pound range with some smaller fish thrown in. Brown/blk jig 1/2 oz, Bezerk Baits jig with a yamomoto watermelon red trailer in five to ten feet of water.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Jig worked best on both sides of main lake points in five to ten feet. Move fairly slow but keep moving. Bite was subtle but you can feel it.
    The Berzerk Baits jig out fished the other jigs five to one. Fish jig until sun hits water then go to purple six inch worm on a split shot or carolina rig in fifteen to thirty feet.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got a late start but it was ok. been on a fair to good bite with a 25 fish average. some days better than others with the size but the numbers are there. i have noticed that the wacky worm is about the best thing to throw early to mid afternoon. carolina rig is where my bite has come from the most had a great day on the 25th 42 fish with a 4 lbs average.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry guys... The last post was for McClure. I will try to get it corrected.
    City: Modesto

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from safe-light until 10AM. Managed 18 total with a 19" spot that went over 3 lbs and two large mouth that were both 4 lbs. Too bad it wasn't a tournament day. Best five would have been over 15 lbs.

    Secondary points, rock walls and wood structure were our targets. Bigger fish were on the rock walls in 10 feet of water. We didn't bed fish, but there were lots of fish on beds in the back of the coves. We just didn't see anything worth stopping for... mostly small bucks.

    All of our fish came on the Senko in natural colors. We threw other baits, but the Senko was working early, so we just stuck with it.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: From what I could see, the bass seem to be in all stages of the spawn. Now is the time to get out there while the lake is wide-open.

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a nice bass on a wacky rigged smoke senko. Had some other good strikes as well. Saw some very large fish; one chased my Huddleston into shore. Creatures did nothing. Same for flukes. Best fishing was two hours before dusk. Also fished surface lures and no takers.
    City: danville

    Tips: I had to reel super slow with the wacky rig. Fish and good hits came right after a strong twitch. I fished the Huddleston too fast and paid for it.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 51 - 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: bass are starting to lock on beds. caught 15 fish in about 7 hours all 2lb+, 25lb+ limit. all fish were in 2 to 8 foot of water. all u have to do is slow fish 4 to 7 in worms the are really heatin up. you can spot fish i pulled 6lb female off bed 2ft from boat in 3ft water. get out now best time of year for quantity and good size fish
    City: riverbank

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 59- 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A lot of fish looking to spawn, if the weather stays consistent the next full moon should be real good. Now's The Time !!! Goodluck! Also looking for trolling motor repair. Plese post if you know of one. Thanks!
    City: Bay Area

    Tips: Senkos and Flukes got me 20lbs. for 5 fish, 6 lbs. was my biggest.Lemon and white flukes, watermelon red senkos around spawning and backs of coves in 2 to 8 ft. of water.

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 50-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water temp was a little colder than I thought it would be. Started out around 7. Surface temp read 49-50. Warmed up to 54 by mid afternoon. Water was clear. Ended up catching a small limit. Nothing over 2.5 lbs. Drop shot shad colored 4" & 6" robo worms worked best. Graphed large schools holding tight to deep structure. Caught 2 that looked to be a smallmouth/largemouth mix.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: fish slow and still deep. Fish will bite just wont chase anything yet.

Saturday, January 29th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Nobody reports, so I guess I'll give it a whirl. Went from 1 to 530 pm. Caught spots, largies, and a smallmouth. Most fish were ~1.5 lbs. One 4.2 largemouth and the smallie was 2.6. Fish were scattered. Caught spots in less than 5 ft to largemouths in 50 ft. Most fish came on senkos, a couple on a brown/purple proguide jig (I think Johnny c's jigs..not sure tho). Fished mostly channels in big creek and graveyard. 15 fish total.

    Tips: The fish that I graphed deep were very catchable.

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Picked up quite a few 2+ lb bass dragging carolina rigged lizards. Fish are surprisingly shallow, all were in less than 15 feet.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Fish are really shallow for late summaer. Expected them to be in the 30 to 35 range but all were is less than 15.

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 81

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Christian Bass League (CBL) headed out for a dusk tourney 4-10pm. It was hot and the water was rough. Most teams were able to bring in at least 1 fish. The top team was Sexton and McGee bringing 14#8oz to the scale. They caught them on topwater- buzzers and poppers. Most everyone else found them on dropshoting purple worms, senkos or brushhogs. Join us for our next tourney at the delta(Sept) and then back to Pedro(Oct). Check-us out on Facebook or call me 209-988-5818
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Keep your fish cool. We put a bag of ice in the livewell with Rejuvenade and a little water until we had fish. Later I added a frozen 1gl bottle mixed with Rejuvenade and took the lid off so it could melt. After 6 hrs the water was still cool and the fish feisty.