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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Water Temp: 71.3
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Reports have that DFG was out looking at the Scum on the lake as it was different from before and they were showing concern. Dont know where it went from there...
Most of the algae was pretty heavy across from Vasquez today, and fairly thick in some areas. Don't know what 'type' it is but it is sure hard to wash off the boat at days end. Spent a lot of extra time getting clear water on my rag at the fish clean station to wipe off the scum and wash off my reels and line.. Nasty stuff!
City: SM
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
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Water Temp: 72.4
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Still alot of algea on the top until the wind blows it off. Scummy stuff - Gets all over the hull and your lie.
Headed to a cove across from Strawberry to plop a new top water. Bang! 2nd cast and hit a really nice smallie in the 2-1/3 pound range. Tossed it around some more with one small large taking it so moved off. To the back by the old dock and tossed it again. Picked up three more small larges so pulled out a crank. One keeper near vasquez but that was it. Moved to the walls North West of Vasquez and worked my favorite jig. Three nice lagre keepers and two smallie keepers. Time to head out. Good day.
City: SMTips: Kralens Rock Hopper and CLU's ZG Watermelon scores again. Love these jigs.
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
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Water Temp: 71.2
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A great day spent on the water with my son. Vasquez offered up some weight today and my son scored on dropshot in 30 foot. Landed three nice heavies in the 4-5 pound range off the East wall. A great day spent with my best buddy!
City: SM
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
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Water Temp: 73.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A foggy morning launch at 6AM with maybe 4-5 boats already at the marina. Finally ---! A decent day at Lopez. Fisihing buddy and I headed towards the bridge and elected to stop about mid-way and toss top water. A few blowups but nothing great partner hit on a decent LG on a senko but it was off at the boat. Headed to sandflats and topwater again. Score!!Partner brought in a nice 5+ and I hit a solid three on a whacky senko. Pulled in three more and headed to Vasquez. Pulled a few off the bank, chnged up to a RootBeer Hula and the day went nuts from there. We nailed close to 30-40 fish with several in the 3-5 pound range all large blacks with one very nice 3# smallie I took on the RootBeer grub. Wind up about 11AM making it cold with the heavy fog. Fog lifted around noon with some sunshine.
City: SMTips: Fish were mostly near the shoelne in 3-6 foot. Hula Grubs in Rootbeer & Pmpkin blk flk,Robos in Oxblood and Arrons Magic were taking quality fish all morning long.
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
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Water Temp: 64.3
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Windy and dead.. Bout all I can say for Sunday. On ther water at 6, was off at 8:30. Several guys out -- Same decision - - Go home.
City: SM
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
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Water Temp: 67.4
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A trip to the pez with my good neighbor fishin buddy. Hiot Whittenberg with a big NADA.. Stopped at Sand point with same results. Headed to the back bu the last dock and started to finally hit in 4-6 foot range off the banks. Partner scored a decent 3+ and a few dinks, I finally pegged a decent 17 incher on a Pumpkin colored jig then busted another good 3+ on the opposite bank on the same setup. Slowed so we headed in about 10:30ish. A good day but pretty slow on the bite.
City: SMTips: Watermelon Pump black flake Hula grubs, Pumpkin Jigs seem to get most fish.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
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Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: Got to the lake at 6 AM went to Lopez arm-tried senkos-7 in Black with Purple-scored on 3 to 6 lb fish on most rock walls-really good day
City: AGTips: Rig the senkos weightless-let them flutter
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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Water Temp: 65.1
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Big change since Saturdays outing. Whittenberg coughed up a few decent keepers but a far cry from a few days ago. Fishing friend pulled a nice 5-6 with a small swim near the rock pile in Whittenberg and like me, a few on a dropshot.
Cloudy, overcast and foggy. Was down right chilly till about 11ish.
A few takers at the bridge but no keepers. All smaller fish
City: SMTips: Wait for better conditions. Wind got heavy around noon!
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
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Water Temp: 65.3
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A short trip to the pez to check out a new trolling motor.. SWEET! Holds in the wind like I needed. This Tour edition Motorguide Digital 82# is the ticket!
Hit Whittenberg east wall stickups with a top water and scored three right off the bat. Nice 3-5 pounders! Tossed a blade towards the backside around stickups with only two takers. Went back to the weeds and threw a whacky senko scoring four more in the 13-15" range. Moved off to Vasquez east walls and hit a few on hula grubs before calling it a goo day.. Nice outing. Wind was out a little but warm conditions.
City: SMTips: Whittenberg fish were all in the 4-5 foot range for the top water and 6-9 feet with the Senko. Good solid fish. Healthy and hungry!
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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Water Temp: 66.2
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A fun day with two buddies as we erased going to Castiac for fear of high winds. Boy! High winds were the taste for the morning launch at the Pez. Headed to the stickups in Whittenberg with nothing to show, back to the bridge where one buddy boated a nice 3 pounder from the stickups on a Yum Dingger worm. Wind still howling like crazy. Elected to hit the walls in Vasquez, changed to a Grn Pump hula grub and pounded a nice large on 1st cast. Hit a good smallie on next few casts and we worked it to the back and out on the opposite side hitting some more decent fish. Winds dropped off so we hit the walls out of Vasquez towards dam. Hit some more good keepers before heading in at noon. Good day with friends...
City: SMTips: Fish were closer to banks and in 8-15 feet.
Saturday, April 24th, 2010
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Water Temp: 61.3
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Tri Valley Meet::: 47 Boats on hand for what started to be a great day as we got first out with a #39 boat draw. Yehaw. Proved fruitless as 1st stopped netted NADA so we moved off to second stop. Still a hard go of it with maybe 20 little guys but 11", 12-7/8" aint cutting it today. Wind came up and made fishing tough as was the call for many. Some good heavy bags hit the scale today but we exited before it was over. Why they call it 'fishing'. Very Tough day with 1 in the well. Sad...
City: SMTips: Dropshot took our only keeper. Senkos failed to produce anything big. Heard swims took some big bags.
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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Water Temp: 61.3
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: A visit to try a new jig from my lure maker in North Carolina. Hit Vasquez and tied on a Blu/Blk ZG Jig with a matching trailer from Trigger X baits. One small fish and missed the second. Switched to the Red Craw ZG Jig with a watermelon trailer and scored on a nice smallie. Worked the walls near the Miracle Mile without a hit so moved off to the cove left of Whittenberg and scored another good 2-1/2 pound smallie and a decent 3-4 LG. Seems to work good with this new '1 foot ever 3 sec fall rate rather than 3 feet a second normal jig fall rate.
For more information on this unique new jig. go to:
http://www.customluresunlimited.com/zero_gravity
City: SMTips: Cloudy day and a little windy.
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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Water Temp: 57.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A mid afternoon launch to just relax and try out a couple of different baits. Hit the backside and worked the walls with no takers. Moved to Vasquez and hit three small fish then headed towards the dam area and pulled in six small fish as well. Windy but not bad out. Headed out at 3:30.
City: SMTips: Dropshot worked on the dam in 30-40 foot. Senko on a texas rig got the Vasquez bite
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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Water Temp: 55.4
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: A fun trip with two fishing buddies for the day. Cold morning with only a few boats on the water. Rain coming in and it is keeping guys away.
Stopped at the right point just out of the marina 5mph zone and my friend popped a nice 3-4 on a drop on second cast. Moved to the back and hit a few walls and I pulled in a 2 pounder on a drop. Hit it with a jig, senko and more drops but no takers. Moved to the dam and my buddy pulled in a 2 pounder. Hit Whittenberg points for takers but no luck. Clouding up quickly so headed to the ramp. Still a fun day.
City: SMTips: Got mine on an Arrons Magic Red Flake, partner got hin on blue crawler. Still finding fish but looks as if they are headed to the back rivers looking to spawn. Give it a few more days of warmer weather and head back to Vasquez or all the way to the back dock. Work shorelines.
Friday, January 8th, 2010
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Water Temp: 54.1
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Water temps up a tad due to the very nice weather we are having. A few boats out this morning at 8:30 launch. Helped a guy try to start his Merc but his starter was adios. Sorry I couldn't be of more help guys.
Hit Banana Point on my 1st stop with my fav jig combo and punched a nice 20" 5 pounder on the third cast. Thank you big lady! She looked good and healthy and no marks and a tribute to the water quality and food source of the Pez.
Elected to head down the lake but --- opps-- Motor was hit and miss. Took her back in on the trailer - changed plugs and switchbox -- back in and hit the throttle but she was still lacking power and was smoking pretty heavy coming back in. Only change I made was oil. Started using a Synthetic oil and attribute the fouling plugs [4 plugs fouled out again]to the oil. Going back to my original oil.
City: SMTips: Not much to report other than I lost my best jig on a rock. Drats! Gotta find another one.
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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Water Temp: 53.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Bite was well off from Modays results. Pretty tough and it was difficult to locate a bite. FLW Pro Jared Lintner was out today and we chatted a bit about the bite. Same senario with him. Was pretty tight going. Weather cooled a few degress and the wind was maybe a 5mph. A few other friends on hand today as well. Same situation -'Tough Bite'.
City: SMTips: Noting really that productive. Few fish I did get were by the dam area with Robo Aarrons Magic.
Monday, January 4th, 2010
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Water Temp: 52.4 - 53.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Chilly at launch but sun out by 10 and t-shirt and short weather rest of day.
Managed a nice 4+ and a 2+ at the dam droppin. Ski cove was slow but filled with Crappie fishers who were having slow problems as well.
Still a great day!
City: SMTips: Fish were in 30-40 feet and staging in about 25'levels. Slow bite so work it slow, then slower.
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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Water Temp: 53.7
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Still a little slow at the Lopes. Managed a 2 to 3 pounder at Ski Cove draggin my fav jig. More wind today and it made it tough to hold points.
City: SMTips: Brn/Grn patterns were still working. No luck on the dam at all. Too windy
Thursday, December 24th, 2009
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Water Temp: 53.6
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: A last year blast at the pez [I think]. Was a chilly 37o when I arrived at 9AM. Left a box of donuts at the main gate for the weary workers who have the dirty duty this weekend. Makes ya feel good to give a gift.....
Warmed up great nice by 11ish and took off the hooded sweat shirt as what little wind was there shut off to another almost flat water. Great!
Hit Ski cove [Strawberry to some] and again, hit a nice 3 pounder draggin a jig. Headed towards Vasquez and hit all the points and walls with a crank but Nada. Changed patterens and colors but still no takers. Went to the dam and hit a few smaller fish and headed to Whittenburg. Picked off a few more with maybe one keeper and headed in. Nice relaxing day before Xmas....
City: SMTips: Fish slow! Fish are hovering around 30 to 45 feet. Arrons Magic red flake took most all the fish on a drop and my jig cration captured yet another good keeper draggin structure. Think I got a keeper jig!
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
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Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Not too bad out today but the overcast and high pressure still has the critters laying low. Hit Ski cove draggin a jig with only one taker. Dropshotted a clump of structure in 47' and only managed small guys. But they are healthy...
Hit some more points and the wind really laid down and wow! FLAT WATER AT LOPEZ?? Get a camera!. Cranked a few poits with only i smaller fish, hit the dam area and saw a guy bank fishing. Sounded like he was hanging in there but was a ways from his vehicle... Anyway. scored a few more small ones and headed in. Go figure.. Boats all hooked up and wiped down and the sun pops out.. Oh Well...
City: SMTips: Brown/Purp jig with a Pumpkin trailer grub has been working in 30-40 feet dragging across or on structure. Decent smallie on Friday and a good LG on Saturday
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