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Saturday, January 26th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Although I'm rom Norcal I visited Corona Lake in Socal. I was a irst time visitor and I was impressed with this lakes looks. Looks are deceiving as I ound out. Small lake but lots o tree branches sticking out o the water. Ideal atmosphere or bass, but no luck. I ished 6" worms, spinners, and everything else I could ind;nothing. One interesting thing to keep in mind when ishing this place, keep ear-plugs with you because suddenly some guy in a boat goes around either shooting a gun or throwing ire crackers. I wasn't positive as to which one but it can startle you at irst, no one on the lake dove or cover so I pretended to ignore it also. Some guy did catch a 18lb trout.
    City: vallejo

    Tips: Wait or spring

Sunday, January 13th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found ish right away in 40-50t. useing mornig dawn and kuroi lazer Duh!!! spoons . The wall up in Jackson creek and several o the points just down rom there are stacked with bass. they seem to be starting to move into the creeks with the rising water. Also ound some nice bass 2-3lb.+, in a couple main body coves with the same pattern.
    City: Sac.

    Tips: Look or schools o bait in the backs o coves where the bottom is a least 70t. then look or the bass holding next to the channel edge in 40-50t. Morning dawn Duh spoons seemed to be the best lure.

Thursday, January 10th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 50'C

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Things have been pretty slow with the water down as low as it's been. I ish the lake quite oten and have never seen it this low. The ishing has, or me anyway, has been hit and miss. The bites are not strong . When in doubt, set the hook. My buddy Kevin and I pulled in 7 ish our last trip. Mostly on points and rock walls. Kevin pulled in big ish honors with a chuncky 3.5 lb'er. I caught 4 dinks. The trip would have been un without ish. Good riends and just being in the water is good enough or me. The tackle we used was magic worms in a pb&j pattern, and brown or black jigs, 3/8 oz., and SSLLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW. I you think your ishing slow. Fish slower. I hope to have a good year. I understand that its tough being a catcherman, and some o you are just that, and to them Im looking orward to seeing you out there on the water. To the ishermen out there, keep on hooken and someday you can graduate to the catchermans class.lol To all, have good and sae 2002 and look or us, team rope a dope, the catcherman division.lol out on the water. Good luck Matt,
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Slow plastics, worms, and jigs.

Monday, January 7th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey guys I ished Amador a bunch as a kid and am now geting back in the saddle again. I ound this sight by chance and got really excited to hear that the trout ishing was so good. I can remember the bass ishing being awsome, but was not aware that the lake stocked rom its own ishery. I you olk don't want to see ino on trout on your BASS sight can you please tell me where I can get the news on ALL o the ish that Amador oers? Its a shame that this sight has to be so one-track minded.See you all on the lake
    City: Sacramento

Thursday, December 27th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Could you guys take this debate over to the orum and keep this section to BASS reports. Thank you.
    City: Rio Vista

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FELLAS FELLAS,YES THIS MAY BE A "BASS SITE" BUT ARENT WE ALL FISHERMAN.LAKE AMADOR HOLDS MORE THAN JUST BASS IN ITS WATERS AND IF IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT A NICE 5LB TROUT HITS YOUR JIG OR LURE WHY NOT REPORT ON THAT.THIS SITE IS PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY AVENUE THAT IVE FOUND ON THE GREAT FISHING AT AMADOR,SINCE THEY DONT HAVE A SITE OF THEIR OWN THIS VEHICLE HELPS THOSE OF US THAT DONT LIVE THAT CLOSE TO THE LAKE FIND OUT ABOUT ALL FISHING IN THE LAKE.I MYSELF AM AN AVID CRAPPIE FISHERMAN,BUT I'VE TAKEN 4-7LB BASS OUT THERE ON MY CRAPPIE JIGS.......BOTTOM LINE IS IF ITS A TROUT REPORT STOP READING IT AND MOVE ON FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ONLY WANT TO READ ABOUT BASS.FROM ONE FISHERMAN TO THE OTHERSJUST FISHHAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR AND I'LL BE THE BIG GUY ON THE DOCKS
    City: ANTIOCH

    Tips: FOR ANYONE FISHING THE DOCK AS I DO,TRY JIGS IN A VARIETY OF COLORS,MOST FISH TROUT AND CRAPPIE MAINLY HIT THE WHITE ONE BUT IVE SWITCHED UP COLORS AND CAUGHT MANY MORE THAN JUST ON WHITE...... AND THE BASS LOVE LITTLE JIGS WHEN ITS COLD THEY DONT HAVE TO EXERT A LOT OF ENERGY TO HIT IT.

Wednesday, December 26th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Trout is ok to catch, when the big hogs aren't. Mr. Bassman, a 5 lbs. trout can't shake a stick to a 5 lbs. BASS. A Amador hog will snap a trout pole like Bin Laden's neck once our Special Ops get him. Don't get me wrong. I like trout ishing, when I'm up in the streams o the Sierras, but pound or pound, give a kid a 10 lbs Bass to battle and he'll probably not go back to mushy powerbait ever again.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Catch and release BASS so they can eat more trout and get nice and at.

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: All o you olks out there that are talking about the report I posted on 12-11,I'm simply stating that I come to ncb to keep up on the bass ishing. I understand that this time o year is trout time or Amador but why not start a trout ishing site{or is there one already?}Perhaps my comment on a REAL sport was a bit extreme, but I didn't realize it was going to rule so many eathers and Craig you were right I didn't have anything to do that day, so in closing I want to apoligize or the real sport comment.I do a little trout ishing rom time to time, but I would never post the results on this web site.I'll keep my eye out or the green boat and you keep your eye out or the man with the ull livewell.
    City: carson city

    Tips: Good luck with Northern Caliornia Trout Fishing;maybe it will be a sucess.

Tuesday, December 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: IM GUESSING I WILL HAVE A BLAST TAKING MY DAUGHTER TROUT FISHING TO A BASS LAKE AND JUST THOUGHT I WOULD PUT IT ON THIS BASS WEBSITE...FOR MISTER BASS ONLY RELAX HAVE FUN AND TAKE A KID FISHING OH AND NUMBERS FOR KIDS IS BETTER THAN SIZE SO I SUGGEST TROUT FISHING OR CRAPPIE OR EVEN BLUEGILL MAYBE A LAKE LIKE AMADOR WOULD BE A GOOD LAKE TO GO TO...AND FOR ALL YOU GUYS WHO TROUT FISH AT A BASS LAKE KEEP UP THE REPORTS AND TAKE A KID FISHING THEY WILL NEVER FORGET IT
    City: SACRAMENTO

    Tips: FISHING IS FISHING...25 5LB. TROUT IS BETTER THAN 2 4LB. BASS ANYDAY SO ALWAYS BRING LIGHT GEAR TO AMADOR... CASTMASTER 1/16 IN SILVER

Friday, December 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: this is in response to Mr. Justin or his rather intelligent "ishing report" he made back on 12/11(obviously he had nothing better to do that day). heres my best tip just or you...go ish...maybe you'll relax a little. Thank you much to Jim or his outstanding point on the subject on 12/15...a real sportsman. although its not my intentions to be so blunt Justin but isherman like you make the sport ugly. who cares that the report says BASS ishing report? There's trout in this lake too, is there not? Catish? Crappie? etc...why can't we all make the best o this site and appreciate the ino and tips that one contributes.Fishing is ishing. Enough about that. As or the "sounds like a challenge" comment, we'll probably being doing quite a bit BASS ishing in early spring, Justin, so keep your eye out or a metallic green boat. We'll bring the beer, you supply the cheese and "WHINE". There maybe some un on its way. We're up to the challenge i you are!
    City: Marysville

    Tips: BASS reports only please. it obviously can get a bit annoying to some,(or one).

Monday, December 17th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I don't mind trout ishing reports, but can bank isherman(trouters) please dispose o their line properly. Either throw it in a trash can or cut it up in a million pieces. I'm constantly snagging line near the dam area when I'm BASS ishing. And tell your kids to stop throwing rocks into the water. It spooks ALL ish.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, December 15th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks or the good report on the TROUT ishing :) Plan on going to do some TROUT ishing then maybe a little BASS ishing ater, Dun know i I can handle the ego's though.. Honestly Justin, i you don't come here to see how the FISHING is in a said lake, then skip over the post, Maybe some decent inormation about what is going on in the lake will help you to win that next BASS tourney pr$c$! I have been to Amador 4 times in the last 2 months, bass ishing has been less than good, trout ishing has been super, we have had great luck with shad raps.
    City: Byron

    Tips: !

Tuesday, December 11th, 2001

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Craig,last I heard the name o this site was northern caliornia BASS ishing(ncb) not nct,maybe you should start your own nct,I don't come to this site to see how the trout ishing is.
    City: carson city

    Tips: maybe you should try a REAL sport like bass ishing.

Tuesday, December 4th, 2001

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Trout planting o those notorious mongrol cuttbows is going strong the last ew weeks. anglers trolling was a bit slow but bank ishing was decent on this sunny breezeless day. some good ole locals(inc. "magic Gus the Greek" who kept bringing the bite to our poles with his ish calls) docked the boats and ished the boat rental dock all morning and all o them pretty much had there limit beore they walked o the dock. the average ish being landed was 4lbs(nothing really smaller) with some urious ighter ish close to double digits. later in the day the bite and the eeding slowed down, but would have a ew short spirts in between. some were catching o the corners o the dam with roe and worms. powerbait was not the taking at all today, or ater dark or that matter. as or my ish take, i lost one about 5.5lbs ater a 60 second ight and trying to grab him with my hand out o the water, mr trout proceeded to all o o my blue ox minnow spinner. ATTN> anglers, dont orget to bring your nets like i did. my next heartbreak was an acrobatic airborn ish-on! uh , spit out the iretiger colored lure. bye bye ish #2. inally landed a 4.5lb'r as nets galore were oered to me! stayed on the dock, didnt quite reach my limit take, but would have i i would have ished a bit smarter.(more line drag,patience with lures, bring my net, etc...)but there were many 20lb-25lbs stringers being lited, an overall good day o ishing at Amador. getting our moneys worth.
    City: Marysville

    Tips: ish in top 5 eet o water.start early in the morning. silver Mepps spinners, green wooly buggers,hot pink silver winged rooster tails. others include black/silver rapalas, silver backed Kastmasters with various colors(be patient with them). try some o your lures in iretiger color with a slow retrieve, because we all have gangs o lures in that color. Standbys: powerbait in chartreuse/sparkle, bobber a crawler with minimum depth, roe, minnows......you get the picture.....not hitting lures switch to bait. inlate A crawler, toss him out into a top eeding school o trout and prepare to battle!

Thursday, November 15th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: sacramento

Sunday, November 4th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at 6:30 a.m. My partner picked-up a 5lb o the rocks. Got a 3lb o the weed beds. I nailed a 5lb in a weeded cove. A ew dinks. The weather was perect.
    City: Valley Springs

    Tips: Got all the ish on senkos. Black with red lakes and pumpkin.

Thursday, November 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Again, the ishing was good and bad - irst bad then good this time... Fished rom 3:30 pm to 3:30 am. I was only catching 5 lb. to 15 lb. sticks until about 1:30 am when the sticks stopped biting and the larger ish started hitting or one and only one hour. Got an 8.3 at 1:30 and a 5.9 at 2:20 am. Got a 12" at about 3:00. That was it. All ish came on 8" - 12" worms.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Fish jigs or worms in the main body.

Sunday, October 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Amador Sunday rom 7 am till 2 pm with a riend. We picked up about 10 ish all 2 pounds and under on jigs and worms. Fish were between 3' and 15' deep. No big ish but we did miss a ew jig bites which might have been larger ish early in the morning. The bite slowed around 11:30 am and started picking up again when we let around 2 pm. Blades, topwater, and crankbaits didn't work when we were throwing them.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Brown/orange jig with green craw Magic craw trailer, black jig with Yamamoto smoke/silver lake grub soaked with attractant were best baits.

Saturday, October 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had one o the greatest trips to Amador Thurs night that I have had in awhile. I took a nice ather and his delightul 11 year old son, and we had un! We started about an hour beore dark, with not much success. Ater dark was a dierent story. 10" black Power worms were the ticket to a good show! Dad had a ield day, landing most o the bass - his biggest going 5 1/4 lbs with a 4 1/4 to back that up. I landed a 6-11, 5-3, and a 4 1/2. The boy hooked a ew, but was not able to put one in the boat. Next time he will!! We were getting so many bite rom little bass too, that I was going to stop setting the hook or awhile. Ater I said that, I got bit again - did nothing but lit my Loomis rod slowly. It elt heavy so I set the hook. Yes, it WAS the 6-11. You just never know!! We caught bass rom 2 eet o water to about 20 eet - the bigger bass were deeper. We ished the main body and big bay, points with wood, and lats. We wound up with 15 bass, with the 5 ish limit at 26 pounds. I ished Friday night or awhile, and ound the ishing mush slower, and some other olks said the same thing. I caught one and two pounders. During the day Friday, I caught a 3 1/4 on a jig and a 4-9 on topwater about 5 pm - what a surprise!! Ater many years o wondering i there really were any carp in Amador - and ater a discussion about that very subject with Bruce Lockhart that morning, I proceeded to snag an 18 lb+ carp that aternoon. Now I know at least that Amador has one less carp!!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: As always, Amador is a timing game! One day it's hot, the next, it's not!!! The water still needs to cool o a bit or good topwater action. The jig bite hasn't been as good as the past ew weeks! Worms and brush hogs are excellent. Start looking or wood - it is beginning to show.

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I started ishing around 6:30 a.m. over by the spillway. Tried topwater a little and got nothing, so I decided to ish a jig. It paid o in about 10 min. I noticed my line coming back to the boat so I set the hook on a nice 4.5lber. I kept pitching the jig just in ront o the weeds, and got another one about 1.5lbs. Then a ew casts later I get a nice tap and set the hook, but apparently not hard enough. I had the ish on or about 10-15 seconds and it spit the jig. The ish elt heavier than the irst one too, and it ripped o one o my rattles and pulled the skirt o onto the hook. I moved and I am not to sure i that was a good idea. About 9:00 I got around 3lbs that I lost at the boat, should o used a net. That was it though I stayed until noon, but it was getting hot and the bite was non existent. Good luck.
    City: Eldorado Hills

    Tips: I got all my ish on jigs in 5 to 15 eet o water. All on main lake points.