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Saturday, October 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a 16" bass 3 lbs. at driting in to Harvey's Cove with a live nightcrawler on the hook. When WHAM! set the hook and brought it in.
    City: Santa Barbara

    Tips: -None-

Monday, October 16th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched early - ished till noon. No top water bite. Nailed one on a blade tight to stickup. A lot o time spent breaking in my new ight. Dont understand all that bad press. Mine runs great.
    City: Santa Ynez

    Tips: No wind this am. Made it tough. Look or windy days.

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched early - ished till noon. No top water bite. Nailed one on a blade tight to stickup. A lot o time spent breaking in my new ight. Dont understand all that bad press. Mine runs great.
    City: Santa Ynez

    Tips: No wind this am. Made it tough. Look or windy days.

Saturday, October 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 64 to 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Full Moon + Gin Clear water
    City: Castaic

    Tips: I wormin' Grape worked. Cranks may have been the ticket or they caught the biggest ish.

Monday, September 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75 to 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lunch boat at 6am or headed or the road near Arrow Island to try some topwater, caught one 3lb right o the road running the white buzz bait thru the brush. No more takers at this spot headed or upper arm o lake where the water is a little stained. caught two more largemouths near the restricted area with the white buzz bait, both about 2.5lb. Moved across the other side into a small cove and threw the buzz bait into heavy wood cover and caught the largest one o the day, largemouth almost 4lbs. Once the og lited the ishing got real slow. Started trolling near ishing pier near drakes cove and caught one small mouth using a speed trap. Called it a day at 12 with 5 keepers all release.
    City: Lompoc

    Tips: summer months means morning og head or stained water near river. Sun shows up go deeper and dropshot near clis i that ails start trolling around jack rabbit lats look or bait and watch or birds diving

Monday, July 31st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75 plus

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Yes sir sport ans I'm Back...Got a 7.2 on an A.C. Saturday with 4 ish in the 3lb range on Saturday and turn around or a Super Sunday thing with about 7 ish to 4 lbs. in the morning with a armed big ish on an A.C. at abot 8:00 and a 4 and a hal or 5 at 12:30 much to my very tardy partners dissmay Keep a tight line
    City: Santa Barbara

    Tips: They were still on the buzzbait rom 9:30 to 11:00 in the very brightest o light "go igure" see prior report or ino as they were right where I let them...Unknown or a next report as it's tough to get away....

Friday, July 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: mid 50-60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 2 good size ish. 1 weighed 1lb.5oz.The 2nd one weighed 2lb.03oz.both bluegill. Imagine, 2 guys on a boat ishing like heck or bass trying everything to catch them darn things. That was us.

    Tips: Jig the heck out o the lake and try your heart out until you have a heart attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a nice trip people all you around the world!!!!!!!

Wednesday, June 14th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished like mad and only caught 2 good size bluegill ater being there or a week. 1ish weighed 1lb.05oz.the other 2lb.03oz. used every bass trick and tip.

    Tips: Jig like mad never give up because you might just land the whopper i not just go to Albertsons because it's your store.

Saturday, May 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Tim N. at W.O.N. team tournament on Saturday. We won with 18.34. We had a 6.24 ona green worm, a4.5 bed ish, two 3+ jig ish and a smallmouth on a crank. Only 5 bites all day. Running and gunning at the west end (Clark, Johnson and Cachuma Bays).
    City: Bakersield

    Tips: When the wind blows, the ish move up to less than 10 eet. You have to stay on them.

Friday, April 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 63 to 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started around 8:00 and made it about two hours until we got rained out. Pretty heavy squalls driting over the lake, so we gave it up. Water is a little more stained that the last trip. This weeks rain should muddy up the water pretty good up in Little and Big Cachuma Bay and in the Narrows. Just one bite on a 6inch worm, but my partner was slow on the draw and didn't stick it. Well report back next Thursday or Friday.
    City: Santa Ynez

Monday, April 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 62.3

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are starting to move up on the beds. A recent alga bloom has reduced clarity some. Mostly males on the beds in the construction phase. The males are large. The emales, once they start moving in should be huge. Fish are averging 3 to 5 lbs, which is the best I've seen at the lake in a ew years. Most ish are still in the 10 to 13 t depth range and the pre-spawn pattern are working well.
    City: Santa Ynez

    Tips: pre-spawn patterns. 6 to 8 inch worms 10-13 eet breaks close to the beds.

Monday, March 13th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I FISHED CACHUMA SATURDAY AND THE FLIP BITE WAS PRETTY GOOD ON PRESPAWN FISH .EXCELLENT SIZE MOST FISH WERE SOLID 3-5 LBS REALLY SHOCKED ME FOR CACHUMA.FLIPPING 1/4 OZ BROWN AND ORANGE JIG-N-CRAW UNDER THE MATS .THE WATER HOWEVER WAS VERY CLEAR SO FLIPPING IN THE TRASH WITH 12 AND UNDER WAS A PROBLEM.FISH WERE HITTING VERY AGGRESIVELY.ANYWHERE THE SURFACE WAS MATTED WITH WOOD CHIPS PRODUCED FISH.
    City: FULLERTON

Tuesday, January 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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    City: FRESNO

Thursday, November 18th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We could see up to 20 eet in some places on the lake.The bite was very very slow all over the lake. The ish are rom 0 to 90 eet. The last two days there have been ish taken on blades, cranks, spoons, worms or you name it.Pig and jig may have been the best o all. I was ishingor what looked like bed ish! Yes I said bed ish.You could see what looked like one to two inch bass ryrunning down the banks.
    City: Sacto.

    Tips: Work pig & jig in 0 to 20 eet. Keep an eye out or ish that look like they are on a nest. You will also need a lot o luck.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: what a lake. drained all the propane in the el camino dragging the scalper up to the lake just to get a few dinks. broke a rod on my cleat. got stuck in the back of harvey's in the mud.

    threw topwater most of the day without much success. drug a few skinny bear jigs arounf the bottom and left them there. tossed a new custom blade and broke it off on a tip wrap. backlashed my new 20 dollar topoff fluorocaron into a birdnest first cast of the day.

    ran into some cat danglers from LA in the back of cachuma bay. they were on a few fish. next thing I knew I had their dacron all stuck up inside my new ninja trolling motor blades. lost about an hour of fishing time uncoiling it.

    at that point I decided to get some lunch. hit the burger shack for some grinds and got out of the sun for a while.

    back down lake around 1 heading down to the narrow for some afternoon cranking. lobbed out on a few flats. wind was picking up pretty good by then. got loaded up on the deep crank - felt pretty good. fish went into a tree or something and broke off my XT 8 lb. like nothing. tough day.

    picked up a few dinks on the goldfish colored trap down in the narrows. decided to call it a day while I still had bass smell on my fingers...
    City: Solvang

    Tips: cranks and blades.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks for the update Wyatt. I heard that some hits were coming on the 'purple' stuff and I did chance it but no takers. I know that now, we should have headed deeper to maybe 45-50 feet.
    City: Santa Maria

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: For those in the Santa Maria area. A new tackle shop has opened up at 1010 West Betteravia Rd #C which is just 2 doors down from the Applied Tech [old King Bearing]. Shop carries some great deals on rods, reels and lines. Some off brand goods but also quality stuff like Abu Garcia, Storm, etc. Prices are GREAT as they pretty much buy in bulk. Lots of great Salt water and fresh water stuff and reel and rod repairs to boot.

    Hours are T-F 9 to 5:30 and S & S from 9 to 3, Yup Sunday as well.
    City: SM

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Santa Maria srry it messed up the text

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Where is the report Justin? Just curious, if anyone else has a report in March...
    City: Vandenberg AFB