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Monday, December 27th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Big Break. First bite about 9am when the heavy fog lifted. Caught a 3 lb at the barge, slow rolling spinners in front of the tules. Another 3 lb on a speed trap in the same area. Then went into Sherman Lake and flipped Black and Red jig for a 3.5 lb. Only three fish for the day. The weather was great after the fog lifted. How can you not have a great day FISHING!
    City: DIXON

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Kevin and I hit Disco Bay and some of the surrounding sloughs today. First thing, Kevin cranked one up off some rip-rap. After exploring/prefishing for the NCC all day, we headed back to Disco after not getting another hit. Within the last 10 minutes of fishing I hooked into a nice 10 pounder trolling Fat Free Shad. -Brent
    City: San Jose

Sunday, December 26th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished the break with crankbaits in the morning my dad caught a 5+ and a 3# on the crankbaits. Did not get any other fish for the rest of the day.
    City: Tracy

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHING LAKE BACCARAC MEXICO IS GOOD AT THIS TIME.WE CAUGHT A LOT OF BASS THE BIG BASS WAS CLOSE TO TEN POUNDS.EARLY IN THE MOURNING WAS GOOD FOR THE LARGE FISH.LURES TO USE IS ZARA SPOOKS,WHITE YAMAMOTOS,BABY BASS REBALS GOOD ALSO.
    City: INDPLS

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 46-48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished mostly old and middle river throwin crankbaits on the outside of weedlines, picked a few up on jigs(bl/red) in Italian slough also. biggest was 4+. once I got my crank to the bottom, I'd fish it as slow as I could while still maintaining contact w/bottom.Nice day on the water besides getting a little misoriented with my map.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: like Cooch says "7a bomber" it does the trick

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ Orwoods, fished the discovery zone threw blades,(white$ chart ) to land one 2lber fish about 3 hours worth not another bite also threw crank ( bomber craw ) nothing. went out on main river threw crank landed 3 blackies to about 2.5 lbs. Started throwing trap @ stripers landed 2 to about 4.5 lbs. Lot of fun fishing is very tough now with this weird weather, be patient. ( HAPPY-HOLIDAYS) from babybass
    City: concord

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: don't know

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished mouth of putah. trolled. nice trout action on minnow immitations. drifted minnows up putah arm. 5 salmon, 1 trout, 1 small mouth, 1 catfish. all on minnows. 6-15 feet below bobber. salmon started to hit in the late afternoon. all on minnow. 20-30 feet water depth. beautiful day.
    City: millbrae

    Tips: markie caught a fishie! and he was so happy!

Saturday, December 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Cooch the Cranks are still working for the Blackie's. Caught some spoon stripers also. Used the Large Duh spoon in Silver with Black top.Use the electronics to follow the fish. Then hang on.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started at 10am, finished at 3pm. Ran to Woodward to avoid the crowds at Disco. Just can't bring myself to do the spooning thing. Anyway - found a pipe blowing in water from the fields - hooray! found baitfish and three stipers. Boy they do put up a fight! Went for blackies and found some around widows and the end of Woodward.
    City: belmont

    Tips: all (stripers & blacks) were caught on rattletrap. look for warmer water and current seams.

Thursday, December 16th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Last month I went Striper fishing with my Brother, my Dad, and my Grampa at the Iselton Bridge. It was really slow that day. We only got one bite. We were fishing off the shore. But people trolling in boats where doing OK.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: On Shore use live minnows. Trolling in boats use Rattle Trapes, or Broken Back Rebels.

Wednesday, December 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Dels about 7am, but it was foggy so we did fish near the marina with no luck until 8am. Then we went to Paradise Island-Marina, and we went to the right, about 500 yards there is an old boat that has a blue mountain bike on it. cant miss it. We use Jigs.Worms and no luck. Until I did use a crawfish colored crankbait that goes down to 10 feet that we started to catch all the fish. 8 to be exact there, and 5 more on another spot. I am not that good for all the details, but they were down about 8-to 10 feet deep since I was retrieving very slow and I could see the fish chasing the lure. Today it was nice and clear and no wind. Then on the way back we stoped by the rocks just about a mile before Lads, and we landed the 5-6 more on the same lure.
    City: Lathrop

    Tips: I caught all the fish on a crawfish colored crankbait. Retrieve very slow

Sunday, December 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Left the Ranger Boat at home and went out and spent some quality time with my Dad striper fishing out of my Sons Allum. boat. Left Dels at 2PM and back at Dels at 3:30PM with 4 keepers. Biggest 13 pounds, but all nice keepers. Trolled using spreaders with hair raiser on short line and broken back rebel on longer line. Talked to others just using Rebels and they had tough day. A lot of fun using light baitcasters. Fish caught were in main channel, opposite side of forebay, go North from Forebay 200 yards along trees.

    Tips: Had to have 8" dark pink trailers on Hair Raiser and on the end hook of the Rebel

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Dell's 7:30 am for a morning of bass fishing. Stuck a 13 lb striper on a black and blue jig and burned off all the spiderwebs on my drag. Boy do those things pull!. Barely got the fish in the net after drifting and fighting the fish down 100 yards of river bank. Went looking for largemouth and picked off three keepers for just over 5 lbs. Fish are fighting well but hard to detect the pressure bites. Throw dark color worms ahead of deep hole in current. Slowly bounce the worm into the hole and feel for anything thats not right. All three caught off the same 10 ft hole. Quit at 11:30am.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Look for holes with fish on the finder. Drag dark jigs or worms slowly and set the hook if it doesn't feel right.

Saturday, December 11th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished CVBC tourney out of Orwood. Promising start, as boater partner stuck a nice 5.5 first thing in morning on a crank. Running in the old river, came across some gulls diving. No further hint needed. Fished for stripers, got a few. Boy do they put up a fight! I still cannot figure out how they could hammer my (gamakatsu-hooked) rattletrap and still get off.. anyway, spent a few minutes having a lot of fun. Went back to looking for blackies.. which was a mistake. We blanked for the rest of the day. I think that at least a third of the bassers got skunked. A prospective member, got the biggest bag with 14#, including a 8+ on a crank on his first few casts.
    City: belmont

    Tips: seemed like reaction baits were the best bets. Previous days wind and colder weather and blue bird hadput the fish deep, i think. Go Striper fishing!!

Friday, December 10th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 51-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a guide trip scheduled for today, and my client canceled. Boy is he gonna be disappointed with this report. I launched out of Big Break and flipped two nice 2+ fish in the marina on rocky grass banks with a brown jig tipped with black/blue pork. Having caught these two and two other runners, that I missed, keyed me in to that the fish were in their winter rock pattern. I ran from the Break to the east and managed to catch a few fish on the jig but not with as great of success as I had hoped, Then made a run to Disco, I caught 11 fish two two pounds on this same rock pattern in all three bays. It wasn't until about 12:00a, as the tide was getting higher, that I caught my first good fish, a 5+. I caught this fish on a deep rock bank with no weeds on a black and red jig. The fish was very shallow and I was really hopping that jig. This keyed me to move to another area and try some crankin. Had a lot of wind and bluebird skies, I've seen this pattern before, right after a storm, and made a run to Old River. I then picked up a 7A Red Bomber and WACKED em good! Caught 22 fish, from 12:30 till 3:00, all over 4 pounds. Biggest went 10lbs 1 oz!
    City: Oakley

Thursday, December 9th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took off @ 9;00am out of Dels, heard there were DAWGS that were hitting reaction bite. Well threw blades & speed-traps at wood & weed structures outlined by rockwalls.( Victoria Slough ) well 5 bass to 11ish pounds, then fished for the stripers, threw chrome traps fish were all schooled up @ about 12 feet. Really no huge fish but great place to go to get great strper action. ( about 15 stripers in about 1 hour, largest about 5lbs.
    City: concord

Sunday, December 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?????

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of the hook. We took a drive to find some new water and fished some spots with no luck. Me and my dad fished til about 3:00 with only 2 fish. We caught our fish in franks tract on rattletraps in strong currents. Also caught an 8lb striper on a little speedtrap.
    City: tracy

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Big Break on Sunday. Fishing for me was slow. Only one keeper bass that hit a hair raiser while fishing a current line for stripers. I did get into a good school of striper in the middle of BB. Action was fast and furious for about 15 minutes. I was hooking a fish each cast. Water temp has only dropped slightly over the past week, but the fish seem to be moving into a winter pattern.
    City: Brentwood

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Saturday, December 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out or Orwood with Doug O from CVBC for a lesson day for this rookie. Dang fog made it hard to get anywhere. fished near orwood with no success; went to Woodward where Doug gave me a nice lesson on reading a graph, sticking a nice 2.5 that we saw on the graph in deeper water. Moved around a bit, caught a few more. Ended the day finding a spot that produced numbers of stripers and quite a few bucketmouths as well, including a 3 and a couple of twos. It was a nicer but colder day than I anticipated. Learned a lot.
    City: belmont

    Tips: go deep & slow. look for slow current and cover to place fish. When all else fails, pitch a rattletrap and go fish for stripers!

Thursday, December 2nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went fishing with wife and kids off the rec 1 area and caugth 1-2 lbs smallies.
    City: antioch

    Tips: Lures used were kastmasters by the wife and kids and 4" worms by me.Work the worns just off the bottom with a slow retreive.