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Saturday, August 28th, 1999

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of New Hope Landing at 5:30 A.M.and headed up north. My partner and I boated 7 keeper fish by 8:30 flipping plastics along edges of mats. Biggest fish flipping went 5 1/2. Went to throwing blades over tops of submerged structure. Ripped 9 more fish by 1:00. Off water by 1:30 due to the heat and ski boat traffic.
    City: Lodi

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of dels, ran to itallian slough and caught a few on buzz baits. my backseater stuck a nice 3.5lber on a spinnerbait. decided to run, caught a some fish flippin worms. saw some big guy stick a nine, can't recall what he was throwing. anyway good day on the water i probably had 5 fish for about 12lbs
    City: SANLEANDRO

Wednesday, August 25th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Seven Mile Slough today from 9:00 until 3:00. Really hot out there! Only caught two smallish bass on a bluegill speedtrap. Bass seemed to be near the top of the water.....should have tried a buzzbait. I fish off a specially rigged kayak. I am trying to find "quieter" water where the fast boats won't shake me up too much. Please let me know if you know of good water for a kayak. --Good Luck!!
    City: dublin

Tuesday, August 24th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a bad day at work so I split early and launched at Bethal Island. I always have a hard time getting a pattern going in the Delta. I hit the water at exactly 7:00 pm and fished until 8:30. Caught 3 fish and had two additional blow ups. Was fishing a chateus buzz bait but I don't think that is as important as where and when I fished. It was an outgoing tide and I fished a weekline facing the tide. It is also a couple days before a full moon right? That can't hurt. Biggest fish went 6 pounds, my personal biggest in the Delta. Drop me a line if you've noticed any consistant patterns around Bethal. Be Safe!
    City: Livermore

Sunday, August 22nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCH OUT OF LADD'S ABOUT 6:00AM HEADED DOWN INTO THE TURNING BASIN CRANKED SPEEDTRAPS. STUCK 4 FISH IN TEN MIN. ALL WERE 2 TO 3 LBS. ONE WAS ABOUT 5 1/2. THERE WERE SOME BIG SCHOOLS OF SHAD HANGING AROUND THE SHORE. I STARTED TO THROW A SUPER SPOOK ONLY GOT 2 FISH MAYBE 1 1/2LBS. AT ABOUT 9;00AM I WENT WAY IN THE BACK OF THE CALAVERAS RIVER WHERE THERE IS SOME DEEP WATER AND WOOD COVER. DEEP BEING 10-15 FEET. I STARTED TO PITCH A BLACK AND RED JIG INTO WOODED AREAS WITH SHADE. I STUCK 7 FISH 1 TO 4 LBS. LOST A PIG THAT GOT HUNG UP IN THE BRUSH AND SHOOK OFF. ALL IN ALL IT WAS A GOOD DAY FOR SUMMER TIME. I GOT 13 FISH 1 TO 5 1/2 LBS. AND LOST A GOOD ONE. I WAS OFF THE WATER BY 11:30.
    City: STOCKTON

    Tips: CRANK THE ROCKS EARLY THAN PITCH THE COVER WITH SHADE AS THE SUN COMES UP. LURE OF CHOICE ANYTHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A CRAWDAD.

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6:00 to about 1:00. Boated 6 fish total,3 were keepers. Got a keeper on a speedtrap seen a few more follow it right to the boat. Biggest fish of the day went 4.5 ate brown jig/black trailer. Three fish would have weighed 7+. Bites were subtle had to watch the line. As soon as I pitched to a target my line would take off down the tules.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: ?????

Saturday, August 21st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 73 -?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Flying V and I took a late morning run out of Brannan for little fishing and R n'R. The RnR was better than the fishing. Hit Tules along deep drop offs - did OK in AM, then it died. Tried some frogging with no takers, lots of blow ups. Other bassers at the ramp reported that it was a little tough as well. Folks are doing well in the tourney, so there's fish biting out there!
    City: belmont

Sunday, August 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the B.A.S.S. Fed tourny out of Ladd's Sunday. Winner weighed 16+ for 6 fish all caught cranking on the main channel outside of Ladds. I came in fourth with about 13 pounds. My fish came on plastics (flipping brush hogs and zippers) and jigs (black/blue with a grub trailer. My best fish were 4 1/2 pounds (came flipping big wood) and 3 1/3 pounds (working deep next to a weed bed. All plastics fish were smaller but lots of numbers mostly flipping tules.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Like always...jigs seem to bring in the better fish but they are not producing the quantity of bites so be patient!

Saturday, August 14th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Hogback with Castro Valley Bass Classics (CVBC) on Saturday morning. Tough day. Fished a deep diving Rebel craw and lost a keeper smallie at the boat. Caught lots of dinks. Only quality fish was a 3# largemouth on a 6" witches tea texas rigged. My boater stuck a 4.3# largemouth on a 1/8th (no typo) jig with a 4' power craw trailer. Mayday out
    City: Belmont

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    Water Temp: 68 - 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished CVBC tourney with about 8 boats out of Hogback - most folks fished in the area and upriver for smallies, and it was a mistake - tuff bite. Winners (boaters and nonboater) won by making the long run to Disco - brought back limits of 14 and 11, i think. The folks who stayed north caught mostly smallies - my boater had a squeaker 5.5# limit and still managed to come in 5th. Caught dinks all day. We also caught little stripers and one nice 18" striper.
    City: belmont

    Tips: North Delta - chartreuse, white and silver mini cranks. Some worm fish. Topwater was dead. South - Blades, worms

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First of all, I want to thank the fishermen for putting your fishing report in here. It helped me out on Saturday. Launched out of Holland, caught 4 bass - 7.64 lbs, approx. 2 pounder, the last two were about a pound, and a lot of dinks. Using crawdad speedtrap on the 2 big ones on outside of the weed line. Single-spin spinnerbait bluegill color (blue and charatruse) before the high tide and black 10" powerworms during the low tide. it was fun i had a good time. Check out my site http://members.home.net/scy33613/
    City: Fremont

    Tips: anywhere there was a solid weedline out of the ski boat traffic. the weedlines that where patchy didn't produce as well as the ones with a continuous line. rocks. no tulies.

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: American Bass Anglers Club Tournament- 6 boats launched out of B&W resort, 1 limit was brought back of small keepers, I had one bite and that was the only fish I had The Bite was TUFF, TUFF, TUFF, alot of fish caught on jigs my backseater caught his 1 fish on a viper spinnerbait(dark colored).The wind blew early and then the boat traffic picked up around 11 Tight lines P.P.
    City: Martinez

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of the break, got on the water by 6:00. Fished the south end of the break and got one fish went about 4 on a jig. Ran down to piper and cranked a few keepers. Threw blades around docks at pipers and got another keeper and a 5.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: ??

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    Water Temp: 76-79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Bob Howe out of Bend Oregon on Wednesday. Bite was wide open in the Break. We flipped about 10 great fish on any piece of cover that acted as a point or break to current flow. Brown Jigs with Yamamoto 164 grub. Also finally found a great deep weedline bite on the low tide. Then moved to a big fish area and struggle the rest of the day, only got 1 bite in 2.5 hours, but that fish was a 9.85 pound SOW! She ate a black Jig with a special FIT plastic Chunk. Right next to a big ole tree trunk, she was.
    City: Oakley

Friday, August 13th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 71 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Riverside Marina at 6:30am, fished the Holland cut near Quimby island along the tule's caught 5, 1# dinks, on 4" rubber worms (witches tea). lots of hit's and miss The sun started to beat down around 11:00am boaters and water skiers creating alot of wakes, moved on to rock slough area and caught 4 more 1# dinks in the afternoon. off the water by 5:00pm all n all lots of fun, 9 fish.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: magic worms(witches tea,1/0 worm hook, carolina rig, along the tips of tule's

Thursday, August 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HOGBACK? Why Hogback I ask. C.V.B.C had its annual upper Delta classic. All I could think of is MONSTER,MONSTER BASS!!(Roland) So I made the run.Just call me Disco,Disco Duck!!Caught fish all day.ON MY TOP SECRET BAIT.Lots of small shad around.But they want crawdads.tommyp,mayday,old round daddy...gotta make that run. OUT!!!
    City: Hayward

    Tips: CRAWDADS

Wednesday, August 11th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at Paradise Point at about 5:30, my brother and friend got some nice top water action early on, 2.2# big fish of the day goin on a popper at about 6:30 or so. Fishing was tough, wind didnt pick up until later . I caught one keeper, one dink, and one fished broke me off, thank god i didnt see the fish otherwise I might not have came home with a tackle box. Only 3 keepers made it into the boat. Get em next time i suppose. Good Luck!!
    City: Galt

Monday, August 9th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 67.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: (This is for you Tommy P ) We launched out of Hog Back early sat. morning,anticipating the Smallie bite on the Sac. Started throwing Buzzbaits in the marinas nearby,and scored on a few largemouth up to two pounds.Since I caught a few doing that I tried flipping the "Micster" worm,loaded with Smelly jelly. My first pitch into a bush produced a nice 21 1/2 inch,6lb plus largemouth.Caught a small limit after that and went to the sac.above the Isleton bridge. We ,(two boats) cranked till our arms went stiff.(four hours at least,both tides) and boated only one keeper. The bite was definately off that day, in that area.The fish were in the 12'-15' depth. I caught a few dinks split shottin.If I were to fish there again, I'd try nearer Vierra's,as Cooch and others have been getting better fish cranking those banks. See Ya!!!!
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Craw type cranks for the smallies. Don't overlook the Marinas and Oxbows like Cooch says.

Sunday, August 8th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 69-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started late @ 10 am. got a couple on the ol' popper, then things slowed down. caught a couple on jigs in my usual spots in white's. tried frogs, but couldn't hook the few blowups i had. went to honker, got quantity on woyms peanut butter & jelly (thanks Big Daddy), biggest went 2#. Went to the cheese again, got three, all quality. biggest went 5# on the digital. took pic. Scorecard - 8 dinks, 3 keepers, 3 quality. That's all btw - Thanks mr. daddy for the report!
    City: belmont

    Tips: wind has blown a lot of the cheese away. Luv dem Frogs. Try some open water frogging Sapp style....

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Lundborg Landing and headed up the SJ River. Had 2 that were around 3# on a black buzz bait after the sun came out. Both came from the same large shallow flat with sparse weeds. Flipped a small island after that and picked up several that were 1-1.8#. Bite seemed slow could not get a pattern going. Headed in about 11:30 to watch the weighin at the hook.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Bite is tough with the cold weather. Pray for some summer weather. Better fish came off the buzzbait worked as slow as possible.