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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well WE DIDNT CHUCK THE TACKLE BOX AT EM,,LIKE THOSE OTHER DUDES,,BUT SURELY THE BITE WAS TOUGH THEN..HOWEVER COMMANCHE IS ALIVE RIGHT NOW,,FISHED A NO MONEY TOURNEY AND WELL,THE BASS WERE ON HIT,,TAKIN GRUBS ,SEINKOS AND JIGGYS...MOSTLY GREEN....5-20 FT..BUT MOSTLY 12 FT OF WATER,GOOD FISH TOO. LOTS A 3'S AND SMALLER,,THIS LAKE IS CLEARED UP TOO..GOTTA STILL LOOK FOR EM THOUGH,,,I THINK THERE SCHOOLIN UP,,CAUSE WE GOT 4 IN 4 CASTS ,,THEY HIT HARD AND SOFT,,SO WHATCH THOSE SOFT TAKERS..THINKIN OF GOING ,,?GET OUT AND GOOOO...WEIRD THOUGH,,ALL OUR BASS HAD RED EYES,,WHATS UP W/THAT?BEAUTIFUL GREEN COLOR TO THEM TOO,,THEY WERE ALL LARGEMOUTH SOOO,DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT..
    City: Fremont,C.A.

    Tips: THREW CRANKS,,NO LUCK, FISH ON YA'LL ")

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bite was horrible. The three of us threw the tackle box and caught only one 13" fish on a carolina rigged 6" morning dawn Roboworm.
    City: San Jose

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Club tournament today 10 boats. Rain no wind. First 5 minutes 14.25 inch BB on super spook 5 feet off the bank. 2 nd keeper past narrows on rocky point drop shot 25 feet. Several small ones also all spots. Went to marinas and limited out on seinkos fishing corners and grass beds. Had 8 keepers for 2nd place and 8.20 lbs.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: Lots of BB shallow. Top water early. tubes and seinkos in shade and grass pockets. Morning dawn was a good worm to drop shot.

Sunday, August 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of the south, straight to the bridge. Caught 2 dinks on a splash-it and spook. Around 10am started fishing trees that were in 10 to 20ft of water long casting senkos weightless. Caught a 5.2 and a 4 in the same tree. Moved up about 50 yds to another group of willows and caught a 3. Mid afternoon I started to split-shotting a river rock point in about 20 ft of water in the main lake and landed a 7 plus. I met up with a local and he showed me some secondary points and other main lake areas and he then landed a 9 plus split-shotting and unknown plastic. I couldn't believe the Florida strain bass in that lake. This was my first trip to the lake and for 2 yrs I haven't blinked an eye nor had the urge to fish this body of water. I normally always spend my time in the Delta but my eyes are now open to quality fish that are lurking in this lake. Monster bass and a lot of snags.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Fish slow and work all trees, missed a lot of quality fish in 10 to 20 ft steep drop offs. Fish light line.

Monday, June 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had a Guide trip on the day after Memmorial weekend. The fishing in the morning was not so good. We where up the river above the bridge. I decided to head back out to the dam area. This was a good choice as we got into fish right away along the rocks. Carolina riged Robo worms did the trick.
    City: Sacramento

Sunday, April 18th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I had the pleasure of fishing the annual Troy Brawley charity tournament with my son, Tom Tietz, yesterday and had a great time. We stayed on the west end of the lake, down by the spillway all day and ended up with 20.25 lbs. for 7 fish to finish in 4th place. It took just over 21-lbs. to win. We caught largemouth and spots from 8 - 25ft. with a variety of plastics and techniques.
    We never lost a fish although we missed a lot of hits and couldn't have asked for a better day.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Small plastics in shad colors. Drop shot, splitshot or shakin' in 4 to 30 ft.

Saturday, April 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday and Sunday.Bass Reapers Club Tournament.Saturday fished points cranking and split shoting.Bigger fish cranking a Bill Dance Fat Free shad in Tennesse shad pattern at about 10 feet real slow over the rocks up to 3lbs for 13lbs for 5 fish.Sunday tried same pattern,slow.Tried jigs and small robo worms.5 fish to 9.5 lbs.Big stringer for the club outing was 16.5 lbs split shoting baby brush hogs on Sunday.Specially rigged.Secret color.Bigger stringers brought in Sunday.Them boys had to run to the bait shop Saturday night to by more of that special bait.Some real nice fish brought in Sunday.Great weather,great friends made for a great weekend.
    City: Fairfield

    Tips: Didn't see no nest yet.Lot of fish crusing 5'-12' deep.Water clarity to 14' Saturday morning till boat traffic disturbed bottom.Don't pass up trees, but make long cast to them because of water clarity.

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Crystal clear water down to 12 ft at times, day was sunny and breezy. Caught one on my second cast on a witches-t. We got two more later on a senco. Lake looks really bassy. Jigs and cranks didn't work for us, just worms. Bass maybe in the 2 pound range.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: New to this lake so can't give any tips. Maybe it just wasn't our day. Bring plenty of tackle, lake is snaggy.

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a short day on Saturday, I had to leave by 1:30. Started on deep 35 foot breaks in main body. Took a 12# 13oz. bass that I had a picture taken of at the north shore store before I let her go. Got nine other bass from 2 to 4 pounds. Seven of the fish came on jigs and 2 on worms. Went up river to check it out, 2 of my smaller fish came up there. All on main body were largemouth. The fish I was targeting moved into 20 ft. deep water about noon when the water warmed. Not sure how shallow in late afternoon since I had to leave early.
    City: Galt

    Tips: The picture of the big fish is on the norcalfishing.com website in the photo gallery.

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    Water Temp: 49-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Similar to an earlier report, the river was tough. Started off there ripping and spinnerbaiting and never got touched. Moved way up the river and got a limit on jigs, but they were all 13" spots. Did get a nice 2.5 spot further down the river on a jig in a tree, but couldnt repeat it. A guy said he caught 6 largemouth deep in the trees on the main body, including a 12 lb fish. We worked our way out and did begin catching a few largemouth, which did upgrade us to 9.6 lbs. These were caught splitshotting a 4" worm. We needed 9.9 to make the money. Winners got bit on jigs in main body. Several guys ripped a fish, but most fish caught slightly deeper. Winners did get some fish up river, but they already had better fish.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I expect that next weekend, #'s should be better.

Saturday, February 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: Low 50s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: At least three tournaments out o No. Shore on Sat. Why no posts??? Decided it was time I started contributing to this orum. Sacramento Bass Wranglers ished their club tournament at Comanche on Sat. 2-21-04. No chance to preish or me. At blast o everyone went towards the main lake and the dam. I went towards the narrows and the river arm. WRONG!! Fished all the places that I won tournament last year. WRONG!! Winning weight (Stacey Gee) 17.14 lbs with two 5lb ish. Ripping and then carolina rigged lizard just north o the North Shore Marina. 2nd and 3rd Steve Woods and Ron Mitchel) draggin jigs in area just to the South o the Dam. 4th (Duke Schneider) three crankbait ish and two on plastics. Big ish (Ron Ishisaka) 5.60 came on a darter and worm on a point up near the dam. I SUCKED but at least some o the guys ound the secret. Great job guys!
    City: Shingle Springs

    Tips: Fish seemed suspended early and rippin and crankin caught ish. Jigs and plastics later in the day.

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

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    Water Temp: mid 40's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Folsom Bass Team event today with around 18 boats. Partner and I managed 21 keepers with our best 5 going 15.99 pounds, good enough or the win. Second place ran about 12 1/2 pounds. Big ish was around 4 1/2 with second big ish about 3.80. My partner and I didn't have a kicker ish, just a bunch o clone 3 pounders...one o which was a beautiul spotted bass.We caught our ish in 5 dierent locations around China Gulch and on the dropos outside North Shore. We caught a lot o keepers but our best ish came on 3 baits:1) 2 dierent spoons; one in black/chartreuse, the other an Aji colored DUH spoon,2) dropshot using blue ghost worms,3) jigs in brown with purple Yamamoto grub trailer, and a black DUH jig with a Yamamoto 180 trailer.Most jig and spoon ish came between 32-45 eet. Spoon ish came 45-62 eet.PS...also spooned a big catish!
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Almost ALL our ish were bloated and required izzing. I you can't pop a ish, then please learn how! Try keeping a ew small deep caught ish in your livewell during your preishing and practice needling on these ish. I you kill a small one while learning, that's okay...take it home and eat it. There are plenty o small ish in these lakes, but we need to protect those bigger tournament ish. By practicing this way, you will be able to saely izz bigger ish that stay in your livewell all tournament day. Please protect our resource!!One more thing, when ishing super deep, its inevitable that you will lose a ew ish even ater popping them. So, please only ish very deep i you absolutely have to.

Sunday, January 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my buddy Taylor were out on the lake rom about 9:45-3 and caught only 10 bass total. 2 spots and 8 largemouth. Eight o the bass came on drop shot (anything that looks like a shad) and the rest came on spoons. Anywhere rom 25 to 40 t deep. Our stringer together was around 12 pounds, better day than what we thought because how cold it was.
    City: pioneer

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out in the morning and it was very oggy. Drove around or a while and ound where we were going. Got one on a 1/2 ounce yamamoto spider jig right away, and went til noon w/nothing else. inally ound several ish dropshotting in 35' o a blu wall. then got one about 4 lbs o some stick ups on a submerged island at about 3 00 with a speed trap.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: drop shotting in 35' produced the most ish w/magic worms.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The post below this one should have been dated 10-18-2003...Sorry about that...
    City: Roseville

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77-79

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are still deep, caught 6, all largemouth and all at or below 25 eet deep. This lake still has some cooling down to do. Most ish on the LCD were at 40 to 60 eet deep.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Pray or some cold nights and this lake will turn on!

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 6:30 Am, ished just past the narrows and had my irst ish 7AM 2.2 lb spot ate a Fat Free Shad Suspending crank bait. That was the only ish that would eat a crank bait. Switch to Pro Worm's Mean Green and ished just outside the stick ups caught 8 more Spotted Bass, one dink and the rest rom 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pounds...
    City: Roseville

    Tips: Comanche is coming up and cooling due to water released rom Pardee, which is really nice. All the ish I caught today were in 13 to 27 eet o water. Most o the bigger spots I caught would have another spot o equal size ollowing it to the boat...I was using a quarter oz Mojo weight pegged 5" above the hook equiped with a Mean Green Pro worm and I would drag it a bit and shake it a little. I like this lake and ish it every Saturday...

Monday, September 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Stated 7am North shore Spinnerbait Third cast 3lb Largemouth and other two went 2lb. Sun came out had to put the blades away. Draged the rest o the day. Ended up with 33 bass. 15 were largemouth rest spot's. See ya on the water, and look or the little guy in the blue and white ASTRO.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: They like baits that bump the bottom rocks.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: HOT see below

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: BENEFIT TOURNAMENT AT B&W RESORT ON THE DELTAor a member who's house burned....$100 per boat, 50% going to the amily, 50% going to the winnings (70% or the heaviest bag/30% or big ish) August 23rd, dawn till 1:00 PM...help a amily in need!...thanks to NCBF or their orum ...e-mail or more ino..or just show up...thanks EGBassPres@aol.com
    City: Carmichael

Friday, June 20th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was a tough day on the lake today. We decided to start ishing at the crack o dawn. Fished the same areas as my last report 2 weeks ago with the same lures. Didn't catch our irst keeper until 10:30A. Ater 11 hours, we went home with 8 keepers (nothing big - 2lb smallmouth was the largest). Caught a lot o undersized bass again.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: All keepers were caught on spinners - white and chartruse/white with dbl blades. No keepers on Rat L Traps today.