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Friday, June 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: UNKNOWN

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3 o us went out today and came home with 14 keepers (biggest 2 were a 3 lb spotted bass and a 2 lb smallmouth). Caught a lot o undersized bass. Even caught 4 blue gills using 1/2 oz Rat L Traps. We ished all the man made rocky "walls" - staying about 40 t away rom the shore and casting toward the shore.
    City: Dixon, CA

    Tips: dbl bladed spinners w/white skirts - color o blades or type didn't matter. 1/2 oz Rat L Traps - anything w/chrome. Tried grubs and Senkos, but didn't get one bite.

Friday, March 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish scattered, typically no more than 2 ish/spot. Decent quality, caught a total o 14 ish, 9 in the 3-4lb range. All caught on 4in worm in deeper water (15-25t)
    City: stkn

    Tips: tried 6in worms and jigs. no luck. switch back to the 4in and started getting bit again.

Monday, March 10th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My partner & I ished a Caliornia Bass tournament a new circuit put on by ken at valley bait in lodi on sunday we caught about 15 ish & were culling 2.5lb ish using 5" camanche jack's leeches #101 & 6" green pumpkin lizards in 15-25t we weighed in 13.10 or 5 ish & came in 4th, Jose' Luper & his son won with over 20lbs & a 10lb kicker on jigs ken puts on a good tournament & needs support, our club is putting on a Troy Brawley Memorial Tournament on April 19th with a huge rale & BBQ you can get ino at www.geocities/oromadre.com
    City: Lake Camanche

    Tips: leeches,lizards & jigs 10-30t lots o ish they are moving up, the bite is on!

Saturday, February 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sac. Bass Wranglers tourney on Saturday. Good job Glenn, you had the mojo with you!! I had a pretty good day with a limit or 11.96 lb. (good enough or second place.) First ish came on Norman DD-14 Chart./ blue on 4th or 5th cast on a rip rap steep bank on main body. Everything else came on 1/4 oz. darter head with 6" Green Ghost straight tail worms. all healthy & at and all up the river. Did not ind one location holding large numbers o ish; rather they seemed to be a pretty well spread out. Moving around to several secondary points seemed to be the ticket, at least or me. In all I caught 10 keepers but wasn't lucky enough to ind that kicker ish. The bite was pretty subtle, mostly just pressure while shaking, but once you set the hook they ought like heck. A beautiul day on the water. These ish seem like they're just aching to come up shallow and start doin' their thang!! Should open wide up within a week or two.
    City: sacramento

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    Water Temp: 50-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sacramento Bass Wranglers club tournament Saturday. Tough conditions with only a ew limits. 4.6# big ish. 12.86 irst place and 11+# or 2nd and third. Shaking worms and spider jigs worked or me. I caught 8 keepers ishing horse island, the narrows and the middle area o the lake. Caught 10 on Fri in preish. shaking worms and jigs. Hit and miss. No concentrations o ish. Fishing picked up as the water warmed ater 10AM. Good luck. and keep posting.
    City: Shingle Springs

    Tips: Green weanies on 3/16 darter and 5 inch Yamamoto spider jig (watermellon with red lakes) on 1/4 or 1/2 oz ootball head jigs. Sot bite on weanies but they just slammed the jigs.

Saturday, February 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished the norcal bass ederation tourney..and my partner and I did well ..we came in 6th..hitting on dropshotting and darthead on inesse worms. At least the bass were biting great under the oggy/cloudy day.
    City: Ceres

    Tips: Keep on dropshotting and darthead down 12-40 t

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o South Shore. Tried some coves toward the dam end, but couldn't get anything to go. Went down through the narrows and ound a wind blown rocky bank. Got a 2.0 on a dropshot worm rom the Yamamoto kit. Nice ish, good ight. Came out o 20t o water. Shortly there ater my pardner got one on a white spinnerbait that he casted to the shore. That ish came out o 5 eet. Fish was 1.5lb. He got another one that came o near the boat was about 1.5. That one ell to a 4" green weenie Keeper Worm. Ran up river aways ater the rock bank died. Water got colder and the trout got active chasing the 4" worm. Also had a 5lb trout take a long hard look at my suspending Spittin' Image, but decided not to bite.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Drop shot small worms. Toss some spinnerbaits and by all means Go Fishin', it'll make ya eel better.

Sunday, November 17th, 2002

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 11:ooam, o at 4:00 pm6 ish, largest 4lb, largest 5 weighed about 12lb. all caught in or near deep water (10-25t). could not catch a ish up on the lats

    Tips: lake report suggested ish caught on shallow lats early and late in the day. Was the total opposite or me!

Saturday, September 14th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a club tournament with the Bass Buster O Santa Clara County. What a beautiul day on the water. We had 9 boats go out and only one boat managed to bring in a limit, which weighed over 10 lbs. He caught ish dropshotting small rocky areas. I inished in second place weighing in 3 ish or about 5.5 lbs. I dropshotted islands or my ish. 3rd place weighed in just under 4.5 lbs or 2 ish. Seems that most ish caught were in the 20 - 45 oot depth and caught on the dropshot rig. Big ish o the tournament was a 2.66 lb Spotted Bass. Lots o skiers on the water today and the lake is very low.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Try dropshotting 6' worms. Seemes the smaller ish wanted smaller baits. Roboworm puts out some awesome worms! Also try ishing directly into the trees. Seems the ish were very tight to the trees!

Sunday, June 30th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water by 10:30 and was o the water by 5:30. Caught 10 bass ranging rom 1-3 pounds on split-shotted worms in the main body o the lake in 15-20 oot deep o water.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Fish on the main body around trees with worms or best success. Fish as slow as possible during the day.

Monday, June 24th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I were out on the water by 0545 hit the rock walls with big dropos...buddy caught the 1st one, weight in at 3.5# with worm, a lot o ollowers...hal an hour later he caught a 5 lber. on a spinner and we inished the day, with me, catching a 4 lber. on a popper...out o the water by 0830, it was a nice day
    City: Hayward

    Tips: hit the walls

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 10:00 to 2:30. Caught 5 ish on Gary Yamomoto Double tail Purple and Watermealon. two were all most 3 lbs. Both were 16" and 17" Had a lot o un with my riend his irst time. He had nothing. Fish got deeper as the day got hotter.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish along the weed line and Parellel to the shore. The ish are deeper than I thought.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Starte right o with a nice two pound smallie around a submerged rock pile. Friend had a 1.5lbs smallie, 2lbs largemouth, and a 3lb spotted. All had big bellies. Friend also caught two 2 lb trout, one with a 4" greeny weeny and one with a 3" jerk bait (this one the rain was pouring down on us. Top water smallie bite should start soon with nice weather comming.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: baby brush hogs, slow retrieve and stops, ish picking up when stopped.

Sunday, February 17th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WENT TO CAMANCHE TODAY AND PREFISHED FOR A CLUB TOURNEY COMING UP THIS SAT. GOT ON THE WATER AT DAYBREAK AND STARTED AT THE SOUTH END. STARTED WITH 6 INCH OX BLOOD WORMS AND NAILED A 3.5 POUNDER ON MY SECOND CAST MOVED OFF THAT SPOT AND WENT DOWN A COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS TO ANOTHER SPOT THAT MATCHED THE ONE I HAD BEEN ON. HOOKED A NICE 2.5 POUNDER THERE. AGAIN I LEFT THE AREA AND MOVED ON SO I WOULDNT COMPLETELY WRECK THE AREA'S I HAD LOCATED FISH ON. WENT TO TWO MORE AREAS WITH THE SAME KIND OF STRUCTURE AND SAME DEPTHS AND CAUGHT 2 MORE NICE FISH AROUND 2 TO 2.5 POUNDS. OVERALL I HAD ABOUT 13#S FOR 5 FISH SO IM FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THIS SAT. IVE TALKED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT SAID THEY HAVE BEEN GETTING SKUNKED AT CAMANCHE BUT I FOUND A PETTERN THAT IS WORKING FOR ME. SORRY I CANT TELL YOU MORE UNTIL AFTER SAT.I WILL SAY THIS WHAT IM DOING IS PRETTY UNUSUAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT IT IS WORKING. WISH ME LUCK.
    City: MODESTO

    Tips: HERES A HINT .......SPEED.

Saturday, February 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished till 2:30, nothing.Then i remembered the huge balls o bait i saw on my graph in the narrows,(pond smelt,shad?)At 55-70 eet deep,tied on a spro jig in white put some shad smelly jelley on and letter down.Dried about hal way through the narrows,bam 2lber.(bass) Then BAM! a 10lb.catish,then a 3lb. catish and then my son AUSTIN,catch his irst catish almost 4lbs.
    City: ELK GROVE

    Tips: I beleive i just didnt ish deep enough and slow enough Eariler in the day

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: well, the bite was tough. I ended up squeaking out a small limit but the ish were deinitely not active. one cranking, one split shotting, one on a jig and two shaking. how's that or a pattern??? my limit weighed just under 7.4 lb. and the tourney winner had 4 ish or around 8.8 lb. the winner said he cranked all o his ish but the bite shut down by 8:00 or so. not a bite ater that. sorry, not much inormation but this lake is going to turn on any day now. the water temp was a ull 2 degrees warmer than last week.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Camanche with my buddy Rich. Been several years since we ished here. But no luck. Out about 0700 and ished all morning with no bass, a ew hits we missed, and one nice trout. Talked to a ew other boats, they were having a tough go o it too. Nice day, good water, good temperature, just no ish. Picked up another nice trout trolling. Maybe next time....
    City: Redding

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    Water Temp: 52.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We got skunked....Could not buy a bite and caught a nice 21/2lb. rainbow on a stick bait. I talked to a guy at the dock where a tournament was weighing in a he said 6.5 lbs. was the best total.......Wow did the barometric pressure turn o the bite or what? We tried twenty kinds o worms drop shoting and I tried several stick baits. Twelve years o bass ishing and still learning. Good Luck. Should o stayed on Folsom.
    City: Folsom

    Tips: Stay home until it warms up.

Sunday, February 10th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started on the rock wall ,on the sunny side,at the narrows.It was 9:30 heading towards china gulch i was throwing a storm suspending wiggle wart in crawish.I would throw it out and crank it down and just kill it and let it suspend,it produce a beautiul 8.lber.Also had another bass about 2lbs.come o at a point by campers cove.
    City: Elk Grove C. A.

    Tips: Crawish pattern crankbaits (suspending) steep banks or wood near deep water Tried other baits ,just couldnt get bit on them Careul on those deep ish,catch and release,and have a great day ishing see-ya PAUL-N-SONS

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started on the rock wall ,on the sunny side,at the narrows.It was 9:30 heading towards china gulch i was throwing a storm suspending wiggle wart in crawish.I would throw it out and crank it down and just kill it and let it suspend,it produce a beautiul 8.lber.Also had another bass about 2lbs.come o at a point by campers cove.
    City: Elk Grove C. A.

    Tips: Crawish pattern crankbaits (suspending) steep banks or wood near deep water Tried other baits ,just couldnt get bit on them Careul on those deep ish,catch and release,and have a great day ishing see-ya PAUL-N-SONS