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Saturday, July 10th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 76-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got there early and 75 boats were blasting o. Decided to start o at the ramp throwing rogs, buzz baits and spinner baits. Had a limint by 0630. One went 6.5 lbs. and the rest were 2.75 - 3.5 lbs. Atr 0900 should o pulled o the lake and went home cause no other bites ater that.
    City: olsom

    Tips: Frogs and docks seem to be the ticket

Wednesday, July 7th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED CLEAR FOR FIRST TIME IN 10+YEARS. NEEDED TO GET SOME PRACTICE TIME SO I CAN START FISHIN THEM TOURNEYS UP THERE. MAN O'MAN GOOD DAY!!SKITTER POP/FROG TIGHT TO THE TULES..NEED I SAY MORE? WHEN THE SUN STARTS TO GET HIGH HIT THE DOCKS W/ GRUBS OR GITZITS SKIP'EM N' RIP'EM...20+FISH DAY W/2 OVER 6LBS AND PROBABLY CLOSE TO A 8#+ THAT GOT OFF BECAUSE I DIDNT LISTEN TO BOBBY BARRACK AND SHARPEN THEM DANG HOOKS!! GOOD LUCK BRING LOTS OF SUN BLOCK ITS HOT!!
    City: FREMONT

    Tips: CHARTREUSE FROG SEEMED TO WORK A LITTLE BETTER, POPPERS IN SHAD COLORS DID REAL WELL...KEEP IT TIGHT TO THE TULES, FISH ARE SHALLOW SO SNEAK 'N PEAK..DON'T ASK THE LOCALS THEY'RE REAL NICE BUT SURE ARE TIGHT LIPPED ABOUT THINGS...

Friday, July 2nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 77-82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6/28-6/30. Concentrated on the lower lake. Fish seemed to be on the outside corners (points) o spawning coves in 10-15 eet. No topwater in the morning. A ew hit very sotly in the evening hours on Ricos. No reaction bite either during morning or aternoon. Success came or us only dragging or casting worms (5" Iovino, Green Weenie Paddle Tails were best). No big ish. 2-5 lbs. Night bite good with 10" black Power Worms and black spinnerbaits.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Most ish are in post spawn. One tip I have is to get amiliar with the downshot technique. Normal split shoting gathered weeds and algae on the worm. Downshoting allowed us to bring the worm 18" o the bottom producing more bitesand ar less problems. The bites are more aggressive with this technique as well. 8 lb test seemed to get more strikes, check the line or rays requently. Also, no need to use expensive brass and glass sinkers. Simple round split shot works great. Use whatever size needed to maintain good bottom contact.

Wednesday, June 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Just spent 4 days and did real well. The ish we patterned were post spawn & were between the docks in the tules just outside the spawning areas. We caught a 7.5, 6.5, a ew 5'sand a bunch o 4- 3.5s. The bass were not very aggressive until night time, we dumped a ew 10+ ish at night. The top water was rustrating because we would see 5 & 6# ish swim up behind and just check out the lure, and then go away. Mainly stayed down south or the deeper water. We did see a bunch o males gaurding nests, and even a ew bed ish, but I don't ish or them. The lures we used were baby brush hogs, and june bug worms, the topwater ish that we did catch came on Ricos. Watch or your line to move more than the thump that you usually get up there, even the night ish hit like bluegills. We did some rock pile ishing which did not produce to well or us and that was when we moved into the tules and ound our pattern.
    City: San Ramon

Wednesday, June 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My younger brother and I made it down late on Sunday and set up catish lines at the campground, no cats but woke up to a 15+ carp. The wind didn't lay down all night. Did some bank ishing at a prime area in the morning, I landed two around 2lbs and my brother hooked into his irst big ish. The 7+ put up a tremendous ight and threw the jig on the third completly airborne jump. Didn't ish much in the aternoon as we had booked a trip with Larry Hemphill. Our Dad met us down there and the three o us started ishing with Larry around 7 pm. It was a little diicult ishing our people but we started catching ish right away all bucks 1.5- 2lbs. In the evening I got the irst decent ish 4.5 on a 8" worm. Then Larry and I both lost 3lbers.Once it got dark the wind died and everything was extremely quiet we managed a 5 and two more around 3 and some bucks. It was a very un and pleasant night we landed 15 ish, but the big ish were just not that active. We had quite a ew short bites and the bites were very sot. We got back to camp around 4 and i wasn't ready or bed so I went drove down to the same bank area and just as it was getting light enough to see some big ish became active. I caught a 4.6, 6.7, and a 8.1 in less then hal an hour! I had one other bite and then it shut o a little beore the sun poked over the hill. We stayed another day and got some a ew more ish rom the same area up to 5lbs in the evening and irst thing in the morning.
    City: Arcata

    Tips: This week the ish were really active at irst and last light but the big ish bite shut o with sun on the water. The water is extremely clear and ishing was tough during the day. Slow crawled brush hogs and jigs worked well or us. Bring sun screen, mosquito repellent and lots o water. Good Luck!

Monday, June 14th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at Garner Island at 5:30am. The carp were so active that I thought they were going to jump in the boat.Moved to the tules o Luebow Pt. caught a ew there. Caught a nice 4# under an isolated dock on Lakeview Pt. Then workedthe docks between Lakeview and Baylis Pt. and caught several more. In the late ater noon went back to Garner and wasable to catch a 5.5# and several other smaller ish. All o my ish were caught on a Zoom Super Fluke ished on a onspinning rig. I was casting or skipping to an area letting it sink and twitching it every 5-10 seconds back to the boat.Tips Fish were not aggressive so it would sometimes take several casts into the same area to get a strike.
    City: Watsonville

Saturday, June 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 68-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 2 days in a club tournament. I won the event with 27 pounds or 2 days. I caughtall my ish on rogs in the keys. It was a tough bite but ish came all day long on this bait.Tips throw the rog onto the bank and gentlk pull it into the water, then all you need to do isHOLD ON!!!
    City: Pleasanton

Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 64-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: American Bass Anglers Two Day Team Tournament, Launched out o the Anchorage in Lakeport, I ished in the north end o the lake, ished the cove beore Rocky PointSplitshotting Walton weeenies in the tules, threw about a oot into the tules and work it out as your wieght bumpedthe tule beore the out side edge this produced the bitebut it wasnt your tap tap, it was just pressure, set the hook and the ish was there, cinder block walls also gave up a ew ishI would catch a limit and my partner would cullmy ish, I also approched a boat dock that had tule growth under it and lipped a jig (Denny Brauer) 3/8thoz. Black and red with a Uncle Josh #11 Pork rog to a dark pocket in approx. 4t.o water and KER-Thunk set the hookAnd boated a 5 1/2 pounder that put me and my partner in irst place and big ish we had 24+ pounds or two days, pretty goodor this club, second place was 23+. The Weather pattern was great in the morning and the wind blew in the aternoon, beore we weighed in we saw bucks ALL OVER the bank outside the Anchorage. Saw small ry everywhere too. Tight Lines, Procrat PeteTips Please Practice Catch and Release During the Spawning season.
    City: Martinez

Sunday, May 16th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 56-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 100% Bass team tournament out o Lakeport.Blast o @0540 Burrrr air temp 40degrees.Picked up irst ish east o Rodman Slough,in the timber 4-5t.,with a Texas rigged Blackand blue Strike King Flippin Tube (2# male).2nd Fish caught 2 hrs.later at the top o Rodman,on a Vyper tandem willow chartreuse on the edge o the grass.(4.6#).Two other ish caught late in the dayby willow point,both with watermelon red baby brush hogs.Ended the day with 4 ish or a total o 14.06#.Winning team had 32lbs. 7 ish limit pitching brown jigs by Rattlesnake island.Tips Brush Hogs in the timber.Teams caught most o their ish With watermelon and pumpkin colors.
    City: Napa

Saturday, May 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 58-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did well the irst day o my irst ever tourney. Got lucky and got a great boater who knew where the ish were, and weighed in a top (or the day) 25.60 limit. My best day ever ishing, including a 10.3 toad. Sucked eggs the second day and only managed to land one ish, ell to third best.Tips split shot lukes with 1/16 - 1/8 oz, 12" leader tossed very lightly, retreived very slow with twitches. You rarely eel them, mush bite.
    City: Belmont

Wednesday, May 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had 30 minutes to ish yesterday, on third cast rom shore I hooked and landed a 7pound 2oz bass o a sea wall.Figured I couldn't do better than that and went home ater a picture was taken and she was released.Tips white spinnerbait, gold blades.
    City: Lakeport

Thursday, May 6th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake around 5:30 and launch our loat tubes rom state park. ZIP! Lot's o Carp jumping around. We wenta mile north to Land's End and ound one point with ish all over it. We saw a helluva lot more than we caught. 2 keepersized ish. We released them. The ish we saw were not on bedsbut just cruising the new tules. I'm thinking post spawn. At least some o the ish.Oh yeah, the 2 we caught were on Baby Bass Flukes ishedreal slow....Tips n/a
    City: Rohnert Park

Tuesday, May 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Let at 3:30 AM thursday morning rom Ben Lomond. Ater the 4.5 hour drive, got to clear lake and ound the water level to be quite high. Bite was tough over all. I got two dinks and a 2.5# on thurdsday. JC got one dink. Friday, another buddy came up and joined us and we headed tothat main point near the south end o the lake, near the oriental shrine,(or what ever it is). I hooked into a nice 4.2 pounder. JC got a 3.6 pounder at camp rom the shore (state park). That was it or Friday. Saturday we went out in the am and I got two, one dink and one about 2.5 pounds. That was it or the whole trip. Front came through and the winds came up at about noon putting stop to the boating and hadn't stopped blowing when we let Sunday morning.Tips I got all my ish on baby brush hogs. The ish are dug in deep in cover. The lake level is very high which allows you to get your boat back in the thick brush. Use weedless rigs and cast in as ar back as you can. The ish are spawningso please practice catch and release
    City: Ben Lomond

Friday, April 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 55-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Last week I took my 14 yr old brother to Clear Lake and we ished the south part and we threw Crankbaits in the morning and then switch to split shot a green weenie and we caught a very nice limit. My brothers ish ranged rom 4 to 7 pounds and my ish ranged rom 5 to 9 pounds.I mainly cought my big ish useing worms in the southern most tules on the lake. I really caught average ish throwing a crankbait o o the rocks. I think the ishing will be very goos this year as long as the weather coopreates with us all summer.Tips n/a
    City: Santa Clara

Sunday, April 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 54-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA Pro-Team (13 Boats) on Sunday. Had nice ish goin on Sat.,while shaking several o. Heard the weigh-in or Nor-Cal and got real excited or our tourney. Ater I launched my partner,while walking back to the dock's I lipped,turned my ankle and went down ace irst. As I'mwreathing in pain this nice lady asked i she could help. I tried to shake it o, and limped to the boat. Dave (my partner) asked "what was that loud noise" ? I told him,and o course he laughed. Wethen went to our irst three hot spots, an came away with one 13 1/2" ish. I had a eeling it was going to be a tough bite, especially ater noting that the water temp. had dropped six degrees overnight. What the ?????We did get some jig ish up north on main lake points and docks. Ater around noon,the sun inally came out. Fished a couple o sloughs(can't give them up over penalty o death)and inally got hot.Dave lipped a 4 1/2,then a 4. We both dropped a couple o nice ish which cost us the tourney. We ended up in third and won some $$$,inally.THE JINX IS OVER FOR BIG DADDY!And wehad the ish ,i only! We weighed 15+, the winners had 17+.A pretty tough bite or everybody.Big ish was 6+ caught on a rip bite.Others reoported green lizards, and brown jigs as producing well.Tips Boy once the sun came out,the bite really turned on.Go shallow and lip jigs and lizards.
    City: San Leandro

Tuesday, April 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Made it down or a one day trip again, this time launching out o Nice. Only had two smallbites until noon, when I spotted a big emale 8+ sunbathing in the trees. Finally got her to hit aweightless worm on 8lb line but ater a good run she sawed me o. Almost impossible to look orish with wind and murky water so I just kept lippin. I landed nine ish but our were 3-4lbs, ANDI managed to get a kicker. A 12.5 lb giant lipped out o tules next to wood just as the sun wassetting. Found someone to snap some pictures and let her go. Made all that driving a little easier!Tips Downsize baits, ish slowly, and set the hook at anything dierent. I did not get a solidbite all day. Letting the bait set on a semi tight line, I would barely eel resistance but therewould be a ish there.
    City: Arcata

Monday, April 19th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 57 - 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught plenty o ish on white spinnerbaits and albino lutes, just no big ish, the largest we had was ive and a hal lbs. My partner lost one over 8lbs and another large ish we never got to see. Most guys that had large ish were sight ishing ish on beds.Tips The ish on beds were right next to stairs in trailer park sometimes one or two on bouth sides o the stairs going into the water. White jigs or any really bright colored worm or lizard will work just stick with it. white spinnerbaits in sparce toolys and willows will work, I was using 1oz with #7 gold willowlea.The albino luts were weightles in the same stu. good luck J.D
    City: San Jose

Sunday, April 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are a ull moon away rom spawin and they are spooky. Down size baits. Flukes andloatin worms in white. There are still rip ish and blade ish to catch but you need a little windto help that bite out. The lip bite is better towards the evening. lots o beds!!!!!!!Tips When you go rom cold to warm this time o the year and these ish are in spawn mode down sizeand slow down. you know the ish are there just make repeated cast to an area and be patient.These ish aren't chasin much. Pray or a little wind this time o year!!!!!!
    City: Suisun

Saturday, April 17th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED THE NORTH END WITH MY FATHER. LEFT THE RANGER AT HOME AND USED MY FATHERS TRI-HULL TOGET SOME TIME ON IT FOR HIM.IT WAS TOUGH WITH NO TROLLING MOTOR, BUT I THINK IT PAID OFF FOR US. MADE US CONCETRATE AND SLOWDOWN THE PRESENTATION. I HAD ONLY 8 FISH, BUT ALL GOOD SIZE. STARTED THE DAY WITH 3 FISH JUST OVER3PD ALL ON A CLOWN HUSKY JERK. IN 4 FT OF WATER. PITCHED COVER WITH NO SUCCESS. MOVED NORTH WEST TOSMALL CANAL AREAS JUST PAST RODMAN SLOUGH AND REALLY GOT INTO SOME NICE FISH ON THE OUTSIDE EDGES OFTHE WEED LINES IN 6-8 FT OF WATER I LANDED TWO 4 PDS AND A 6 1/2PD FEMALE ALL 3 ON 4 1/2 INWITHCHES-T MAGIC WORM. MY FATHER ALSO CAUGHT HIS ONLY 3 FISH OF THE DAY ON THE SAME WORM SET UP(1-4PD, 2-3PD). THE FISH STILL SEAM TO BE PRE SPAWN. THE 6 1/2 HAD NOT SPAWNED OUT EITHER.SAW SEVERAL BOATERS TRYING TO BED FISH AND NOT HAVING MUCH LUCK THOUGH. ON THE WAY IN WE STOPPED ATTHE VERY CORNER(NORTH EAST) OF THE LAKE AND SAW 3 YOUNG BOYS(10-12YRS) FISHING FROM A 10FT BOAT WITHA TROLLING MOTOR JUST HOLLERING AND LAUGHING. IN 2-4 FT OF WATER THEY WERE RUNNIN AND GUNNIN ANDHITTING FISH. THEY HAD AT LEAST 4 FISH AS WE TALKED TO THEM. THEY WERE THROWIN INTO THE BUSHES ANDTREES WITH A ZOOM FLUKE AT BED FISH THAT THEY DIDN'T EVEN SEE AND HOOKING UP BIG. I THREW A COUPLEOF TIMES AND GOT MY LAST FISH A 4POUNDER, AND MY FATHER LOST ONE THE SAME SIZE AT THE BOAT. PRACTICECATCH AND RELEASE ON THE BIG FEMALES!! I DID!Tips JUST KEEP IT SLOW AND METHODICAL. THE JERK BAIT PRESENTATION I MADE WAS SLOW. I WAS PAUSING INBETWEEN EACH TWITCH OF THE BAIT 3 SECONDS SOMETIMES LONGER. I CAUGHT ONE OF THE FISH AS I TALKED TOMY FATHER AND THE BAIT WAS STILL! THE FISH MAY MOVE ONTO THE BEDS THIS WEEK SO FISH INSIDE TOOUTSIDE. DON'T RUN A WAY FROM THE SMALL FISH AS THE WILL BE HEARDING UP THE BIG FEMALES TO FORCETHEM ON TO THE BEDS. AGAIN PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH AND RELEASE!!
    City: Yuba City

Thursday, April 15th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50-58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around Rocky point rom my stump jumper rom 10 until dark on Tuesday. I had 10 lipbites on jigs, brush hogs and tubes on any wood cover or males to 2.5, one big ish tied up intree. Not much o a reaction bite or me one each on spin, crank and jerkbait. Just beore dark i pulled in along a west acing sea wall nailed a 4# on irst cast with worm and a 5+ came up with it.Put on a Yammamoto Senko and ish were blowing up on it right on the surace. In the next hal hour had ten more bites all on the surace. In the excitement I didn't check my line and busted o thebiggest ish o the day, 7+ hit right at the boat.Tips Water is warming ast and ishing should be excellent by now. Always check your line ater a decent ish, that was the second big ish I have dumped this year in a lurry o bites because I didn't take a second to retie. Rookie mistake!
    City: Arcata