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Tuesday, October 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 80's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well I heard tell that a Risto-rap in the hot mustard color was working or a couple o guys, I threw a Poe's deep diver in yellow tiger strips with no luck, I also threw the at-ree shad in wht/chrt, with no luck. I caught ish irst thing in the am on a Super Pop-R. Several olks used the craw-dad Bomber, I tried with no luck. I did however lip a ew ish with a Witchs-T Zipper. We also caught our best ish on the Ivano orange/brown worm split shot-ed or tooth picked, look or 20 eet o water!!!! The ish seemed to be hanging in the 15 to 20 oot range . I caught ish under docks by liping a small white spinner and letting it all to the bottom, same with a wht.jig and a shad colored zipper. There were also quit a ew guys that said they got Frog ish to the south.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Warning...Watch the Islands, some times the shallow water runs a ways out rom the land and is not marked...part o the lake can be clear while other parts are green.

Sunday, September 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great weekend up at Clear Lake, my dad and I inished irst on Division 1 o the WCB Future Pro Team cicuit. We pre-ished or 2 weekends up at the lake and ound the pattern, last Saturday we ished some deeper water and I caught one that was a little over 6 and a ew more on a brown Duh! jig. On Sunday we didn't ish our good water and we struggled and only caught 2 keepers all day. We came back up this weekend and since it was a Sunday tounament we had Saturday to pre-ish. We stayed in the redbud arm all Saturday to see i we could ind any good water close by the ramp so we ished all day and only caught 4 keepers with nothing over 2, we tried crank baits, spinner baits, jigs, and split-shoting worms and only caught ish split-shoting. We eliminated everything we ished in the Redbud arm except one little spot.The day o the tourney we went straight to the spot where I caught the 6 the week beore and we were the irst one there. My dad caught a dink right away then a ew minutes later I caught a 2 pounder on a jig. About 10 minutes ater I caught the irst one I got a bite and set the hook and I almost all o the boat but I still hold on to the rod and try to real in the ish, but he jumped and spit the jig. Ater that we get a ew more bites but nothing so we decide to leave. We get to our second spot and within ten minutes I have a weird eeling sorta like my jig is swimming away so I set the hook and the ish just kind o sits there so I keep pullin and the ish is pullin, I knew it was a big one so I tell my dad to get the net. The ish wasn't ighting like a normal bass and I think it's a catish, but then it comes up and we see it and both my dad and I went WHOA! it was a big bass, turned out to be 8.54. Ater that my dad and I are both excited and within ten minutes he is setting the hook, his ish was also a big one, 6 pounder. We couldn't get any more ish o that spot just a couple o missed hook sets, so we head to our third spot but some one was right on it so we let it and headed to our only spot in the Redbud arm to see i we can get 2 more keepers. We get there and right away I get a 2+, then my dad sticks a squeker and we are excited and igure we have about 18 pounds but we need to cull that last ish. About 5 minutes ater my dad caught the last one I get one that'll cull his ish and now we igured we had about 20 pounds. We decide to go throw a rog in Cache Creek to see i we can get a toad but nothing so we weighed in 30 minutes early.We ended up with irst place in Division one with 21.55 or 5 ish and big ish o 8.54 Our key was to spend a lot o time pre-ishing and eliminating water. We also threw dirent lures so we weren't ishing or the same ish, 4 o the ish were on the brown 1/4 ounce Duh! jig and one came on a baby bass hooked tail Buddah bait grub. All o our ish ecxept one came out o 20-30 eet o water, so ish deep.
    City: Bay Point

Monday, August 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished evening looking or a rog bite in rattlesnake arm and narrows. Nothing. Very warm evening. Caught one 3lb on a michael. Just at dusk, as moon rose, lost a 3lb at the boat. Caught 2,3 on 10"power worm. At 9:30 pm Jig bite happened. By 12;30am, Had 14 ish in boat incl a 5.1 and a 5.3. My best 5 went 21 pounds. Fished around razier point, Konocti harbor, Anderson Island. It was great! No boats, no Jet skiers, just quiet, peaceul and solid jig bites.
    City: yuba

    Tips: 10" power worm. 3/8 oz jig w/ at plastic rog shaped trailer. Rock piles. Hot days mean good night ishing. Be very careul o rockpiles, bouys, docks, etc.

Thursday, August 12th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: carmicheal

    Tips: I would like to ind out what " all patterns " I should try out.I would like to know what color jigs and crankbaits to use.

Sunday, August 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Made it down or some serious night ishing on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The wind never really stopped blowing except or a little bit irst thing in the morning. Sunday, we launched rom behind Rattlesnake and the wind was really blowing so we ished some rock piles and ledges in the evening had some bites but no ish in the boat. Ater several hours the wind started to lay down and we moved up the west bank. We lost a couple more ish but around Glenhaven we inally got two, a 6.0 on a zipper worm and an 8.1 on a spinnerbait, also caught an 11+ catish. landed a ew more smaller ish until sunrise. Monday night we ished over around Konocti bay and only had a ew ish until the moon was up. Last hal o the night produced a couple in the 3-4lb range, a 5, and a 8.5 on smaller worms and big Yammamoto grubs. Found a good spinnerbait bite irst thing in the morning around deeper weed edges at Kono Tayee, several 2-3lbers and a 6.1. Tuesday night we returned to areas we had ound ish beore and landed about 15 bass to 5.5 and 6.0 with another 11+ cat.
    City: Arcata

    Tips: Deep rocky areas in the wind produced the bigger ish or us. We started with big worms and brass and glass but didn't get a lot o bites until we went to a more suttle presentation. Use a trailer hook on your spinnerbait at night. The 8lber was barely hooked on one.

Wednesday, July 28th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 72 +

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: air to good on cats
    City: los angeles

    Tips: ish topaters, zara, rogs in evening.

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