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Monday, May 19th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 62-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished clear lake rom wed eve. til sat eve. upper 90's during the day. 70's during nite. ished north to and into rodman slough. water extremely clear. used every thing excluding dinamite. between three o us, 6 ish caught. all small, real small. usedjerkbaits, crankbaits, buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, rubber worms, lizards, rench ries,rogs,pop r's , spooks,jitterbugs. nothing worked well. all the ish seem to be in the south end o lake. some still on beds. try near konocti harbor. this is where the turny ishermen had the best luck. good luck...ishon... pappy.
    City: San Jose

Sunday, May 11th, 1997

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I AM GOING TO CLEAR LAKE WED 5-14-97. HOW IS THE FISHING. IS THERE ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR THAT THE FISH ARE HITTING ON. WHERE CAN I FIND THE FISH. HOPE THIS ISNT ASKING TOO MUCH. HOPE I CAN RETURN THE FAVOR. I WILL REPORT WHEN I GET BACK.... FISHON....PAPPY..
    City: San Jose

Wednesday, April 9th, 1997

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Redman Regional 4-6-1997, Skeet Reese & LeroyBertolero tied or 23lb 8oz. or 5 ish. Jim Reese took 3rd with 21+lbs and I took 4th with 20lb 4oz. Mark Seeters took 5th with 20lb 2oz. Mike Reynolds took 6th with 19+lbs. The weights dropped o to 15lbs rom there. Big ish was a 9lb 8oz.Top inishers caught bed ish with grubs on dart heads. I never saw a bed ish and concentrated on the transition areas looking or pre spawners. Caught all my keeper ish on 1/4oz. Bobby Delimeter smalliejig with a Havasu Hurst craw on spinning gear. I did though ind an outstanding splitshot bite using a brown shark. Actually anything brown worked. Only problem was they were bucks under 13 inches.
    City: Oakley

Friday, March 21st, 1997

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the last two weeks with great success. Fishing the north end o the lake on 3/14/97 with two partners boated 30 plus ish. Most o which were caught on 4 inch pumkin seed ring worms, the others on jerk baits.The next week was not as good, but me and one other partner put 15 ish in the boat,with one going 6.5lbs. I think the key right now is to ind the areas that warm up the astest. The north end is still a little o in color, so cover is not that important right now
    City: Woodland

Tuesday, March 18th, 1997

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I was out three times Mon,Wed,Sat, last week. Great rip bite rom noon on...Sat with the clouds blue neon zipper worm bite, caught 15 keepers in the aternoon. Only going to get better.
    City: Sacramento

Monday, February 17th, 1997

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Well it wasn't Florida but last weekend they set new lake records or ive ish per day limits in a tournament. For ten ish irst place had a total o 56.4 lb but second place only had 55 lb. Big ish was13.3 lb. ollowed be 12.5 lb, there was also 9 ish over 8 lb. Fish came on about anything you put in the water,rip baits, lipping, worming and blades all worked.
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, February 1st, 1997

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Pre-ish or up-coming West Coast Bass Pro-Am. Water level very high. South end o lake is clear, north is very stained and muddy. I cranked, ripped, lipped jigs, lipped silver grubs and caughtnothing. Finally ater our hours I caught two small 13 inch ish shaking worms under docks. Lots o ishermen out today pre-ishing and everyone I talked to caught very ew. Brandon Youngblood didcatch a our pounder in 30 eet o water at the Boatworks. He was ishing with minnows however (cheater).everal ish did ollow my rip bait to the boat. I think i the water warms up our or ivedegrees the rip bite will start.
    City: Rio Linda

Saturday, December 14th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Today Bandon Youngblood and I went to Hog hunt at Clear Lake. Last year at this time we caught several ish over 7 pounds, and lots o ive pounders. We launched at Redbud Park around 6:30 andheaded to Jago Bay. This is the general area that we've doneso well in the past. We irst started lipping the docks with grubs and black pig & jigs. Nothing ater the irst two hours.. We then went toWindlower and did the same thing. NOTHING... We then went to Kona-Tee and worked all along the deeper docks. Iaught three small ish along these docks but they were only 1 1/2 pounds. We then decided to go back to Jago Bay, as the sun should have warmed up the water. We decided to crank red Poe's 300's ...BINGO. Branden caught a 6.8 pounder on the second cast. Ihen caught a nice 5.7... We caught several that weighed three to our pounds. We ended the day catching over 30 pounds... Not bador a day o un ishing.
    City: Rio Linda

Thursday, December 12th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Today we ished the Windlower area o Clear Lake. First several docks we caught nothing. We were trying to cover as many as possible. Finally we ound a dock that was loaded with ish. Earl and I caught and released over 30 bass on this dock. WHAT FUN!!! All these ish were caught on a silver 5in grubs with a 1/8 oz darter head. We then went over to the nice and Lucern area. Lots o bait here. The water is pretty shallow, I would say not over 4 eet. We caught over 15 ish here. Some o these were caughton a silver Rat-L-Trap. All in all it was a great day. Big ish was only 4.1 no giants today.
    City: Rio Linda

Saturday, November 16th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 51-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Club tournament on Sat and Sun. Weather was overcast Sat w/ showers. Poured rain and windy Sat night but Sun was nice with mostly cloudy skies and some light showers. Winning wt. was 35 lbs (21 on Sat and 14 on Sun). No big ish.....all under 5 lbs., so those caught were good quality ish. All these ish came on either crank baits (crawdad) or traps (same) ished on both docks and tules. 2nd place was 22 lbs and all ish were caught on 4in worms around docks. I only picked up 2 keepers over the 2 days. On on a 3/4 oz rattle trap around docks and ripping a shad rap same area. Water clarity varied throughout the lake. Very stained around Lakeport, moderately around Nice/Lucerene and airly good aroundKonocti area. Lots o bait ish in the Lakeport area. Coudy weather kept water rom warming up in aternoon. Biggest ish caught by club over the 2 days was 5.8 lbs.
    City: Redding

Monday, November 4th, 1996

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in a tournament on 11-02-96. Lots o ish caught in shallow water on crankbaits (shad raps). We caught our ish on white spinnerbaits and plastic worms in the green weenie pattern. Spinnerbait ish were comming out o 3' o water or less. We had a5lb 4oz one come out o 2' o water. Had worm ish around docks in the 5-8' depth range. Fish were holding in between docks in the shade. Winners o tourn. were lippin ish in the tules. Winning weight with 5 ish was 22lbs something. Lake looks better al the time.
    City: Kelsyville

Monday, September 9th, 1991

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in response to hockeybum's report. i took my son and iancee' out or 4 hours on sunday rom 10 a.m. - 2p.m. and we ound ishing to be slightly dierent rom hockeybum's report and this coming rom a beginner bass isherman. anyway the june-bug brosh hog seemed to be the ticket as we landed 3 ish up to 2 3/4 lbs. it wasnt world-beating , but not bad or a mid-day bite. did most o our ishing in the rattlesnake area and had numerous other bites. the ishing does seem to be getting better than last time i ished, which was a month ago.
    City: ukiah

    Tips: brush-hogs texas rig and just keep movin' till ya ind 'em

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Mr. Pinole - thank you! Glad someone else was brave enough to post, har!!!

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Congrats to Joe Miller and partner on tourney win last weekend (previous report)! Last night I again guided 2 of the 3 previous guys from my last trip with them a week or so ago. They couldn't get enough of Clear Lake in one trip!! We started at 4:30 pm out of Red Bud and found the bite to be very slow. I was trying to see if the D&M Piranha swim jig was working and stuck one over 5 lbs right away. The client new to bass fishing got a keeper right after on a brush hog. Good start I thought! Wrong!! The next 7 or so hours were weird. Perfect night weather, good water and air temp with maybe too calm water. We all hooked and lost fish after fish - nearly the whole trip. A few good fish were landed - and get this- first time - NO dinks. Maybe winter is here. We were going to fish 'til 12:30 am. Finally - at 12:15 am - the BIG event happened! The client that caught all the good fish on the last trip sets up on a fish with his newly installed 10" Berkley Power worm - I think red shad color. I only had my Oroville net since I lost the bigger one a while back and the new one isn't here yet. I looked at that fish in the black light and said to myself "Oh No!" I did get her in the net on the first try and then yelled "OH YES!!!!". She went 8 lbs 2 oz! His 5 biggest bass in the last 2 trips with me are a little over 26 lbs. Great Client, har!! He doesn't mess with "them" small guys!! At 12:32 we started back to the ramp - photo shoot done and big bass swiming away saying "what happened?"
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I guess my tip is "never give up" - and my clients didn't. They were self contained and used their own baits. The bass were equally unimpressed with anything we threw. I had 2 big bass nail the swim jig - I set - nothing! Clients same experience! With Manny's big fish, our 5 best were nearly the same as Joe Miller's tourney weight - about 25 3/4 lbs. Most action was 10 to 25 feet. Nothing shallow in spite of no moon.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Was out about an hour on the float tube. Wacky rigged senko on a 1/16 darthead snagged me a 3 pounder. Water is nice and clear here in the south end of the lake. But its the same old story, fish slow, or just bring a case off beer and a can of worms and then its always a good day.
    City: K-ville

    Tips: Back in the fishing game and looking for fellow float tubers to fish, Clear Lake, Highland Springs, and Lake Mendo.

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    Water Temp: 79-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: OK, anyone that is fishing Clear Lake may say 4 plus foot of vis, yes if you move the 1/16 inch to 2 inch thick algae on the top of the water the water under neath is very clear :)You can find water with out aglae but you have to look for it, in fact up north on Hwy 20's side it was very clear. Ok lets get to fishing,I found fish in 1 to 3 foot of water up next to rock, it was hard to believe that 1 to 3.5 lb bass were feeding on those tiny silver fish but they were. The bite was getting better and better as the week went on from what I heard, I would says this week end should be good before the new moon, I don't want to give out to much info because I think my self and one of my kids may start fishing a tourney now and than but I will say small plastics in dark colors were the ticket for my 6 fish to 3.5 lbs in 3 hrs of fishing 8/14.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Don't be afraid of the algae, in fact fish it, the fish are using it for cover and that is why I was catching fish in 1-3 ft of water when there was 30 plus feet right next to it mid day in August on a lake, you would think you were fishing the Delta. Take a Kid fishing !!

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The spawn is in full swing at Clear Lake with the water temps from 58 to 62, a few days of warm weather should bring another wave of fish up.

    The pre-post spawn bite has been good for me using Jigs Soft Plastics and Swim Baits fished in staging areas with some fish from 5 to 8 pounds and a bunch of 3 to 4 pounders.

    Look for the top water bite to pick up soon
    City: Clear Lake

    Tips: For me the key is to slow down and fish every piece of heavy cover flippin and pitchin shallow or fish swim baits, soft plastics and jigs in the staging areas for the pre-post spawners.

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We fished Sunday evening on the 9th after we checked in and got settled! About four hours which produced five fish in the three and a half to five pound range! Drop shot (2), Jigs's (1) and Senko's (2)!

    We quickly found that if it moved they would not hit it! Dead sticking was the only thing that would work! ...

    Monday was the weather day from Hell! Cold, Rain, Hail, and the brutal North wind that turns Clear Lake into the sea from Deadliest Catch!!! :) We still managed 10 nice fish which turned out to be the best day with a five fish limit of 20-25 #'s even though we wussed out and went in in the early afternoon frozen!!!

    Tuesday With the High Pressure we only managed four fish!

    Wednesday was a very nice day with temps around 75 in the afternoon and we connected with 8 fish!

    Thursday was hot with afternoon temps in the low 80's but we could only catch three fish for the day with the biggest at 6#'s!!

    We had a great time with no problems at all, just wish that the fishing would have been a bit better!! We talked to several tackle stores and all said the same,, "The bite has been tough!

    All fish came from dropshot and wacky Senko's on my part with two on a 4" Paddletail swimbait! My partner caught all of his on a texas rigged Senko!
    City: Lakeside

    Tips: For us, if it moved they wouldn't touch it, but that was right after the cold front!

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    Water Temp: 60-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough!....we fished from rattlesnake to long tule point and back and couldn't get the skunk out of the boat
    good luck be safe
    City: woodpile

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this evening and Friday evening.Friday was a Minner only mission with a double hook up
    on balis point,(both 4lbs)and few smaller ones .tonight fished off the dock and stuck 4 fish in 7 casts on the trusty brush hog(big one was around 4)diddent expect to get bit in this weather.fun! Water has come up about a foot. and still rising!
    City: lower lake

    Tips: If your fishing in the daylight hours just brake down and drag shiners.(somthing I rarely do) nightime is easy to catch em on swims and jigs.