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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: man i you think no one is catching ish at clear lake lately look at the western bass pro/am results last weekend !!
    City: sunnyvale

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started o with a 7.0, 6.5, 4.1, 3.6 and two others about 3lbs each within the ist hour. Then nothing, nada, zilch. Seven more hours and not even a bite. We hit more than a dozen reliable spots with live minnows on the South end with nothing to show or it. We even ran north or a bit. Slow rolling spinner baits has always worked during eb around State park, long tule point and Lakeport. But the water was just too clear. Easily our oot visibility up north and more than eight oot down south. Tried rip bait and senko's up north but still nothing. We've had some pretty good days over the last ew months but not this time. Oh well, can't complain too much with three bigguns' in the boat..
    City: TRACY

    Tips: The cold ront must have shut em down. Last week was very warm and the bass bite was on ire. Plus there were a lot o other boats on the water. Must have been practicing or the next tourney.

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    Water Temp: 44-46

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Another good minnow trip. 24 total (plus a 9lb catish). Five largest went 31.12lbs (7.2, 6.9, 6.3, 6.1, and 5.13) Once again we had to move around quite a bit, only picking up a ew at each stop. The bite seems so much dierent than last year-- we're having to wait to set or else and they just haven't schooled up. Oh well, we're still having a blast.
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 48.1 - 52.0

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sat with the girlriend rom 8 am to about 4:30 using live jumbo minnows. The water down south was stained rom all the rains (only about 2 oot visibility) but cleared a little (to about 4 oot) by the end o the day. Fishing started very slow with only our ish in the boat in the irst ew hours (that's very slow or minnows). We ound that each spot only produced 2 or 3 bites at most. We moved around a lot and covered lot's o spots in the rattlesnake arm. We ocused on 8-12 oot depths and the areas with clearer water produced best. Overall, we had 18 in the boat mostly between 3 and 4 1/2. The two biggest went 5.11 and 8.3. The bite was deinately best in the aternoon. I talked to severall other boats on the water (ishing worms, jigs and cranks) and they were all doing somewhere between zilch and very poor. Although, I did see one guy ishing cranks irst thing in the morning at our irst stop. He weighed and tossed back our (they looked about 2 or 3 lbs a piece) just beore pulling out o a shallow bay. He must be on to something cause I couldn't even get a bite on minnows in the same spot.
    City: TRACY

    Tips: I have a eeling that once the temperature stabilizes and the water clears up a bit, the winter bite will be in ull swing. Good luck...

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: News Report In a Recent chain o events all o the Bass in Clear Lake have dissappered and the lake oicials now declare it to become a trophy trout lake.
    City: Dritville

    Tips: Drit with power bait, or success, and maybe night crawlers.

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    Water Temp: not known

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Allright everyone, no one is leaving reports or the past month...I'm just letting everyone know, Brett Ballou is coming to town and I'm looking or Big Bass...I'll be ishing rockpiles with Jumbo Minnows and black/red jigs...I've got a red aluminum boat, keep your eyes peeled because that will be where the big ones will be getting pulled in..."hasta lavista baby" .......
    City: Huntington Beach

    Tips: Jigs and Minnows are the ticket....Slow jigs and I mean slow!!!!!good-luck

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    Water Temp: 57 - 58 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held its Tournament o Champions the weekend o November 17 & 18. Winning weight or 2 days (9 ish) was 36.08 lbs. Big ish went 7.75 lbs on Saturday & 5.71 lbs on Sunday. Bass went primarily or crankbaits, including Rattletraps, as well as some blade ish. Many ish came o the rocks, although several good ish came o weedbeds as well.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: For more ino about the club, check our website, http://scbbbc.homestead.com, or send me an e-mail. We crank things up again in February 2002.

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    Water Temp: 59ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Kris and I braved an uncertain weather orcast knowing what happened aterward on Saturday. Put in at redbud at 3pm w/no bites on anything jigs, worms, DD22, buzzbaits,by dark. I still had conidence that we might get a ew bites ater dark. Very overcast which illuminated the whole lake and made darktime navigation easier. First bite was a 10.0 lb catish on a jig/brushog combo @ 7:30pm on steep rocks south o Konocti. At 8:30, Kris sticks a beauty o 4.5 lbs on same jig w/pork. Narrows area and shag rock were dead or no bites by 10pm. Mist started alling and I didnt want to be hal a lake away rom the trailer i it tore loose on us. Fished Back o Jago bay or 1 lost small ish and another 3.5 that plopped back into the water when I tried to lit it into the boat. 11pm near redbud Kris sticks a 3.5 in shallow water so we are reinthused. A ew moments later, I get a 6.0 and then break o a very shallow ish that raced sideways w/my jig till I broke it o on the set and it jumped all around the boat or 5 minutes. Starting to rain around 12:30am at the pipeline and We call it a night.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: I saw gajillions o bait school on sonar and equally as many on the surace. I snagged one and It was a shad......had a black spot behind gillplate and had shad shape, not pondsmelt shape. No other boats on water. Never saw a boat rom 5-12pm.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went up or a weekend o un ishing with the girlriend and her boy. Ater reading Larry's report I was ired up or the night bite. I igured I'd hunt around during the day with jigs, cranks and a jerk bait while my girl drited minnows just or kicks. Boy was it tough! Ater 4 hours I only had one quick bite on a Castaic swimbait and nothing on anything else. The little guy had only managed two 4's on the minnows (very unusual or minnow ishing). Knowing the TOC was still going on I decided to swallow my pride and ocus on just live minnows. By the end o the day we had only boated six ish. One at 6.8, one dink, and the rest between 2 & 4. Went back out just ater dark with big jigs. I hit a dozen reliable spots. I ished 8-20 eet, every way I knew how and never got a single bite. Called it quits ater a ew hours. There was a cold ront that moved through Sat so that could explain a lot. Sun I had no real intention o ihing but we still had 2 dozen minnows let. Figured I try an hour or so around Rattlesnake and the bay in ront o the Keys then head home early. Glad I did! I got a 7.1 & a 4, my girl got a 6.13 (her personal best) and three 4's and the little guy got a 3.14. What a dierence a day makes...
    City: TRACY

    Tips: The ish were there but they were tough to catch. all o ours came rom 8-14 eet o water.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well, just got back rom the Anglers Choice toc and boy was the ishing tough. My partner and I preished two days and had a hard time locating the ish. Usually it's pretty easy or us to ind 3-4lbers this time o year. We ished the North end both days and really struggled. The irst day we caught 5 ish or 24lbs with an 8lb kicker. We didn't get our limit until about 1:30 the irst day. The big ish came on a jig and the rest on crankbaits. We lost 2 ish but only one o them would have helped and only by about 1lb. The second day we really struggled. We caught all our ish cranking and had 6 bites, putting all o them in the boat. We had 15lbs the second day with a 2 day total o 39lbs. It was good enough or third place. As happy as I am with third it was a bummer not to win a boat. Congratulations to irst and second.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: This time o year the bite should be great on jigs and crankbaits but it's not. The water temp. needs to come down a ew degrees or the ish to really go on the eed bag. The lower temp will also help kill the remaining weeds that are holding the ish which is making them tougher to catch. The next week or so should be great ishing on the lake. Good luck.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just wanted to congratulate Andy rom Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club or winning the invitational. His 22.77 lb. limit including Big Bass (9.57lbs)or day one o our tourney was awesome. He's too modest to let you guys know rom the last post. Oh, that's two out o the last three SCBBBC Invitational's he's won!
    City: San Francisco

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    Water Temp: 66 - 70 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club, San Jose Bass 'n Tubes, & Redding Area Sport Tube Association got together or the annual Invititational on October 20 & 21. 39 anglers participated, a new Invitational record! Winning weight was 26.31 lbs, anchored by a Day 1 limit o 22.77 lbs, with big ish o day & tournie o 9.57 lbs. Second place was 24.27 lbs or 10 ish, & 3rd was 14.01 lbs. Bite was airly tough, as 1/3 o ield didn't bring a ish to the scales. Lots o nice ish, though, including toads o 8.06, 7.31, 5.63, 5.49, & two @ 5.45 lbs made it to weigh-in. Bass went or a variety o lures, including buzzbaits, Senkos, crankbaits, Rattletraps, rogs, blades, etc.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: For more ino about the loat tube clubs in Northern CA, check out http://scbbbc.homestead.com, http://www.bass-n-tubes.com, & http://www.rastabassclub.com. Hope to see you on the water in 2002!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started thurs evening w/a 3 lb rog ish just north o Konocti and my girlriend missed a nice one on a buzzbait. Then nothing till about 11pm. Finally, got a 5.5 on a power pulse worm and a 3 on a spinnerbait rom some rock and my girlriend got a 3 on a Rat-L-Trap. O the water by 1am with only 4 in the boat. Went out Fri w/ Larry Hemphill and ound out I should have ished another hour or so the night beore as they got some beauties ater 1. The bite was tough as we had a small cold ront move through. Again, my girlriend missed a nice buzzbait ish and had another quality ish on a 8" ring worm get away. She's new to the game but learning every trip out. We boated our ish that night (large plastics and jigs) to about 4 1/2 and missed a air number o short strikes. Even though the ishing was tough Larry still did an excellent job o showing me some new spots and teaching me more about the lake...thanx Larry. Sat was a little better weather. I got a 3 lb on a 10" power worm rom one o the new spots Larry showed me and then my girlriend broke o a nice buzzbait ish that hit right at the boat. She missed another buzzbait bite at the pipeline and I got our 3-4 pound spinnebait ish (plus a 4 lb catish)in about 15 minutes just as the sun went down. Ater a ew more stops I went back to Konocti and got what I came or, a beautiull 7.5 lbr on an 8" ringworm. Managed another 4 ish to about 3 pounds as we hit a ew stops on our way back. O the water by 10pm. Overall a good experience, not a lot o ish but some quality and a lot o knowlege.
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the WON BASS northern tri-state this week. My partner and I located some 3-4lb rog ish during preish and knew some deep water jig ish that we let alone since we knew we would ish them during the tournament. First day we were 32nd boat out. We got to our irst couple spots and I cranked and he threw a jig. At 10am we had one 7+lber (cranking) and two 2lb jig ish. went to our rog water and caught two 3+lbers. Had about 18-19lbs at 11am so we went looking or some new water but ound the big zero. Went back to our deep water and in 10 minutes my partner caught a 8+ and a 3+. Bye bye 2lbers. Our ive ish went 26lbs. The next day we started doing the same thing but only got 1 2lb jig ish by 10am. Went to our rog water and both lose a 4+lb rog ish the irst hal hour. We keep at it and have two more rog bites and stick them both(3+lbers). Hit our deep water and it just doesn't happen. Get one bite and it's a 3+. Time to weigh in with only our ish or 15lbs. We ended up in 5th place. I we had caught one o the rog ish we lost we would have ended up in 2nd but that's roggin. Thanks to WON BASS or a great tournament.
    City: Petaluma

    Tips: Things are really tough right now as less than 30 o the 106 teams weighed in limits the irst day. We only got 7-10 bites a day. As the weeds die the ish should move to the docks and rocks. Bring your senko's, blades, crankbaits, and jigs. Fall is almost here. See ya on the water.

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: My partner and I went down to ish the American Bass tourney on the 13th.We got there on wensday night so we could preish thursday and riday.When we hit the lake thursday am it was windy and rough,and only got worse rom there.Three and our oot wakes going in every direction made navagation somewhat o a chalange.We still managed to pull a limit by 10:00 am that went a little better than 26 lbs.with a 7lb+ kicker.Friday was a lot easyer boating and we decided to go to rattlesanke and come up with a back up plan.We had a ive ish limit or around 24 pounds with a 6 pound kicker.We talked to a ew guys at the bbq sponsored by the Ford dealer (thanks John the ood was great)and every one was telling us that the ishing was hard,so we were eeling realy good going in to the tourny.Saterday was a beautiul morning.164 boats sitting in the water was sure a exciteing sight to see.Ater blast o we made a run down to Rattlesnake to ish a spot that had provided a big ish on day one.Ater a hal hour and one ish we decided to make a run and come back later. Fired up the boat and made it to the center o the lake and the motor let loose(again) To make a long story short we got towed in by two guys in a Ranger just in time to weigh our one ish.Except or the tourny we had a great time.Thank you people o clearlake and the two guys in the Ranger that towed us in even though they were also ishing the tourny.
    City: Springield,OR

    Tips: Reaction baits in the morning ished airly slow .Frogs and Flukes over the mats when the sun started to come up.mid day the inside grass line next to reeds in deep water produced big or us.The secret was to let the bait sit or a long time beore twiching it an inch or two.The ish would jump all over it.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Kris and I started in rattlesnake arm with a 1.5 on a DD22 and a 3.5 on a spinnerbait ished on a break out rom a seawall. Caught them back to back and I igure we drited past the biting ish as we caught no more arther down the bank. Several docks sucked w/senkos, 4" worms. Next ish, a 4.3 came on DD22 suspended o a piling by boatworks. Stuck a goodun on a jig here also, but the dam thing came o. Cache creek sucked and I hit rocks in the entrance. No more bites rom 6pm to almost dark. Hit razier at dark and banged 3, all about 3.5 lbs on brushog. Kris caught one on 10"worm about 2 lbs near konocti bar and another about 4 lbs o dollar island. Picked up another 3.5 o shag rock, but that was our only bite here. Fished around the Swedes rom 11:30 till 2 and must have caught close to 10 ish on brushogs and Jigs. Jigs got more bites ater midnight. We hooked no big ish, but landed 19. Figured best 5 at 20 lbs.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: no secrets except that night bites were all shallow.

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    Water Temp: 70.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: There seems to be a tourn. every weekend, thereore like the ish one has to change according to the pressure. For me ishing on the weekend starts ater 5:00 pm and into the night. Saturday night was beautiul, ull moon, no wind and no other boats to cut you o. A limit o 5 ish weighing 21 lbs, the largest 6.2 all on crank baits on rocks. Again the worm bite was slow . Depth varied to less than 5 eet to 28 eet and all the ish were stued ull o small bait ish. The largest ish did spit up a partially processed senko. A lot o dinks in between the ive and a couple o 1 lbers. All in all a good night.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Fish during the week or i on the weekend at night. The ish change according to pressure, so do likewise.

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    Water Temp: 69-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started o at Long Tule point about 2pm on ri (I heard that was the hot bite the weekend beore). Picked up a 3 on a small white buzzbait and my buddy got another 3 on a junbug worm. Headed south to Konocti, picked up a 2 and a 3 on live minnows, then to Jago bay or a 4 and a dink. Back to Konocti,got a 5 on the buzzbait and missed another about 3. Headed o the water about 7:30, we wanted to night ish but it was too windy.On the water early sat morning, there was a big tourney at the Skylark and a ew clubs tourneys down south so I new the pressure would be tough. Headed straight or long tule point, immediatley joined by 5 tourney boats trying to ish the same mats. Everbody threw rogs and buzzbaits and I only saw 1 ish boated (not by us). Gave up quickly and headed south. Every ishable spot had a boat or 2 on it, some had 4 or 5. Out o desparation we ished live minnows again (heck, we were ater the big ones anyhow)Got a 2 and a 3 o a rock point near Jago bay and a 5, a 2, and another dink o the pipeline. Well, actually my buddy and my girlriend caught all those, I just battled the trolling motor in the wind. I did manage a 6.10 catish on a minnow at the pipeline though. Ran to Rattlesnake and ripped about 5 dinks in minutes beore we headed o the water about noon.Went back out about 5pm or the night bite, winds calmed down and it looked promissing. Got a 2 on the buzzbait at Long Tule point then ran back to Rattlesnake. Fish busting bait everywhere but I couldn't get any action on top. Went to the big worms covered in smelly jelly. Managed a 2, a 4 and a 5 rom Rattlesnake. Picked up another 5 and a 3 on nearby rockpiles. Got a 2 at Konocti and missed at least ive other bites. I have a ealing they were small ish. Finished at shag rock, one bit but I missed em.Overall a air trip, considering the bite was really tough and there were several tournaments going on..
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 72.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday aternoon, ater the tourn. and into Sunday night, ( 2 am. ) . The largest ish was 5.6 with three in the 3.8 to 4.0 lb. range. While I like to worm ish my buddy in the back o the boat put a spanking on me with a spinnerbait in and around the weeds. My usual " larger " ish never came ater dark even though I persently stayed with the worm. Ater 4 hours sleep we were at it again at 6 am. Again the spinnerbait illed the live well. There seems to be a change rom two weeks ago when the night bite was good and they were destroying large plastics to more o a reaction type bite. Picked some nice ish up cranking island tops and submerged rocks, although someone keeps taking my marker bouy which makes inding the darn things hard at night, oh well. It also seems that the jig is slowly picking up with my largest ish on a brown weapon jig and a 4 inch yammatto craw - no pressure bite on that one. All in all, the weather was great, all is here and the ish, at least a ew had a great aerobic workout. See ya on the water.
    City: Sacramento

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished two days never got a bite. tried everything.my wie bitched the whole time. should have let her at home.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: I'm never going back to wast my time at this craphole