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Saturday, March 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Redwood Empire Bass CLub held its monthly tournament on Saturday under tough weather conditions, cold and windy with a little hail mixed in. Most anglers had a tough time inding ish, but those ortunate enough were able to weigh in 4 ish o 12.5 lb (1st place)using a baby brush hog and 2 ish or 11.5 lbs (2nd place). Big ish was 6.6 lbs caught on a spinnerbait.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Wait until the weather stabilizes and the water warms then go out and throw rip baits.

Thursday, March 7th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ummmm BOB G...maybe you noticed I wasn't talking about Clear Lake lately, just Tuesday the 25th. I knew about the tournament results. But when I talked to six dierent boats with only two ish it seems a little odd. I guess you are right judging by all the awesome reports posted since mine was though...I you have a dierent story then how about sharing it and letting us other guys in on your secret catching techniques, instead o just pointing to some tournament (were you even in it?).
    City: Chico

Friday, March 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well, I have a report - just havn't had time to post it. My good riend Rick Tietz and I decided on Tuesday to see i anything would bite at Clear Lake ater the tournament crowd let. While it wasn't a great trip, we - I should say, he, did pretty well. WE made good decisions but HE caught all the ish - except a 12 inch bass which I was honored to catch. Ater all, we are looking or small bass at Clear Lake. arn't we? We started ishing areas near Red Bud in the morning, but only got one ish - a 4 pound rip ish. Pulled the boat out and went to Lakeport. It was calm and beautiul. We ished deeper tule clumps at the mouth o creeks and ound a ew nice ish. The highlight o the trip was Rick sticking a 6 1/2 pounder on a Basstrix swimbait - a company he reps or. I mean this ish ate it whole!!! He got a 4-14 on a jig and broke o a big ish near Rodman. I won't tell you what I caught my monster on - don't want you bothering those dinks!! We wound up with 7 bass - not too bad. Rick's limit was 22 1/4 lbs!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Jigs were working ok, better than Senkos, at least that day. Fish still seemed to be on outside edges, hear deeper water. No aternoon rip bite happened.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Maybe you have noticed that there are no new reports or Clear Lake in the past week. That's because no one has anything to write about! Went to the lake Monday evening and all day Tuesday and caught nothing. Threw everything but Tuna Salad at reeds, docks, points, rocks, underwater humps and channels. The water was clear, no wind, sun beating down. Saw several huge ish cruzing the outer edge o tule points between State Park and Lakeport but they wouldn't take anything. Talked with several other boats with the same story, only one had caught two ih all day lippin' brown jigs into the tules. We tried the same late in the day and my partner had one pick up, but missed the hook set. Oh well, it was still better than sitting in the oice all day.
    City: Chico

    Tips: Try lippin'...I guess.

Thursday, February 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: Old Rock&Roll

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Three old men, still looking or an old bass guitar player.35 to 50.
    City: I live in Santa Rosa.

Sunday, February 17th, 2002

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    Water Temp: orgot inders

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sunday the 17th rom 9:30am to 2:00, Fished 4-5 inch jumbo minnows and caught one 4 1/2 lber, we had 3 people in the boat and 1 ish caught and all 3 people have caught a ton o bass using minnows in the past but the cold ront that moved through put a stop to the bite this trip. I was watching a guy ishing a school o bait ish and he would not move or 1 hr I watched him ish one tight spot, beore I let I asked him i he was ishing a school o bait ish and he said yes, he said he just dropped a 4 lb at the boat and just beore I let He landed a 6.8lb on a carolina rigged 3 inch brush hawg, it looked jun bug in color. He did better than us using minnows but I have done that beore using a jig, Me and my riends were using minnows and not catching any so I switched to artiicial and caught a ew.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: As everbody knows, ishing ater a cold ront can be diicult so ish beore ront or wait a ew days ater it passes or best results and remember to bring your ish inders, ater 10 years o bass ishing, this is the irst time and I think I would have done much better with them.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A note to Mike - keep throwing 'em back... you're doing the right thing. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a trophy. You mentioned you've got pictures. Next time take the weight measurements too (girth and length) along with the photos or markings and ship them o to someone that does iberglass mounts. We ound a guy in Fullerton at the Fred Hall show that does incredible work. Honestly, they look more like real ish than the live mounts I've seen. But be careul, I've seen some really truly hurrendous iberglass mounts too. I'm not here to advertise - so I won't post the guy's name here. I you're interested just send me an e-mail and I'll send you his contact ino.Also wanted to ask you guys what the best time o year was or a trip to the lake. Last year my buddy and I had the best trip I could imagine with a 7+ and a 5+ in the same day. Not a lot o numbers though and my partner wasn't so lucky. We were there the weekend beore Memorial Day weekend. Is there a better time or numbers o ish or weather??Thanks.
    City: Stevenson Ranch

Saturday, February 16th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I live up here on Clearlake, have a deck over the water with a ramp leading down to my dock and boat . Moved up here rom Orange County over a year ago.This last 2 weeks were the best or me as ar as ish size. On 2/2/02 I was out or ten minutes and landed a 9.2 oz Large mouth . Went back in with it to get some pictures and let it go . A ew days later ishing or Bass I got a 3.4 oz Crappythought I was hooked up to a bass until I got it in the net.Than on the 7th I got a 9.6 oz, and an 8.4oz Bass in 2 casts. So Im happy all o the ish I released but Im wondering should I have one mounted one o these day.Oh well stay dry, and Good luck to all.
    City: Clear Lake Oaks

Wednesday, February 13th, 2002

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    Water Temp: Hot Checked

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Saturday, Seven ish, Used Big Black Eyes?5 1/2 5 5 5 4 3 1/2 & 3 Checked all ish on scales.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Nice Day!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello ixin To spend the weekend(2-16/17)at Clear lake with my six year old boy and gettin out is as tough as gettin a limmit during a tourney.Being merried to an unsupportive wie and all. She's LETTING me go and I want it to be a good one. Supposed to rain,Doesnt bother me but maybe the ish, Weather has been airly stable to acilitate prespawn, but eel my eort and expenses might be better spent elswhere. any tips and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Just want him ( My Boy) to get the bug also.God bless to all.
    City: San Jose

Monday, February 11th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My riend and I hit the water on Monday at 12:30 with his new boat. Pulled up to the tullies on the southside o the lake and had our irst bass in the boat by 1:00. Worked the area or 2 more hours caught 2 more bass. MOved to the North side near the Worldmark resort picked up 2 more hanging near submerged wood. Tired Horseshoe Tuesday morning and got nothing moved back to the tullies on the southside and picked up 2 more ish and ended the day at noon. All in all a great trip! Total o 7 bass 28lbs. (6, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3)
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Make sure you have your bait lined up. We put in a lakeport and inding minnows during the week was tough.

Saturday, February 9th, 2002

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    Water Temp: COLD

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My best riend o over 25 Years, Siker, (HIS NICK NAME) Took me ishing at Clear Lake or my Birthday. (2/9/54)He's got a nice Nitro.We were in the boat by 7:30 Fishing at 7:45 I could see he was a little troubleearly inding the ish, But by 10:30 when he ound them it all busted wide open, Toads every where,Well to me thay were toads.Hooking up about every 20:00 Min, First ish 3 1/2 then one at 4 Lbs even,ater checking theweight o his last ish, I said to him it's not air,and He said, whats not air.It's my Birthday not your's Isaid, then I elt a Bump-Bump on my line,Now I had a ish on that wanted me! I won! 5 1/2 pounds o a Bass Bustin,Rod Bending, Large Mouth Bass in the boat.Happy Birthday to me! We caught seven ish in three hours, out o ahole the size o your RV. 5 1/2 Lbs - 5 Lbs - 5 Lbs another 5 pounder A our pounder and two at three a hat pounds,(Not in this order)We had A great time, Thanks Siker.
    City: Clear Lake

    Tips: Sorry, can't tell you the spot.But I can give you a hint.Fish Big Black Eyes? THE OLD MAN OF THE SEA. PS We need a bass guitar player.

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    Water Temp: 45.4--47.9 N

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 11:00 and ished until 6:00 pm, started deep with jigs ( henderson Point ) and then went to Lakeport area and pitched tules and wood, 2-5 eet. Then Rattlesnake or a couple o humps, and then to sea breeze . Great day on the water but skunked, did not get bit . A couple o boats near Lublow point, another hump were having some luck, looked like dropshotting. Another boat near red bud had a nice stringer with minnows. Which reminds me to thank however deleted the earlier entrys on minnows. Whoever wrote those would probably have no problem sight ishing a spawning emale. I personally like the hunt o artiicial baits, color, depth, presentation, ect. I also have no problem with people ishing with live bait and to my knowledge neither does ish and game. I do know o several areas where bass season is closed to allow or the bedding emales to not be disturbed. We should think about that beore we start throwing stones at other people.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: NOT what I did today, nothing on a swim bait, jig, brush -hog,blades, although I ished 90% with the jig and pork.The lake looks great, it elt asleep.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 42-44 degress

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sucked. Fished sun-up to 3:30, locked in og, without a GPS we would have been going around in circles. Fished South mostly nothing arther North than Horseshoe. 3 bites all day. 6lb on a worm, 4lb. and a dink (irst small bass I have seen in a year)on a crank. Partner ished Jig almost all day and didn't get bit......Minnow dippers catching a ew. Needs to warm and stabilize. Not looking orward to next weekend's tourney at this point....
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Stay home, Stay Warm, watch the Outdoor Channel....

Saturday, February 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake around 1:30. Fished or several hours. Our big motor died so we had to go back or more minnows with the trolling motor. That put a damper on things but we caught 10 anyway. Smallest was around 2, largest was 4.11, and the rest were either 3 or 4. Overall it was a good day.
    City: vacaville

    Tips: MINNOWS!!!!

Thursday, January 31st, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Can anyone give me some help on how to ish minnows up there? I'm going up to try it, but I have no idea how. Thanks or any and all help. Please email me at imahucker1@hotmail.com
    City: vacaville

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    Water Temp: 44 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water was exceptionally clear rom what i thought it would be, stayed at the south end all day, ( what a beauyiul day it was) Fishing was slow but i did manage two toads on a weapon jig with craw trailor loaded with smelly jelly and boy did they hit it hard. irst ish was 6.1 lbs very next cast 8.ll lbs. Retied my knot ater those pigs but then picked up my crankin stick and beore i even made one crank a monster came straight out o the tules and hit my crank with a Mike Tyson right hand knocking the crank out 6 t in the air. Never saw him again, I would say 10 to 12 Lbs. Eight hours o ishing, 5 minutes o action, Saw alot o people killing them with live bait (too easy). Well good luck to all and be sae!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    City: santa rosa

    Tips: Cranks did absolutely nothing or me and I love to ish them. I'm sure the crank bite will start very soon!!!!!

Saturday, January 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 44-46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sun 13th. Had 16 total, three largest 8.1, 7.8 and 5.13. Fished Sat 19th and Sun 20th. Sat had another 16 ish total. It was very windy till about 2 then calmed down. We still managed an impressive ive ish limit o 37.13. I was hoping or a 40lb limit but that's still my best to date. Big ish went 9.10, 8.4, 7.2, 7.0 and 5.13.Sun was windy all day and we only mangaed 10 total. Best ive went 5.10,5.0,5.0,4.9 and 4.6. Had one ish that elt big, headed straight or deep water and didn't shake much like the smaller ones. Unortunately she spit the hook so who knows?
    City: TRACY

    Tips: All ish caught (and quickly released) on live jumbo minnows. All ish came rom 8-20 eet o water. The lake level is about 5 eet higher than the same time last year. We're inding our hot spots last year aren't producing as well this year.

Wednesday, January 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 47 to 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday 1-12-02 ,caught 15 ish.Big ish went 11.3lbs.Next was 10.4 and 2-8's and 6 over 6lbs.All caught on super jumbo minnows in one spot and in 10 to 30t. o water.Good luck there out swimming around.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: SUPER JUMBO is the key.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 50+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ater being skunked on Delta, went to cabin at Clear Lake on Dec. 31 - Jan 1st. No boat, did not plan on ishing. Tuesday (Jan 1)there was a airly warm wind rom the southeast with light drizzle, and the night had not been that cold either. Water looked good on the bank by my dock, and based on prior winter adventures here, I was airly sure that some good ish would move up on this warm prerontal system. Slow rolled a spinner bait or 2 hours in shallow water. Caught two, one or 3 and another real at one or 5 lbs or so. Missed 3 more, ish were not pounding the bait, just loading up, and i you did not set the hook quickly, no luck.
    City: hal moon bay

    Tips: This time o year can be tough on Clear lake, but otentimes when a warm prerontal system moves in, it seems to push good ish up shallow where they will eed. Not too surprising an observation, but makes or un. In years past this type o scenario has resulted in some real nice ish in shallow water or me.Good Luck, and God Bless,Rob T.