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Monday, May 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ishing was slow irst thing in the morning but picked up around 9:00 a.m. caught three spotts on shad like jerk baits in 5 to 6 eet o water also caught to dragging a cotton candy brush hog carolina rigged in 13 eet o water later in the day around 2:00 p.m.
    City: Galt

Saturday, April 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I was at the lake yeaterday, teaching some olks how to bass ish. Not a good day to do that - terrible south wind that was hard to get out o. Fishing was slow or us and the other boat I talked to. We had seven or eight bass, including a 2 1/4 and 2 1/2 largemouth, caught on #39 Magic worms. Caught a ew on rodstrainer jigs. Fish were no deeper then 12 eet. We ished the east side and river arm. Big ish were biting until the ronts started moving in. Weather needs to settle down. One boat (ormer clients) had a couple o 3 lb spots - nice ish! They were using 4 in worms,
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Try pitching jigs to standing trees - let jig all straight down, then watch your line. Bass are in or around the brush and trees.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing at about 7:00 a.m. Fished with my good old ishing buddies, Bassman (Phil) and Steve. We ished some structures, we like to call it bass country, across rom the boat launch. Within 3 minutes o ishing Steve hooked the irst ish o the day, on a green jig with a grub as a trailer. It coulden't have been more then 5 minutes later when I caught my irst on a Carolina rigged Magic worm. Not much action ater that so we moved into the ishing cove. Got into a good weed bed and the action picked up. The Anglers Choice blue gill colored worm seemed to be the ticket. Bassman caught 3 and I caught 5 all in the 1 to 2 pound range. As or Steve, well thats a whole nother story. Ater lunch the bite slowed way down. We tried everything, heck Bassman even put a little ass on his lure and that didn't even work. Overall not a bad day or it being the irst time on the lake. Next time look or my picture on the wall at the store. Have un and good luck.
    City: Antelope

    Tips: The key is slow retrieval. I you think your going slow, go slower.

Thursday, March 30th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 48/52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: marysville

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: I heard 46"

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out on saturday the 18th with my loat tube and paddled the shores across o the boat lunch just pithing pig n jig and tons o dirent color worms in the trees i just couldnt get those ish to bite.there was a couple boats that went by me and said they got a couple ish and they were small but they barely could eeel the bite.
    City: Roseville

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    Water Temp: I heard 46"

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out on saturday the 18th with my loat tube and paddled the shores across o the boat lunch just pithing pig n jig and tons o dirent color worms in the trees i just couldnt get those ish to bite.there was a couple boats that went by me and said they got a couple ish and they were small but they barely could eeel the bite.
    City: Roseville

Wednesday, March 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53am 56pm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7am until 5pm. Not a bite till 1pm threw everything inally caught 5 to 2lbs on salt and pepper wormsTexas rigged and dart headed. Missed several other ish,& broke o a couple to some poor ishing line. The bite pretty decent in the aternoon. All ish came rom the 8-12 oot range. Good luck & good ishing.
    City: Sparks, Nevada

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49 (am) 52(pm)

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished irst club tournament o the year at Collins 2/13/00 (Basin Bassmasters - Loomis). Finished 3rd with 3 ish or 3.58, First was 3 or 5.92. Small ish I know, but the bite was tough, there were only three o our nine boats who caught multiple ish. I caught irst ish lipping a jig n pig (Black/Red/Orange) around looded trees in 14 eet o water. No real need to worry about line size in muddy water, used 25 pound Big Game. Next ish came on a Carolina rigged Green Pumpkin Baby Brush Hog in 35 eet o water on the break o a submergered hump. Last ish came on the same Carolina Rig o o the submergered lat by the dam in 22 eet o water. All bites were EXTREMELY subtle.Winners were ishing plastic worms rom bank to 12 eet, (sorry don't know what color). Some guys caught early blade ish (chartreuse/chartreuse blades). Big ish o the day, 3.9 spot was caught on a jig n pig (Black/Red) in 12 eet o water.
    City: Citrus Heights

    Tips: Be versatile, ish will probably be scattered all over the place with the rising water. Best bet is probably Blades early, then go to jigs and worms at around 9:00, ish slow rom 5 eet to 20 eet. Hope this helps?!

Saturday, February 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: we ished a bass'in buddies tournament (a rocklin club). the water has come up about 22 t in the last two weeks. it was pretty stained with 1-3 eet visibility. my partner and i started the day o throwing jigs and crank baits. we picked up two ish on jigs (one on a brown on brown jig the other a white on white). later we picked up another dink on a summer moss 4" zipper. the last ish we caught was late in the day on a oxblood 4" worm. the bite was pretty tough, with the big ish weighed in at 3.92 the tournament was won with our ish or 5.62 the weather was great. temp started out at 41deg. and ended up around 55-60. blue skies, with a light brease the majority o the day.
    City: citrus heights

    Tips: ish jigs in 10-20 t. drag them slowwwwwly. whites and browns seemed to be the colors that everybody seemed to be catching ish on. overall tough tournament, bite should pick up when the water clears and warms back up.

Saturday, February 12th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We started o at about 9:30am.The lake had risen to about 11t rom the rim due to the recent storms,and muddy.On this particular day the weather was just the pits.So on with the gortex and o we went.We headed towards the northwest corner on the lake on around what we like to call "oh no you did't island".Nothing.We threw just about everything rom jigs to spinners to crankbaits.Nothing.Finally deciding that maybe since the wind was blowing so hard and the rain was really coming down,that baitish might be blowing up against the shore and points.About 11am I(Matt) hooked into a 212 largemouth on a strike king 38 chart-white spinner.Five casts later I ound mysel saying good morning to a 312 largemouth.Both coming o o a rocky point down the arm at the north end o the lake.Unortunatly that was all or Kevin and I,but theirs always next time.Till then ish on.
    City: antelope

    Tips: Fish rocky points with spinners and ollow up with some plastics i the wind permits.Slow presentation.

Tuesday, December 28th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I ished rom 9am to 1pm - beautiul warm morning! I ished shoreline rock steep banks with my usual Rodstrainer jig/Yamamoto grub combo - mostly black/blue with purple grub. It was slow but I did catch a 4 1/4 lb largemouth in only 15 eet o water. Also a 3 1/4 lm and 2 spots about 2 lbs each. Broke o a big ish! Cloudy weather should help the bite. Lake is down about 30 eet - I love it! A structure isherman's dream!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Jigs are great at Collins in winter. You may have to swim them since rock ormations are wicked!

Tuesday, July 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 74-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 7/15 - 7/19 with group o riend, we were out every morning and every evening. Fishing was very slow. What ish werecaught were on a varity o methods. We used JuneBug Zipper Worms,Crawdad Speedtraps, Spinnerbaits, and Top Water plugs. Fishing did seem to improve through the weekend as the temperatures cooleda little.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Never did develope any true pattern. Mornings did produce better or us, but in the evening we were in by 9PM and ishing may havepicked up ater that. Best bites came irst thing in the morning about 5:30. You may try getting up a little earlier and staying out a little later, or try the ull moon coming up.Good Luck,

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: As anticipated, I was only able to ish sporadically Sat and Sunday while camping with the amily. The weather as everywhere was hot and I imagine it had an eect on the ishing pattern rom a week or two prior. Didn't have much luck around the emerging rock piles across rom the marina and didn't graph many ish either. Ater too much wasted time I headed up the river to the 3rd or 4th brush pile up the 5 mph zone and drop shotted a nice spot. Missed a couple, but graphed quite a ew ish. Had to head back to camp. Back out around 2 pm touring the lake with the wie and the 3 youngest kids (oldest wanted to stay and ish the docks)no intent on ishing. Puttering around up the 5 mph zone and the bass start busting shad all around the boat, inally get the rod out o the locker with a pooper and its ish on. Had some un action or awhile and then head back to the dock to let the amily o and take the oldest out to get some topwater. They had settled down some when we got back but still managed a ew. No real size, all just under or at keeper size, but topwater is always un. Sunday only got an hour in the middle o the day and picked up a ew more small topwater.
    City: Newark

    Tips: For what it is worth the hot weather shouldn't last too long and the bite should really pick up. I graphed a lot more ish up the river as compared to the rocks. Not enough time to give speciic tips outside o the obvious, throw to the ish busting shad.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ya hector not sure on the prices but there is an 11 pm curew kinda sux. me and my riends went camping there over spring break and got the park ranger called on us twice. i guess thats what u expect when its 20 teenagers but the ishng was great. morning dawn worms. the dock ishing at night is good in black 3-4 inch worms dropshotting right below the docks.hope this helps
    City: orangevale

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: HELLO, I'M TRYING TO PLAN OUT A FISHING EXPEDITION,CAMPING TRIP AND I'M PLANNING TO USE MY KICK BOAT OUT THERE,I'VE ACTUALLY NEVER BEEN TO THIS LAKE AND WAS WONDERING IF IT WAS WORTH THE TROUBLE (CAMPING).I'LL BE GREATFULL IF SOMEBODY OUT THERE CAN GIVE ME THE LOWDOWN ON THE CAMPING FACILITIE'S,FEE'S ECT.(ESPECIALLY THE FISHING ACTION) THANK YOU!!
    City: ELK GROVE

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent 4 days camping up at collins lake and had a blast. never been there beore but caught alot o ish anyways. we rented one o those two story party boats and were catching ish on just about every set o trees in about 2-6 eet o water.tons o bed ish.biggest about 2.5 but saw lots more.my buddy rich had one come o that was a toad.never even saw him but he took o and then just shook the hook,prob a big trout or cat but oh well. throwin tikie sticks and lukes.caught probroly 6-12 ish a day only ishing or about an hour each time.
    City: Orangevale

    Tips: tikie sticks dark colors,black blue,brown purple,look or bed ish really close to shore.tried jigs,spooks,rippin-nuthn.tikie sticks and morning dawn dartheading.

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    Water Temp: 56-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started this morning at about 7:30am went out with two riends Joe and Dennis immmediatly went strait across the lake to the east side ished right out in ront o the cove in about 15 eet o water picked up three nice ish to about 1.5 LBS. some were the new lorida strain they just planted kept ishing inside the cove and piked up about six more to about 2 LBS. the water started warming so threw on a white 3/8 ounce silver double willow lea spinner bait or two ish all together caught about 22 ish in about 6 hours o ishing good un with good riends go ishing!

    Tips: try pumpkin/green lake tubes throw them right up on shore or next to bushes and hop out slowly and spinner baits when it warms up ish are moving up in aternoon getting ready to spawn.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I spend three days out on the water, trying a variety o dierent baits, depths, everything. I went ishing at multiple times o the day, but still no luck. I got one ish in 3 days o ishing, but it happened to be a blue gill. Other isherman there reported the same thing. There was one guy out there who had been ishing or two weeks, and only got 2 ish!!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: wrong time, wrong place.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Where are all the reports?

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake at 7am with high hopes since it has been so warm,igured the ish would be up shallow ( wrong ) where ever they were, i couldn't ind them . there just wasn't any pattern , caught some o the tree's, some in the back o a cove, some just in the middle o nothing, so 5 ish or the day lost 3, most ish on a zipper worm pink and chartruse one on a staycee ripbait, tried spinnerbait's brushogs lukes. caught 3 yesterday throwing a spinnerbait rom the shore at lake rancis in about 2 hours
    City: brownsville

    Tips: stay home or go to another lake its spring break and there are to many people right now at collins