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Monday, April 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit Don Pedro for the 1st time on a 3-day houseboat trip w/ the wife. Had a great time. Managed at least a limit of keepers each day. Best was about 3.5. I had luck hitting shallow flats/backs of coves at sunrise and sunset. During the day, found most of my fish on main and 2ndary rocky points. Only got 1 hit on purple. They seemed to prefer greens and browns.
    City: Newark

    Tips: Dropshotting 4" roboworms in natural colors.
    Up to the bank early and late. About 10-20 feet out around the points during the day.

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished coves and cuts in Middle Bay. Ripping and spinner bait produced only one then switched to split shot worms. Boated about 30 w/the biggest going 3.5 lbs.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Fish were on secondary points 15' to 20' or back end of coves 5' to 10'. Best color for us was green weenie and in the afternoon a green weenie w/chartruese tail or baby bass.

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 56-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish Anglers Choice with my great partner Joe Bruce.Caght about 30 fish all at mid day on splitshot four inch worms in the upper lake..Weighed 20.46 for third.Man it was hot outside..
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Be patient if alot of fish are in the area.They will bite at sometime..

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hi, I was at Don Pedro a couple weeks ago and left a report on here, but it's not showing up. I was just wandering if anybody else has been up to Pedro lately so I can see how the fishing's been. Has the water heated up at all? It was at 54 in the warmest area and the fish were holding from 20-45 feet deep. Seemed like people were having the best luck with purple and white lures, any change? I'll be back up there in a week or two, James
    City: Modesto, CA

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing from Flemming at around 7:30am on some main lake points. Me and a buddy were fishing some texas rigged worms, fishing them really slow, almost crawling them. We fished some Lucky Craft Pointers 78 and 128 in the shallower areas and some flats. Still nothing. Not till about mid day did my partner catch a nice female around 3 pounds on a paddle tale grub. The fish was taken around some rocks in about 15 feet next to some spawning flats. The fish aren't spawning quite yet but they getting ready. I would find some deep points next to a spawning flat.
    City: Pleasant Hill

    Tips: The fishing was tough but im sure it will turn around soon. I would head to Don Pedro soon, the fishing is about to heat up here soon. Use brown worms or jigs and shake and crawl them along the bottom.

Saturday, November 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 6 boats, 12 anglers ished a club tournament on 11/1/2003. Clear water, clear sky, cool day. water temp in the low 60's. quite windy. We caught a lot o small ish but only 4 o us caught 5 keepers (13" or longer).I did not go north o Moccasin in Tuolumne River as originally planned because it did not seem it would make a dierence where we ished. Instead, I ished:1. Rocky walls north o Graveyard Creek2. Sole piece o rock at Red Mountain Bar3. Stuck-up bare trees across rom Red Mtn. Bar4. Island across rom and South o the Aquaduct Islands5. Buzzard PointMe and Scott caught many small ish but only one keeper each at spot 4 above. We drop shot with shad color innesse lures and 4-1/2" straight tail Aarons Magic worms. I caught the big ish, all 1.68 lbs o it. It was that tough.
    City: Chatsworth

    Tips: Fsih 17' i you want to catch small ish. Fish deeper i you want keepers. No guarantees.

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Bass Busters o Santa Clara county ished their 10th tournament on 10/11. Fishing was reported by all contestants as very diicult. The water was warm and clear with almost no wind and very ew aternoon mudlines. The winners came in with 11.43 but ailed to score a limit. There was a short lived topwater bite in the morning around timber. The rest o the day was dropshotting or splitshotting worms and lizards. The contestents tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ripping Lucky Crats, Senkos, and jigs. The slow moving worm was all that worked and it was very slow ishing.
    City: Belmont

    Tips: Go slow, then go slower. Some o the best ish came while dead sticking during a time a isherman was raching or a Coke or a cigarette.

Friday, September 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a tough day on the lake yesterday. We did a lot o looking or new areas to ish. Got on the lake about 0630. Looking or bait. Found them in 8-70 eet on water. Tryed crank-baits, jigs, drop-shot, split-shot, etc.. We ished humps, creek channels, main lake points and lats. We had A LOT o very small ish ollow our plastics (4"-10" ish). We managed to put 2 ish in the boat by 4pm. The ish were about 14", caught in about 18' o water on a drop-shot. Found these on the side o a hump next to a creek channel. Boy were they scrappy. They really smacked the drop-shots, these ish were not shy at all. Let the lake about 5:30.
    City: Waterord

    Tips: ind the bait...ind the ish. Be persistant.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at 6am and ound some good spots around the lake..catching them on drop shotting and spidergrubs around the humps. Big bass...5 1/2 lbs. Caught at least around 25 bass in 1-3 lbs. Will go back soon to preish beore the tourney.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: 6 inch worms and spidergrubs in motor oil color will do.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: HOT SEE BELOW

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: BENEFIT TOURNAMENT ON THE DELTA AT B&W RESORT AUGUST 23 DAWN TO 1:00 PM....or a members amily who's house burned...$100.00 per boat, 50% to the amily, 50% to the winners (70% to the heaviest bag, 30% to the Big Fish)...e-mail or more ino o just show up and help a ellow angler, ree hot dogs and soda or all participants...thanks to NCBF or their orum and B&W or their support...thanks again EGBassPres@aol.com
    City: Carmichael

Sunday, August 10th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Anglers Choice night tourney Sat night and Sunday Morning. First two teams weighed in 19+lbs and 16+lbs or the irst ive ish. Winning weight was 10 ish or 26+lbs, 2nd place 10 ish or 25+lbs. Two Near) 12 pounders were weighed in. Fish were caught on jigs, crankbait and worms anywhere rom 3 eet to 30 eet. We took second place with a 7.91 kicker. Fished points with drop shot in 25 to 30 oot water.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Be patient. Fish a spot where youve caught ish beore and be persistent the ish will move up eventually.

Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished or 4 days and ound the typical tough conditions or summer at Don Pedro. 3-13 was the largest ish or me this long weekend. I caught 2 or 3 keepers each day and lots o small ish. Darthead salt and pepper Keeper Custom worms, (color #'s 1001B and 1031) along with dropshot 6" worms rom Keeper in Shad patterns (color #'s 1048, 1064 and 170) worked best. The ish seemed to be about 15 to 25 eet. The thing I did ind was that i you ished in the shad you saw on your meter, Lowrance LCX15MT, ishing was tough, but i you ished where you didn't see shad on the screen and came across bass, those ish would eat. Less competition or the artiicial out o the schools o bait I suppose. Most o the ish were in the river arms that I ound. Main lake stu was real slow. Fish slow with conidence. Have un!
    City: Paso Robles

Saturday, July 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well it was hot and muggy or the Bass Classics annual night tournament out o 23 guys only 10 caught ish. In irst place with two ish or 9.82 lbs and he had the big ish a 6.72 was Dieter Spicker. He said he caught the big ish at 1:00 A.M. on a June bug waterdog on a long rocky point.He cught his second ish deep near the dam on a grub with ten minutes let to go. In second place with 7.70 lbs was J.R. Taylor he caught his ish at about 4:00 A.M. under the shade o the moon on a shear rock bank in 8-15 eet o water on a cut tail worm. In third place with 7.15 lbs was John Scott he said he had all o his ish on a Senko in a cove ished wacky style. In ourth place with two ish or 6.55 lbs was Tom Certo he had one on the dam on a texas rigged green wienee worm about 1 A.M. In ith was David Malley he had three ish or 5.65 lbs he caught two on black and red baby brush hogs on the bridge pilings and one back in the cove on a 8" worm.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: The ish were eating alot o shad so crawdad and lizard baits should work better

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took our 8 & 4 yr. old grand kids out or their 1st boat ride on a big lake so actual ishing was limited to about an hour. Caught one in Lucas Bay on a split shot Yamamoto green pumpkin lat tail worm, caught one in Rogers Creek on a split shot Berkeley Power Hog, and then caught two more in the Canyon on a split shot 4" Purple Ghost. All our were keepers w/ the biggest just shy o 3 lbs.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Short time we ished we split shot and the ish we caught were in 10' to 15'.

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I put in at Blue Oaks Wed. 6-11-03 & ished rom 5 am to 10 am...Caught 10 bass up to 3 1/2 lbs...I stayed in the area between Blue Oaks Ramp & Fleming Meadows..Nothing on Jerk bait or spinner baits...Had one blowup on a spook & lost a 2 plus on a Rattle Trap...caught one on a 6in lizard,one on a tube bait,one on a Cali. worm & the rest were caught on 5 in Senko's... Five o the seven keepers were caught on the Senko's..Two biggest ish came app 15 t o water & the rest ron 2 t to 10 t...The ish rom the deeper water were at,shallow ish were skinney....
    City: RIV

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Rogers & Fleming area rom 4 pm to midnight. Steady bite rom 4 until 8 then it slowed ater dark even with all the recreational boat traic. Split shot 4" Zoom watermelon w/red lake lizards and the new 4 1/2" Yamamoto lat tail worms in pumpkin w/green and black lake. It appears that the smallies moved in to spawn because we caught about a dozen in grassy coves in 5' to 10' o water. Also boated 25 keeper blacks w/the best ive going 10 lbs..
    City: Delhi

    Tips: 4" zoom lizards, split shot, beore dark then ater dark switch to june bug Zipper worms or black ring worms w/chart. tails. ish came out o 5' to 15' in grassy coves or gentle slope rocky points.

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I ished last Wed. rom 5:30 am too 11:30 am ..Caught 13 keepers up to 4 lb plus...Ten came on Senko's,one on a 1 o/z rattle trap & the other 2 on a tube bait...Most were caught in the 10 to 15 t range around weeds & small rocks...Color didn't seem to matter or the Senko's.
    City: RIV

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wie & I ished out o our Champion while my partner Dave Ranes & his son Travis ished out o their Bass Cat. Launched at 5 pm & ished until midnight. We started in Rogers & Dave headed to the Canyon. For us action was steady rom 6 to 8:30. Nothing on top water or jerk bait. caught 20 keepers rom 12" to 15 1/2" split shotting 4" green weenies and motoroil curly tail worms. Mostly bites were just pickups like bed guarding males. Lost one 6+ when line broke o. Dave caught couple o 12 inchers in the canyon then headed to Blue Oak area at dark. He ended up catching a 5 lber and a couple o 3 lbers split shotting a 6" black w/chart. ring worm.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Slow drag a split shot conidence worm in grassy coves.

Saturday, April 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 6:30 am to 2:30 pm. Started in Moccasin Creek split shotting 4" then 6" worms in green craw patterns and purple ghost. Boated our keepers beore heading down to Middle Bay and Jenkins Hill. Continued split shotting various plastics rom brush hogs to curly tail worms. Caught six more keepers. No size w/biggest going 2 lbs.. Saw several large bedding ish in all areas we ished but could not get them to chase anything.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Bites were pressure only w/most ish caught on 4" green craw or purple ghost. Fish came rom 5' to 10' and most oriented to stickups.

Friday, April 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in woods creek area and around houseboats in Moc. ished untill 1:00 p.m. with one dink on a carolina rigged 4in. ring worm. Fishing was so slow and only seen two ish cruising around. Water temp. needs to come up a bunch. Threw a jig and a swim bait all day with no takers. My dad in the back o the boat had the only ish.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Fish deeper around 25 t. and drag a carolina rig real slow. Wait or temp. to come up.