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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished future pro finished with 10.59took 11.2 to get in the money lost two good fish would of been around 15lbs oh well good day of fishing jigs and split shotting 12 to 15 feet of water

    Tips: fish slow

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went fishing for carp, did well.I'm half retarded and love to carp fish.
    City: walnut grove

    Tips: use hotdogs, but don't eat all your bait.

Monday, February 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a bunch of little fish dropshotting an occassional keeper...1 10lb'r on the dropshot!Future Pro coming up any tips? This is starting to be the dead sea around here...Where do you go for fish? The market? Graphed lots of big fish in deep water 60-70 feet...Doesnt seem like theyre ready for anything...Hope it changes soon. Any tips will be appreciated.
    City: Merced

    Tips: slow and bounce your dropshot deep they like it on the move. seemed to like the purple flake rattlesnake 10 inch worm...big one hit a 3" minnow imitation ...go figure!

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about 2 hours Sunday afternoon in Woods Creek arm, found fish(on the graph) on the North side. Caught one, 4.5 lb, on a craw colored jig in about 12 - 15 ft. near a rocky point.
    City: Modesto

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished all day and drank alot of beer. I used clams and caught nice cat fish. I end the day with 6 carp and 10 catfish.
    City: walnut grove

    Tips: Wear warm colths and buy you beer on sale.

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i fished same tourny....zero fish weighed. My partner and i threw everything we could at them and only ended up with a few dinks.

    Tips: i would stay away from DP until the weather changes and it starts to rain.

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did a touney there on Saturday and man it was tough. Winning weight was 7lbs and I came w/ no fish. No wind, blue bird skies and ultra clear water. Just my luck!
    City: Bay Area

    Tips: Don't go Pedro right now. Weight till Spring for pre spawn....

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: rene try phils jigs bait shop located off of hwy 132 near the pizza place and lake don pedro market. the owner is cool and has good info. 209 852 2777

    Tips: i try to find the bait.

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: My Dad and I are headed upto Don Pedro and Mclure this weekend for some fun fishing..
    If you have been out lately and would be willing to share some advice it would be greatly appreciated. E-mails are welcome
    Thanks
    City: Gilroy

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry guys, correction on the T&T jigs Its TnT. Look for the website soon. Call Troyce for TnT jigs (209) 505-8504.

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We fished the Badge Packers and took 1st with just under 12lbs. Fishing was tough for us noon on. We did well first thing with crankbaits, topwater, and T&T jigs. The only fish that could be caught after noon for us was on the jig also. I also caught a 6lb cat on a Yo-Zuri craw cank.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Fish are feeding heavy on shad and crawdads. All of our good fish were in less than 5ft. Craw colors worked the best. To stay consistant throughout the day get a T&T jig and throw that. Crank shallow. Put down the dropshot too many small ones.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 87

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught plenty of fish 2-6# using top water Sammy in shad colors in the morning and evening
    City: Fresno

    Tips: dont fish mid-day stay cooldrink plenty of H2O

Sunday, July 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Blue Gill were extremely excited about the night crawlers our children were using. They all caught their limits and were ready to fish for bass.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: The fishing doesn't get any better than the coves of Woods Creek Arm at Moccasin Point, Lake Don Pedro.

Friday, June 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Last week clients had a good topwater bite going for most of the outgoing tide, then switch to flippin worms into weed pockets and tule clumps. This week saw the topwater bite fade with the small fronts and wind that have moved in and out. The spinnerbait bite took its place and went strong through the outgoing tide.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Give the fish what they want. Don't be afraid to change.

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off with some topwater fish, then moved on to catching others on a dropshot. Some were caught on brushogs and worms. Our better fish were caught on TnT jigs. We were off of the lake about 11am. Water was a little dirty, fish are on a post spawn pattern. Nothing on cranks, ripbaits, and blades.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Guiding on McClure, Pedro, Eastman, and some others, Call me (209) 604-8222.

Friday, May 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My 11 year old son and I went fishing from 4-8pm. Water was like glass and the weather was a perfect 82 degrees. We headed back to my favorite spot in Big Creek and never left.

    Pedro can be a punishing lake to bring your kids to. Hell, this lake can be ruthless for some experienced anglers any day of the week. I have spent several hours on this lake without even so much as a hit, but not one this day.

    We hooked up on our second cast and I knew that this was going to be a great trip. We boated 25 Quality bass in @ 4 hours. Outside of a couple of dinks, our bass were all from 2-4 lbs. I was able to stick one that went 5.2 lbs.

    I think the wierdest thing to me was that all of these fish were basically caught within 100 yards of the first fish we stuck. These 3 pound clones were all just stacked up in the same area and lucky for us there was not a boat in sight.

    My son was throwing a watermellon/red 6" worm on a split shot and I was throwing a green pumkin/black flake Senko and Shad pattern spinner bait. The bigger fish came on the Senko time after time. We found that most of the bass were on points in @ 15 feet and just inside the points with steep rocky drop offs at the same depth. Never got one fish in the grass or on the wood.

    As a fisherman, I am thankful that there are days like this to make up for all the times that you just couldn't find 'em. But as a father, I am thankful that there are days like this so that our sons and daughters can see how exciting bass fishing can be.
    City: Ripon

    Tips: This lake is on fire!!! Better hurry up before it cools off.

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a small club tourney launched out of Blue Oaks. Caught 10 fish 1 smallie used jigs and worms. biggest was 5.2. Total weight 5 fish 10.89. Big fish of tourney was 14.84 winning weight 22.72.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Fish slow in about 5-20 feet of water. Some fish are on beds.

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I want to take my nephew fishing at DP tomorrow, can anyone tell me some good areas to fish from the bank??? Preferably for bass, but he's not paticular...(Trout, bass, anything...)

    THANKS!!!
    City: Merced

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished pedro saturaday during the rain and had around 15 1/2 for five fish .fished deep slow main lake very tough to get bites but when you do there pretty good fish.still tryin to get my first swimbait fish threw hudd. rof12 for hours and never got bite any tips
    City: merced

    Tips: 45-60 ft split-shot craw colors caught no fish shallow .

Friday, January 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished swim baits shallow largest around 10lbs. submitted photo in photo section.
    City: Ripon

    Tips: largest fish hit right after I had taken the bottom hook off. on ROF12 Hud.