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Thursday, August 9th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 83-84 deg's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went up around 6 pm. Caught a 12 inch o the dam on baby brush hog then got pushed around by skier's and went upriver. Started throwing 3/4 oz. at ree shad's in a crawdad pattern o some rocky points in 15-16 t o water and hit 3 ish, 2 - 2 lbs. and 1 3.3 lbs. All within a 50 yard area. Fished till dark and went back to the dam and threw zoom magnum 9 inch worms blk/red lk till 11:45 and only got 2. 1 dink and 1 nice 21/2 lber. Fish were not to active except or the good crankbait hits that elt twice as big as what they were. Good Luck
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Fish slow and dark colors.

Saturday, July 28th, 2001

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished night or about 4 and a hal hours. took crawdads to try or a lunker. a couple takers but couldnt hook em. water still dropping quick. caught a ew on senkos and jigs. nothing o any size.
    City: visali

    Tips: when the water settles the night bite should turn on. next ull moon should be the ticket.

Tuesday, July 24th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: water dropping rapidly. ished or about 3 and a hal hours caught a ew on rubber worms nothing on jigs and about 4 on senkos. one realy nice one got o at the boat est. 3.5lber. biggest going about 2 and 3/4lbs. when the water level settles in the night bite will be on.
    City: visalia

    Tips: wait or the water level to settle and the night ishing will get hot. can't wait.

Thursday, June 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 81-82 deg's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at 5:45 a.m. Went into the tree's a lipped 2 1-131/2 and 1-14 inches. Went 1hr. and ound some arther out as the water has been dropping 6 inches to a oot a day. I caught 3 2-21/2 lbs on a jig and 3 more on topwater. Had 8-9 lbs or the day. VERY HOT,HOT
    City: Visalia

Friday, June 15th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got started about 4:30 p.m. SLOOOWWWW Start. Finally got one ish about 7:30 on a drop shot 1 1/2 or so. Only stuck one more on a buzzbait. I had a bad evening, riend had a better one, but also commented on the declining bite. The ramps are ridiculous with the Skier types. I wish the rangers would start ticketing all those double-parking jerks in the parking lot. Those A&%$%&&^ need to learn how to drive, park launch, recover, etc. their damn boats. One guys took about 10 minutes and about 6 tries to get his boat on....with help. ARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
    City: Hanord

    Tips: Stay away during the daytime, it'll drive you crazy on the ramp.

Thursday, June 7th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: pulled onto the water at 5:30, immediately started catching ish at horse creek split shotting. ished until 10:30 and had 26 ish. between mysel and my partner our best 5 were nearly 16 lbs. previous week i boated a 9.04 and 2 that were 3.5. i'm making a lot o casts and covering a lot water.
    City: cutler

Wednesday, May 30th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 74-76 DEG'S

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: iT WAS AN AWESOME night. Got up at around 5:30 and stuck ish rom the irst cast to 8:30 at night. My 6th ish was a big 81/2-9lbs easy and she was barely hooked on her jaw and she saw the boat and ran like hell and my jig poped ree. Caught ish later on topwater till dark 2-3 lbs.
    City: Visalia

Friday, May 11th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got there about 7:00 a.m. Hardly a soul on the lake and it was glass lat. Parked at the marina and hooed it over to the dam. Caught 15 to 20 ish by 11:00 a.m. when it got too hot. Most ish were 1lb. to 2lbs. Had a couple on that would go 4 or 5 but they came unbottoned. Was sightishing till the sun got really high. Lots o bass ry in the rocks getting chased by bigger ish. Couldn't catch ish on topwater or cranks though. All ish came on 3" to 6" plastics in 1t. to 20t. o water.
    City: Los Angeles

    Tips: As suspected bigger baits seemed to attract the bigger ish.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went up today and had a pretty good start, but it didnt end up that way. the wind started howling just ater sun down. it was pretty bad,whitecaps and all. we lost our patients at about 9 or so, so we let. all together i think we caught 7 or so and lost a couple. one might have been a bigger ish couldnt tell. it had weight but it wasnt ighting untill it got to the boat and then it tugged real hard and came unbuttoned. this ish was hooked on a brown jig with a grub trailer on the dam. the rest were caught on rubber worms. we only ished or about 2 and a hal total. so it wasnt that bad i guess. see you up there. catch and release.
    City: visali

    Tips: most o our ish came right beore dark back towards horse creek. i the wind dies down the night ishing might kick in

Monday, May 7th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the wie out, got there irst light. Central Valley was having a tournament so the ramp was pretty busy. Headed out beore the crowd. The wie caught one blade ish right o, then nothing else on that spot. Went to the next and OH YEAH!!!! Stuck a 12 pnd 9 onc PIG on my splitshot rig, 8 pound test!!!! She was still ull o eggs. Took her to Sierra Bait & Tackle or an oicial weight, then brought her back to the spot and let her go. She was strong and healthy. The rest o the day was just O.K., about ive more ish, two pound average. Only took 11 1/2 to win that tourney. Some one o these days I stick ish like that in a tourney!!!
    City: Hanord

    Tips: Despite what I heard rom riends, I don't think most o the ish have spawned. Fish the transition spots SLOWWWW.

Saturday, May 5th, 2001

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ALL IN ALL PRETTY GOOD AFTERNOON.CAUGHT SEVERAL NICE SPOTS AROUND DAM AREA.4"GREEN WEENIE WORMS.NO LARGE MOUTH TO SPEAK OF.GOT ON SPOTTED BASS PATTERN AND STUCK WITH IT.GOOD FISH'IN,TODD BABBP.S.RELEASED ALL FISH!!!!!
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: 15 TO 25 FEET OF WATER,ON THE BOTTOM,ALL ON 4"WORMS.

Thursday, April 19th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 60-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the Lake at about 9am, started in Horse Creek but my riend Willie "O" was sitting on my spot. Spoke to him briely and he said he only had two ish since 7am. Went out to the Main Lake lats with no luck. Went to the Greasy Cove Area and started nailing them. Caught about 20 ish all day long not a lot o quantity but a Hell o a lot o QUALITY !!!! Best ive ish went 22lbs with three over 5.0 lbs, one over 4.0 and one about 3.0. The rest o the ish were 1.5 to two pounds. Caight all the ish on plastic in 2-15 eet. Water is up about our eet rom Tuesday and so are the good ish. Wish I didn't have to work this weekend!
    City: Hanord

Tuesday, April 17th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a bad morning but I was at success,then we headed or Kaweah.Got to the lake at 11:00 tried a number o baits and no ish.At around 12:00 noon I started throwing a white super luke and BAM a 13.5 large mouth, what a ish. I was using 8lb PLINE and ought the ish or about 10 minutes she did not want to be caught. I was ishing with my great riend Frank Lanares and he was stretched out laying on the deck to net the ish, TANKS FRANK. We met up with another riend o mine Bill Kunz and put me on patern and we cought ish the rest o the day with a 5 and a 6 to go with the 13.5 close to a 30lb limit thanks Bill.
    City: Lemmoore

    Tips: When discourged keep at it. Work the luke real slow allowing it to all slow.

Saturday, April 14th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: sergeant J......the lake is that good or those who know how to catch big ish. sorry or your dink luck. i you ever whant some lessons on how to catch ish over 15 inches get a hold o me.....you know how to ind me........and oh by the way the police and ire games is at the delta so you might not catch any ish cause there arent a whole lot o dinks there.har
    City: visalia

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: sergeant J......the lake is that good or those who know how to catch big ish. sorry or your dink luck. i you ever whant some lessons on how to catch ish over 15 inches get a hold o me.....you know how to ind me........and oh by the way the police and ire games is at the delta so you might not catch any ish cause there arent a whole lot o dinks there.har
    City: visalia

Friday, April 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ron W.,Why do you have to get all these Tulare County Residents excited about Kaweah lake right now? It hasn't been that good. We've been catching smaller bass (12" to 15") all over the lake on weightless 6" worms (all colors) and luke type baits, salt/pepper/chart-tail in the shallow areas on north shore and south shores. Split shotting 4" worms always works here but haven't gotten anything big so ar this year. 2001 Police/Fire Olympics ishing tournament in August at the Delta is ours baby!!!
    City: Visalia

Sunday, April 8th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got up there at 11:00 and let at 3:30. i had a great day today. the ishing was wide open. i bought a dozen jumbo minnows at sierra sporting goods. i caught a ish on each one o the minnows. average o 3.5lbs each. i was out o minnows by 12:30. so i started throwing a white spinner and began catching the crap out o them with that. i had one break my line so i went to a green and blue spinner and they loved that too. i couldnt miss today. over 20 ish biggest was approx. 4.5 and smallest was a dink. i had 2 in the 4 and a hal to 5 lb range. a bunch o 3s and 4s and a ew dinks. all in all one o the best days in a long time or me.
    City: visalia

    Tips: i was supprised that the weather didnt turn the ish o. they are hitting big time the bite is loose.

Friday, March 30th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58 to 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went up today and did pretty well. hit some coves and caught a ew. went back to greasy cove, too much preasure back there. everyone is pounding the water back there. i had a huge ish on by the tree on the corner. it came up quick on me and came unbuttoned. damn it. it was very large. it is haunting me. that ish hit a lime green and brown skirted grub carolina rigged. moved out to the let side o the dam. caught a ew more there and my partner lost a huge ish on a green weenie. all the ish we put in the boat were spots. it is time baby.
    City: visalia

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went or an aternoon bite.Arrived at 3:30.Fished main lake using 4"ox blood worms.Caught a nice large mouth right o the bat.That was about it.Fished greasy cove using same bait,even tried blades,and other cranks.No luck.Seen some small bass chasing shad on top.
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: Will be back soon!This lake is going to bust loose any time!Good ish'in,Todd

Monday, March 26th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went up today at about 1:30 caught 1 on a rubber worm it was a keeper. caught another on a rapalla. both in greasy cove. moved over to the damn about 3:45. the spots were in and me and my partner caught some nice size ish. lotta hits still a little rusty. the big ish are in greasy cove cruzing. couple days o warm weather and they will be stageing. the bite is gonna get hot. mark my words.
    City: visalia