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Friday, October 8th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went in the afternoon. Caught a lot of little fish on RattleTraps and Senkos. Caught two in the 15 inch range in 20 feet of water on a shad colored Rattletrap.
    City: Three Rivers

    Tips: Anything that looks like a shad will work. Senkos produce a lot of small bass in the 10 to 12 inch range.

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty much the same pattern as before. 27 bass on Wednsday morning. They are starting to hit shad more frequently. I give it two weeks and they will be busting the top in huge schools.
    City: Corcoran

    Tips: Dropshot, crawdads, or minnows. Crankbait caught a couple. Just have to watch out for boaters who don't have enough respect to drive by you out of casting range.

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6:30 a.m. to noon on Sunday. My brother and I each caught around 40 bass, mostly spots in the 13" to 16" range. Largest went 3 lbs. This is the time of year the bass bite usually peaks at Kaweah.
    City: Corcoran

    Tips: Fish the dam and the rock wall with dropshot worms for spots. Throw senkos at any type of cover for largemouth.

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at 4:15 AM, 4th cast of the day with a crankbait and I hook a hawg on the rock wall leading into greasy. She finally comes up and my dad netted her. She weighs 11 lbs on a digital scale. My personal best by 3 lbs !! WOW ! Rest of the morning we caught 25 bass on cranks, roboworms, and yamamoto hula grubs. The lake is getting better and better. Oh yeah, as Im loading the boat at 9 AM, Jaime from Sierra Sporting Goods hooks and lands an 8 lber on a rico 25 ft away from us. Incredible!
    City: Visalia

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    Water Temp: 81

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 0600 to 0930, Not many boats, good thing. Bunch of dinks across from the second ramp off of drop off's. Biggest went about 2 1/2 on a white/chart spinnerbait. (Shallow) The mud hole is alive and kicking.
    City: Tulare

    Tips: drop shotting aaron's magic and purple weenie along with a white/chart spinnerbait was my claim to fame for catching dinks.

Monday, August 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the river feeding the lake starting at slick rock at 7 AM. Walked the length of the river till about 9 AM. Seems that there is are too many people using this area for swimming and the fish are gone. Caught a pair of baby bass on a rooster tail. When I say baby bass, I mean babys, 2-4 inches! The water in the lake is lower now than I've seen in a while at this time of year.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Don't bother fishing the river feeding the lake, leave this area for swimming famlies and drunks.

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the river feeding the lake starting at slick rock at 7 AM. Walked the length of the river till about 9 AM. Seems that there is are too many people using this area for swimming and the fish are gone. Caught a pair of baby bass on a rooster tail. When I say baby bass, I mean babys, 2-4 inches! The water in the lake is lower now than I've seen in a while at this time of year.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Don't bother fishing the river feeding the lake, leave this area for swimming famlies and drunks.

Friday, August 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 79-80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 3 AM, with little wind. Caught a mix of spots and largemouth. Cranked a couple off the dam with the rest coming on a drop shotted worm between 4 -6 AM. Between my dad and I we ended up with about 20-22 bass with the best one going 5 lbs.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Dark colored worms drop shotted around the dam. Should be turning on soon.

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all around Kaweah point at 6:30 AM in 4-6 foot of water. No bites, saw plenty of fish fry and crawdads swimming round. No bass, no crappie, not even a blue gill. gonna get out on the lake earlyer next time.
    City: Visalia

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 79-82

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WENT UP THURSDAY AFTERNOON AROUND 4:00PM FISHED GREASY COVE PULLED ABOUT 20 BASS AND 1 CATFISH BIGGEST BASS BEING 2.8 LBS. TRYED THROWING SINKO NOTHING DOWN SIZED TO A 4" ARONSMAGIC AND STARTED HITTING THEM NOTHING OF REAL SIZE BUT IT WAS FUN FOR MY 14 YEAR OLD. NOTHING AFTER DARK IT WAS REALLY DARK THAT NIGHT.
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: BACK OF GREASY,16 FEET WATER ,LOTS OF LITTLE ONES FOR THE KIDS, BUT WATCH FOR THE HORNETS ON THE BANKS.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: BRAIN, WHEN IS THE NEXT KAWEAH BASSMASTER TOURNAMENT I WANT TO FISH IT. THANKS , DC
    280-4081 GIVE ME A CALL
    City: VISALIA

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78-79 degs

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sunday's tournament was won by , James Beasly of visalia with 2 fish for 5.24 lbs. 2nd place was Brian Chance of visalia with 2 fish for 3.09 lbs. 3rd was brad thompson of exeter with 2.53 lbs. Big fish was 3.15(beasly). Water has been droping a foot a day since 3 weeks ago and water level was down 30 feet since the last tournament. Only 8 anglers for this one too!. the rest weight in 1 fish apiece. This lake is in sad shape.
    City: Visalia

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WENT UP TO TRY OUT BOAT AND DO SOME FISHING, THATS ALL I DID WAS FISH,NO CATCHING! TRIED CRANKS,LIZARDS,SENKOS. "0" FISH FOR TWO HOURS. THE WIND WAS BLOWING SO HARD AT THE RIVER AREA YOU COULDN'T KEEP STILL.SO I HEADED FOR GREASY AND DIDN'T GIT TO FISH MUCH THERE.GOOD LUCK!
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: STAY AWAY FROM DAM SKIERS EVERYWHERE WITH WAKEBOARD BOATS.

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Brian, when is the next tournament, got my boat,and ready to fish! are you having any night tournaments? give me a call. you got my number, thanks, D.C.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: ????????????

Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 63-67 deg's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The 4th tournament had 18 anglers. Half did not bring in any fish. Fish have seem too have gone into the post spawn stage. Very small fish and bite lasted for only a while. Everyone had a tough day. Except Terry hamlin of Woodlake. He won with 10.80 with a 5lb kicker. The rest were small.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Skiers all over the lake now that it is hot. Find a bigger lake.

Sunday, April 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Great day for fishing. Started early and first cast caught 14". This was the start to a day of 40-50. Most of the fish were small 11-13" but the fish where very aggresive. caught most of them in 15-20" split shot with worms and lizards. The best part of the day it was a little overcast which keep the ski and pleasure boat from coming up to the water.
    City: Exeter

    Tips: split shot worms purple brown/ chartrus tail. lizzards

Saturday, April 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Still a little slow but was able to pull out a couple of solid 3 lbdrs. another week i think. thet are in prespawn mode pulled both out at about 25 feet of water on steep banks in greasy. Was split shotting a bold bluegill roboworm curlytail. and missed a fish early on a g splash in shad color
    City: visalia

Sunday, March 28th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First time here since late fall of last year, lake looked good, started at 6:00am. Started near slick rock caught first fish on a senko just a small spot. I was able to catch three more before the sun had come up over the mountains. Two spots and one largemouth that would have went around a pound, nothing real big, these fish were caught on lizards. The wind picked up pretty bad, my partner was able to pull out a 2 pound largemouth, and then we headed to the dam. We couldn't get bite at the dam so we headed back to slick rock area, and fished a couple more hours with nothing they turned off, went back to the dam and was able to get one more spot, finished the day with only seven small fish. Oh well it was still fun, Good Luck!!
    City: Coalinga

    Tips: All fish were caught in 10 feet or less, maybe the big ones are a little deeper. I just don't think this lake has turned on yet, I will be back in a month or so.

Sunday, March 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 59 - 62 Degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at 7:00 a.m. and fished the Horse Creek area. Only caught 2 bass 14" each in two hours. Moved near the dam and caught 15-20 between me and my partner. 5 were over 15", largest 17.5", mostly spotted bass. Moved to the rock wall and caught a couple more spots before the day was over.

    Tips: Caught fish on crawdads, split-shot rigged 4" robo-worms, and senkos. Fish were holding close to cover, especially trees and logs.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Terry Hamblin won our first tournament with 6 lbs. Only 4 people out of 8 weighed in fish. Next tour on Mar 14th. Sign-ups from 4:45 to 5:50 am. 6-1pm . 2nd Ramp. $40 entry. $20 membership
    City: Visalia