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Wednesday, May 29th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I like ishing Turlock lake the best. The lake recieves almost no bass ishing pressure and the ish pull harder than any bass around including Delta bass. When I was ishing out o my 12' aluminum boat we had a 2 1/2 pounder pull the boat. Woodward isn't worth ishing right now because o all the boaters but early and late in the year the lake is very good. The Stanislaus river is un to loat down or stripers. The Toulumne River used to be excellent or bass and stripers above Waterord. I you ever plan on going to one o these places e-mail me and I will let you know what I know.
    City: Modesto

Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I am in 15' Boston whaler with a 30 hp evinrude and 6 hp kicker ( its needed in Monterey bay)with a old ebay bought, bow mounted minnkota. You have to be ishing as early as possible..10am is wayyyyyy to late.Any good ishing in your lakes?
    City: Mtry

Monday, May 27th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thanks or the ino Rob. I will submit a report next time I go and hopeully I will make it to the lake at irst light instead o 10:00 O'clock.I ish out o a black and silver 15' aluminum bass boat with a 25 horse Johnson and a Minn Kota Genesis trolling motor.i you ever see me give me a holler.I will try and make it out this weekend.I you ever need any ino or Woodward resevoir, Turlock resevoir, or Stanislaus/Tuolumne rivers let me know.
    City: Modesto

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I go near the end o the creek..casting weightless lukes(white or white and a dark color with some "kickin' Bass" Garlic stu..That sh*t stinks!!), ishing it like a jerk bait in the stickups and in shady overhangs. I make my hooks bareless because the bass swallow the bait beore I know it and get hooked deep. best time is like all bass..sring into early summer beore it gets too hot. My bite has been ending around 11am , picking back up at 6ish.There are not any stripers in the creek reservoir, only San Luis and the orebay..to the best o my knowledge
    City: Mtry

Sunday, May 26th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Rob, I catch and release all ish except an occasional striper. What size o ish are you catching? Are you getting most o your ish on plastics? What part o the lake is best this time o year? I will give the lake another try here in a week or two and I will post another report. Have you ever caught any there on a big swim bait?
    City: Modesto

Saturday, May 25th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey, JsW..I will give you tips but you gotta catch and maybe photograph and release.Los Banos Creek is the only largemouth Bass spot close to me and I do not want it ished out..all those bank isherman take plenty. I caught 12 yesterday and they are all still there swimming
    City: Mtry

Friday, May 24th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched the boat around 10:30 because I went to O'neil irst to try and catch a striper (Nothing going on at O'neil).I ished until around 3:00 with no ish to show. I have come to the conclusion that this lake is too damm tu and a person would be better o going to any other lake to ish.Just read the reports on this lake or the past two years and it seems the only time to ish the lake is pre spawn. The rest o the time its hit and miss and i you do hit it right a couple guys may only catch 5-10 ish the whole day. That is lousy ishing in my book. The only time I will go back there is i I plan to go strictly hawg hunting and have plans to throw a 10 inch swim bait all day.I hear there are some big bass in that lake.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!I the wind ain't blowing a good 15MPH orget it. That water is so clear it needs a big chop to break things up. There are alot o limit size bass around the shore all over the lake but they are damn near impossible to catch. The ish at Los Banos are probably the smartest ish in the state. LOLI someone knows how to consistently catch ish out there besides during pre-spawn please post some tips.

Sunday, May 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Buddy and I decided to ish Los Banos or the irst time and we got the boat in the water around noon. Within a hal hour we caught on largemouth around 3 1/2# on a 10 inch power worm. Fished or about another hour or two without a bite. The wind started blowing hard and there were gusts atleast in the 40 mph range. We kept ishing and caught another bass around 2 1/2# on a Dances's eel.We motored back around the launch area and caught one about 2# on a pop-r. The wind made it real diicult to ish the lake especially in a 15 aluminum boat.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: I've heard the lake is generally tough and I would assume the reason is because the lake is ull o every type o cover imaginable.I would concentrate on ishing the hydrilla around ten eet deep with plastics, spider jigs or large gitzits or larger ish. Fish the tule walls with sencos or limit ish. Topwater ishing looks real promising but not today. Get there early especially on a weekend!!!

Saturday, April 27th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up to tube, too damm windy. Fished the bank on the point by the campground. Lost two riggs to the trees no hits called it a day. (still better than sitting around the house)
    City: Los Banos

Thursday, April 25th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished one evening and ollowing morning. Hooked into three bass ( biggest got away, naturally)two on spinner baits, one on surace plug. Weather: Dark sky with showers
    City: Mtry

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    Water Temp: 60ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got 1 13in trout in the irst hour (8:00AM) not a bite till noon. ater noon not real productive. Orange powerbait seemed to be working o the dam. Too windy or the loat tube,
    City: Los Banos

    Tips: Looking or ellow tubers or local lakes. contact me via e-mailthanksBret

Wednesday, April 24th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out in a Float Tube at the campground. Got a ew hits and some small bass. most hits came on repalla 10 oot deep. Noy much being daught by anyone today.
    City: Los Banos

Tuesday, April 16th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Flipped into the tullies. Caught around 15 bass, avg about 1.5 lbs, biggest 2.5lbs. There rom 7 to 12 then the wind started blowing us around too much.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wie & I took 4 yr. old grandson out at 8 am to 12 pm. He got to reel in six average 12" to 14" largemouth & one 2 lb. Crappie. He couldn't reel in the 4 lb. largemouth so helped the wie net it. Hooked one other 5+ bass but it made a run into a nearby weed bed then shook the hook. 15 to 20 mph wind help scatter the algae bloom but made boat control a little tougher. All ish came split shotting plastics. No takers on spinner bait.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Most ish appeared to be aggressive males either preparing beds or guarding them? Todays color o choice or majority o ish was june bug. 4" curly tails or small crawdad imitations.

Saturday, February 9th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing about 7:00 A.M. Bite very slow. need some rain to help the lake level beore the annual turkey shoot. ished the dam irst thing using senkos,crank baits and lizzard's with no luck. Finally was able to catch one on a bluegill senko in the irst cove up river but no size to it. Let the lake about 12:00 P.M.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Lake needs to spill to to get more oxygen in the lake to get the bite started.

Sunday, January 27th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 10 boat club tourney. Recent rain raised water level & muddied it up. Wie, son, & I managed only our bites boating nothing. We drop shotted, split shotted, cranked, spooned. Bites came split & drop shotting. No ive ish limits. 1st had our ish or 9 pounds & big ish or the day was a 5 1/2 lber. Most ish that were caught were on plastics that were split/drop shotted or texas rigged.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Hopeully another club member will log on or tips because all we did was get resh air and exercise our arms.

Saturday, January 12th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Misty & oggy start at 7 am working a crawdad crank w/no hits the 1st 1/2 hr.. Switched to split shot 4" green weenie style worms & had a limit in the boat by 9:15 w/the biggest going 2 1/2 lbs.. Missed a couple drop shotting 1st a shad pattern luke & then a morning dawn curly tail. Dead or the next couple o hours & then mid-lake picked up three dinks & two more 13 inchers.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Work split shot worms slowww on outside weed lines o o gentle sloping rocky banks.

Saturday, December 8th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My son & I ished rom irst light until 12:30 pm. I started w/craw pattern crank bait & he started w/a pig n jig. Nothing or the 1st hal hour so we switched & slowly worked t-rigged plastics. Boated sixteen keepers and three dinks. Keepers averaged 2-2 1/2 lbs. Very light bite & we missed at least a 1/2 dozen pickups. Did catch one on a shad pattern crank bait.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Slowly ish shad or craw pattern worms in deeper water. I you eel mushy pressure set the hook because the ish were giving us about 1/3 o a second beore they'd spit the bait.

Saturday, September 15th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 74.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Quick trip mainly to just get out & wet a line, get away & rest the mind. My wie & I had a good time on the water w/ew distractions. I guess the keeper ish knew it was just a little quiet time we needed ater this past week so they let us alone. We got three decent bites between us on split shot green weenies & motor oil curly tail worm but missed them rom lack o concentration. Dinks were plentiul everywhere chasing shad. Hooked about ten >12" on an Ivanhoe splash it crystal wht. top water & split shot green weenies. Fished the dam, south side across rom the day camp, & tulles across rom the creek mouth. On the water at 7 am & o by 11 am. Talked to a couple other boaters who were concentrating on ishing more than us & they hadn't hooked any keepers either.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Only can tell you how to hook the dinks today. Top water or the dinks chasing shad then split shot green weenie worms or motor oil curly tail worms where there is no surace activity.

Saturday, August 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 6 am started at the N end o the dam & worked its length w/top water, cranks, & worms or two strikes on Shad Rap & 1 dink on split shot 6" purple death worm. Headed to N bank W side o day camp & worked it to the blus again w/top water, cranks, & worms w/same results but this time my wie boated the dink using a 4" motoroil culy tail worm. Moved to the west side o the creek mouth still ishing the N bank & worked it to the upper end. Our son got several hits that seemed to be very small bass on a golden shiner color 4" Fluke. Headed to south bank tules across rom creek mouth & we all boated a couple more dinks & I caught one 12 1/2" keeper using 4" green weenie style worm split shotting. The biggest thing hooked all day was when I slipped tryin to change my crank bait & ran the rear treble past the barb into the meat o the tip o my middle inger. My wie & son wanted to cut the line & throw me back since I was just a big trash ish but they let me sit down & slowly push the barb orward until it was exposed so I could bend it down then back it out so long as I promised not to whimper to loud & interupt their ishing.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Water level has dropped 4' to 5' since July. Talked to a guy who boated 4 keepers to 4 lb. & he caught them early working the tules & weed beds in 10' o water at S end across rom creek mouth using top water & jerk baits.