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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: whacked them good on blue plastics up shallow- lots of numbers but very few fish over 15"- lots of 12-15" fish. Fun day on the water.
    City: Snelling

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in the water at 4:30am ,calm darn near full moon.
    1st stop top water bite, on but only small fish.
    finely triggered a 2.7lb Largemouth to smash a chugger.moved up the river and fished solid rock walls up and back to Barrets several fish ,not many legal. purple seemed to be the color of choice.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Wait for thre new Moon and fish Mclure it is a much wider open bite.


    shakin b8ts , Bassrancher

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 64-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wife and I fished Horseshoe Bend area and caught 40 to fifty fish, biggest going 4lbs. Had are threeyear .old grandson helping reel them in.We had one fish hit both mine and my wifes brushhog at same time very good day
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Watermelon brushhogs slow

Friday, May 7th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished the afternoon/evening mostly around Barrett's and Piney. 17 fish in the boat with 3 broke that broke me off. Fished steep walls mostly.

    Tips: Senkos, spinnerbaits, topwater.

Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: In response to BPC's report. Hey, are you the guy who hand pours those CCT Lures worms? When are those going to be available? I used some of the samples you gave me and the fish love them.

Saturday, May 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7a to 2:30p. Started in mid lake coves w/jerk bait while wife tossed a spinnerbait.She got a couple of bumps on the spinner and I got zip on the jerk bait. We both switched to split shot four inch worms & I boated the 1st keeper on a 4" green craw worm. Wife then boated a 16" spot w/a watermelon w/red flake Brush Hog. Moved up into the river arm after boating only dinks after the two keepers. Finished off our limit w/me split shotting Yamamoto cut tail watermelon w/red flake worms and the wife throwing watermelon w/red flake brush hogs.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Bigger fish for us came from 15' to 25' and slowly dragging the split shot. Most fish came from back end of grassy coves.

Wednesday, April 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: windy fishing sucked managed 7 fish for 2 people most on senkos 2 on split shot 4 inch straight tail to windy to keep the boat anywere safe even with 50 lbs thrust t motor usually endded up drifting into the shore.
    City: manteca

    Tips: every passing min is another chance to turn it all around

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started early at barrett cove excellent top water bite ,fish upto 3.8lbs a couple large mouth mixed in with the spots.Changed up to drop shot in afternoon with senkos,great day
    City: los banos

    Tips: top water poppers work well,blue senkos with white stripe,3" pumkin worms all good.

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 20 + foot vis all bass caught deep 10+ feet deep aplit shotting and senkos redish brown color slow presentation i would also like to take a moment and ask for silence to remember steves bait shack in merced .................
    City: Merced

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started morning with top waters, caught 6 and missed a few more in the narrows, highlight of the morning was my 7 year old son hooking up with a 3 lbs. top water fish that hit on the way back into the water. "That was cool dad!" Fished Cottonwood area until mid afternoon. Saw a lot of big fish suspended around cover. Used mostly carolina rigged worms. Best 5 for boat was 20 lbs. a lot of quality fish.

    Tips: Fish later into afternoon. Bite only got better. To bad we had to go.

Thursday, March 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at the lake around 11:00 and found the temp to be about 58. Put the boat in and while waiting for my partner to park the truck had a fish on at the dock using a 5in. stick bait in silver/blk back. The same bait produced another 4 fish with a bunch of short strikers barely missed. Lake appears to be in prespawn with some smaller male fish moving in and out of the shallows. The best bite was at the end of the day on a drop shot rig fished right on the dam (the structure) wall that produced many fish, with about a 2lb. spot being the biggest.

    Tips: don't just sit there, go get 'em!

Sunday, December 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished Anglers Choice. Caught ish rom 5-50 eet drop shotting. big story was a 17.10 that was brought to the scales. ish was ound loating still alive. this would o been a lake record, but the guy who ound it was honest about inding it. took almost 11 pounds or 5 to win
    City: Riverbank

    Tips: drop shot, spider grubs

Friday, November 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: STARTED OUT CRANKIN SPEED TRAPS 1 IN THE SLOT FIRST 5 MINUTES,NOTHING AFTER THAT.FEW BITES ON THE JIG.SWITCHED TO WORMIN BROWN COLOR (TOUGH)OVERCAST & SWITCHED TO PURPLE GHOST AND IT WAS ON.MY PARTNER WAS IN ANOTHER BOAT USED PURPLE ALL DAY AND HE TORE IT UP.HE PUT ME ON HIS WATER AND IT WAS ON.FISHED HIS WATER FROM 2:15 UNTIL ALMOST DARK BOATED 6 MORE ALL KEEPERS EXCEPT ONE BEST 5 WENT NINE LBS.BOTH BOATS BOATED 26 FISH NOT A BAD DAY

    Tips: BROWN/ORANGE WITH SUN.PURPLE IF IT'S OVERCAST

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 59.5 - 61.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished hal a day today. Caught 5 ish / 3 keepers or 4.11lbs. Two on black jigs, 1 on a smoke / purple zoom lizard, 1 on a Keeper 082 dropshotting, and 1 spooning. I missed several on the lizard,lost one on the jig and missed one shaking the trees in 35 eet o water. All the ish were on drop-os where the water was about 15-20 eet and dropped o to 30+ eet. There was no reaction bite at all. I threw crankbaits rom 5 to 25 eet and ripped or a couple o hours in areas where ish were suspending, and nothing.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Heavy Jigs in 25+ eet o water

Sunday, November 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 19 members ished a local club tourney and 16 weighed in limits w/only 1 member skunked. Winner had a 13 lb. 5 ish limit and said he ished the lower lake w/all his ish coming rom 20' or less. His 4.5 lb. big ish came at 2 pm in Cottonwood. 2nd & 3rd place both had over 9 lbs.. I managed 3 keepers ater weeding thru 20+ dinks. Fish were caught split shotting, drop shotting, ripping, and jigs. Best colors were blue or purple ghosts and watermelon.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Decent bite just have to work thru the dinks. Slower presentation works best.

Saturday, November 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ater the irst cold ront o the year, the bite seemed to improve. Caught about 20 keepers between 1.5 and 2 lbs. Much better than the previous week. There is a reaction bite early, then dropshotted ater that. Most ish came on points between 15 and 35 eet. You can see ish on every point with your graph but you work hard to get them, still heavily eeding on shad and not very committal to baits, but getting better.
    City: Madera

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: UNKNOWN

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: SLOW FISHING THIS TIME OF YEAR SINCE THE BLACKS ARE ONLY SHOWING UP IN OPEN WATER CHASING SHAD SCHOOLS AND WONT TOUGH A RIP BAIT OR FALLING GRUB. THE SPOTS ARE ACTIVE MAINLY IN THE EARLY MORNING 20+ FEET WITH NOT A THING ANYWHERE NEAR THE BANKS AND THEY MOVE DOWN TO 35 FT. AND HANGING ON THE BOTTOM ON MAIN LAKE HUMPS OR ROCK PILES RELATING TO THE RAILROAD BED. I DID MANAGED TO CATCH A 3 LB SPOT ON A RIP BAIT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING UP RIVER OFF THE ROCK PILES, THE BIG BOY HAD TO BE SUSPENDED AS HE HAMMERED IT HALF WAY BACK TO THE BOAT. REALLY NICE FISH AND FAT AS CAN BE. SHAD ARE ONLY ABOUT 2-3" BUT THE SPOTS ARE FULL OF THEM RIGHT NOW. AFTER THE SUN GETS ON THE WATER IT'S DROP SHOTTING OR SPLIT SHOTTING SHAD PATTERN 4" PLASTICS IN 20-35' REMEMBER THE RAILROAD BED THING AT 35' WHEN IT GETS DEAD FROM THE BANK BACK TO THE BOATTHEY ARE ALL OVER THE TV SCREEN 20-35'AND ARE RIGHT ON THE BOTTOM. IF YOU SHAKE IT AND THEN LEAVE IT BE STILL FOR A FEW THEY'LL SLAM IT.BITE DULLED AT ABOUT NOON AND WE WINDED UP WITH 10 OR SO. MID-CAL BASS DREW 10 BOATS, AND FROM THE LOOKS OF IT THE BASS BOATS WE'RE STRUGGLING (PARKED ON MAIN LAKE POINTS AND DROP-SHOTTING) TOUGH TO GET ANY WEIGHT WITH JUST SPOTS COMING UP.LAST WEEK TOURN. WON IT WITH 13 LBS I WAS TOLD BY KEVINTHINK YOUR BEST BET IS CLEAR LAKE RIGHT NOW.PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH AND RELEASE HAPPY HOG HUNTING
    City: WATERFORD

Saturday, May 31st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 7:00am started drop shotting. Fished a ew coves and caught 15 ish, all spots. Good day on the lake lots o un.
    City: San Lorenzo

    Tips: Drop shop 4" aarons magic brown/purple and 4" oxblood.

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in the back end o Cottonwood. Fish were active close to the bank. Started with pumpkinseed luke, with no takers. Switched to Rico popper and caught 9 beore 0730. Five o the nine were over the slot with the big ish 18 inches. The rest were in the slot, except or one that was below. Fished Temperance with indierent success ater the surace bite aded, still caught 3 slot ish there.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: The water is rising, so be careul o loating wood. Tight to shore the grass is bothersome. My most eective lure was a Rio Rico in gray and silver. I tried a couple o walking lures, but they didn't seem to be what the ish were keyed on and only caught two small ish on them.Ater the surace bite stopped, 082 worms, splitshot, were good.

Monday, May 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom the end o Piney Creek to Arnold Bay. Had some early morning action on poppers. Ater that died caught ish on a mixture o senkos, lukes, brush hogs. Had a big ish swell on a small buzzbait, but missed it. All ish were small w/ biggest going 2lb 4oz.
    City: Merced