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Monday, June 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished one cove for 4 days, caught between 100-150 fish. Most fish caught on a green senko. On day four much to my suprise I landed a 4.5lb largemouth. Thats righy, I said largemouth!!! Fought it for 1/2 hour. It was so big we used a gaff to get it in the boat, photographed it, sewed up the hole, gave it a few antibotics and set it loose in the woods. OK OK we didn't have any antibotics but everything else is true. I caught my fish on a chartruse senko mounted on a small crappie jig head.
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: Go out with someone that really knows the lake because you might not pick the right cove. Anyone ever heard of a club named C.F.E.R.???

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 75-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 10 am to dark from Oak Shores down to Snake Creek. Found most spots on main lake rocky points in about 15-20 ft of water. Caught fish the entire time even caught a few bigger ones. All on 4

    Tips: Worms in minnow color

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 69.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out about 6am. tried to get out before the crowd. Headed to B Rock and fished a zara spook in baby bass color. Just one strike, but missed'em. Started throwing a Rapala dives-to in bluegill. Caught a good spot, 'bout 3.5 lbs boucing the crank off the rocks. Caught another spot, 1.5 lb, on a 5" robo worm in bold bluegill color on a Texas. That was about it a B rock. Headed towards Snake creek about 10 am and caught another 1.5 walking the Zara spook. Boy did he hit that thing, came up about 2 ft out of the water to get that thing. Other than that it was slow. I think the amount of boats in the water have made the fish go deeper.

    Question? Where did all the largemouths go? Can anyone tell me where to find some bucket mouths or smallies. Thanks
    City: Santa Maria

    Tips: Bluegill color seemed to work for me.

Friday, May 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out the day before Memorial Day weekend (Friday) to beat the crowds. It was already getting pretty hectic, but we stayed in the coves and in the no-wake zones and didn't get hit by too many waves from the skiers. Got some nice spots on a shad/chrome Booyah spinnerbait. All were near wood - trees, lay downs, etc. My friend got some on shaky head worms as well. Got their at 7:30 and we were gone by 12:30 - got about 25 fish total, biggest was only about 2 pounds though.
    City: Monterey

    Tips: Throw blades near trees and reel it back as fast as you can!

Monday, May 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the dragon 'bout 6am, fired up ol' reliable and headed to las tablas. Started fishin' about noon( ya caint beat a johnson seahorse fer speed) and wouldn't ya know it a flippin wake board boat is headin my way with 9 whiteboyz whoopin like banshees, and they was pullin a gal behind them what looked to me like a female wrassler. The music of Notorious B.I.G. was so loud that I didn't even hear the first wave that crashed over the bow, I tell ya what , now I'm pissed. My half a bag of stank-bait and what was left of a bagel, with the other half of the stank-bait spread nice and even, nearly washed out of the boat. And to my horror they was commin' back for another pass! Now I can't tell ya how many times buddies that fish with me have asked why I have a "rocket propelled grenade" under the front seat of my boat. Well sir, I stood on my homemade 1/4 inch plywood front casting deck and in the crosshairs I could read the words as clear as day OFFICIAL U.S. OPEN TOW BOAT.Putting my finger on that trigger was the same excitin feelin as when I first held Beulah's hand in my own. I squeezed and BBBBUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !
    The neon green numbers ont the alarm clock read 4:30. Whoa I best git up I'm goin fishin today!!
    City: bakersfeeld

    Tips: Don't eat Dominoes w/extra chovies at 11:00 the night before you go fishing!!!

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lots of skiers for sure, but lots of bass too. me and my buddy had spots up to 2 lbs on senkos, plastics, topwater, cranks, blades. basically everything we used. my partner busted the fish of the trip immediately on the first day with a senko - a really fat 3-12 spot. most of the fish were hanging around trees, but we got quite a few fish on points - any point. a couple dock fish too. topwater best early/late of course. saw only one small school of shad in 2 days. a few whites mixed in. no smallies or largies at all. light tackle is the way to go...
    City: SB

    Tips: 6-8 lb. spinning rod with a 4 inch senko is awfully hard to beat

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 69-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We had an anywhere anything day. We fished top/water, cranks, spinners, gigs, worms and senkos and caught fish on them all. We caught over 70 spots up to 2 #
    City: bakersfield

    Tips: If you want to catch fish go here. I took my kids two days later and they caught over 40 on senkos and gigs.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We had a great day on the pond. We caught fish all day on just about everything we threw. We started off fish main lake points throwing splash it's. We caught 10 top water fish before the sun came up. We then spent time ripping and throwing yamamoto grubs in the back of some of the creeks. We had a 60+ fish day between the two of us. Mostly spotted bass up to two pounds.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Dart headed grubs and small rip baits dominated. Look for shallow ledges and let the grub come off the bank and fall down the ledge. the fish will pick it up and swim off with it.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Overcast and windy. Wife and I dropshotted about 40 fish. Aaron's magic 4". Caught the biggest spot I've caught from here weighing 3.88. Biggest 5 went for 11.7
    City: Bakersfield

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Drop shotted and split shotted south end main lake points. Caught fish on every one point. It did not seem to matter much which technique we used. Surprised how much the water has cleared up. We had about 15 foot visibility. Caught our fish with 3

    Tips: Seemed bigger worms with darker colors early and smaller worms with translucent colors once the sun was up high was the way to go. Good luck!

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake about 7:30am started out at heritage ranch cove fished plastic's not one bite.Switched to crawdad colered crank's and cought all you wanted just not much size.Then ran to bee rock started throwinw worm's and kept getting short hit's.Well i thought must be crappie so put on a 3"triple ripple in chartrous and you guessed it a nice school of them.Cought enough for diner so went to las tables and switched to jerk bait,lucky craft staysee and finally found some decent fish.Five best spot's a little over 14lbs not bad for here.Lake is full and hardly any debris at all but i only went as far as las tables.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: Make sure you pick the right lake on the report's.My last one on naci i had hit new hogan.And another nutcase e-mailed to let me know how stupid i was

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 57 to 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took today off between storms to fish Nacimiento. Launched at 6:30 AM and began fishing the shore line east of Snake Creek. Began the day throwing a suspending jerk bait for one small spot then switched a jig for no takers. Finally started shaking a 1/8 oz dart head and caught about (7) 2lb class spots. The fish didn't want a lot of movement so I would cast and shake for several seconds and then dead stick. That turned out to be a killer technique for today, so good that I lost count of the number of fish I caught, probably about 50 fish. Most fish from a pound and three quarters to two and a half pounds. All fish caught on the main lake, mostly points and walls just inside the major creeks. Never went any further than Las Tables. Best baits were Robo body shad in baby bass and arrons magic.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Don't be afraid to dead stick as long as 20 seconds. Watch your line and lift your rod slowly occasionally to detect loading.

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 8:00 a.m. Headed for the boat docks at Oak Shores. Picked up a dink. Decided to see if there were any whites in the Narrows....went all the way to the back...NOTHING..fished all the rock banks, sandy banks, grassy banks..threw jerkbaits, t-rigged plastics...lipless cranks...in line spinners...NADA.... Motored out and headed into Las Tablas and stayed there the rest of the day. Threw a black/blue Roboworm on a darter head and must have caught 50 fish between the two of us. Ended up being a great day on the water!
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: STAY OUT OF THE NARROWS!! Couldn't pick up fish to save our lives. A lot of crap in the water too, so be careful. Las Tablas is the place to be...throw darter head plastics...t-rigs...and fish slow..just wait for the tick and let em' have it!!

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived about 9:00am flat calm and clear ran to first cove before b-rock fished about half hour with crank's never had a bite.Then shot over to bee rock fished both side's and around floating dock's picked up about six fish all spot's 2 about 2.5lb's rest 14-15".Also in bee rock found a nice hump that dropped of into 30' on both side's picked up about 10 more there all about 1.5 to 2 pound's.Fineshed the day in Las Table's and same thing fish everywhere.Best thing of the day i was reeling in a small fish pounder and this other fish followed it to the boat at and i let the fish play around and i have never seen a bass that big in this lake and it sure looked like spot but i cant swear to it.The fish was every bit of 8lb's.Of course i fished that same area for an hour and never did get a hookup.Best five around 12lbs.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: Every fish cought on pegged texas rigged 6" plastic's in about 15'.

Monday, February 6th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at the lake about 10am. Went to the narrows fished pretty hard with shad colored tubes, texas rigged. Caught 10, biggest about 2 1/2lbs. the rest were typical 14 to 16 inches. Weather was awesome, no wind at all. Trolling moter broke.......ARRRRGH! Had to leave a little early. Good luck, it won't be long till they really turn on.
    City: salinas

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started fishing at 630 with a grub split shotted in dip creek caught alot of spots and 1 large mouth 3LBS.moved to B rock area and finished the day there.Between me and dad 85 fish caught and released
    City: Tehachapi,Ca

    Tips: grubs early 4 inch worms in after noon

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ariived about 9:30 started out in the around the ski pylon's and picked three spot's about 2lb's each.Then switched to throwing plastic's in Bee Rock for about twenty more all spot's.Finished the day in Las Tables lot's of fish just not the size as the last trip.Lake is in real good shape about 85 percent full and around the ramp a little of color but the farther you go toward's then narrow's it cleared up alot.No bedris at all in the water so no rain this week should have a good tourny this weekend.Best five about 10lb's.
    City: Salinas

    Tips: Better fish on crank's but not alot.Great worm bite though for quintity

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Bass classics had there first tournament of the year and it was great we had 26 fishermen and 22 had there limit. The better fish were caught deep in the river on rocky stuff and cuts in the bank. Mostly on spider grubs but everyone caught them on all kinds of baits. The bite was a little tough in our boat but I managed 9.25 lbs for my limit and it was only good enough for 19th place. It was foggy in the morning till 10 and there was a little color in the water near the ramp. They had 5 other clubs fishing also so a ton of boats. In third place with 12.15 lbs was Chris Lee he said he had most of his fish on a green pumpkin spider grub on a 3/8 or 1/2 oz. football heads and on a brown jig. He kept the boat in 20-40 ft and the fish were in 10-20 most of the time.Most were along the sides of walls in the small cuts up river and also on rocky flats with structure on them. In second place with 12.30 was Scott Chong and he was doing the same as Chris. In first place with the big fish a 3.30 lber was J.R. Taylor with 14.35 lbs. He said he caught his quality fish up river also on steep rock and on the inside of cuts. The better fish came on spider grubs in 8-15 ft of water. The water was muddy up there but they were more active and better size then the rest of the lake.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Stay with spider grubs and fish steep rocky cuts in the bank from 8-20 ft.

Friday, December 30th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lots of fish caught on finesse worms on jig heads, or dropshotted. Four fish over 16" and one broken off. Most were caught near 15' deep... A great day on the water ended with 45 spots caught.
    City: VAFB

    Tips: Not sure after recent rains, but a few fish were surprisingly shallow early in the day??? Mostly fish slowly in 15' and have fun!

Monday, November 21st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 8:00am. Headed straight to Bee Rock. Started with a dropshot. Had a Magic Worm Hologram Shad curly tail tied on. As luck would have it, I fell prey to the dreaded "first cast fish!!" Fortunately, I wasn't jinxed by it. Hooked up on another on the same rig...both were just barely keeper spots. Decided to move...headed to the point on the left as you head into Las Tablas. Switched to a t-rig with a 3/0 bleeding worm hook combined with a Reaction Innovations Flirt in Hot Tamale color. Picked up a couple as I headed along that wall. Fired up the engine and shot all the way into the cove. Decided to stop as I hit the no wake zone and fish the walls there. Ended up hooking up on about 10 more between both sides of the walls. All fish were 12-13" keepers...and they all had a set of shoulders on them! My biggest two went 14 and 14.75". It was a GREAT day on the water. The water was like a sheet of glass until I got off the water at 3:30..sunny skies...about 80-85degrees...and didn't see one jet ski, water ski, or wakeboard!!! Decided to keep my limit and put some fresh fish on the plate. 3 of my fish already had rows of eggs. The fish are obviously confused with the unseasonably warm weather.
    City: Atascadero

    Tips: Fish shallow...throw to the bank and work the bottom. Keep the boat in 15-30 feet of water and work it all the way back to the boat. Set the hook HARD! I lost 3 on the way back to the boat and missed another 8. Could have easily had 20+ fish if I had hooked up on every bite. Take advantage of this awesome weather.