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Tuesday, December 14th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got a late start today. Tried dropshot and picked three short fish in 20 to 30'. Moved out 40 to 60' and started fishing spoons. The bites were far and few between, but decent. End total: 9 fish, largest 2# 11 ounces. Good luck.
    City: Paso Robles

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 57.7

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launch out around 6:30 am the fog was real thick, so decided to fish around the new boat ramp. Started cranking got three fish all around steep drop off. decided to try throwing a jig got two and lost around three. Decided to head towards the narrows got about five more fish , the went to bee rock caught one fish there. The day was real nice had 5 Keeper Spots for 10 lbs 5 oz. 10 of my eleven fish were keepers.
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: Fish areas that have big rocks near steep drop off fish slow.

Saturday, November 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was the last tour.of the year for Wasco Bass Club and most anglers had a limit.The winning weight was about 8lbs + with the big fish being 2lbs+.No one realy made it big out there.My partner and I weight in 6.25.Most fish were caught on jigs and smoke blue 4"worms.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Throw small jigs and worms in the morning about 10 to 15 feet.Later on go deep 30 to 50 feet the fish will still bite.GOOD LUCK

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: took the old man for the day.did not get on the water till about 11:00,he does not like to get up early,went to las tables whats left of it.like the report from ken the best method was to shake small worms.we cought most of ours though around what floating docks and pontoon boats we could find.he did catch two largemouth and one was as easy 3lber which is real hard to find in this lake.when we call it a day here we just troll back for white bass and we cought quite a few nothing to bid 1.5-2.0 lb average.as usual though and it is october during the week the jetskies and skiers out number the fishermen 10 to 1.this poor lake and they are allmost done with the new ramp a four lane with new parking lot will make it a complete zoo this summer dont even bother going.although all the bouldres around it for erosion will make a good spot to fish.
    City: salinas

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Naci from 6:00 AM to 10:30 AM. 6" Keeper Custom Worms in any shad colors, numbers 170, 1064, 1048 were all good. 1/8th oz. darthead shook lightly in 5 to 15 feet of water. Any main lake points with rock held fish. Bigger fish next to deep water on steeper rock banks. Caught 30 fish with the largest five going 9 1/2 lbs. Nothing great but alot of fun. Skiers not a problem until about 10:00. Still more than enough time to get'um though. Look for topwater to get better with the warmer weather in the forcast. Fish were chasing shad on the surface early but found throwing the worm on the light darthead got the bites just under the surface alot better than the Pop R's or Zara Spooks I tried.
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: Let the worm fall slowly on the light jighead and subtly shake the rod tip just a couple inches up and down. When the bite happens the line just sort of tightens up. Let the fish load up and reel set. Good Luck, Ken

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was slow, but I managed to get 5 fish. Tryed a hula grub in the morning got one bite on that in Kavanagh. Then went to the narrows and got nothing. After that I went to Las Tables, and caught 4 spots and one five pound catfish on a 7in purple worm. Spots where caught on 7in blue flake worm texas riged. Saw no boiling white bass, and didn't get any troling for them on cast masters, in early morning, had a few fish bite on poppers, but couldn't hook them.

    Tips: Try to find bait fish boiling, and fish slow.

Saturday, May 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I recently fished the lake and the nacimiento river back in may and again in june 2004 had sucess both times while fishing on the lake plastic worms assorted colors worked well for me usually jigging in about 10-20 feet and near rocky shorelines at the river trout fishing was good on nightcrawlers and green power bait.
    City: Camp Roberts

    Tips: suggest using glitter green power bait or chartruese power baits when fishing the river,Size 16/18 black treble hooks with 1/2oz split shot weight about 14 to 18 inches from hooks. At lake try plastics little or no weight casting near rocky edges and weed patches use weedless hooks on your plastic assortment.

Monday, May 24th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Nacimento Friday afternoon and Saturday. Fishing was good for Spots on Yamamoto 4" worms light color and Castaic color 4" Robo worms Dropshot. Also Senko white/ silver flake worked well . Fished the main lake shoreline and in coves adjacent to deep water all around the Oakshore's area. Caught a wide open boil bite at 6:30 A M on Sat. that lasted over an hour at the mouth of Cantinas in about 20 feet of water.. Used

    Tips: Try to find shore line close to deep water with dropoffs. Most fish fish were caught in less than 10 depth. Look for areas that hold a lot of shad for possibler boils.

Friday, May 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70f - 78F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished two full days with my dad. We averaged ~ 70 spots per day between the two of us, all small - we were unable to break the 1.5 lb mark. Contrary to our prior experiences, the fishing was slower in the morning and picked up later in the day. Most fish were caught on 4" lizards and worms on both drop shot and 1/8 oz. to 3/16 oz. darter head rigs along rocky shoreline within a moderate cast from 20+ feet of water. Most of the fish had full bellies, about half we caught disgorged shad and crawdads during the fight.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Fish lighter/shad color plastics during the middle of the day when the sun is overhead. If fishing drop shot or darter heads, fish relatively slow and maintain contact with the bottom.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started off on spots back in the narrows, cauaght one on a texas rigged 4in. purple worm, and then saw a school of white bass boiling, and we hooked about 30+ whites in about 30 min., on whites fished chartrues spinners, and silver cast masters, basicaly just cast any thing that looks like a shad and they will hit it,whites were about 2pd to 3pd. Hooked spots on a brown hulagrub with 1/8 darter head and 4in. purple worm, caught 2 spots in the hole day, on the rocks.
    City: royal oaks

    Tips: fish on week days, lake is crowded with skiers, that make wakes that fly over the sides of the boat. Are get there real early around 6 and leave, before every one shows up.

Monday, April 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished naci on back of boat on friday and caught 19 fish. 2 whites on spinnerbaits in a boil in oak shores marina in am.then caoght a couple spots on a gary yamamoto twintale hula grub. then on accident i brought my worm rod and started knockin um dead. i caught 5 bass on mostly dark colored c/tailk 4 inch worms(oxblood, purple, red...etc...)mostly in pockets and points all over the lake. but today,monday.. got in another boil in our boat in oak shores.. we caught 9 whites in about 20 minutes. usin spinnerbaits, rip baits and lipless cranks.. the rest of the day we caught 30+fish all on soft plastics worms dark colored and texas riggged. fish were in coves in about 6-10 feet of water off bank.
    City: oak shores

    Tips: dark colored soft plastices texas rigged. let it hit bottom then shake like drop shot. fish hit on drop alot and ran. they sucked it in a lot also. and sum even hit it hard. be ready 4 anything... worms is the hot ticket now...

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Haven't been on Naci since January. Have a good buddy coming over from the valley Friday the 9th to do some fishing. Would like to get in on some spotted bass and would LOVE to find the whites, and wouldn't mind a few smallmouth. Would really appreciate some tips as to where to find both and what they're biting on. Have had a lot of luck with the spots at the boat docks in the past, very little luck with largemouth, one smallie, and one year found some schooling whites. Thanks for any help you all can provide.
    City: Atascadero

    Tips: Send 'em my way if you don't mind. THANKS!

Monday, March 22nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: on vacation so i went down to naci i am positive
    there wont be a tournament.i cant stand tournaments poor guy works his butt off all week just to pull up to a lake to see fifty rig's.well
    i went directly to las tables i cought about twenty spot's.five biggest went 12.45 not bad for this lake.all fish on crankbaits,rebel wee-r.they had shad against the bank all over.all of a sudden i hear this boiling fish behind me hmmm what do you think that could be,white bass what else!!!!cought about 10 but two largest went 3.2.
    City: salinas

    Tips: go during the week,and yes i own a ranger 519vx and used to fish tournements sorry.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: spotted-bass up swallow,caught on white-spinner-baits,caught a 10.3 cat-fish in 1 foot of water on spinner-bait and a 3 pound white-bass too.bass are going to beds next week.
    City: oak shores

    Tips: back of coves off weeded areas

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished last 4 hours of day to sunset. finesse worm worked well thru to sunset. then switched to surface popper & fish attacked aggressively. fish on almost every cast. great 1/2 day of fishing. hope to get back down to lake soon.
    City: pacific grove

Sunday, March 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went back last Sunday ... what a beautiful day, sunshine and calm winds ... the fishing for us was not nearly as good as it was the week before. But we did spend a lot of time fishing for those white bass. Still learning how to catch dem buggers. Ended up w/ only 5 of them hard fighting sun-of-guns.

    Bass fishing on the other hand is still wide open. They're up cruising looking for beds. Schooled up shallow ... some may already be on beds ... I thin we ended up with "only" about 60 bass for the boat. Still a great day ...
    City: Santa Clara, CA

    Tips: The bass are hitting just about anything you throw at them. Though the bite has been good, they're not agressively attacking baits. Still feel like a winter bite, just weight.

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 53-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: There's water that's crystal clear to chocolate ... but the spotted bass bite is non-stop. Catch them till your arm cramps (as happened to my friend).
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: They're biting on slow moving plastic on the bottom ... catch them whichever method you're comfortable with. We got them on dartheads, dropshots, etc. No crank or jig bite for us.

Sunday, February 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished lake or 1st time. Caught 10 ish on carolina rigged 4" purple worms & brown 1/4 oz. jigs rom 15 to 30t. o water. Fish ranged rom 1 to 1.5 pounds. Anyone have any better suggestions or methods, eel ree to email us.
    City: royal oaks

Thursday, January 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I FISHED FROM 630AM TO 200PM. CAUGTH ABOUT 20 FISH ON SKINNY BEAR JIGS BROWN WITH BROWN TRAILOR IN FIVE FT TO 25FT. IT RAINED ON US ABOUT 3HOURS. BUT STILL A GOOD DAY. CAUGHT SOME ON DROP SHOT IN SHAD COOL WORMS.
    City: bakerseild

    Tips: SKINNY BEAR JIGS BROWN WITH BRONW TRAILOR. DROP SHOTING IN THE CLEAR WATER WHEN YOU CAN FIND IT.

Saturday, December 20th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Another airly good day on the water. About 25 between the 3 o us. Fished a airly small area straight across rom the Marina. Seems like the ishing could be on the down-swing.
    City: Bakersield

    Tips: Small worms. Any color basically. Shads, geens, and purples produced or us. Sam Franko taught me everything I know.