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Saturday, December 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Naci on Saturday with my Son-In-Law Ryan. We had 30 ish, best 5 close to 10 lbs. Most ish came in 5-8 eet on drop shot or jigs. Brown Skinny Bear jigs and 4" Robo Worms (color didn't seem to matter). All o our ish came between Cal Shasta and Las Tablas on the main lake. Fish are really bunched up. Had one 2.5 lb. blade ish. Tournament season is starting on naci. WON Bass will be there on Jan. 10th. Contact me or ino.
    City: Bakersield

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We took a trip over to Naci on Saturday. We caught about 25 between 4 o us. They were hitting Hula Grubs and Zoom Dead Ringers up in the Narrows. Greens seem to work best on the Dart Heads. When we got back to the other end o the lake, they were hitting split-shotted and drop-shotted 3" worms. Shad colors and blues were catching ish. The ish were in water rom two to thirty eet deep. They were mostly spots in the 12 to 14 inch range.
    City: Bakersield

    Tips: Hula Grubs in The Narrows. Small plastics(worms or slugs) out on the main lake and clearer water coves.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ront to back o Outhouse Cove or quite a ew decent spots. Fish seem to be everywhere though. Don't seem to be holding to particular pattern. It was our last tourney o the year. 15 guys and everyone caught ish.
    City: Bakersield

    Tips: Cast at 45 degree angle o banks or walls and drag it slow. Split-Shot small shad colored plastics. Dart-Heading also worked or some.

Saturday, November 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 09:00am - 3:30pm. Caught ish all day in the 1-2 pound range. Also a couple o 2+ and one swimming tarantula.
    City: Salinas

    Tips: got bit on lizards, brushhawgs, and worms all carolina rigged in 30+ t deep

Friday, November 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: they are letting water out again,water temp has dropped 5 to 8 degres.catching drop-shoting--split-shot--white skirted grubs also sponning.they are in 10 to 25 eet o water.only getting 1 to 2 pound ish.think small and slow.god bless
    City: oak shores

    Tips: shad are dieing o

Monday, October 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Guide trip with a ellow rom Oregon and ishing was tough at irst. Short strikers were out in orce, probably small ish. We inally got on some nice ish up to 1 1/2 lbs dropshotting 3 inch Yum Dingers in the Smoke Pearl Laminate and the Watermelon Pearl Laminate colors. It was quite a dierence when we went to these baits. The ish were on steep rocky banks in 15 to 25 eet o water. No good ish though with the water this warm. Check out this lake ater the irst rost and the bite should be much better.
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: Try the Yum LPT baits as they got ish when others didn't.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: this evening,rom 6.00 pm til 7.30 pm,they bold again,rom cantias to christmas tree cove.white bass and spotted bass.top water plugs and kast-masters.we must have caught over 70 ish in less than 1 hour.i you can get hear,you must come.godbless bears93426
    City: oak-shores

    Tips: poppers and kastmaster

Thursday, August 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: its back,the good old days,white bass boling or 1/8 o a mile in main lake.just beore you get to the 5 mph bouys and christmas tree cove,or over an hour o hard hitting bites.catch a white on avery cast,start around 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm.what aday.ish don,t even care about boats going by.god bless,bears93426
    City: oak shores

    Tips: poppers

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: brian reader does it again,ishing was slow,but he had mind set to ish spinner-bait.he got a 2.5 cat-ish on a worm,o los tables island.then we went to raider point and he got a 2.2 bass on the spinner-bait.getting dark so we went to cantias creek.he throw up by some habitat and got his biggest bass this year.5.5 large-mouth.we had to take pictures,it was dark now,great job,god bless bears93426
    City: oak shores

    Tips: top-water spinner-baits 3" grubs on dartheads

Tuesday, July 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished or a week straight 6-22 thru 6-29. I only ished the irst three hours o the morning each day. The bite was not wide open like I expected it to be. No topwater! It was steady or ish, but you had to work or them. The water is way way down and it seems all the good wood is out o water, also some o the good rocky banks are out o water. I tried a dierent area o the lake every day and learned a lot about spots I usually don't ish. From what I ound, the Narrows seems to be the best spot this time o year and with the water way down. I was texas rigging Aarons Magic worms and getting a lot o nice spots. I don't know why the topwater wasn't going?? I also got some on crawdad cranks. The water dropped about 2 vertical eet while we were there.
    City: San Clemente

    Tips: Texas rig 4 1/2" worms on rocks.

Thursday, June 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We had a otry+ day with spots on jigs and spinners in the morning, switched to a blue and white rattletrap and caught spots, smallies ( seven to about 2+) and whites in the aternoon, some o the skiers came so close I probably could have limited out on them too it took 30 minutes to get my boat o the lake, pleasure boaters need a course on dock etiquette
    City: bakersield

    Tips: too many boats and the water is dropping ast

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: great day or big white bass in the narrows ... while driting across, jig/jerk a 1/4 oz. silver kastmaster o the bottom in the early am and hold on ...
    City: templeton

Friday, May 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: low 70's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out riday evening and stayed out till we got tired o reeling in ish. The ish were everywhere but the ones o any size were caught on the main lake.
    City: san luis obispo

    Tips: I your not catching anyhting with what your using then change it up. We caught all o our ish using the "roosta" and spinners. Good luck!!!

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Naciment0 4/14-19, and we caught lots o ish. Over the course o the week we caught over 150 Spots, although only about a third o those were in the 12 inch range. We did catch several in 1 1/2- 2lb range. We caught a lot o ish in the coves at Running Deer,Swamp John, and in the coves between Cantinas and the Narrows. All the bigger ish were caught on the main lake and not deep into to the back o coves. We ished all o Cantinas one evening and did not get bit till we were back on the main lake. We got lucky on Friday and ran into a school o Whites at about 7:30 A M eeding on shad in the Grizzly Bend area in the Narrows. The shad were being chased up on the bank and the bite lasted about 40 minutes. Several dozen large Whites were caught out o that bite on 1/4 oz. silver Kastemasters. We went back to the Narrows on Saturday at the same time, but the Whites had moved and shad could not be ound in the area. The best bet is to ind the shad and ish in that area till they start to bite. Our main bite or Spots were on 4" white Senkos although we did catch a lot on dropshot as well with 4" Robo worms in the Arron's Magic, and Baby Bass colors. We also caught quite a ew on 3" Yamato white or chartreuse grubs ished just like a Senko. Because o the size o ish, they preered the smaller baits. Fish were grabbing the bait within 5 eet o the shore, so you need to cast close to get a strike. The weather all week was cold with scatted showers. I am sure the bite would have even been better with better weather but we have no complaints.
    City: Bradley

    Tips: 4 " White with silver lake Senko and 4" Robo worms Arron Magic color. Use 1/4 oz. Silver or Gold Kastmasters i you ind the Whites or quick action.Use smaller baits, not to exeed 4" i you want a lot o strikes. 5" Senko would get short strikes and you lose a lot o ish. We cut our 5" Senko in hal when we rand out o 4" and they work just as well.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got my ish on senkco,s #237 or 238 4",rip-baits,and the naci-snake.ished town-creek--bee-rock
    City: oak shores

    Tips: lake is on its way down,a oot,back o shore.

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    Water Temp: 64.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Naci with a bunch o campers rom 4/16 thru 4/20. I got out every morning or about three hours at dawn. Fished Dip Creek a couple times, it was loaded with shad up shallow. The whole arm was one big ball o shad. The white bass were not busting though. I think the rain and cold weather we had moved them out. I did get a nice 3 lb catish on a reation bait, and one white bass and a 2 lb largemouth. I worked the rocky entrance banks or a lot o spotted bass, but as usual no big ish, just a lot o keeper size spots. (all released). I was dropshotting oxblood colored worms. I ound an isolated shad ball with busting ish on it in Bee Rock cove and had a blast getting the open water spots on a small darterhead shad colored bait. I did keep one keeper or the table and it had eggs in it, so it doesn't look like they have spawned yet..Fished the narrows one aternoon and in every likely looking rocky steep bank, I would get nice spotted bass. Drop shotting.I couldn't get bit on a crawdad crank, which usually works great or me there. I will be back in June or 8 days, so I am looking orward to the good topwater... Lake is down quite a bit...
    City: San Clemente

Tuesday, April 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Managed to ind a day that didn't rain. Caught lots o spots on senkos but no size.Lake is almost ull. Went looking or White bass but water was very muddy due to recentrains. The whites are there, but hard to catch due to visibility. Better luck next time.
    City: Alamo

Tuesday, April 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: every-body can catch ish,3 inch grubs on dart-heads.white--brown with chartu,s tip tail.spinner-baits.ish are every active.catching 30 to 50 ish aday.whites are in swamp-john-- bass in running deer area.ish and game drop 22 new habitats today in the lake.bad news is they are going to start draining the lake on 4-15-03.they will kill the spawn again this year too.they should wait til 6-1-03.ater the spawn. god bless them...
    City: oak shores

    Tips: go have un

Monday, March 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got 3 inches o rain,lake is up 7 eet.muddy rom oak shores to boobee cove,clear rom grizzley bend to head waters.best bite on white bass in back o los tables,back by water all.windy to day,only got 12 bass.draging jigs-drop-shoting-spinnerbait.
    City: oak-shores

    Tips: still slow bite

Tuesday, March 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 62.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: bite is getting better,got 20 today and 1 white bass,2#,s in los tables area,o muddy shoreline.whites are in middle o coves,caught whites on senkco,s and bass on jigs brown with twin tail grubs,rootbeer color.in two weeks,with ull moon,spone is on.water is still coming up a little and it hotter at nite.
    City: oak shores

    Tips: ish the points and drag jigs