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Saturday, March 8th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My ishing buddy and I arrived at 9:30 and ished all day.Caught spots everywhere we went.4" plastics,tubes,skirted jigs, and even jerk baits worked.Not much in size but the numbers were there.Caught around 40 all together.Seen a ew whites being cleaned at the cleaning station.Most o the spots caught were buck bass.I think the emales are still staging to move up and spawn.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: pretty much wide open.Fish anywhere and have a great time!!!

Thursday, February 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: just to let you white bass guys know,there are whites being caught in the narrows,around brizzy bend,reported yesterday that 10 where caught.with trolling baits.nites have been in the upper 30,s,water is coming in slow,just what they want.so go get them.god bless
    City: oak shores

    Tips: ish slow

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ishing is getting better,grizzley bend,is hot,the narrows,around ashbury and boobie cove.been catchin ish on skinny-bear jigs-with twin tail grubs,rootbeer color.useing senkco,s-white with silver lake-4 inch.drop-shoting little ninneo,s.drag the jigs across muddy points,throw senkco,s around rocks.skeeter cove and swamp-john are two hot spots.god bless bears93426
    City: oak shores

    Tips: drag slow

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well the Bass Classics o Santa Clara Valley had the best ishout in years or any month let alone January. We had 28 guys catching 101 bass or 172 lbs and a 1.7 lb ave. There were 13 limits caught and everyone caught ish.The winning team said they caught between 30 - 35 ish each.The top weight was 11.00 or Pat Mcmurray he was using Salt & Pepper grubs on 1/4 & 1/8 dart heads. They ound the ish stacked up on one bank in a 50 yard area that had a secondary hump o the bank and the ish were between the bank and the hump ambushing shad. The ish spit up shad and were very aggressive ater awhile they through worms on a darthead and spider grubs in our or ive colors to keep the ish interested. In Second place was Dave osborne he cranked a ish and caught them on grubs and spiders jigs also mostly on the main lake points. In third was Gordon Rydquist he used Morning dawn worms on a 1/4 oz. darthead to catch most o his ish. In ourth was mysel with 9.75 lbs I had our ish on my shad wiggle wart near the marina in the morning og and then I caught one on a deep water main lake point while my partner had two on drop shotting robo worms in 25-30 eet on the point. Later in the aternoon we ound ish back on the windy main lake points with shad wiggle wart cranks again. In ith was Tom mordue he used hulagrubs in shad color and cranked some ish on main lake points with shad cranks. He also used spider grubs and worms to ill his limit. This was by ar the best January ishout in many years and we can't wait to get back there again.
    City: remont

    Tips: Remember the ish are near the ramp or a couple o weeks ater the weigh-ins so try there and use shad cranks(wiggle Warts) also the main lake points hold most o the ish.

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are shallower than beore the rains around Christmas. The lake came up a total o 30 eet and the ish came up with the water. Had ive ish or 7.98 and 2nd in the New Years tournament. One on a crankbait in about 5 eet o water. The rest on black jigs with black super pork in 10 eet o water or less. By Saturday the 4th and the 100% Bass tournament, the ish changed to worms. One short o a limit, with 6 ish or 7.53 lbs. got 9th out o 38 teams. Darthead and Texas rig 6 inch Keeper Custom Worms in color 010 the trick. Fish were still shallow, 15 eet or less, just a little more inicky. White 1/4 oz jig with a white Keeper curl tail grub was also hot when ish were located. Hop the jig along the bottom. A slow presentation with the Texas rig best and slight shake and drag o the darthead seemed to be the best presentations with stained water in the very low 50's.
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: When the water rises and gets muddy the ish go shallow also. Usually 10 eet or less. Jigs and worms ished slow best in darker colors.

Friday, December 20th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: lake has come up,about 15 eet,lots o red mudd,loating logs,becareul-islands at west ramp at oak-shores just went under the water.ever shallow,cantinas has just got water in it.new years day trounament at naci,team or single, god bless
    City: oak-shores

    Tips: be care-ul

Saturday, November 30th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water is very low. Fished main lake points with rock. 3/8 oz. jigs in brown and drop shot 4" Keeper Custom Worms in #1064. Lots o small ish, largest spot was 1.3 lbs. Five ish limit would have been about 5.25 lbs. Still looking or the bigger ish, they're here just have to look or them. Seems like these ish are roaming alot looking or schools o shad. Lots o shad around though.
    City: Paso Robles

    Tips: Fish slow and hard.

Saturday, November 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 63-68

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got on water @ 7:30 am, run up river to see what everything looked like-stopped near bouy 36, ound island in middle o lake-water down over 60'-picked up 2 small spots right away on morning dawn,split shotting-didn't get another bite until noon, up las tablas-water very stained, less than a oot visibilty-looks like algae bloom and/or lake turned over.-around 3pm inally decided to try drop shotting (what the heck!)-between 3 and 5 pm pickup about 15 spots (small, nothing over a pound)with dropshot in 15'-45'o water near launch. nothing to brag about, but a day not working anyway!
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: tried ishing shallow in coves most o morning, maybe should have went deeper right away-didn't see any ish boiling or birds working, where'd they go? maybe try spooning, about the only thing I didn't do.

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 2nd annual Fishing For The Cure team tournament will be held at Nacimiento 10/5/02. See WWW.ishingorthecure.org or more ino
    City: Salinas

Wednesday, September 4th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We ished the lake rom 7:30 till about 2:00 with pretty limited success, ishing was hard. we caught a ew spots and one 2# smallie. we did get into the whites and caught them on almost every cast using small silver spoons the day was beautiul and a lot better than working
    City: Bakersield

    Tips: the lake is real low and there are Islands I have never seen i it's oggy stay near the docks

Sunday, May 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: PARTNER AND I FISHED FROM DAYLIGHT UNTIL NOON.AWESOME MORNING!FISHED BOAT DOCKS TOWARDS THE NARROWS.ENDED UP WITH A TOTAL OF 50+ FISH OR SO.TOP WATER,RIP BAITS,SOME CRANK BAIT AND 4' PLASTICS.CAUGHT SEVERAL NICE WHITES AS WELL IN THE 2 TO 3LB RANGE.WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY.
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: THROW IT,IT WILL WORK!!!

Thursday, May 16th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Some one has told me i you like top water bass ishing,this is one o the best. Can someone tell me on what lure works best? Where is the best spot? What time is best? What season? How bout Jitterbugs? EDDIE 415 637-6616 Any o any good guides? Got a boat and want to make some dough?

Saturday, May 4th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished derby. got bigest bass and 1st place. i u see bass boiling, throw a poper. when oggy throw popper. wen the sun comes out dropshot. cast to the shore and brisng it back or i u can sight ish, use somethin that loooks like shad. blade is getin hot. use a smoke color skirt. hula grubs arent workin right now.no split shot. senkos aredoin pretty good. or i u are in some shade u can thro a popper or bussbait.
    City: oak shores

    Tips: shad lookin popper i there is og or shade. blade with smoke skirt. drop shot.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61 to 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishin was great, we ished the lake or a ull week and caught approx. 140 ish. The lake whites are in the back coves up to 3 lbs. Now the bad news. The lake is at 54% capacity and is down 25 eet rom last year. Lots o hazards to Navagation so use caution. The water level dropped dropped 2 eet while i was there.
    City: San Diego

    Tips: Slow retrieve your brown grubs across structure or the Spots and the black bass

Monday, April 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 63 - 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thursday Aternoon through Sunday Morning. Thursday & Friday bite was hot, 60-80 ish. 1-2lb. range. Saturday was windy and bite was very tough. Sunday morning was the calmest o the 4 days, and we nailed 6-8 ish until we had to head home. Most ish came on Bomber Long "A" in bright Crawdad and any kind o texas-rigged worms as long as they were purple. Caught 5-6 ish on Yozuri popper just or kicks.
    City: Galt, CA

    Tips: Best ishing was around rocky points in river end o the lake.

Friday, March 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all week rom Monday the 25th till Thursday with my 11 yr old. I love this lake, we caught spots on keeper # 1010 worms TX. style everywhere we ished up to 40 each day. Could not get the white bass to hit anything but we ound um up the narrows in the hundreds at 8t o water.
    City: Visalia

Thursday, March 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: well the white bass are biting,2 to 3 pounder-up in the narrows by grizzy bend,reap-bait,got 20 whites and 20 spotted bass.been cathing,40 to 70 spottes a day,all week,drop-shot bass in 15 to 20 eet,reapers brown color.god bless
    City: oak-shores

    Tips: drop-shot or spottes and rippbaits or whites

Friday, March 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 54-58?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished naci or the second time in a week. went there last sat.with my brother-in-law. we got 13 between the two o us on sat., and i got 13 again today. it was almost 50-50 between a drop-shotworm (oxblood and brown w/chart. tail),and a hula grub. all o the ish came out o 8 to 15 t except 1 that was on a bed.
    City: gilroy

    Tips: 4" worms and hula grubs in reds and browns

Wednesday, February 20th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 51.5 - 52.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my son (13 years old)down or a couple o days spot ishing ater a club tournament the week beore We ished 2/18 & 2/19 and had no problem catching a couple o limits each both days. I was primarily drop shotting but also caught ish split shotting. It was un trying to teach him the drop shotting technique. He'd get rustrated missing sets so had to set him up "mojo" split shotting or him to catch ish. Bite was very ast irst 1 hour to 1.5 hours each morning. Both days, we each had limits within one hour. On Tuesday, I made 5 casts and put three ish in the boat in less than 20 minutes. As the day wore on lock jaw set in. The higher the sun got the more diicult it got to get a pickup. By 1-2pm the pickups were more than 1 hour between pickups. All ish were cookie cutter bass in the 1lb to 1.5lb range. Weather and water were unbelieveble! Glass or 1 mile o water. On Tuesday, we were 1 o three boats on the lake or the irst 3 hours o the day. What more can you ask or!
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: All ish were caught on 4 inch plastic worms. Only 1 color was really eective (I'd tell you the color and make but I've been to 6 stores and they are always sold out and I'm having a hard enough time getting replacements). Once I get a couple o dozen bags I'll update a report. I want to get them or next months Orville tournament.

Sunday, February 17th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 51 to 53 degree

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Despite wind and rain, was able to put together a semi productive day. Main lake points seemed to be the productive pattern. Working 4" and 6" plastics on darters very slowly. Bite was very subtle. Was able to pull up a couple on blades later in the aternoon when some color developed on wind blown bank. About 20 ish in total between two o us. All spots, no smallies or blacks.
    City: Hanord

    Tips: 1/8 oz to 1/4 oz darters depending on wind with dark color plastics. From bank to 15 t. Work slow.