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Friday, August 17th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 77-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Stepson, rined and I ished New Hogan or stripers o Friday the 17th. No boils. Saw a couple o scattered jumps. Got on the water about 8:30 and ished till dark. It truly stunk. Did end up with a ew bass using rattletraps on the lats across rom the campground.
    City: Concord

Saturday, May 12th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ---------------

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My riend Rich and I launched around 6:00 am and headed or Bear Creek. On my 5th cast using a Vyper spinnerbait in a shad pattern, I put a ive# in the livewell. About 5 minutes later Rich boats a 3# on a ratteltrap(chrome & black). Ater missing a ew more, Rich get hit by something real big. As soon as she hit he said that it was a hog, so i tell rich to loosen his drag. The ight was on, he must have ought her or close to ive minutes. When she suraced I could tell that she was going to be a GOOD one. When we inally got her into the boat and weighed her, she came in close to eleven pounds(caught on a bass pattern crankbait). What a beautiul ish. During the rest o the day we landed eight total the best ive probably going somewhere close to 27. We also managed to land a six pound striper. Her is a good one. We were working the point in between two campgrounds(I was using a rattletrap that was nailed by a nice sized Bluegill. This was my best day yet (the irst ten plus in my boat). Needless to say I will be going back.
    City: Antioch

Monday, April 30th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64-69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put the boat in the water at 3:00pm ished until 6:00pmFished Deer Flat area, Lots o bed ish in the area.most o them are blacks, Did ind one 3.lb smallie on a bed, Lots o big emales in the 5.lb range suspending over 20 eet o water holding in about 5 eet o water, could not make them bite.Fished rip baits, hula grubs, and gitzits, No top water ish this time.Brian Allen
    City: Valley Springs

    Tips: Catch and release

Sunday, April 29th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 9:00am until Noon, Fished top water, Rip Baits and Gitzits.Fish are on beds all over, some areas the water is dirty rom the wind, No big ish today.
    City: Valley Springs

Sunday, April 15th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54 - 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The storm ront last week really knocked the ish out rom previos weeks. Water temp down to 54 in early morning.Most ish are o there beds and back to 12 to 20 eet o water.Saw some chasing small balls o shad. All were about 13 to 14 inches. I weather stays warm ish should come back on the bite.Ended up with a ew but all were caught on reation bite rather than being hungry.
    City: Markleeville

    Tips: Fish the structure that sticks out rom the rest. All ish were on the outstanding rock or log. No ish cruising the banks. Try worms with bright tails dierent rom body color.

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished bear creek arm. got 5 , all small. using grren weenie/ red lake. ish were on beds, saw them all coming.un to tease them when they are gaurding a stump or their avorite rock.largest about 2 lbs.
    City: linden

    Tips: watch the water carully.

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    Water Temp: 59 to 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 0700 till 0930. Caught 2 nice ish on Chartuese 4" worm. 1 smallie and one largie. Both went to about 2lbs. I'm sure i we woould have stayed i would have been a record day.
    City: Markleeville

    Tips: Fish are up on the bank and down to about 15 eet. Some ish on beds, alot still in that last spot o staging beore the spawn.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58to64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put the boat in the water at 2:00pm ished until 5:00 pm.Caught ish on rip baits, and hula grubs.Largemouth are in the backs o coves and Smallies are on the points.Take it easy on the bed ish, Please release them.See Ya, Brian Allen
    City: Valley Springs

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    Water Temp: 58to64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put the boat in the water at 2:00pm ished until 5:00 pm.Caught ish on rip baits, and hula grubs.Largemouth are in the backs o coves and Smallies are on the points.Take it easy on the bed ish, Please release them.See Ya, Brian Allen
    City: Valley Springs

Sunday, March 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 57-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the lake about 0700 as the storm was pushing out.Almost turned around on top o Carson Pass because o snow but when another Ford truck With a Bass boat passed us I put it into high gear. Put 11 ish in the boat, Hooked 15 but some were a little smarter than me. Out o 11, 8 were 2 lb or better, 2 were 3lbs and 1 at 1.5. Only 3 were Spots the rest were smallmouth and nice ones at that.Bite was pretty constant all day. Hope this is a sign o things to come or this summer.
    City: Markleeville

    Tips: Smallmouths were jumping on anything with a chartuese tail while the spots were coming in on crankbaits, mainly Shad Raps,Cast on structure and not just any sructure, be precise

Saturday, March 24th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 63 degress

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the bite is on and there are a great quantity o quality bass here. held a club tourney there and caught some nice hawgs. all the nice size ish are moving about into the coves.caught my limit by 8:30 in the morning using weightless oxblood worms and making long casts into clear shallow waters. very eective beore the sun hits the water. cast into all pockets o the coves and you'll have success.
    City: aptos

    Tips: when the sun comes up,use tube baits and hula grubs and senkos

Sunday, March 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish points with large rocks and creeks entering the lake I was throwing Rhythm & blues 4in. or a Brown salt & pepper with a chartreuse tail. ish 2-20 t. The bite is sot, use a carolina rig with 1/16 oz. wt. 1 1/2 t. leader. the ish would usually hit the worm deadsticking let worm sit or about ten seconds ater it hits bottom. Just about the time you drag it, they would jump all over it. Fish were running 1 1/2 to 3 lbs. Good luck!
    City: Valley Springs

    Tips: Crank or throw blades irst thing in morning, some ish are starting to hit jerk baits

Saturday, March 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 52-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: North Bay Bassmen out o Benicia had our March tourney. Several smallmouth and a ew largemouth caught. Fish were in the coves in 10 to 4 eet. Winning weight was 9.9 lbs with 4 ish caught in the narrows using white spinnerbait. Most ish caught Texas rigging 4" and 6" Salt & Pepper worms, S&P mop tops and grubs. We had the entire lake to ourselves and had a great time. Great campsites also. I had good luck with 6" Trigger gold shad worm.
    City: Benicia

    Tips: Fish worms slow, look or bait ish back in the coves. Largest ish caught, 3.8 and a 3.6 were caught on points in the narrows.

Saturday, January 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished New Hogan or the irst time today. Nice Lake! Fished as an observer or Bigun who won the CCBC Angler o the year with 4 or a little over 6# (Congratulations). We caught smallies, spots, and largemouth. Best LM (4.38#) I caught on a white speed trap at early in the morning out o the weeds in the back o a shallow cove in 4 eet o water. Bigun had a ew bites and a couple o ish on worm, but out best bait seemed to be brown/green jigs. The 6 keepers we landed came airly shallow (less than 20 eet). Best banks were steep rock. Us observers has a 1 ish option going, thought my 4# would be good enough, but got beat out by a 7#. There are some nice ish in this lake.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: No real pattern other than the steep rocky banks. Best area was the south end o the lake where the water was a little warmer at 49 degrees.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We saw one boil but it didn't stay up too long. Jimmy caught one striper (5lbs) on a hopkins spoon. Boated around looking or busting ish.
    City: So. San Francisco

    Tips: When ish are busting I like to throw poppers but anything resembling shad will work. Be in the right place at the right time.

Saturday, August 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got in at the east shore launch ramp and headed out to the river. The water level was down around seventy eet or so. Look around or any kind o structure. Found a large rock ity eet rom shore. First cast with a black, buzz bait a two-pound large mouth came up and thrashed it. Followed it up with a shad colored senko, to ool two o his buddies. Continued on back towards the river and stop to ish large rocks. Caught two small bass with shad colored grubs. Fishing got slow when the sun got high.
    City: San Andreas

    Tips: Don't throw schooling bass back in the water right away ater catching them. You will spook the rest o them.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We got on the water at 5:00 A.M. and headed up river looking or boils. Thr only boil we ound was near an island about one mile up river rom the boat ramp. We stoppped there and I threw them a spook. This didn't work so we continued up river. No more boils to be ound. We also trolled Shad all morning and this also did nothing. We let about 10:30 A.M. without a ish in the livewell.
    City: Modesto

Sunday, April 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 7:30 had two ish on by 8:00 and the bite died. Tried ishing south end most o the morning but with no sucess . Let about 1:00.
    City: Markleeville, Ca

    Tips: Hooked both on 6" rubber worms, Black with hot pink tail @ or about 2 to 4 t. Fish still on beds and water has'nt gotten any clearer. water usually clear by this time o year?

Saturday, April 1st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the lake rom 10-2 in the aternoon and caught 6 LM Bass most in the three Lb range. Fish were in the middle o the coves at 10 t deep with 6" worms or good results.
    City: remont

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    Water Temp: 56 - 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water still a little murky with viability only to about 6 t. Water temp starting at 56 in morning and by mid aternoon the back coves are holding at 67. My buddy Jason and I ished rom 0700 till about 1700 and only came up with 2 ish , 1-14" at 1pm and 1 at 4pm that went 12". Saw lots o ish both male and emale up on beds. We ished across rom Acorn campground to the south end o the lake. Still alot o muck loating in the water as I guess the lake has turned over. Rattlesnakes are out as we saw two doing the mating thing. Fish are holding right on the bank and waiting to nail anything coming o the shore.
    City: markleeville

    Tips: Fish are holding at about 2 to 20 t sitting on nests. Try getting out o the boat and sighting ish under cover o bushes and logs. Most ish were at 2 t o water and staring right at the bank so presentation needs to be rom shore and slip it into the water. To bad we didnt ind this out till late in the day. Try 4" worm in non bright colors.