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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well the bass fishing is still great with strikes all along the banks. If you fish more than 15 feet out from the waters edge you miss them all since they are hanging right along the shore lines. In 5 hours of fishing I landed more than 40 fish today using senko worms in watermelon color fished fast along the bottom. Bounce them right from shore and you will be sure to get them. The water is very clear and the fish are still waiting to see the water warm up to get on the beds. This is the best bass fishing I have seen on melones in 8 years so get out there and enjoy it while it lasts.

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 66-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing one of the arms up river then moved to the south end of the lake. Caught a lot of bass and crappie. Did not catch many crappie up river so moved to the southern end, but did catch a lot of bass up there(mostly redeyes and spots). Almost caught a huge bass with a small crappie I was reeling in but the jig came out of the crappie's mouth and the bass took the crappie. Bass are everywhere there is cover.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Caught some 2-4lb bass on the crappie tubes, but more consistent on dropshot and shad swimbaits which also produced 2-4lb bass.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: Upper 50's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today at noon til 3:30 pm and caught over 30 bass (10" up to 3 1/2 lbs) using 6" worms in watermelon color and 4" grubs in gold with flake bouncing them from shore on the windy sides of the point arms near mid deep water. Alot of fish holding tight to structure areas in and out of the water. Look for trees in and out of the water, brush in the water, muddy shorelines (fish the edge of the clear) shady areas along shore, and anything that remotely looks like bass cover. Bouncing worms and grubs very fast was making a big hit with them today. Most of the smaller ones would fight over the bait as it hit the surface so I fished out to about 20 feet of depth and landed a couple of 3 1/2 lb large mouths on the same rigs. I will be going back out on Tuesday the 9th and will update a report on the bite.
    City: San Andreas

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a lot of bass today.Fishing was best in the AM when the sun was blocked by fog. Couple of 4lbers and a whole bunch of smaller ones, little over 50 fish. Also caught a 5lb brown trout swimming with the bass and saw many other very large trout. Few crappie today. Fish were anywhere from 0 down to 30 feet .
    Some coves the bass are starting to bed and in others they are cruzing around or schooling the shad.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Drop shot robo/magics in prism shad and greenies. Rip bait worked in the morning. Tried chrt panfish tubes but not as many bites today.

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught all kinds of small bass today. Biggest was almost 3lbs. Caught between 30-40 all day. Used 6in worms texas rigged and caught 1 on a spinnerbait. Had a very good time. It is good time to go fishing.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Fishing is hot have a good time.

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went after crappie but caught many bass. Find a cove with running water or you can actually see the fish swimming around. Also caught some trout while fishing for crappie.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Gitzit tubes and rip baits but you can throw many other things and get bit right now. Throw a rip bait to find fish and use something else to catch them all.

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: tubed float a small section only. from sunup to sundown. am bite was great. nailed lots on top h2o stick bait. later(late am)-on super flukes&worms, i threw any color- 6" purple ring worm, red w/silver coloring crawdad plastic, green cuttail,even (what i hate to throw)stinko, i noticed @ every cove that had kicked to the big spots were in tight under the wood debris. i also nailed a 6#8oz cat on a drop shot strip of chicken
    City: salida

    Tips: liver as the heart for a weight. back coves did me good. butt thats w/ a tube float. DON'T FORGET YOUR KICK FINS..... I DID! BOY MY LEGS KILL ME. THANK GOD FOR BENGAY!

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54 - 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 4/7 to 4/13, we averaged catching 100 fish each day between the 2 of us. One of the day's we stopped counting after 200. I know this sounds unreal but it's true. We were using lucky craft rip baits and cinamin,brown red twin tail grubs. Anywhere creeks or waterfalls came into the lake up river. There is this one cove just before the second bridge on the left side that we could sit in for 2 to 3 hours at a time catching fish on almost every cast. My thumb was raw and bleeding from thumbing so many fish. What a blast. I swear this is true. all quality fish too. many 34 to 4 pound fish.
    City: Hayward

    Tips: Find water running into the lake up river and throw a rip bait or grub and hold on.

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 54 to 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished up in the river with my grandson caught lots of fish, grandson even caught ten, whever water was coming in fish were there. they would hit the brushhog before it hit bottom. Grandson even caught ten on a redish brown grub
    City: Modesto

    Tips: fish were very very fat so they r ready to spawn, looks like it will be in this crazy wheather

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    Water Temp: 54 to 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up into the riverand fished all the run offs, caught over fifty fish. Even my 4 year old granson caught ten, fish ranging from 1 lb to 4 lb.I used brushhogs , grandson used grubs, fish would hit them before they hit bottom, all were very very fat so ready to spawn.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: looks like they going to spawn in this crazy wheather we r having, winter dont wont to go away.

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 4/1 - stormy and rainy, got one on-line with some off brand swimbait (baby bass style), Mormon Creek. Buddy, brought in 15" red-eye on nightcrawler at southshore at damn.
    4/2 - sunny, light wind - buddy brought two on-board on nightcrawlers, but I couldn't get any bites with just about my whole tackebox (swim & crankbaits, spinners (white and chartreuse), pumpkinseed and black 8" & 6" rigged carolina-light and Texas). Fished damn, Long Gultch, Carson Cove. Buddy did get one hit at the tires near marina - nightcrawler.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Fish hitting around 10-15". Softer hit.

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53 to 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up early Sunday and did pretty well even after the front moving through, fish average lb , biggest 4lb. Fished up Riverand caught fish every where using brushhogs and roboworms. Had to just let it sit there and twitch it a little, tried blades for a while but no takers. Wife even caught around 15 fish, alot of times the line just felt heavy, ended up with around fifty or so fish
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Green and brown seemed to work best and fish super slow

Saturday, March 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: A few bass were caught 5 to 45 feet deep. Mostly spots, all bass caught on dropshot. Also 1 trout on a wht grub, after trying to troll with no luck. Calm at first but wind kicked up and weather turned sour.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Use light line. Friend tried to use 10# but no takers until he switched to 6#. Robo/magic worms and wht grub.

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from the bank for a few hours during post frontal conditions. Tried crankbaits, darterhead, and split shoting fast, slow and deadsticking. Not one bite.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Get out before or during the front and not after it when limited to fishing from the bank...

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Gilroy Bassmassters held a one day tourny with a winning weight of just over 12#. Fish were caught all over the lake with various techniques.
    City: San Martin

    Tips: Fish very slow.

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the coves in and around the Ironhorse campgrounds area and worked our way south to the powerlines. Saw tons on baby bass everywhere. I think they were Floridas. They loved a shiny/cyanblue crankbait, but the bigger ones didn't. They liked my husky jerk. Got 3 on that. Biggest was only about 2 lbs. We got hits on worms, but they never stayed on. It seemed like they were shortstiking our worms. Only saw one bass boat all day. Still too many damn wakeboarders and jetskiers, they're huge wakes really can screw up your presentation. Also, the water at camp smells funny, like sulfer. Hopefully they'll bite better as the weather cools in the next month or two.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Trailer hooks maybe? Some of the bass would follow our lures all the way to the boat. Also, bring a prefilled shower bag if your camping. Melones is beautiful though, drive safe on Hwy 4. It's hairy, especially at night.

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 85

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Night fished the south end of Melones. Very little action before dark. About 9:30 the bite turned on. Caught a 4.5 and a 9 on back to back casts on power worms. Caught several other keepers betwenn #2-#4 on spinners baits and power worms. Landed a #7 channel cat on a power worm. Very few dinks. All fish were in great shape. The lake is way up and still rising. The #9 lm was probably one of the Florida bass planted a few years back. It was in good shape.

    Mo
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Avoid the boat traffic and heat. Fish at night if you can.

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well finally made it out to New Melones! Ended up with a friend that wanted to go the last minute. Water was great, a bit windy in the early morning, then it laid down fine. All fish came from shore to about 20'. Dart headed, robo worms, and magic worms, green or brown worked well. No big fish but we ended up with about 40 bass total. Gotta love those spotted, and red eye bass. Glad I made it up, and made great time. Fished the river arms, narrows, and some points. Lots of flooded grass, and timber, the lake is in great shape and full.
    -Sean

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake is now on Tuttletown Main Ramp...Trips are producing excellent post spawn fishing for both largemouth and spots..Fish are in the best post spawn shape in years..Tons of bait in the water and lots of flooded grass.Took a holiday fun fishing trip today and even with the traffic my son, team partner and I had over fifty nice fish..See what a little fresh water can do.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Think post spawn and look at your meter.

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 5/13-5/14. Caught fish from 3'-15' deep, tight to structure. Most fish were dinks, with one 4-1/2lber on a red flake 4" grub. Did well on topwater first thing in the morning.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Don't hesitate to try different techniques, we caught them on plastics, rip-baits, spinnerbaits, and topwater.