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Sunday, December 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my new Ranger out or it's irst test drive with my 12 year old daughter. Did well or the irst time out. Caught lots o spots rom 25'to 35'. Lots o short ish but did manage a ew close to 2 lbs. Caught them all split shoting a Black/blue lake senko and also brown/brown jigs. Fished in the river arms and deep coves o the main lake. Thank you to Robby Vann or taking such GREAT care o his boat. He sold it to me and or an 88 Ranger, it's in mint condition. For a great local bass club, check out Sonora Bass Anglers.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Dress warm, bring hot coee, be patient

Tuesday, December 16th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out slow today and thought maybe it is inally going to be tu...WRONG..Found the ish deep and it got better as the day went.The aternoon was antastic.Ended up with 27 keepers to 3lbs.Most o the ish were about 1 1/2...All dropshot..Going back tomorrow..
    City: sonora

    Tips: ind the right depth and your in...

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bright bluebird day today..Caught all ish dropshotting main lake 37-42 today. Saw much more bait than Friday. Had one nice largie that was close to 3..This lake continues to produce a lot o ish.Need a good rain to start the jig bite...
    City: sonora

Sunday, November 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: REALLY COLD 1 SMALLIE IN A.M. A FEW SPOTS IN THE P.M. NOTHING SPECIAL TODAY.I GUESS I WASN'T HOLDING MY MOUTH RIGHT!IF YOU FISH HARD YOU'LL CATCH THEM. YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT!FISHED BEAR,ANGELS,AND 49 AREA.
    City: OAKDALE

    Tips: WORMS AND SPOONS IN 35-55t FIND THE SHAD THATS THE KEY!!!!!!

Friday, November 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Not wide open like October, but still good..Twelve keepers or the day with more largies showing up.Best ish 2.75..All ish caught dropshotting 35-55 eet.
    City: sonora

    Tips: Fish today came o creek channel breaks, deep guts and sides o islands..Worm twelve inches up...

Wednesday, November 12th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Help, has any one been on the lake in the last week?
    City: Lodi

Wednesday, November 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 64-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Rough Day. My partner and I pounded the water until 2:00pm. 1 Trout and one mini smally. We tried everything, you name it, we tried it. I have ished this lake many times.....never had a day like this.
    City: San Leandro

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 100 bass in 2 days. That's 50 a day. Let's just say you ished 10 hrs a day. That's 5 ish an hour, one every 12 minutes. I bet your arms got pretty tired.
    City: Sac

    Tips: I'LL BE BACK!!!

Monday, November 3rd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arnold you can believe what you want, just because you can't catch bass. We had 2 days that we were there that between the 2 o us we caught 100+ bass ( that is 50+ each ). Why is that hard to believe, we spent 6 days on the lake rom sun up to sun down which gave us plenty o time to igure out the pattern. No we don't catch that many very oten but sometimes you get there just at the right time. Why would I make it up. You have a nice day and just because you are board and have nothing to do don't stur up trouble.
    City: Hayward, Caliornia

    Tips: Get a lie. At least I put my real name and a e-mail address i I was making it up I would be like you and be annonomous.

Sunday, October 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was excellent. Started at irst light. I accidentally dropped my last "popum" o my boat, just then a 5 pounder slammed it. I was amazed. He then jumped into my boat and starting going ater my chocolate milk. Ater that, he lead us to some shad balls that were 26 t down. Me and my partner spooned about 200 bass in the next ew hours. Our arms got tired, so we went to the marina where some Hooter's girls were cookin up some killer hot wings. C'mon dude. 100 bass?
    City: Sac

    Tips: Don't believe everything you read. Just go ish and i you get a ew, that's great. Enjoy nature and a cold one. God bless Hooter's girls

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Melones rom 10/7 to 10/12 and the irst couple o days were a little slow because we were trying normal bass ishing techniques. We caught 25 ish on 10/7, 35 on 10/8 then we igured out what to do. Like the guy beore me posted ind the bait balls and the ishing is on. We ound huge bait balls o shad all over the lake. It would work best i we ound a bait ball in 26 eet o water, drop a 3/4 to 1 ounce hopkins spoon just o the bottom and start spooning. We were having 100 + ish days all ish were between 1 1/2 to 3 pounds. At one point we stopped to eat lunch and just hung some minny gitzets over the side o the boat and were cacthing ish that way. We had to pull the lines in because we could not eat our lunch between ish. Outstanding ishing there right now.
    City: Hayward, Caliornia

    Tips: Find the bait balls and jig a spoon or gitzet in the bait ball and hold on.

Monday, October 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today to see i last Thursday was just and exceptional day...Man this spot bite is on..No big ones, but alot o 14 to 16 1/2 inch ish...Lost count on how many keepers caught today...This are heathy at ish...A lot o un..
    City: sonora

    Tips: Stay with the bait..They are gorging on shad

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 79-83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a aternoon hal day trip and with the dropping water went to check out my all spots or some drop shot lessons..Once again to my surprise the ish were not deep. I was starting to get a little nervous about catching ish when I hit my third spot and the meter stayed void o ish..Made a cast op shallow a hung one in a tree.Ok, now I am seeing alot o bait suspending..Started looking or suspended bait and ound a huge school ten eet deep over 90..We stared to ish through the bait and it was on..The spots were in there as thick as I have ever seen here.We only caught three keepers ,but had over 40 ish..And about our bags o lost worms..We then hit some humps that I had ound in deep water this spring...They now were in the right zone and the largies were there..We ended up with solid limits and ish to 3 1/2 pounds...
    City: sonora

    Tips: Lots o ish are suspended o bait in 18 to 25 eet. You have to keep at them and they will eed at some point..Still a typical summer pattern.But lots o un and action.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 79-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished yesteday evening, bite was very slow only had nibbles rom dinks using dropshot and plastics. Ater the sun was o the water started catching keeper size ish on main lake points on shad cranks. Caught 8 keeper size ish in 15 minutes.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Shad cranks on main lake points.

Saturday, August 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 81

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 5 pm to 11 pm. Fished Angels Creek 1st throwing top water & jerk baits with no results so ater an hour started split shotting 4" green weenies & purple ghost worms boating several dink spots & red eyes. Moved to Bear Creek resulting in a couple o hits but no ish boated. Headed to Coyote Creek where we picked up a couple more dinks split shotting and cranking a craw pattern. About an hour ater dark my partner igured out the pattern and we boated six keepers rom 12 inches to 2 lbs.. Four were spots and the two biggest were blacks.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Find the bait balls which we ound in 15' to 20' o water o o points and then drop shot 4" worms and reepers.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

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    Water Temp: HOT-SEE BELOW

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: BENEFIT TOURNAMENT ON THE DELTA AT B&W RESORT AUGUST 23 DAWN TO 1:00 PM....or a members amily who's house burned...$100.00 per boat, 50% to the amily, 50% to the winners (70% to the heaviest bag, 30% to the Big Fish)...e-mail or more ino o just show up and help a ellow angler, ree hot dogs and soda or all participants...thanks to NCBF or their orum and B&W or their support...thanks again EGBassPres@aol.com
    City: Carmichael

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 83

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at two this aternoon just hoping to ind a ew ish...Well it was much better then expected. Found a wide open drop shot bite..Fishing was best on main lake humps..Shad are thick ron 10 to 15 eet..Fish were in the 12 to 20 oot range under and in the bait..
    City: sonora

    Tips: Drop shot in bait..Use your electronics and don't waste your time i the bait isn't there..Small shad colored worms best

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73-77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started at day break & ished until 11 am....Caught app 40 ish....Lots o small spots..We had 9 keepers up too 2 lbs...All ish were caught on plastics & dierent parts o the lake.. The keeper bass came rom the open areas o the lake & most o the small ish rom creek channels.....Only two keepers caught next to the bank & most o the small ones....
    City: RIV

Wednesday, May 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started o good irst thing in the morning cranking with 2 keepers in the 2lb range on cranks. Slowed down towards noon but managed to pick up 4 more keepers on a grub one up to 3 lbs. Let at noon with best 5 going 9.2. Alot o dinks, get through them and the larger ish are there...
    City: Riverbank

    Tips: Fish the grub over 30+ eet o water on a 1/8 oz head, slow, ish pick up on the all.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished six hours today and we only boated eight keepers today but had constant action on small ish.Purposely went looking or post spawn spot.Was able to ind some huge schools but they are mixed with the dinks.Did manage three in the 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 pound range.Going trough worms here my the hundreds.
    City: sonora

    Tips: Need a heat spell.Seems the eggs have not hatched yet.Fish are there but ater early morning they slow down.Scatered ron 2 to 30.