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Saturday, January 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started in the south end o the Lake at day break..One hit on pork & jig,caught 4 keepers & two small ish..Went to the dam area & got one keeper & two small ish..Finished up in the spillway area. Caught 5 keepers & 3 small ones...8 keepers were rom 13 plus to 21/2-3 lbs..two 12 1/2 inches...three blacks & rest were spots..Fish were caught rom 10 t to 70 t deep. Most o the ish came on 4 to 8 lb test line & 1/16 to 3/4 darter heads..All diernt color worms & i don't belive we caught more then 3 ish on the same color..
    City: Riv

Wednesday, January 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53-55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started throwing jigs in Coyote and picked up a two lb. black and a keeper spot..Then the jig bite died.Let there and hit a avorie seconday point near the bridge and drop shotted another largie,two keeper spots and a trout at 47 eet.Then went to the main body on the angels side and got our more largemouth drop shotting isolated structure on deep lats.35 to 40.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Once again,ish all the struture in the bite zone.

Saturday, January 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started drop shotting in Carson ,got a nice largie about 3 1/2 and a couple small spots at 45 eet.Let and went to ish braks between horseshoe and the old mines.Got three spots between 2 and 3 1/4 pounds and another 3 plus largie on 5/8 once jigs.Fish were socking the jig at 35 eet.Picked up one more 1 1/2 spot near the bridge.Good day oe January.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Fish all underwater strure at the depth you are being bit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOOD

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at day break...Fished a cove by the Tuttle Town ramp useing Spinner Baits,Worms & Jig & Pork...Got two light hits...Went to the Dam Area,caught one 14 inch ish & a ew small ones..Let there & went South o the Dam. Caught 5 Spots rom rom 14 inches to 2 & 3/4 lbs..All were caught on 4 & 6 inch worms rom 30 to 70 t deep...Biggest ish came on a texas rigged Senko,5 inch....We let at 1 PM...
    City: Riv

    Tips: Deep & Slow...Darter heads were the more productive today..

Saturday, January 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Let Tuttletown shortly ater daylight. Tried several areas and depths in the ski-slalom area and outside o Bear. No luck until the time got close to the solunar primary daylight period, and the tide turned! The bite started about noon and continued until 2:30. Partner and I put 10 - 12 in the boat on split-shot plastics up to 2 and a hal. They started at 30' and moved up as the sun got higher and thin overcast came in. By the end o the bite they were in 10-12' on medium taper points with wood. About hal and hal largies and spots.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Drop-shot not eective in wood....tooo many hang-ups. Split-shot with buried point the trick. Try 082R in 4". Get 'em out quick or they will wrap you up! R

Saturday, December 7th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started o ishing islands abt 6:30 am..no bits,hit the main lake banks & caught 20 plus,all spots. Up to 2lb plus.Caught one keeper on a skirtted grub & one hit, largest ish came on a 6in keeper worn & one 8in on the 6in worn....Rest o the ish were caught on 4in worms. From 10 t to 60 t deep..Most o the keeper ish were caught shallow,but close to deep water..No hits on a spoon or pork & jig..
    City: Riv

Tuesday, November 26th, 2002

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    Water Temp: no meter

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: morning bite was great. no big ish. i only have a small boat, so wind limited me mostly to the dock area. caught 3 blacks all 1 1/2. ish were on the bottom 10-25 t. only bait they would bite or me was a smoke tube. they hit hard but had to let them take it beire setting the hook. later on i got gutsy and went around the corner towards angels. ished 35-45 out rom wood. got 2 small 1 lb. hit very hard. nothing but smoke tube worked or me. drited and gave small twithes.
    City: modesto

    Tips: smoke tubes on the bottom 10-40

Saturday, November 23rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 20-25 bass,one black & the rest were spots..We ished rom 6:30 am to 2 PM...Got 9 keepers up to 2lbs...most were caught on drop shot rigs.Casting to sharp drop os & shaking the bait back to the boat,SLOW..First ish came on a Jig,ater that it was drop & Splitshoting.From 20 to 45 t deep..We ished islands & Main lake areas.
    City: Riv

Saturday, November 16th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: drop shot - 35 to 65 eet in coves or submerged islands - some spots and large mouth - dropper set 2 to 5 oot, o the bottom - early mourning spoon bite is good in mouth's o creek channels untill sun getsup - the drop shot seems to be the ticket.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: shad color 2" tubes or grubs and 4" shad color worms are working or me 4" bone white work's well... in trees are alot o ish 35 -65 eet drop shot and texas rigedwith Qwner 2/0 down shot hook... 10lb line

Monday, October 28th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 63 - 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 10/24 and 10/25, on 10/25 caught about 25 to 30 ish between the 2 o us but all o them but 3 were dinks. Biggest ish was about 2.5 pounds. The only pattern we ound was rock but could not igure out a bait. We would catch a ish on a little bit o everything in the tackle box. on 10/25 it was real slow maybe 10 ish between the 2 o us.It was strange both days you would catch something on a particular bait/lure then not catch another one on the same bait/lure. Try something else then catch one ish then nothing. Went that way both days.
    City: Hayward

    Tips: No tip.

Tuesday, October 8th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 68 - 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: water's way down. Good time to check out underwater structure!!! Fish are tight to bottom. Got a couple dinks w/small countdowns (gold/black & chartreuse).
    City: modesto

    Tips: You got any?

Tuesday, August 27th, 2002

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    Water Temp: warm ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: rind and i ished the dam and south end o lake.tried top water,crank baits,worms,brush hogs,nothing but a bunch o dinks.ish had lock jaw. hope you do better than we did.
    City: sonora

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hey mr. g. wilson o tracy. man i your gonna keep ish to eat. keep the spots or the red eyes or smallies. please leave the blacks to grow up and become trophies. its getting hard enough to catch a limit o blacks now days anyway, it doesnt help i people are taking them home ort the dinner table. believe me im not mad that your taking ish homw to eat, heck bass are one o the best eating ish there are but we need to protect them as well. and as everyone knows there is NO SHORTAGE o spotted bass so eat those little bastards instead.
    City: modesto

Thursday, July 11th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished July 5,6,7,& 11th. Launched out o Glory Hole each morning bout 6am,pulled out bout 5pm man was it hot! But the ishi'n was great!!! Caught tons o Redeyes & Spots on small worms,didnt matter much about color,those spieces eat almost anything. Threw 3" Predator in rythym & blues,green pepper, 3" Power Bait worms camo,purple,motor oil,and my avorite blue leck.Just had to throw up to waters edge and slowly pull your bait in,most o the strikes came in 2-8 eet o water.Boated at least 25-30 ish each day. Got really tired o catchin dinks so I went a little deeper draggin a 7" worm bout 40-50 oot,on steeper banks with no visible wood. That worked really well,took home a limit o large mouth on Sun(13lbs) & Thur(18lbs).I ish a lot o tournaments but,I also like to eat ish once in a while,so I didnt mind harvesting a good mess o ish.And let me tell ya they sure tasted good!
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Drop Shot smaller baits like Razor Shad & 3" worms o your choice.Also texas rig to avoid all the snags and try pegging your bullet wieght.Stick to ishin on the weekend with all the skiers-makes it better or me thru the week!

Thursday, July 4th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 84

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out twice in the last ive days aternoon and evening ishing.with the wind crankin has been proudcing well on wind blown banks. dropshotin, still good around points where you can hold out o the wind. wood, rocks,brush,weedbeds are best choice the larger ish have been coming o the weeds,two to our lbs.the two outings we caught thirty plus ish.
    City: sonora

    Tips: rattlin type crankbaits,dropshot 4"worms lighter colors with blue,green,or brown.pratice catch and release,preach catch and release.there's to many ish leaveing our lakes.watch out or the Ilandtops thers a lot getting close.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 74 - 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Droped the boat in at Angles Arm at app 5;30 am...Fished until 11:30 am...Caught 7 keepers up to 2 1/2 lbs...Lost a couple,both got o at the boat, 1 1/2 to 2 lbs...Caught app 25 bass.All on worms & top water..About 8 o these were the red eyes..Worm ish came in deep water & the top water ish by rocks next to deep water.
    City: Riv

Saturday, June 29th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 76-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First time on the water in 3 weeks.We got on the water at 5 am. Had 2 limits by 7:05 am rom 12 1/2 in to 5 lbs.We let at 10:30 am..The bigger ish,rom 2 lbs up were caught on 4 lb test line in 10 to 25 t o water.These were all blacks & they were picking up the worm on the drop.We caught one on a crank bait,nothing on top water or spiner baits.4& 6 in Keeper,Pro & Cali. worms.Banks with sharp drop & some were caught casting away rom the bank.We caught 13 keepers out o app 30 bass.
    City: Riv

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    Water Temp: 77.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I couldnt ind a partner sat.nite so I went alone.On the water at 7.15pm,irst ish at 7.30pm.dropshotting watermelon 3"worms,15 caught,3 lost(one 4-5lbs).Switched to big black worms at dark(9:30).No more bites.Switched back or one last ish,right away put 11" in boat.Most were 11"-12".But all were un.Contact me i you want to ish some night,Bear.
    City: oakdale/modesto

    Tips: dropshotting,gamakatsu dropshots 3 to a pkg.,makes it easy in dark & wind.Watermelon w/red lake worked,witches tit,clear s&p,black did not.Fishing 4' to 15',rocky shore & nothing banks,bang crawdad/shad spray.Windy,last 2 hours beore dark.

Tuesday, June 25th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 82 deg.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i go out to melones quite oten around three or our times a week sometimes guiding sometimes just to get out on the water.ishing is allways great have been getting a lot o nice ish cranking 2to4# also a lot small ones, mixed bag lg. mouth,spots,redeye.some real nice spots 3# dropshoting has been working great also,crawdad color worms and jigs are also working well.topwater early-late.
    City: sonora

    Tips: rocks,wood 0-30' "crank shallow rattler" learn to use electronics

Friday, June 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 78-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a good day ishing. Started about 10:00, and ished till 6:00. Caught lots o ish, mostly drop shoting reapers in 15-20 t. Also caught some ish on hula skirt grubs. Most ish came o o points and lats on the main lake. Boated about 15 keepers, and caught lots o dinks. Biggest was only about 1.5lbs. Lots o un.
    City: Sacramento