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Saturday, January 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was kind o strange up there today. Fish were not relating to points or cuts, they were on eatureless banks with brush. I ended up with 7 keepers to 2.5 lbs and missed 3 others. 4 ish came on jigs and 3 came on a reaper. Fish were rom 15 to 60 eet. Bite was lite. Best bet was to pick a streach o bank, put the trolling motor down and ish the whole thing rather then run rom point to point.Mike Niemi
    City: Modesto

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    Water Temp: 51 DEGREES

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out rom angels point about 9:00 A.M. it was a very beautiul day although a little cold! We ished a ew points an old road along with some rocky shoreline on our way to angels arm.We threw brown/purple jigs spinnerbaits and carolinia rigged worms.Our irst and only ish came at approx.12:30 on a brown&green worm.Fishing was slow but still a beautiul day on the lake!!! Our most excitement came at around 3:00 p.m as we slowed to ish into the cove that we had launched rom.As we approached a canoe with two men ishing or trout.All too our surprise (AS WELL AS THEIRS) as the young man went to set the hook on a ish they lost their balance and went in!! As we trolled over to help we couldn't help but notice a ish jumping out o the water repeatedly while both men clung to the canoe the younger man also clung to his pole that had a ish on!!! I managed to get them both saely to shore while Terri landed the rainbow trout.They drained their canoe as we gathered their loating belongings.Unortunately a tackle box and a pair o prescription glasses were lost.We towed them saely to the launch ramp so they could warm up,the water was VERY COLD!! 50 DEGREES. Well that's all or now, stay warm and dry!!!
    City: MANTECA

    Tips: STAY OUT OF THE WATER,BRING WARM CLOTHES AND HOT CHOCOLATE!! WORMS DEEP AND SLOW! GO WITH WHAT YOU KNOW!!

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I ished a couple o days oaver vacation in teh angels creekarm rom shore and a tube. I saw quite a ew bass swimming around but could not make them bite. I trieda white tube, and jerkbaits. NO luck. One guy caughta spot while trolling a night crawler.

    Tips: ANyone know how to catch ishthat you see swimming around?I put many lures right in ront o them. They just swamaway?

Friday, October 8th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Mormon creek area, 10:30am-2:30pm 7 bass (4) 13"+ ish30-50' rocky points access to main lake and coves. Carolina rig baby brush hog and spoons.
    City: modesto

Saturday, October 2nd, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished rom bank in angels cove i think? topwaters produced 2 nice ish 3 to 4#ers, bigger ish slapping surace all around, couldn't get anymore to bite. sun came up and nothing else worked top or bottom. new in town with no boat or ishing partners. see alot o bass boats with only 1 person on board, PICK ME UP !!!!!!!!! i you need a ishng partner email me at mjubilee@goldrush.com
    City: angels camp

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished rom bank in angels cove i think? topwaters produced 2 nice ish 3 to 4#ers, bigger ish slapping surace all around, couldn't get anymore to bite. sun came up and nothing else worked top or bottom. new in town with no boat or ishing partners. see alot o bass boats with only 1 person on board, PICK ME UP !!!!!!!!! i you need a ishng partner email me at mjubilee@goldrush.com
    City: angels camp

Saturday, September 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished riday sunrise to mid aternoon,lots o dinks but no keepers. Talked riday night to some riends that caught a ew keepers one on topwater one on spinnerbait one on crankbait and one on a jig. Not a lot o help! So what to do, I had tried a clear zara spook on riday so switched to a smaller sameri thank god! I should have had a limet but lost the irst ish o the day a 4 or 5lber right at the boat. still managed to land 4 keepers and my partner caught 2 but he took big ish or the tourny with a 5.27lber.All are ish were caught in the irst 20 minets then back to dinks all day. All in all a air day took 2nd and my partner took 3rd.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Through small topwater baits irst thing in the morrning on main lake points then go up the river passed 2nd bridge and ish 25 to 55t deep with small plastics or small jigs.

Thursday, September 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 73-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had a pretty good day considering what the ishing is like everywhere right now. I had 7 keepers in about 3 to 4 hours o ishing. Biggest ish went 2.5 lbs. The ish all came on small jigs in 30 to 40 eet ished very slow.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Fish a small, compact bait o steep points.

Sunday, September 19th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 73-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the 100 Percent tourney at Melones on the 18th. Fishing was tough or most. The ish seem to be into the winter modes. Most productive methods were jigs, plastics, and spoons. Fish were on main lake points in 25 to 60 eet. Did manage a ew on white spinnerbaits, but very unpredictable to pattern. Stick with slow moving bottom baits like jigs, tubes and lizards or the best bet.
    City: Sonora

Saturday, August 28th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 8/28/99 - New Melones, Tournament 1600-2300 hr. Weather hot, 103 F, with a light breeze. Coves at the 49er bridge produced nothing. Pulled two 15"e's o the points in thirty eet o water in the cove due East o 49en bridge, 1930 hr. Pulled two 15"er's o the rock point past the second island South o Tuttle Town ramp in 15-20 eet o water, 2030 hr. 2130 hr., moved to the main lake coves and hooked a couple o dinks another 15"er and one 3 lb'er. Our ive ish weight was 7 lb.12 oz. which was good or 2nd place. All our ish came o purple 6" worms rigged with a bullet weight. We through jugs, spinner baits, Brush Hogs, spooned and Spooks on top, only the worms caught ish. First place caught ish up river between 49er and the second bridge on worms and buzz baits at dusk. His total weight was 9 lb. 7 oz. Big ish was 3 lb. 7 oz. Only 4 o the twelve boats weighed in a ive ish limit.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Fish 15-40 eet o water o rocky points and those with brush.

Wednesday, July 14th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished a 7pm to 7am turkey shoot. 9 boats showed, we won with15.02 most ish were caught rom blasto till dark. on a six in' brown/green worm splitshot hooked a ew on a black/red baby brush hog our big ish was caught on a chartucebuzzbait at the crack o dawn most ish were holding 15 to 20 eet deep
    City: Copperopolis

    Tips: try main lake big rocks close to deep water (dam) and deep points splitshot 6in' worms and work it out deep

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    Water Temp: very warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday July 1st. Launched at highway 49 7pm. Went East to irst cove toward the south. Fish the whole tackle box at all depths. Too many dinks (to 10"0). Kept going east, same the whole way in about 3 miles. Fished all night and settled on any color 6" worm (got most hits with this). Dinks would machine-gun anything with a chartruese tail. Underwater structure was abundant. Fished coves, rocky points, deep water, shallow water. Still only dinks. 5 biggest ish only weighed 9 lbs total. Weather was HOT, HOT, HOT. No wind. Didn't put on jackets until about 4 AM. Mosquito's were there but not bad. Let the lake at 9:00 AM.
    City: Sunnyvale

Sunday, July 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 75d

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the best time to catch a big ish is when the hook is in her mouth. ishing in the water helps, using some kind o bait. getting serious, has anybody been doing good at all at new melones?
    City: Sac

Friday, June 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test o the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it worksFishing Reports or New Melones Lake

Sunday, May 2nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 62/64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Partner and I got on the water late 8:30 or so. Fished the spillway right o, with not much luck, one keeper and a ew small ish.Next went past the dam to the irst arm to the right.Started to carolina rig, and the irst cast a keeper, this was the start o a very good day. Most ish were gotten on Keeper summer moss by me, and Keeper brown with chart. tail by partner. Westayed in this area 'til 4:30, and got ish the whole time there. The end o the day about 30/34 keepers, with another 12/14 short ish. The bigger ish to 3 1/2 lbs, they were at and sassy, andall bucks. Bigger ish rom 7/8 eet deep, guess still not moved up. Good nes.
    City: Manteca

    Tips: n/a

Friday, April 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my 11yr old son and 9yr old daughter camping Thursday 4/22 till Sunday 4/25. Weather wasn't what we were expecting.Most o the lake was too windy to ish Thursday and Friday. Had to ind coves and bays protected by wind to control boatwell enough to ish eectively. Did manage to get over a dozen each day on watermelon w/red leck brush hogs. Almostall ish were airly deep, rom 15 - 25 t. Fish had descentsize to them also, most rom 1.5lbs to 2lbs. My biggest was4lbs 13 ozs. But I was out done by my son Corey who managed a 5lb 1oz on a crappie spinner bait which he replaced the grubwith a 4" black worm. How he managed to not loose that ishwith such a small hook I'll never know, it must have jumped 5 times. My little girl even got 3 ish all by heresel!She got one 2.5lber on blue leck 4" worm. That turned outto be the only color I caught ish with on Saturday. There werelots o ish to be seen shallow along steep banks, but couldn'tget any action on them. Sunday was too windy to ish so wecame home early. Overall, pretty good weekend. I managedenough ish to keep me happy and enough to hand o the pole to keep the kids interested all day too!
    City: Cupertino

    Tips: From 5am to 6:30am caught a couple o ish on crankbaits, but when thesun came up went to brush hogs and worms deep. I got better action when I gave the brush hogs and worms a 2 jerk and let it settle motion. Most hits came on the second jerk.

Thursday, April 29th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught three good size bass near the sand bar close to Glory Hole. Using a chartruse spinner bait and a motor oil glitter trailer. Fish just o the ledge that is on the east side o the sand bar. Fish were 15-20 eet deep ishing in a medium speed stop and go motion
    City: Modesto

    Tips: n/a

Monday, April 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well i ished my irst tournament on the 25th. It was put on by Savemart stores or it'semployees. We all gatherd at glory hole, and began the process o signing up and checking livewellsand paying our entry ees. there were approxamtley 30 plus boats, ranging rom 12 t aluminum to theull dress 20 ooters it was a awesome sight I must say. We began dumping our rigs while waiting or sae light,as the water near the ramp began to illwith boats the lake took on a certain eel. It muct have been all the boaters bustling about intheir rigs in preperation. people were doing things rom preparing or the cold to discussing theirstratagy to rigging their rods. The sight and eel o all this sent my adrenalin through the roo. Finally with all the rigs sharking around the sun gave enough light and we began to line up atthe 5 mph bouies. Our earless organizer dropped his hand and all HELL broke loose on the water.There is no better sight than to look to your let then to your right and see a ull out, wideopen,rooster tailin renzy o bass anglers heading to their secret locations. ( What a rush ! ! !) My partner and I headed out to the 49 bridge area and hit the cove on the west side o thebridge. We ished the bank on the right using white lukes and blue and black jigs.the luke bait seemed to work best as my partner landed two keepers. We coverd banks on the mainbody,carson cove,cayote cove, morman creek, and glory hole cove and other areas beore weight in at2:00pm.All in all we caght ish every stop we made,the only trouble we had was locating ish with size. the males are preping the spawning beds as we could see ish all along the shore line. I weatherstays warm ish should start spawning this week. sorry to say but wedid not place in the tournament we had 5 ish weighing 8.7lbs
    City: modesto

    Tips: use lukes with slow jerks.

Saturday, April 24th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: STARTED OUT AT SAFE LITE. WAS FISHING A CLUB TOURN. WITH THE MERCED BASS CLUB. HAD A LIMITBY 7AM. STARTED THE MORNING THOWING WHITE SPINNER BAIT BUT WITH NO LUCK. AFTER 40 MINUTES SWITCHEDTO A RED WITH BLUE FLAKE PREADOR 6" WORM SPLITSHOT RIG AND STARTED CATCHING FISH RIGHT AWAY. MY BIGFISH WAS 4.94LBS. WITH A TOTAL WEIGHT OF 18.19LBS. I WAS ABLE TO CATCH FISH ALL DAY WITH THAT WORM.I FISHED THE SAME AREA ALL DAY AND THE FISH KEPT GETTING BIGGER. THE AREA HAD MEDIUM STEEP BANKSWITH PERTECTED COVES AND CUTS.THE AREA I WAS FISHING IS BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND BRIDGES OUT ONTHE MAIN BODY OF WATER NOT IN THE BACK OF ANY CREEK.
    City: Merced

    Tips: I LOVE THROWING PLASTIC WORMS. AT MELONES I ALWAYS HAVE GOOD LUCK THROWING A RED COLOR WORM. ILIKE BANKS WHERE MY BOAT SETS IN 30 TO 45 FEET OF WATER. I SPLITSHOT THE WORM VERY SLOW AND WORK ITALONG THE BOTTOM ABOUT HALFWAY BACK TO THE BOAT. ALL THE FISH I CAUGHT SATURDAY WERE IN 3 TO 25 FEETOF WATER.

Sunday, April 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On lake by 7:30 out o Tuttleton Rec area. Worked islands o to let o marina. Boated 8 ish, biggest 3lbs.The surprising thin; one cove, excellant visability, up to 10 to 12 eet. Must have spotted 50 to 75 bass in submerged trees. Ran & hide rom crank baits, sure jumped all over Berkely Power lizard inBlack/Green color. Hate to count how many ish I missed. Need more practice, must go again.
    City: Linden

    Tips: n/a