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Wednesday, November 19th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished south arm main lake. Fish were up on bank early and picked them o with everything rom jigs to cranks. When the wind layed down had to ind bait and ish were near bye. Three over and many in the slot. Keep Moving!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Shad colored cranks and earthtone jigs and plastics.

Saturday, November 8th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished South Fork & near Spillway launch ramp. Lots o ish on bait 18-24 eet, and deeper. Shad color plastics worked on drop shot (try Morning Dawn by Pro Worms)or on darthead. Mostly slot ish. One keeper smallmouth on crank bait, but generally no reaction bite. Amost all Spotted bass, but riends caught some smallmouth up N. Fork on dartheads (color unknown).
    City: Penn Valley

Tuesday, October 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in the Chico Bass Club Tournement this last weekend. Tried to preish the lake on riday but had to contend with North winds. Caught only two ish that day with biggest at 15". On tournement day the winds inally died down. Fished points in the middle ork and main body and limited out by 8:30am. Then sought out bigger ish but only managed a 16"er. For the day, me and my partner caught a total o 39 bass all between 12-16 inches. Total weight was a little over 7lbs. Not a bad day!
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Drop shot with about a 2-3t leader on main points at depths between 50-60t. Bass spitting up shad.

Monday, October 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Blasted o just beore 7:00 am, headed up the middle with the wind slightly blowing. First spot cranked up two ish abot 1 lbs each. Moved all the way back past the no ski signs. Caught a 3 lber, then two 2 lbers cranking windy banks. The crank bait is a Zenith/Specilaity tackle.com bait. These baits are great.The wind died down and I threw a Rico on shady walls and pick up several ish over a pound. Ater 10:00 am I dartheaded and texas rigged worms with a lot o success. Most o the worm ish were in the 15-25 t range. i also taught a riend to Dropshot and he caught several ish as well.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: I the wind is up, it's reaction time. Other wise dropshot, darthead and texas rig worms. Good colors are Aaron Magic, Babybass and Oxblood light with red leck.

Sunday, October 12th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main body points got a ish on irst cast but that was it on the main body and than headed up the middle eather river ork and caught one ish at each stop. Usually you will sit on a spot and take 5-10 ish once you ind them but I could only get 1 ish per spot no matter what I did.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Caught one ish in 5 t all the rest were in 10-25 t. ish real slow dragging the worm. I caught ish on drop shot rig, dart head and split shot just go deep and slow. For Oroville ishing is slow need bad weather.

Saturday, September 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water around 6am. headed up the south ork, stopped just past the bridge when my partner and I saw bass busting baitish. Caught a bunch a little ish on lukes, and 1 2+ largie. Proceeded up urther to ind simular action, bass attacking bait ish. Decided to leave the south arms ater chasing baitish and small bass, to the north; and again ound bass busting the surace, caught a ew largies and spots to 2#'s. Not a bad day ishing caught ish all day but had to run around a lot. Nothing on top water..... all ish on lukes, and drop shottin'. can't tell the color plastics used because we have a tourney on the 27th.... to be continued.
    City: olsom

    Tips: have a bait ready at all times... when the bass busted the surace, caught the ish right aterwards in the irst ew seconds. wait to long and the ish will be gone. then cruise or more. bait ish seemed to be everywhere through the lake.

Monday, August 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 77-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went ishing last week did pretty good managed to get a 17.5 inch bass drop shotin a berkley dro shot worm got most big bass in about 30-40 eet o water. i also made my own set up, put a barrel senker up about a oot and a hal and then put a split shot on it, and use a berkley bungee grub DRAG it slowley on the bottom good luck!!!.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: Try drop shotin diernt colors o berley drop shot worms, and try the color called camo with the bungee grub have un be sae.

Saturday, August 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Art Belanger and I took a amily o our out to learn how to ish. Saw enormous numbers o ish on depth inders between 20-35 eet but it was diicult to get them to bite. Nothing on top water or ripbaits although there were many ollowers. Caught 1 ish on a spinnerbait and 1 on a crankbait. All the rest o our ish came on plastics. Some wacky rigged 9J Senko, a couple on dart head cuttail worm and quite a ew on dropshot rigs. Productive colors were Yamamoto's cuttails in Purple with black lake and Smoke Blue Pearl. Also caught two on Aaron's Magic 6" worms. Had at least 30 bites but the kids had trouble setting the hook so we only managed about 12 in the boat...one over the slot, several in the slot and a bunch o smaller ish.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: With rapidly dropping water, ish seem to be holding in deeper water or oshore in the top 10' o the water column.

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

Monday, August 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 82 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My riend and I ished all week Wed.-Sun. and we caught probably about 60 bass. We caught most o the bass drop shotting dierent worms. We drop shotted Roboworms,Magic Worms,Zippers,and Gary Yamamoto's Ikas and Cut Tails. The topwater bite wasn't too good although I missed probably a 4-5 pounder on a walking bait. Most o the ish are down deep.
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Get out early to beat the heat and try drop shotting, trust me you'll catch some!

Sunday, July 20th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lines were wet by 5:45am.Managed to hook a ew small spots in 5 to 7 eet o water.Cloud cover allowed us to stay shallow .By 9am we had boated 8 ish including a 5lb catish who seemed to need the salt and pepper grub more than the bass did.By 10am cloud cover had burned o and ish went deep.Started hooking ish in 20 to 30 eet o water.Even caught a couple in 45 eet o water.All in all a succesull day with 25 ish boated and even a couple in the 15 inch range.
    City: marysville

    Tips: Plastic baits slow retrieve

Thursday, July 10th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went night ishing or the very irst time, drop shoting beore dark we caught a ew, and when it got dark we went cranking. did ok, a ew nice ish. we had a couple on spinner baits also, not to bad o a trip considering both the big motor and the trolling motor were jacked up
    City: b-v

    Tips: maybe when the water goes down to where it is a steady level it will pick up

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a man rom Oregon this morning or a our hour "learn how to bass ish" trip. And I am happy to say "he learned"! I am going to start with the end o the trip. On our way back to the dam I stopped at a good spot and showed him one more technique - how to drop-shot. I rigged it or him, watched him ish it or a minute or so, then started puting rods away, etc. Within 5 minutes he looks over to me and says "how am I doing?" as he is ighting a bass. Ater I netted his 14 1/2 inch spot I said "just ine!!" Those Oregon bass better watch out - he is a natural! We started early in Canyon Creek with topwater, but with no real success though I had a blowup rom a large ish. He had never caught a ish on a plastic worm - so that was the main goal. We ound two groups o ish and caught several on Berkley Pulse Worms and Camanche Jack's worms. He caught the three largest bass - all between 14 and 14 1/2 inches. I taught him to use Senkos and he did hook one but missed it. Though we didn't ish the whole time, we did manage 12 bass. We should have had a lot more but it took him awhile to learn to put some wrist in the hook set. Ater that, he was ine. We ending up ishing shadows in the main body willows or the rest o our ish. I was truly thankul that this was a hal day trip - it was getting hot!!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: The ishing reports may not be real great or awhile since they started "dumping" the lake - 10 eet or so in a week. That will cause the ish to start suspending and be more diicult to catch during the mid-day period. Shallow ish will be hard to come by. Drop-shotting will become more and more eective now. Fish shadows as long as you can. When the lake is high, I have a milk run that can keep me in shadows until 12:30 pm. Fish the shady side o the willows.

Monday, June 16th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75 deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Daughter Kirsten in cove o North ork....used senkos, brown with blue lakes. Caught many small slot limit bass. Kirsten caught a nice 17 incher and I caught a 19 incher....nice ish....all caught pretty much deadsticking the senko...most ish appeared to be holding right at the drop o rom mudline to clear water.....
    City: Oroville

Friday, June 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ishing was tough today, caught most o my ish with a shad pattern crank bait, tried worming but nothing o any size, most worms got bit in hal. back o coves with submerged trees held ish had 2 over the slot one being a 16 incher and lots o small ones. morning dawn worms worked the best. really windy in the middle ork today
    City: the hills

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 5am to 3pm and had a ball. One o the best times I have had there. Caught 16" spotts on spooks and sammys irst o. Dragged lizards & dropped shot 4" worms(mostly slots) mid morning. Caught a couple on spooks in p.m. No rip baits worked but in all caught 40+ with a couple o spotts that had not spawned out yet. Great time.
    City: Colusa

Monday, May 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 79.9-78.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing has been very good cought 109 bass Friday-monday, i you don't believe me go there and ish or your sel, senkos have been working best dark and light colors.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: Wacky worm the senko

Sunday, May 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday and Sunday and caught about 100 ish. Lots o little ish between 10 - 13 in with quite a ew ish over the slot limit but had nothing over 2.5 lbs all weekend. Better ish came shaking a darthead worm and on the super luke. Caught ish on just about everything we threw at them.Even had a ew bed ish
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Backs o coves and cuts was the best place . The ish are also stacked under trash pockets o wood in the backs o the coves and cuts esspecially in the heat o the day

Monday, May 12th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 60.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about an 1 hour and caught 10 bass the bigest was 3and a hal lbs, the bite was reall sot i was catching them on a dart head green wennie plastic worm.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: Fish the bottom with Jigs, and dart heads

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    Water Temp: 60.1

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out ishing and caught about 10 bass only got to ish about an hour or two the biggest was about three and a hal lbs caught them on a green wennie rubber worm darter head. But next time i hope it's better usally catch about 30 a day.
    City: Yuba city

    Tips: stick with bottom type lure's Jigs,darter heads. have a good time.