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Wednesday, November 14th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Today was a pretty good day or me and my little brother Rob we started over by the spillway with aew nice one's then we decided to go over by the bridge but it only took a ew minutes to ine a so called very Rude pro i mysel ish tourneys and gave this idiot at least 300 yards and i guess becaues he paid 600.00 he thought that he could be rude as he ew past me not to mention he was to dam close im happy that the bassmaster tour is at oroville and to all you gentelman ishing it good luck. I would try jigs in 20 to25 eet and also top water in the morning well im done complaining maybe next year ill be there but i know i will not be the idiot im talking about...
    City: Yuba City

Saturday, November 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 62 Deg.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing in the main body and my buddy caught three on a small darthead minnow. They were all airly small. I kept throwing a small black and brown jig with no luck. Ater about an hour we ound a deep cove near Foreman creek with a lot o trees in it. I started throwing a small senko and I got a lot o action letting it lutter down through the trees. We caught about 5 out o that one small cove. We let there and went to a similar cove near the main body bridge. We caught about 3 more out o that cove using the same tecnique. We quickly ran out o Senkos so we started using worms and crankbaits up the middleork. We caught about 6 up there. Overall we caught about 3 over the slot. None o them were over by much but a good day o ishing or us.
    City: Yuba

    Tips: Senkos were working great around the trees. I got a lot o ish on the 4 inch but when I went to the 6 inch I didn't get touched. Have un now beore the rain starts!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 65degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish the Bidwell area north wind most o morning dropshot in 40 eet o water,temp 65 dgrees ish power bait on 6lb test number 2 hook caught one keeper over 15 inches then ish shut o about 11 am caught a dink while cranking the largest lake in the lake to take the small bass ater several trys the ish settled or some surace minows I switch to a silver grub several cast in his area no luck, I have ished the lake since the dam was constructed this was the largest ish I have ever seen,not carp but one hell o salmon or lake trout how some sees this ish and gets a picture went on to catch a ew more spots .Have Fun
    City: chico

    Tips: Dont ish the ull moon also had my best luck on bubble gum worms with green tail shorten to three inchs 6lb test ans 1/2 oz sinker drop shotting ,have a good one

Friday, October 19th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found a hot bite today. Fished the Middle ork rom 9AM to 2PM.Picked up 57 ish all nice no dinks,at and hard ighting spots.Texas rig 4" plastic worms in a light brown blue neon W/ black lake that I pour.But I think that the color didnt matter.All ish were taken on rock piles in 20 to 40 t deep.Big ish was 3.8 lbs. a lot o two pounders.
    City: Marysville

    Tips: GO GET YOU SOME!!!!!

Monday, October 15th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My partner and I have been out to oroville ive times in the last two weeks and it has been some o the best ishing we have ever seen. We avgeraged 20-30 ish per day. Most o the ish were caught on a Mourning dawn majic worm, drop shot rig in 35 t. o water. Also caught some on a crawdad crankbait and spinnerbaits.
    City: Chico

    Tips: Fish deep and slow

Saturday, October 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a local team tourney on Oroville today. The ishing was awesome. My partner and I caught 45-50 ish during the day. Most on crawdad color cranks. Caught some on a brown and orange jig with a grub trail and 5 or 6 on a hula grub/ootball head. Jigs seemed to produce better overall size, but or biggest came on a crankbait. O the ive ish we weighed in 4 were crank ish and 1 on a jig. Heck I even managed to cull out a spot with a nice smallie. Days like this just don't come around oten enu. Wish I could have stayed another day just to "playish"!!
    City: Sparks, Nv.

    Tips: Most o our ish were on steeper banks and walls, but don't overlook the shallow mudlats. I caught big ish o the tourney on a crankbait in one these areas!!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well I must say this has to be my avorite lake. Today was my second time ishing here, and it was an awesome day. We decided to start up North, because when I was out here in the Spring we spent our day in the middle and South orks. Anyway it worked out well. I tried to ish the areas that looked a little dierent, so we started on a slopping point. In about 15 min. we bladed 4 ish the irst being the biggest just over the slot but all 4 ish were at. We kept the trolling motor going and got a couple more on a jig and a worm. We decided to move up the ork and stopped at a wall with some huge boulders and caught a couple more on jigs. I missed a ew on the jigs you really had to let them take the bait, because they kept ripping my grub o the jig. One thing I noticed though that changed my day was that on two ocasions ater the miss on the jig either that ish or another ish nailed it reeling back in. Time or some crankin. Tied on a deep little n, and started some butt whoopin. We moved over to the lat areas by the old railroad bridge and caught ish ater ish with the largest a 4lb. spot. The other ish were either at the slot or just over. Hardly any dinks were caught today. We caught some more on jigs and one on senko in the trees. We went up the south to try an area we ished in the Spring, and cranked away with a bunch o quality ish. My unnest two days this year were spent here. This is an awesome ishery wish I lived closer. Good luck.
    City: Eldorado Hills

    Tips: I matched the crank bait color to the jig. Brown and Orange. Although we switched the jig to purple with a brown trailer later on and did better. No ish caught on worms today, which was a relie I have to ish that way at Folsom alot. We caught over 30 with hal being caught on crank bait including the 4lber.

Sunday, September 30th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took Benjamin Smith, winner o a trip I donated to the Rally at Clear Lake, 01. He is a student at Live Oak High school. We ished Saturday rom 7 am to 2 pm, on a beautiul, but unortunately very windy day. We had the typical east wind in the morning, then a south wind or about 2 hours, then a switch to northwest wind. I havn't seen that combo at Oroville or years. It really made teaching Benjamin the basics o bass ishing rather tough. While he wasn't able to get a jig bite, he did very well split-shotting a morning dawn magic worm!! He caught 4 and lost another 4. He biggest was a at 14 1/2 inch spot. I had hoped it would be over the slot, but it wasn't. I ished a brown/orange Rodstrainer jig most o the time, and landed 10, with three over the slot. My irst one was the biggest - 16 inches - caught in 10 eet o water. Most o our ish were 10 to 30 eet deep, caught in the main body and north ork walls. It was a unny type day - I would catch a bass or two on the jig, get Benjamin to ish the jig, and neither o us would get bit. He would go back to the worm, and I would start catching them again on jigs. This happened two or three times. Finally, I gave up and let him ish the worm. Weird!! He seemed to have a great time and was always very excited when he hooked one!! I really enjoyed his company. I don't like to make excuses, but I know he would have done much better i the wind hadn't caused so many problems. The north ork actually sounded like Clear Lake or awhile!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: Oroville is stable now, and there are active bass rom 10 to 40 eet. Jigs continue to work well or quality spots, and shakin' or split-shotting worms is a sure bet. We didn't try topwater or crankbaits, since I elt the water was still too warm. As soon as we get a ew nippy nights, the topwater bite should break wide open, especially in the late aternoons! We saw pond smelt and some bass on the meter rom 60 to 80 eet, all over the areas we ished. We did not try or them.

Thursday, September 20th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Since driving over the dam has been temporarily suspended, launching rom Bidwell was no problem. Workers are still removing tons o dirt rom the lower parking lot so be sure to close all your truck windows beore launching. Another irst or Oroville is the sign posted stating there is no night boating allowed. Fished the main body and toward the south and had some pretty hectic action on white/chartruese blades and actually got 2 over 15" throwing o rocky points and letting it drop and very slowly retrieving. Others came on a white tube ished with a 1/4 darthead. Many, many slots and line stretchers and you could see bait ish being gobbled by the mouthul and every ish brought into the boat had to be played a bit to have them toss most back into the water and not on the boat carpeting. Broke o 3 on a brown/orange jig (got to change my line more oten) but had a real nice day and things are getting better all the time. Must have caught 30-40 between us with a total o 6 over 15". Tried ripping and topwater while my partner was hauling them in the boat so went back to plastic. Have some un.........head or Oroville.
    City: Wheatland

    Tips: Slow rolling blades and tubes were the ticket. Launching at the lower Bidwell ramp was no problem as there was no traic in the AM but could get hectic with more boat traic so have your boat all ready and backing all the way down the short ramp is advisable....as my buddy ound out!

Saturday, September 15th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: MAX I PREDICT A ASS WHOOPING TOMORROW FOR YA
    City: BROWNSVILLE

Tuesday, August 28th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 77-78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT SPILLWAY ABOUT 12:00 DID NOT START FISHING TILL ABOUT 5:30 WENT SWIMMING AND HAD LUNCH FIRST, ANYWAY DECIDED TO TRY OUT DROP SHOTTING INSTEAD OF MY NORMAL 1/16-1/8 OZ DART HEAD, CAUGHT 3 FISH ON DROP SHOT, 1 15IN AND 2 12 INCHERS AND CAUGHT 2 ON A 4IN PINK FLUK ON A DART HEAD, 1 ABOUT 6IN AND ONE ABOUT 4IN, MAN THE 2 LITTLE GUYS HIT HARDER THAN THE 15IN FISH, WHEN THEY FIRST HIT I THOUGHT I HAD A BIG ONE, THOSE LITTLE GUY HAVE AN ATTITUDE. STOPPED FISHING AT 7:00 PM BECAUSE MY WIFE IS PREGNANT I DID NOT WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES ON THE LAKE AT NIGHT, NORMALLY I WOULD FISH UNTIL 12:00 OR 1:00 OR MY ARM FELL OFF.
    City: SAN JOSE, CA

    Tips: FISH THE DAM, I GRAPHED ALLOT OF FISH THERE AND CAUGHT ONE BUT ONLY FISHED IT FOR 15 MIN, FISH BIG CHUNK ROCK ANYWHERE ON THE LAKE OR STEEP WALLS WITH GOOD ROCK GOING DOWN. HIT THESE SPOTS IN AM OR HIT THEM WHEN SHADE STARTS HITTING THEM. I USED MORNING DAWN 4IN WORMS. P.S. I FORGOT TO TURN MY CAPS LOCK OFF, SORRY. ONE MORE THING LOAFER CREEK LAUNCH RAMP IS CLOSED SO IF YOU GO CAMPING YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO SPILLWAY TO LAUNCH.

Sunday, August 26th, 2001

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    Water Temp: u/k

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o the Spillway at 4:00 pm and went over to the dam. Picked up a slot ish on a 1/8 oz darthead with a watermellon Yamamoto split tail grub in about 15 eet o water. Moved to the main body and picked up a couple more slot ish with the same bait working around points. Moved out to about 30 eet and nailed a 17" spot beore braking o my 1/8 oz darthead. Retied with a 1/4 oz dart head and never got bit. Didn't get bit on a dropshot or splitshot either, so I went back to the 1/8 oz and yeppie, got some more. :)All in all, I was on the lake or 4 hours and had 6 bass brought to the boat. {5 slots and 1 over} Missed a couple others. It was my irst time on Oroville in about two years and I wanna go back soon. However, I sure am looking oreward to not having to share the ramps with the summertime loonies. once the cooler wether sets in. :)
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: I used a very slow presentation allowing the bait to crawl over rocks and stop oten.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2001

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    Water Temp: FLIPPEN WARM

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the dam area 2 dinks,on the shore, throwing plastics, my buddy tried drop shotting but with no luck. So we headed or the main body and hit the points had 2 good ones on and got one in the boat and that was it, the wind came up and we called it a day... went over to the ish ladder and stared at 20 to 40 lb salmon jumping oh well at least we got to see some big ish, praying or cooler weather to get the bass biteing again!!!!!!
    City: BROWNSVILLE

    Tips: ishing was slow, so bring beer

Sunday, August 19th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ???warm???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got there around 6, and launched right ater a tournament. Only ran ew hundred yards and started ishing north bank o dam. Got into them hot right away, and tapered o airly quick. Only ished until 11:00, and probably had around 30 ish between the three o us, with two over the slot. Was ishing with some o my new colors I'm developing, all womrs are very translucent, some chartruese, some purple, and a ew greens. Most ish were in about 30 eet o water. Missed probably as many ish as I caught, as I kept getting short hit and coming up with about an inch let on my worm. First time on the lake, and am looking orward to going again.
    City: Dixon

Friday, August 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The last Thursday nite tournament o the season turned out to be a real barn burner as at least 4 anglers had a shot at winning the $380.00 up or grabs. In the end it was Colby Knowles, a 17yr. old Paradise High School student and his dad Allan who won the money. Father and son shared a very special moment when Colby hooked a 21" spotted bass on a senko. Although weight is not a actor in these tournaments, the corrected weight o the ish was 4lbs.9oz. The next ish checked was also a large spot at 20". This ish would have easly gone 4lbs. as well. My partner and I would like to thank everyone who was able to come out this year and look orward to doing it again probably starting in May. One inal note, with the water being so low, lots o rocks are starting to show and not all are marked. Probably best to stay in the center o the channels on plane and go into the bank on the trolling motor.
    City: Paradise, Ca.

    Tips: Obviously there's a senko ish or 2 out there. Crankbaits, Jigs and Worms are working as well. No other reports were given.

Monday, August 6th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: For all o you that ish our Thursday nite tournaments, Thursday 8/9/2001 will be the last tournament this year. I know some o you monitor this site and i you have a riend that has ished with us you could kindly pass the word. I have another job thats not going to allow me to continue the tournaments and don't have anyone to take it over or me. I should have this job squared away by next season and hope to continue then. Our tournaments have averaged $400.00 or better this season so come out or the inal one this Thursday and lets try to break the $600.00 mark. Also would like to mention the Chico Bass Conservation Club & Nor-Cal Distributing Tournament this Saturday nite. Its or a good cause and the more boats they get the bigger the pay-out. For ino contact Oroville Bait & Tackle 530-5339220.
    City: Paradise, Ca.

Saturday, August 4th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out at 8pm on Thursday night. Couoldn't make it in time or the tourney so we decided to ish the night with the moon the way it was. I did very well on dark grubs. A couple o keepers and around thirty smaller ones. The ish weren't as aggressive as I would have thought only hitting the bait with one tap. I just started setting up on them immediately and it paid o. A lot o un, but would have liked to have caught some bigger ones.Not much top water action to speak o.....my dad got 2 on a pop r and a buzzbait. Water was still very dirty in some spots and it was hard to dierentiate in the dark.
    City: Paradise

    Tips: Dark colored 5 inch grubs in 10-20 eet o water o any decent looking rock structure.

Friday, August 3rd, 2001

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday nites tournament was won by Mike Sorenson and Mike Despain. The Mike's beat out 32 other anglers to win $340.00 or 1 19" bass. The ish was caught inside the 5 mile bouys at Lime Saddle Marina on a crankbait. As the pair were coming in around 8:30 they graphed some ish on a point and decided to make a ew casts beore time was up. Minutes later the ish was on and neither angler with a net. They teamed up to hand line the ish in or the win. Mike Despain becomes the irst angler to win more than once this year.
    City: Paradise, Ca.

    Tips: Crankbaits seem to be the ticket now with some action on jigs and buzzbaits. Not much inormation was shared because o upcoming tournaments.

Friday, July 27th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 80.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Results o Friday nights Night Stalker Bass Tournament...19 boats...Big Fish-7.16 Rainey&Olivera...1st Rainey&Olevera 12.07...2nd Flanders&Zinda 11.25....3rd Morris&Lackhart 9.15 ...4th Sipes&Smith 8.72...Congradulations to all. "Remember this Friday night Aug.3rd our third tourney... ull moon .... Come have some un,
    City: ooroville

    Tips: Us Cranks, Black Spinner baits,black buzz baits.... The big ish are up close eeding

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    Water Temp: 80.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Results o Friday nights Night Stalker Bass Tournament...19 boats...Big Fish-7.16 Rainey&Olivera...1st Rainey&Olevera 12.07...2nd Flanders&Zinda 11.25....3rd Morris&Lackhart 9.15 ...4th Sipes&Smith 8.72...Congradulations to all. "Remember this Friday night Aug.3rd our third tourney... ull moon .... Come have some un,
    City: ooroville

    Tips: Us Cranks, Black Spinner baits,black buzz baits.... The big ish are up close eeding