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Friday, July 23rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 83

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake by 4:00 with the temp about 102...first thing my son and I did was jump in the lake...just to cool down. Tried first to find some shade to see if fish were holding up there...zero...went back to the main lake and started casting where the wind blew into the trees..fished like that untill dark and ended up with about 8..largst being around 1 1/2lbs..texas worm pro green weenie and keeper worms ...tough fishing with the skiiers and low water conditions...felt like we were in the ocean! I wish the skiiers and jet idiots would just go home...I'm just venting,,,sorry California needs to learn to protect there fisheries better..
    City: Clovis

    Tips: Cast 3-5 feet in front of the submerged trees and let the wind bring whatever you are presenting into the trees.....be patient and don't be afraid to deadstick it a bit.....when you start to work it...go slow...a very subtle bite. Also let them truly take it...don't set too soon

Monday, June 21st, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my 13 tr old son out to Pine Flat monday afternoon and found the cold water line up river with bass and trout on top hitting shad. wide open bite on jerk baits for both. Spent the night on the boat in 40 ft just past that water line. Found a great trout night bite with a floating light and crickets, I'm talking 3 to 5lb big bows. we also had a catfish pole out and couldn't keep it in the water over 15 min with out a big cat. We then found a flat in the same area in the am loaded with nice bass hitting my favorite keeper 1010 tx style. I catch more nice spots on a keeper 1010 than anything on Pine Flat, it must be the sparkle tail. All in all a great outing my Son and I will cherish for years to come
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Night bite 40ft water with floating light and crikets. I bought my light at big 5 which clamps to my battery, very nice, lanterns turn your night fishing into bug city. I let all my fish go so you can catch them again...

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Visited my buddy in Fresno this past weekend, and fished Pine Flat for the first time. Fished from noon to dinner on Sat and managed 11, including a personal best 3.3 lb spot. Got a slightly earlier start on Sunday - fished from around 9 to lunch time. Action was a lot faster on Sunday(a lot less boaters). Had my 2nd limit by noon, and my buddy got his 1st limit an hour later. No real size, best fish was around 2.5.

    We were drop-shotting and split-shotting in around 15-30' of water off of main lake rocky points. I also got some dragging a one-ton rig(brown, green flake) through mudlines off muddy banks. Nice lake, but it was really windy both days.
    City: Newark

    Tips: Best luck with a 4.5" curl-tail natural shad drop-shot about 12" off the bottom. In the mudlines on Sat, I needed to color the tail chartreuse to get bit. On Sunday, the water was a lot clearer due to a lot fewer boats. They didn't want chartreuse at all, but nailed natural shad and baby bluegill really hard. Most fish were on the backside of rocky points in 15-30'. They were a bit shallower whenever there was a mudline around the point

Friday, May 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Friday at 3:30 first cast with brown/orange worm caught first bass. Picked up a few more dinks. My partner picked up a 2 and 3 pounder on rocky point. Saturday fished same area I lost one about 2 lbs my partner caught a 2 pounder. He also picked up a few dinks using green/brown 4" worm with split shot and a brown jig. Sunday caught 3 dinks and lost one about 1.5 lbs with in 1 hour using crawdad colored crankbait around boulders and brush. Even a bluegill was caught on my partners crankbait. Picked up a few more on worms around boulders/brush.
    City: Lemoore

Wednesday, May 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at 1430hours, tried main lake points and nailed a ton of dinks, drop shotting a smoke keeper worm with an orange bloodline. Then started moving to the river and hit a 2.11lb large off a brush laydown on a watermelon weightless senko. Threw a white spinnerbait on some trees in the river and first cast nailed a 1lb crappie, next cast hit a 15 inch squaw fish, Go Figure. Ended up with about 20 fish, but mostly dink/spots.
    City: Tulare

    Tips: POST YOUR REPORTS, IM TIRED OF SEEING MY NAME ON THE SUCCESS LAKE REPORT FROM MARCH.....Another tip......POST YOUR REPORTS!

Sunday, April 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Father-in -law and I got on the water at about a quarter to 7am. Nailed a nice one on my 3rd cast of the morning, slammed them all day until about noon, then the bite slowed. Had a blast!
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Fish 4" worms slow.

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at 2:30pm, right off nailed a bunch of dinks at La-Fever(?spelling). Switched up to a weightless 3inch Senko smoke w/black flake and nailed about three 2 1/2 pound spots off of rocks. Fished till a lil after dark around rocks and sand and tore em up.
    City: Tulare

    Tips: weightless senko's, drop shotting...just put a hook in the water.

Saturday, March 20th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my partner got to the lake at 9:00 and man was it slow. Fished until about 2:30 or 3:00 and only boated 3 fish and I was ready to go home but stayed. Good thing too. After about 3:00 it was just one after another. Ended up with 20-25 fish with the biggest going about 5lbs. All of them in windy gap area on a pro worm paddle tail.
    City: Fresno

Friday, March 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 64-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Was bed fishing a week ago and it seems to be over. Water clarity is down due to carp spawning everywhere!
    I caught nine keepers in a half day of fishing but could not establish a pattern. Senkos, cranks, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits and rip baits were all good for a fish every 20-30 minutes. Most were 15" and fat with one four pounder on the buzzbait.
    City: Reedley

    Tips: Cover water and mix it up.

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: With over a week of hot temperatures was expecting a wide open bite. Not there yet, but had a really good time catching a mixture of spots and largemouth averaging 1.7lbs with largest going 2.52lbs. The fish are starting to stage. We caught our better fish inside coves that were wind protected. The best pattern was drop shotting shad colored or oxblood worms. Toss it up against the bank in 2-4 foot of water and pull it off and let it drop another foot or so. Their looking up and taking it as it drops. The bite is very suttle so keep a sensitive touch to the rod. A couple of times my partner and I thought we were hung up in grass but were later surprise with a scrappy 2lb'er.
    Have fun, we sure did.
    City: Sunnyvale

Friday, March 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in windy gap w/ Frank Kaiser. They are starting to get active. 3@ 3lbs.+ plus 5 keepers. Even caught 2 crappie on crankbaits. Fish are starting to hit reaction baits, Senkos in pumpkinseed & green jigs.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Fish slow, they are in 20-30' of water but will come up to hit cranks.

Sunday, February 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: 3 people caught 20 spots dropshotting in 20-50 eet. Throughout the morning I would ind a spot with a bunch o ish and me and my partners could pick up 3 or 4, then we would have to move. We ound three productive spots that accounted or 15 o the ish. The rest o the time we searched the bank and were lucky to catch one.

    Tips: Shad colored dropshot rig.

Friday, February 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49.6

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started early with MBtopwater, throwing blades and suspending jerk baits at Zebe cove point with no luck. Thought ish would be up shallow as the preceeding week was sunny and 60 to 65 degrees. Weather was overcast and cold so no morning bite or us. Went to Windy Gap, stated ishing points and walls in 15-30 eet shaking 6" worms. This pattern had been working over the past month, no luck. Started the big motor and graphed the walls and points, ound bait ish and bass in 40-50 eet. MBTopwater starts drop shott'n and immediatly get bit, nice 3 pound spot. Ater he gets 5 ish in the boat, switch to the drop shot and we are putting good health spots and blacks in the boat on consistent basis. I tried various baits and presentations but this day the ish wanted the 4.5 inch curl tail worm in shad pattern. All ish were healthy and at, practice catch and release and we will have a good spawn and good ishning or years to come.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Full out winter pattern, ish at 40-50 eet. Use your electronics to ind the bait and ind the ish

Sunday, February 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: COLD

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went up today at 9:30 am ,very cold going across the water,ran to river, started with cranks "0",went to dropshot "0",went to spinnerbait,jigs,plastics "0",not one bite all day,seen some guys pulling in some trout, inact the water was so cold I saw a trout swim by with a coat on. I think the bass took this weekend o, I'll just try another day. Good luck and good ishing.
    City: VISALIA

    Tips: Stay home and put another log on the ire.

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: COLD!

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I caught 7 bass (3 spots, 4 loridas) dropshotting in 35 to 65 eet o water. Most came in the 55 to 65 range o a main lake point. The ish are deeper than they were a week ago.

    Tips: 3" to 5" shad looking plastics dropshotted about 1.5 to 2 eet o the bottom. Windy Gap was slow.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?????

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Ater wasting 2 hours trying reaction baits, I ound the ish in a ull on winter pattern. Dropshot, spoon, 4" plastics in 30'-50', it all worked or 6-10 ish per hour. 2-15",2-14", the rest rom 11"-13" or a 20+ ish day. E/S
    City: Reedley

Friday, October 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Great day... hit the water at 7am and started ishing windy gap tied to a tree at 38 t. had a catish pole with minnows and ished with crickets or bluegill and yes I have a two pole stamp. the bluegill bite was hot and I caught two nice cats one at 6lb. then bass started chasing shad all around the boat so I chunked a silver jerk bait and killed um, small but un un un. Then to my suprize this huge (like 5 lb huge) rainbow hit my jerk bait and another ater that. Catish, big Bluegill, Bass, and Trout all in the same water without moving the boat. Awsome... it won't last so go get um
    City: Visalia

    Tips: live minnows or cats, crickits down 20 t or blugill and ollow the busting shad and toss anything silver or bass and trout

Friday, July 11th, 2003

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tried the ull moon and had a great time.Basically caught ish rom time we arrived(7:30p.m.) until 1:30a.m. Caught mostly spots, but landed bigger large mouth in the 2lb.+ range.Caught all the ish in windy gap.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Most ish caught on plastics,a ew came on a black spinner bait.I you weren't bit with in a ew eet o the bank, reel it in and cast right up against the bank again.Fish rocky banks mixed with sand.

Saturday, June 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started ishing at 5:15am to 1:15pm cought 5 ish 3 largemouth, 1 spot & 1 smallmouth.the smallmouth(2.7lbs)& 1 lrg. mouth(1.3lbs) came on a ripbait,the other ish(1-1.5lbs) all came splittshotin 4" witchcrat worms by seawitch products on (atomic shad & vapor trail)color.it was a great day with some tough ishin but still lots o un
    City: santa cruz

    Tips: splitshotin looded willows along cuts really slow in 8'-15'deep good luck guys

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went ishing at night till morning with no bass o any size just two crappie on minnows. Water came up ast and ish were not biting. I did ind schools o shad and saw a ew big bass up river where the water line changes to cold run o but no luck. Maybe in a ew weeks things will improve.
    City: Visalia