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Sunday, June 6th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish Fortuna ire dept co. 2 bass tournament on Sunday June 6. as usual got another bad draw. Fished main lake with 3" pumpken seed brown getsit, in 18 eet o water, at base o down trees. Caught 3 keepers in irst hour 1/2 o tournament. The wind came up earler than usual at about 8:oo am. Tough ishing ater that. Finished 3rd and caught big ish in tournament.
    City: Ferndale

    Tips: Fished brown gitsits becaused preished saw bluegil on beds. P.S. alway carry a big anchor and stick with ishing plans or that tournament NO MATTER WHAT.............

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished the ortuna ire departments bass tournament last sat.got one ish 1.7 on a purplezipper worm lots o small ish in this one .the one ish was good or 21st place,big ish was justover 3 pounds.a 8 pound 5 ish limit won the tournament.54 boats ished in this one,didn't placevery well but had heck o a good time.
    City: Fortuna

    Tips: n/a

Friday, June 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ish upper end with char/white spinner bait 1/2 oz caught16 inch in back o creek channel. caught alot o dinks onbuz bait irst thing in morning. caught some 13 inch ish at18 eet on split shot worms colors bubblegum blue.
    City: Ferndale

    Tips: n/a

Sunday, May 30th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: did a little preish or the up and coming bass tournament june 6th. ished the upper endusual black 6"worms worked the best.tu weekend lake was very busy caught 2 ish at the min sizelimit. the rest were dink,dink,dink,dink,and so on.hope the tournament goes better.
    City: Fortuna

    Tips: main points,black 6"worms

Tuesday, May 11th, 1999

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I took a irst time basser up to the uppper end and we ished rom noon until dark. The weather was constantly changing rom overcast to clear with rain and wind mixed in all day. The dinks were out in ull orce as usual but we did manage to get three over the 15" limit- 4.7, 2.6, and 2.1. The larger ish came on prime staging areas o the bank but I did not ind any concentrations o larger ish. The 8-12 inchers went or everything but spinnerbaits or us, easily had over 50 ish. Larger ish went or jigs and one on jerkbait.
    City: Arcata

    Tips: n/a

Monday, April 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the upper end irst thing in the morning.hooked most o the ish all largemouth on black texas rigged 4" worm.as the temps came up with the sun crawdad colored crankbaits were working on both largemouth and smallmouth. Most o the ish were all dinks, but a heck o a lotta un.i think the lake is still a ew goodweather days away.
    City: Fortuna

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Dave is that your real email address. Tried to shoot you an email but no go.
    City: Mckinleyville

    Tips: Throw the little ones on the bank and let the big ones go.

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out by mysel. Started late and caught mostly dinks. Started out on the lats and got alot on reaction baits(cranks,rip,spinners,etc). Moved o and ished wood and points. Still the same more dinks in numbers. Must ish this lake early or late.
    City: Rio Dell

    Tips: I would suggest to slow down and ish slow. I you want to catch numbers then no need to ish hard. I the big ones you are ater I would recomend to ish early.