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Sunday, February 24th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the lower cut that tracy Oasis is located on using black and blue spinner slow rolling in tules and wood hit 5 at 2lbs picked up 2 more 1lbs rist ish since Dec 23 was a good day
      City: Byron

      Tips: ish were in the shallow warmmer water looked like they had not seen the sun or awhile

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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT IN FLOAT TUBE LAST SUNDAY ONE FISH TO REPOT.WAS BASS FISHING ALL FISHING WAS DONE IN SHALLOW WATER CLOSE TO TULES ROCKS TREES.WAS A SLOW DAY WAS ONE OTHER BOAT OUT FISHING FOR BASS HE REPORTED NO FISH NEXT TIME OUT WILLGO MAYBE DEEP IF BASS DO NOT RESPOND.
      City: PITTSBURG

      Tips: SHALLOW FISHING,LURES PLASTIC BAITS

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ya right 35 bass a day in eb. how am I supost to belive the rest o that report
      City: livermore

      Tips: keep it real

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Reporting in or Swimbait here- he'll be thrilled I did that. I've been on Oroville seems like all winter- I waited to post a report there until the series o tournaments comes to a conclusion. Swimbait caught 4 keepers in the north on darterheads. He said the south was cold and muddy and ull o debris. Not unexpected- the lake is rising hal a oot per day.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: A warming trend could turn on an early pre-spawn bite.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Reporting in or Swimbait here- he'll be thrilled I did that. I've been on Oroville seems like all winter- I waited to post a report there until the series o tournaments comes to a conclusion. Swimbait got 4 keepers in the north on darterheads. He said the south was cold and muddy and ull o debris. Not unexpected- the lake is rising hal a oot per day.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: A warming trend could turn on an early pre-spawn bite.

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      Water Temp: 50-53'F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well Ladies and Catchermen, I have been skunked. Kevin and I went out in this Sunday Aternoon. Kevin ropes a small spot right o the bat. I thought it was going to be a good day. Unortunatley or us that is all we caught. Yep one ish. Thats pathetic. I hope you all had better luck than I did. We'll try again this weekend and see what mutha nature holds or us. Good luck
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Kev caught his in a 3/8 oz spinnerbait. White/silver, with willowlea blades, o rocky points near deep water. We ished the North ork due to wind.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled with spoons and cranks without a strike. Drop shotted and cranked also. Skunked!!! Talked to other isherman who were also skunked ater ishing all day. The marina says ishing has been on or o today it was o!
      City: Merced

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Submitted a report yesterday or Mondat but It didn't go through??Anyway I ished The big lake on 2-24 and had a good day,hooked 15 ish rom 6-12lbs. all ish were caught slow rollin nam motkaewhrg shad/anchovies near the trash rack. Fish are still being caught on minnows,shad,and broken backs.Fish seemed to be hitting short as we missed a large # o strikes.I thinkk they were just hitting at it and not eating it

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a 5.4 Spotted Bass. She hit a Lucky Crat jerk bait in ive eet o water at 7:45 AM.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Look or murky water and main lake points

Saturday, February 23rd, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, here goes. My buddy John Kort and I ished the Semi Pro New Bass out o Brannon and what a crazy day it was. We made the long run to Whites and ound three boats right in the area we had been picking up ish. Bummer. We decided to pull back a hundred yards or so and work a dierent area until the traic cleared out and man am I glad we did. About 7:30 John hit a small 14 inch bass, but it's always nice to get that irst one in the boat. The only problem is right about that time we watched the guys on our point hit a nice 3 pounder. Arrrgh! We kept plugging away in the area and about 7:45 that magical delta window opened. In the next 5 minutes we hit a 6.4, 5.1 and a 4.8. It was on! We then went over to our regular area and picked up some more quality ish and had a nice 24-25 pound limit by 8:30. Things kind o slowed up a little bit, but by 12:30 or so and the wind howling the place went nuts again. We hit another 10 keepers or so, anchored by a 7.9 pounder. By this time we knew we had at least 27 pounds and headed in around 2:45. Believe it or not this is when it gets crazy. On the way back we hit a log and didn't think it was to bad until we got back and noticed that it had ripped up the prop and broke a piece out o the lower unit. Then we get back and ind out that the leader in the tournament has over 25 pounds. That a lot o weight considering it only took 16.5 pounds to win the same tourney last year. It seemed like orever but we inally got to weigh in. To our surprise we had 29.80 pounds and big ish. then came the shocker. The third to the last boat comes in with a pair o 8 pounders and a 35 pound limit. Holy S..t! by this time every one is just shaking their heads at the incredible weights. Keep in mind, this is a semi pro tourney. I can't imagine what the Barracks and Lees would o done on Sat. Anyways, we did manage 2nd place and 2nd big ish. Here's the kicker. On the way home we hit the biggest damn barn owl I have over seen. This thing scared the lie out o us, but apparently it didn't phase the owl, because we looked back and it just kept on lying out into a ield. Like I said, "one crazy day".
      City: roseville

      Tips: It would be unair to say what was really working, because I think the ish were hitting everything on Sat. Our pattern was dark plastics on lats. all we did was cast out and let the wind an current was the baits around and wait or the hit. We really has to let the ish have the bait. Sometimes giving the ish a 10 count. On the other end o the scale, we talked to the winners and they said they caught all o their quality ish tight on blades and senkos. They also said the ish were really inhaling everything they threw. It seems like everyone had a phenomenal day out there and 17-20 pound limits were the rule.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Cranked some good ish on white speed trap. Drop shotted some good ish with 6" worms brown & green. Flipped a good ish with a 7" Zipper Magnum Worm (CINNAMON OXBLOOD ADAR)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fished the down stream ends o islands and lipped tules with deep water in ront. Cranked tule pockets.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished the Newbass Semi-pro on Saturday out o Brannon Island State Park with my 8 year old daughter. I had some ish going around Bethel Island, and with the wind this is where I had to stay. (I was ishing out o my 15 t Cajun w/ 40hp). I was pitching a Senko around docks and tules or 7 ish that weighed 17.1lbs, biggest was 3.75lbs. Not a bad day since I was not able to ish many other spots. But there were some awesome weights, 35.25 to win, 29+ or 2nd and 25+ or third, and many weights around 20lbs. 17.1 was only good or 20th place, I thought there were 2 hp divisions, but I was wrong. All my ish came on Senkos, but alot o the bigger weights came on blades, rattle traps and Senkos. Many people stated they caught their ish in and around the Break. The event ran smoothly and Brannon sure makes it easy to get your boat in and out.
      City: san jose

      Tips: I was not even thinking reaction bite, but the big ones are eeding and active it would seem. I bet the Western Bass next weekend will have some giant weights.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7am, out going tide, to 2:30 pm, in coming tide, out o Ladds. Fished main channel rom Ladds to Port o Stockton. 1st two 13 inchers came cranking a shad pattern Speed Trap along rip rap then a 20" striper on a Texas rigged camo Brush Hog. Last keeper, 3 lber. came on weightless watermelon Senko near sparse clump o tules. Several dinks, >13", on Senkos & split shot 4" green weenie type worms. Time to replace trolling motor batteries. Running against the in coming tide burned the oldest one out quick.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Shad pattern Speed Trap & dark colored Senkos accounted or what ew keepers we boated.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Big Break ( just aint the same without Gene & The Hook ) ished the break throwing blades,cranks,and jigs... nada,zip,nuthin...went over and ished the Jersey Isle rock wall along Dutch Slough near the old sunken barge, stuck ive 1 lb. ootballs in short order on a red speed trap then nothing... went across the slough and started ishing the tules, immediately stuck a 8 lb'r on 1/2 oz blk & blu denny brauer jig that was lipped back in a opening 2 eet back into the tule line. continued on up the tule line lipping the jig back into heavy cover, and when it was all said and done, ended up with about 20 ish total, best 5 went close to 30 lbs .. now i I could just do that in a tournament, just once , maybe Ill ind that religion eveyone keeps telling me I should ind....
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Bring " The Hook " along with the clan that goes with it, back to the marina, and lower the launch price back to what it was !!.......

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Wasn

      Tips: deep and slow!

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      Water Temp: 56-57 F.

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day in the boat and nothing. Schooled ish were deep 100+ t. At the boat ramp I caught a 2lbs. small mouth on a Kastmaster. Other than that it was dead....
      City: Livermore

      Tips: try goin deep you might catch something. or wait until the water warms up a bit

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers club launched 6 boats rom the Don Pedro Marina, we rented two house boats or the night prior to the tournament which was a pleasant stay with excellent service. My Partner and I planned to ish the 49er area irst stop but ound plenty o boats there beore us, we ished a rocky point with wood close by and Gino stuck our irst ish which was 3.37 Pounds that ell or a darter head Yamamoto ( brown) hula grub. Ater ishing the area with no more bites we decided to run up the other arm to check out water alls I had ished in the past. The alls didnt give any ish so we trolled over to main lake secondary points.I stuck a 14" ish so we decided to stay and ish the area,we ound a bush that had ish stacked , the boat was above 30' o water and I splitshotted a 4" Robo worm through the bush- the ish would suck the worm in and as I elt added weight I would set the hook, the ish appeared to be in 12 -15 t o water. I stuck 3 more ish this way.We inished 1st place-Big Fish or 4 ish 8.26Lbs. 2nd Place weighed a limit or over 6 pounds and 3rd Place also weighed in the 6 pound range. The wind picked up in the late morning aternoon time.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: The wind made ishing alittle tough , I pointed the boat towards the wind to hold it paralell to the bank, added Fish attractant to my worms, the ish appeard to be stagingto go in and look or beds. Didnt get any reaction bites.Good Luck

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Club tournament saturday. 19 ished 7 limits. 4 blanks,ish were 5 to 25 eet deep. Watermellon baby brush hogs with black lakes carolina or split shot. Spinnerbaits in aternoon when the wind came up. My partner pat and I had heavy boat 2 limits 20.5 lbs. Bass were mix o large mouth and at little spots. Most were relating to shallow coves.Blade ish were in mud lines and points in wind.
      City: sac

      Tips: Pre spawn is coming. Bites were explosive and sudden. Hang on to your rod. I use power pro line with locarbon leaders.Maybe that's why the bites elt so good. two oot leaders worked good. Must be wood present or move on. Had to be watermelon color. Aqua view showed lots o ish 12 inches o the bottom moving around relating to wood. We averaged one good ish an hour. Wasted time ishing between coves.When the wind comes up throw white spinnerbaits or rettle traps in mud line driting with the wind.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a club tourney on sat, 10 boats.All but 2 boats had ish. Three ish took irst. All large mouth. Cought in backs o coves with wood. all opther ish were smallies, cought by island points. Pritty good day. Thanks to all who submit reports
      City: bay area

      Tips: mostly worming,slow cranking. All males ,looks like there staging.

Friday, February 22nd, 2002

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on saturday and launched out o Markley cove at about 10:30 a.m. Started ishing along the banks o markley on the right hand side and started catching ish on worms and lizards split shot. Nothing o size so proceeded to ish the backs o cuts thruoghout the narrows and started catching good lagemouth and smallmouth to 2.5 lbs on lizards and morning dawn worms in about 5-20 t o water.Overall about 15 ish and two dinks.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Look in the backs o the cuts and coves the largemouth are coming up.