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Saturday, September 8th, 2001

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Irony. Seems I get a dose everytime I strap it on lately. This day was no dierent. What would you call catching at least one 3lb largemouth or better eveytime or a month except two tournament dates? This was the second o the two tournaments and we caught 7 keepers to 2.6lbs or 10.74- good enough to win a Newbass catagory 1 event. (boats under 100hp) My partner bladed one ish on a main lake point early, and rom there we worked the north rom Beale's Point to the narrows. We were in his boat and he caught our total on spinnerbaits. It was a six hour event and we had only 5 ish when we returned to our second spot near Beale's at 11:30. Talk about pulling it out. There I dragged worms and caught ish 6 & 7 back to back in the last hour. In the irst event two weeks ago I bladed ish rom the ront o my boat, and my partner split shot the money ish on that same spot in that event's last hour. The lake is dropping almost two eet per week and it won't be a spot or much longer. Within the irst two hours it was apparent the reaction bite had cooled o. Our dilema was either accelerate the rock to rock, run and gun blade pattern or slow down and worm the areas that produced ish. My partner wasn't a believer in the ormer, but he began to lean that way ater he nailed a ew. He opted or stopping and worming however, and it worked. Hard to second guess success, but one wonders the result had we pressed the reaction. Missed one strike on a jig and that's ater i threw it a substancial amount o the time. The jig had been working shallow, but the ish moved o. Props to my partner Terry. He turned around his tracker and came within two pounds o going back to back in club tournament on the delta the next day. He inished third on a nasty, wind blown, post ront day competing against a ew pros with rigs that would be considered o-shore capable by comparison. At the Folsom event I told Larry Newby I was a local. He asked me my opinion o the bite and I said it was the slowest in a month. I said the reaction had almost come to a complete stop. Ater that statement one o the top catagory II teams got up and said they caught over 20 on PopRs. Go igure.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Sometimes just a subtle change in conditions can abruptly slow down a reaction bite. A very minor ront came through and we went to a sotpastics back-up. Let the speed o the action and the quality o the ish help you decide how to get the best result rom limited time on the water.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake at 0730. Only a couple o other boats out. The lake is so low I would not recommend anything but an aluminum boat to prevent rock damage while launching. The dock is on the bottom and tilted to one side. I caught 9 bass and one trout. All ish came on rocky points in 25-35 t o water, either drop shotting a 4" Zipper worm or carolina rigged 4" watermellon senko. The trout hit the senko as I was pulling it up out o 35t o water. It was about 2lbs. The bass were all small with the lagest going about 2.2 lbs. It was a un time. I only ished 3 hrs.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Fish 25 t or more with 4" worm either texas or carolina rigged or use a drop shot and shake it. The deeper the water the bigger the ish.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my son up to Sonoma around 4pm and ished till midnight. Only landed 2 ish to 1.5 lbs on a buzz bait. Missed a big ish with a chart. buzzer beore dark. My son also missed several on top water baits.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Don't orget a trailer hook on buzz baits. Not much ishing pressure out there.

Friday, September 7th, 2001

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Been ishing Clearlake every weekend or the past couple months preparing or tournaments. Fishing is tough, but there are good quality ish to be ound. Frog bite has been excellent on the North end o the lake, but is tailing o and the weeds are dying o rapidly. This is concentrating the ish and under the right conditions good rog bites are still possible. Frog ish have been averaging 4#, but you may only get a ew bites a day. Jigs in brown/purple have been productive under docks and in rocky areas. Have also been getting some crank bait ish on red craw and brown craw FF Shad and Normans DD-22/DLNs mostly on the South end o the lake.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Be careul going into Rodman. Saw several boats get stuck on sand bar in ront o Island. Made it in by triming up and going in at 60MPH but still hit bottom and sanded my skeg and prop.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This report is in response to the previous report. I am deinitely no expert on Clear Lake, but I do have some ideas that have worked or me that you can work with on your trip. First o all, weather is going to play a major actor in your trip. I it is still in the upper 80's to 90's you can still get on a decent topwater bite. Also, you should still be able to get on some rog ish as well. The nice thing about the rog ishing is that it gets better as the day goes on. I the weather has cooled o some, I would suggest trying to ind yoursel some decent size rock piles and either deep crank them or Carolina a brush hog or big dead ringer worm. All the pro's and locals that ish out there rely on the rockpiles at one time or another,it's just a matter o locating them. One other thing, late summer and early all starts a baitish migration, so don't orget to chuck your rattletraps and ripbaits around. My buddy I had a day in late Sept. last year where we put over 50 ish up to 7 pounds in the boat ripping a cove. The bass had corraled a ton o bait ish and were practically tearing the rod out o our mits on the hit. The 7 pounder we caught ripped the bait away rom a 2 pounder that we were ighting. This method should be productive i you have some cloud cover and a little wind. Good luck.
      City: roseville, ca

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hi i am a young ishermen that tries to catch big ish at this Res. The bass I caught here was 5lbs but I want more. Can any one help me catch big ish here like bass catish and trout? Please email me so i can have a good ishing day! Thanks
      City: Orinda

      Tips: i caught my bass on a castaic perch bass here love them

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

      Report: Fri. morn. let McClure Pt. around 6:30. Fished mostlyparts south o there. Caught ish 1# to 4# using Shad rap,Green Weenie, and (wh/char) spinners around islands. Ater 10 AM NOTHING. Weather was great, sun was high and a breeze was welcomed. Coves and backwater held only dinks.

      Tips: water level is low and dropping. Underwater islands aren'talways where you expect them to be. The lake could be dangerous i you take too many chances. More than once, I was surprised.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out with Mr. Fuller this am, have to call him mr. Fuller because he whipped me, he caught 4, i got three, in the water at 540am at Jones Valley, ran out in ront o Jones Valley or about 30 hits but I couldn't get hooked up, had one hit me on irst cast but he jumped o, Bryce got the irst, second and third while I spent my time unplugging rom stumps etc. Ran up to Blue Canyon where I managed to redeem mysel or the next three with one being the biggest at 2.2lbs. The wind got worse while we were in Blue canyon with gusts near 35 knots. ran over to dead horse or two, one by bryce and a blowup on a jittebug in the middle o a shad ball. got o at 950am with the wind getting worse as we pulled out., stopped at the Jones valley market or a coke and saw two riends there on their way to the lake, bought a coke rom Diane and went home ater eyeballing some pictures o recently caught catish. i the wind keeps up this weekend the ABA guys are going to be in a bit o a tough situation. I am hoping Mr. Fuller will take me out next week!
      City: Redding

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

      Report: went and ished all the lures everyone's been talking about and caught one about 1 1/2 pounds on a black and chartruse senko.it was nice to be on the lake.
      City: oakland

Thursday, September 6th, 2001

  • Lake County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm heading to clear lake on 9-20-01, and was wondering i anyone has been hitting the lake during the day as all I see are ishing reports or the late aternoon/night bite. Would like to know what the water level is like, and i anyone has a simple pattern going or i it's a tough bite? Can anyone help me out a little ? Any ino. would be greatly appreciated.
      City: Tracy

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son and I ished rom 6pm till dark upper end o lake 500 yards down stream rom Temperence. Tried top water, dark worms and spinnerbates. Maybe two bites the entire trip. Saw something interesting....minnows (shad?) jumping out o the water close to shore, not like they were being chased but a constant jumping rate o maybe 10/min.
      City: Madera

Wednesday, September 5th, 2001

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Threw grassrogs rom shore with a ew riends. The only ish we saw in the grass were the giant carp we kept spook'n, must have been a 20lb plus carp. Got me all wet when that carp jumped almost HALFWAY out o the lake.

      Tips: 17lb test 6 months old sucks. Change your line.

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      Water Temp: 79'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rented a boat with my buddy. Got there at 7:30 and went to sandy point. (Across rom North Marina.)Tried many dierent color power bait and crawler o the bottom (Texas style) with no luck.Trolled the dam and caught one 6" bass on a red/orange bouyant.That was it! Nothin! Water murkey. The lip has begun!Got windy and couldn't hold a troll course...
      City: Milpitas

      Tips: Jig or bass along steep cli looking coast's and by allen trees...The trout are either ull or just not hungry!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: THEY ARE GONE, THE LAKE IS QUIET! got in at Packers at 0530 this am, nobody there, air temp 59 lake down past 90t, dropped the trolling motor and laid out a selection o worms, 2 casts per worm and got 8 when I made it out to the main channel point to 1.9lbs 2 on the MGM #109 4inch, 3 on the MGM#54 in a 4 inch, and 3 on a MGM #69 blue ghost in a 4 inch. cranked up and ran over into waters gulch at 0630, got 6 more on the MGM #109 winch and one was a at 2.6 smallmouth, not a boat in sight on the Sac arm, nothing on the MCCloud and three around no name, all ishing, not a single jet ski or ski boat. I have died and gone to heaven!water is clearing up and the mudlines have dissapated rapidly. Got out at 830 am and only two other rigs on the ramp, temp going out was 66 degrees. a humdinger o a morning!
      City: Redding

Tuesday, September 4th, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I am going out to the delta in mid-october. I don't have a boat, so I will be casting rom the shore...any good places near the San Joaquin River???
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Shasta County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers at 6:00AM. 1 blowup on spittin image 1st thing, nice ish. Caught 14 total using 4" MGM#54, 20 to 30 eet. Stayed in Packers Bay area. All short at ish. Should have been out by 10:00 but ramp was blocked or a couple o hours while some equippment was unloaded rom a barge to a trailer on the ramp.
      City: Cottonwood

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      Water Temp: 78+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Was home or a change with enough time to put my boat in the water.. Went up to Jones Valley about 12:00 Noon, spent the aternoon staring at 100's o ish one the inder with my grandson. Must not have been holding the pole right. 4 1/2 hours and only one bite...Tried everything in the tackle box.. Guess we'll try late evening till AM next time. Lake is REALLY down, watch the snags.
      City: Cottonwood, Ca

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Forget the mickey mousing with the plastics. You only need one thing or nighttime right now. BLACK BUZZBAIT. Caught some nice ish last night. Just keep the boat moving and throw the buzzbait til your arm alls o. Awsome explosions. Flats with grass,shallow banks. Its nice to just throw one thing the whole night. The one thing I can say is have conidence in it. Stick with it. I'm starting to listen to you G-Man. I'm still shaking rom the explosions.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Used a 1/2 oz Persuader black/blue buzzbait with a yamamoto twintail D/T H-Grub 5"(214). Just trim the skirt o at the top and thread it on and then add the trailer hook. You won't regret it. It will work on any lake. It took about 45 mins or my irst hookup. So you have to be patient and stick with it. Just my 02cents worth. Good luck.

Monday, September 3rd, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, my buddy and I hit the good old Delta once again. I knew better than to venture out on Labor Day weekend. We started out o Hollands tract and hit my avorite spot to start. Managed a ish on a buzz bait and then started throwing the senkos and the speed traps. The boats started getting out o hand. We let around 5:00 P.M. All in all we managed about 15 Bass. They were all small and the largest was only 1.5 lbs. I igured any bass in his right mind would be reaked out by all o the boat traic. My buddy went out this morning 9-4 but, I havent talked to him yet hope he did well. I he did I will let you know. Best o luck out there
      City: Alameda

      Tips: Catch and release. Oh yea almost orgot two o the bass we caught actually had crawdads in there bellies. When I looked down there throat I saw a claw sticking out. One o the claws was still moving. I o course let them go to inish the digestion process.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Hollands at 6:45 and never went more than a mile or so away. Caught 2 or 3 dinks usin plastics. My partner worked a 3/4 ounce black spinnerbait with a single black Colorado blade. We saw a small tulle patch 50 eet rom the bank in 20 eet o water. The next thing I knew he had a BIG ish on. He said it was in about 10 eet o water and that he was workin it slow. 7.10 was the weight. The total was 8 pounds or the day so the other 3 we got were not good. It was a tough day but that ish made the trip. I got a lot o good ino here so thanks to all o you.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Big black spinnerbait.