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Tuesday, July 24th, 2001

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: have not been out in the am lately so o I went, in at Jones Valley at 505am, air temp 74, water going past 66t, ran up the pit hitting points near Reynolds Creek or 6 dinks, the biggest at 1.6 and two were smallmouth, couldn't get any top water working, tossed a spook, jittterbug, blades, and an auroro black, went to my jigging rod to get the small guys who were mostly up against the bank. it quit at 7am, stopped by the Hiden Valley Market in downtown Jones Valley and shot the breeze with the boss lady and the guy who helps her out, they have a nice store and I love their ountain coke machine. theya re well stocked and a godd source o ino or any type o ishing on Shasta. out o the water at 805 am temp up to 87 already, going to hit 105 today.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: have not been out in the am lately so o I went, in at Jones Valley at 505am, air temp 74, water going past 66t, ran up the pit hitting points near Reynolds Creek or 6 dinks, the biggest at 1.6 and two were smallmouth, couldn't get any top water working, tossed a spook, jittterbug, blades, and an auroro black, went to my jigging rod to get the small guys who were mostly up against the bank. it quit at 7am, stopped by the Hiden Valley Market in downtown Jones Valley and shot the breeze with the boss lady and the guy who helps her out, they have a nice store and I love their ountain coke machine. theya re well stocked and a godd source o ino or any type o ishing on Shasta. out o the water at 805 am temp up to 87 already, going to hit 105 today.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: have not been out in the am lately so o I went, in at Jones Valley at 505am, air temp 74, water going past 66t, ran up the pit hitting points near Reynolds Creek or 6 dinks, the biggest at 1.6 and two were smallmouth, couldn't get any top water working, tossed a spook, jittterbug, blades, and an auroro black, went to my jigging rod to get the small guys who were mostly up against the bank. it quit at 7am, stopped by the Hiden Valley Market in downtown Jones Valley and shot the breeze with the boss lady and the guy who helps her out, they have a nice store and I love their ountain coke machine. theya re well stocked and a godd source o ino or any type o ishing on Shasta. out o the water at 805 am temp up to 87 already, going to hit 105 today.
      City: Redding

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

      Report: Fish the Redwood bass night tourn. on sat. 6pm to 7am. First wiegh in was at midnight, I wieged in 1 ish or 1.5lbs. pretty weak. Next wiegh in only 2 ish or 3.5lbs. Winning bag was 5 ish or 15.10lbs. Big ish was 5.25lbs. 15 boats entered, Some couldn't ind any ish some ound all the ish!!!!Who knows.
      City: Santa Rosa

Monday, July 23rd, 2001

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

      Report: I agree totally, Don. Maybe I everybody who leaves reports here complains, something could get done. I dont think that it will just take one call. I am willing to call.
      City: turlock

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished Bethel Island area Saturday night and Sunday. Caught our ish dinks Sat. night rom 6:30-8:30 using crawdad color crankbaits along rock walls, and one nice 3+ pounder on a brush hog. Sunday aternoon, the bass were only hitting chartuese spinner baits along the outsides o the weedlines, as the tide was going in. Four pinner ish all o sunday, but still had a great time ishing the best bass waters in the U.S.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Crawdad crankbaits were producing along the rock walls as the tide was going out.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished White's Slough on Friday out o my kick boat. On the water by 5:30 tyied buzz baits and spinner baits with no luck caucht my irst ish (a dink) lipping a reeper at around 7:30. No more ish untill the tide started going out at around 8:30 Then caught two keepers and a dink split shotting the same reeper in tules that had deep weeds near to them. Picked up one more keeper cranking on the out side o a weed line. O the water by 11:00
      City: Sacramento

Sunday, July 22nd, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Guide trip 2 persons only spinning gear 8lb line 1/18-1/16th oz weight Started in Washington cut with high tide and these ish are still not on the bank we landed 4 to 2.2lbs all in 4-6t o waterWe then hope scotched south only landing 8 more ish beore noon tough bite and all o the ish were deep but we didn't try any reacation baits. Ater noon we ran down old river the pumps were running hard, a big outgoing tide and the water was still running south so we headed into the current and pitched worms and bounced them o the bottem in 4-10t o water kinda like trout ishing we landed another 20 ish including a 6lber by 3:00 working hard and covering a lot o water we managed 32 bass
      City: Concord

      Tips: Experment and let the ish tell you what thay want, try ishing a little slower and deeper

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry I have not posted here or so long. I have been ishing, but neglecting the posts. I launched out o Lundborg Landing at 3pm on sunday, man I love watching the ski boats and jet-skis heading to the docks to go home. Dee was pulling out and Mark Lassagne looked like he was just inishing a guide trip as I pulled in, I wonder how they did. I started out on the East side o Franks Tract and picked up a 2lber on a Senko in some tule shadows. Nothing more until about 6pm. Then ished the East side o Mandeville to get out o the wind and ound some ish on the buzzbait. Damndest thing though, I got 3 blow ups, none o which touched the bait, ollowed up with Senko, and got all 3 to bite again, solid and missed all 3. Let there and went to the north side o Mandeville and caught about 25 ish in about an hour just beore sundown. Best ish was 3lb on a senko, but I caught 20 ish on the Duh spinnerbait, they were crushing it, even the stinger hook was torn o, they destroyed 1 spinnerbait, it is now useless. This is the second time I have had explosive bites just beore dark, I will choose this time to ish much more oten.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Get things you need to do done then go ishing, it is so much more un ishing knowing you don't have work to go home to! have un.

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      Water Temp: upper 70's to l

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I don't have my 5 hp out board any more, so I was just restricted to ish the cove only this evening. My olks got ahold o another outboard or ree so soon I will be able to ish other areas again. Lately I've been in the process o buying my irst home in the Lincoln district next to Village Oaks school. I've been so use to ishing almost every day, but now it is once a week or awhile. Any ways back to the ishing. I only hooked and landed three bass or the three hours o ishing until dark. Excaliber Swimm'in Image, Zoom Super Flukes, and black buzzbaits were the lures o choice. Big ish went 4.5 lbs. on the buzzbait around 8:45 P.M. Shallow cranks in the open water and lukes in the weedy areas were producing well as the sun was going down. I enjoyed the evinrude 5 hp. I'd like to thank my riend or loaning it out to me. Thanks. When I move in to my new home I will then be able to keep the custom Valco bass boat "BASS BUSTER 1" in the garage. No more paying rent great!!!!!
      City: Buckley Cove, Stockton

      Tips: As the weather heats up and stablizes this week, the top water and roggin should improve.

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      Water Temp: 74-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Taylor Slough ast water, primarily used spinner baits and rattle traps. Aew hits only one in the boat, Nat caught a real nice 3+ pounder..We were ishing the out going tide on the inside and outside weed lines..Lots o un, just not many ish..mac
      City: San Jose

Saturday, July 21st, 2001

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My wie and I loat tube here regularly, and yes the wweds are very bad this year but you just need to adjust your style o ishing. For years we would alwys use 10-12" worms and do very well.but with these conditions we have ound that by gioing snall we are able to ish through the weeds very well and have had some terriic nights on the lake,the night o those 2 turneys we had 7ish or 15lbs last -night we had a7,6.5,5,4.5,3,3,3,and aboutsix others so just adjust there are still there.ps I get charged 2bucks or each loat tube to launch ?????
      City: tracy

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      Water Temp: 79-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was the guy that talked to a couple o the night tourney isherman rom the Friday nite "un est" and they were so right on the act that there was no reaction bite at all. I also agree that the weeds are completely out o control and ater trying every area and getting only a ew line stretchers on throwing a wacky rigged Senko, we inally called it a day around 2PM. I'm still waiting to see i the second mortgage on the homestead has been approved so I can pay to launch there again in the uture. They charge way too much and should consider adjusting the rates when the water gets as low and weeded as it is now. No good news to report or day trips but it appears the real bite is being reserved or night ishing.
      City: Wheatland

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished Berryessa Thursday from 6:30 pm to 2:30 am the next morning with two clients in one of the strongest delta winds (NOT breezes) I have seen there. And it was COLD after sunset. What a contrast to my two previous trips, which were the warmest nights I can remember. I did put on my jumpsuit about midnight. We decided to start behind Goat Island which I thought might be out of the wind some - wrong!! We finally hid around Big Island and really got into some nice largemouth right away on Magic worms, mostly morning dawn 6". One of the guys hooked the largest bass of the trip on the first cast, and I told him he better loose it - bad luck. So, he lost it - couldn't believe it. I told him not to take me so seriously!! Anyway, the other fella landed a nice 2 1/4 largemouth, and we got a few other good bass, including a smallmouth about 15 inches. After dark, it was very slow - the total opposite of the previous report. We wound up with only 10 in the boat, and three of those were 12" and under. Many short bites, as you can imagine in a cold front. All they would do with my jig is rip the grub tail off! The Berkley 7" Power worm again was the best bait after dark. The jig, topwater, crank, senko, whatever bite, didn't happen.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: This was a typical summer cold front, except it was longer than normal, cooling down the water temp 7 degrees. That will change the bite, and it will always be worse. The big fish usually are not feeding as much, making it favorable for the dinks to move in. It always is amazing to me how a lake can change in a matter of days. If someone had fished Berryessa for the first time on the previous trip, they would have thought it was the best lake in the world. My latest clients probably feel the opposite. Things usually return to normal after the third day of a warming trend. One tip for summer cold fronts, take the bulk out of your baits - make them thinner and shorter. That might help you hook some of the short strikers. The evening bite is usually better than the morning bite during a cold front.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hadn't Fished up by Disco Bay in some time but ater getting skunked most o this year in other parts o the delta i ished some area's in the past that I did well at .caught ish on Ivino spade tail worms , speed traps incrawdad color and black and blue pig and jig . 15 ishbiggest was about 5 lbs.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Caught all ish were there was a lot o current ...

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Stockton Bass out o Ladds with Eddremax(Ed Cole).Neither o us had anything going, so we decided to wing it.Spent the irst hour in Wiskey trying to get a topwater ish.....key word TRYING. Ended up lipping 1 keeper on a blk/red tube. Ran to another area & started throwing blades & rattle traps on grass beds. Last hour o incoming- irst hour o outgo, we caught & culled 2 limits o small keepers up to two- 2-3/4# ish.Best 7 went 13-3/4#
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Keep moving till you ind them. The ish will be stacked up in areas where you ind shad, just have to get them to go.We spent the day ishing grass in & near openings with current on them.

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

      Report: High-pressure system moved in on Friday and weather started to warm. Figured this would spark a decent bass bite. Took my brother with me on Saturday who has never ished beore. We hit every prominent point rom the narrows to the dam. Fished rom 6:30 to 10:30 in 15 t o water o points. Simple split shot presentation on 8 lb outit. From 7 to 9 the bite was hot. We landed 8 bass and lost about 6 or 7. 2 Smallies and 6 largemouth and 1 catish was our total count..My brother did manage to hook and land one bass. All bass were 1.5 to 2.5 lbs. He was getting a little rustrated so I thought we would switch over to trolling. Heard people were still catching trout, but I wanted to try or salmon. They dropped some in about 2 years ago and I have caught a ew rom 6 inches to 15 inches. Haven

      Tips: troll ast or salmon.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Only could get bit on a drop shot. 25 eet o water seemed to be the key. I was throwing a smoke worm mde by Angler technologies. They are awsome worms and I could not getbit on any other worm all day. Good Luck
      City: Sac

      Tips: Drop-shot, and a little bit o split-shottin may work

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was tough. 13 boats entered a club outing, only six weighed in ish and only one had a limit o ive ish or 7 or 8 lbs. Fished rom 1700-2300 hr. First place caught his ish o points between the two bridge on pig and jigs and a couple on cranks. My partner and I down-shotted, cranked, dart headed worms and grubs, Texas rigged worms rom the 49er bridged past the second bridge and in Mormon creek. Two bites yielded one 10 inch ish. Good luck..Dog days o summer I guess.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: You might try taking a good book i you're heading that way soon.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 77 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club ished Lake Sonoma on Saturday evening. 27 anglers participated. Winning weigh was 3 ish or 12.79 lbs, including toads o 6.93 & 4.69 lbs. 2nd was 5 or 11.32 lbs (4.5 lb kicker), 3rd was 3 or 6.20 lbs (including 3.51 lb ish), & 4th was 4 or 5.13 lbs. Bass went or sot plastics, blades & cranks. Tough bite or many - bigger ish seemed to be on wood rather than weeds.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: For more ino about club, send me an e-mail or check out our website - http://scbbbc.homestead.com.