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Saturday, June 2nd, 2001

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

      Report: Arived at 8pm with thoughts o doing pretty well with the moon out. Turned out to be the worst trip that I've had a Amador this year. Only managed 3 keeper size ish maybe about a pound and a hal a piece. Had enough at 1:30. Maybe the day bite is better right now.
      City: Turlock

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Gin clear....Bad lunar inlux... armed my irst Buzzbait ish then three solid 3's that was it until I armed an eight on a Fin-s shad color I could have done better on small ish but Hey! thats just not my style...Working on a new secret bait that garnered one dink and one 3 at 2 in the aternoon ..which given the circumstances was pretty good...back in a while Keldawg...Just got back rom clearlake "NorCal" awesome worst day 27 pounds or ive best day 34 or better not bad or a ten day trip TaTa Rip
      City: Santa barbara

      Tips: Topwater will only be getting better stick with it ..be patient and slap those bigger ish around...They should be embarressed being that gulible in clear water but...They are ater... all only ish. Don't give them to much credit...Small ish? Try a rippin a minnow on the lats in the wind or splithot and dare I say it Dropshot..yuck!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water by 5:30 am. Topwater bite or the irst 2 hours then nothing. Seems as thought the ish got lockjaw ater 7:30 am. Caught 7 ish, biggest one being 4 lbs. The rest went between 2 and 3 lbs.
      City: Sacto

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Camanche rom 2:30 p.m. to midnight. Slow bass bite, a ew odd blue gill, and a suprisingly aggressive and large cat ish. Used plastic worms, popper, and assorted crank baits trying to ind what they wanted. Caught about 5 small bass total, all on plastic worms. Not much ishing traic, which maybe should have been a sign. Heard about a good crappie bite, but never got set up or it. It was a beautiul day, though very windy until sun went down. Don't know i this aected things at all. Saw lots o ish, just couldn't igure out what they wanted. Action was way down rom what I saw two to six weeks ago.
      City: Sacramento

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 64-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out on the lake at 6:30. Nothing on topwater. Got 2 good hits on a brown jig. Saw a ew other Bassers--one guy had 4 on a spinnerbait and plastics. Spent all day running around the lake at a whopping 10MPH. Wind was horrible 20-30MPH. We were o the water by 1. NEVER AGAIN WILL I WASTE MY TIME AT THIS PLACE!!!!!!!!
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Find a dierent lake to ish

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 4:30 am too 1:30 pm Between hwy 120- Stint rd briges & woods creek area.Caught app 30 bass,only 9 keepers up too 2 3/4 lbs.Two keepers on crank bait & one on a senko,rest o the keepers were caught on worms rom 5 to 15 t deep.Nothing on top water or spinner bait,only small ish on a jerk bait.
      City: Riv

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Correction on the below post. June 02, not May. Sorry.
      City: Hanord

Friday, June 1st, 2001

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went night ishing with Jerry Waltman. All I can say is the ishing was great! We caught well over 50 bass with perhaps 12 ish over 2 lbs. The only ish we weighed was 3.9 lbs.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Jerry's posts say it all.

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      Water Temp: low 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today I ran around with my ather in his high perormance speed boat. Went to Herman & Helen's or another one o there good breakast burritos. The peppery/garlic suace got the better o me this evening. I saw many basser's out preishing or the WON,100%, and Anglers Choice tourneys this weekend. I've been invited to ish in the Inter-club Tournament on Sunday with a co-worker. Any ways, I just did some mojo shotting with 4" black power worms around H & H and at the Stockton Water Ski Club. Hooked alot o dinks to 13"s. On June 4th, the custom Valco bass boat,"BASS BUSTER 1", will me moved across the street to the Stockton Sailing Club and kept on the trailer inally!!!! The new location o operations will be known as Buckley Cove, Stockton instead o Ladd's Marina. I really enjoyed keeping my boat there, but they won't let me keep the boat and trailer together. I hope to meet some new poeple out on the water this weekend. Good Luck to everybody whose competeing this weekend. By the way, save some or me on Sunday.
      City: Stockton, Ladd's Marina

      Tips: The senko bite is still hot. The bass are hitting all dierent colors. 5" and 6" preerred. I've been doing well also with 6 " majic worms o the major points along the main channel.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: These ish hit senkos all year long! went tubin' at about 8am.Caught 4 ish to 3.5 lbs on 5in senkos. Caught another 6 ish on a 4in senko.onother basser landed a 7 lber on a 4incher.lots o ish cruising the shore so i your not a loat tuber you can get a ew ish o o shore.next day we tried something new.I threw a luke or a while caught 2.but i just couldnt resist and went back to a senko.This lake is un to ish!
      City: castro valley

      Tips: Go down to waltons pond in san leandro and john will set you up with everything you need and he'll throw in a ew tips too.Tight lines and have un!

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

      Report: I ished at night with Jerry Waltman. All I can say is that Jerry does not stretch the acts. I anything, his description o our is trip understated.During daylight hours I caught many ish on topwater, but only one keeper. I caught better quality ish shaking a worm 25 to 35 eet deep.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Read Jerry's reports.

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

      Report: Fished to rock piles and got a ew smallmouth but did alot better in the submerged willow trees on top water baits and trout colored jerk baits
      City: eureka

Thursday, May 31st, 2001

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good day on the water. Launched at 5 a.m. headed to favorite point, only to land 2 fish on a Yo-Zuri Pop n' Splash. I can't say I was impressed with the lure, and I am not sure it was worth the 8 bucks. Switched over to a mini Pop-R, after heading to our next destination along a shady canyon wall. Landed 9 more fish before 8 a.m., 7 on the Pop-R, and only 2 on magic worms!! The worm bite was very slow today, it may pick up later in the day. We tried, black/ chart tails, red craw, and morning dawn, and nothing was producing well. But the fish were killing topwater. 13 fish total, not bad for three hours before work! Had a blast on topwater too, should have had over 20, but let's just say there were many missed hoooksets:)
      City: Vacavile

      Tips: Tips I would have right now: 1.) Get out EARLY, no later than 6 am. 2.) If you see fish feeding on top of the water, splashing around, cast over to it ASAP, the fish will hit it just about everytime. 3.) When fishing the popper, as soon as the bait hits the water, let it sit for about 10 seconds, especially if your lure is near cover. If you are not hit in 10 seconds, twitch it once and let it sit another 5 seconds. If nothing then, twitch, twich, pause back to the boat. 4.) Cast to structure. The fish that are still shallow, are holding tight to bolders, and trees. Get your lures in there, and get ready.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Topwater in the morning on the weedlines produced two. Went to the submerged island and threw dropshot worms in 10-20 eet. Caught about 8 or 9 between the two o us on around the island. A ew more came on scattered spots around the lake. Fished topwater in the mudlines and caught two more. I caught 10 the biggest was 2 1/2 lbs and Pete caught 8.
      City: Salinas

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Worse day I have had on clearlake in a ew months.Fishedthis past Monday got blown o the lake had trouble with myboat motor and all the boat traic because o the holidayweekend seemed to be in the same area we were ishing.Onlyished or about 4 hrs..Only bright spot caught one ishabout 8a.m. on a senko#222 ish weighed 9 lbs. 1oz.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: Stay o lakes during holidays.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in the water at 5Am with Jim Lowery who hadn't ben out lately and wanted to ind some ish or a teen tournament put on by the cottonwood bass team, they are taking some kids out tomorrow, 84 degrees, lake at 26.7 t, we ran down past the bridge rom Bailey Cove over near the sandy beach area and got on about 30 real quick with Jim baoting the largest just under 3lbs, lots o dinks, Jim was tossing a crank bait early or 4 ish on the irst 5 casts, i threw my jigs and the MGM 109 4inch or 7, Jim hadd the rest, we ran up the McCloud just looking around and got o the water at 1030 as the heat was starting to build. Went Back out the same evening to ind and meet up with Jim Conlow who came up with amily and riends, put in at Centimundi at 730 pm and over to the dry ork inlet and ound Jim, ran over into big backbone at 9pm and stayed in there tossing jigs until 2 am or about 55, jim caught more than I did and averaged a little better weight than I but I got lucky or the big ish with a 3.2 at 130 am. Jim hadn't ished Shasta at night beore but I think he will ish it in the uture! windy and cool evening but the spots were in the mood, Jim must have caught at least 35 ish, a couple were around the 2.0 mark, most were dinks with mine being the dinkiest but a lot o un, about 11pm something rolled a large rock o the bank and we got a good look at a good sized bear, they are moving down early this year, poor eeding conditions and the attraction o ood on houseboats is going to make or an interesting bear season. Jim was stossing a 3/8oz rig, mine was 5/8 oz most o the time, the bite was the best rom 11pm on.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, May 30th, 2001

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 74+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake with the boat in a while. Lakes come up from the filling it has been receiving and it looks great. Not to mentent that the fishing wasn't hurting either. Got 18 fish, first one was a 7#'er on the frigin' senko, but heck if it keeps catching fish like this I'll keep throwin' it! What a welcome back to the lake. It was breezy all day which didn't hurt the bite. Got fish on cranks in chrome color and bluegill pattern, buzzbait fish in bright colors, senko in salt and pepper and watermellon, dropshot rigs with natural colored worms, heck everything I threw got bit. Very fun day...

      Tips: Don't think that a buzzbait only gets bit in the morning and evening, I got my buzz fish between 2PM and 4PM. and they just killed the sucker. Fished over weedbeds with it and caught three fish that were better than three pounds each. Besides the 7 on the senko I caught another fish that was better than 4 on the salt and pepper fishing it like a topwater with 5 second pauses, then would bring it back to the surface and work it fast again. Fun lake. But like most have seen them selfs who fish this lake, those looser jet skiers are really dumb! Thats the best word I could think of when describing what I see them do during the day. The amount of times they would go into the 5MPH sections of the lake and do doughnuts and crap really pissed me off. The sad thing was seeing the patrol boat just driving around the lake acting stupid and not doing a damn thing to control these loosers. Which might explain why they act the way they do on this lake.

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      Water Temp: 74+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake with the boat in a while. Lakes come up from the filling it has been receiving and it looks great. Not to mentent that the fishing wasn't hurting either. Got 18 fish, first one was a 7#'er on the frigin' senko, but heck if it keeps catching fish like this I'll keep throwin' it! What a welcome back to the lake. It was breezy all day which didn't hurt the bite. Got fish on cranks in chrome color and bluegill pattern, buzzbait fish in bright colors, senko in salt and pepper and watermellon, dropshot rigs with natural colored worms, heck everything I threw got bit. Very fun day...

      Tips: Don't think that a buzzbait only gets bit in the morning and evening, I got my buzz fish between 2PM and 4PM. and they just killed the sucker. Fished over weedbeds with it and caught three fish that were better than three pounds each. Besides the 7 on the senko I caught another fish that was better than 4 on the salt and pepper fishing it like a topwater with 5 second pauses, then would bring it back to the surface and work it fast again. Fun lake. But like most have seen them selfs who fish this lake, those looser jet skiers are really dumb! Thats the best word I could think of when describing what I see them do during the day. The amount of times they would go into the 5MPH sections of the lake and do doughnuts and crap really pissed me off. The sad thing was seeing the patrol boat just driving around the lake acting stupid and not doing a damn thing to control these loosers. Which might explain why they act the way they do on this lake.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with guide Don Payne and had a great day. We launched out o Dells around 6:45 and crused up the river to Victoria Canal. Fished Victoria and caught several small ish and three over 5 lbs. All ish came on senkos in the tulies and rocks. Tried rogs and only had a ew blowups. Can't wait to catch a ish on a rog. With the hot weather a ew skiers were out which muddied up the water. At least the wind stayed airly calm unlike most days.
      City: Livermore

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at irst light. Fished the south end and caught one on a buzz bait. another near the swim area both dinks... Bite turned on ater lunch on a drop shot rig. Baby brush hogs, Witches tit ang blue ghost were all working... Caught a small limit but had a blast
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Remember to slow the presentation down... Don't orget to hydrate and wear plenty o sunscreen...