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Thursday, December 21st, 2000

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: NOT TO COLD YET

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I STARTED FISHING ABOUT 8 AM IT WAS NOT TO GOOD AT THE SUOTH FORK. RUN BACK TO THE MAIN BODY AND FISHT A SPOT WITH JIGS. BLACK BLUE .IT WORKED GRATE GOT A 5 AND A 6LB SPOTED BASS THEN IT WENT BACK TO NOTHING!!!!!!! ABOUT 2PM IT WAS ON AGAIN THIS TIME IT WAS A 2LB LARGMOTH WITH A FUWE 1LB DRES THEN LOW AND BE HOWLD IT WAS HER 8LB 4OZ A BIG FAT FISH THAT WAS THE BIGIST BASS I EVER GOT.
      City: CARMICHAEL

      Tips: STAY WITH IT IT WIL PAY OFF THRO JIGS ALL DAY LONG GOOD LUCK MARRY X MAS

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 55'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the day o to ish with Deli. Beautiul day,60's,no ish till 1 pm,(Probably ished to shallow)Couldn't get anything on the main lake. Finally got our ish to 21/2 lbs up river,shaking worms. Big ish came on a bro/bro jig. All ish came in 20' o water.
      City: San Leandro

Wednesday, December 20th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 130pm fished until 430pm. Caught 4 fish on a Orange Yamamoto spider grub. Fished from the newly exposed island on the right up to the long shallow point on the other sade of the small damn. Fished that back and forth the whole time. Missed a good 4 strikes on the spider grub and missed a good 5 strikes on a 7" berkley red/shad power worm. All fish were caught in the 25' range.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Nice day, very few on the water. Take advantage of this peaceful time before it starts warming up!

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started at 130pm fished until 430pm. Caught 4 fish on a Orange Yamamoto spider grub. Fished from the newly exposed island on the right up to the long shallow point on the other sade of the small damn. Fished that back and forth the whole time. Missed a good 4 strikes on the spider grub and missed a good 5 strikes on a 7" berkley red/shad power worm. All fish were caught in the 25' range.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Nice day, very few on the water. Take advantage of this peaceful time before it starts warming up!

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

      Report: Launched at Lazy M drove to disco and cranked some of the docks for a hour or so with no luck. Picked up the jig for about another hour with no luck. Went back to italian slough and fished it for 4 hours with a jig, senko, and bomber and did not get bit. Was off the water at 12:00. Ill be there friday to try my luck once more.
      City: tracy

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We lanched late at Packers, around 11 am yesterday morning and headed up the McCloud. The irst two casts we had two ish. They were around 13-14 inches. Beautiul ish, stued ull o shad and crawdads. We ished until around 5pm. The total or the day was 20 ish 13-14 inches, the best weighing 1.8 lbs. We mainly used drop shot, with a 4 inch Aaron special or dark green worm. No jig ish. Most o the ish were in 25-30 eet o water on steep rocky banks.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Aaron's special, 4 inch green worms

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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got in at 9AM, air temp 46, jones valley loat up on the beach, the track is busted, went up to the top o squaw creek, banged around and couldn't get anything going on the drop shot, water very murky and stu loating in it rom the rain, very cloudy, no wind, ran back down hitting dierent spots, had one pulldown on the drop shot on a blue ghost but he let go, ran back dodwn to the stumpield just north o the rockpile and started picking them up in 48 t o water on Big Daddy's worm and a 1/4 oz darter head, I really had to let them load the rod bigtime or all u got baack was hal a worm or no worm at all. 11 hits, 6 on with 5 in the boat, all were 1.6 lb spots/clones. I had to ish very slowly and nearly straight up and down due to all the stumps in the area. The deepest came out o 53 t. and had to be dellated. This year the pressure bite is something to behold, I had to let the rod load with about a 4 inch bend in it or no go. Nothing bothered my jigs at all. Spoke to 4 others, 3 claimed they got blanked, one guy, a regular had two in his livewell. temp got up 63 by the time I let, the cloud cover seemed to help as the day went on.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: cold,real cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out early with my pal Don up Yorty creek shakin worms,,,Don got 3ish , me zero,,,Ater 3hrs, went to Skunk creek and same score..Beginning to think they named the creek ater me. Thinh I'll go to the I.S.E. show in san mateo to get some more pointers. I surely need the imput....Damn Dan
      City: Daly City

Tuesday, December 19th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Looked for stripers and found them in Franks. Near the middle. Big hungry school wanted everything we threw. Ripbaits, traps, senkos, swimbaits all worked. Ripbaits caught the most. We need a major front to move in and the bite will explode! Didn't get any toads except one over 15#'s. Still seeing lots of bait.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Hook Saturday, Dec.16. Decided to try rip bait in same areas I got fish week before. Started slow, a couple of small fish (0.5-1.5 lbs) the first hour, decided to move along looking for new areas in the slough, same pattern as week before on Sunday, would catch 2-4 fish from a general area then nothing along a stretch. Ended up with 21 black bass and one 10-12 lb striper. Actually was my best day ever on the delta for size and quality so far. Fish were better size, good number of them over 2 lbs, and put two nice ones in the boat, one 4.5 and the other around 5. The 5 biggest would have made a bag of about 16+ lbs. Once again lost 4 other good fish (looked to be 3-5 lbs). While I can understand the skepticism, in three trips I have now put more than 70 - yes, that's seventy bass in the boat, and If anyone wishes to follow along with me, or take a back seat the next time I go out (after Christmas) I would be happy to oblige (no financial obligation to the passenger on this trip. One warning - there are no seats in the boat, I stand up and fish hard all day long, but would not mind the company to verify what I have blindly stumbled on to. It's hard work - not simply pulling up to a spot and loading the boat, but continuously hunting for likely areas in a general region that you know holds fish, and keeping your line in the water. Happy holidays to all, and God bless.
      City: Half Moon Bay

      Tips: Rippin is the wrong term for what I do. While it is a rip bait, I crank it down, then twitch the bait along with hard jerks of the rod, then let it set a few seconds after twitching it hard 1, 2 or 3 times in a row. You gotta let it sit a bit, and should be ripping it out of weeds once in a while. If you ain't hitting weeds every so often, your luck is much poorer. Don't know how much longer this bite will hold up, so go give it a try!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: What a lake. Spent the day ishin / catchin large bass on one o the best ishin holes in Caliornia.My son Jake and good ishin pal Tom and mysel caught 35 bass between 3 and 8.6 lbs.All caught on jumbo shiners.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Take lots o bait

Monday, December 18th, 2000

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom daybreak too 12:30pm within 1/2 mile either driction rom the so ramp..Caught 6 ish rom 14 in too 15 3/4 in.Caught one ish drop shotting,one split shotting & 3 on darter heads,1/32 & 1/16 oz.4 & 6 lb line.Caught these by 10:30 am rom 15 too 35 t..Didn't catch another ish until noon & he came on a skirted grub,3/8 oz ootball head & 12 lb line.App 10 t deep.
      City: Riv

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      Water Temp: TEMP-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: STARTED EARLY 6:30 am WENT TO PINEY CAUGHT 1 SMALL FISH BLADING, NO LUCK RIPPEN,PROCEEDED TO HORSESHOE THREW JIGS AND WORMS CAUGHT 2 DINKS VERY SLOW BITE, USED UNDER WATER AQUA VIEW CAMERA TO SEE WHATS UP DOWN THERE, SOME SMALL SUSPENDED BASS CRUISING AROUND, LOTS OF CARP. THEN WENT TO MAIN LAKE TOWARDS COTTONWOOD AND TEMPRENCE FINALY FOUND SOME BASS DROP SHOTING 4" PRESISION TACKLE CUSTOM RING WORM JUNE BUG COLOR, IN 20'-30'FEET 13" FISH CAUGHT A LIMIT THEN DECIDED TO FIND SOME BIGGER FISH,GOT OUT THE CAMERA AGIAN AND AGIAN FOUND SOME CARP CRUISING SO I WENT ALOT DEEPER 60'-70 FEET FOUND SOME BASS, STARTED THROWING 1/2 OZ PRESISION TACKLE JIG BLACK/PURPLE WITH PURPLE PORK IT PAID OFF WE CAUGHT 4 FISH OVER 15". OVER ALL FISHING WAS TOUGH.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: TIPS- FISH MAIN LAKE TOWARDS TEMPRENCE/ COTTONWOOD AREA FISH DEEP 60'PLUS AND VERY VERY SLOWWWWWWWWW FOR SOME NICER BASS, HAVE LOTS OF PATIENCE AND HAVE FUN!!!

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      Water Temp: Didn't know

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished near the dam tossing blades and worms. Had a ew hits at Scow Canyon but nothing special. Moved to boat launch area at noon. Tossed zipper worms (texas style) around the dock and caught three 4lb large mouth at 2:00pm. The day was slow but worth it.
      City: El Sobrante

      Tips: Keep one thing in mind, "ish very slow and on the bottom." I used the new robo worm or so called zipper worm. They are very sot and perorm well in thick cover rigged texas style.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got going real late, in the water at 1245Pm at Jones Valley, wind up and blowing about 15mph, the jones valley loat was pushed up against the bank creating problems or some older gentlemen trying to put their jetcrat in. got them squared away and decided to run around and just look things over, lake has come up a oot with the rain to 64t, a bit murky, ran up to panther canyon, no ish where I ound them the other day, up to arbuckle, no ish again except or a ew trout in the lat o o arbuckle, sugarpine had a ew in 45t o the main point, they were not interested in my drop shot, watched the resident bald eagle at sugarpine nail a large trout, he had to swim it to shore to get it out o the water, ran back down to Clickapudi and tossed a jig at one o the stumps and "WHAP" something dang near ripped the rod out o my hand, it elt unny and up comes a large rainbow with my jig stuck in the side o his head, he rolled in the line and busted o. The wind quits and I spend an hour and a hal running around looking at the bottom over by squaw creek, ound a bunch o ish o o squaw point in the trees that are coming up right at sunset, get back to the ramp and the same gentlemen are there struggling to get their rig on the trailer, I run it up on the trailer and they show me two nice trout rom the upper end o the pit. in at 63 degrees, out at 51, temp dropped 10 degrees in 15 minutes as the sun went down. Lots o trout active in the upper Pit, quite a ew shad around but not much bunched up, they are all spread out. Pressure bites are the rule now, morning bite the best and the earlier the better. A good bite is reported by a reliable riend in the AM in the upper squaw and McCloud o o steep rocks in deep water on green worms with chartruese tails.
      City: Redding

Sunday, December 17th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FOUND MY WIFE HER CHRISTMAS PRESENT SATURDAY, FANTASY FOOTBALL, NOT A GOOD YEAR. DID NOT EVEN CALL IN A TEAM THIS WEEK. SO WENT FISHING. LAUNCHED OUT OF PARADISE, FISH THE WHOLE CUT THROWING SPEED TRAPS. STARTED AT 10:00AM IN BY 2:00PM THE FISH WERE ON TOTAL REACTION BITE. HOOKED 4 ISIDE THE FIRST HOUR. THOUGHT SOMEBODY SAID RIPPIN WAS HOT, RIPPED FOR ABOUT ONE HOUR, NADA, NOT EVEN A BOIL. STARTED THROWING BRUSH HOGS, ONE 1.5#, WENT BACK TO SPEED TRAP, 2 MORE TWO POUNDERS, IN ALL 7 FISH 14-15#S TIGHTLINES & HAPPY HOLIDAYS
      City: CONCORD

      Tips: SLOW RETRIEVE, OCCASSIONAL JERK. MAKE SURE YOU FEEL WEEDS, OR YOU WILL FEEL NO FISH.

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      Water Temp: UUHHH....

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at around 10:30 fished San J. looking for Cooch's fish. Didn't find em, a bit windy today. Finally got fish to bite a 3/8 Persuader dbl willow in chart/blue. Nice fish, too. Full figured even. Caught another on a chart/green Timber Tiger DC-5. Kept fishing that crank, and got another hit. A Steelhead? Looked like a BIG trout to me. Got it up in the boat, and it flops over sticking the trebles in my pants. The fish is stuck to my knee and thrashing! I stood up before the hooks could go any deeper. The steelhead comes off. WHEW! The wind was howling and I didn't want to retie. Grabbed up another stick with a DC-8 tied on it. Made a few casts, started wondering what in the heck am I still fishing out here for? Then I got real good bite the largemouth went somewhere between five or six. OH yes baby! My day of dealing with the wind was over! I headed for port, feeling good!
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: ON these really windy days, there isn't a lot of boat traffic. You can pretty much have the whole place to yourself. GO fishing anyways! Let the girly men stay at home and watch football! HAR!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: approx.60 degre

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took the canoe out or a ew hours. headed toward racoon pt.threw a speedtrap, rattletrap, jig, plastic worm, and grub...no takers. water cleared up as i got closer to the dam. never made it to bass cove... the wind kicked up around 10am.saw a lot o ish on the depth inder suspended in 20 t owater. water is down about 10 t. only saw 3 trout caught.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: not sure... still trying to igure the lake out.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent 2 days ishin .this beautiul impoundment not alot o bites. But the iteen or so produced heavy ish not one under 3+lbs. My wie caught her lie time best an 11.3 Hawghad several over 5lbs. DON't BE AFRAID OF A LITTLE COLDTHE FISH DON't MIND.
      City: resno

      Tips: ind structure ish are holding tight,JIGS JIGS JIGSMERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR SEE YOU ON THE WATER

Saturday, December 16th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Partner and I caught 20+ today ranging from 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 lbs, best 5 weighed a little over 10 lbs. All fish were caught on jigs off of steep deep main lake points with "chunk rock". Best jigs today were 1/4 oz yamamoto 208 spider and 1/2 oz duh summer moss with yamamoto 208 twin tail trailers.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Fish the jig very slow, just barely crawl it along.