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Tuesday, September 19th, 2000

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

      Report: Mid-Cal Bass will hold an open team tournament on october 22nd at barrett cove (north ramp).Entry ee is $50.00 per team with a $10.00 big ish option, entries must be recieved by october 18th or a $10.00 late ee will be charged at the lake. or more ino e-mail or call Kevin at (209) 664-1286 . see you on the water!!!
      City: Denair

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: looking basck at my last post and did some back tracking, I have had 284 trips on the lake since moving here on 12-31-98, on ive trips I didn't catch anything so I guess I can't comlain too much. Went out o Jones Valley at 8 pm over to squaw point, a dink on the irst cast, now i'm eeling better, poked around a bit and moved to Clickapudi and picked up 6 more, two were nice, water temp back up a ew degrees, lake down to 58 1/3 t, Clickapudi cove is really down now, at 11:30 pm the north wind started to howl so I moved over to a north bank near brushy canyon and picked up two more to 2 1/2 lbs, all on jigs. The wind really started moving at midnight so got o the water. Most ish taken in 15 t or less but did stick one at closer to 30 t beore the wind started blowing. in the water at 103 degrees, out at 87 degrees, things should cool o by Saturday, was 106 today.
      City: Redding

Monday, September 18th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On water at 9:00 a.m. out of Paradise Point Marina with son, John. Continuing our learning of the Delta,

      Tips: Given similar conditions, I'd suggest a very slow retrieve, on or near bottom, on outside edge of weeds, with Texposed-hooked black-blue flake Senko. Fishing parallel to weed-edge optimizes time of exposure of the lure.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70-72'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished club event Sat.night.No wind,70" and comortable.Tried several rock piles,including 6-8 at Rattlesnake,with no luck. Had only one ish in the boat at 3am,so I went to sleep.At 4am my non-boat lipped one onto my belly.From then on it was a good bite,as we caught ive ish,and lost three,lipping blk/blu jigs under the docks in Pirates cove. The moon was pretty bright,and the bass were under the shade or some reason. I heard reports that at Frazier,the bite turned on at midnight to 2am. I guess the ish move up in mass at dierant times all over the lake.
      City: San Leandro

Sunday, September 17th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite - 1 small mouth for 2.8# dragging a christmas grub, weight 1/8 oz. Putah Creek, Only fished for 3 hours, got too hot so returned to AC house. Results on 9/17, fish

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the 16th, launched out of Ladds, realized there was tourney goin on when i saw about 30 glowin lights on boats, pretty neat to see a blast off ...had never seen one before. Anyhow , first spot we fished was inside buckley cove, friend caught two fish usin a white buzz bait. Tide started goin out so we went to flipping senkos and some 4 inch power worms. I caught 2 bass on the power worm, a keeper and one small one. My friend tore it up with the senkos, nothin really big in size, biggest goin 1.9 pounds but he caught 5 fish off of the senko. Went over into the port and i put on a spinnerbait, my friend was tellin me how they use spinners to catch striper out here, as soon as he got done with that i nailed a striper, put up a good fight but just under 18 so i tossed him back. Went out on the 17th to Brannon Island hopin for a little better luck and some better size, welp shows what i know, had one bit, set my hook, had him on , lost him in the weeds....only action i got all day. My friend caught 5 i think total biggest probably around 2 or 2.5. Too damn hot out there , however did get a nice farmer tan!
      City: Galt

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing the Fresno club tourny Sun. We put in at Flemming. Blast o was 6:00am. Ran stright to the Woods and proceeded to throw about everything we had or the next couple o hours...we blanked big time. We started moving back towards the power lines hitting all the spots that should have been hot...I got a couple o promising strikes worming, & my partner caught a ew dinks on a jerkbait. He igured out that the most productive areas were the cuts that we had by-passed earlier...He produced a 1.5lber and they went cold again. We begain working our way back towards Flemming, and decided to work a rocky point that we had up until then neglected to ish. 2:15pm 6.75lber BLADEING in 15t. o water about 4t. down. I took 4th in the tourny with one ish... Which should answer your questions as to how diicult the bite was. I ish with some great guys who know how to put ish in the well...it was a tu day or most.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Go with what you know! Persistance pays o.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73.9 - 75.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Folsom today no toads, three keepers all 14/12 to 15inchers three shakers. Threw topwater or 45 min. then Flukesor another 45 went to dart headed a Mark weenie and a morningdawn started gettin the bites. New Bass had a tourney and theskiers were a mess. I thought with school in Football etc.that maybe we would have the Lake back. Gotta wait tillwinter then it will gwet good. Oh well Deer Season next ew weeks.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Fish are still bit deep, gonna be about three weeks o coolingtemps to get the good all bite.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mid-Cal Bass held a tournament on sunday october 17th.Boy, what a tough lake this time o year. 1st place was only 4.02lbs and big ish was 2.14 lbs and it was also 3rd place.Next tournament will be held at lake McClure.For anyone who ishes New Melones, GOOD LUCK !!!!
      City: Denair

      Tips: Go to the Delta or McClure

Saturday, September 16th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: in the upper 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: left at 6:00 and got there at 8:00. went strait to skiers cove and caught about seven fish. The biggest fish was about 16 inches and a lot of small ones. I was catching them off of four inche tubes, three inche grubs, and jerk baits. Only fished for three hours.
      City: burlingame

      Tips: fish slow and about ten feet of water.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished club tourney out of Ladds, bite was tough! Managed 8 fish of which 4 were keepers with biggest being 5lb. Half caught on Senkos and half on grubs. Blades and cranks just didnt work.
      City: Los Banos

      Tips: Be sure and post a report after you fish.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club tourny Saturday and it was a tough bite or everyone. Only 2 5-ish limits out o 30 anglers. Fish were caught on a viriety o lures including: rogs & spooks early, senkos & jigs during the day. Big ish was only 6 lbs caught on a rog. May people ound little or no action all day.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Try super spooks irst thing in the moring around weeds lines.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well hit the water at 5:45 with high hopes o having a great day. Started ishing a ski area beore the power lines, threw a splashit or 10 minutes then picked up the buzzbait. 4th cast stuck a 2lb'er. Said to mysel "oh ya",proceeded to throw top water or another hour and nothing. WEnt to the power lines and started ripping to no avail. The grabbed the wormin rod and nothing. Approaching 9am, went into Big Creek and started wotming. Came to some allen trees and on the irst cast hit a 1.5lb ish. Next cast hit a dink, thirst cast strike, snag, trolled over to the timber which I shouldn't have. Snapped the line, moved back out and started ishing that area again and nothing. Wormed that bank or another hour and called it quits. Will be heading up every weekend so I can get something going or the start o the Won Bass Circuit in November and the West Coast early next year. Anyone has any tips I would greatly appreciate them. Good Luck out there guys! Mike
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Wish I had some tips, luke Buzzbait Fish, 2 worm ish on a purple ghost magic worm. Buzz ish was on the bank, worm ish were in 15t.

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

      Report: Went out Sat to research my home lake a little more. Ripped a good ish on a Mega Bite, on the main body. Splitshot 2 ish just into the south. Caught 2 more ish in the south, about 3lbs (scale quit). Went home about noon. Still a lot o boat traic.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Senko

Friday, September 15th, 2000

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 73to77 in p.m.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing at 4:00p.m. Began catching spots right away drop shotting at 25 to 45 eet on main lake. Fish were all in the six to ten inch range. Moved to other main lake points and ound some larger ish in same zone up to two pounds.As sky darkened some moved to shallower water and were caught texas rigging.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: During high sun times o day bass school in large numbers and attack shad o sloping points.Look or bait on meter and ish directly in schools.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out early(6 AM) out o Packers Bay to Bontabile Bay, Terry Cove and over to Deadman's Gulch, out o the water at 930AM, not a single tap on blades, cranks or jigs. The ull moon has once again bit me in the butt. Lake stable at 57 1/2 down, water clearing up nicely, visiblity improved down to 12 t, got some hot weather coming. I am not going back out until at least tuesday, yeah right!
      City: Redding

Thursday, September 14th, 2000

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

      Report: Hey im heading up to the Delta to fish for lg mouth, and i have never fished the delta before and i wondered what i should throw. In some of the reports guys talked about Senkos, i was wondering what size and colors to throw. I have heard that 'Traps work good up there, what size and what color of those should i throw. What else should i use. Ill be up there the 26 through the 29 so if there are any patterns you think i should try please, any information would help.
      City: Santa Barbara

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, now I am going to have to show crankbaits more respect! Ater some successul cranking by my clients the aternoon beore, I tried it yesterday near the ront o Rattlesnake Island near a dropo, and at 7:15 am, had a 10 lb 9 oz monster just stop my chartreuse/blue crankbait. No strike or tick, it just stopped! Finally, she moved o to the let and the un (terror) began. I will have to say that my G. Loomis crankbait series rod (845)really handled the ish well. This was my second largest bass ever on a crankbait and I was pumped when we got her in the net. I don't do a lot o cranking, so this was a very special ish to me. The previous aternoon I had two clients rom Washington state, and ater they caught a couple o 3 lb jig ish, I had them switch to chartreuse/blue crankbaits and taught them how to "tick" the top o rockpiles. Within 10 minutes (around 7 pm) I was in the boat with 2 o Washington's happiest citizens, with one landing a 6 and the other a 5-7. Got a terriic sunset photo with them standing together (ather-in -law, son-in-law). The wie will be proud o her husband and ather. They caught another 2 1/2 crank ish beore dark. It just got better ater dark on jigs, 10" Power Worms, and Terminator spinnerbaits. We caught 10 ater dark, with ather-in-law sticking the biggest on a jig - 7 lbs 9 oz. His limit alone was around 24 lbs. Those guys cost me a lot in ilm!! O the 15 total ish, our ive largest weighed an ounce or two over 31 lbs. A weird, cloudy, humid night, with not a breath o wind. I think the lack o moonlight really helped us. We ished rock structure all over, rom the narrows south. We did catch 3 on Shag Rock, an area that is just a shadow o it's ormer great years. I enjoyed my ride home rom Clear Lake yesterday!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: When I ish crankbaits, I try to ish them as much like a jig (slow) as I can. Suspending cranks are not the answer on rock piles unless you're wealthy. When you hit a rock, you want the bait to be able to loat up, out o the crevice. I you ish the crankbait too ast, they will slam into the pinnacle type rocks and get stuck, and then you mess up your area getting them o. I you can master a steady, slow retrieve with occassional pause - ticking the rocks, you will have success, especially in the all. I like deep divers, even in shallow water, because I can adjust how deep they go by the speed I reel it. I you use a plug that doesn't reach the rocks, they will not be eective. Chartreuse/blue was obviously eective or larger ish (5-5, 6, 10-9). I have ound the Berkley Frenzy in both sizes to be very eective or large bass at Clear Lake. A riend o mine caught a 10-15 on one last year. I was using the smaller one or my big ish. I thought the small one might be better because o the relatively clear water.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: caught 25 pound spottes cat bass
      City: oroville

      Tips: use hot dogs bbqd last sunday from aunt ethels wedding

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

      Report: ANYONE WISHING TO FISH EAST BAY BASS TOURNAMENT ON SUNDAY SPETEMBER 17TH, HOLLAND TRACT, E-MAIL ME YOUR FAX # AND I'LL FIRE OVER A TOURNAMENT FLYER. TOM MULLIKEN
      City: WALNUT CREEK