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Sunday, September 17th, 2000

  • 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

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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south and stayed there. Morning bite was tough, no topwater. Pumps were running so outgoing was incoming. The stripers have made it South, found a school of 3 to 5 lbers and played with them for a while. Cranked a few keepers off current points, flipped a couple more in tule pockets in current. Crank bite was best and continued to out produce flipping. Cranked a limit or two around until noon. The better fish were still in 6 to 10 feet of water even at high tide. Caught fish but the size was not that good.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Cranked red(trap and bomber) flipped senkos and worms. No jig fish for me on this trip.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: cooling

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I auctuall caught a couple o ish today. First a 7.0 and about ten minuts later i stuck a 4.2lbder Thats a good day or chabot. Fishing might be picking up.
      City: cv

      Tips: ish oten

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out again, caught 3 up to 3 lbs on zoom t-rig worm.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Go weedless

Tuesday, September 12th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing at Calero is pretty good - no complaints - bagged a few largemouths (3.5lbs and 4lbs). "Reality," maybe the "females" weren't biting for you because your rig was a little derisory for their tastes, rookie.
      City: S. San Francisco

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      Water Temp: mid 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing at Calero is pretty good - no complaints - bagged a few largemouths (3.5lbs and 4lbs). "Reality," maybe the "females" weren't biting for you because your rig was a little derisory for their tastes, rookie.
      City: S. San Francisco

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Once the clouds came in bite busted wide open.My best day ever on Delta for # or fish.Fished south side of mildred using a rattle trap,I was catching fish on every other cast,it was awsome.Biggest only went 3lbs. but talk about fun.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Caught them off wood next to current.Color I was using was chrome and blue 1/2 oz. once I got on pattern I was catching 3 and 4 fish off one spot.Have a felling cloud cover triggered a feeding frenzy.If you see clouds coming in hook up the boat.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: getting colder

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nothing but catish is being caught right now. The only bass that seem to be bitting are the The pet bass at the boat docks and let me tell you they are bitting nightcrawler beore they even hit the water! Trout are going to be stocked in a couple weeks hopeully that will trigger the bass into bitting.
      City: cv

      Tips: you got me....ish every day or a month and mabey you'll catch a ish that seems to be what im doing