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Tuesday, September 12th, 2000

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the tube out, caught 3 (12-13") on t-rig worm. No takers on Frog. Buddy caught 6 or 7 on trick worm.WEEDY!!
      City: Sac

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started north o hwy 49 bridge at 6:20 am,caught one bass,14 1/2 in on a keeper 1038,texas rig,app 10 t deep.Fished coyote creek,nothing..caught 4 small bass on a small reaper at app 11:30 am in the main lake area across rom the marina.We let at 12:30 pm.They have moved the boat docks too the secondary ramp at Tuttle town ramp now.Could be pulling more water ????
      City: Riv

Monday, September 11th, 2000

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

      Report: went knocking on the door nobody home,mr&mrs bass took the weekend off,offered up rattle traps harvested about 1/2 ton of grass threw senkos till my arm fell off,even tried trolling for strippers thats how bad is was water temp dropped a 8 degrees and fall is in the air

      Tips: two words DE CAFF

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Stratos boat owners team tourney out o Lakeport on 9/9-9/10hooked into a 9.6 on about seventh cast cranking red poe's in eight eet o water o o a tully point. Ended up with just shy o 16#'s or the dayonly two ish the next day or 21# plus. All ish (except toad)caught on Senkos watermellonred 5". Ended up two spots out o the money, dang'it!
      City: turlock

      Tips: Fish it just like the delta; weed lines and tully edges. Once the sun comes up hit the shadows under the docks. Cover as much wateras possible as long as you get bit. I bite slows, slow down and let Senko sit.

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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Stratos boat owners team tourney out o Lakeport on 9/9-9/10hooked into a 9.6 on about seventh cast cranking red poe's in eight eet o water o o a tully point. Ended up with just shy o 16#'s or the dayonly two ish the next day or 21# plus. All ish (except toad)caught on Senkos watermellonred 5". Ended up two spots out o the money, dang'it!
      City: turlock

      Tips: Fish it just like the delta; weed lines and tully edges. Once the sun comes up hit the shadows under the docks. Cover as much wateras possible as long as you get bit. I bite slows, slow down and let Senko sit.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishing two days last week. The irst day caught one ish on topwater and had several other boils. Then switched to plastics and caught three others. Overall, pretty slow. The second day we got on the lake beore daylight. Fished top water but did not even get a bite. Once the sun came out we ished plastic worms in about thirty eet o water. Caught six ish, all small. We missed about ten others. The ish were so small, they were biting the tails o the plastic worms and not getting hooked. Probably going to try again this week.
      City: Santa Rosa

Sunday, September 10th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-74.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE OAKLEY FESTIVAL TOURNAMENT. TOUGH! TOUGH! HAD 4 KEEPERS TO 8LBS CAUGHT ABOUT 12 FISH. THE BIGGEST GOING ABOUT 4LBS(WHISKER-FISH) ON A RATTLETRAP. NO TOPWATER, NO JIG, AND NO SENCO. MOST FISH CAME ON BLADES AND A COUPLE ON THE TRAP. WE FISHED WAY DOWN SOUTH. THANK GOODNESS THE 6 HOUR TOURNAMENTS ARE OVER. THAT DOESN'T GIVE YOU ANY TIME TO FISH, ESPECIALLY IF THERE IS NO MORNING BITE, WITH STRANGE TIDES.
      City: Concord

      Tips: TIPS, GET OUT AND FISH, FISH, FISH. WE HAD A PATTERN 2 WEEKS AGO. BUT EVERYTHING CHANGES SO MUCH ON DAILEY BASIS. TIGHTLINES

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Found a ew on top water and ripped one early, nothing to write home about. Then went to drop shottin 30-50 t with baby Senkos and small leeches ( pearl blue) or spots up to 2+ but most o the ish were on the small side. Fished main lake points and cuts.Caught enough or 3rd place at the last WCB Future Pro event. The lake is way down so it might be a good time to check out all the spots or next year.Dan B.
      City: Carm.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: nearly ull moon and I know I should have stayed home but I just had to go, only 2 dinks rom 8PM to 1AM, air temp 81 going in 67 coming out, the lake is cooling down gradually spoke to two other guys just getting out as I was getting in the water at Jones Valley, they didn't catch anything, a tournament on Sunday was won with just undr 9 lbs, the water is dropping very slowly, now at 57.25 t down, the salmon in the river down below Woodson Bridge are turning on with about a ish and a hal per rod but the size is reported to be bigger this year, The diversion dam count at Red Blu jumped up big time last week with about 1,200 ish per day being counted, up rom as little as 150 per day, guess I will do some yard work until the moon shrinks down a bit. Everything suspended last night in 8-12 eet o water, sur wish I knew how to get them biting when they suspend!
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held its 8th event o year @ Spring Lake on Sunday, Sept. 10. Winning weight was 5 ish or 19.18 lb, including 7.47 lb toad. Second was 5 ish or 15.67 lb, anchored with day's big ish o 8.61 lb. Third was another 5 ish or 10.97 lb. Twenty-one anglers participated, & 50 bass came to the scales.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I you'd like more ino about the club, send me an e-mail and/or check out our website, http://scbbbc.homestead.com.

Saturday, September 9th, 2000

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took out my son and riend both 10yrs and a lot o twinkies and ho ho's. Good thing.Started with crank bait and spinner bait (white) at aprox 10:00 am. Caught one keeper right o. pretty slow thereater, just small ones.Trolled back or un just trailing a silver repala minnow (large) and caught 3 nice keepers in the deeper water, no vegetation.Thank goodness the kids both got ish. All the old man got was a big smile ;-)
      City: Chico

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hugo kicked my butt again. 8-1. He caught all his fish on his magic Senko, the same one that he used at the Rally. Most of the fish came on the weedline. Biggest was 3 lbs. All were fat bellied. Tried some other stuff, blades, worms, nada. Off to Yamamoto website to order somemore magic.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Go fishin', and keep smilin',!!!

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished late afternoon on Saturday hoping for a topwater bite. Launched out of Cappel and ran up near Berryessa marina fishing the exposed humps. First and fourth casts produced two nice smallies to 2lbs each on topwater. Worked the humps with 4in grubs taking two more fish. Worked our way down around big island and found the large mouths to be feeding on the surface where we landed two, 3lb and 4lb, bucket mouths on a zara spook. All in all not a bad outing for a couple of hours. Went up to Putah creek and found it full with a heard of ski boats blasting through the 5 mile zone!
      City: Fairfield

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Paradise Point before light, fished buzzbait around the rocks and weeds in the immediate area, 2-1pound caught, 2 nicer fish (2+) hit but came off. The air temp was cooler than it has been, and the buzzbait bite was the worst I've had in months. Switched to Senko about 8am and caught 1 about 1.5lb, no other takers. Finished up on a Zoom speed worm, caught 2 in about 5 minutes 1lbs each (black w/red flake). Had to leave for wife's birthday off at 10am, or would have fished the speed worm more. tight lines and sore lippin thumbs.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Don't know really, usual plan B's didn't seem to work for me (crankbait, Senko). Lots of mats, but I left too early. Anyone do any good in the north on frogs this weekend? More consistent cooler weather may help, fluctuations can cause severe frustration.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I FISHED ALONE ON THE EAST DELTA THANKS TO A COUPLE OF FLAKY NO SHOWS.BLACK BUZZBAIT PRODUCED FISH EARLY ,FROG DID NOTHING.LATER THE SPINNERBAIT WAS GOOD FOR SEVERAL + FISH ON ROCKS AND POINTS WITH CURRENT.FLIPPED BRUSHHOG FOR SOME FUN ON TULE .THE JIG DID NOTHING FOR ME TODAY?!BIGGEST FISH WAS 5LB 13OZ. BEST FIVE 13+LBS.
      City: MANTECA

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Ladds headed south had about twenty bitesduring low tide best five went about twelve pounds fished pumpkinseed powerbaits worms on secondary weeds in about twelve feet of water best day ever
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: fish slow in completly weeds

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out about 7 a.m.got one on a orange speed trap then swithched to a Zoom Big Dead Ringer and caught 6 more nothing big . Biggest was about 2lbs. o the water by 12.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: no real pattern caught ish shallow and deep to about 35'

Thursday, September 7th, 2000

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in the water at jones valley at 6pm out at 1000pm, air temp 91 going in and 67 coming out, or 12 to 2 1/2 lbs on the islands near squaw point, mike was using a brown and black 5 inch worm texas rigged, i used my black and gold yamamotos on a 3/8 ounce jig head, mike caught 7, one dink, i caught 4, one dink and his son had a couple on a pumpkin pepper jig and a black and gold yamamoto, no one out there ater 730pm and they didin't get going until around 830pm. water clearing up nicely, visibility good to about 10 t now. the moon is coming on now and I expect things to slow down a bit, shad very busy on the surace all over and being chased by bass, the shad up on top are small, rom about 1 inch to an inch and a hal, some o the bass were spitting up chunks o crawdads, the other were unloading small shad, the ish have generally moved o the shore or the time being at dark and are hanging out in 12-20t o water with most on the bottom and a ew suspended, water starting to drop again but only about 3-6 inches per day, down to 57.25 t today. A beautiul cool evening.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, September 6th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 76 day 74 nite

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit Amador about 6:30. Fished till 2:00 am. Got two onworms just beore sunset (tried topwater - no takers). Ater dark didn't boat any but tied into a couple o 3-4 pounders, one on a jig the other on a spinnerbait. One word: S-L-O-W.
      City: Folsom

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the new Triton to the Delta today. Had quite a few smaller fish on Red rattletraps, also on ReAction lures Gatordogs in the Peanutbutter and Jelly Pattern. Partner caught big fish of the day, a 4-12, on a Reaction lures Gatortube in watermelon/red flake. We fished weedlines with deepwater and flats near deep water. Still no decent numbers of quality fish.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Throw a rattletrap all day and you will get some fish. Plastics working better than jigs.