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Friday, September 22nd, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68*-70*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched rom the park in lakeport, headed to Henderson tothrow a crank bait and caught allot o 4" bass decided to throw a luke and watched those little bass in buches try to eat the luke, tried ripping a crank bait and stuck a BIGcrappie. Rain came threw about 8;30-9 O'clockThe lake is about 6' down, ran to nice and lucern with no bites. inally stuck a keeper right outside the anchorage Inn. o the water by 1:30.Along time ago I expierienced the same type o bite , we caught close to 300 small bass in two days and very ew large bass were caught , almost like the lake was turning over.P.P.
      City: Martinez

Thursday, September 21st, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, we just got our nice trip in beore the howling delta winds hit, and the temp dropped 20+ degrees. Client and I started about 6 PM and I got a 13" bass on the second cast, luckly not the irst! It hit a Rodstrainer jig. The heat had put the shad down, so there was not much surace activity at all. I did get a 2 1/4 pounder on a chug bug topwater bait. Just beore dark, client gets a nice 2 1/2 pounder on a Terminator spinnerbait near the mouth o Jackson creek. Ater dark, or an hour or so, we had the customary dead time. Then, about 9:30, I had a good tick on a 12" Power Worm and was able to land a at 6 pounder in the main body. She was about 20 eet deep. Two casts later, I mistook a big bass or a clump o weeds, and missed it. What a sickening eeling!! I caught 2 more worm ish, one almost 3 pounds. Finally, my client, who was ishing a Weapon jig, set the hook on a good 'un, and I get to net a beautiul 7 lb 3 oz beauty. This was about 11:45 PM, and the ish seemed to be moving a bit shallower - he caught her in about 10 eet o water. Ater I caught another shallow worm ish, about 2-6, client hooked another big one, but lost it in some wood. About 1 AM, the delta breeze started, the moist air set in, and the bass went out, somewhere. They just shut o. A very nice trip with 8 bass total, with top ive at about 21 lbs. Not bad or a Sept. evening at Amador!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Water temp will have to cool a bit or the surace activity to pick up. Reaction baits just wern't working well or us. Seems to be a worm and jig bite - 10 to 25 eet, on steep banks and some points. Don't shake worm or big ish - just pull it - slowly!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out looking for stripers with a friend from out of town. The stripers were nowhere to be found in the south this am. Started fishing for the green ones in the middle Delta and found a flip bite on Senko's that lasted until 2pm when we left. We boated lots of 12 to 14 inch fish. Had one over four and a couple of three's. All senko fish, couldn't get a jig bite going.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: The lower temps today (80's) may have kept the fish up. Senko's on tule points near rocks and current.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday 9/17/00.Wasted 1 hour driving to Hayward to PU a "riend" who begged me to take hom ishing. He never answered the door!!! Reminds me o whu I usually ish alone. Even with the 45 minute delay I was still at the gate (2nd in line) prior to opening.Seeing as how it was still dark I thought I would change my normal routine or the day. I bought 12 JUMBO minnows the day beore and ocused on Stripers. I hit every spot I had ever caught, seen or heard o a striper being caught. I kept 2 poles ready with dierent LARGE top water lures. I drited them deep, I drited them shallow, I tossed them into deep holes. NO LUCK! Hey it was a long shot anyway! How many people do you know who actually have caught stripers at Dell Valle. I have caught 2 and I believe hooked 2 others in the last 10 years.I strted ishing or bass with the let over minnow and had a great day. Caught 5 bass in about 2 hours. 1 at about 4 lb (at!!), 3 at 2.5 and 1 13 inch. Not sure how that little one ate that JUMBO!Switched to trolling about 11;30 Am. Trolled at 27 t deep and had 3 dolid hits in 1.5 hour. Caught a 13 inch trout and a 3 lb trout. Third one wrapped up in the down rigger cable and broke o. No salmon today!
      City: remont

      Tips: 4 inch white worm or JUMBO minnows! Rocky shorelines in 15 to 25 t.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I'd never catch a ish here! ished one hour beore park closed on my loat tube trying a top water popper and caught our ish in the 1 lb range, small but there bitting.
      City: san jose

Tuesday, September 19th, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had jury duty in the AM so I went ishing in the PM o a very hot day. Caught a 1.5 on the back side o rattlesnake on a 208 senko. I thought, this is easy--wrong. Extremely clear water--no wind at all I saw millions o small bass(under 8") cruising shallows and nibbling on my senko. Fished docks, rocks, etc and no bites. At 6 pm, headed or thick wood by redbud. Caught two 3.5's. One one a senko, one on a rog. three more 1.5-2.5's on senko. Saw hal o them eat it. Fished shag rock at dark. Caught two 2 lbs on a brushog and one 3.5 on a 10" worm. Might have stayed later than 9 pm, but I had to work the next day. One interesting thing happened. I crank a set o 4 pipes in the aternoon. Today, I hit a bunch o moss w/the crank. A seven lb and a bunch o 4's and 5's ollowed the moss encrusted bait to the boat as I jerked it to try to get rid o the moss. Ater that, nothing would entice them. I wonder i a rip bait might have gotten a second glance.................
      City: Yuba City

  • 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