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Thursday, August 24th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a late start today(9:30) fishin with two of my friends. We launched at lazy-m marina. Fished itallian slough for the first 3 hours until the tide started to come back in. Pulled up to one of my fav spots, my friend Thomas landed a 3 lber right away on a duh jig with a 3" yamamoto trailer.Another 20ft down the pitched my jig near the bank, started workin my jig and got a little tick. I set up on the fish and it started pullin drag!!! After about a min I pulled him in. Borrowed another anglers scale and it weighed in at 6.4. It looked and felt bigger then 6. Either way it's still my biggest bass yet! I caught the fish on a rock bank with lots of current, I had the t-motor on 24 high and was barely moving. We only caught 2 fish all day but they were both good ones.I'll send a pic in for the fishy photos when they get developed.
      City: tracy

      Tips: When the tides change fish the current. The past couple times out Ive only caught fish when the water was moving.

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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out to Big Break on Wednesday for a guide trip with Peter Pawlakos, upon arriving the wind was howling out west, so we made the decission to head over to Holand to launch, what a great call, the central Delta was calm and no wind all day. We started off tossing poppers with Peter catching three tiny fish, one was smalle than the pooper itself. Seems the cold snap that hit us kinda turned off the topwater in this area. As the sun got up and the tide fell to it's bottom, we began to pitch brown jigs to deep weed lines with fair success, first stop produced 5 fish, one a 6+. We then hopped to another area and caught about 12 keepers on C.O. Spade worms and Bush Huskies, this spot produced a 4.5 fish for Peter. We then just bounced around all afternoon catching number of fish just about everywhere we went. Turned out to be a great day with three fish over 6 and Peter's 4.5, otherwise all other fish were between 1-2 pounders, and we probably caught 35-40 fish all day. All of our fish were caught from 6-15 foot, we never got bit on the bank.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: It seems that fish are now starting to show in their customary summer patterns. Deeper weed lines and tulle birm ledges are holding fish. Key on the points and camp at times, the fish will stack up in these areas.

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      Water Temp: 74 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lexington is one o my avorite lakes and I try to get out 3-4 days a week since it's a 5 minute drive rom my house. Although it is drained to much and to soon the ish keep on biting or me! The majority o ish are hanging around 25' o water and will all to just about any plastic worm or zipper under 7", a real good proven lure is a green pumpkin rench ry split-shot rigged, don't let anyone tell you that split-shot worms only catch small ish! I have caught over a dozen bass in the 18"-22" range this year on split-shot worms in green pumpkin, and believe me these are big ish or Lexington! Fish all along Highway 17 rom the launch ramp to the Search and Rescue helicpoter landing pad,(put a lot o eort in ishing to the right o Alma Bridge there is a "hole" were the ish hang out). Good Luck and hope to see out there! (I am the guy with the decked out green loat tube)
      City: Los Gatos

      Tips: Don't let the draining o this lake discourage you, take advantage o it. It opens new landscape to your ishing pattern, look or creek channels, cli drop o's and islands.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6 am too 12:15 pm.Caught 11 bass,two on spinner baits & rest came on grubs & 4 in worms.Only one over the slot limit,most were rom 12in too 141/2in.Salt & pepper colors,rom 3t too 35t deep.Most o the ish were caught in coves,piney creek area.
      City: Riv

      Tips: Light line & light darter heads,1/32 & 1/16 oz

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2000

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

      Report: I WANT TO RALLY A MESSAGE TO THE LAKE PATROL FOLKS, THAT WE FISHERMAN ARE TIRED OF THE CONSTANT JET AND BOAT SKIERS SKING IN THE BACK AREA OF PUTAH CREEK. WHY HAVE A 5 MILE OR NO WAKE ZONE IF THEY ARE NOT BEING ENFORCED? PLEASE, TAKE A MOMENT TO CONTACT THE LAKE PATROL OR SHERIFFS DEPT IN THE 707 AREA CODE. MAY THIS BRING THE FUN IN FISHING BACK TO THIS WONDERFUL LAKE AGAIN...
      City: San Francisco

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of the Hook yesterday (Tuesday). Outgoing tide, breezy conditions. Started by throwing 1/2 oz Viper spinner bait (white skirt/gold tandem willow blades) in barge cove. Missed two, caught one 2lber. Noticed that the bites were in moving water, nothing hitting in dead water. Ran to Frank's and started pitching my confidence bait - a brass and glass T-rigged green pumpkin brush hog along weed line and clumps in current. Picked up two more (1-1.5 lbs) missed what felt to be a better fish. Once again, all hits were in moving water along channel edge, no hits up in quiet water/tulle areas. Tossed frog on some mats, no luck. Threw my confidence crank - Bomber 7A in red craw, missed two in spots that usually produce, then no further bites. Decided to throw 1/2 oz rattletrap on points with current, and action picked up, albiet small fish. The pattern was to throw the trap out in the channel and bring it across the point some distance away from the actuall spot that the weeds emerged - almost like open water fishing. Caught 10-12 blackies from 1/2 to 2 1/2 lbs and 15 or more small stripers in same size range. Hit 5 points with similar layout and pulled fish off of four of them. Missed several fish that felt better (need to put on bigger hooks?), but had a good day considering that I had not been out in over 3 months. It seemed that any place where I hit stripers also had blackies nearby - some were caught well away from any structure over deeper water, almost like the blackies were schooling wiht the stripers in open water, feeding on shad. The color of the trap was a white glitter shad with green glitter back - this color by far has worked best for me in the delta in the stained water verus chartreuse, red, or chrome colors. Moving water (no surprise) was key to catching. All told, caught 25+ fish, half blackies, half small stripers, no big fish.
      City: Half Moon Bay

      Tips: Weed points with moving water. Almost every cut into Frank's that I tried on both sides of the tract had fish - pitch bait well out into cut, most hits from black bass were not super close to weed or structure or bottom, but several feet out over open water - saw multiple black and striped bass follow the bait all the way to the boat, which was in 15 feet of water, and 50 feet from the nearest cover at times!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thought I'd leave a post on this little lake seeing as nobody else will. They are still eating. They like jigs. Windy banks with shade best. Stay close to deep water. Throw 1/4oz-3/8oz brown or black. Rattles seemed to help. Slow movement without popping the bait o the bottom seemed to be the best retrieve. Fish up to 5#'s going in the evening. I have just been ishing the bank and am catching more than the tubers. Although I think its time to put the tube in and ish the creek!
      City: Mountain View

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Tulloch 8-21-00. Got a late start. Started ishing or trout upriver near the bouyline around 12:30pm. No trout, but there was a 4 pounder loating belly up barelyalive. Started ishing or bass around 2pm. Caught 2 shakers one was about 7", the other about 11". One caught o a blue/silver rattletrap, the other a live minnow. Missed one o the rattletrap as it jumped, and spit the lure out. Missed another in the green springs arm o a lur jensen topwater. Beautiul day, light boat traic.

      Tips: The rattletrap seemed to get the most intrest. I'd stick with it!!!!!

Monday, August 21st, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 9:00 a.m. out of Paradise Point Marina with son, John. Thoroughly fished Telephone Cut until 2:00 p.m. (learning the Delta,

      Tips: Both Senko fish came on weightless, deadstick presentation, with Senkos Texas-rigged with hook far enough back to give level sink.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: after 8 hrs of tossin black 5 inch senkos only had 6 dinks to show for it. I think the bigger fish got there fill on all the abundant bait fish around. Caught a 8 in dink with 5/0 hook lodged in his troat gotta love that amount of aggression.
      City: felton

      Tips: NO TIPS HERE

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: City: Richmond

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a tough irst time on clear lake this weekend.I was able to catch our up to 3.2# o rocky points.Winds were bad all weekend BIG LAKE.Everything was caught on crankbaits running 8 to 10 eet down. GOOD LUCK!
      City: Foster City

      Tips: No topwater bites all weekend.

Sunday, August 20th, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held its 7th event o year @ Blue Lakes, just east o Ukiah. Kevin M. won with a stunning 23.4 lb, 5-ish limit, including day's big ish o 9.38 lb & another beauty o 5.5 lb. 2nd - 4th places were in the 13 - 14 lb range or 5 ish (Bill S. did bring in another toad o ~6.5 lb in his 4th place inish), & 5th & 6th places were 9 - 10 lb or 5 ish. Eighteen anglers participated. Kevin's big ish went or Zara Super Spooks ished early in the AM.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I you'd like more ino about the club, send me an e-mail.

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Partner and I fished a West Coast Bass tourney on sunday. Not a lot of limits. My partner Pat Crawfurd caught big fish of the tourney which was 6.88lbs and we took 3rd overall. Lost one on a buzzbait, a few small ones on crawdad cranks. Our better fish came on 4" green weenies w/orange flake which were custom pours by Mike Van Guilder Sr. Contact him at Jhuf1933@aol.com, great worms, any type and color.

      Tips: We fished in front of the golf course to the left of Ladds. Off of the rocks under the trees or in shadows about 2-5ft deep split shotting worms.

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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished south of the bridge at Tiki Lagun down Whiskey Slough. 7 am to 11 am. Good looking water. Tide moving out. Little to no wind. Clear skies. Throw buzzbait, blade, crank : no takers. One blowup on black/yellow frog (missed him). One fish on junebug senko next to the tules in 4' water. Tried shallow, mid-depth, outside weed beds. Tried slow and fast retrieve. VERY hard day!
      City: Salida

      Tips: Stay with reaction early. Frogs around noon. Fish slow and throughly. White or Black frogs. Senkos in junebug or black with red, green or blue flakes. Good Luck!

Saturday, August 19th, 2000

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

      Report: Had a nice time out there with a friend on Sat. We didn't find any monsters but managed one to 4.4, 3.8, two at 3.6 and bunch of two's and two+ fish. Senko, jigs, blades and cranks were the best producers. Didn't get a fish to come up on top. Beautiful day though, not getting too hot by mid afternoon. Bite was all day. Senkos and blades in the morning with a few jig fish thrown in to jigs and cranks by the afternoon. Great day on the delta with a good tournament weight to boot, now only if it was a tournament day. Happy to find those 3's again with some kind of consistency.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Cover water, look for current with areas of calm water close by. Finding the cover between these areas was a key. Good luck, cv

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

      Report: Fished Chabot again on saturday with my buddy 6th St. Todd. Got out about 6:30 am and hit the tules in honker bay irst thing. Absolutly no action to be had. Tried senkos but couldn't even get a bump. Moved to other ork and began working weedline edges in ront o the docks. Stuck a 5 lber on a deep diving crankbait and lost another about 2 lbs. Moved up to the point near the the dam and hooked into one about 8 or 9 lbs but lost her at the boat. Man was that a TOAD. Maybe not up to the size that ryan pulls out o there but she was the biggest I've ever hooked into. Nothing or my partner this time. This lake seems to change every time I ish it so don't be araid to try something new.
      City: Benicia

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out about 5:30 this morning, caught 5-6 ish 2-3# range throwing crank bait,12-20 eet o water. around 11:30 caught my largest ish to date, 9.06 lbs. 25" very nice ish or olsom.... happy to say took a bunch o photos and measurments and released her. catch and release, ( iberglass molds). caught her on white spinner bait.
      City: SACRAMENTO

      Tips: patterns change, no tips. watch or breaking bait ish.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Interesting morning. Put in right ater a club tourney. Figured that they might beat me to my avorite waters, but gave it a shot. Top water on a hump picked up my irst, a 2 lb smallie. At the island, had a 7+ blow up at my topwater, and miss!They rest o the morning I would hit a spot with: 1. Carolina rigged black/chart worm 2. orange on brown jig 3. junebug slider 4. orange and green mini tube.Had to keep switching, becuase i had no pattern. 7 hooked, 5 landed.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Seemed mostly on the points, but caught two in the back o coves. Switch up on the lures. Top water only got hit on the irst cast in a spot.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Smart move heading down here rom New Melones, the bite on this lake was awesome both through out the day and at night. Started o in the morning tossing jitterbugs and spooks, the smallies took to the Jitterbug but nothing on any other topwater. Then we tossed 4" 9S green melon variety & 9J SENKOs in smoke. The largemouth hanging round the docks and the jet skit cement launches were really eating up the green, the smallies were taking to the smoke 9J all day, everywhere on the lake. Then ished a number o rock piles with a 1/4 & 3/8 oz R&B Smally jig with a Yamamoto 157 twintail trailer and proceeded to catch tons o smallies rom 1-3 pounds. Then around 5:00p got on a good popper bite in the backs o coves that had lat banks with big grass beds. The key was a three pop, let it rest cadence, biggest went about 5.5 pounds. Ater a short break and some dinner, we rigged ole Besse up er night duty and respooled with some 20# BigGame, lorescent line. Tied on the 3/8 oz Smallie jig and went to work on the main lake near Poker Flat, had a great time catching two pound smallies. Then at around 11:00p, the moon peeked over the hills and we went to a northern bank and spanked the large mouth that had moved up to eed. Caught a number o 3-4 pound large mouth and a couple o smallies to 3 pounds, most o the ish though were in the two pound range.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Just go ishing here at this pond, It is by ar my avorite summer time lake, the bite here is always wide open due to the nature o the lake. It's a quality blackbass ishery and has a ew trophy smallmouth, not to mention and abundance o both species. The water is 10 degrees cooler than New Melones as the lake is illed rom the bottom o New Melones via the power plant and damn. The ish here are always shallow and easy to target and pattern through out the entire lake. The love jigs, cranks and topwater. Oh yeah, and we ound out they love 4" SENKOs too! It's a 24 hour pond this time o year.