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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2000

  • 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.

Friday, August 18th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished riday night,started crankin and poppin small ish near birds.I got smashed on jitterbug in jackson by a 4lb catish!Fished all over the lake ,one ish here n there.The ish are scattered rom 0 to 20t+. By mourning I boated a 18lb 10oz limit or ive best.Cought 20+ish using pop r ,chartcrank,4in black power liz,7in black power worm ,junebug power craw,and jitterbug.
      City: manteca

      Tips: Don't leave home with out the plastic power.

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      Water Temp: 83-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boat in the water by 7:00pm ished untill 3:00am Started in Mountain springs ished Rico's partner and i had our 1.75lb to 2.25lb keepers beore dark and lots o dinks,Then went to Rock and Carson ished junebug lippin tubes and junebug zippers rom 2 to 15 eet our ish over 4.0lbs or big ish and many keepers. Fish where around the sec points and the steeper banks. Beore dark the ish where chasing shad all over the back two thirds o mountain springs
      City: Valley Springs

      Tips: Cover water!

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a little better out there today than last time, but still lots of really small fish...whats up with that?? Me and my buddy caught 16 or so, with many of them being around 10". We each got a few nice fish though around 2lbs, and I caught the largest around 3lbs on a speedtrap. We caught some cranking outside weedlines on the speedtrap, but most came in 20-35' of water on c-rigged reapers and magic worms. Tried topwater first thing in the morning and nothing.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: C-rig deep and crank weedlines.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a little better out there today than last time, but still lots of really small fish...whats up with that?? Me and my buddy caught 16 or so, with many of them being around 10". We each got a few nice fish though around 2lbs, and I caught the largest around 3lbs on a speedtrap. We caught some cranking outside weedlines on the speedtrap, but most came in 20-35' of water on c-rigged reapers and magic worms. Tried topwater first thing in the morning and nothing.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: C-rig deep and crank weedlines.

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

      Report: EAST BAY BASS CLUB TOURNAMENT SEPT. 17TH, HOLLAND TRACT. TEAM EVENT, BRING A FRIEND. $40.00 PER TEAM INCLUDES BIG FISH. E-MAIL YOUR ADDRESS IF YOU WOULD LIKE A FLYER.
      City: WALNUT CREEK

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went out this evening with A bucket o minners,and caught 7 ish with the biggest going about 3 and A hal pounds.First time on this lake.abuddy turned me on to this web site,and I have been hooked ever since.Hey Minnow master thanks or the great advice,hope to meet the master sometime.Tight lines.
      City: almaden valley

      Tips: Listen to the reports because I ound them to be more than true.Once again Minnow Master you are the MANNNNNNNNNN.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: took a vacation to shasta....the bite was pretty slow....about 10 ish a day or so...better quality came on purple blue worms split shotted about 20 eet or so...you can get a good rip bite all day on shad pattern loating rapalas....one guy told me that he caught about 100 ish between him and his sons on a drop shot rig...????..
      City: resno