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Monday, August 14th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished our small club tourney out of Big Break Sat. Started with a buzz....0 lost 5 more short striking a fluke.Finally started to boat some fish on a 6" PB&J zipper worm fished in isolated weed clumps by boat docks.Partner hooked a MONSTER and as luck would have it never got her to the boat......That's fishin.
      City: San Lorenzo

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78 - 82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son, Peter and I did some nite ishing and it was a blast. We didn't ish that Hot Aug Nites Tourney, we just ished or un, and had oneo the best weekends ever. We started ishing Friday nite at about 11 pm as soon as we got to the lake.At Fraser Pt. Peter got a 3lb. on a big Norman's crank & I got a 5.5 lb on a big watermelon red Brush Hog slathered in Smelly Jelly (rom the ree sample pack we got at the Nut Case) at Fraser.Later we moved to the rock piles around Rattlesnake and caught a 6.5 lb., a 2.5 and a 3 lb. on the B Hog; and then got a 1.5 lb., a 3 lb. & a 7.4 ob. on a watermelon red Senko around suler bank ater it started getting light about 6 a.m. We stayed at abuddies place in Clear Lake Oaks, got some sleep and then went out again at about 5:30 pm and I got another 7 lb near Wheeler on a Summer Moss 1/4 oz.Duh jig with Yamamoto rootbeer, gold & red lake twin tail grub we also got with the ree sample stu rom the previous weekend. Pete cranked one about 4 lbs. also at Wheeler with a big Fat Free Shad. Its a good thing we stayed out all night Fri, because wegot blown out Sat nite. We came in at 9 pm ater ighting our way back romWheeler through the 3 t. swells. We went out again Sunday morning or about 2 hours and Pete crankedanother 4 lb. and I got two about 1.5 & 2 on the Duh jig. Most all o our ish came in 4' to 15' o water, a bit deeper the rockpiles.It was a great being out Fri nite with the meteor shower too. THANKS TO ALL THE SPONSORS & PROS AT THE NUT CASES FOR THE TIPS & TACKLE!!!!!
      City: Bay Point

      Tips: Watermelon Red Brush Hogs with 3/16 oz. brass & glass & 5/0 Gamagatsu EWG, weightless watermelon red Senkos w/ 3/0 Gammie thinner wire EWG hook (not superline)and Smelly Jelly. Shake the B hog at night and they thumped it pretty good. Dead stick the Senko in shallow shoreline spots during irst light. 1/4 oz. Duh jig on 10 lb test P line CXX lourescent during day light hours. I used the 15 lb test p-line CXX lourescent or Senkos and Brush Hogs at night. Strongest lourescent I've ever used.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 80'S

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: MID-CAL BASS WILL HOLD AN OPEN TEAM TOURNAMENT AT GLORY HOLE ON SEPTEMBER 17TH 2000. $50.00 PER TEAM WITH A $10.00 BIG FISH OPTION.ENTRIES MUST BE RECIEVED BY SEPTEMBER 13TH OR A $10.00 LATE FEE WILL BE CHARGED AT THE LAKE.CHECK-IN WILL BE FROM 4:00 A.M. TO 5:00 A.M. AT GLORY HOLE SPORTS. FOR MORE INFO E-MAIL ME OR CALL ME AT (209) 664-1286
      City: Denair

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out o jones valley at 830pm to blue canyon, nothing there, moon on the way up so went to humps out in ront o the Fort Creek coves or 6 to 2lbs in less than 6t o water, the bite quit at 10 pm as the moon rose, went back over to the islands in jones valley, caught one more and called it quits at 130 am. everything was suspended as the evening wore on, the releases have slowed to 8,000 cm and the rate o drop is down to about a hal o a oot per day inally, used yamamoto jigs in salt and pepper, black with gold lecks and pumpkin pepper rom BPS on 3/8 oz standup jigheads, they hit anything early and wouldn't touch anything later on.
      City: Redding

Sunday, August 13th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Going fishing wednesday morning . Need some imput on the lake. Taking the day off of work to try to beat all the ski boats and all those damm jet skies. sreious bass fishermen send me a e mail by wednesday morn. to give me the scoop. Heard bad things about the fishing on the lake . hard to believe if you know whats up ! Hope to hear a report THANKS PLASTIC MAN
      City: Elmira

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 77 - 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, ran around lookin for those winner fish again, I got a 5 lber on a buzzbait first thing. Then my father in law gets a 2.5 on a buzzbait and I am thinking FINALLY a topwater pattern. NOT!!!! that was it for topwater, my team partner stuck two frog fish across the slough as we proceeded to do the pre-fish gig. I ended up Flipping 7 more keepers up to 2 1/2 lbs.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I have to say Tidal movement, and Flip Flip Flip it is the only consistent pattern I have confidence in.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Holland. Ran south had a nice limit by 7.30 am. Caught early fish on a black buzz bait. top water bite stopped switched to a senko. bite lasted till water stoped moving. had 10 fish by 9am. slowed down till water started moving again. Senko bite picked up again. Got off the water by 4pm. had 20 fish. Best 5 went 14+. Had a good day for the conditions lately.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Moving water, Senkos, top water early.

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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I launched out of Ladds. Didn't know there were three tournaments today. We gout out just ahead of the tournament guys. Ran to 14 mile slough. Fished a while with topwater, no takers. We started up the slough and threw alot of different things. Finally about 8:30 we each caught a fish on crankbaits. Later we ran ro Disappointment slough. fished around a while. Like other reports not much action on the tule side so we switched to the rip rap side. I hooked into a 1-1/2 pounder and within 10 minutes hooked a 3-1/4 pounder using dark colored worms. A few other bites but only four fish the entire day. Tons of boat traffic due to the tournaments as well as the inconsiderate skiers.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Mark Lassagne's Gone Fishing Guide Service Launched @ B&W we buzzed 4 fish early right near the launch area, then hooped to several different spots toward Tower park picking up a fish here and there, from theer we went to Syacmore and Hog One fish in each and a white 1/4 speed trap (what else)we went up to Wimpy's and Walnut Grove to look for smallies and ended up with two smallies and six spoted bass. Overall a slow day but we totaled up 22 bass.
      City: Concord

      Tips: We fish history spots with cranks, spinnerbait and buzz bait and just ran into a few fish.

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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Lazy M from first light until 8:15 am. Put 15 in the boat plus we lost about 6. Only a couple on buzzbaits, nothing on spinnerbaits or crankbaits. Caught most fish on a large Iovino Splash-It and lizards. Didn't try frogs. Fish size varied from babies to about 3 pounds.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Almost all fish were caught between weed line and rocky banks. No action close to tulles.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went out with my wie on Sunday morning. Hit a ew spots Cooch showed me when we ished the Nutcase last week. Got aew bites and a couple small ones. On the way back to Lucerne where we launched, I told my wie I wanted to make one more quick stop at a point that Cooch told me was goodsummer ishing. That dude was certain right. On the third cast I hooked an 8 pounder. It tipped the scales at about 8.7. Landed him on a dark green Senko - Great BaitThanks "Cooch", I now have a new avorite spot. Thanks too to all the pros in the Nutcase. I learned a lot rom all o them. Great bunch o guys sharing great inormation.JR
      City: West Sacramento

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      Water Temp: mid 70"s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went back to guad sunday with mysel and to buddies,we brought another 4 dozen minnows,didn"t do as good as riday though,ater 3 hours we ended up with 9 bass up to 3.1 on my digital.Hopully we will make it back a ew times a week until they stop biting.I talked to a guy who said he does much better during the weekday evenings, makes sense to me,thanks or the tips on this great res.
      City: san jose

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water has been like glass in the upper end o the lake. Caught lots o little largemouth (6-8") in the south cove splitshotting a live nightcrawler but no keepers. No trout action right now, water is too warm, and orcing them down below the thermocline, I would guess 25-28 eet deep.
      City: Pleasant Hill

Saturday, August 12th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CVBC tourney out of Big Break. 8 boats. Fish were reported on senkos, hogs, splitshot weenies, everything. Not much reaction fish. Lot's of short strikes reported and more tales of fish coming unbuttoned than usual. some topwater early. Winning weight was only 8.3lbs for 5 fish. It was a tough day for many. Bad tides.
      City: belmont

      Tips: slow down. Bite was early, so make your early morn time count!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Chabot on saturday. Hit honker bay about 6:20 am and started throwing senkos around tules. My riend picked up two and I had one nice ish break me o. Watch the tules or movement as most ish were holding tight in the weeds. Action died about 9:30 am. I'll be back next weekend.
      City: Benicia

Friday, August 11th, 2000

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

      Report: FISHED A TOURNAMENT FRIDAY NIGHT TO SATURDAY MORNING STARTED OUT FISHING SPLASH IT'S. CAUGHT TWO UP TO 2LBS. BEFORE DARK IN MOUNTAIN SPRINGS. ONCE IT GOT DARK STARTED THROWING A 7IN. POWERWORM IN JUNEBUG CAROLINA RIGGED. THE BASS WERE ALL OVER THIS WORM UP TO 4LBS. ONCE I USED UP ALL THOSE I SWITCHED TO 10IN. POWERWORMS IN JUNEBUG. HAMMERED THEM ALL NIGHT. MOST FISH ARE TIGHT TO THE BANK. DID CATCH A FEW DOWN TO 15 FT. BIG STRINGER WAS 17.10LBS. FOR 5 FISH HE CAUGHT ALL HIS ON 7IN. POWERWORMS IN RED SHAD. BIG FISH OF TOURNY WAS 7.70LBS.
      City: VALLEY SPRINGS

      Tips: DON'T PUT DOWN THESE POWERWORMS AND START THROWING SOMETHING ELSE, KEEP THROWING THEM THE HITS WILL COME. USE STOUT TACKLE AND HEAVY LINE, THESE FISH ARE FULL OF FIGHT. DIDN'T MATTER WHERE YOU WERE, FISH ARE ON POINTS AS WELL AS IN CREEK CHANNELS KEEP YOUR FOOT ON TROLLING MOTOR AND START COVERING WATER.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Ladds in Stockton at 5:45am. The wind was really blowing. Had to use 24 volts on the trolling motor all day just to stay on spot. Fished Mildred with top water stuff till 7:30 (noting would hit). Fished various spots all along the Delta on our way to Franks Tract. We were able to hit a few small blacks (1 lb average) and alot of small stripers using silver and black Rattle Traps along the tules at the edge of Piper Slough. We even tried trolling with the Rattle Traps. We had constant action on small stripers while doing this. I guess we have to wait a few more weeks before things pick up.
      City: Livermore

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

      Report: yes, the stocked 1,000 pounds o lorida strain bass ingerlings. ishing will look up here in a ew years, i wish laayette would get a stock o their own
      City: moraga

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      Water Temp: 70+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started o around 9:00am late start slept in, ishing right around the launching cove picked up two ish on 41/2" worm split shot lipped next too tules, moved out and cranked the tule edge toawrd the dam. picked up our more ish on deep diver shad, sun coming up so I decided to split shot the shaded areas picked up two more, moved to the cove by channel point and went FROGGIN landed a 6lber on the third cast picked up three more and then called it day in by 1 pm.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: 4 1/2" witchs T split shot let it all right next to the tules roggin well what can I say go SUMO

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 70-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: scewd around with bluegill today, got a bunch o those, then on my irst cast with a plastic purple worm, nailed a 1.9 pounder on the ar dock on the dam. he ought like a ive, but going back sunday, i will report back
      City: Moraga

      Tips: catch and release, good luck