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Sunday, August 20th, 2000

  • Solano County
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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

Thursday, August 17th, 2000

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The shasta lake shrimp is on the surace or the spawn and the bass and trout are having a ield day, a guy rolls up next to me yesterday to inquire what the ish were chasing and was surprised that it is the shrimp. they are small, about an inch long and white, i you are coming this way get some 1/16th oz darter heads and the white skirts used or shad darts or crappie jigs and prepare or some un, the bass are small but the trout are good sized, larger bass will be below the action picking o smaller bass and trout, u might want to bring along a suspending jerk bait in a trout pattern and hang on when u get in the middle o all those shrimp, the are busy most o the day but the best action seems to be around 1030AM, lake down to 54 eet and the releases have slowed down, the salmon in the Sacramento River are on the move and the ishing should improve dramatically both above and below red blu.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, August 16th, 2000

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

      Report: went ishing this morning with a riend and caught 3 ish to 3lbs, my riend caught 4 up to 5lbs. talked to another guy in the club and said he has caught 11 ish 3 o which were over 5lbs.we only satyed or an hour because o the winds,so we went to clearlake and ished it till 9 pm
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: ask yo mama,Biatch

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Left Paradise at 700 went to whites threw white blade caught two fish to 3#.Headed for King Island caught 2 more dinks on white blade. Switched to buzz not much happining.One around 2# . went looking for moving water flipped red shad brushhog and started catchin some good fish . One 8#-5#-3#-and several 1.5-2#'s. Died throwin the white blade got into a bunch of thread-fin fingerlings and a ton of 10-12 inch fish intermixed with a school of stripers had good day and fun finish. Left at 200 .Best 5 went around 20-22#.
      City: STOCKTON

      Tips: Persistance is the only thing I can say . I have been in a slump-or groove should I say change your presentation a little it worked for me!

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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished guad yesterday ater work with minnows,the size o the ish is going downhill though.Thinking o taking loat tube and hitting all the banks on saturday.P.S. ound the honey o all holes or trapping minnows.
      City: san jose

      Tips: don"t know the lake good enough yet, to give an accurate tip.

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

      Report: Fished New Melones this week to start o a 3 day guide trip, bite was purty tough. We caught a bunch o small red eyes and spots down by the damn. In the aternoon headed up to the river and got on a air spot bite with jigs in 8-15 oot on the inside o big points. Never caught a largemouth, then headed er Tullock or the rest o the trip. See Tulloch reports.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Find a nice quite cove way up the River, take yer boom box, suntan oil, liquids and a cribbage board and have a great day on the lake.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished at sunset and caught 12 ish to 3 1/2 pounds,je andress better know as markassbitch caught 10.alll ish were caught on plastics and topwater,it is a great lake but no one is ever hereishing is ast and urious at sunset
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: brn and blu worms, and poppers

Tuesday, August 15th, 2000

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, got out in the loat tube today. Got out there around 7:10. Started out throwing a buzzbait around the weededges by the boat ramp. Only used it or no more than 10 min without a thing, so then I started using Senkos. Was ishing east o the boat ramp against the reeds in that little cove. Caught a 2# around 7:30, and then a little 11" about 30t down rom the 2#. Fished the rest o those reeds with the Senko until I got to the east bank where it's just total weeds right up next to the reeds all the way along the east shoreline. Threw the rog on the WHOLE thing. Nothing even looked at it. I haven't been gettin' ANYTHING on the rog lately. I don't know you caught that 6# on the rog, Rhino. Lucky bum!! Anyway, ished the rog all the way back to the dam. Then I cranked the whole dam along the weed line. Nothing! Again, Rhino! You lunky bum! haha. Then once I reached the other side o the dam I started lipping the tules with a yammamoto crawdad. Picked up a 2.5# then I realized, ya know, loat tube is ridin' a little low in the water. haha. So I had to go into shore WAY back there by the dam. About as ar away rom the boat ramp as you can get. Ugh. SO I had to walk it all the way back around. On my way back I ished the Channel Point dock. I lipped the tules with the yammie crawdad again. First lip was about 3t away rom the dock way back into the tules, as soon as it hit the water it seemed like, ish banged it REAL hard twice and I missed it! Hook and weight came lyin' back at me with no crawdad. I also cranked, bladed, and senkoed (I guess ya'd call it...haha) rom the Channel Point dock without a thing. That's it!

      Tips: I'm goin' back tomorrow morning and doin' the one thing I KNOW I can always catch bass doin' here. Flip those tules!! You can lip just about anything back in there it seems like and they'll eat it. Also, throw those Senkos in the shade! Can't go wrong there either!!