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Sunday, August 6th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74 - 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ran around the west central Delta lookin for some better fish than the ones last weekend, Bite was tough for me. The darn wind was blowin and had a slack tide early a.m., finally around 8:45 the water was movin and I happened on to a bank loaded with good fish got a good solid 15lb flippin with big fish at 6.2. That was the only place I caught fish all day could not duplicate the pattern anywhere else. I threw everything and thought with the wind the blade bite would pick up. Not for me, anyway last weekend lots of fish but no big ones this weekend and good solid bite of nice fish just not that many.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I gotta beleive that you can get some fish shallow on blades or flippin sooner or later.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: high 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out rom 7 to 12 ang got nothin all day. The only bite was on a carolina rigged senko. My dad was dragging it slowly across a small point next to the clis at about 20 t. I talked to a guy who got one early morning on a buzzbait.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: ish 20 t or so

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 4pm 'til dusk on Sunday; caught a hal-dozen or so, the largest going 2.6 lbs. on the Berkley scale. Caught that one on a split-shotted, 6" Roboworm (green weenie). Caught a couple more on topwater just as the sun was going down, another on a 5" Senko. Fished rom my Outcast kickboat, catching more ish on the ar banks, with only a couple o dinks picked up on the road-side o the lake.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: It's real clear water, so use natural-looking, subtly-colored lures. Once again, be careul on those steep banks!

Saturday, August 5th, 2000

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Regarding Almanor and the post rom Sunnyvale. Travel a little arther and hit Eagle Lake, ishing is good right now with slip bobbers and/or trolling needleish. Check with the Marina or more inormation. BS
      City: Susanville

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 7pm. Had a huge blow up on a buzzbait in Jackson, no ish though. Ran to mountain springs and picked up 4 ish on a Iovino Splast-It. Caught all 4 on the shallow grassy point where the tree stumps are starting to show. When it got dark I started throwing a red/blk baby brush hog and picked up 4 more ish. Got 2 on that point and 2 at the mouth o mountain springs. Let the water at 12am. 2 3lb'ers and the rest were in the 1 1/2 range.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Always pick up a ish or two with the baby brush hog in red/black. Brass n Glass.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers launched 4 boats from B&W resort. 6 hr. tourn. The day was gorgeous as far as weather but the bite once again proved to be tough, I ran to franks tract again and threw the buzzbait(black & Red) and picked up a good 3+ with an incomming tide, Then picked up two more keepers on the craw crankbait which I lost at the end of the day,with a bunch of dinks inbetween, seems allot of 11-12 inch fish are biting. Phil Lopez was the only limit to return @ 11+ pounds and a nice 4+ for 1ST place and BIG FISH honors Phil said most of his fish came off rocks near moving water throwing the Bomber 6a crankbait in a gold glitter pattern and a red pattern. I myself took 2nd place with 6+ pounds and Ron Cormier finished 3RD with 3+ pounds.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Seems that the cosistant bite is the crankbait after the morning topwater simmers off. Good luck Pete

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother came down to go ishing rom seattle. Took him out o b&w marina.Caught 3bass at willow berm. slow today Went and had lunchat tower park with both wies. ater a good ishing day. Strike king spinner bait white willow lea
      City: Elmira

      Tips: send e mail to chat.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother came down to go ishing rom seattle. Took him out o b&w marina.Caught 3bass at willow berm. slow today Went and had lunchat tower park with both wies. ater a good ishing day. Strike king spinner bait white willow lea
      City: Elmira

      Tips: send e mail to chat.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got in at the east shore launch ramp and headed out to the river. The water level was down around seventy eet or so. Look around or any kind o structure. Found a large rock ity eet rom shore. First cast with a black, buzz bait a two-pound large mouth came up and thrashed it. Followed it up with a shad colored senko, to ool two o his buddies. Continued on back towards the river and stop to ish large rocks. Caught two small bass with shad colored grubs. Fishing got slow when the sun got high.
      City: San Andreas

      Tips: Don't throw schooling bass back in the water right away ater catching them. You will spook the rest o them.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 25

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I wont ind out i lake Oroville is good plase to go bass ishing.And Iwont to ind out what othere ish they have there.
      City: San Pablo

      Tips: whats the best lure to use up there or bass ishing.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 86

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in north end on main lake points. Using 3" reapers and 4" weenies, in green colors, caught 12 lb. limit o small mouth in morning rom 6-10 AM. All ish were solid keeper size, no need to measure. Some in our group caught smallmouth to 4 pounds. We stayed in about 30 eet and cast to the shore working downhill. It has been hit and miss though. One morning nothing, the next day great.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Fish early in summer or wait until the wind comes up in the aternoon and work the mud lines.

Friday, August 4th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boat on the water at 7:00pm started in mountain springs ishing top water my partner caught our on pop'rs and ripped one on a pointer all about 1.25lbs, I missed one nice ish on a Rico,went to rock no top water action there waited untill it got dark started ishing junebug lippin tubes in 2 to 15 eet,in rock mountain springs, and carson, picked up around ten keepers to 3.5lbs,and some dinks. The lake is starting to get back to normal or night ishing.the ish where inside the arms,on the secondary points or lats close to the deeper banks but not really on the main lake points.
      City: Valley springs

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71-76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Little Franks in the morning and caught a 9 for my first fish at 8:15 with a small blade. Fishing the edges of weedbeds next to moving water with the small double willow (#3 1/2 & 3 1/2oz with clear skirt) also produced 2 3's and a 2. Moved to Holland Tract and caught another nice 3 and several 2's on the small blade. Steped up to a large blade and caught 2 more 3's on the outside edge of the weedbeds. Finished the day using a 5" Kalin bluegill grub in moving water breaks and picked up several dinks and a nice 3.
      City: Vallejo

      Tips: Small baitfish are abundant, match the hatch. Key areas are those ambush points near moving water. Fish slower when the sun is high.

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      Water Temp: mid 70's-lower

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Sugar Barge. Hit some topwater spots in Frank's but couldn't get bit. Ran south down Holland track and picked up a couple of fish on the Spook. With the high water I decided to throw topwater all morning. Worked the spook in open water, buzzed the grass and frogged the moss. Picked up 2 quality fish on buzzbaits (including a 4lbr) over grass beds. I threw the frog on any floating moss that appeared along the bank and caught 1 3lbr in tule pocket covered with cheeze. Of course I followed that with 2 clean misses, but thats frog fishin!! As the water dropped I went to flippin plastics on weed lines. Picked up a couple of 2lbrs and then ran to Mildred. Continued flippin outside weed lines and stuck a 6lbr! I used a variety of baits to put together a nice bag. Best 5 went 17lbs.
      City: Danville

      Tips: Don't give up on topwater just because the sun is up. I did'nt get a topwater bite from until 8am (started at 5:30am). I just kept working water and presenting bait and finally got some good strikes. During low tide my fish were in current and I was using a 1/4 oz bullet weight on my woim. tight lines!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 65 maybe?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out in my loat tube today with a buddy o mine. i took about three cast beore i had a ish o a lie time on. i did not see the ish bite but i just had a eeling it did. so i set it and it darted right by me i saw it good. it was a good 9 through 11 pounder. it went went deep and tangled me up on somethin and snapped me o. later we tried shaken crawdads on submerged structurein honker bay. we each lost a good ish like 3lbs each. no little ish lately
      City: castro valley

      Tips: i would suggest trying something new. i have ound that the best thing or chabot is to just experiment. the may hit a spinnerbait one day but the next day they wont want anything to do with a spinnerbait. they might like crankbaits one day , but not the next. just keep trying new things

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: only ished 2 hours but caught 5 bass all keepers and 4 trout all by split shotting 4 and a hal inche inesse worms. the biggest bass was a good 3 and a hal to 4 pounder, but most were 1 to 2 pounds. the trout i caught really surprised me, to catch 4 on a plastic worm is something i have never heard o. but split shotting worms and carolina rigging grubs is the way to go. i heard the topwater bite is decent in the morning and evening, just use small topwater plugs like little poppers. please catch and release
      City: Moraga

      Tips: the key is to ish deep. the little ones are shallow but the good quality ish are deep, deep is the ticket. rocky bottoms are the best. good luck

Thursday, August 3rd, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a nice trip with a riend o mine in his boat - ished rom about 6pm to 1 am. His caught the biggest - a 4 pounder on a power worm in the evening. The heat slowed down the topwater bite, but I did manage to get a 3 3/4 and one nearly 3 on Chug Bugs. Lost two nice ones. Ater dark we did catch several nice bass on worms rom 1 to 2 1/2 lbs. Big thrill o the night was a terriic strike on a crankbait ater dark - a 5 lb catish!!!! Talked to guys that were catishing on a boat - they didn't catch anything. Leave it to the bass guys!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: As has been mentioned beore - ish were right on the bank - but mostly smaller ones. Deeper ish would not bite. Some nights it's like that.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: hot above 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to Putah Creek, Not a single bite, new guy has camped out along that stretch. I think he is spooking the fish. He jet skis all day, probably thru the summer. Forget it. Going to Sonoma for the rest of the year....
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Tell that camper to move out...

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: With Striper action slow in the south bay, I felt it was time to fish Calero again, after giving it a break since March. Me and nutcase David C put in about 8:15 and fished till 3:30. We found an unusually tough bite for this time of year. We wound up with 6 small undersized fish, and 2 nice fish a little over 2lbs. We caught them on shallow cranks along outside weedlines, shaking small zipper shakin worms, and drifting reapers off points. Also gave topwater a shot early, and tried froggin without success. Moderate breeze the whole day, and really hot. Tough day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Crank outside weedlines and fish 20'-30' of water off rock.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: With Striper action slow in the south bay, I felt it was time to fish Calero again, after giving it a break since March. Me and nutcase David C put in about 8:15 and fished till 3:30. We found an unusually tough bite for this time of year. We wound up with 6 small undersized fish, and 2 nice fish a little over 2lbs. We caught them on shallow cranks along outside weedlines, shaking small zipper shakin worms, and drifting reapers off points. Also gave topwater a shot early, and tried froggin without success. Moderate breeze the whole day, and really hot. Tough day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Crank outside weedlines and fish 20'-30' of water off rock.