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Saturday, June 17th, 2000

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

      Report: Fished our local club tourney rom 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.. Daylight hours were hot and we got to enjoy the pleasant company o the ever courtious pleasure boaters. Started in the river arm just above Moccason. Started with crank, jerk,and top water baits but ater my partner caught a keeper split shotting a worm I made the switch. 4" green weenie style worms w/red and green lake got me a limit and culling by 6 p.m.. Partner was using the same color but a 4" leech and he had 3 keepers. Nothing great w/ the biggest being only 15" we started working our way back down. Fished the power line area but could only catch dinks so as it got darker we headed to the dam. I switched to a 4" black ring worm w/ire tail and my partner was throwing a 6" black ring worm w/chartruese tail. 10 p.m. on the Blue Oak side o the dam my partner caught a 4.65 lber. which ended up being big ish or the tourney.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Worming was the ticket or us. Ater dark worm with larger dark colored plastics.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got my rat in about 9 this morning. LOTS o small bluegill and bass all over the place. Landed two ish. One just over two lbs, and the second just under. Lost three others, one o which was small. Don't know how big the other two were. Could not get anything to bite on shoreline cover. All ish were on submerged trees or brush out in the middle, at least 50t rom shore. Bites came on 4" appleseed and a 7" purple powerworm. Color did not seem to make as much o a dierence as location. Can't believe I couldn't catch any in that beautiul shoreline cover. As I went across the lake near the dam, noted that it gets over 95' deep. Marked some schools o ish in the 45 to 80 oot range. Looks like there may be a ew trout in there, but not a lot. As others have mentioned, I had a heck o a time getting my rat, battery, etc. down to the water. Not sure it was worth all the work. Next time I'll have to take a loat tube.
      City: San Jose

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 77-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decent topwater bite the irst two hours o the morning along step banks. Once the shade was gone went to jigs on main lake points and did pretty well. Lost one really big ish that I could do nothing with beore he pulled loose. At 11:30 the bite died completely. Could not ind ish on jigs or plastics anywhere I went. Even the ish that I had seen all day on the graph were gone. Called it a day at 3:30.Mike Niemi
      City: Modesto

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I STARTED FISHING ABOUT 8:30AM I MUST OF HIKED A GOOD 2 MILES BUT I DIDN'T GET A BITE I WENT WITH A FEW PARTNERS AND A COUPLE OF THEM DID PRETTY GOOD THEY CAUGHT A TOTAL OF ABOUT 5 SMALL BASS AND ONE 2 POUNDER ISTILL HAD A GOOD TIME AND THATS WHAT COUNTS
      City: FREMONT

      Tips: I RECOMEND THAT YOU USE MEDIUM DIVING CRANKBAITS THATS WHAT THEY WERE HITTING ON

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went ishing hiked all the way to the back ished along the way caught nothing had a ew riends with they had better luck than me there biggest was two lbs .I was a spectator not a player today.And by the way i you ind two crankbaits there mine.
      City: remont

      Tips: keep trying

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fly-ished East Fork Trinity River Arm. Lost 3.5-4.0# LMB at dawn, landed 5.5# LMB at noon (only strike in midday), and had terriic topwater bite at mouth o Squirrel Gulch in evening on loater-diver bugs: 10-12 quality strikes, but only landed 2! (1.5 & 2.5# SMB). All action was in looded trees in 5-10'. Fished deep (15-25')rocky bars at midday w ast-sink lines, but w 0 results. Any other bass ly-ishers out there?
      City: Arcata

      Tips: ? My irst time there, but I'm sure goin' back!

Friday, June 16th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 88-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Amador rom 7:45 pm till 1:30 am Friday. Got 4 hitsand almost landed two average sized ish. Fishing waslousy. Water temp started out at 88 and dropped to around 82 by 1:00 am. No surace or eeding action wasnoticed evening or at night. Many bass boats were on the water - probably pre-ishing or tournament the ollowingnight.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ B&W about 3:00PM. Went into Potato, Hog@Beaver. Looked for the Toads, Managed 5 bass all around 2.5 pounds. They did not seem real active, Compared to the 1LB Frog that clamped onto my Frog. Noticed at about 6:30 PM The moon was as big as the sky. I believe the fish feasted the night before. Thanks for the advise SPANKY, use that POWER PRO LINE and could only stick two pounders. I GUESS IT DOESN"T matter what line I use, still land the babies.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Used Frogs mostly, then found a spinnerbait bite on the current.

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      Water Temp: SEMI WARM

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ME AND A BUDDY CAUGHT 7 BASS LAST NIGHT THE BIGGEST ONE WAS MINE AT 8 1/2 LBS. THE OTHERS WERE MOSTLY KEEPERS EXCEPT FOR TWO OF THEM. WE WERE SOMEWHERE ON THE WEST END.
      City: RIVERSIDE

      Tips: TOPWATER AND SPINNER

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

      Report: Caught a 10lb. catish by the dam on chicken liver.
      City: san jose,ca

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well ather and i went out o Granite Bay at 5:20 with no one in the parking lot. We went up the North Fork and into the irst big cove. First cast with a White/Black broken back Rapala cought a 2#'er. Nothing or 30 minutes untill we went urther into the Fork to an area with a point with an island next to it. We ished the point with pumpkin-seed/chartruse tail worm. Cought 5 nice keepers with the biggest going about 4#s. Moved to the point and cought a dink in the trees. Over all a good day on the lake. Out by 8:00.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Use the pumpkin-seed/chartruse worm SLOWLY. Fish just suck it up and all you ell is a tap and you see your line move to the side. Top-water would probably work beore sun comes out.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished by Limesaddle caught between 30 and 40 bass shakin worms.
      City: chico

Thursday, June 15th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished on the evening and night o the ull moon. I saw some activity a point and caught one nice 1.5#er on a 10 inch purple worm. I also got a ew bites here on a lizard. Ater dark, I caught one more on a junebug baby brush hog. Near the same point. Overall, the day and night were slow.
      City: antelope

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE BACK POUND STARTED AROUND 730AM TRIED SPINNERBAITS, JIG AND PIG , TUBE BAIT AND ENDED WITH A BUZZ BAIT AROUND 930AM WITH OUT A BITE OR A BUMP. FISHED IN A BELLYBAOT OUT TO THE ISLAND AND BACK STAYING TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE POUND AND ISLAND WORKING THE EDGE OF ANY SHADE I CAME ACROSS.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: NO TIPS BECAUSE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE FISHED SHADOW CLIFF. bUTR THE KIDS WHERE CATCHING THEM ON GRUBS THE DAY BEFORE OFF THE SHORE.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2000

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

      Report: Fished like mad and only caught 2 good size bluegill ater being there or a week. 1ish weighed 1lb.05oz.the other 2lb.03oz. used every bass trick and tip.

      Tips: Jig like mad never give up because you might just land the whopper i not just go to Albertsons because it's your store.

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

      Report: Fished Big Break at 6:30 and was off the water by 12:30. It was just to darn HOT! Managed to p/u 6 fish all in the 1.5 to 2.0 range. Tryed buzzbaits, worms, cranks and even worked the cheese with a frog, but caught all my fish on a pearl fluke, skipping it to the edge of the tules. When my bag of flukes was to hot to pick up I knew it was time to git!
      City: Watsonville

      Tips: Skip to the edge, let it sink then twitch it once and let it sink again. P.S. Could'nt have said it better myself Stevebass!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 75-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom 5am too 12;45pm.Caught 40 to 50 spots and blacks.Most o the ish were caught on grubs and tubes,some on top water,rom 8in too 18in,only 4 over the slot limit.Small ish came on the top water bait.Long points were the most productive.
      City: Riv

      Tips: Light wt line and jig heads,try dierent colors.It was mostley light bites

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hello, we caught only a ew squaw and bluegill in evening hours. WARNING; Something in the lake bit my riend HARD. We still do not know what it was, but it did draw blood. Could it be pike? I do not recommend swimming here any longer.
      City: RWC

      Tips: Do not ill your pockets with lunchmeat beore swimming!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent Thursday 8th through Sunday the 11th on a houseboat and went out every morning in the Champion to check the ishing. We were anchored up the McCloud and since I don't normally ish there, decided to do all my ishing there and had a ball. Very little top water or rip bite and had them taking worms rom the get go and colors varied rom Oxblood to Oxblood with chartruese tail on a darthead. Fish ranged in the standard 1-2 pound with a ew going over 2-3 and plenty o ish until breakast time at 10:AM. Most ish came o secondary points or deep clay banks.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Using a little heavier darthead (1/4 oz) on 6 lb line and long casts as the ish have very good visibility in the clear water. Worked real slow as all the bites were a pressure bite.

Tuesday, June 13th, 2000

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

      Report: Real informative! Feel bad for those loomis rods being in the hands of such a real MATURE individual!

      Tips: Stick to the aol chatrooms!!!!!!