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Tuesday, June 13th, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Did a couple o aternoon-night trips Sat and Mon. Fish are not too active at night yet because o the cold weather. I trust that will change this week!! Not catching too many, but the quality is good - several in the 4 to 5 1/2 lb range - 18 lb limit Sat, 17 1/4 on Mon. I tried working a Rodstrainer jig with a jerk-hop motion I'm developing thru weeds, and a 4 1/2 pounder nailed it. I mean NAILED IT!! Maybe I'm on to something (probably not). That was on the south side o Konocti Bay, about 7 pm. On the way in, I showed my client how we ish rockpiles later on in the year. He got bit on a zipper worms and landed a 5-2. Wow, could Fall be just around the corner - I wish!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: As some o the reports suggest, the ish have been sluggish since the water temp dropped 6 degrees in 5 days. Dead-stick and watch or subtle pickups (non bites) until the water gets well back into the 70's. Topwater by the weekend??

Monday, June 12th, 2000

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 4lbs 2oz o a white Rattlin' Rat...

      Tips: Fish those weed mats with rogs and rats! They've been killin' 'em!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 3:30 t0 6:30 PM rom 49er bridge to coyote arm. Lots o small ish, two keepers,1lb and 5 1/2 lb.
      City: Arnold

      Tips: Used top water rapala and ished mudlines and rockwalls.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70 to 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Partner & I ished here Sat. & Sun.. Fished the S. Fork and caught a ew jerk bait ish but caught majority o ish split shotting 4" & 6" worms. Caught a couple in submerged willows but most ish came o o the steeper rocky banks. Never caught any over the slot and most ish were at bellied and were eeding on either 1 to 2" shad or crawdads. Averaged about ive dinks or every ish over 13".
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Split shot 4" to 6" worms in oxblood, salt n pepper, or green weenie. Work the worm slowly.

Sunday, June 11th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We lauched out of Holland Tract tide was top of incoming started with buzzbaits in Old River few small ones (1.5 range) Swicth to White Termenator SpinnerBaits burning them over weeds.We caught several over 2 one about 4 and one over 6lbs.We also threw plastic but only caught small ones.
      City: rodeo

      Tips: We stuck shallow 1'to 3'with spinnerbaits then fished plastic in the current ,off tules points.

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED AT B AND W AT 4AM WENT TO TERMINOUS BRIDGE.STARTED WITH SPINNER BAIT CAUGHT A 3 POUNDER RIGHT AT THE PILLERS MOVED SOUTH ON POTATOE SLOUGH CAUGHT LOTS OF SMALL ONES NOTICED THEY ALL WERE FULL OF EGGS THEY HAVE NOT SPAWNED YET TOOK LOTS OF PICTURES AND RELEASED ALL . HAD A GOOD DAY > GOING TO LAKE BERRYESSA SAT MORNING GOOD BITE GOING ON AT THE LAKE LOTS OF PLASTIC ACTION WHAT I DO BEST GOOD FISHING KEEP TIGHT LINES
      City: ELMIRA

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      Water Temp: 70 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club fished Delta on Sunday, June 11 in team event. Winning weight (7 fish) was ~22.5 lb. Second place (3 fish) was ~12.5 lb, & 3rd place was just over 12 lb. Big fish of day was about 6.8 lb. Bass went for senkos, reapers, frogs, buzzbaits, etc. Twenty-one anglers participated.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: If you'd like more info about the club, send me an e-mail and/or check out our website @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc/index.htm.

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

      Report: We to ished the ABA out o Redbud, but our story is a bit sad. We lost the irst ish about 6lbs. Got the next 3 in the boat. Then I lost a monster, got a chance to see her beore she took me in the tules never to be seen again (10+). We lost one more good ish as it shook the hook at the boat. We ended the day with 12 keepers and only 14.29 lbs good enough or 15th (paid to 14th). Ah, the one that got away.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Senkos in the tules did the trick or us.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 68 - 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Rock Garden in the morning. 3 Spots and 1 Smallie in about 3 hours ishing. Missed another hal dozen. Bite was light, most ish on a 4" plastic. Each ish was on a dierent color, ranging rom salt & pepper, smoke and pumpkinseed.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Beore you leave a rock hump, give it a pass or two with a small rattle trap. You may pick up a bonus ish or two.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 68-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nothing great. We didn't get on the water until about 0730. I caught a couple shakers on a chugger in coves. Then it was dead until the mudlines ormed. We ished mudlines and caught a couple more. The biggest one was about two and a hal lbs. We tried about everything in the tacklebox, the ish just weren't too interested. But it's still a beautiul lake!!!
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Be on the lake early with small topwaters

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Partner and I ished WCB Team Future Pro on Sunday, was a tough bite, our Fluke and jig bite rom pre-ish was non-exsistnent. Went to Green weenie and 1/4 jigs with Yamamotogrub to get the ish I beleive we ended up 12th with 9.3 lbshad second big ish o tourney in 100 hp division 3.55 by my partner. Things got tough up there I will say we caught 8 keepers all day between the two o us.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Don't be arai to throw that jig or better ish, winter, spring, summer or all

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had A tough time got some blow ups on top early but nothing got hooked up. Had some ollows on a luke. Caught 5 airly small ish on gitzits. Greens and browns. Clear water. Saw a ew good ish but couldn't get them. My irst Time. I'll be back or them.
      City: San Jose

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: out early out o packers at 5am, only caught 4 dinks on jigs, the jigs were swarmed by small bass o the year, 75 to eighty would chase it back to the boat, they were all over the place. ished around no name isld and Beaver, water cooled o a ew degrees with the recent rains, most ish suspended rom 12-25 t and dropped slightly as the sun came up, people are hammering the trout toplining broken back rebels in the Sac arm. ater dark catishing is the hot ticket right now.
      City: Redding

Saturday, June 10th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: N/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 9 fish all day a few on blades (black) and most flipp'n a craw pattern reaper in weed beds best 3 fish were 4.5lbs,4.13lb,7.14lb didnt get on the water till 9:30 off at 4:00
      City: Milpitas

      Tips: Flip reapers if they dont seem to active to atack anything else

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat and Sun up river. Caught 11 large mouth and 2 smallies. Biggest ish were 3.5lbs and 3.0lbs on top water. Caught 8 on top water (skitter pop) early morning and late evening, and 3 on split shot 4" worm on isolated weed beds during the day. Smallies taken on green with red lake tube bait on the all. Also caught 6 kokenee on kokenee rig trailing a roster tail in the middle o the river channel, and one 4lbs channel cat on makerel at night. A un weekend.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top water 1-2 t rom rocky shore and wood. First time throwing a Skitter Pop by Rapala. Get one - blue and chrome worked or me.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: bass bite was slow a ew ish were caught on plastics and buzzbaits early in the day most ish were caught early but the aternoon bite seemed to pick as the temperature got hotter. my partner and i had a good catish bite going on a drop shot rig with a 4 inch worm we caught 2 at about 15lbs each. but we were not trying to catch catish so it wasnt a very good day or us bass ishing.
      City: vallejo

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Top Six with CVBC. TommyP and I boated 5 ish or 16.76 lbs. Caught ish on watermelon w/red lake senkos ished in tight to tules, under docks, next to trees and anywhere that looked bassy. Caught bed ish using a weightless single tail white grub or a smoke pearl blue luke on the hot spot in the bed. We stayed in the north end all day. Also, ound lots o 1/2" bass ry in some sloughs and caught the guarding male. Also, ound bedding ish buried deep inside tules.Mayday
      City: Belmont

      Tips: For bedding bass, ind the hot spot on the bed and shake the weightless grub or luke. Fish are buried in the tules

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: ??????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ninja and I ished rom 6:00 AM to around 5:00 PM. What a day! We got 80 something Spots and largemouths. Biggest spot was 16.5 inches and biggest largemouth was 17 inches. Caught around 8-10 ish over the slot. Most ish were caught on 1/8 Darthead grubs. most o the strikes were pressure bites. Thanks or the great day Chris - David
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Watch your line careully or strikes that occur during the all o your lure

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom 4:30 too 1 pm.Caught 18 bass,one each on spinner & jerk baits.Rest came on tubes & 4-6in worms.We got 10 keepers up too 2 lbs.Largest ish was cought on a keeper 1001R 6 in worm,5/16 oz jig head.WE were splitshoting & useing 1/16 too 1/4 oz jig heads.Fishing rom 3 too 30 t water.Charted lots o ish & bait rom 5 t too 35 t
      City: Riv

      Tips: None,

Friday, June 9th, 2000

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a variety o spots and baits, but ound the best action up the Yuba arm with 3" brown reapers. Up abovethe ive M.P.H. buoys we ound alot o the Bullards clonesand had a blast on them with light tackle.
      City: roseville

      Tips: Dropping, warm water has the ish moving, but look to brushpiles in the Yuba arm. The best depth was the 6'-8' in theshade o boulders and trees.