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Sunday, June 4th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched my kickboat at abou 5:30 am and tried the topwater bite...nothing. Started throwing a splitshotted worm and and caught fat 4.3 lber across from the picnic area. Caught four more with the same setup ranging from 1 to 2.5 lbs. Left at about 11:30 am All fish were caught on the banks across from the boat launch on a green and brown worm. I also tried crankbaits and a fluke but got nothing on them today.
      City: santa clara

      Tips: Watch out for skiers if your in a pontoon or tube, they came very close today. The weeds are choking out Bailey cove!

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched my kickboat at abou 5:30 am and tried the topwater bite...nothing. Started throwing a splitshotted worm and and caught fat 4.3 lber across from the picnic area. Caught four more with the same setup ranging from 1 to 2.5 lbs. Left at about 11:30 am All fish were caught on the banks across from the boat launch on a green and brown worm. I also tried crankbaits and a fluke but got nothing on them today.
      City: santa clara

      Tips: Watch out for skiers if your in a pontoon or tube, they came very close today. The weeds are choking out Bailey cove!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out and fished the FWO - I didn't listen to others as I know it puts doubts. Fished the middle Delta with bites on the Black with blue flake senko the when low tide, fished a blue & silver chrome rattle trap outside on the weed line. A good consistancy in culling fish.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: Low tides - never forget the rattletrap - crawdad or blue & chrome outside the weedlines when you see small fry in pockets.

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      Water Temp: 70.2-71.0

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Big Break @ 6:30am. Tried to fish the break, but didn't have a 103#trolling motor to keep me steady, the wind was howling, Managed to get two toads blow-up on my frog. But was not able to stick them. Thank God it wasn't Tournament. Drove over to Sandmound & Fishermans cut stuck 4, 2#ers on blades, VERY TOUGH fishing conditions today.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Where waterproof fishing wear, the water is rough, and wind is cold. Be SAFE

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hiked plus ished lake rom sunrise untill highnoon caught three little ones not worth talking about but than ater about one hour o hikeing i caught a three pounder useing a crankbait (bomber).
      City: remont

      Tips: keep casting and you will land a bass

Saturday, June 3rd, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got skunked at Amador. Bass are deinitely in the post spawn mode. Through everything in the tackle box. Maybe a ew more weeks, things should improve.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Try green Grolsch

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 66-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Paradise @ 7am heading north into Whites, Little Potato and Terminous area. Should've fished Forrest Wood open with the limit I had by 10:30. Rodstrainer buzzbaits killed 'em early - special FruitLoop color is working by boating a 3.5 & 4.2 by 9am. Big fat PIG full of eggs came before 10am on a point loaded with wood on a outgoing tide. She hit a Rodstrainer Dinkster jig w/a custom Conroy Oakley barf colored trailer (you still Da Man, Conroy!). Fish weighed 8.3 and made Robert Lee a sick man as I held it before him as my my partner snapped pictures of it before releasing. A few other miscellaneous jig & Rico fish had me strong 18LB limit by 10:30. Put the boat up at 1:30 and home by 2:00.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Crawl you buzzbait as S-L-O-W as possible while maintaining it slightly above water. Spend a few moments opening the buzzbait hook with pliers and sharpen with file. Invest time with jigs in current situations.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I'll keep this one nice and short. Caught a 3+ with a 1/4oz white spinnerbait. d:o

      Tips: So ar this summer I've caught ish on that Power Eel and a spinnerbait!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish the banks at doltins point around 6 am saw ish jump so i grabbed my junior zara spook and casted it right where i saw the ish jump. The ish jumped out o the water with my lure in his mouth thats when my dragg started signing. It wasnt the bigesst ish (3lbs) but the large mouth woudn't stop. I inally brang it in. The rest o the day was slow couple small ones on lukes.P.S I your on the banks watch out or rattle snakes we saw 3.
      City: Roseville

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent Sunday ishing McClure. The bite was not super easy, but decent. Caught ish mainly in the 20-30 eet depth on a variety o baits rom darthead grubs to 1/2oz jigs. The key was to ish slow and in the right depth. I you were not bouncing on the bottom, you will not get bit ... right Buzzbait?
      City: San Jose

      Tips: slow down ... make contact with the bottom.

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      Water Temp: 73-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing at 4:45,south o barretts so ramp,west bank.Partner was useing a 1/2 oz spinter bait,caught 2 bass over the slot limit.I threw a jerk bait,rattle trap & a zoro spook.Nothing!partner did land a 14in black on a pop R plug.We started useing 4 & 6 in worms on dart heads,also tube baits.Caught app 40 bass,most were spots.Fishing sharp drop os & mud lines.Fished dierent areas rom the ramp too cottonwood ck.Caught 13 rom 15in too 17 3/4 in.
      City: Riv

      Tips: Use light lines & heads,didn`t catch much splitshotting.Color didn`t seem too matter.Will be some spots spawing,come ull moon.Fish sharp drop o`s by deep water

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water at 5:00 A.M. and headed up river looking or boils. Thr only boil we ound was near an island about one mile up river rom the boat ramp. We stoppped there and I threw them a spook. This didn't work so we continued up river. No more boils to be ound. We also trolled Shad all morning and this also did nothing. We let about 10:30 A.M. without a ish in the livewell.
      City: Modesto

Friday, June 2nd, 2000

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

      Report: I was on the lake at 5:30am and ished till about 11:30am. Only got about 8-9 and none o them had any size what-so-ever. Fishing was very slow, got them all on 4.5 in. Magic worms.
      City: Elk Grove

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

      Report: We ished all over the lake. We caught 4 ish on a cinnamon Yamamoto jig with 1/4 ounce jig head. Missed three ish on oxblood w/ chartrouse tail.The ish we caught on the jig, they hit the jid hard. We had to keep one because it swallowed the jig.
      City: redding

Thursday, June 1st, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Perfect day - low winds, low 80's, lots of fish. Took 6 bass, to 3 1/2 lbs mostly on 6" brown salamander with yellow tail. Took a 4 lb cat on plastic and an 8+ lb cat on a live minnow. 3 good sized Largemouth east of the Pope Creek bridge, and a really nice smallie from a little island in the Narrows, lake side. The big cat was from the east shore. Lots of bites - wish I was still out there. Tight lines!
      City: San Carlos

      Tips: Texas rig, pretty continuous retrieve, just dragging on the bottom.

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the 2nd Dock o o Channel Pt. with my riends CHuck and Big Dan today. Mostly went over there to check out how the catish bite was going. Tried Anchovies, Sardine, and even Turkey-Bacon or catish! Didn't get one hit rom catish. However, I did catch a 16" Rainbow Trout o o Sardines!! I caught more trout than most o the trout isherman did, and I wasn't even going or 'em! Talked to a ew guys that were trout ishing and no one had caught anything. Later beore we let there was some kids just like screwin' around there on the dock and somehow caught a trout. About 12". While I had one line out or Catish, I was ishin' or largemouths with another line. Around 10:00 I picked up a 1.25# LM Bass o a t-rigged 10" chartreuse Power Eel. Then later I picked up another one on the other side o the dock with the same thing. This one was a little bigger. It went about 1.75#. So ya...don't bother or catish or a little while. It was VERY SLOW today. We were there like all day. Good luck...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Well, I was just ishin' rom that one dock and picked up two nice ones with that Power Eel. Seems to be workin'...

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a 4#er early in the am using a chartruese 6-8t diving crankbait, then switched to a big-lipped crawdad and ound them taking a liking to it. Caught three more within the 3-5 lb range, one with a crawdad still hanging out o it's stomach. Be careul and use some orm o tick repellant when walking through the grass ields cause you'll need it.
      City: Pt Reyes

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the lake is clearing up but has cooled a bit due to heavy north winds, orecast or next ew days indicate warming temps, traic is down inally and should be minimal until the 21st or so when school lets out, catishing is on the upswing especially in the coves on the top end o all arms, weighed one channel on the upper pit or a guy that went 16 lbs, bass are spread out and suspended except in the early am, not much o a top water bite, worms and jigs still the rule, ish depper as the sun comes up to 25-30t. took 3 out o big backbone area in irst 30 minutes at 445am, nothing ater that. trout are 30t down at daybreak dropping to 50 plus by 9am, kastmasters etc providing limits, salmon at the dam is slow, only small ish
      City: Redding

Wednesday, May 31st, 2000

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 71-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at barrett`s so ramp at app 4:30 am.Fished west side o the middle part o the lake & cottonwood creek.Caught app 40 bass,app 30 o them were rom 13 in to 8.4 lbs. Had 9 ish over the slot limit.BIg ish came on a tube bait.All ish were caught on tube baits,4 & 6 in worms on 1/16 to 1/4 oz jig heads (dart heads)ished on 6,8 & 10 lb test line rom 5 to 35 t deep.We ound ish everwhere we ished.We quit ishing at 12:40 pm.
      City: Riv

      Tips: 41/2 in tubes,cal worms in coves with grass that drop ast,set in app 25 t o water & cast too the bank or the blacks.Most o the spots were caught,setting in 10 t o water & casting out too 30 & 40 t.Sot bites.Colors were pumkin & summer moss

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

      Report: STARTED FISHING AT 600pm UP IN COYOTE. WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK AND FISHED THE TIMBER USING CRANKS AND AND SPINNERS ONLY PULLED 2 KEEPERS OUT OF THE AREA. FISHED PUT OF THE TIMBER AND UP THE WEST BANK WITH TOP WATER PLUGS A LOT OF DINKS WOULD HIT BUT NOTHING OF ANY SIZE.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: TIME TO GO TO THE MAIN PIONTS OF THE LAKE.