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Saturday, May 27th, 2000

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6 Am til noon.North end in rock piles. Caught all ish on rock piles that had been loode a while. No bites on the rock piles back near HWY 3. Fish on the inside o points in about 12-15 eet o water; 9 SMB up to 3.5#'s, all on majic worms/ witches T. Couple small ish on white sp bait. No topwater action, although one guy had two TW ish, one up to 4#'s. Weather was clear and a little chilly, with the wind getting bad at about 11:00 AM. Bite was so so. Dragging the worm on a split shot rig worked best.
      City: Arcata

Friday, May 26th, 2000

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with my buddy Richard on Thursday and Friday. Thrusday was overcast and had a great time. On the lake by 0700. Caught bluegill, crappie and largemouth bass. Small bluegill and bass ran 1-2 pounds. Crappie were outrageous in size - .5-1.5 pounds. Had a great time.
      City: Redding

      Tips: We used top waters early and went to spinner baits that would get close to the bottom later. Had success with both patterns.

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

      Report: City: HAYWARD

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: NOT SURE

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I COUGHT A 14 POUND LARGEMOUTH BASS OFF THE DAM WITH A PLUGTHE REST I WAS USING WORMS AND CATCHING PRETTY GOOD SIZE TROUT.
      City: RIVERSIDE

      Tips: JUST KEEP ON TRYING WITH THOSE PLUGS AND WORMS.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: Warm ;)

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got to Shasta early to try and beat the House boaters. Thewater was crystal clear. I ound ish at the end, and I domean end o the coves. I spotted one Hen, where here dorsalin was just barely under water. I ished rom 6:30 am untilnoon. Caught 5 ish, mostly under a pound.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Only thing I could get them to hit was a clear salt andpepper worm with a purple, or is that violet ;)) worm.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got to lake around 6:30pm. Tried a tube and spinner bait or hal hour with one hit. Switched to a power worm and caught my largest bass to date,5-6 lbs! Also caught smaller one on same worm. The ish are their, just have to ind them.
      City: santa cruz

Thursday, May 25th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of b& w resort 5:30 am . Started out with #4Terminator willow leaf blade chart/orge /white hooked 4lb. bass at the highway 4 bridge. 10 min on water and had a nice fish on . continued to slow roll spinner bait all day seem to be most productive. worked the moss lines early morning with top water no luck?ripped some today did not produce as well as spinner bait. Left home at 11:00am Lots of boat traffic.All in all had a good day13 and a half lbs of catch and release. Dont over look the rip rap you may like what you catch .TIP>>> they are feeding on crawdads big time...Till next time Good fishing!
      City: Elmira Calif 95625

      Tips: Big ones feeding heavy on crawdads....be patient

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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Put in this morning at 6AM with client Tim Mathews (TimDog) did an Instructional on Ledge fishin, the fish were there but a very lite "tic tic" but, we manage to get some...they were in the undersize catogory. Switch to a weed bed pattern in deeper water and immediately caught better fish using Snoozerbaits "Thrasher". Continued instructional request "Dinks". By 9AM we did a change up on the ledges and grass bed and started throwing Spinnerbaits (White) smoked them on windy banks. Ran the rest of day just show and tell. Best 5 went around 10lbs,,, the fish are diffently in a post-spawn.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Watch your depthfinder (Front) for the ledge and drop your "confident" bait down. Suggest leavin it there until you can figure out witch way they will eat it in presentation. If this doesn't get them slow roll a spinnerbait to get a reaction hit. Frog Bite didn't exist for us today.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I started ishing the Willows just outside o dyke 8. He was throwing a white spinner bait and I was lippingplastics. He caught a two pound largie and a ew short ish,and I caught a 5.71 pound large mouth in the irst 10 minuteso the tourney. As soon as the sun hit the water, the spinner bait bite shut o or us. We ended up ishing someisolated willow paches in the Granite bay area the rest o thetourney, and caught ish all day long. Started culling isharound 9 am. Ended up with 15 pounds, and ourth place, very goodday or us and our little aluminum boat.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: We caught most o our good ish and the most dead looking willows, that were in aout 15-20 eet o water. Single willoswere holding more ish than the big clumps o willows.

  • Riverside County
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      Water Temp: unknow

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: we started o with 12 inch waterdogs about 10;00 am and we only had 6 o them every dog that hit the water was inhailed by big ish only. my buddy pulled in a 7 1/2 pounder bringing up about 5 ish with it all big one over 10. nothing under 4 pounds. ater we used them up we switched to crawdads used all o 20 dads then changed to purple 8 inch worms the bite was still good just about every cast. but the unnist part was the topwater bite at the end o the day.
      City: downey

      Tips: bigger waterdogs

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 71-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WE lanuched at barrett`s cove(so) ramp,app 4:30 am.Started at the second cove on west bank.Parnter caught one small ish on a crank bait,I lost one on a jerk bait & a good ish on a skirted grub.nothing on a spinter bait.Let this area & went too the east o the dam.Caught app 35 bass 1/2 blacks &1/2 spots,rom 10in too 181/2 in.Got 6 over the slot.Most came on tube baits.NO split shot worms today.We were useing 1/32 to 1/4oz jig heads on 4 to 10 lb test line.Caught a couple on grubs & some on 4in worms.We let at noon
      City: Riv

      Tips: 3 to 10 t o water was more productive.Watch your line,could`t eel some o the pickups

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water @9:00pm. Very late start. Could not ind anybody to go with so I went solo. Very hot nightshorts and tee shirt were adequate. Fished ater dusk in tulies or 45 minutes w/no results. Flipped to a dock piling as I navigated around it and caught a 3lb at 9:45. Tried more pilings to no avail. Fished anderson and dollar Island.......nothing. Headed south to some inside rocks and dumped a 1.5lb at boat. Had several other pecks that I missed. Landed a 3.5 at 11:30 on brushog. My area had very bright lights shining on bank which messed up the bite in areas where I normally get bit. Fish in this area were in shade pockets very shallow. About midnight, I tried an area o deeper rocks that I had or some reason never ished beore that was a stones throw rom my usual spot. Bingo! Slammed 6 ish, smallest 3 lbs to 5.8 lbs. Broke my reel seat on biggest ish(now I can relate Ripper!). By 3 Am, had 5.8,5.1,5.0,4.7, and 3.5 or my 5 biggest 24.1 lbs. Lost no big ish, Finally ound a good line that does not break, big game lippin #20....thanks lunker Lar!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: 6"brushogs worked or me. 3/16 oz wt. Concentrate on an area when you catch several ish. Several times a second trip down the bank produced several ish.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went with the Cajun and took the "Other Woman" out or a run around the lake. South Fork, tons o ry, you could see bass running in 4 to 5 eet o water. Plastics didn't work, period. Through a buzzbait or un, BAM! The Cajun was on ire with Hula Popper! Topwater was the action or the evening. Caught about 10 ish. Last two in the evening on the way out was a 3.5 then a 4.5 on black buzzbaits! Pretty good Day
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Don't be araid to try something dierent! You never know what might work!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This message is or Shaun Laytem. I just wanted to congrat you on your 4th place inish at Folsom. I was in that tournament,irst or me and my partner. I just thought it was pretty cool to see you place ahead o all those "bass" boats with your little "aluminum" boat. It just shows that you don't need a $20,000 boat to catch ish. Don't get me wrong, I think bass boats are great. You impressed me and my parner with your limit. It was a pretty tough day or us. I think we jumped around too much. Anyways, congrats.PS.. Where did you buy your 15 horse motor and how much was it?Splunkah Man
      City: Rancho Cordova

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      Water Temp: i dunno

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out in the loat tube . was in granite bay with all the water lice and boats.used crankbaits , sluggo's and in-s-ish to catch 21 bass and lose 3 others between 4:30pm and dark.5 or 6 were dinks , the rest were spots and smallies rom 1 to 3 lbs, except or one largemouth in the bunch.pretty much my best day in a while.....
      City: horth highlands

      Tips: seems like any thing shadlike was working.or the guy who was complaining about swimmers and jetskis,just watch they don't hit you,cause they didn't seem to hurt the ishing.a one ounce weight on your hook will get their attention i they don't see you ....or respect you....

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in the water at 505am and out at 9am rom Packers Bay, terry cove and no name island, or 12 to 3lbs on black and gold yamamoto jigs, 3 more at bridge bay docks by the pontoon boat storage, still lots o junk in the water but the wind has come up and will move it o over next couple o days, ish around the docks hit the jig within 3 t o the surace, everything elsewhere was taken out o 25-35 t o water, very pleasant this am, shorts and t-shirt at 76 degrees when I let the house.
      City: Redding

Monday, May 22nd, 2000

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ishing was slow irst thing in the morning but picked up around 9:00 a.m. caught three spotts on shad like jerk baits in 5 to 6 eet o water also caught to dragging a cotton candy brush hog carolina rigged in 13 eet o water later in the day around 2:00 p.m.
      City: Galt

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 61-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: all arms are ull o junk, mostly small pieces loating around, jet powered vessels are having a tough time keeping the stu cleaned out, lots o small ish being taken, expect to cull through 30-40 ish or an 8lb 5 ish limit, most ish being taken rom at least 12t o water down to 30t, a surace bite is available IF you get on the water around 430Am, it dies o rapidly, activity is growing daily and the weekend o memorial day will be a mess, mudline ishing should be in vogue ater next weekend with all the traic expected, early and late will be productive with choppy water in the middle o the day due to boat traic. Highest temp this am was ound in the O'Brien Inlet at 68 degrees, lowest was the upper Squaw at 61, don't overlook the mudlines being pulled o points, toss something into the mudline and drag it back out and hang on when it clears. The lake is at 12 1/2 t and rising very slowly, should stop soon and drop which will clean things up we could use some wind to blow the debris onto the banks.
      City: Redding

Sunday, May 21st, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake at night in my tube directly across from the dam closet to the parking lot.Threw 10 inch bluefleck with brass and glass and a rattle.Fished for about 4 hours only got two that weighed 1.9.
      City: Milpitas

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went tubing, with a friend, Sunday. I hooked a 2lber just left of the damn on a white spinner bait. A little while later, my partner got another on a white spinnerbait. I snapppedped my spinner bait off, so I switch to a purple worm, didn't wont to re-thread my rod ;) About that time several water skiers came very close to us. I would say within 20 feet. One guy actual went between me and the shore. I caught one more on a worm and called it a day.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Get there early fish fast and get off the lake by 10:00.