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Sunday, May 7th, 2000

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 63-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Red Bud on Sunday Morning 6:30, Rained almost all day. Caught one ish, tried everything until about 1pm and called it a day. Talked to several others ishing same day and most had similar luck. Heard ABA member one tourny with 27 lbs out o the north side. Sorry no better ino.
      City: Fairield

      Tips: Bring your rain gear this weekend!!Lets try to get back to the business o posting reports on this page please. I you'd like to discuss issues and not report on ishing activities, please eel ree to bring it up in the Fishing Forum. Thanks or your cooperation- Ed.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: Mid-60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Big bass on a rainy day!! Fishing with a Rebel deep wee-r (chrome-black), I caught 3 smallmouth, 1 spot, and 1 largemouth. The largemouth weighing 7 lbs. (22 inches). The ish came out o 4 to 9 eet o water while ishing lats adjacent to points in the south ork. While later ishing with a Carolina-rigged luke, I picked up 2 more smallmouth.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Anything resembling a shad seems to draw erocious strikes right now.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: decided to brave the rain on sunday and run out to Folsom, good decision! although it rained all day we had a good day. picked up a ew small spots & one smallie dragging misc. plastic, then ound a great luke bite. we saw something chasing shad against the shore and decided to join in on the action. caught and released some really good spots up to 3.1 lbs on lukes. also boated a really nice 2.5 lb. salmon on the luke! turned out to be a great wet day. our best 7 would have gone approx. 13.5 lbs. (not counting the salmon) good luck, biGjOhn OWT!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: look or ish keying on shad. the ish were gorged and throwing up 3" shad. use shad patterns!

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: 61 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club ished Blue Lakes on Sunday, May 7. Winning weight or team tournie (7 ish) was 17+ lb, with all ish coming rom clear lake. Second place (& day's big ish o 5+ lb) or 14.84 lb or 5 ish came rom mud lake. Third place was 13.3 lb, with 7 ish rom both lakes. 19 anglers took part. Bass went or spinnerbaits, sot plastics, jigs & a ew or crankbaits.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: *** I you're interested in loat tube club, check out our web page @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc/index.htm, or e-mail me. We hold monthly events @ various lakes & waterways in North Bay. Meetings 1st Wednesday o each month @ 7 PM @ Coddingtown Round Table Pizza. ***

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished angels creek area,rom 5:30am to 12:30pm.cloudy & missty.Partner & I tried top water,spinner baits & jerk baits.ONE 13in ish on the jerk.Caught 20 to 25 on zoom lizards ,keeper & cali. worms.(4 & 6 in) split shoting &jig heads.caught 15 ish rom 121/4 in too 14in
      City: RIV

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a tournament and was expecting a solid bite rom past reports but we experienced the opposite. The bite was tough at best. Caught tons o runts but had a tough time inding quality ish. I guess with a barametric pressure drop that could explain the great bite earlier this week. We had rain most o the day and a little wind. Even though I won the tournament getting lucky inding a spawning par o ish the others in the livewell were little guys so nothing to write home about. The bite could only get better at this point. Sonoma is a beautiul lake to take the amily and visually the structure is incredible. I the past reports are honest then I would recommend a visit. PS I had only ished this lake once beore and caught an 8+ and a 6+ plus a ew other nice ish so I know there are some good ones in there.
      City: mtn. view

      Tips: I caught a lot o ish on Yamamoto Senkos in a light color dead sticking and got the two bed ish on jigs plus a ew other strikes as well on the jig. Good luck out there. cv

Saturday, May 6th, 2000

  • Santa Barbara County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with Tim N. at W.O.N. team tournament on Saturday. We won with 18.34. We had a 6.24 ona green worm, a4.5 bed ish, two 3+ jig ish and a smallmouth on a crank. Only 5 bites all day. Running and gunning at the west end (Clark, Johnson and Cachuma Bays).
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: When the wind blows, the ish move up to less than 10 eet. You have to stay on them.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing about 8:00 to 12:00 caught 3 fish tubing baily cove first fish went about 2lbs second fish was about 7lbs third fish was about 5 1/2 to 6 lbs weather was overcast which made for a very productive day. hope to see more tubers out there
      City: milpitas

      Tips: used caroline rig with black&red flake lizzard draging through the hydrela. and please practics catch and release

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      Water Temp: 95

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: With the threat of rain today I decided to stay home and fish calero. Hit the water at 1:30 and left at 3:30. Stuck 4 huge fish on a rippin minnow (Team Diawa). Total weight of all 4 was pretty close to a Pound! Biddest one was almost 6". Wind really picked up and there was alot of traffic on the water!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Rippin was all I tried!

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went fishing about 8:00 to 12:00 caught 3 fish tubing baily cove first fish went about 2lbs second fish was about 7lbs third fish was about 5 1/2 to 6 lbs weather was overcast which made for a very productive day. hope to see more tubers out there
      City: milpitas

      Tips: used caroline rig with black&red flake lizzard draging through the hydrela. and please practics catch and release

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      Water Temp: 95

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: With the threat of rain today I decided to stay home and fish calero. Hit the water at 1:30 and left at 3:30. Stuck 4 huge fish on a rippin minnow (Team Diawa). Total weight of all 4 was pretty close to a Pound! Biddest one was almost 6". Wind really picked up and there was alot of traffic on the water!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Rippin was all I tried!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished until the rain came at about 3:00 we found decent fishing but nothing big. largest fish went 2.7 lbs the only pattern we found was buzz bait first thing and then flipping into the holes in the wed beds at low tide with crawdad colored zippers. the bite was VERY SUBTLE! almost all of the bites were detected by line movement not feel, even the one on a crank bait! biGjOhn, OWT
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: "dip" or flip the holes in the weed beds at low tide, WATCH YOUR LINE! everything we caught was delta red or crawdad colored! from plastic, to crankbait, jig to blade, all fish came on red or red/brown or black. the biggest fish had a half digested crawdad coming out it's vent! TIP: crawdad patterns, fished slow and watch your line!

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      Water Temp: 67+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a pretty good day yesterday. Got third place in the 100% tourney, with 25.45# Caught a good limit early on Top Water, then cranked after that bite shut down. Couldn't cull a fish after about 11 A.M........But I'm not complaining, it's not easy to cull 3#rs. ALL of my fish have been coming near spawning areas, in the grass. I would like to thank sTony, for the use of his boat, without it, I wouldn't have found these fish. Thanks also to Korny & The 100% crew, for the best Teams Circut out there, & a real nice paycheck. Thanks Bud
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Early, Hit the spawning areas with topwaters fished slowly. Alot of good bucks guarding the nests right now. Then back off about 50 yds & crank any edge or lane in the grass....The post spawn females are hanging out there. Fish Sloooooow

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Im a decent fisherman but im running into a delema .I like to fish and do some small tourneys,but ive lost any quality fishing partners that can catch fish !!!!!Example last week i fished waltons had 7 fish at 10 am limit no problem .My partner did not boat a fish till 2pm!!!!!he lost like 6 fish !!!!This gets old im looking for someone to fish with me split the cost and catch some fish!!!I have a 18foot4 nitro savage 1996 175 efi merc im ready to go call me lets go fish and have have some delta or lake fun!!!!!Last week i had a 6 or 7 pound fish at the boat my partner just stared at it instead of lipping or neting it like i asked him to do !!!with the delta tide and the fish at the back of the boat I had to try and lip her she was on my lighter rod this one fish witch should have been in my live well swam away im tired of team tourneys and only one guy catching the fish me!!I dont block the guy in the back out i try to make fishing good for both people all day!Someone please help me with my delema a good fishing partner!!! thank you RON HOWE pager 1 510 498 6520
      City: union city

      Tips: LETS CATCH SOME FISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Was not going to fish today but got loose for a few hours launched out of sugar barge @ 530 ran to little mandevilles threw a zara spook got 1 2lber and a blow up then nothing decided to wait out slack tide it was a good choice when the water started moving the fishing picked up real nice threw q jig and fluke there till 130 caught 1 6# on a fluke best 5 went 15lbs
      City: oakley

      Tips: moving water fishing slow

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Slow action. Ended up with 13 ish, largest 3lb. All ish on ledges next to deep water on variety o plastics. Looked or bedding bass, ound none. Have any bass spawned in this lake yet? Its May!!!
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: plastic ished deep and slow

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thank you to all you "pro" isher-men who decided to give a little help to me on my trip to this lake. I REALLY appreciate all the wonderul tips that just poured in. This lake sucks and I will never waste my time here again. Thank you again to all you "pro's" and "guides" who couldn't tell a irst timer where to go to hook a ish. We cought nothing!!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Any tip here rom someone is totaly ake because we through EVERYTHING at them and had only one on.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had an EXCELLENT trip with 2 clients last night, Started about an hour beore dark - it was cold and windy. Lake temp had dropped - again! We wound up with 13 bass rom 3 1/2 lbs to 8 lbs, with the 5 ish limit at 32 lbs. Both clients had several 5's and 6's. We also had 2 dinks. This would have been a great report i I had landed the one I lost under the boat which hit a Weapon jig - unortunately on a cast that was too long. It was one o the heaviest bass I have ever had on. Clients were good worm and jig ishermen - even in the wind. Rattlin' Weapon jigs/with Yamamoto grubs (black/chartreuse) or plastic pork seemed to edge the zipper worms in eectiveness, maybe because we seem to be going back to winter. One client has been having a lot o success day and night on tubes, and caught a 5 last night using one. We ished rom Buckingham to Wheeler Point. Interesting - the ish were on a terriic big ish bite or only 2 one hour periods - rom dark to one hour ater, and 12 to 1 am.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It suprised me how shallow the ish were on the second cold night - that tells me the ish are now committed to the spawn in the south end. I always target potiential spawning areas (lat rocks, tule/wall combos, private launching ramp edges (not used this time o year) that are near deep water areas. This usually gives us a chance to really stick a big ish.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

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  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 67'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Stared o in the morning at brown's ravine looked good seemed like a pretty good ishing day until the big rain clouds came in. ME and my buddy ished the banks rom browns ravine to dyke 8, nice walk.We caught some small ish and they all were spotted bass we stayed until 5:00 p.m saw a boat catch some nice ish he was ishing in between 15'-'20 eet deep useing worms so i you got a boat take a stop at browns ravine and just drag those worms. Good Luck! Nick Charles P.S watch out or the lovebug!
      City: Roseville