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Tuesday, May 9th, 2000

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

      Report: I am kind o new to this posting business about my trips, but i it is educational rom me or any other ishermen, then it is worth it. This is not the place to gripe about a bad trip - one should do that on the orum - see i other people are struggling on the same lakes or with the same patterns. No one should think that "pros" have great trips all the time. I average one skunk a year at Clear Lake with clients, and I have already had two. I am not proud o that, but that is the reality o bass ishing. Groaning and moaning don't accomplish anything - the bass do win on occasion! Let's stick to giving constructive ishing reports - good or bad. Remember, we all learn more when the bite is tough. Forgive me - I don't like to preach. Also, bad days are usually ollowed by better days!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Remember, spring trips are oten east o amine. The weather is just not consistent as it is in the summer, all and winter.

Monday, May 8th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started on east side near farm house and caught 5 fish to 2-lbs using 4" pumkin-chart tail. fished west side north of Spanish and Caught 6 more, also to 2-lbs using a witches tea-chart tail. Saw several big fish, would not look at anything. could not get any crank bait or ripin bites. Caught 4 more in cappel cove on the same plastics.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Seems like down sizing a bit is working for numbers. Couldn't buy a big fish.

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

      Report: Went fishin at around 8:30. Man was it windy. Got better toward the afternoon. Caught a couple on blades as well as blck/blue jigs. Caught a 5lbs, 2 4lbs as well of plenty of dinks. Caught the dinks mostly split shottin 4 inch worms. Overall a great fishin day.
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Work the weed lines slowly with blck/blue jigs

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished the anglers choice team event. started off the day throwing top water and flipping plastics.lost one about 8 lb "first flip fish of the day"and then landed a few 2lb on top water. as we went down the bank i told my partner we would have a limmet by the time we got to the point. well we did not get them so i picked up a crank bait and started working the curent. there was a spot where the cureny split and went to both sides of the point with a small edy inbetween. i cast to it and got bit. i called for a net it felt OK size wise. and as luck would have it it jumped, WOW! it was still on and was BIG. after running under the boat it came up for a shot at the net but we missed and back under the boat she went. after wat seemed like an eturnity up she came again. this time no missed net job. it looked good in the boat and we noticed the luar had come out and stuck in the net. WHAT LUCK! we then started catchin fish on top water" lots of 2 lb'rs ". i finely got the bite we needed to help out and it jumped we got a good look just as it came off "about 6lb not so lucky this time ". well we did manageto get one about 4 lb in the boat and the rest were 2.5 lb clones. had a lot of fun catching 25 to 30 of these. we ended up in second place and big fish. total winnings 1140. see you at the next delta turnement.
      City: bethel ils.

      Tips: at this time start looking for the post spawners and males defending there fry. flucks, top water and crankin.

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this last Saturday in the 100% tournament. Pat and I had about a 20# limit in the boat by 8:00a. Had some boat problems, pulled out, plugged a leak and back on the water by 1:00p. Stuck around the Break and took advantage of the extreme low tide to flip and managed to cull out two more fish for 21.58 and 7th place. Caught all our fish on a weightless worm and my standard R&B 3/8oz brown jig tipped with a Bowhog Sr. pork.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: All our fish were post spawn fish hangin out in the weed beds and flats located near spawning areas. Topwater bite is here!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?-cool

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Report rom the Sunset Fishing Resort and Lodge. Windy and lake is choppy this evening. A ew bumps on large minnows with bobbers. No solid hits. No action this evening with any type lure. The catish have really been slow this week.We catch 20# cats at the resort and have only had a ew taps using nightcrawlers/cutbait. Fishing should pick up when the weather calms down.
      City: Clearlake,Ca

      Tips: Bass-try rattle baits/surace lures when it warms a little, also large minnows/bobbers. Catish-stick with crawlers or cutbait later in the week or weekend.

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      Water Temp: hot

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: This is not a report but a reply to Mr. Kelsey. Maybe i you cooledthe attitude and paid attention to ALL the reports on this lake over the past year you would probably have caught a ew ish. I have seen reports by both Keith Clow, and Larry Hemphill on this site and asidethan taking you out as a guide client they gave more inormation thanyou would expect someone too who earns a living sharing inormation.
      City: turlock

      Tips: No one owes you anything as ar as inormation. All ino. is outo the kindness o the givers heart that it is shared with you.So chalk it up as a bad day and move on!

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

      Report: Three o us ished the Rattlesnake bar arm driting minnows over rock points in 10"-20" o water. We ished or 2 hours and ended up with 3 spots and one smallmouth. We saw lots o trout breaking the surace and even saw a ew caught.
      City: Auburn

      Tips: I think the ishing is slowing a little. I had some 20 ish days a ew weeks ago but know the bite seems to have dispursed.

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      Water Temp: 65.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a Club tournament on 4/7/00, Rainy and windy in the morning started out on doltons point. Second cast caught a nice smallmouth continued to catch ish or the next hour on a rip bait. Had my limit and was cullin by 6:50. No real size to it though. Made some moves during the day and was able to cul to just over 9 1/2 pounds or 5. The ishing was real easy they will eat any color plastic and will eat reaction baits. I lost 2 bigger ish on spooks in the morning. All o the others in my club reported catching lots o numbers o ish. Mostly in the 1 1/4 range..... Good Luck
      City: Citrus Heights

Sunday, May 7th, 2000

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished Almanor today, with the Inter-Mt. tournament. It wasa air to decent day, not a lot o wind, but overcast/wetishing was slower, but ish were caught. The group o about19 boats had a good ish day. 14plus or irst, 14plus orsecond, 11plus or third. Big ish 4.23 not bad overall.Most were caught on rip baits. some on plastic. Hard to seebedded ish, water murky, due to wind or past ew days. Rip, rip again... BC
      City: susanville

      Tips: dress or wind and rain/snow. rip rapalas, etc.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started with topwater(buzzbaits) and ended up using them all day. My partner got innovative and put a bright red skirt on a black buzz bait. If you were out on Sunday you know it was a perfect top water day.anyway, the rest of my day was spent watching fish blow up on his bait. good quality fish ( he put about 10 in the boat)with the largest being 4+.nothing huge, just beautiful quality fish. I just had one of those "days" we all have.
      City: fremont

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      Water Temp: 62-64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched outta big break this morning about 9:00. First time out on my father-in -laws new boat. I caught my biggest bass of my short fishing career. A beauty about 6-7 pounds. What a rush!!!! Can hardly wait to catch me a real hog!!! What worked for me, and has are 6-8 inch zoom ribbon tailed worms. Red/Shad color. Today, casted up right on a submerged log. As soon as i pulled it off into the water, the fish hammered it.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: If other baits aren't working, you better have some plastics in your tackle box. They haven't let me down yet, and are fishable just about anywhere. Go get em!!!!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Ladds and fished the areas around the Port of Stockton. Caught about 30 fish total, five were dinks. Most fish caught on green weenie leeches, 2nd place went to crawdad crankbaits, and a black ruby baby brushhog hooked a couple along with one catfish. Most fish caught by tules or over hanging trees near rip rap.
      City: Delta

      Tips: Split shot leech or throw a crawdad pattern crankbait.

  • 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.