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Saturday, April 29th, 2000

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started sae light,threw top water,spinner baits& jerkbaits irst 30 min. No luck,started splitshoting 4 & 6 in oxblood worms.partner & I started culling ish at app. 10 am.7 ish weight 17 lb 1 0z....ish came rom 3 to 10 t in the main part o the lake
      City: RIV.

      Tips: ish slow & shake it

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Granite Bay at 10:30 ater little league pictures. Headed up north ork to the spot. Boats in every cove west coast bass uture pro I think. Decided to try something dierent than shaking worms every cove being hammered that way. 5 minutes into ishing hook up with 2.5lb spot, 5 minutes later caught 1 ish ater another in cove. irst ive cast rom by son and daughter produced ish all in the 2.00 to the big one at 5.50 lbs (largemouth) the rest o the ish were spotted bass nice keeper ish kids had a blast other 2 boats nearby did not though. ater an hour had to go to little league game. total o 15 ish in 40 minutes all keepers.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Don't be araid to try something dierent. On this day it was the ticket. deep diving crankbaits that get below the smaller eeding ish will produce good ish. Berkely renzy, at ree shads, strike king series worked well. Chartruese, shad colors. even had a nice ish on megat bite rip baits.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out in the south ork and caught a 1.5 lb. spot with the third cast with a white and chartruese spinner bait. Nothing ater that so switched to a split shot ox blood leach and caught two more 13 inchers. All came out o a rocky cove on the north side o the south ork. Headed to the north ork and ished some willows on the north side hal way to Rattlesnake bar. Had several chasers on a top water but no hookups. Finally caught our dinks and one 13 incher split shotting a morning dawn our inch worm beore heading back to the South Fork. Caught several more dinks on 4" green weenies and then started ishing willows in a no wake cove on the south side o South Fork. Finally in 14' o water in the willows split shotting a green weenie with red and green lake I hooked and boated a 5.50 lb. largemouth. All the other ish I had caught were spots.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Spinner bait, wht/chart., or split shot worms, ox blood/green weenies/or morning dawn.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished McClure but not part o the tournament. I launced rom Barretts and went the dam. I starte throwing on the south end o the dam and worked my way down. Caught a 1-1/2 lb spot on the irst cast o the day. Caught a couple o other ish in the slot size (largemouth). One good ish 5 lbs. caught halway between the dam and the creek on the south end. All ish caught on plastic worms in about 5-8 eet o water. Nice day, a little breezy. The water was ULTRA ULTRA clear. Fish slow.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: FIsh slow. Lots o casts to the same spot. Not aggressive bites.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My Father and I ished our irst tournament together,we had a great time. We caught lots o ish but nothing really big, our biggest one(my Father caught)was 2.3 pounds. We wieghed in 8.7 ponds, I believe that irst place was in the mid 10 pound range. We caught all our ish split shotting our inch worms, mine was purple ghost and my Fathers was green winnie. It was a great day or everyone, there were about 40 boats and almost all came in with limits o ish.
      City: Salida

      Tips: Make sure that you are dragging the worm slow and elling the rocks, we caught our ish in 15-20 eet o water. Good luck.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wie and I ished a tournament with about 50 boats. We started at Hunters point with topwater. I caught 5 right away, right o the bank to two eet o water. The wind was also blowing into the banks. Four were largemouths the other was a 2lb spot,last one caught on top was at 11am. Took 5th in the tourney, we weighed 9.6lbs. First place was a little over 10lbs. All o our ish were long and slender, all o them were over 15 inches.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Try the zara spook not the zara puppy, spook caught the bigger ish. Purple ghost curly tail. Fish more o the lat areas or bigger ish.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: was on the lake by sun up had already caught 50 ish by 9:00am but i am quite the isherman now boy!!!! i was using my little white worm it is about 2 inches unless i am aroused by a pretty bass then it is a 4 inch worm. i like to move it up and down and back and orth what ever works!earl likes that! good luck you boys watch out or my worm
      City: modesto

      Tips: dont eat yellow snow

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 59-61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in the water at 0645 at Lime Saddle and went south, picked up 15 to 3lbs, 3 keepers, the rest were slot ish, on 3/8oz jigs in brown plastic, lake in great shape and only my 2nd trip, visibility down to 30t plus, ished rocks on the west bank but I don't know the area so I couldn't say where exactly I was,out only 3 hrs, missed many light taps.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Dry Creek arm o the lake today. Clarity is about one oot to our eet. Surace temperature is about 60 - 62 F. WarmSprings arm o the lake has warmer water and much more clarity. The largemouth are not spawning yet. Last spawn was just beoreChristmas, but we lost all when the lake levels were dropped without consideration or the bass. The males stayed on their nests untilthe last minute. Wish DFG would get out and talk to those o us that ish the lakes???? Present day (04-30-2000) the males arechecking out potential spawning locations and the big emales are cruising just o the drop os. We were ishing up or size in lessthan two hours. We caught some nice ish, but they were only just over our pounds and one over ive. None under our. We wereusing 8 and 11 inch custom made worms. This was a good quality ishing day. The smallmouth have alreadyspawned and the malesare holding on the nests in about 12 eet o water. The next two weeks should be easy ishing or most anglers. The rainbow trout areholding at about 28 eet and should be easy or those who have downriggers and know how to rig 00 dodgers with one inchminnows. Saludos, Wes
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: Fish slow - about 2 to three hours to cover 100 yards o bank- mask scent o your boat. Use large custom made worms - 8 to 12 inches long is just about right.

Friday, April 28th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out with a sna proof from throwing way into the tules, caght some hogs! Found fish to be tight in the backs of the tules in the break and in Franks track. Largetst fish was 7 1/2 lbs. Caugth five others over 5 lbs. If you can handle the wind it's hot!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Throw that frog as far into the tules as you can and get ready to set the hook!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started out at 5m yesterday out of Antioch, nothing on buzz bait for top water. Got the spinner out and started catching 2-5 lbs fish right of edge of grass. Spinners stopped working around 9am, took out some large bomber crank and caught a few more. Try to pitch brush hog but wind to strong and knock my boat around.
      City: Union City

      Tips: white or chart. 1/2 oz spinner, let it sink and retrieve real slow, just enough for blade to spin, right above bed. crawdad color crank, the bigger the better.

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      Water Temp: 6371

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WIND, WIND, AND MORE WIND! Pretty much stuck to spinnerbait since wind was so strong. Many bucks but no toads. Wind blown points were best. What's working for you???
      City: Saratoga

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 10 ish up to three pounds. Two on live shiners, the rest on witches tit and carolina purple lizard.
      City: San Jose

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 19" Largemouth Bass weighing in at 5 lbs using minnows in Bidwell Canyon ork
      City: Oroville

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Help! The wind rom Clear Lake ollowed me! 30 mph winds in the middle ork yesterday aternoon. Wow. Client and I managed 11 spots somehow - 2 over slot and 8 in - 2 dinks. We had to ish protected areas - mostly protected cuts. Caught 7 on brn/orange Rodstrainer jigs w/ #180 Yamamoto grubs, and 4 on #62 Magic worms. This took about 3 1/2 hours. Caught 6 big spots ater dark rom 2 to 2 3/4 lbs, all on black Big Dipper Magic worms - 6". Fished ater dark in middle ork loating potty cove! Wind eased up ater dark. Big ish were quite deep or night - 15 to 30 eet! Found most o them on large boulder ormations. Same thing in the aternoon.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The Rodstrainer jig continues to be the bait o my choice during the day at Oroville or quality ish. Brown/Orange was the avorite yeaterday.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 55-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I just recently went to Ruth lake or a 4 day ishing trip.We had a lot o success.I went there with my two riends ryan and buddy.We all are 14 years old.All together we caught 67 bass.I caught 29 ryan caught 25 and buddy caught 13.It was about a equal amount in between smallmouth and largemouth bass.they werent to big. Our biggest one was a little over two #.all the rest were about a #.the weather was pretty good or two days then the other two were a little rainy.The rainy days were when we caught the most ish.we caught all o our ish either sight ishing with a lting lure or a straight worm that is texas rigged.Those were mostly the smallmouths.Then mostly all o the largemouth bass were caught o a texas rigged straight worm.The two biggest ish were caught o o a renzy crankbait and a texas rigged crawdad.
      City: eureka

      Tips: The best places to ish would be at the little cove at the ruth lake recreational camp ground.the other good spots would be at the little coves in the big cove right across the lake rom the boat rental place.Fish by allin trees or bushes and in ar out in the little coves.Any color worm works i it is a striaght worm and it is not a loating worm .better ishin in the mornings and late in the day.GOOD LUCK

Thursday, April 27th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished dark to dark, 60+ fish on just about everything. top water early & late (mega bass). Yamamoto twin tails, 1-4 oz jigs. Rip fish (pointer minnows), flukes fish. Fish starting to form wolf packs, saw several big groups chasing in Putah and north end of lake. Still quite a few fish on or near beds, especially mid-lake.
      City: FOSTER CITY

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

      Report: City: So

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water clear ddown to 25t in area o terry cove, caught 3 dinks, storm coming, ish are suspended at 12-14 t in 25-35t o water and won't hit much o anything thrown in , storm should be over quickly and things should pick up by late riday or early saturday, used 3/8 oz jigheads and salt and pepper twin tail shirted jigs. Large pieces o trees are loating in all arms with the pit being the worst, watch ursel and don't damage your boat/engine
      City: Redding

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

      Report: Fished in the morning and the luke bite was strong. My buddy was catching them on a rainbow pattern, and I was using albino. Most the ish were very aggresive. We caught about 20 in 3 hours. Fish ranged rom 12 inches to 4lbs.
      City: So San Francisco

      Tips: I used chartuse spike it on the belly o the luke. Fish were on points shallow cover, deep cover. I you hook a ish and you see ollowers throw another bait. You can catch the other ish.