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Wednesday, April 26th, 2000

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished 4-22-00, windy,windy and cool. However the waves andweather did not stop about 22 boats rom ishing. All caughtish, except one boat. Mostly Ripping, ripping, ripping.Fish all over the lake, mostly north end. Should pick upwith warmer weather. 4-6/7-00 Reno and Burney have tournaments. Go ish. BC
      City: Susanville

      Tips: Rip, Rip, Rip.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Looks like the bass are heading in to spawn as are party o three hooked a total o 22 bass on beds.The water is hard to see more than 2 eet in though even with polarized glasses.Looks like there just starting thoough as I did not see as many as in previous years.My dad also coaught 1 trout and had another big one on.Saw some bank isherman with 4 and 5 pound trout.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Using a weighted rog jig or worm rig.Powerbait and minnows or the trout.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Putah creek resort at 7:30 am and fished baby bass zoom fluke got one on by the third cast then nothing for about 2hrs. Switched to everything I could think of to use in a situation like this. Then I changed areas and began site fishing found a few fish on beds but nothing to write home about, stayed on one bass until she got tired of my worm pounding her in the head and bam hook set. Set out for the north end of putah creek, hadn't been since March so I figured it was about time. I started again with the fluke and nail a nice 2 1/2 lb smallmouth then hit another but alittle smaller most of the bass were dinks but as the sun was just about right I made a switch to a Chug Bug and here's where I started having some fun just about every cast I had a hook up and the bass were nice 3 and 4 pounds and some others were small also but what a kick. I ended my day with 23 large and smallmouth bass.
      City: Fairfield

      Tips: Zoom flukes, Chug Bugs shad pattern, splash-it's, rico's or whatever you like to throw.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Delta today for the first time, launched out of Ladds at 6AM, fished fourteenmile slough, disapointment slough, and worked my way around to mildred isl. caught 7 fish in all, a 4'9 3'11 2'6 and 4 dinks. Caught 6 of them pitching a brushhog, 1 on a spinnerbait. Tryed topwater first thing this morning, no luck. Loved the Delta, I will be coming back on friday if anyone out there has any helpful patterns, hints or good fishing areas please let me know. thanks. "when does topwater froging start"
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Found that fishing the points with wind and current was the best pattern.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: City: Sonora

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT TO THE ANTIOCH BRIDGE PIER AROUND 8:00am., WITH SOME JUMBO SIZED MINNOW'S. DROPED MY LINE AND LESS THEN 5 MIN. GOT THE BITE AND SET THE HOOK, THEN WALKED IT TOO THE BANK. IT WAS AROUND 3 POUNDS. 10 MIN. LATER MY PARTNER LANDED A 6 PLUS POUNDER USING THE SAME METHOD. SOON BLACKIES WILL BE FISHED OUT AT THE PIER. GOING BACK OUT TOMORROW MORNING!....GOOD LUCK.....
      City: PITTSBURG

      Tips: THE BITE'S HOT IN THE CALM WARMER MORNINGS & WARMER EVENINGS(CLEAR WATER)

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT TO THE ANTIOCH BRIDGE PIER AROUND 8:00am., WITH SOME JUMBO SIZED MINNOW'S. DROPED MY LINE AND LESS THEN 5 MIN. GOT THE BITE AND SET THE HOOK, THEN WALKED IT TOO THE BANK. IT WAS AROUND 3 POUNDS. 10 MIN. LATER MY PARTNER LANDED A 6 PLUS POUNDER USING THE SAME METHOD. SOON BLACKIES WILL BE FISHED OUT AT THE PIER. GOING BACK OUT TOMORROW MORNING!....GOOD LUCK.....
      City: PITTSBURG

      Tips: THE BITE'S HOT IN THE CALM WARMER MORNINGS & WARMER EVENINGS(CLEAR WATER)

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: sounded to me like the guy was talking about stripers !!!!!
      City: sunnyvale

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had 2 aternoon-night guided trips - The irst (Tues) ound weather cold and windy and great ishing, Wed was warmer and less wind and slower ishing????? First trip produced 5 ish to 3 1/2 lbs on various worms in tules south o Buckingham. Ater dark, the zipper worm bite was good, considering ishing is generally tough lately, We caught 7 more, with one client sticking a ootball 9-2 that had not even thought about spawning. She looked like a late winter ish. These night ish were 10 - 15 eet deep. I caught a couple on Weapon jigs w/ Yamamoto grubs. Wed., Client and I caught 2 just beore dark - he caught a 4 pounder on a jig in Konocti Bay and I caught a 3 on a power worm. Very slow ishing. Ater dark, we missed a couple o good ones - we caught 3 more - one being a 5 1/4. Tule bite was slow, so we ished rocks on west side o Clear Lake arm.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Try another lake - just kiddin'! AS was reported by C. Hinckley and others, ronts and ishing pressure and made conditions a bit tough. Water temp has dropped. Lake will not warm up with wind this cold. Maybe try smaller baits and look or ish back on staging areas.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 68deg.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got sick so needed some bass theropy.Water looks great all over,started at south end ishing spawners,caught 4. Went searching and caught some nice ishon the outer edge o the weedbeds.GREAT THEROPY.Feelin mutch better.Dog OUTTTTTTTTTTTT
      City: San Lorenzo

      Tips: Wacky the edge o weedbeds.texes rig Witches T.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Drove all the way to Anderson and found the main Ramp was closed. Signs stated that the Coyote Ramp was open. Huh, that ramp hasn't been open in 10 years! There was some construction on the road and they said it would be a 5min wait. Said screw it and went to Calero. Wind was really THUMPING! Caught a few ripping a Rogue, decided to throw a blade for the next hour and caught a nice 2 1/2. 2 hours four fish, lot of traffic out there today. Fished from 3:30 to 5:30. Come on TopWater!!!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Only ripped and threw a blade!

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Drove all the way to Anderson and found the main Ramp was closed. Signs stated that the Coyote Ramp was open. Huh, that ramp hasn't been open in 10 years! There was some construction on the road and they said it would be a 5min wait. Said screw it and went to Calero. Wind was really THUMPING! Caught a few ripping a Rogue, decided to throw a blade for the next hour and caught a nice 2 1/2. 2 hours four fish, lot of traffic out there today. Fished from 3:30 to 5:30. Come on TopWater!!!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Only ripped and threw a blade!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Read a report about how to catch stripers right now. Well i took a 1/2 hr break to go for some of those dudes on Tuesday and found a 20+ in Franks on the north end. Fish was in about 8 feet of water. Caught ripping like a made man(needed a workout). That fish had a friend with her that must have been grandma my buddy could'nt get her to go. About the largemouth there all over the place rock walls for numbers, tules and wood for size. Caught 30+ fish in about an hour on plastics. Caught the big ones on floating stuff. Have fun out there tiss the season to be hooking.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The report of the 19 and the 15 is pure BS. I did catch a bunch of 1 to 3#er's in the south delta on Saturday.
      City: Discovery Bay

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I think the person who posted the message of their 19 pounder is full of crap. I think this because that would break the delta record and i haven't herd anything about. This guy might have broke the scale with his tournament weigh in bag full of 34pounds of B.S. including his 15 pounder too.
      City: Liarston

      Tips: This is just my 2 cents

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Who ever posted that message about catching the 19 pounder is full of crap because that would be the new delta record. I think he broke the scale because when he through his tournament bag up on it it had 34 pounds of B.S. in it. that is what it wieghs when you add his 15 pounder to it to.

      Tips: That is my 2 cents

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Who ever posted that message about catching the 19 pounder is full of crap because that would be the new delta record. I think he broke the scale because when he through his tournament bag up on it it had 34 pounds of B.S. in it. that is what it wieghs when you add his 15 pounder to it to.

      Tips: That is my 2 cents

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 60s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Extremely slow day. The only activity came rom hundreds o carp rollicking in the bays--the lake is FULL o them... I wonder where the 7,000 lbs. o Florida strain bass went that were supposedly stocked last October! Did't see anyone catch anything during 9 hours on the lake... covered it rom end-to-end... My son Nate managed to ind and land a single 10" bass that was swimming in a herd o 5+ pound bottom-eeders... Never even saw any baitish... bad sign... weather was great, though...
      City: Wallace, CA

      Tips: Don't know i the bass are on the beds or what... nothing worked... slow, ast, bright, dark, shallow, deep, brush, rocks, lats, drop-os ... nothing even produced a ollow... Clueless as to what to try...

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 60 to 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: All I have to say is Oroville is on! Thursday and Friday o last week, we caught 60+ and 90+ ish with 20 to 30 over slot each day. We caught most on a Carolina rigged morning dawn 4" worm. The warmer the weather got, the better the ishing got. Although we caught ish everywhere we ished, wind blown points,ishing the trailing mud line on the down wind side o the point was the ticket. Banks with resh submerged growth held ish also. Primarily in the lower north ork and the middle ork. North ork was warmer and held a lot o ish. The trees held a lot ish. It was really pretty much wide open. I can't say enough. My thumb started to bleed by the end o the day, Friday due to the numbers o ish I lipped. When i came home and was asked how I did, I just gave them a bloody thumbs up. Go get 'em.
      City: Danville

      Tips: Most o the good ish were in 10 to 25 eet o water with exceptions where there is muddied water, trees up close, and early and late in the day.

Monday, April 24th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: mid 60`s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on sunday all day with little action. Got subtle strikes using a split shotted worm and a baby brush hog. Caught one on the worm, about 1.5 pounds. Went to the back o mountain springs and threw a white tandem spinnerbait and cought a ish that weighed about 4.5 pounds. Fish are very scattered. Some are one the rocky walls, others are in the brush. No one was catching them o the points or other deep water structure. Weather is still a little cold and had some thunderstorms, but mostly sunny. When the weather stabilizes, so should the ishing.
      City: hal moon bay

      Tips: Try the split shotted worm around the rocky walls and drop os. throw a spinnnerbait around the brush in coves and work it slowly.