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Sunday, March 26th, 2000

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      Water Temp: 56-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 2 Bass Trolling. Used Berkley Frenzy Minnow. One was 1.9 the other 5.4 on Stren Digital Scale. Could not even buy a bite casting towards shoreline.
      City: Cupertino

Saturday, March 25th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After I found out DIsco Bay Marina doesn't open until 8am we launched out of Big Break. Fished Little Frank's Tract and caught two 2-3# on baby brush hog and Zipper worm on the North side. Went to the South side and caught a nice 4# on a Rapala rattle trap. Went to Mildred and did more exploring than fishing. Went to Widower Island and caught two 1-2# on plastics. I'll figure this Delta waterway out someday!
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Got me, I'm new to this game but having fun exploring.

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      Water Temp: unk

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Orwood and fished past Discovery Bay. Caught one 2.5#er on the third cast on a blade. Thought it would be real good. Ended up only catching 2 more all morning. Caught them on Black and Blue jig. Buddy caught 1 on a jig. Quit at 12:00 noon.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Prefishing with my Bro., but wishing we were doing the real deal. We didn't hook many, but caught the ones that count and had over a 4 lb. average for 5 fish.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: No lure names ending with "baits".

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: stay out 7:00-1:00 started on the south end cuaght 2 trout on a rattle trap. opps!!!! move heron bay got 3 dinks on a deep diveing crankbiat still looking for size all off deep structer

      Tips: weekends are to crowded

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of orwood late this afternoon. I thought we were going to catch some fish, but after being out there for a few hours and trying just about everything we finally gave up. Tryed running buzzbaits over weed patches, nothing. Tryed chartruse spinnerbaits around tules and between weed patches, nothing. Tryed flippin watermeleon and junebug brushhogs in and around tules, nothing. Hope it starts heating up soon. There'a always tommorrow.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Since I ain't catchin nothing, no tips of mine are gonna help anyone. All I can say is keep trying, practice makes perfect!!!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the tules in and around Mildred Isle .. threw most everything in the box and managed to stick 6 fish for 19.9 lbs., which included a 7.6 lb kicker.... all the smaller fish were caught on 4 inch Junebug colored Iovino reapers, with the kicker being caught by dead-sticking a pearl colored Zoom Fluke.. also caught either a brain dead or desperate, not sure which, 2 lb catfish on a chartruse 3/8 oz. spinnerbait, which is a first for me..water muddy and the winds can put your trolling motor battery to the test.... will be going back out on Monday, hopefully winds will have mellowed a little bit by then.... stick em' hard.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: I havent quite reached that plateau where Im good enough to be givin' tips, however, those fellas who hang out over at the Hook Line & Sinker have always seemed to give a die hard amateur like me some helpful and friendly advice, so if your in Oakley and ya got yourself some free time, my tip would be to stop in at the hook one afternoon,grab a brew and shoot the fazoo with the regulars

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My riend and I went up Sat. With water temp. up rom the last time I went, we thought the ish should be very active. That was not the case or us. We elt it was pretty slow in the morning. At about 11:00 we had about 10 ish, but everything was on worms and nothing on cranks or spinnerbaits. Continued to take a ew ish until about 2:00 when the ish seemed to go on a bite. We took about 15-20 ish in the next 2 hrs. All in all it wasn't a bad day, but the ish seemed to want the bait slow. All came on worms except or three jig ish. Nothing over 2 lbs. and they were in 10-25 eet o water.Good Luck
      City: Galt

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake, so we were working more at learning the area that we were staying at. Fished between Tule Island and Lucerne, caught a couple o small ish, and lost one large ish. Did not want to compete with the tourney guys and the wind, blown o o the lake by 1:30
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Jigs and brush hogs

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: trout everywherepicked up 2 trout on deep crankbaits also stuck 3 largemoutho deep structer on the lats still kinda slow and looking orsize the wormers seem to be doing a little better o well
      City: livermore

      Tips: the weekend are way to crowded and where your lie jackets

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      Water Temp: 59-63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing wasn't as good as I expected. Only caught about 12 ish. Most were caught on the Fluke. Had one close to 3 lbs.Split shotting only produced small ish. I do have a "One thatgot away story" however. I was back in the 5 mph zone and saw some surace action out in open water. I igured the ish beingchased was a trout by the size o the ish trying to escape. The wake behind the trout was quite large. I put the trolling motor on high and got a cast with the Fluke in the general area.That big ish ate it on the irst cast. I saw part o the ishand it had a large proile. The ish surged twice and came o.It was a bummer I lost the ish, but it was still a cool experience.Keep your eyes peeled and keep your trout baits handy.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: The bite should improve as the water clears and the weather warms.Keep throwin the Fluke.

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      Water Temp: ??? C O L

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Once again Eastman was the place to be!We got to the lake around 0530 and there wasnt another soul there!Went straight to the back and began catching ish right o the bat.We caught approx.10 about 1-2 1/2 lbs......lost one during a jump in the 4-5 lb. range.Wanted to go the blade route but the ish didnt wanna cooperate,shook Buddy Bait handpours in brown,green/black lake,purple and even a couple on Kalin's bluegill grubs.Water still eels cold but is clearing up.....still really green though.Park Ranger said a couple 22"ers were caught in the spillway area on "baby bass" colored lukes last evening by some bank isherman.
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: We shook 1/8 oz. darters with worms/sharks/lap tail reapers and grubs.Take lots o 'em cuz the ish we caught were all in the rocks and in trees in 0'-13'o water.Fish were all just dead weight.....remember hooksets are ree!"Tight Lines" to You All!

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The lake is begining to warm a little. Surace temps varied between 57 and 65 depending on what part o the lake you're on. Sub surace temps are still low. At 15' it's still 54.The ishing is still slow and the ish are still lethargic. My wie and I ished rom 7am till 4. Got a ew strikes on jig and pig but missed em. My wie was throwing spinners all day, no luck. One guy managed a small one working a plastic worm on the west shore btween the dam and the marina. I jigged all o Buchanan cove , no luck. Worked our way all around the west shore. Lots o isherman out not so many ish. I hope it warms up soon. This is the ith time I've been skunked... starting to get discouraged...
      City: Aptos

      Tips: Bring a thermometer. Fish the warmest water you can ind.Let me know what works.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6 am till dark and had caught 4 by the end o the day. My ishen partner jason had caught 1. All about 1.5 lbs @ 10 to 20 t on plastic worm. Beutiul day , wind came up a little in early aternoon but we were able to ind some prtected coves that made it just right.
      City: markleeville

      Tips: Anything with Chartuese tail seems to be the kicker. Fish are up close to or on bank ready to spawn on next moon phase. Saw several big ish at about 6 t under cover o trees. Fishing still alittle slow but has taken a turn or the better this last week.

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake around noon. Launched rom Tuttletown. We went to the Hiway 49 bridge area. We were throwing jigs and spinnerbaits. I switched to plastic lizard and caught one about 1-1/2 pounds. We ished the creek arm and went to GLory hole all with no luck. Fished till dusk when we got a couple o boils on topwater but landed no ish. Was airly windy.
      City: Modesto

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 50-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the weather has been great the past week unortunately the ishing has been real slow, I ished the Sac arm all week and only managed 2 ish per day per 4-5 hour outing, many others report the same. The WON tournament 1st day results had the leader with a little over 12 lbs or 5 ish anchored with a 7 1/3 lb ish. The average was about 6-7 lbs or ive ish, not to good. the lake level is coming up slowly at 1/2 to a oot per day which will help things in two to three weeks, no rip bite, just mostly jigs and worms worked slowly in 25-35 t o water. The warmest water is in the Sac arm now in the O'brien Inlet, ound some up to 58 degrees at 1-2pm, the spot spawn should kick o around 60 degrees, rain is expected on Monday with good weather to ollow.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers Launched 5 boats rom the public ramp5 limits came back with the largest or 5 ish over 9 poundswith a 3+ big ish. I was catching ish riday and saturdayon an old strike king crank bait that was orange with a blackback and had allot o glitter on its sides, my ish all camerom shallow water while banging o rocks, my non boater was catching all his with a6" Don Ivino s-20 with a chartreuse tail.Good LuckP.P.
      City: Martinez

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      Water Temp: 57-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Eight ish with biggest going about 4.5lbs. She was in about 12t o water and the rest were right in tight to shore. Big ish came rom main lake, rest rom Yorty Creek arm. Seems like they still haven't moved up yet, some were very pale.Pitchin brush hogs was the ticket today, couldn't get a reaction bite.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Green/black lake or green/red lake worked today. Maybe draggin a bait around 12t might get some o the bigger ish i ya got the patience!Good luck

Friday, March 24th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I ished Pardee in the morning with no luck or bass and decided to go to Amador. We launched at around 12:30 and went into mountain springs. We ollowed the bank in and ished the small cove. As we were throwing lipless crankbaits my buddy stuck a 20" trout. We hooked our more trout in the cove on crankbaits. We could see the ish in the shallows but couldn't get them to ake anything. We moved to the long cove and ished the west side. I caught two bass at 1-1/2 lbs. on pumpkin/chartreuse colored lizards. The ish came at about 4:30 pm
      City: Modesto

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

      Report: No report. Just want to commend Kris for his last post. I couldn't agree with you more! Take a camera, snap a pic, and release them. Besides, nothing pretty about a pic of a guy holding up a dead Bass as he poses in his garage!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.