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Saturday, February 19th, 2000

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: we ished a bass'in buddies tournament (a rocklin club). the water has come up about 22 t in the last two weeks. it was pretty stained with 1-3 eet visibility. my partner and i started the day o throwing jigs and crank baits. we picked up two ish on jigs (one on a brown on brown jig the other a white on white). later we picked up another dink on a summer moss 4" zipper. the last ish we caught was late in the day on a oxblood 4" worm. the bite was pretty tough, with the big ish weighed in at 3.92 the tournament was won with our ish or 5.62 the weather was great. temp started out at 41deg. and ended up around 55-60. blue skies, with a light brease the majority o the day.
      City: citrus heights

      Tips: ish jigs in 10-20 t. drag them slowwwwwly. whites and browns seemed to be the colors that everybody seemed to be catching ish on. overall tough tournament, bite should pick up when the water clears and warms back up.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched around 12:30 Fished until dark. Caught 12 ish between my partner and I. All ish were shallow, in 6-9 t. Shaking worms on 1/8 oz. darter.
      City: Sacramento

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Oroville or the irst time ever today. No ish. Riped, jigged and splitshot in 5-40t.
      City: tracy

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to put a ew hours on a new boat and didn't expect to catch much, got a suprize. Fished 20'-40' o the banks in the narrows rom the damn to Bridge Bay and caught a 2 1/2 # Lg. mouth and trolled or a bit in the same area and picked up a nice Rainbow. Beautiul day !!
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Jig or Bass & broken-back minnow on the trout.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 50 to 56 degree

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Our bass club out o San Francisco had a get together at Sonoma on the 19th. The bite was not great except or one member, Steve Gee, who caught his biggest bass: 10.34Lbs. on a Duh Jig (Don't know size or color or sure, I think Summer Moss 1/4 oz.). Steve was ishing Warm Springs, where the water was a little more muddy. My partner & I ished the main lake, where its a little more green color. My son & his partner went way up Warm Springs and ound clear, cool water & ish. I ished rocky points & coves w/ water alls, rom shallow to 40'. Caught 1 largemouth & smallie in about 5' to 10 ' later in the day ater the sun was out on the rocky points,ish were 1 1/2 lbs, got on 1/4 oz brown Duh jigs w/ Yammie Junebug twin tail trailers. My partner Willie got one 2lb. plus on split shot brown lizard. Steve was "the man" that day, he also caught three more or best weight by ar or the day. Sonoma should bust wide open anytime, i the weather stabilizes.
      City: Bay Point

      Tips: Fish slow and no need to get up too early.

Friday, February 18th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water was muddy, but had close to a foot visibility. Gorgeous weather today, calm, clear, and warm. Water temp has come up a bit as a result. I had a fun day on the water today. Started off by flipping a 4lber on a black/blue Vyper Jig in thick brush. Continued down the bank and caught 3 1 1/2 lbers in about 10 casts on a chart/white slow rolled spinnerbait. Picked up the jig again and stuck a 2 1/4 lber on some adjacent rocks. That was my last hit for about 2 hours, when I finally caught my last fish, a 3 lber on the jig off a point. All in all another very enjoyable day on the water!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use scent in the muddy water and fish slowly.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water was muddy, but had close to a foot visibility. Gorgeous weather today, calm, clear, and warm. Water temp has come up a bit as a result. I had a fun day on the water today. Started off by flipping a 4lber on a black/blue Vyper Jig in thick brush. Continued down the bank and caught 3 1 1/2 lbers in about 10 casts on a chart/white slow rolled spinnerbait. Picked up the jig again and stuck a 2 1/4 lber on some adjacent rocks. That was my last hit for about 2 hours, when I finally caught my last fish, a 3 lber on the jig off a point. All in all another very enjoyable day on the water!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use scent in the muddy water and fish slowly.

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED OUT OF BUCKLEY COVE, WAS SOCKED IN BY THE FOG BUT CLEARED AROUND NOON, FLIPPED,BLADDED THEN CRANKED. BOATED ONE REAL NICE FISH AROUND SUGAR CUT 5 LBS PLUS ON THE SCALE. FISHING IS TOUGH RIGHT NOW, LOT OF DEBRIS IN THE WATER AND NO WATER CLARITY MADE FOR A TOUGH DAY .
      City: MANTECA

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of ladds today went one slough past fourteen mile slough and started flipping blk/blk and blk/blu jigs in tulies and brush lost one keeper went to fourteen mile slough switched to junebug zipper grub and nothing cranked speedtraps on riprap nothing we fished points we fished isolated clumps of tulies we fished in and around current we fished away from current and stll nothing we talked to two other boats one had a 5lb and the other had a couple dinks both on cranks dont know the delta very well maybe I will try it again when the weather is more consistant hope you do better than we did good luck if you have any tips please e-mail me
      City: Modesto

      Tips: wait for better weather unless you really know what your doing on the delta

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of ladds today went one slough past fourteen mile slough and started flipping blk/blk and blk/blu jigs in tulies and brush lost one keeper went to fourteen mile slough switched to junebug zipper grub and nothing cranked speedtraps on riprap nothing we fished points we fished isolated clumps of tulies we fished in and around current we fished away from current and stll nothing we talked to two other boats one had a 5lb and the other had a couple dinks both on cranks dont know the delta very well maybe I will try it again when the weather is more consistant hope you do better than we did good luck if you have any tips please e-mail me
      City: Modesto

      Tips: wait for better weather unless you really know what your doing on the delta

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      Water Temp: cold 55?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 7 to 2 lbs between two o us. All caught trolling in shallow grassy cove by rock creek. The ish hit on small rebels, rogs in smoke color, and silver spoons. This lake has produced or us very well in the spring pretty much everywhere on anything or years, however nothing over 2 lbs. (Occasional stripers-please release these as they are ew and ar between). I have seen everyone use everything, but no big ish. They have to be here with this many small spots running around. Suggestions?p.s. This is a great lake to take kids to or small spots and/or panish.
      City: sacto

      Tips: Try trolling with small, active baits- especially sonic rooster tails in white or black. Stick to the shallows.

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      Water Temp: Mid 50s??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishin' with Ceasar earlier in the day beore he had to go to work out around Big Break. Not a single bite. Even went over into the PG&E power plant. Nothin'. Pretty lame. So I igured I'd just stop by my home lake, Contra Loma, and peg a ew. I wanted to go to the second dock o Channel Pt., but it was totally crowded, so I just went to the boat ramp. I split shotted a chartruese Glass Shad at the thick weed edges. Got nothin'. So I switched over to a spinnerbait. Tried out a ew spinners. Still nothin'. Ater an hour o nothin' on the shallow lats by the boat ramp I igured, bag this. There's not gonna be any ish up this shallow right now. I could care less how many people are at that second dock right now. I there's people there they're gonna be castin' towards the middle o the lake or trout anyway. So I run over to the second dock. Perect. They all let. I pull out that split shot rigged glass shad again and work that along the edge o the real think weedbed on the one side o the dock. Nothin' there. So then I try the other side. I cast it next to the reeds and slowly shake it down the steep drop o that's there. When it hits about 7-8 eet. Wham! Bass just inhales it. I pull up a three pounder. I toss that around some more to no avail. Then I go with the spinnerbait again to see i they wanna hit that at all. Didn't happen. Then I go with my next guess. A dark/light purple 7" carolina rigged worm ished really slow. Ater I ish that or a couple o minuted some guys start to show up on the dock goin' or trout. They ask me what I caught and I said, "Well, I've only been at this dock or about 20 minutes, but I caught a three pound bass about 10 minutes ago." Then I here one whisper to the other behind my back, "Ya right..." and they both give a little chuckle. I hate it when people think that just cause I'm a kid I don't know what I'm doin'. But anyway...I just go on like I didn't hear anything and start talkin' to em or a bit while I ish the c-rigged worm. On the let side o the dock there's a bunch o reeds and a small opening in the back corner with a nice little pocket. I toss the worm just to the let-side o the little opening and right ater I cast I turn around and start talkin' to the two guys while I still got the reel still on ree-spool. Whenever I'd turn around they'd always make some joke about me behind my back. Then ater I talk to em or about 30 seconds I turn back around and there's line still comin' o my reel like it hasn't even hit the bottom yet. I though...that can't be right...it's only 3 eet deep there. So I hurry up and swing. Wham. I nail a 3.5# largemouth. I swing it up on the dock, and I show the guys. I had em take a picture or me and stu. Ater that they just shut-up. :-) Ater that I only ished or about 15 more minutes beore I had to go...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: This time o the year with all these warm and cold ronts movin' through all the time the bass are gonna be holdin' around some drop-os where they've got easy access to shallow water when it wamrs up and have easy access back to deeper water when it cools o again.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 51-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south ork rom 8-2. Ripped three small ish 1-2 lbs) on shallow rocky points on clown colored Bomber uspending Long-A. All ish came rom about 8' o water. Graphed large concentrations o ish in 24 - 30 t. but could not get them to play.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Walked the shoreline on western creek arm (Conn Valley Rd)rom 3pm to dusk. Tommy T and I tried all kinds o shallow stu as well as some Carolina lizards into the deeper breaks. The only bass, 1 1/2# came near a patch o tules in about 2-3' on a 4" worm. From the looks o this boy's tail, I'd say they're getting ready or the spawn.
      City: Napa

      Tips: I anyone knows where I could get a map o this lake, I sure would appreciate it. I've caught some nice bass, some tasty trout, and some pretty scrappy crappie when you can ind 'em. They also catch alot o cats into the teens, rom what I've heard rom the local papers.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: bright sunny day, break in ride on new boat, ished an hour up in the mccloud near Hirz Bay, ish are moving up rom 40-50t range and I caught 5 in the 18-35t area. Used jigs and green zipper worm ,all about 1 3/4 to 2 1/2 lbs.
      City: redding

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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great day on the water, ished Pit Arm most o the day.Caught several smallies 1-2 pounds on 'beetle spins' and5 large mouth, largest 3.5 pounds on jigs. The weatherwas great, light wind!!!
      City: Orland

Thursday, February 17th, 2000

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a houseboat trip 2/13-17. The "hurricane" the night o the 13th raisied the lake 4' and pushed the ish deep o main points. By the 15th things had settled own. Caught most ish o secondary points in main coves and irst cut beyond the point. Lots o dinks, but some decent ish up to 3 lbs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: 4-6" morning dawn and blue ghost magic worms ished REAL SLOW at 20-30'. Look or secondary points with rock or downed wood. Largest ish were caught in the irst cut ater the point.

Wednesday, February 16th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today across from the launch ramp using a sixteen inch Delong worm in scuppernong. I caught one fish that weighed four pounds and missed another. The key is to stitch your bait. In response to "Cyberfish" I have been fishing since you were in pampers. Oh, you also need to change the date on your fishing report it is incorrect.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Pick up a copy of "In Pursuit Of Giant Bass". Perspectives on big bass fishing by the king himself "Bill Murphy".

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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished today across from the launch ramp using a sixteen inch Delong worm in scuppernong. I caught one fish that weighed four pounds and missed another. The key is to stitch your bait. In response to "Cyberfish" I have been fishing since you were in pampers. Oh, you also need to change the date on your fishing report it is incorrect.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Pick up a copy of "In Pursuit Of Giant Bass". Perspectives on big bass fishing by the king himself "Bill Murphy".

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

      Report: I am fishing a tourney early this March on the Delta. I have fished there only twice and stayed around Big Break with limited sucsess. I don't know the Delta or how to fish it. I can use all the advise I can get. Please e-mail me. Thanks
      City: Oroville Ca