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Sunday, January 16th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bite seems to have improved a little with the water warming. 4 fish today for 11.55#. Early in the AM flipped a couple of 3.5-4#s in about 4 feet of water in tules. Had several other bites in same area but straitened the hook on a couple. OH well! learned something new. The two other fish came off a drop shot rig (Thanks Bob) and a crank bait out of 10 feet of water. Fished Big Break and Middle River.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: I am liking white crank baits and brown plastics. Water warmed about 4 degrees this week and the fish seem to be moving shallower and getting more active.

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of fish a week ago at the turning basin, all sizes. Fishing is slowing down though, follow the birds feeding on the shad on the top of the water. They are still out there you just have to find them. Find the schools and throw Mag-traps, chrome with a blue back. Although most fish are 3 to 8lbs. the big ones are out there, keep trying. Fresh shad are also good.
      City: Stockton

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The middle ork has started developing the water alls, level is way down. We were able to catch reaction ish all over the lake but the majority o the ish were small under the slot. Our biggest ish was caught on a spook in the middle ork at the irst water all and it was pure luck. Fished that were caught on Sunday were alot smaller than in past weekends.There is a jig bite but wasn't that great or us. We threw morning dawn and salt and pepper worms split shot and shaking. Fish had been schooled up had near major points rom 14-50t in the main body but eel that most ound this out and ished them. We had realised this and ocused on steep rock walls. We swam the bait back to the boat but shaking got the better ish that were closer to the 15in mark. There rest o the ish were all solid 14in ish. The smaller the bait meant less hook up but kept the 12" and 13" dinks away stay big and it will pay o. We were told there is still a drop shot bite going but the wind was blowing real hard and couldn't stay on them.
      City: GraniteBAy

      Tips: Cover alot o water there has been alot o tourneys going on this month and the ish that are schooling are smart. We caught a ew ish that had worms still in them and hooks so be warned. The middle ork and its water alls are well known so ind another pattern cause that one is on everybodys list.

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished back lakes rom my kickboat (cant use oars back there.) got 9 bites,landed 7 lost 2 at the boat . all ish were very healthy and not pale. got 1 on a big reaper and the rest on black/blue pig&jig.biggest was a solid 4 pounder with the rest going 2-3&1/2 pounds.all in all a good day! PLEASE PRACTICE CATCH&RELEASE! ish on!
      City: remont

      Tips: lip jigs&reapers in the thickest cover you can ind!

Saturday, January 15th, 2000

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club Tournament on Saturday. Didn't have a keeper until 1:30 and caught 5 fish to 2.5 lbs by 3:00 using a Berkeley french fry worm. Several members had limits using cranks, jigs and worms.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Stick with jigs or worms in brown down to 30' and fish slowly. Try crank baits in shad patterns around long rocky points.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 47-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE HOOK TOURNAMENT, LAUNCHED THIRD, RAN TO TAYLOR, CAUGHT A COUPLE 2#ERS RIPPIN EXCALIBUR ROUGH? NOTICED HALF OF THE TOURNAMENT FOLLOWED ME INTO TAYLOR ALSO, MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS ONTO SOMETHING, NADA TO MUCH PRESSURE THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, THEN JOINED THE OTHER HALF OF BOATS IN SANDMOUND, CAUGHT A 2#ER IN END OF THE SLOUGH, DECIDED THERE WAS TO MUCH PRESSURE IN THERE ALSO. WENT OUT TOWARDS FALSE RIVER, WHERE NAILED A NICE 3# STEELIE ON ORANGE RAT L TRAP. FOUND A COUPLE MORE ON BRUSH HOGGS, TOUGH TOUGH DAY, WEIGHED IN 5 BASS 9.54#S LOST TWO BASS 5+#S . THIS TIME OF YEAR YOU DROP A NICE FISH, YOU MOST LIKELY WILL NOT GET A CHECK.
      City: CONCORD

      Tips: FISHED BILL DANCE FAT FREE IN CRAWDAD, SLOOOW, WHEN HIT WEEDS LET FLOAT UP, AND THE RIP BAIT SHAKE IT IN SAME PLACE UNTIL SOMEBODY COMES AND GETS IT.

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      Water Temp: 45-47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club event out of Holland Tract today.Had 4 fish for 8.6# with big fish at 2.7#... All on Cranks.. Craw Trap during low tide and Craw Model A when the water came up. All came off of rip rap.. (+(
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Chuck and wind till it hurts...

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished with guide Joe Alberdi o AAA Guide Service:707-995-3773. Launched rom Redbud dock and ished primarily the southwest end o the lake. Landed an 8#, 2 7#'ers, a 5# and one that was about 2 1/2 #s. Lost another on my irst hookup that was about 8#s as well. Fished along the shoreline in about 15-25 eet o water with extra large minnows 2-3' below 1/4 oz. splitshots. All but two were hooked between 7-9:30 am.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: I was ishing with 10 pound mono and had my bait continuously hitting the bottom. That seemed to be where the ish were holding and I had many snags on the submerged rocks. We would troll with the baits behind or I would slowly retrieve when stopped. No action at all on any other lures or minnows rom bobbers.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished local club tournament,ished Blue Oaks area but wind was too much.We went up in Big Creek about 830 and immediately caught a 2 pounder shaking a purple reaper on 1/4 oz. darter head.We caught another around 1130 on salt/pepper w/chart.tail(4"),2 more around 115pm.All o our ish came rom 15'-40'.Final tally was 24 ish or 39 lbs. or 12 boats.Big ish was 5.02 rom Woods Creek....everybody else seemed to ish Woods.
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Take a 2 1/2 inch 16-18 gauge hypodermic needle and know how to delate swim/air bladder....You'll need to know how i You plan on releasing healthy ish

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went south to ish points and drop os. Early was good using rip baits, later ished plastics was getting bit aboutevery 20-30 minutes. had ten ish, best ive went 9 lbs.There really are shallow ish, hal in ten oot o water.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: look or warmer water, it varied quite a bit

Friday, January 14th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day on the water today. Fished from 12-4 in warm, flat calm conditions, under overcast skies. Boated a 1 1/2, two 2 1/2's, a 3, and a lunker 7lber. That 7lber is my biggest Bass ever!! All the fish hit on Texas-Rigged Zipper Grubs. I noticed the guys with live minnows today were doing extremely well fishing deep off points.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use a very slow presentation, and concentrate at all times. The bite was very light.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Great day on the water today. Fished from 12-4 in warm, flat calm conditions, under overcast skies. Boated a 1 1/2, two 2 1/2's, a 3, and a lunker 7lber. That 7lber is my biggest Bass ever!! All the fish hit on Texas-Rigged Zipper Grubs. I noticed the guys with live minnows today were doing extremely well fishing deep off points.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use a very slow presentation, and concentrate at all times. The bite was very light.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Beryl Bay area - picked up only 2 ish - a duece and a better 5 lbr. Things slowed down a bit, maybe the new moon? maybe it was just cold and rainy and I was slow/irratible...I'm still inding ish around stand ups in 6 - 8 eet o water though.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Fish the rip bite very slowly. Find a bait that will slowlydescend ater the rip (I put a suspend dot on a Rapala 9/16.)Let that bait sit 15 to 40 seconds beore moving it.) I'm throwing Rapalas in the Clown Pattern.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 35-37

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Phil's beore heading out, so got a late start. Their employees said brown jigs were working well so I tried them along with some 4 inch Green Weenie, no luck at all. Three o us were ishing with various lures but we didn't even get a bite. We were in the Mcloed Arm and their must have been a tournament going on because bass boats were all around us and I saw three ish landed right in ront o us.
      City: Red Blu

      Tips: The crawdads are up and moving so anything brown is hot.

Thursday, January 13th, 2000

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks or the tip Hulapopper....I used the tee, drop shot in 34 eet o water o the sunken island adjacent the dam in the early am...kaa-pow...three in the boat within 1 hour....all were small, about 1.5 lbs maybe one at just under 2 lbs, but all o them were keepers.Hung out at the meat wall on the North Fork or 2 hours & caught 2 more on clear salt and pepper leaches. These were nice ish, 2+ lbs each. Was home in time or lunch.Best day I've had in three weeks...
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Get to your spots early....ish slow...use scent on all o your plastic baits.

Wednesday, January 12th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED OUT OF THE BREAK ABOUT 8:00AM, TOOK OF TOWARD THE ANTIOCH BRIDGE, FISHED ALONG THE EDDIES JUST INSIDE THE CURRENTS FOUND A BUNCH OF HUNGRY SCHOOLIE STRIPERS, OR SHOULD I SAY PRE-SCHOOLIE STRIPERS ALL WENT UNDER 20 INCHES, ALL WERE SIAMESE OCTUPLETS WEIGHED ALL ABOUT 1 1/2 LBS EACH. WELL WENT TOWARD PITTSBURG MORE TO LOOK FOR BIGGER BUT COULD NOT FIND ANYBODY HOME.
      City: concord

      Tips: MAYBE IT WAS THE DAY ONLY DINKS WERE BITING, OR MAYBE I SHOULD REALIZE WHY THEY CALL ME babybass ( RATTLE-TRAP ) SILVER/YELLOWISH-ORANGE

Tuesday, January 11th, 2000

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      Water Temp: -5 Celsius

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Largemouth bass are monster sized here where i you got a lure or bait with a little stench to it i promise the big ones will come
      City: Grande Cache

      Tips: Use silver jiggs in murky water.I its a sunny day and your on a clear lake worms are my preered choice o bait. (i warm lake worm will be longer lasting)

Monday, January 10th, 2000

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The ishing was great around New Years. My wie and riends camped at Camanche or new years, so the guys went out ishing. We caught some cranking but most were caught on a salt & pepper spider jij in 20 oot o water. One day we caught 15 ish rom 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 lbs, all on 1/4 oz jij with the salt and pepper spider grub. The ish are real at with most over 2 lbs.The Fisherman
      City: Livermire

      Tips: Fish Slow, Slow, Slow

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: cold!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Beale's point area rom my tube. Tried reapers,slow rolling a spinner bait, and cranking along the rip-rapand some stick ups. I caught a trout on a storm lightningshad.

      Tips: Fish or trout in winter!

Sunday, January 9th, 2000

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The bait has been thinned out and the Largemouth and Stripers were biting. Threw reaction baits for the Stripers and caught 1 Largemouth and 5 Stripers on cranks and one spoon. Swithched over to Largemouth exclusively and caught 11 of them on plastics. Fished near Big Break. Major tide today with a 7.1' tide and fullish moon to help out. Delta took on some size from the last decent rain and things are looking good. A lot of active fish going. Just fish confidently and cover water. Fish are bunched up. Found all Largemouth in weed beds in 12-15'. Stripers on the flats of Franks.
      City: Mountain View