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Monday, December 27th, 1999

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was going to Don Pedro but my buddy said it was to cold to ish so I went to McClure by mysel..Launched at 8:30 at Barrett's south..Fished main lake all day..."WHAT A HOT BITE " on jigs..I started with purpleghost worms..just little ish 1-1.5 pounders..Switched to jigs and what a dierence..used brown/brown caught larger spots to 2plus pounds..then switched to brown/purple WOW..and they say color doesn't matter..smalest ish on brown/purple was 2.25 lbs bigest 4.5..lots o 2-3 lbs I mean lots..ish were in 20 to 40 eet..bigger ish were in 35-40 eet..near points, not quite on the point.I have a tournament in three weeks so I hope it holds..There must have been 60 plus boats on the water..doesn't anyone work anymore...
      City: Madera

      Tips: Key..threw deep and pulled shallow..had my boat in 5 eet o water threw out to 60plus and pulled shallow..

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Piney irst could not buy a reaction bite started throwing jigs and worms caught ish on every colorsize I put in the water ranged rom 1.3 to 2.2 as ater noon crept in moved near dam picked up a ew blacks rangeing rom 1.7 to 2.9 est 13 or seven
      City: Copperopolis

      Tips: ish 20 to 40 eet deep expect tons o ish pressure as every tourney org. in nor cal has an event there in Jan must have seen 30 boats alot or a monday.

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: **********TERRIBLE***********Don't waste your time coming up here!!!The striped, largemouth & smallmouth bass up here should be put on the endangered species list, because I think they all let. I haven't caught a ish or months here, and I was talking to some guys that haven't seen a ish pulled out o this lake or quite some time!
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Don't waste your time coming here

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      Water Temp: bone numbin

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 10AM to 4PM in my tube. Was extremely oggy and cold. Was wearing 4 pairs o socks and my eet were still a little cold! Stuck a 6lber in the irst 15 minutes on a brown jig. Not a sni ater that. The ish came o a south acing rock wall, about 15 eet deep.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: The water level is still down 40 eet, so nothing is ishable past the near side o the picnic area. It's also airly muddy. Great time to explore the back endo the lake. The last two times I've ished, I've caught two ish, a 4-14 and a 6 both on brown jigs, both the only strike o the day. I you want more action trysmall purple worms or dark gitzits. I've got more strikes on south acing steep shorelines, and they are much more comortable to ish too. Trout won't getstocked here till March and the crappies are slow.

Sunday, December 26th, 1999

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

      Report: fished the break with crankbaits in the morning my dad caught a 5+ and a 3# on the crankbaits. Did not get any other fish for the rest of the day.
      City: Tracy

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING LAKE BACCARAC MEXICO IS GOOD AT THIS TIME.WE CAUGHT A LOT OF BASS THE BIG BASS WAS CLOSE TO TEN POUNDS.EARLY IN THE MOURNING WAS GOOD FOR THE LARGE FISH.LURES TO USE IS ZARA SPOOKS,WHITE YAMAMOTOS,BABY BASS REBALS GOOD ALSO.
      City: INDPLS

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in the middle o the day and cast out a brown and red viper jig with zoom trailer into some deep water and worked it back to shore very slowly, elt a little tap and set the hook into a 4.5lb. bass! I released that one and two casts later I had another one hooked. This bass was just under 5 lbs. according to mycheap zebco scale.These were my best couple ish I have evercaught out o chabot. I let both go without pictures because I orgot to pack my camera, oh well
      City: castrovalley

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

      Report: There is antastic minnow bite going on right now. Lots o big ish to be caught.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I you catch a ish, stick around there is more to be caught out o the same hole. Dress appropriately it is a very cold ride across the lake.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished T-shoot on Sunday with great results. Cranked ALL dayor 4 ish that weighed 9.4 lbs. Big ish weighed 3.3 lbs.Cranked Poes Super Cedar 300's around rock that had buckbrush and trees in the area. All the ish were in 10-15 eeto water and rom some o the other anglers stories, a goodreaction bite was ON.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: A reel with the right gear ratio is the key to successulcrankin'. My reel is a 1976 Abu Garcia 5500 spooled with 14lb. test Big Game line. With a 4.6-to-1 gear ratio, we wereable to crank at a slower speed. Also used a MODIFIED PoesSuper Cedar 300. I modiy my own baits by drilling a holejust in ront o the ront hook hanger a epoxying a 3/16 oz.mojo weight in the hole. This slows the baits wobble and allows the bait to suspend when stopped. All these tips puttogether allowed us to be successul on an early winter day.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished irst light to 2 pm. Caught 4 on a Cataic Trout. Largemouths o 4.0, 3.2, and 2.0. Also caught a spot that went 3.0.
      City: Orangevale

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished and put time on a new boat. Caught 4 spots, 3 were 1 1/2-2lbs. One dink. Caught all but one dartheading worms in 40'-50' o water. One came while the darthead was only 15'-20' down and swimming over 35' o water.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Dartheading with 3/16oz. dartheads or drop shotting seems to be the ticket. Did see several boats way up the north arm jigging spoons, but don't know i they ishin' or catchin'.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 59/60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Billy and I was on the water at 7.00am, put in at Jones Valley and went up the Pit Arm, the irst time that I have been out in a couple o months, had only read the reports to know what was happening on the Lake. Ater about 45 minutes, come to ind that the ishare hanging outaroung trees, in 20t to 50 t o water, we were jiggin spoons, and dart headin worms>colors, were Tequela Sunrise and Blue Ghost, best response was jiggin spoons.We caught 6 keepers, and lost one about 3 lbs.Beautiul sunny day, light wind rom the northeast. Bassman
      City: gerber, ca.

      Tips: Jiggin Spoons would be your best bet, until the ish move up, hopeully we will get some rain soon, to reshin up the water.

Friday, December 24th, 1999

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just got to ish or about two hours rom the 2nd dock. Went with my riend Big Dan. He went or trout with powerbait. Caught a 13 incher. Then I had one pole out or trout or catish with inlated night crawler, and jigged a 1/8 oz spoon under the dock while I had the other pole out. Hooked into a three pound largemouth on the spoon. It swam under my line with the nightcrawler, and I went to get the pole under and on the otherside o the nightcrawler pole. Fish just got the littlest bit o slack, and spit it out. Other than that, no other bites or other ish.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Temp: 51.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished hogan or about three hours today put the boat in the water around noon.Fished salt and pepper cht tail wormson rock piles and drop os all over the lake (main lake)had seven ish ive keepers and two short.
      City: valley springs

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mostly old and middle river throwin crankbaits on the outside of weedlines, picked a few up on jigs(bl/red) in Italian slough also. biggest was 4+. once I got my crank to the bottom, I'd fish it as slow as I could while still maintaining contact w/bottom.Nice day on the water besides getting a little misoriented with my map.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: like Cooch says "7a bomber" it does the trick

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ Orwoods, fished the discovery zone threw blades,(white$ chart ) to land one 2lber fish about 3 hours worth not another bite also threw crank ( bomber craw ) nothing. went out on main river threw crank landed 3 blackies to about 2.5 lbs. Started throwing trap @ stripers landed 2 to about 4.5 lbs. Lot of fun fishing is very tough now with this weird weather, be patient. ( HAPPY-HOLIDAYS) from babybass
      City: concord

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Warms Springs and Cherry Creek all day (dawn to dusk). Slim pickens. Boat caught 2 or 3+. Sunny weather, no wind, clear water, even a sun bather on shore. Too bad the ishing was poor.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish deep and ish slow. Tough ishin in this weird weather.

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: don't know

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished mouth of putah. trolled. nice trout action on minnow immitations. drifted minnows up putah arm. 5 salmon, 1 trout, 1 small mouth, 1 catfish. all on minnows. 6-15 feet below bobber. salmon started to hit in the late afternoon. all on minnow. 20-30 feet water depth. beautiful day.
      City: millbrae

      Tips: markie caught a fishie! and he was so happy!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ripped points and lats or the irst hour with no luck, so we started cranking shad raps, one dink; igured i they are notbusting shad they must be eating crawdads; I started throwin a speed trap (delta craw) slow and picked up two more both one anda hal. Bite has sure turned o, had been catchin two to three limits daily. Must have seen a dozen decent ish up in the shallowsbut make them bite.
      City: turlock

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished a couple o days oaver vacation in teh angels creekarm rom shore and a tube. I saw quite a ew bass swimming around but could not make them bite. I trieda white tube, and jerkbaits. NO luck. One guy caughta spot while trolling a night crawler.

      Tips: ANyone know how to catch ishthat you see swimming around?I put many lures right in ront o them. They just swamaway?