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Friday, December 31st, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 47-50F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out on the last Bass adventure of 99' w/ friend and fellow nutcase Rus today. We fished from 9:30am-3:15pm and found an overall tough bite, as did most everyone else. I wound up missing 4 fish, landing 3 14inchers, and losing a real nice 5lber right at boatside. I caught all the fish on a texas rigged Zipper. Rus caught 2 14inchers, and missed another bite. He got 1 on the Zipper, and the other on a brown Rodstrainer jig. We caught fish all the way from 10'-30' deep today....it was not a typical wintertime pattern out there. I even saw a couple fish caught on blades by one boater. Lake level is very low, with barren, featureless banks all around. Flat calm all day.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use Zippers and Jigs and hop/crawl them VERY slowly on the bottom. Experiment with depths from 1'-35' deep...there ARE fish up on the bank periodically through the day. Try cranking the banks early, or if the wind is blowing.

Thursday, December 30th, 1999

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 49 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished steep banks near lats or spring spawning areas. Caught 14 bass between the two o us rom 1.5-3 lbs using 1/8 oz dartheads and 4" worms - mainly shad worms but also some on craw colored worms. Fish were 40-50' deep and bite was real sot so pay attention to those 'rubberband type ' bites - set the hook! Also cranked a 3 lber rom the dam ace irst thing in the AM.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: ish slow and deep!!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Saw a mountain lion on Hurlton Rd on drive down to lake. Fished south ork all day. Interestingly enough, most active ish ound in mouth o McCabe cove between dredger islands. all 15 ish caught were dragging 4" splitshot worms in 20-35 t on real lat stu. Jigs on steeper banks produced nothing. Beautiul day, no wind. No ish bigger than 14" though.
      City: Yuba City

Wednesday, December 29th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 50 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I kick boated today from about 10AM - 4PM. The fishing was better, but still not anything to get excited about. Beautiful day, light breeze, warm... I ended up with 4 fish to 2 lbs, and Brent got 2 more with a nice 4 lber. We found a lot of fish from 0 to 40 feet of water but had difficulty making them bite. I ended up getting the most bites on a drop shotted worm, but they were ripping off the worm or blowing it out half the time. We also stuck 2 nice fish on crankbaits before we left in an area that we had just worked over hard with jigs and plastics.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: We graph a lot of deep fish, but can't figure out how to make them bite. The shallow fish are biters, but also seem to be affected by fishing pressure easily.

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      Water Temp: 50 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I kick boated today from about 10AM - 4PM. The fishing was better, but still not anything to get excited about. Beautiful day, light breeze, warm... I ended up with 4 fish to 2 lbs, and Brent got 2 more with a nice 4 lber. We found a lot of fish from 0 to 40 feet of water but had difficulty making them bite. I ended up getting the most bites on a drop shotted worm, but they were ripping off the worm or blowing it out half the time. We also stuck 2 nice fish on crankbaits before we left in an area that we had just worked over hard with jigs and plastics.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: We graph a lot of deep fish, but can't figure out how to make them bite. The shallow fish are biters, but also seem to be affected by fishing pressure easily.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Lake Kaweah. fished from 1p.m. to 5:30 p.m. . caught several small bass from 10-12 inches on junebug baby brushhogs with 1/2 tail dipped in chart/garlic dye. 30 ft. deep on c-rig. 1/2 oz. weight. light bite just slowly swam off with bait.
      City: visalia, CA

      Tips: too cold to fish unless your a die-hard. end of JAN. should start to see some big fish weather permiting. this lake has some BIG bass in it so watch out for this year. I have an 11 1/2 and a 10.6 out of here and have lost a few others. good luck.

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      Water Temp: 44-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED POINTS ON INCOMING TIDES. DECENT RESULTS FOR FISH FROM 1-3#'S. SIX INCH WORMS PEGGED 4-6" ABOVE BAIT. ANSWER TO A LOT OF QUESTIONS I RECEIVE WHEN OTHERS SEE THE AQUA VIEW IN MY BOAT. YES IT WORKS IN THE DELTA! ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR. 4-5' OF VISABILITY FROM LENS IN 6-8'OF WATER AND 2' OF VISABILTY FROM LENS IN 18-25'OF WATER.
      City: FOSTER CITY

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      Water Temp: 45 to 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough!!! Fished for a few hours in the a.m. without much succes. Three sqweekers was what I had to show for my efforts, water is very clear for the Delta and the fish did not want to coooperate. Fished south and middle Delta
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Follow Cooch.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north ork drop-os caught my limit in an hour.Fish were all about 3lb at about 20 t. I went in the middle o the day.
      City: roseville

      Tips: Use dark colored worms and ish rock piles.

Tuesday, December 28th, 1999

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished rom 9am to 1pm - beautiul warm morning! I ished shoreline rock steep banks with my usual Rodstrainer jig/Yamamoto grub combo - mostly black/blue with purple grub. It was slow but I did catch a 4 1/4 lb largemouth in only 15 eet o water. Also a 3 1/4 lm and 2 spots about 2 lbs each. Broke o a big ish! Cloudy weather should help the bite. Lake is down about 30 eet - I love it! A structure isherman's dream!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Jigs are great at Collins in winter. You may have to swim them since rock ormations are wicked!

Monday, December 27th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out of Big Break at about 11:00 am with my Dad from Texas and my 5 yr old son. Trolled Fisherman's Cut with Berkley Frenzy (firetiger) crankbaits, landed two 2 lb striper schoolies on successive passes and then nothing. Trolled False River with no luck. Headed back towards the break and trolled off the San Joaquin around 3:30 pm in about 10' of water and my son landed a 6 lb and 3 lb. Dad hooked a whale on the next pass and played it for about 15 minutes on 12 lb spiderwire. It topped 16 lb 6 oz when we weighed it in the boat. We like this striper fishin'.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Berkley 3/8 oz shallow diver (0-5 ft) crankbait in firetiger

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Big Break. First bite about 9am when the heavy fog lifted. Caught a 3 lb at the barge, slow rolling spinners in front of the tules. Another 3 lb on a speed trap in the same area. Then went into Sherman Lake and flipped Black and Red jig for a 3.5 lb. Only three fish for the day. The weather was great after the fog lifted. How can you not have a great day FISHING!
      City: DIXON

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kevin and I hit Disco Bay and some of the surrounding sloughs today. First thing, Kevin cranked one up off some rip-rap. After exploring/prefishing for the NCC all day, we headed back to Disco after not getting another hit. Within the last 10 minutes of fishing I hooked into a nice 10 pounder trolling Fat Free Shad. -Brent
      City: San Jose

  • 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