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Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

  • 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?

Tuesday, December 21st, 1999

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I hadn't been to McClure or over a year, but managed to inda ew ish. Caught ten ish. Most were in about 15-20 eet, which kind o surprised me. Could not ind any ish deep and could not ind anybait. They are probably there, but I was unable to locate them.Caught hal my ish on jigs and the others came split shotting.I ished Horse Shoe and Main Lake.
      City: Fresno

Monday, December 20th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52 very cold de

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In light o the act I was preishing or a T-shoot, I'llgive as much ino as I can. Picked up on a pretty goodcrankbait bite beore the sun hit the water. I believe thislunar cycle has alot to do with the increased BIG ish move-ments. Caught three ish totalling about 7.5-8.0 lbs. in 10minutes, then let not wanting to ruin a good thing.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Shad replicas will work really good now. Slow your retrieveater about the irst 8-10 cranks o the reel, even pausingoccasionally.

Sunday, December 19th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: cold 57 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: self and two pals. took boat up putah arm. minnows and plastics. had great day. weather windy, hunkered down in cove. first fish in a.m. , 2 and 1/2 lb. small mouth on minnow, 8 feet under bobber off point. 5 trout, 2 lb. range. 3 salmon, 2lb. range. all on minnows, 8-25 feet. kicker fish, 4.4 lbs. 19 inch large mouth at 4 in the afternoon on 4 and 1/2 inch ox blood plastic. very few small fish. had great day. few boats on water. write me!!! sunday the 19th
      City: millbrae

      Tips: fish have good bite on minnows. use plastics very slowly in 25 feet of water.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kick boated with Brent from about 10 to 4 today. Skunked! Whatever put the fish up on the bank on Wednesday wasn't happening today. Wind was blowing hard all day. It felt like I spent more time trying to position my kickboat than getting any fishing done. Got one good thunker on a jig and set the hook into the trailer. Brent caught two small fish split and drop shotting in deep water.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Picked up a couple of small fish on a Football Jighead with a Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub, Purple Smoke color. Fishing from the bank to the deeps, getting hit in about 20 - 25 feet of water. A fellow I spoke with said, he got a few early cranking a red firetiger speed trap right on the bank. I got blown off the lake at 11:30. PS: The lake is really low!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SLOW, SLOW, SLOW, your personal choice of deepwater confidence bait.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kick boated with Brent from about 10 to 4 today. Skunked! Whatever put the fish up on the bank on Wednesday wasn't happening today. Wind was blowing hard all day. It felt like I spent more time trying to position my kickboat than getting any fishing done. Got one good thunker on a jig and set the hook into the trailer. Brent caught two small fish split and drop shotting in deep water.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Picked up a couple of small fish on a Football Jighead with a Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub, Purple Smoke color. Fishing from the bank to the deeps, getting hit in about 20 - 25 feet of water. A fellow I spoke with said, he got a few early cranking a red firetiger speed trap right on the bank. I got blown off the lake at 11:30. PS: The lake is really low!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SLOW, SLOW, SLOW, your personal choice of deepwater confidence bait.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled a Castaic Trout all day with no takers. Saw a point and on a hunch rigged up a jig and pork. First cast caught a 6.8 pound largemouth.
      City: Orangevale

Saturday, December 18th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Cooch the Cranks are still working for the Blackie's. Caught some spoon stripers also. Used the Large Duh spoon in Silver with Black top.Use the electronics to follow the fish. Then hang on.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started at 10am, finished at 3pm. Ran to Woodward to avoid the crowds at Disco. Just can't bring myself to do the spooning thing. Anyway - found a pipe blowing in water from the fields - hooray! found baitfish and three stipers. Boy they do put up a fight! Went for blackies and found some around widows and the end of Woodward.
      City: belmont

      Tips: all (stripers & blacks) were caught on rattletrap. look for warmer water and current seams.

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

      Report: Fished or a ew hours this morning. Caught a 5.8 pound spotted bass on a Castaic trout.
      City: Orangevale

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a turkey shoot and had un. We started in the morning rippin and we caught about 5 spots in the 1-1.5 pound range. As the sun came up and hit the water they went back down and we started jigging. Caught a 7 ish limit and we started culling squeakers. Ater all was said and done we had about 12.59 or 7 ish.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Try rippin in the morning and jigging as the sun comes up. Also alot o people who caught limits said they were throwing blades around trees. Good luck and good ishing :)

Friday, December 17th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: great winter day, blue skies, calm water and very few boats launch 7:00 am fished the narrows first, caught first fish oin 30 minutes shaking 6" blu ghost worm in 30" off main lake points with large chunk rocks. rest of the day was slow but persistance paid off. caught limnit with biggest fish 3 lbs also caught 2.5 lbs fish spooning. get out there and take advantage of the great weather!
      City: walnut creek

      Tips: be patient. must see fish ont your graph to catch them look for them in the 25' to 40' range. don't be afraid to use larger worms i.e. 6". smaller worms catch smaller fish. good luck

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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Troy and I launched outa Markley Cove at 7:00am in my canoe with brokn' back rapalas behind us as we trolled twords the dam. We trolled most of the day, stopping occasionally at the points and thowing plastics at the banks. Nothin' hit until about noon were I foul hooked a pinner bass. That was it for the day. We saw wild turkeys on the banks. Fished for those things for hours and they would'nt bite either. Berryessa is quiet this time of year and it's worth a trip before all the knuckleheads return.
      City: S.F.

      Tips: Help!

Thursday, December 16th, 1999

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

      Report: Last month I went Striper fishing with my Brother, my Dad, and my Grampa at the Iselton Bridge. It was really slow that day. We only got one bite. We were fishing off the shore. But people trolling in boats where doing OK.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: On Shore use live minnows. Trolling in boats use Rattle Trapes, or Broken Back Rebels.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Clear, high blue skies...no wind, some places you could see 8 to 10 eet deep..We started in Temperence FlatsWe must have missed 10 ish because o the short bites..Then we threaded the hooks to the end o 6" Keeper purpleghost worms..Right away my buddy caught a 5 pounder..Then I caught a our and a three..the bite was like a rubberband ,just pressure..Set the hook or loose.No second chance..We moved into the narrows and started throwing jig's and caught a limit, easy..too easy i you know what I mean..I have a two tournaments there in January and I sure hope it gets tougher..heheheThe jig's were brown on brown..most ish were in 15 eet or less..

      Tips: Fish slow and watch your line on the irst all..there would be s sot tick and they were there..set the hook or lose them..

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Me my Dad and my Grampa went in the back lakes with theStenlure Minnow a couple o months ago. No bites or me andmy Grampa but my dad hooked on to a keeper but lost it.
      City: Pleasanton

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Very slow, Ryan caught nada, Konrad caught uno, Bundy caught cinco. Ryan was using crankbaits all day and they did not work. Coaght the ish o iness worms. They were texas rigged and some contraption rom bassmaster magazine. It was very disapointing. The cold wind messed every thing up. Till next time, Ryan, Konrad and Bundy
      City: petaluma

      Tips: ish o the rocks near marina, caught our out o ive there.

Wednesday, December 15th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I dragged my kickboat out and fished from about 10-3:30PM. I spent the first three or four hours trying to spoon up some fish. There were a lot of schools of shad down there, mostly in 30-40 feet of water. Never got hit. After watching another guy stick three small fish in front of me while I wasted my time out in the middle of the lake I decided to try the shore. I caught about 8 bass to 4.5 pounds in the next hour or so. All of them were in very shallow water, mostly 5 feet deep or less. All came on a brown/red jig. They were very fat and healthy. And hungry, a few nearly swallowed the jig.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Fish jigs very shallow on steep rocky banks.