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Sunday, December 26th, 1999

  • 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?

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.