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Saturday, December 11th, 1999

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We went up Saturday mourning and didnt catch anything untill the aternoon. Caught all ish on baby brush hogs. Pumpkin and Watermelon Red was working, heard about some people catching ish on jigs and speed traps. Fish were between 20 and 30 t o water. They were holding really close to the timber. we dropped the hogs right next to the trees and shook them on the bottom. Good luck,Ryan,i you have heard about anything else working e-mail me. I am also looking or a club to join that hosts tournaments. Please e-mail me i you know o any tournaments.
      City: Petaluma

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled the dam at about 5' deep with a gold Kastmaster and boeated a 16" Steelhead. The lake was quiet and not crowded. Great time to go to the lake.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Use a single hook.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went out riday the 10th... got on the water at about 8am. COOL,SUNNY AND WINDY. Not even a hit until 11:30am. With all the rain as o late the ish have dropped to about 30 eet. worked the WARM SPRINGS side o the lake trolling at 15 to 20 eet. Caught 5 trout all 3 1/2 to 4 pounds. other than reezing my butt o it was a good day!
      City: SANTA ROSA

      Tips: shad type lures are the key right now or lake trollers, ish are hitting everything rom small 1 1/2 inch lures to 5 inchers.

Friday, December 10th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a guide trip scheduled for today, and my client canceled. Boy is he gonna be disappointed with this report. I launched out of Big Break and flipped two nice 2+ fish in the marina on rocky grass banks with a brown jig tipped with black/blue pork. Having caught these two and two other runners, that I missed, keyed me in to that the fish were in their winter rock pattern. I ran from the Break to the east and managed to catch a few fish on the jig but not with as great of success as I had hoped, Then made a run to Disco, I caught 11 fish two two pounds on this same rock pattern in all three bays. It wasn't until about 12:00a, as the tide was getting higher, that I caught my first good fish, a 5+. I caught this fish on a deep rock bank with no weeds on a black and red jig. The fish was very shallow and I was really hopping that jig. This keyed me to move to another area and try some crankin. Had a lot of wind and bluebird skies, I've seen this pattern before, right after a storm, and made a run to Old River. I then picked up a 7A Red Bomber and WACKED em good! Caught 22 fish, from 12:30 till 3:00, all over 4 pounds. Biggest went 10lbs 1 oz!
      City: Oakley

Thursday, December 9th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took off @ 9;00am out of Dels, heard there were DAWGS that were hitting reaction bite. Well threw blades & speed-traps at wood & weed structures outlined by rockwalls.( Victoria Slough ) well 5 bass to 11ish pounds, then fished for the stripers, threw chrome traps fish were all schooled up @ about 12 feet. Really no huge fish but great place to go to get great strper action. ( about 15 stripers in about 1 hour, largest about 5lbs.
      City: concord

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

      Report: Fished Lakeport docks all morning. Threw Norman DD22 - Sun Crawish. Caught 4 ish. largest 5.5 lbs that I hooked irst thing. I ished early in the shallow stu, 3 - 5 eet o water. Caught the 5 lb'r just o a transition, 4-5 to 10 eet. Spent the rest o the morning looking or other transitions, beore moving out to 15 eet. There I ran the cranks down under the ish, let it drit up in them, and ripped it down again. Picked up 2 more beore bailing out. I'm thinking next time I'll ish the Clearlake Oaks arm, looking or the type o transitions I caught bigger ish at. Talked to a guy Pre-ishing or a local tourney - he was throwing Brush hogs and picking up ish around Nice.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It's COLD as heck in the morning. I'd put in as close to where you plan to ish i possible. I put in at 6:45 at Lucern an ran across to Lakeport. Won't do that again without a ace shield!

Wednesday, December 8th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to clear lake wed night with larry hemphill.well my report isn't as good as the previous tripwith mr. hinckley . we ished the calm beore the storm.we ahd seven ish by 10 pm and then the wind kickedin and the bite went dead. i managed to get one more as we were going in about 01:30. larry had our ishto 6.5 and i had our to about 4+. all ish were chuncky andreally healthy looking. interesteing to listen to larryat each place we would stop .. stu like " oh yea mr hinckley(actually he call people his clients) caught his 8 here.all in all a great tripas larrys trips always are . ihave ished with larry about 8 dierent times at clearlake,berryessa and orovilee. always a learning an great experience..
      City: SUNNYVALE

Sunday, December 5th, 1999

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The water is still looking good up here. Went ishing with my two sons,they are 7 and 8. The boys used some rainbow powerbait and caught some nice trout. I on the other hand i'm a bass isherman. I went ater some smallmouth and caught 2 nice ones,about 2 lbs each.
      City: ANTIOCH

      Tips: It appears powerbait and worms are working well in the rec 1 and 2 areas as well as Hamilton Branch area and near the powerhouse also. For smallmouth I used 4 inch saltnpepper worm texas rigged.

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

      Report: Fished sunday from about 2:00-3:30pm. Fished south of 1st dam. slow retrieving spider grubs with lead heads. My buddy's first fish of the day was an 8.4lb moose. Setting a new boat record for us (we're both rookies). Caught 2 more fish after that, weighed neither, since they looked like minnows compared to the first fish. Were probably 1 - 2lb. range. Fish were all caught at about 20ft. Threw some cranks, and other plastics, with no luck.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: Cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north of the 1st dam from 7:00 until 9:00. Threw cranks and spinner baits with no luck. I switch to a 5 inch reeper, green and brown. Caught a nice 2.5 - 3 lbr. That was it for the rest of the morning.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Slow drag a green and brown reeper in about 20 feet of water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished sunday from about 2:00-3:30pm. Fished south of 1st dam. slow retrieving spider grubs with lead heads. My buddy's first fish of the day was an 8.4lb moose. Setting a new boat record for us (we're both rookies). Caught 2 more fish after that, weighed neither, since they looked like minnows compared to the first fish. Were probably 1 - 2lb. range. Fish were all caught at about 20ft. Threw some cranks, and other plastics, with no luck.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: Cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished north of the 1st dam from 7:00 until 9:00. Threw cranks and spinner baits with no luck. I switch to a 5 inch reeper, green and brown. Caught a nice 2.5 - 3 lbr. That was it for the rest of the morning.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Slow drag a green and brown reeper in about 20 feet of water.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of the hook. We took a drive to find some new water and fished some spots with no luck. Me and my dad fished til about 3:00 with only 2 fish. We caught our fish in franks tract on rattletraps in strong currents. Also caught an 8lb striper on a little speedtrap.
      City: tracy

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Big Break on Sunday. Fishing for me was slow. Only one keeper bass that hit a hair raiser while fishing a current line for stripers. I did get into a good school of striper in the middle of BB. Action was fast and furious for about 15 minutes. I was hooking a fish each cast. Water temp has only dropped slightly over the past week, but the fish seem to be moving into a winter pattern.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: ????

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      Water Temp: Pretty cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and I went to the lower back lake and got on the water about 7:45. Picked up our ish early onspinner baits then switched to lipping reapers, worms, andjigs. My brother ended up with 8 ish or the day, the largest was 3.7 pounds. I ended up with ive, most between1.5 and 2 pounds. Not a red-hot bite but what the heck, weweren't at work! Fish on!
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: Best ish came on a junebug reaper lipped into some bamboo.

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

      Report: i ished sat or about an hour and didnt manage anything. i have been ishing very deep about 70 t and without a ish inder i am just guessing the ish are still there. i ished today (sunday) and managed only on ish rom deep.beore i came in i decided to hit a spot that i never ished beore and its only about 15 t deep with a ew trees and i got 3 ish and missed a ew. i need a ish inder because i believe there are alot more ish there than i caught. i believe there might be a big school near by. also today 3/4 o my ish had minnows in there mouths..not shad..i think the ish are getting deep because everytime i go i manage less ish up close. i think its time to start slowing down and going deep all day but early morning
      City: redding

Saturday, December 4th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out or Orwood with Doug O from CVBC for a lesson day for this rookie. Dang fog made it hard to get anywhere. fished near orwood with no success; went to Woodward where Doug gave me a nice lesson on reading a graph, sticking a nice 2.5 that we saw on the graph in deeper water. Moved around a bit, caught a few more. Ended the day finding a spot that produced numbers of stripers and quite a few bucketmouths as well, including a 3 and a couple of twos. It was a nicer but colder day than I anticipated. Learned a lot.
      City: belmont

      Tips: go deep & slow. look for slow current and cover to place fish. When all else fails, pitch a rattletrap and go fish for stripers!

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

      Report: got skunked with the bucketmouth however practiced new drop shot technique learned rom Bass-o-Rama using Castaic baits new shad sot plastic baits. Got some trout though with my ive year old using the ole Powerbait
      City: Walnut Creek

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 30''d

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I HAVE NOT BEEN ISHING IN LAKE DON.PEDRO YET THIS YEAR BUT THE LIKE TO GO FOR THE WORMS
      City: coulterville

      Tips: GET WORMS THEY WORK THE BEST

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a Castaic Trout or most o the morning. Caught three nice ish. 9.4, 8.6 and 6.1 pounds. Also caught two s,allies about 2 pounds apiece on a Nipper green wienie.
      City: Orangevale