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Sunday, December 19th, 1999

  • 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.

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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.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Dels about 7am, but it was foggy so we did fish near the marina with no luck until 8am. Then we went to Paradise Island-Marina, and we went to the right, about 500 yards there is an old boat that has a blue mountain bike on it. cant miss it. We use Jigs.Worms and no luck. Until I did use a crawfish colored crankbait that goes down to 10 feet that we started to catch all the fish. 8 to be exact there, and 5 more on another spot. I am not that good for all the details, but they were down about 8-to 10 feet deep since I was retrieving very slow and I could see the fish chasing the lure. Today it was nice and clear and no wind. Then on the way back we stoped by the rocks just about a mile before Lads, and we landed the 5-6 more on the same lure.
      City: Lathrop

      Tips: I caught all the fish on a crawfish colored crankbait. Retrieve very slow

Tuesday, December 14th, 1999

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two good spots that are good or Bass is the Back Lakes the second dock and the Stanley Dock. For Catish you want to go in the summer early in the morning or at 6pm at night and when itgets dark. For Catish I would go to the Second Dock. Onthe Second Dock I caught a 9/12 pound Catish. For Trout I would go on the 1st dock or the second dock. For Crappieand Bluegill go in the Back lakes with a bober and a long leader.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: These are some bait suggestions!For Catish use Slices or Mackeral or Chicken Liver.For Trout use light green Power Bait.For Crappie and Bluegill use worms with a size 8 hook.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Two good spots that are good or Bass is the Back Lakes the second dock and the Stanley Dock. For Catish you want to go in the summer early in the morning or at 6pm at night and when itgets dark. For Catish I would go to the Second Dock. Onthe Second Dock I caught a 9/12 pound Catish. For Trout I would go on the 1st dock or the second dock. For Crappieand Bluegill go in the Back lakes with a bober and a long leader.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: These are some bait suggestions!For Catish use Slices or Mackeral or Chicken Liver.For Trout use light green Power Bait.For Crappie and Bluegill use worms with a size 8 hook.

Monday, December 13th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started o early with a 14" crank ish. Went to RattlesnakeBar and tried to catch ish below birds that were working ashad school pretty hard, 1 kingisher/no bass. Tried a ewother spots,but I don't think I hung around one spot longenough or the ish to move up. Have a ew good holes letor the shoot on the 26th. Fished mostly new water all day.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Didn't catch enough to give this ino

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Valley Bass club tourney sunday at the creek, caught 5 blacks split shotting lost 3 in the irst hal hour about 20 t. deep then it died caught 2 more at 1 p.m. weighed in 7 and took 2nd place ishing is still very tough at the creek unless you get em early.
      City: modesto

      Tips: Fish split shot rigs move your rod with very short hops and extremely slow when the bite gets even slower go to dart heads.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Last month I was ishing the second dock and they just planted some wonderul trout and these people neted a I dont now how much his weight was, but these people just scared the ish i told them not to net the ish but they did eneyways. so I told them that I was going to get the gameworden and tell him what was going on. that day they neted the pore ish twice that day and let him go. Well thats all I have to say and keep a look out over here couse I just eel that thats not air to the ish and the other isherman on the lake! so please keep a look out.
      City: pleasanton

      Tips: no suggestions.

Sunday, December 12th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Left the Ranger Boat at home and went out and spent some quality time with my Dad striper fishing out of my Sons Allum. boat. Left Dels at 2PM and back at Dels at 3:30PM with 4 keepers. Biggest 13 pounds, but all nice keepers. Trolled using spreaders with hair raiser on short line and broken back rebel on longer line. Talked to others just using Rebels and they had tough day. A lot of fun using light baitcasters. Fish caught were in main channel, opposite side of forebay, go North from Forebay 200 yards along trees.

      Tips: Had to have 8" dark pink trailers on Hair Raiser and on the end hook of the Rebel