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Sunday, December 5th, 1999

  • 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

Thursday, December 2nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing with wife and kids off the rec 1 area and caugth 1-2 lbs smallies.
      City: antioch

      Tips: Lures used were kastmasters by the wife and kids and 4" worms by me.Work the worns just off the bottom with a slow retreive.

Wednesday, December 1st, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 55.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I FISHED FROM 9:30 AM TO 1:30, I TALKED TO A COUPLE OF GUYS WHO WERE USING WORMS AND JIGS AND NOT DOING VERY GOOD. I DECIDED TO TRY CRANKIN FOR AWHILE AND IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES I PULLED A 3 #ER. THE REST OF THE DAY I CRANK CRANK CRANKED!!!! I ENDED UP WITH 8 FISH. 2#, 2# 3# 3.5# 4.5# 3# 3.5# AND A 6.5# KICKER!!! I THOUGHT EVERYONE SAID THE FISHING WAS CRAPPY ??
      City: REDWOOD CITY

      Tips: I FISHED INTO THE WIND ON THE MUD LINE, FISH WHATEVER SIDE THE WIND IS BLOWING INTO. ALSO HIT ANY WOOD YOU CAN FIND!! I WAS THROWING A 1/4OZ. CRAW COLORED SPEED TRAP GOOD LUCK AND RIP A LIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: 55.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I FISHED FROM 9:30 AM TO 1:30, I TALKED TO A COUPLE OF GUYS WHO WERE USING WORMS AND JIGS AND NOT DOING VERY GOOD. I DECIDED TO TRY CRANKIN FOR AWHILE AND IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES I PULLED A 3 #ER. THE REST OF THE DAY I CRANK CRANK CRANKED!!!! I ENDED UP WITH 8 FISH. 2#, 2# 3# 3.5# 4.5# 3# 3.5# AND A 6.5# KICKER!!! I THOUGHT EVERYONE SAID THE FISHING WAS CRAPPY ??
      City: REDWOOD CITY

      Tips: I FISHED INTO THE WIND ON THE MUD LINE, FISH WHATEVER SIDE THE WIND IS BLOWING INTO. ALSO HIT ANY WOOD YOU CAN FIND!! I WAS THROWING A 1/4OZ. CRAW COLORED SPEED TRAP GOOD LUCK AND RIP A LIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING FOR STEELHEAD HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING. 2 TO 5 FISH DAYS ALL OVER 18 INCHES ARE NOT UNCOMMON. SLOW TROLL A BROKEN BACK REBEL MINNOW (1/4 OZ) ON 8LB TEST ON ANY PART OF THE MAIN BODY ON THE LAKE AND YOU SHOULD BE SUCCESFUL! IF THIS AINT WORKIN FOR YA DRAG A OLIVE OR BLACK WOOLEY BUGGER FLY 2 TO 4 FT BELOW SURFACE, HOLD ON TIGHT DOING THIS ....... I CAUGHT A 5 1/2 LB STEELEY THIS WAY LAST WEEK. GOOD LUCK FOLKS!!!
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: SMALL BROKEN BACK REBEL MINNOWS SEEM TO BE GETTING THE JOB DONE MORE SO THAN RAPALA'S ARE. NO DOWN RIGGERS ARE NEEDED THIS TIME OF YEAR, JUST DRAG'EM ON TOP . ALWAYS CHECK YOUR SPEED WHEN TROLLING, YOUR TROLLING SPEED IS BASED ON HOW FAST IT TAKES FOR YOUR LURE TO PERFORM CORRECTLY.

Tuesday, November 30th, 1999

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy Wayne and I went to Oroville. Missed the rain, even though it threatened. We were the only truck in the lot when we launched and the only one when we came in! Ramp is in ine shape. We saw two other boats all day. We caught 6 good spots to 2.5 pounds mostly on jigs in 30-40 eet on main lake points. Also 2 salmon on plastic worms and a 15 pound catish on a jigging spoon. You should have seen Wayne work that sucker out o a submerged tree. Especially interesting since we had no idea what it was except it was big and strong. What a Brute! We turned it loose to terroize some other ishermen and the salmon came home or dinner.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Take your time, try shaking your jig.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this past holiday weekend. Water clarity is in excesso 20 eet. Baitish not easy to ind and moving ast. Youcan catch ish 40-70 t deep shaking worms o points whereyou locate some bait ish activity. Try outside the Jones Valley area and Packers Bay. Color was not important. I was not able to get a reaction bite at all. I heard thatthe better weights caught on the Sunday tournament were inthe upper part o the Sac and McCloud arms. This lake needs some good rain storms bad.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Find bait and shake worms deep or try your luck with ripbaits in the upper arm sections.

Sunday, November 28th, 1999

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

      Report: Launched at 9:30am. Fished until Noon. One fish, 3.4lbs., on a green/red flake Yam. spider grub fished on a stand up jig head. Caught him in about 15ft. of water off a point. There must have been fifty fish in this area, and my fishing prowess brought me one! The fish were all marked at 15ft.+ of water. Water level on the south end is incredibly low. Very calm day. Everyone I talked to said it was a tough bite. Even tougher when your'e still learning.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 9:30am. Fished until Noon. One fish, 3.4lbs., on a green/red flake Yam. spider grub fished on a stand up jig head. Caught him in about 15ft. of water off a point. There must have been fifty fish in this area, and my fishing prowess brought me one! The fish were all marked at 15ft.+ of water. Water level on the south end is incredibly low. Very calm day. Everyone I talked to said it was a tough bite. Even tougher when your'e still learning.
      City: San Jose