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Monday, November 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: BRRRRR wet and cold for the turkeyshoot, but I did manage many fish just couldn't locate big enough ones.Me ands my daughter Amber caught 20 + fish but none over 2-1/2 I caught some on 1/2 oz black and blue jigs (pork trailers) and some on s-20 worms Amber caught all hers on "the worm". We fished mostly in or near strong current, throwing the jigs in the edge of current, and worms in the eddies.....
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Wear a waterproof outer jacket before a long run in the morning,even if your all bundled up and warm with your thick coat or carhart suit on, or what ever ,the dewpoint in the morning is very high or especially this time of year the fog. Either will completely soak you in a matter of minutes and you don't even realize it until your cold and wet....now miserable....and possibly getting hypothermic...been there done that....being bad or tough is only in your mind, your body is human and mother nature will remind you of that reak quick...........

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 54 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fellow Tubers, We held the '99 TOC yesterday @ Clear Lake. Mr. Bass won with an awesome 22.18 lb 5-ish limit, anchored with a 7.36 lb big ish. I inished second with a 5-ish limit or 14.61 lb,with a 5.27 lb ish. Ray inished 3rd with 2 ish or 7.78 lb, Bill was 4th with 4 ish or 6.38 lb,& Kevin was 5th with 1 ish or 2.98 lb. Most o yesterday's ish came on crankbaits & rattletraps.Water temp had cooled to 54 F, & clarity was improving. Lots o boats on the water rom Angler's Choice tournie.Go to http://www.tweenit.com/scbbc or more tournament news and ino on next years tourneys.Happy Holidays. Andy Parsons
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: crankbaits & rattletraps

Sunday, November 21st, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA NorCal Region Opener on Berryessa. We caught a 8.72lb (10th place)limit on a variety of techniques. We worked on a single pattern: reaction baits on weedlines followed up with a carolina Brushhog on a rocky point. We used a shad colored crank on weedlines and caught 4 fish. We ripped one 2.52lb Smallie on top of sparse weeds. The conditions were: post front with a north wind, and bluebird skies. We stuck to the weed pattern discovered by our friend John Z. about four weeks earlier. John's team took 8.90lbs (9th place) by worming points in 8-12 feet, throwing spooks and spinnerbaits. -vernon
      City: Lincoln

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched with T-dog out of Ladd's on Sunday. Fishing was slow. We did a lot of running around (never launched out of Ladd's before). We were looking for spots for next year's tourney season. Caught 2 dinks on cranks on outside of weedlines. Caught 1-3 3/4#'er on a woym in about 8' of water off a weed line with rocky bank. Not much current flow. Any good spots in the area? Better luck next time, we will fish longer on next trip. Later!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Keep the line wet as much as possible, outside of weed lines seemed to be the best.

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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday. 15 Fish total. Some on cranks but all keepers came on Jigs. Bite shut down after 12:00. Fish were relating to edges of current. nothing in calm water. All fish were in less than 3 ft. of water. Very windy and cool throughout the day.
      City: Roseville

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the CAST Turkey Shoot Saturday and the Hook Tournament Sunday with Mike R. Caught most fish in Big Break area. On Saturday I stayed away from our primary water and searched for some other fish. Didn't find much. On Sunday we hit some spots that have been holding fish lately, but only got 5 for 13.06#. Some spots had fish and some didn't. The fish we caught were all on the edge of current near seams. We caught one on a blade on a weedline with current, one on a crank bait on the deep outside bend of a slough with moderate current, and three flipping jigs and worms in a protected area near strong current.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Search current seams and high flow areas with crank baits or blades and pay great attention to the current flows, fish seem to want to move just into the flow or on the edge to feed then pull off to calmer waters.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled the castaic shad in 25-35 t o water. Caught two 2 lb spots near mooney ridge area and dyke 4. Trolling motor batteries gave way and cut the day short at about 11:30.Used the ProCure Shad Butter as scent or the Castaic shad. Had a couple other takers shake o. Not sure how big as they were still deep when they got o.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: When the wind came up the waves were coming in pretty strong at Brown's Ravine. Lost a cleat o the boat trying to get to the truck to trailer the boat.

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The black bass ishing sucked pritty bad! But the stripperishing was good my ishing partner and I had 11 strippers and we werent even tring to catch them. But alas we sucked inthe tournyment. Im thinking about going back up this weekend just to bass ish ya right! stripper ishing is more like it
      City: san jose

      Tips: speed traps up the river in the morning! watch or the boils

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Steelhead anyone?Take a break rom bass ishing and troll along the dam or at and iesty steelhead. Hooked up within minutes o getting my line in the water straight out rom the public launch near the last bouy. Fish are running up to 18". We caught 5 nice ish in about 4 hours.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Use Countdown Rapalas or Needleish in the top 5'o water. No downriggers needed. 6-8 lb test is all you need.

Saturday, November 20th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ouch! fished the south. Got three before seven to 2.5 lbs. Not another bite all day. like I said Ouch! One came off a buzzbait(black) at the launch ramp, the other two came off blades shortly there after (white/blue/green). the rest of the day we fliped Jigs/brushhogs. blades/ traps. we couldn't buy a bite. low tide at 9am. fished our braines out. Help!
      City: San Jose

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I don't know why the guy on the last report said it suck,because my buddie and I went today and caught 10 bass ranging rom 1.5 lbs to 11 lbs.Caught the 11 lb and 4 good size on a jig plus 5 on spoons.And the lake was'nt muddy it was stained,but not on the dam end it was pretty clear.Thought it was a pretty good day.My irst ish over 10lbs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Don't believe everything you read.

Thursday, November 18th, 1999

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

      Report: We could see up to 20 eet in some places on the lake.The bite was very very slow all over the lake. The ish are rom 0 to 90 eet. The last two days there have been ish taken on blades, cranks, spoons, worms or you name it.Pig and jig may have been the best o all. I was ishingor what looked like bed ish! Yes I said bed ish.You could see what looked like one to two inch bass ryrunning down the banks.
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Work pig & jig in 0 to 20 eet. Keep an eye out or ish that look like they are on a nest. You will also need a lot o luck.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out late tonite but at least an hr on the water is better than nothin, fished in the south Delta (of course) actually went to a new spot that had 1 to 3 ft of water at the bank and 8 feet on the outside of the weedline there was scattered wood ( dry at low tide) on the bank and the tide had started dropping but was already screaming out, it was all I could do to stay put on 24 volts -( time to upgrade) any ways I managed 5 fish with 4 of them keepers and the biggest was 3 + not bad for an hr. Amber managed to stay warm but thats about it.I caught them all on black and blue jigs 1/2 oz -its the only one that would stay on the bottom, I hope this helps someone for this weekends shoot I know its been tough for some, see ya there......Micster
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Throw up tight to the bank and slowly slid your bait out in the current, usually right as it enters the current WHAM !! at least tonite it was like that..good luck..

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 61.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wie and I were on the water about 0930 hours. Fished the North orkound ish in 20' o water on rocks. We ished until 1400 hrs, caughtnine (9) or about 17 pounds. Fished magic worms 4.5" and shaken.
      City: Shingle Springs

      Tips: Fish tend to be hanging near the bottom, did not mark any suspended ish.

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      Water Temp: 62 +

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-ishing or the Shambre Invitational. Had good day with 12 keepers and the best ive going 12-13 lbs. Stuck one 3.5 lb. Largemouth and my partner hung o all things a 3 lb. German Brown (good dinner). Should have a good turnout or the Shambre Invitational on Sunday, November 14, 1999, there are a ew slots let (25 boat max.) so see post in ishing orum or details. Tight lines
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Fish were gorging on pond smelt and crawdads. One ish had 4 pond smelt and 2 craws in his greedy little mouth.

Monday, November 15th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Stratos Tourney Sat/Sun. out of Big Break had pre-fished three out of four days prior to that and two days the week before, getting bigger limits each time out. Up to 18 lbs. Did'nt have a clue on Sat. everything had turned off to what we were throwing prior to that. Weighed in two fish for four lbs, but most others were also under the ten pound mark so I did not feel real bad, well not until the second day, caught only three legal fish Sunday and all those were in the last half hour. Hell of a time to figure our a pattern! huh. We'll Statos paid down to fifty spots and we came in fifty first. Winning team threw buzz baits all day Sun. and caught over 22 lbs.
      City: turlock

      Tips: When your not getting bit, slow down. If that fails try swimming auger tail, anything chartreus tail slowly.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of the Break Saturday. Picked of two large stripers while fishing for Largemouths. Landed three largemouth bass for 6 lbs. All fish caught on oxblood spadetail worms pitched along steep banks with wood and current. Fish were hitting aggressively attacking the worm on the initial fall. Once the worm hit bottom, no amount of twitching, dragging or swimming would entice a strike. Fished the cut on the way toward Sherman Lake.
      City: San Ramon

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a good and bad day. The ish were scattered in most areas.The tournament was won in the main body. The winning weight was 5 ish or 13+ . The pattern was plastics ished extremely sloooooow! Most o the ish were about 20 eet deep. My partner took a our pound largemouth in about eight eet up river. Those people that had a pattern and a place caught ish. We caught 13 keepers but most were scattered. Good LuckRoadmap
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Plastics slow and deep

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 60 - 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TOUGH DAY FOR MOST AT THE SHAMBRE INVITATIONAL ON SUNDAY. WINNING WEIGHT OF 8.0 LBS. CAUGHT BY PAUL ROBINSON & SCOTT WILLIAMSON WERE CAUGHT MOSTLY BY WORMING THE NORTH FORK IN THEIR VARIOUS HOT SPOTS. BIG FISH CAUGHT BY JACK GODSEY ALSO CAME ON A WORM. MY DAY WAS FRUSTRATING AS THE FISH WE HAD GOING ON THURSDAY JUST SEEM TO DISAPPEAR. MANAGED TWO SMALL SPOTS, ONE ON A SPINNERBAIT AND THE OTHER ON A CRANKBAIT. LAKE HAS TURNED OVER SO MOST FISH ARE RELATING TO THE BOTTOM DWELLERS LIKE THE POND SMELT AND CRAWS. LOOK FOR A GOOD WINTER PATTERN FOR FOLSOM IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS OR SO.
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: WORMS IN MORNING DAWN & WITCHES T ARE GOOD, BUT START LOOKING FOR THOSE SLOWW ROLLED SPINNERBAIT FISH COMING ON SOON.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished the Pit arm o the lake on Sunday 11/14. The morning was cool and breezy with clear skies. The ish were deep 30-60 eet. Spooning and shaking worms produced the majority o the ish,which were not many. A ew in the 13inch range,but most were smaller. Fish are scattered unless you can ind a ball o bait ish. A lot o the ish are suspending in deep water. Several storms are predicted or this coming week which should improve the bite. The bite changes daily depending on the weather. Be prepared to throw anything orm top water to 1 ounce spoons and everything in between.
      City: Redding