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Sunday, November 14th, 1999

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58-60 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i ished the bass tournament or the ire victims and i caught a limit or 6.05 lbs..irst place went or 9lbs and so it was relitivly hard ishing. we missed a good ish and were on big ish but couldnt get the bites we needed rom them. we used alot o worms..mostly greens and did get some spinnerbait ish. ishing is good in the morning but ater sun hits the water it is slow.
      City: redding

      Tips: ish worms shallow early than deeper later in the day. 30 eet or so.

Saturday, November 13th, 1999

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

      Report: Launched out o Red Bud and ished the South end most o the day. Picked up ish on jigs, blades, plastics and cranks. No real pattern unortunately, however, the better ish came on a jig and blades. Jig ish caame shallow while the blade ish came o rocks in about 15 eet o water. Used both a Texas rig and C-Rig or our plastics. The C-Rig seemed to produce better ish than did the Texas rig.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: As the water temp drops the bite gets soter and soter. Watch your line or movement. Don't depend on eeling the bite.

Monday, November 8th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took off @ 7am from Holland, fished the trac a bit, and Rock Slough, Threw the Brushhogs like I read about on this page, yet managed one dink. Headed for Franks Tract, stop the boat because had break water, and weed-bank. Looked like something you would see on Bill Dance. Yes I was on my real first awesome bass bite on the Delta. About 15 fish for 24lbs? all on speedtrap crank. Are there really 3 plus pounders in the Delta? I'M hooked and I"ll find them.
      City: concord

      Tips: Threw blue saphire brushhog to land a 1lber, threw bluegill speedtrap to round-up the DINKS.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: Unk

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wie and I ish Sat and Sun last week. Saturday nothing. Not a bite. Fished South arm and main lake. Sunday got a little earlier start. Cought two near Browns Ravine. The nothing until about noon up the rattlesnake arm. Nothing o any size. But still a nice day on the water. All ish split shotten magic worms.
      City: San Jose

Sunday, November 7th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58 - 61 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held inal tournie o year on Sunday. Winning weight was 5-ish limit o ~14.5 lb, anchored with 7.2 lb big ish. Second place was 5-ish limit or 13.5 lb. Bass came primarily on crankbaits & rattletraps. Fishing conditions were tough because o wind, waves & rain. Eight anglers weighed in only 16 ish.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Yesterday was last regular tournie o year or SCBBC. I you'd like more ino, check out our website @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc. Thanks to all the anglers who made this year such a success.

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Clearlake on a windy Sat. [there's something dierent].Got some nice ish on jerkbaits and blades.The water is very shallow around the north end shores. There is a mud lat the size o Nebraska approx. 800 t. outside the opening o Rodman. Had to get out o boat and push the sucker o! There's also rocks and concrete chunks around the lake ya can't see till too late. Prop repair!
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: You can get to spots up on plane, but I think ya need about 12" o water to get going again! O brother.

Saturday, November 6th, 1999

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

      Report: Launched at 1pm. Fished for 2.5hrs. No hits, no bumps, absolutely no action at all. Even hit the usual 'gimme' spots using the usual 'gimme' baits, still nothing. Watched one guy fishing get sprayed by some idiots in a ski boat with a wakeboard tower on it. About four guys wakeboarding. They are out there quite often and are a menace. If you see this boat, make a complaint. These guys shouldn't be out there.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 1pm. Fished for 2.5hrs. No hits, no bumps, absolutely no action at all. Even hit the usual 'gimme' spots using the usual 'gimme' baits, still nothing. Watched one guy fishing get sprayed by some idiots in a ski boat with a wakeboard tower on it. About four guys wakeboarding. They are out there quite often and are a menace. If you see this boat, make a complaint. These guys shouldn't be out there.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE " GILROY BASSMASTERS" CLUB TOURNEY . FISHING TOUGH AS 9.80 WON TOURNEY .. I DID MANAGE TO GET BIG FISH FOR CLUB TOURNEY 4.93 CAUGHT IT ON A GARY YAMAMOTO SEINKO . LOST ANOTHER SIMILAR SIZE AT BOAT . CAUGHT SEVERAL RATTLETRAP FISH BUT HAD TO CATCH 5 OR 6 FOR EACH KEEPER. TRIED ITALIAN SLOUGH BUT NO LUCK . THEN SWITCHED TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF VICTORIA ISLAND FOR OUR FISH .. ALL FISH IN WEED LINE.. GOOD LUCK AND REMEMBER " SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD THE FISH ARE BITING"
      City: SUNNYVALE

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hooksettr & I headed out of the break. Ran to Big Break, caught a couple of dinks and Hook had a keeper. That was the story for the day. Ran all over, including Mildred, but by the end, only had a couple of keepers a piece, on cranks, zippers and baby hogs. Ran back to Big Break and got lucky, cranked up an honest 7# toad. Nice fight. Hook put a hole in his landing her.
      City: belmont

      Tips: shad cranks. Rip thru weeds. cool colors for plastics.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out at 6:30am at Big Break marina with a great guide and friend of mine Nick Juvet. He said he would teach me how to fish for strippers, and boy was he right. We went to his water holes first and had a blast. I threw a chrome and blue rattletrap, and nick threw a chrome and black spot. Must have caught 15 strippers apiece, kept 2 big ones, which were 12# plus. Nick also landed a silver sided salmon which was a whopping 10 # plus. What a great time we had thank you Nick lets do it again. GRW
      City: Tracy

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers Club Launched 5 boats out of Orwood Resort. I fished By myself, it was foggy in spots for the mornning , I made my way to Cruiser haven and fished a rocky point where I Picked up three knuckleheads right off the bat throwing the larger white speed trap, had a tuff time getting another bite once the water movement stopped. Checked another area but near franks but it didnt produce. I headed back towards Disco and fished the docks just outside and was pitchin a jig 3/8th oz. brown with a brown zoom plastic pork with black fleck,pitched near the ladder of a dock KERTHUNK, boated a 4.5, could'nt get that 5th fish, but it didnt matter Hampton gets back with a limit to go 11+lbs. he was, as usual throwng the bomber, so I get my bubble popped and now Im in second, if that dosnt beat all, Tony Su who fished in the back of Hamptons boat comes back with 1 fish and it is an 11+ HAWG, so now Im in third, same ol story.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Safety- The Delta still has allot of traffic for this time of year, The water temps have fallen, make sure all your saftey items are in your boat and they work, I.E. kill switch, and remember to keep an extra set of clothes in the boat. Always be prepared for the unexpected. Safe Boating and tight Lines P.P.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: LEFT ABOUT 6AM.FOGGY LITTLE RIDE. STOPPED TO WAIT FOR IT YO BURN OFF AN CAUGHT 1 ON A 1/4 OUNCE BUZZBAIT. A FINE NONKEEPER IF I EVER SAW ONE. RAN UP THE SAC ARM TO CHECK OUT NEW TERRITORY. 1 SAC PIKE. AFIN FIGHTER. LOTS OF FUN.NOT REAL IMPRESSED SO FAR WITH SAC ARM.RAN TO BIG BREAK AREA ABOUT 12 O 'O CLOCK.CAUGHT 2 REAL QUICK ON BRUSH HOGS. A 2.5 AND 1.5 LB.BEATS WORKING EVEN THOUGH IT WAS SLOW.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: BRUSH HOGS OR SOMETHING WITH A VERTICAL PRESENTATION DEEP IN ANY LANES IN THE TULES. HOLD ON AND JERK HARD.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom sunrise to sundown. No luck at all. Caught a dink around noon o a rocky point in the northeast area o lake on a 6" magic worm witches T. Saw lot o ish on inder in a cove ull o stick up tules but they wouldn't bite anything. Any Ideas?
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I you know o any tips on how to ish Camanche, please post them. Also, please post all your ishing trips at NCBF. This site needs more up to date input.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i caught ish!!!this is the third trip i have taken lately and caught a ew (6) keepers. i dont mean little 12-13 in i mean 15-17 in. some how i wandered into a spot with lots o ish in less than 10 t o water and they swam right under me. i tossed jigs with no luck...i think i you jig vertical in 5 eet o water you cant get them to bite? anyways i got them to take spinnerbaits. wow what un. i am going in the morning to catch some more. good luck to all.
      City: redding

      Tips: i caught them on spinnerbaits. 1 excal. at ree ish 2 worm ish..look or wood!!!thats all i will give about my spot

Friday, November 5th, 1999

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

      Report: Launched at 8:30am. Fishing was slow until about 10am. Which happened to be about the same time the wind picked up. Caught five fish between 10am and 1pm. All on plastics. All fish were between 1.3-2.0 lbs. Slow retrieve, with pauses was bringing strikes. Fish were just taking bait and running. No topwater bite in the morning today.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 8:30am. Fishing was slow until about 10am. Which happened to be about the same time the wind picked up. Caught five fish between 10am and 1pm. All on plastics. All fish were between 1.3-2.0 lbs. Slow retrieve, with pauses was bringing strikes. Fish were just taking bait and running. No topwater bite in the morning today.
      City: San Jose

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the bank with worm, blades and cranks. No luck. Caught 2 shakers on rapala at wrap at sundown.First entry. Just practising.
      City: Santa Rosa

Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We went out early and cought ive ish that were small o raddle traps. Nothing else worked that we tryed. Fish seem to be moving deeper and the reaction bite is starting up.
      City: Petaluma

Tuesday, November 2nd, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went to the lake and started ishing at about 3:30. I went down by the dam and ished next to the willows using nightcrawlers and roostertails. The ishing was horrible. I ished until 5:30 and only got one bite the whole night. I have not had much luck at olsom. Anyone that can help me out e-mail me at above adress.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: I need help mysel.