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Saturday, November 6th, 1999

  • 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.

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

      Report: Hit Dry and Cherry Creek pretty hard with only two/too small bassto show. I went rom purple skirt spinner baits, to light blue,to yellow with a worm wiggler and got the two on the latter.Fishin' bud tossed enter tackle box o cranks at them with onlyone bump.Only a ew out ishing. All getting same results.A beautiul day with excellent weather saved the day. Watched theresident golden eagle work up in Dry Creek; The resident Osprey in Cherry Creek.Fishin's gotta get better here, doesn't it?
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Be very careul in Cherry Creek. The water is low andthere are a lot o trees waiting or your hull.

Monday, November 1st, 1999

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: this is a real cheesy res. i don't even waste my time here anymoreyes two strokes are out, but who cares?
      City: pitt

Saturday, October 30th, 1999

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

      Report: Fished the WON Team Tourney. My partner and I struggled most of the day and only brought two bass to the scales. However, one of them tied for Big Fish of the tourney at 4.48#. Took the big fish on top water up the creek at about 11:00. Picked up the scond bass on a crank. We didn't find any worm bite, however after the weigh-in several other anglers said they had worm fish deep - 40 to 50 feet. Others found blade fish on the main body. Lot of earth gass coming to the surface so lake seems to be turning.
      City: Granite Bay

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 7:30 AM, water level is low so the south end is mostly dry. Not even a bite in 4 hours. Other fishermen were catching fish all around me. The only difference is that I was using lures and they were using live minnows.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Don't Go to Calero without minnows this time of year. Fish the submerged islands in 7-20 feet of water.

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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 7:30 AM, water level is low so the south end is mostly dry. Not even a bite in 4 hours. Other fishermen were catching fish all around me. The only difference is that I was using lures and they were using live minnows.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Don't Go to Calero without minnows this time of year. Fish the submerged islands in 7-20 feet of water.

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

      Report: Fished my usual area of Frank's first thing in morning Saturday. Pitched brush hog on weed points. Lost nice fish in first 5 minutes. Caught smaller one (~1.5 lb) few casts later further down cut. Missed two others on brush hog and switched to cranking tule points. Couple of small fish. Ran to Disco-never been there, still exploring the Delta. Caught two more small fish on blue back/chartreuse Norman Deep diving crankbait. Looking for quality fish, and it just didn't feel right in Disco, so ran back to Mildred. Cranked and pitched middle river in spots, couple of hits, no fish. Cranked SW corner of Mildred, focused on weedlines off tule points inside Mildred, Caught 5 or 6, lost several. These were better fish - up to 2+ lbs for the top 3. Tide change sent me back to Frank's, pitched and cranked Tule walls on east and north side. Caught several, finally found a pattern for larger fish pitching tule points on walls with some current that were near deeper water - no weed clumps out from tules, only bit on points with nothing but tules present. Caught one 5 lber, biggest in Delta to date. Lost a beast 20 yards further down same area, hook opened up, bummer. Caught some more from 2-3 lbs pitching, kept missing fish - double bummer. Cranked some more small ones and went home. Will start using bigger, stronger hooks. Missed a good number of fish on cranks and pitching. No luck on black/red jig with Yamamoto twin tail.
      City: Half Moon Bay

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      Water Temp: 60-62 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of lazy M. One of the lowest tides I have ever seen in the Delta! Fished Victoria slough,Italian slough,and old river.Threw Brush hogs,Jigs(brown on brown, blue sparkle)and Pumpkinseed rattle trap. Caught 6 black bass and two Small stripers. All the Blacks averaged 1-2 # Best was about a 4# lost at boat.What a great day to be on the Delta at a great time of year.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: 62-64 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: City: Fremont