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Thursday, October 14th, 1999

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom 9-noon light breeze and clear sky caught best ish on spinnerbait ished 3-4 eet under surace. several small ish on dart head worms and a couple on a pop-r over isolated cover. just heard rom deerslayer that the luke bite is back on! damn, didn't throw a luke!! topwater should turn on soon
      City: Sheridan

      Tips: worms always work on a darthead o splitshot, look or bigger ish with spinnerbait or jig

Wednesday, October 13th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Western Team Roundup last weekend. The bite was somewhat tough, but manageable. We ound the best concentrations o ish around the deeper docks at the south end o the lake. There needed to be at least 12 eet o water at the outside end. Fish were scattered all around the docks in the mornings, and could be caught on rip baits, small cranks, and plastics. As the sun got higher, the ish would suspend under the docks, in the shade. We would then swim shad colored grubs on dart heads to catch them. Be persistant and patient. sometimes many casts were required
      City: Sonora

      Tips: 1/8 ounce ire tiger cranks, #7 shad raps, shad colored plastics swam on dart heads.

Tuesday, October 12th, 1999

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

      Report: I apologize for posting this report on this forum as this post is not related to bass fishing. I like fishing/eating crappie and would like to hear from fisherman suggestions on places to go fishing for crappie. I've heard that the delta can be very good, but was never told of an exact place. So, I'd greatly appreaciate any tips anyone share with me. Thanks, Nate
      City: Burlingame

Monday, October 11th, 1999

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

      Report: Lanched out of Markley and worked top water through the Narrows. Only had one dink off main point. Located several concentrations of fish in Wrag Canyon however they had a bad case of lock jaw. Working main body, I fond fish at all depths. However, most concentrations were in the 15 to 20 foot rang. Picked up a few keepers splitshottin over humps.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Be willing to set on a spot for a while and work it well before moving on. The fish turn on and off freequently this time of year.

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

      Report: Launched @ 7:30am. Fished the buoys and weedlines with plastics rigged many diff. ways. Not even a hit. At 10:15 headed towards the back cove and stopped off at the rocky wall on the left before getting to the coves. Threw a 6in. pump. lizard c-rigged for the first time. Boated a 6.5lbr. My biggest ever. Weighed him, took 4 pix of him, and let him go. Only one dink caught after that. Very slow except for the Big Guy. The fish are certainly getting bigger here. My ave. fish is about 2lbs. now. In a couple years this lake will be a trophy lake if the county keeps the water level up.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Have no clue. I've only been at it for a year. I fish this lake a lot, and still haven't figured it out yet to consistently catch a lot of fish. I do know that I've only caught good fish on plastics and topwater.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ 7:30am. Fished the buoys and weedlines with plastics rigged many diff. ways. Not even a hit. At 10:15 headed towards the back cove and stopped off at the rocky wall on the left before getting to the coves. Threw a 6in. pump. lizard c-rigged for the first time. Boated a 6.5lbr. My biggest ever. Weighed him, took 4 pix of him, and let him go. Only one dink caught after that. Very slow except for the Big Guy. The fish are certainly getting bigger here. My ave. fish is about 2lbs. now. In a couple years this lake will be a trophy lake if the county keeps the water level up.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Have no clue. I've only been at it for a year. I fish this lake a lot, and still haven't figured it out yet to consistently catch a lot of fish. I do know that I've only caught good fish on plastics and topwater.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Been spending time on Pedro lately,trying to wire it in or the ABA TOC last sat. I'd say it's been real tough, with an occasional ish here & there. Got a real good draw (8th out) ran unempeded rom Fleming to the back o the river. Last week I had our ish or about 8 lbs. and elt good about my chances. Nothing happened or two hours, nor did I see anyone catch a ish. The Lee brothers started accross rom me so I elt coortable being in the area. Finally about 10;30 I caught a dink, next cast caught a 13 1/2 keeper, splitshotting a small lizard. Caught another short ish 30 minutes later, and that's all she wrote or us or the day. Ran into the Lee's down river, who were camped out on a slide area, said they had 4 ish. They appeared to be ishing pastics deep. Saw a team boat a 3lb, thowing a jig, bro/green. 129 teams, only 69 teams weighed in at least one ish. The word is the tournament winner had 18+ lbs, while ishing behind another boat in Moccassin, catching suspended ish, somehow, I don't know?
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish at night, the bite's better!!!!!!

Sunday, October 10th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Oh, yeah -- just a couple of things to add to my report from Sunday night: I did get a couple of additional strikes, beyond the 2 fish I caught, but what I forgot to mention is that almost every one came after I *STOPPED* the lure. The first hookup occurred when I took my eyes off the bait to look down at the mosquitos that were swarming around my legs. All of a sudden, I heard the splash, & my rod loaded up, pretty much all by itself. I wasn't paying attention. Just goes to show, sometimes the BEST lure action is NO action at all! After that, I began stopping it on purpose, resisting the urge to keep it moving. That's when I started getting more strikes. The action didn't really start 'til 15-20 minutes after the sun was over the horizon, too. That means that any BOATS would've had to be off the water by then, thereby missing this brief surge of activity. Ain't it a DRAG that these south bay parks kick us off just as the best bite of the day starts kicking IN?!!!
      City: san jose

      Tips: Try dead-sticking your baits sometimes. It may be just what's needed to trigger those strikes you're not getting!

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from shore near the dam for the last two hours of daylight on Sunday. Lots of baitfish activity around the abundant shoreline weeds. Caught 2, to 1.5 lbs., on my old stand-by chrome/blue Chug Bug.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Topwater, or maybe a weightless, soft plastic jerkbait, tossed around the shoreline weeds, early & late in the day.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Man am I in a funk or what! Fished Calero both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I took the boat out and fished hard for 6 hours. I pitched jigs in what little cover I could find, worked flukes on the weedlines, threw reaction baits all over the place and drown worms in 10, 20 and 30 feet of water. NO BITES! Sunday launched in my float tube. Spent most of the morning between the dams and only had one bite on a borrowed purple power lizard. Friends Jerry and Leonard had better days. Leonard lost a nice fish and caught several 2 pounders. I don't think my poor effort has much reflection on the fish activity. I think fish can be caught but my planets were out of whack or something.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Oh, yeah -- just a couple of things to add to my report from Sunday night: I did get a couple of additional strikes, beyond the 2 fish I caught, but what I forgot to mention is that almost every one came after I *STOPPED* the lure. The first hookup occurred when I took my eyes off the bait to look down at the mosquitos that were swarming around my legs. All of a sudden, I heard the splash, & my rod loaded up, pretty much all by itself. I wasn't paying attention. Just goes to show, sometimes the BEST lure action is NO action at all! After that, I began stopping it on purpose, resisting the urge to keep it moving. That's when I started getting more strikes. The action didn't really start 'til 15-20 minutes after the sun was over the horizon, too. That means that any BOATS would've had to be off the water by then, thereby missing this brief surge of activity. Ain't it a DRAG that these south bay parks kick us off just as the best bite of the day starts kicking IN?!!!
      City: san jose

      Tips: Try dead-sticking your baits sometimes. It may be just what's needed to trigger those strikes you're not getting!

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from shore near the dam for the last two hours of daylight on Sunday. Lots of baitfish activity around the abundant shoreline weeds. Caught 2, to 1.5 lbs., on my old stand-by chrome/blue Chug Bug.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Topwater, or maybe a weightless, soft plastic jerkbait, tossed around the shoreline weeds, early & late in the day.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Man am I in a funk or what! Fished Calero both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I took the boat out and fished hard for 6 hours. I pitched jigs in what little cover I could find, worked flukes on the weedlines, threw reaction baits all over the place and drown worms in 10, 20 and 30 feet of water. NO BITES! Sunday launched in my float tube. Spent most of the morning between the dams and only had one bite on a borrowed purple power lizard. Friends Jerry and Leonard had better days. Leonard lost a nice fish and caught several 2 pounders. I don't think my poor effort has much reflection on the fish activity. I think fish can be caught but my planets were out of whack or something.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: Launched out of Lazy M on Saturday. Had a great day. Picked up three on a buzzbait fishing laydowns. Missed two other blowups. Picked up more than 12 fish tossing a crankbait along rock points in current incuding a 6.4 and a couple of 3s. Caught a bunch of samller fish from a 6" to 2 lbs. Later picked off another two keepers tossing a weedless frog on the matted weeds at low tide. Quit at 2. Got too hot. Best five went 17#

      Tips: Buzz baits near laydowns. Crank along rocky points and weed flats. Frogs on top of the weed mats.

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      Water Temp: dosent work

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished in the big break area for basses. Caught to california sharks(stripers)on buzzerbaits. then I got lost and the big one choked me to death
      City: Oakland

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished in the evening and cought a couple with my whitecolorado spinnerbait. They seemed to be suspended in thedeeper water. It seems to me like some o the orientals arekeeping the bluegill because there were loads o them whenI have ished in the past. Sometimes I wonder what kind oa meal they get out o them? A couple bites. Anyway, itlooks like the bass are slowing down now. Good ishing toall!
      City: Sebastopol

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished 11AM - 7PM rom my loat tube Sunday. I mainly stayed near the dam but also tried the island and picnic area cove. Two dinks at the spillway on a split shotted grub were all that came up. I suspect there's more, and bigger, ish in the trees. I also tried deep jigging and cranking with zero results.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Go to Calero!

Saturday, October 9th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught fish in the morning using top water baits (Walkin Stick). Nothing happen with worms or jigs of any style or technique. After 2PM the fish were chasing the shad, Caught them again with the Walkin Stick and also rippen a LuckyCraft 78. I Quite about 4:30. I found this fish over 40-60 feet of water.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Look for concentrations of shad off of main structure. you may have to meter a lot. I would highly recommend using spoons to topwater and not to pass up rippen or cranking thru the shad, especially if you happen to find the shad balled up.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Sat afternoon out of Orwood w/Hook & ET. (They probably wish they had gone with their first ride.) Messed around in Woodward, Victoria, Del's and Disco with limited success. Nothing big, only dinks and a couple one pounders. Flipping jigs and plastics outside weedlines. Oh - caught a lunker crappie in Disco.
      City: belmont

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      Water Temp: 64 - 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Middle of the Delta. Got out at first safe light and had an outgoing till we got off the water at 1PM. Caught 12 fish but only five were something you would weigh in at a tourny. Caught them on white frogs (2), brown/brown jigs (4), PBJ Zipper worms (2), Black/red small bumps (2), and (2) on white 6" worms. The only pattern was that all but three of the fish were caught outside of the weedline. Mostly in about 6 to 12 feet of water. Only had a few that slammed the bait. The rest were a "tick", except for the frog fish. Nothing on buzzbaits, spinner baits, or splash-its. That's my report and I'm sticking to it. Verrrrryyyyy slow today in my favorite spots.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: If you want to fish Frank's Tract keep you boat on pad and your motor trimmed as high as you can. The weeds are thick and the fish are small. Not a good deal today.