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Wednesday, September 15th, 1999

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Largemouth bass are now spawning again. Third time or 1999. This time spawning is in slightly deeper water. Bass bite is early in the morning. Best time to ish or nice sized bass is between one and nine AM. Slow worming with the Honduran system works best. Most nicer ish are taken between 12 and 20 eet. Largemouth to ive pounds are common. Guys that are trolling are doing very well with the rainbows and are also catching some nice bass. The bigger bass are holding tight in the trees at about 20 eet. The black crappie ishing is red hot with most anglers reporting ull 25 ish limits with at least 50 more ish released. Best crappie jig is the Kalin trout tube jig in clear with sparkle. Best bass worms are custome made in trans. geys and ambers - avoid sparkle lakes and do not use spinner baits or crankbaits. The black leeches and the large spruce lies are the best bets when lyroding. Best line now is the Ande 4KG tournament Green. Saludos, Wes.
      City: Healdsburg

      Tips: Keep boat next to bank to avoid spooking big ish with your shadow. Mask scent o your boat. Wear dark clothing. Fish slow - it should take about our hours to ish 20 yards o bank.

Tuesday, September 14th, 1999

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went bassin with my daughter around 5pm. she reeled in a 13 incheron a shad pattern stickbait. a lot o chase ups o ingerlings.water is still high and clear. a small one splashed a popR. wewere only out there or 1-1/2 hours. ater cleaning out thebass it looks like crawdads in the belly. check out my sitehttp://members.home.net/scy33613
      City: Fremont

      Tips: bring a jacket it gets cool when the sun goes down. it lookslike a reaction bite. there's plenty o ood in the water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My suggestion to you is stay at home, but i you must go try small lures and work them slow and Hula pop-r's don't work so don't try them. October 10 is the second annual SCRUB 2 tournament. SLURP!!!!
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Stay home!

Monday, September 13th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the water was clear i caught bass/trout they were very big and i used worms vvery cold though
      City: redding

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I recently moved to Stockton right on the delta,well there is a irrigation ditch directly behind me that connects to the delta and I have been fishing it every evening after work and doing pretty good right off the bank.but last night i started fishing about 6:00 pm and WAM!! in less then 30 min. i had a 5 fish limit that would have went 15 or more pounds all were 3# and one might have went more. plus alot of 1# fish they were turned on i was fishing a zoom lizard in pumpkin with a chart. tail texas rigged the bite was viscious they hit and ran. i had to run back in the house to grab more baits after one hit the bait was toast. the move to stockton was the best move yet i love it!walk out my door BOOM there is the delta.Dee Thomas watch out(HA/HA) later Nutcases Dom The Hawg Hunter
      City: Stockton

      Tips: use the bait i suggested i have been catching them all week on the same set up. i have went through 4 packs in 5 days (decided to copy and pour my own lizards cheaper)

Sunday, September 12th, 1999

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

      Report: Does anybody fish Lake Berryessa anymore?
      City: Sonoma

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out on the lake around 3:30pm, fished with 4"worms withces tea and oxblood colors, pretty decent bite, I caught 3, in the 1-3/4 to 2# range my buddy J. Hardin caught 3, in the same range my other half Gigi, finally caught 1, after gettin skunked at Chabot the day before(yea Gigi!!!) and well Jamie better luck next time. We fished until the patrol had to kick us off the lake.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out on the lake around 3:30pm, fished with 4"worms withces tea and oxblood colors, pretty decent bite, I caught 3, in the 1-3/4 to 2# range my buddy J. Hardin caught 3, in the same range my other half Gigi, finally caught 1, after gettin skunked at Chabot the day before(yea Gigi!!!) and well Jamie better luck next time. We fished until the patrol had to kick us off the lake.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Go North young men, Go North..We left Ladds Mariana at safe light with a light breeze, a layer of fog laying over a high tide. The air temp. was high 50's and a afternoon high in the low 90's, just perfect... Having won two previous small club tournaments in the Calavarous river arm we headed South from Ladds. We pitched pig and jigs & worms and through spinners, cranks and top water till we were blue in the face, and came up with 2 keepers, for 2.6 lb., and 5 dinks off worms. At weigh-in we found that the first, second, third and fourth place teams had fished the main channel North of Ladds and killed them most of the day. The first place team was 2 ounces shy of 16 pounds for a five fish limit with a big fish of 5.8 lb. They were throwing a 6" red and black fancy tail Culprit worms into the rock banks. The 2nd place team picked up a couple on top early, several on crawdad color cranks and the rest on plastic crawdad (orange) worms for 12.7 lb. It went on for the third and fourth place teams as well. Crawdad color plastics, spinners and cranks in the main channel during high tide.
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Crawdad color plastics in the main channel at high tide.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great weekend up at Clear Lake, my dad and I inished irst on Division 1 o the WCB Future Pro Team cicuit. We pre-ished or 2 weekends up at the lake and ound the pattern, last Saturday we ished some deeper water and I caught one that was a little over 6 and a ew more on a brown Duh! jig. On Sunday we didn't ish our good water and we struggled and only caught 2 keepers all day. We came back up this weekend and since it was a Sunday tounament we had Saturday to pre-ish. We stayed in the redbud arm all Saturday to see i we could ind any good water close by the ramp so we ished all day and only caught 4 keepers with nothing over 2, we tried crank baits, spinner baits, jigs, and split-shoting worms and only caught ish split-shoting. We eliminated everything we ished in the Redbud arm except one little spot.The day o the tourney we went straight to the spot where I caught the 6 the week beore and we were the irst one there. My dad caught a dink right away then a ew minutes later I caught a 2 pounder on a jig. About 10 minutes ater I caught the irst one I got a bite and set the hook and I almost all o the boat but I still hold on to the rod and try to real in the ish, but he jumped and spit the jig. Ater that we get a ew more bites but nothing so we decide to leave. We get to our second spot and within ten minutes I have a weird eeling sorta like my jig is swimming away so I set the hook and the ish just kind o sits there so I keep pullin and the ish is pullin, I knew it was a big one so I tell my dad to get the net. The ish wasn't ighting like a normal bass and I think it's a catish, but then it comes up and we see it and both my dad and I went WHOA! it was a big bass, turned out to be 8.54. Ater that my dad and I are both excited and within ten minutes he is setting the hook, his ish was also a big one, 6 pounder. We couldn't get any more ish o that spot just a couple o missed hook sets, so we head to our third spot but some one was right on it so we let it and headed to our only spot in the Redbud arm to see i we can get 2 more keepers. We get there and right away I get a 2+, then my dad sticks a squeker and we are excited and igure we have about 18 pounds but we need to cull that last ish. About 5 minutes ater my dad caught the last one I get one that'll cull his ish and now we igured we had about 20 pounds. We decide to go throw a rog in Cache Creek to see i we can get a toad but nothing so we weighed in 30 minutes early.We ended up with irst place in Division one with 21.55 or 5 ish and big ish o 8.54 Our key was to spend a lot o time pre-ishing and eliminating water. We also threw dirent lures so we weren't ishing or the same ish, 4 o the ish were on the brown 1/4 ounce Duh! jig and one came on a baby bass hooked tail Buddah bait grub. All o our ish ecxept one came out o 20-30 eet o water, so ish deep.
      City: Bay Point

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A ew ish, none o great size. Sporatic bite during the day. Bite was tough with the weather change. Slow presentation o popper and chuggers in the coves provided the most consistant bite, very late in the day. Split shotting sluggos on the creek channels also yeilded ish.Tough weather, and brutal smoke. Check on the ires beore heading north.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Top water in the coves, ish seemed to relate to channels more that points.

Saturday, September 11th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: VERY TOUGH, MY PARTNER AND I COULD NOT BUY A BITE BEFORE NOON. WE GRAPHED TONS OF BAIT FISH. LARGE BALLS OF BAIT EVERYWHERE, BUT NO BASS AROUND THEM. PERHAPS THIS IS THE PROBLEM, THERE IS SO MUCH BAIT THE FISH HAVE PLENTY OF FOOD. WE ENDED THE DAY WITH ONLY A FEW KEEPERS.
      City: ROHNERT PARK

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Island,in the aternoon,Once again the witches tea 4" worm proved it's worth.My Friend J. Hardin, hooked into 3# and a 2# Bass,They were both Very healthy looking ish, I caught 2, 1#'s, can't complain as long as we'recatching!!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: witches tea !!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73-75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a local club tourny out o granite bay. Topwater bite was antastic or about the irst 20 minutes or so, then died hard. Poppers on rocky points and walls back in the south ork.My partner and I each had our ish by 8:00, mostly 14-15 inch spots, and one 2.5 lb. largemouth. When that died, we rounded out the limit with 6inch green ghost worms and leaches. Late in the day we ound the willows in granite bay to be holding good numbers o largemouth, with some in the 4-6 lb. class. Very exciting when you can ind those ish on Folsom. Buddy lost one about 6 lb. in the tree. Turns out the tourny was won back in the south ork, mostly just inside the 5 mile zone and in jack's shack. guess where? In the willows!! this may all change very ast, but it's worth a try on your next trip out. 12.5 lbs. took the check home, not earth shattering but nonetheless a solid limit on Folsom considering a ew boats came in with a strong smell o skunk!
      City: sacramento

      Tips: poppers early on rocky banks, then shakin' and draggin the same areas. when the sun gets high, switch to smaller baits and work 20-35 eet slooooowly! don't orget to try the willows,though----- i they're stacked in there, you're in or a rare Folsom bass est!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I loat tubed rom 11am - 7pm. I orgot my depth inder so I didn't try any deepwater ishing. I caught 4 dinks. One on a Spittin Image around 2pm, and three on a 6A crawdad Bomber.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Throw snag resistant crankbaits in the submerged trees. Work worms and jigs slowly in deep structure.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My girlriend and took our kayaks out rom 5-7 pm today and I landed a 3.5# largemouth on a rapala husky jerk. It's always un to catch a big ish rom the kayak!!!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: I just started ishing this lake so I'm just iguring it out. Typical bay area bass lake though, lots o casts with a good number o lure changes to get the color right. It's a relatively clear lake so you want to use natural looking lures. I spotted the remains o a crawdad on the shore so that's why I went with crawdad color today. Good luck!!

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished early am to 1530hrs. We started with shad imitation jerkbaits and caught mostly small ish. The baby bass are everywhere. Found some better ish in green springs. The water drops during the night and starts to ill back up at 1430 hrs. Ater green springs we went to back o Black creek lipped and bladed tules or more keeper size ish. Our best ish was 3 1/2 lbs. (rom tules)
      City: OAKDALE

      Tips: For numbers throw shad imitations (like TD minnow) For size lip plastics like hogs. Evening bite is best; with water up the ish move up get a little more aggressive.

Friday, September 10th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71 (Avg)

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got started late out of Holland Riverside and hit the bottom of the outgoing tide. Pulled a few dinks off of the rocks around Cruser Haven and flipped a couple more out of the tulies in the better water in the same area. Nothing happened on the frog at all.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Red cranks and brown with red flake plastics gave us the limited success.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went tubing during the evening hours on the main back pond. All I used was a white Tournament Frog, using the old twitch-and-pause method accros the top o the "cheese". In 4 hours I had nearly 10 blowups, but only managed to land one...a 3 lber. The blowups are NOT rom small ish so it really gets the old hear pumping!
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Take a black permanent marker and color some spots on the belly o the rog. The water will smear the spots and create a bass-tempting pattern. Also, stu a split shot or two in the hollow body to add weight (and noise). The added weight will make the rog more noticable on top o the weeds, plus makes the lure earier or the bass to hit...(instead o having the rog go lying into the air as it gets hit)

Thursday, September 9th, 1999

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: Unk.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Kevin Young and I started at about 6:15 a.m.across rom the private marina. I landed a nice 3lb. bass in very shallow water! Kevin caught a small bass on a worm. Fish were scarce on the sonar. we started trolling and Kevin landed a nice Steelhead about 3lbs. I caught 3 more bass trolling and Kevin caught anothe Steelhead (small) which was released. Our day was over at 10:30 a.m. Weather was overcast with some lightning! Water was smooth as glass when we inished up!
      City: Windsor

      Tips: Use downrigger and your avorite trout (Steelhead)lure in the 35 to 40 oot range. The bass hit deep diving crankbaits only in trout and shad colors trolled with about 60 eet o line out.