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Saturday, September 18th, 1999

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Shasta or our days Sept 16,17,18,19.. Preished the irst two days and then ished the WCB Pro Am as a semi pore. My wie and I ished together the irst two days. Started o with three nice keepers ripping the Neon Blue 28 Pointer minnow, caught numerous small ones during the day. I had most o my success over humps and islands in the lake. Robin caugh several keepers on 6" worms and grubs. did this in the McCloud on the 16th. Fished the Pit Arm on the second pre ish day, struggled with small keepers and a ew keepers. Spent most o the day looking around and talking to Cooch!..Tournament day one, my Pro wanted to or us to throw buzzbaits which we did running a couple banks. A ew blowups but not one caught even with trailer hooks attached. Switched to dartheads around 1330 and promptly caught a couple keepers, caught one more keeper beore weighin or a total o three. Worm color didn't seem to matter. Green ghost, lash o blue, R&B, green craw etc. I you ound ish they would bite..Second tournament day, worked Spooks and rip baits.. Slow bite, caught a couple o banks.. Ran some banks with darter heads caught two more small ones. We did catch a lot o little ones.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Darter heads in 20-25' any where.. Spoons down to 50', small rip baits over rocks. ind the bait the ish will bite!

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      Water Temp: 72 or so

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Club night tourney rom 6 pm Saturday through 8 am Sunday. Spent the entire night on the McCloud arm working the east bank across rom Holiday Harbor and Lakeview. Caught lots and lots o ish. Topwater bite was o due to winds but got ish on zipper worms, spinnerbaits and crank baits. A suspending at ree shad in a crawdad color worked best or me. Although lots o ish were caught, most were snakey spots under the minimum. I did end up with 2 keeper ish in the livewell - a 14" spot and another spot that was o the board and about 17.5" long. Most ish caught were tight to the bank although some did hit right at the boat. I'm assuming those were ollowers that hit as the crankbait made it's upward track at the end o the retrieve. Worm ish were caught up to 15' deep. Even though we tried much deeper or larger ish, nothing was caught deeper. No idea what my 17.5" actually weighed as we broke down and we were DQed or being late and my ish were back in the lake at 8 am.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Find the shad and you'll catch ish. They are continually moving so be prepared to adjust.

Friday, September 17th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67-71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on Saturday out of the Hook with Stan Jones. When we arrived the wind was howling, bluebird skies. I told him we might have a tough day but were gonna go give it our best. It was quite a while before we got our first fish, Stan thunked a nice 4+ on a Bump. Then about 15 minutes later he got another one, maybe a little bigger. We then bounced around the Delta looking at different spots and conditions keying on points. The fish were real tight in the cover. Cooch finally got a good keeper on the jig, 8+, she was purty and put a good fight coming out of about 12'. We then got a couple of nice ones on woiyms, S20 & PBJ. Then around 2:30 we started frogging, first point I pull up to, heave that frog way back there on the mat, start chuggin along and here come the roller behind it. It made a little "whap" and missed. I reeled and heaved it back in there, KERWOOOOOSH! tunk, tunk, I think she's got it, couldn't see the frog, it was a big fish, I set and the frog come rippin out and bout smacked me upside the head. Oh well, same ole story for Cooch and his frog, I can find em, just can't catch em. On the way back to the Hook, we stopped on yet another point, cranked a couple and headed home. We boated 9 fish, with the best five around 22-23 pounds.
      City: Oakley

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Lundborg Landing last night for about 2 hours. Flipped a little with no luck, one bite that I missed. Tried some frogs and buzz baits as the sun began to set. Had Several missed swirls at both, then just as the sun set I caught a 3+ and a 4+ on the frog. One came off an isolated clump of tules and the other slammed the frog when I hopped it off a mat. Frog bite seems to be coming back on with the warmer weather.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Give the frog a try as the weather (Hopefully) continues to warm.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: trolled into creek area o lake got pretty shallow or a 50-60 yds probaly 2 t at shallowest made it up to a nice 13 t deep hole caught couple small bass early on topwater rapala minnows gold n black ater bout ten oclock switched to meduim divin crankbaits crawdad colored, caught 2 three pound bass. bass quit bitin ater bout 12:00 did some trolling er trout ended up catchin a ew small crappie {go igure..} ater bout 2 ished deep near damn caught one nice trout at bout 36 eet on night crawler.
      City: hollister

Wednesday, September 15th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Good topwater bite this morning. Fish were up on weedy flats with tules at high tide in 3-4 feet of water. 4 keepers for 11#s and had a HOG take a swipe at a white frog in open water but it didn't take the bait. After topwater bite shut down was only able to locate dinks.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: White buzz bait worked close to tules and weeds worked for me. 3 on the buzz bait and one on a frog.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out in the loat tube or 2 hrs and caught 6 spots 12" to 16" in granite bay . ished a 5 inch grub and 5 out o 6 hit on the drop.they are still close to the willows.
      City: north highlands

      Tips: just go now. and watch your line as a couple hit and ran toward me.

  • 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 !!