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Wednesday, September 8th, 1999

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ishing was air. but we still managed to land a ew good sized bass.we loat tubed rom 6:30 to about 2:00.in the morning we started o using a blue loating worm in the heavy structure o honker bay.rom when we luanch to about 8:00 we caught two 12 inchers. as the sun came up i switched to subsurace 4 inch magic worm,while my partner tied on a castaic baby sun ish. My reind caught 1 small bass and 2 two pounders. i caught 3 small guys an one 2.5 pounder.
      City: castro valley

      Tips: spring:magic worm,brushhog,lizard and,jigssummer:dawn and dusk using small worms i preer rattlesnake 4 inchersCATCH AND RELEASE

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70's?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GOT BORED FISHING FOR CATS SO I STARTED TO THROW A 3" GRUB AS I WADED ALONG THE SHORE IN GRANITE BAY.CASTING UP TO EDGE OF THE WILLOWS, I CAUGHT THREE OR FOUR 12" SPOTS,THEN GOT BIT BY A 20 INCH LARGEMOUTH.USING 6# TEST IT WAS A NERVOUS FEW MINUTES TILL I LIPPED HIM. HAD CAUGHT CATS TO 6LBS IN THE HIGH WIND EARLIER IN THE WEEK.
      City: north highlands

      Tips: WISH I COULD FIND SOME CRAWFISH FOR BAIT.CATS HAD A COUPLE EACH IN 'EM WHEN I CLEANED THEM

Tuesday, September 7th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried a red 4 inch curly tail and blue 5 inch worms and fished them several ways. The only hit I got was on the north point between Calero Dam and the spillway. It came at about 4:10pm, but I didn

      Tips: If using plastic worms, stick with the more natural colors.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried a red 4 inch curly tail and blue 5 inch worms and fished them several ways. The only hit I got was on the north point between Calero Dam and the spillway. It came at about 4:10pm, but I didn

      Tips: If using plastic worms, stick with the more natural colors.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I you want the big ones at Shadow Clis, throw out a topwater pop-R in the backlakes, guarenteed to catch your limit!!! Ideally a Hula Pop-R i you have one!
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: HULA POP-R

Monday, September 6th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71- 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got out late, at 9am - fished till 2pm with only bites and dinks, cranking, flippin woyms and jigs. Tried wood, deeper water current - did get dinks in current on flukes. Finally started froggin - the bite seems to be coming back. Got two nice 2.5s and lots of heart attack inducing blowups. Also caught 4 real frogs - they seem more aggressive this year..
      City: belmont

Sunday, September 5th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Woke up late and headed to the break once more with my dad. Got on the water at about 7:00. Drove to a narrow slough that was packed with wood and fliiped jigs with no luck. Started throwing a crankbait while my dad was using a 4" worm that produced one fish about 2Lbs. We then drove to the south end of franks and found some cleaner water started throwing blades around reefs and tules. After that prodeced nothing I thought it would be a good idea to crank the riprap. Threw the speedtrap for about 1 and a half hours and caught 4 fish and a 20" striper. Overall an ok day, could have been worse.
      City: Tracy

  • Mendocino County
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      Water Temp: 72 - 76 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Blue Lakes (lower lake)on Sunday aternoon with another loat tuber. We combined to catch 6 bass on sot plastics & crankbaits. Lake has good algae bloom going. *** Float Tubers/Kick Boaters: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club is holding event @ Blue Lakes (near Ukiah) this Sunday, September 12th. I you'd like more ino re: event or club in general, e-mail me or check out our website @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc. ***
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Saw some big ish splashing around in the shallows. This is one great bass lake.

Saturday, September 4th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Sat. morning about 6:30 AM. Fished until 7:00 PM. My partner and I pounded tules for a long time without any success. Finally started fishing the outside edge of weedlines in 15 - 18' of water and the two of us picked up a total 9 fish along one stretch of shoreline. Most 12-14" one went 3#s. Between 5:30 and 6:00 as the tide appeared to be just going out again, my partner lost a nice fish in the weeds and then landed a nice 4# fish, about 5 minutes after that I landed a 4.5#er. The two larger fish came between a break in the weed line and a clump of tules in about 5' of water. All but one of the fish were caught on a watermelon brush hog,T-rigged. One fish caught on a 6" green weenie spade tail.
      City: Newark

      Tips: Don't forget to try deeper water.

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      Water Temp: ?????

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of the break with my dad and one of my friends from school. Started at 6:00 had no luck flippin at south end of the break. Drove down the way and started throwin white/white blades. Caught 2 fish within next half hour on thick weed lines. Both fish went about 2lbs. Drove back up to the break and flipped for a while had no bites so we went back to throwin white spinners in the tules. Dad landed 3 fish within the next hour that were all over 3 biggest went 5.6lbs. Went in around 2:00.
      City: Tracy

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: PAPER SAID THERE WAS A TOPWATER BITE GOING. HAVE TO STOP READING THE PAPER. MY PARTNER AND I WENT UPRIVER AND EACH HAD A LIMIT BY 12:15. ALL CAME ON 809T 3IN. REAPERS.MOST WERE ON ROCKY POINTS THE REST ON NOTHING BANKS. WE HAD BOTH LARGE AND SMALLMOUTH BASS AND ONE BLUEGILL.
      City: DUBLIN

      Tips: KEEP IT SMALL AND LIGHT LINE.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I could lie and tell you all we killed at Tulloch, but that would be a ish tale. What a tough lake. Thanks or the replys to my earlier post. All I can say is we through everything and the ish in that lake don't want to bite. Lots o ishy looking structure but very little action. Most o the ish we got on top water, buzz baits and jitter bugs. Had more action at Melones the one aternoon we pulled out and went up there. Buzz Bait action there as well. Be sae.
      City: Livermore

Friday, September 3rd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Turkey shoot out of the hook, Started to run west but when I saw the winds I had to deal with I turned and ran east up into dutch slough, stopped just before the first bridge and caught a dink on a jig, while unhooking it, it puked up a good size piece of shad, and it was only the mid section so I figure these fih have alot of food, could be the reason for the tough bite recently my non boater hooked one but it was a dink and shook off I decided to fish the meat wall outside the break, I had a bite but was moving to fast with the wind so I turned the boat around and pitched my jig back in and felt the heavy jig bite, it was a keeper worked our way towards the launch and I pitched my jig right next to the pole ajacent to the ramp dock and it felt heavy I kinda set the hook upon reeling up I had a ton of grass and buried in it was A FISH, talk about luck, Fishing was slow but I had a great time. Jig was a DUH (brown) with a blue zoom plastic pork, I did catch a dink on a shad pattern crank bait that matched the puked shad.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: The bass seem to be petty well fed on natural stuff, the ones I caught were real tight to structure, after casting or pitching to your selected spot let it stay there awhile and wait em out Good Luck Procraft Pete

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught up to ive spotted bass at a time while trolling or trout and salmon along the rock wall between the Pit and Squaw arms out o Jones Valley. We were ishing 30 to 60 eet deep using silverlue and iretiger cripplures and kastmasters. Only saw one good sized ball o shad all day. They were suspended down 40 eet in 150 eet o water.
      City: lake almanor

Wednesday, September 1st, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 75-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished horseshoe bar area, spots started jumping about 4:00. poppers worked good, when they slowed down we threw crankbaits on any rock pile caught ten keepers 12 to 14 in. and a ew dinks not a bad day.
      City: loomis

      Tips: throw crankbaits tight to shore and keep your eyes open and a popper pole ready good luck.

Tuesday, August 31st, 1999

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the catish bite is picking up. ished south end near the river mouth next to the swim area.ished only or 2 hours. my girls had a blast. a lot o hits.inally hooked a 4 lbs 23 inch catish on crawlers. caught a 14 inch and 20 inchbass on popR. released the 4 lbs bass. it was great when the wind died down.a lot o bats lying around at sundown. it was un. tried chicken liver butcouldn't hook the hits until the nightcrawler. Check out my site:http://members.home.net/scy33613
      City: Fremont

      Tips: it gets great as the sun and wind die down. they're right longthe shore outside the weedline cruising or ood. bring a light jacket.

Monday, August 30th, 1999

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

      Report: City: SHADY COVE,OR.

      Tips: GOING TO SPEND OCTOBER AT VIEIRA'S. WHERE IS TO BEST SPOT FROM THERE FOR BASS? MY FISRT TIME ON THE DELTA. ANY SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Man what a day.Without a doubt, the best Delta day ever. Launched out of Dels, had a little one-on-one competition going with my son Deli.(Differant boats) I won't say exactly where we were as I'm prefishing for an up coming tourney.However we did stay south.Caught a few small fish on white buzzbaits early, missed one real good one. Began flipping heavy cover, and fishing weed lines once the tide started going out.Was using the "micster" worm again.(I don't know what it is about this worm, Iv'e been fishing it for 10 years,but I have a renued confidence in it now)I flipped a 4 1/2 and a 4, then a whopper,8 lbs. 12 oz in five feet of water, in wood.That fish was the most fun I've ever had, and i have two over ten to my credit.My previous big Delta fish was 6+. My best limit ever was 15+. We figure I had 22 lbs for five fish yesterday. The big fish hit at around noon.We got off the water a 1pm. I'm glad I was using my flipping stick and 20lb test Big Game line. She was all I ever wanted in a fight.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Inside bend,near current,flipping the Iovino S20,6" worm.

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My dad and I launched are loat tubes at about 5:30. Dad caught about a 3 1/2 lb. bass on a crappie jig, (pearlescent white grub) Bouncin on the bottom around 7:00. I caught about a 4 1/2 lber. on a bigger pearlescent white grub swimmin it about 4 t. below the surace, at about 8:45. Biggest bass I've ever caught.
      City: Saratoga

Sunday, August 29th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: STARTED FISHING AT ABOUT 7:30, ME AND MY PARTNER FOUND A SCHOOL OF BASS ON A ROCK POINT ON THE MAIN CHANNEL. WE WERE GETTING DOUBLE HOOK UPS ON 2 TO 3 LBS. WE CAUGHT ABOUT TEN FISH IN 15 MIN. THEN I GOT ONE OF MY HOOKS ON MY CRANK BAIT STUCK IN MY FINGER. NOW I WASN'T ABOUT TO LEAVE TO HAVE THE HOOK CUT OUT, SO I GRAB THE PLIERS AND YANKED THE HOOK OUT. I THINK MY PARTNER THOUGHT I WAS NUTS! SO BACK TO FISHING WE WENT. WE THAN WENT TO A SPOT IN IN MIDDLE RIVER AND FISH PUMPS WITH RUNNING WATER. BOY DID WE HIT THE JACK POT WE MUST OF CAUGHT 20 FISH ON THIS SINGLE PUMP PITCHING JIGS. FISH RANGE 2 TO 4 LBS. THAN WE DECIDED TO TRY SOME FROG FISHING. I FOUND A NICE LOOKING MAT THAT HAD WATER RUNNING THROUGH IT. ON MY FORTH CAST I STUCK A PIG ON A WHITE MANN'S FROG THAT I MODIFIED. I WAS STOKE, IT WAS MY FIRST FROG FISH THIS YEAR. THE FISH WEIGHED 8.93 ON MY STERN CULL EM SCALE. THAT WAS THE ONLY FROG FISH WE GOT. FROG BITE JUST DON'T SEEM TO BE AS GOOD AS LAST YEAR. AT ABOUT 11:30 HEADED BACK TO LADD'S CAUGHT THREE MORE FISH AT THE MOUTH OF LADD'S ON CRANKS. IT WAS A GREAT BIT EARLY THAN AROUND 11:00 THE BITE SEEMS TO FAD.
      City: STOCKTON

      Tips: FOR THOSES WHO DONT KNOW THE DELTA TRY PUMP WITH RUNNING WATER, THIS TIME OF YEAR THEY SEEM TO ALWAYS HOLD FISH. THE RUNNING WATER DRAWS BIG SCHOOLS OF BAIT FISH. USE ANY THING THAT LOOKS LIKE A CRAWDAD, ALSO TRY THE BRIGHTEST RATTLE TRAP YOU CAN FIND. GOOD LUCK!!!!!