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Saturday, September 11th, 1999

  • 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.

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