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Sunday, August 8th, 1999

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      Water Temp: APPX. MID 70'S

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and a buddy loted the back second pond.Very little bait ish activity.Weed grouth not really that bad.Good idea to bring your scum lures.Only had 3 ish bits.All under 10 inch's.07:00 to 14:00Clouded skies or the most o the day.Some wind
      City: SAN JOSE/DUBLIN

      Tips: Do better than we did.Our buzz baits didn't catch. Our scum rogs didn't catch. Our spinnerbaits didn't catch.The only bait I could get a bit was a texs riged worm.Tosed way way back to the shorline under tress,bushes etc. I'LL BE BACK

Saturday, August 7th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Stickbait and I went out for some fun fishing. Caught fish on cranks, bruch hogs and jigs. Bite was ok, but not great. Found fish on main points and on tuleberm points near deeper water. Caught about 20, biggest about 3 and also got some dinks. Oh yeah, and stickbait caught a tagged fish with TWO $50 tags in it. i think he is on his way to DFG now!
      City: marysville

      Tips: Points with deeper water nearby.

Friday, August 6th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed Calero Friday from about 8:30AM-5PM. Weather was calm, cloudy, and warm untill about noon when the wind picked up. It also rained (!?!?!) on and off for the first few hours. We saw bass busting at shad on the surface, complete with diving birds, but we were never there at the right time. Tried a Splash-It and a Castaic Threadfin Shad where we saw them busting but no takers. We ended up catching a little over 20 bass dragging worms and jigs in deeper, 17-30', water. Nothing over 3 pounds. We couldn't catch anything in water shallower than about 15 feet. There were also some suspended fish, but we didn't go after them. I caught one of them by accident when it grabbed a jig on the fall.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Fish jigs and worms in natural colors (greens/browns) on the deep end of rocky points.

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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed Calero Friday from about 8:30AM-5PM. Weather was calm, cloudy, and warm untill about noon when the wind picked up. It also rained (!?!?!) on and off for the first few hours. We saw bass busting at shad on the surface, complete with diving birds, but we were never there at the right time. Tried a Splash-It and a Castaic Threadfin Shad where we saw them busting but no takers. We ended up catching a little over 20 bass dragging worms and jigs in deeper, 17-30', water. Nothing over 3 pounds. We couldn't catch anything in water shallower than about 15 feet. There were also some suspended fish, but we didn't go after them. I caught one of them by accident when it grabbed a jig on the fall.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Fish jigs and worms in natural colors (greens/browns) on the deep end of rocky points.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: cloudy, wind blown day. Launched from Vierra's and fished the lower end of the Sacramento, Cache and Steamboat. Best production in the cuts behind the islands downsteam of Vierra's. Crawdad and shad cranks produced a dozen or so smallies and bucketheads. Largest 5# and smallest 6" Had enough of the wind by noon. All in all a good day!
      City: Sacramento

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

      Report: Trout bite was decent by the dam, the bass bite was slow in the coves. Only a ew good sized bass were caught.
      City: los angeles

      Tips: some lure suggestions would be using 3/8 oz. Kastmaster,needleish, and small minnow style Rapalas or trout.Also try casting Kastmaster to trout breaking the surace chasing shad.

Thursday, August 5th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: DON'T KNOW

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT TO THE DELTA ON THURSDAY OUT OF DEL'S. I CAUGHT 8 BASS THE LARGEST BEING 7 POUNDS. CAUGHT 2 ON RATS AND THE OTHER SIX ON A 1/4 BLUE/PURPLE V&V JIG WITH A BLUE UNCLE JOSH PORK TRAILER.
      City: LIVERMORE

      Tips: STAY IN THE MAIN CHANNEL AND FLIP THE TULES. WHEN EVER THERE IS A LOG IN THE TULES WORK IT VERY GOOD MAKE ABOUT FIVE FLIPS ON EACH SIDE OF THE LOG.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 4:30 pm air temp 90 slight breeze rom the north .i ished a yamy #187 sngltail grub pegged on a 3/8dart head good bite or about 1.5 hrs ish to 3.5lbs.,bite stopped ,switched to purple shad spinner baitsilver/gold blades 1/2 oz.unit ,ripped the lips o o them until about 9:00pm . Boated around 25 ish 1 went 7.62 at green lady. Give it a try bite is good
      City: madera

      Tips: was ishing all o my presentations o the shore into the water,try this technique no splash they hit it so hard it's almost scary

Wednesday, August 4th, 1999

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started late in the morning due to og but quickly got lots o hits o the surace with shad styled lures. Ended up trolling coves with a rattlin trap and a rapala shad, caught 3 smallmouth bass rom 12-15 inchs and one atty pan ish. All hits were rom 5-10t deep, ish were rolling on the surace all the way till 2pm. Ended up with a total o 5 ish by the end o day.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Silver lures are great and try trolling a rattlin trap close to the boat and then run a second rod with a shad or silver type lure back ~50yards...good luck!

Tuesday, August 3rd, 1999

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

      Report: threw a rip bait at the trees wieghted with the suspend stips 3 o them on a rapla 6" bait black/silver and clown ished the later part o the evening helping a bud set up his boat. best ish came o the deep rock walls o the south ork main channel tried top water popper and a spook in jacks shack and the 5mph zone o the south no dice. put it away my bud drug a worm with less luck he got one that push me to bring out the will e go board short haaa haaa. caught a lot o smallies and smaller ish musta hooked 10 o them small guys but I was able to get 2 good ish in the 1.5 to 2 range okay or just a 2 hour ski
      City: GraniteBay

      Tips: I your going to throw the rip bait locate the ish o o the long rock walls that are next to the point o it and parelle it and throw no urther away rom the bank than 10 eet they are there waiting wanting the rip dont be suprised to know that I wont leave that spot till I've thrown atleast 35 or more times changing the retieve.As or ripping the trees use a tu line like 15lb to 20lb and skip it past the tree and rip it to the tree and let it die thats what the 3 strips are or they will smash it on either the skip or the all

Monday, August 2nd, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Folsom is a inicky lake. You can go out and catch 20 ish with your top 5 being 15-16lbs. on one day and the next (with no visible condition change) go out and barely ind catchable ish. This lake will test your ishing skills. You cannot be stubborn. I the ish aren't biting what your throwing them you have to move and change until they do. I you cann't get bit in the trees go to the rocks. I white doesn't work switch to dark. I cranks don't work try plastics. Never settle or "they're just not biting today" because I guarantee you somewhere they are.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Right now - Topwater, Pig & Jig, Blades - Find clear water (South is dirty right now) 20 t and up around rocks and scrub brush. I the bite is tough work slow, try dead sticking, or burn or a reaction bite.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Looking or some inormation on Folsom lake. I haven't ished it in a long time and could use some tips rom you pros. Thanks slimntc@jps.net
      City: Dixon

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around skunk creek camp or this past weekend.Used mostly topwater's(pop-r, lukes, broken-backs Husky jerk)caught about 30 ish. One over 5lbs. The water was real warmand the ish seemed real lazy. Fish your worms/jigs real slow.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Dark worms and jigs worked well ater about 11am.Use topwaters in the morning.

Sunday, August 1st, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of holland(crowded beyond belief!)Fished the cut and all other areas.Bite was reasonably tough. No fish on topwater,brown pig and jig worked well on smaller fish.Went with watermelon brush hog in the p.m. and caught the only good fish of the day, a couple of threes. Caught a lot of small fish. Still beat anything else I could have been doing on a Sunday.
      City: fremont

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      Water Temp: 68.7

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Holland Tract. Started the early morning with a buzz bait with no luck. Went to flipping and got a couple of dinks (< 1 lb). Decided to try a spinner bait as the tide started to go out, knowing the fish would be moving out of the tules and down to the grass line. Worked really well. Caught over a dozen but nothing over 2lbs! Made for some fun though!
      City: Cupetino

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the NCBF Turkey Shoot on Sunday out of the Hook. (What a blast) Weather had warmed up a little and the water temp came up a couple of degrees from Saturday. Bite was not good for us on Saturday. However on Sunday it was a different story. Bite improved with the warmer water. Fish were tight to tulie clumps in 3-5 feet of water. Best 2 for me went 8.9 if I remember right. Had a 2.5 that came on a Skitter Pop in the morning and the 4 and 5 came on a Strike King Flippin Tube that was texas riged with a 1/4oz wieght.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Cold weather is making the bite very unpredictable. Normal summer patters are not working as well as in most years. If your not getting bit try other patterns. If it's hot with no wind try frogs otherwise flip tulies and weed lines.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Made it down or some serious night ishing on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The wind never really stopped blowing except or a little bit irst thing in the morning. Sunday, we launched rom behind Rattlesnake and the wind was really blowing so we ished some rock piles and ledges in the evening had some bites but no ish in the boat. Ater several hours the wind started to lay down and we moved up the west bank. We lost a couple more ish but around Glenhaven we inally got two, a 6.0 on a zipper worm and an 8.1 on a spinnerbait, also caught an 11+ catish. landed a ew more smaller ish until sunrise. Monday night we ished over around Konocti bay and only had a ew ish until the moon was up. Last hal o the night produced a couple in the 3-4lb range, a 5, and a 8.5 on smaller worms and big Yammamoto grubs. Found a good spinnerbait bite irst thing in the morning around deeper weed edges at Kono Tayee, several 2-3lbers and a 6.1. Tuesday night we returned to areas we had ound ish beore and landed about 15 bass to 5.5 and 6.0 with another 11+ cat.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: Deep rocky areas in the wind produced the bigger ish or us. We started with big worms and brass and glass but didn't get a lot o bites until we went to a more suttle presentation. Use a trailer hook on your spinnerbait at night. The 8lber was barely hooked on one.

Saturday, July 31st, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Track at 5:45AM. Fishing is slow. Cranked a few small ones on a crawdad wiggle wart of rocks. Lost an ok keeper on a Chartreuse Rattle Trap in Holland Cut. My partner and myself each flipped a 3-4 pounder. Chased the high tide south in the morning toward Middle River. Flip bite is slow. Threw a Buzzbait...had one little fish swat at it with no hookup. Got off the water at 1:30PM
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Stay focused.....especially when flippin. I could barely feel the few flip fish I had today.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a turkey shoot on 7/31 rom 7PM to 1AM. There were 18 boats, and 8 caught limits. The ishing was somewhat tough, and there was no reaction bite to be ound. Most ish were caught on jigs or plastics ished slow on main lake points or humps in 10 to 20 eet o water.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Caught all o our ish on 6 to 7 inch worms drug slowly on main lake humps. Fish slow!!!

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: HELLO FELLOW HAWG HUNTERS I FISHED MY CLUB TOURN. THIS WEEK END AT DON PEDROCAUGHT TWO FISH FOR 1.8O AND PLACED 5TH IT WAS TOUGH OUT OF 36 GUYS ONLY A HAND FULL CAUGHT FISHWINNING WIEGHT 11# THEN 6#,4.55#,5.?,THEN ME 1.80. FISHED 10 -20 FT. SPLITSHOTTING 4 IN WORMS.TRIED TOP WATER NO LUCK! THE WINNING WIEGHT WAS WON ON SPOONING WHERE THE SHAD WERE.WELL NEXT TOURN ATNEW MALONES! WILL REPORT!THE HAWG HUNTER(I GOT A PLAQUE!!!!!!!)
      City: TRACY

      Tips: SORRY I HAVE NO IDEA! THE FISH HAD LOCK JAW!! FISH SLOW DEEPAND CATCH YOUR FISH BY 8:00 AM OR YOU WILL NOT GET BIT!!!!!!!!!!AND IF YOU DO THEY WILL BE FAR AND FEW.