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Monday, July 19th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my best friend from Fresno and my Dad out this past Monday for a little Delta trip. Very memorable day! We got on a good blade, crank bite at low tide on major moss flats. Bass had all pulled out and were balled up on the edges of the moss ripe for the picking. My buddy nails the first fish, a 2.5#, on a blade, and in the next hour, all hell breaks loose! His next bass is a 10# (his first ever!), then a couple 2-2.5#'s, and just for fun, another 3.5#. I FINALLY get into the act with a 2#, 3#, and a 6# on a Rat-L-Trap. My Dad then sticks a 2.5# and dumps a 5+#, all on a blade. Bite was over by about 10:00am, and we went to flippin' Zippers, jigs and Brush Hogs. I picked up another 2.5#, and we managed a few more small keepers. Best seven would have gone close to 30#. Great day, just wish I'd have been in a tournament!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Check those big moss flats with dirty water at low tide! They sure paid off for us!

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished my tourn. with the manteca bassin buddies fishing was tough cuaght 3 that morning on craw crankbait would not go 12 in caught 1 that afternoon went 1.10 BAD!!!!! caught alot more didnt go 12 lunched out of b&w won with 15 # pitch brush hogs (black w/red flake when tide is low to tules,high tide cranks in crawdad color crankbaits off secondary points everything i did i just wasnt in the right place at right time story of my life! well fishing the night tourn. on tulluoch this saturday it is a benefit tourn. go to fishing form and check it out open to everybody. i will report thanks dominick anyone know about tulloch e-me
      City: stockton

      Tips: the fish are in post spawn stage so fishing is tough!!!! try spinner baits in chart. or black and crankbaits on high tide and flip tule in low tide (GO FISH!!!!!!)

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Paid my $3 dollars to launch and then started backing down the ramp. Kept backing and backing and the 2 wheel dr. truck was in a oot o water with the boat in a 1 1/2 oot o water. Gave it up as a bad venture. To bad the damn county can't tell you bdore you pay i you need a 4 wheel drive vehicle beore you pay the launch ee. Drove to Calero where I paid $9 to launch. Caught two bass. One was 3 1/2 lbs and the other was under a lb. Lots o weed.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Better ish deeeeep.

Sunday, July 18th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

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  • Leon County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out or a hal day in a boat with a trolling motor.barometer was low and with the cooler temps I igured Imight have a good chance to catch some ish. Threw topwaterbaits in the early morning with no success but then startedthrowing the castaic baby bluegill at tules and caught 6ish up to 4 pounds in an hour. As the the temperatureheated up I began to lip jigs and throw weightless worms.By 12:00 I had caught 16 bass between 1 and 4.5 pounds.
      City: Laayette

      Tips: Any type o change in weather, pressure, or moon phase canreally heat up the bass bite at Laayette.

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: top 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We were on the water by 7am. Trolled back and orth rom the dam to the island and caught trout at every point. My two sons, brother and I caught 25 trout, released 8 o them by 11am. Started ishing or bass at noon with white and chartreuse bush wackers along the east bank. My son Travis caught a 5lb. bass, 6 inches o the bank in some dead trees. Best day yet at Loc Lommond, he inally got his picture on the board at the marina.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: All our trout was caught with large night crawlers, no enders or anything just slip weights.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

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      City: gjghghghdgh

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Saturday, July 17th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Pro-Teen event on Saturday. The bite was tough, but we caught(and lost) some quality fish, including a Striper about 6#. All of our fish were caught in current breaks,tight to cover,on jig/super chunk, or jig/grub combos. We got the striper on a wiggle wart, and missed one fish on a buzzbait.
      City: Hollister

      Tips: The bite is TOUGH right now, keep at it, and you'll be rewarded.

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      Water Temp: 75-77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club tournament Saturday out of Laurentzens (Wished I could have been at the Pro/Teen). Bite was tough, could only manage 4 keepers with one good fish that weighed 5.27. The 5+ came on a Chartruse Snag Proof frog. He was on a point that had small patches of grass on it and was only in 2' of water. Most fish seem to be in areas with current, weeds, and either tulies or wood.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Try points with current. I flipped most fish on black/red plastic. If weather heats back up and wind dies down try the topwater bite.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: alot o crappie, they come out eating about 6pm to 9pm then it slows down. Along with crappie blue gills are swarming the lake,best things oe blue gills are size12 hooks with wax wormsor any kind o worms. Me and my cousin caught 42 crappies in 3 hours, I was ishing on a dock across rom racoon point, its about 3 miles rom the marina though, i rode bike this is the best time or crappie and ater crappie catish is in,good luck i u go.
      City: oakland

      Tips: my tips are to use jigs....whiteor neon green because the water is murky and ish at racoon point or the place I told u, best time is around 6pm peace out rom FISH

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CHECK THIS OUT!!! Went tubing in the island pond with a buddy. We bumped into two other tubers...one o whom caught a STRANGE species o ish on a crankbait. No joke...My buddy and I wouldn't have believed him but we saw it with our own eyes (he kept it in a mesh bag tied to his tube). This ish was about 14 inches long. It was white with no pattern on the sides, and large sized scales (like a striper). It had a long, lean and slender body, built just like a barracuda. Although it had a airly big mouth, it had tiny teeth. I'm very amiliar with the reshwater predatory ish in Caliornia and have never heard or seen anything like this. None o us who saw it have! It wasn't a pike, pickeral, musky or walleye. Hmmmm...Oh well, chances are i there's one, there's more...
      City: Livermore

Thursday, July 15th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the Delta Thursday after work with a friend and another friends son. We landed six fish to three pounds and lost about twice that many. My friends son is just starting out bass fishing and was having a hard time setting the hook (he's mainly been trout fishing up to this year) and consequently he lost a lot of fish. It was all topwater action, buzzbaits, frogs and jitter-bugs. Nice evening on the water.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Don't forget to try a jitter-bug at high tide. Some awsome and explosive hits!

Wednesday, July 14th, 1999

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

      Report: ished a 7pm to 7am turkey shoot. 9 boats showed, we won with15.02 most ish were caught rom blasto till dark. on a six in' brown/green worm splitshot hooked a ew on a black/red baby brush hog our big ish was caught on a chartucebuzzbait at the crack o dawn most ish were holding 15 to 20 eet deep
      City: Copperopolis

      Tips: try main lake big rocks close to deep water (dam) and deep points splitshot 6in' worms and work it out deep

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      Water Temp: very warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thursday July 1st. Launched at highway 49 7pm. Went East to irst cove toward the south. Fish the whole tackle box at all depths. Too many dinks (to 10"0). Kept going east, same the whole way in about 3 miles. Fished all night and settled on any color 6" worm (got most hits with this). Dinks would machine-gun anything with a chartruese tail. Underwater structure was abundant. Fished coves, rocky points, deep water, shallow water. Still only dinks. 5 biggest ish only weighed 9 lbs total. Weather was HOT, HOT, HOT. No wind. Didn't put on jackets until about 4 AM. Mosquito's were there but not bad. Let the lake at 9:00 AM.
      City: Sunnyvale

Monday, July 12th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: way high!!!!!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday - fished Frank's Tract, Connection and Middle R. near Bullfrog. Caught 20+ fish ranging from dinks to 5#. Most on frogs, jigs and large plastics. Two biggest fish (5# and 3#) came on jig and frog, respectively. Saturday - fished Frank's Tract, Piper and Middle R. during B/C Memorial Tournament. Caught 15 fish...weighed 7 fish limit at 14#. Biggest fish around 3 pounds. Most fish caught on C-rig plastics (black/red). Biggest fish came on black spinnerbait.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Cold + windy early, hot later.....found best fish below 6 feet deep apparently avoiding both temperature extremes. Caught nothing shallow.

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      Water Temp: 70 - 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sat - went out with a few club members, I backseated for Big Daddy. Could not buy a popper bite, but Mr. Big boated our big fish of the day first thing on a woym, first cast. Moved to Telephone, got bit but all small. That was the story for the day. We got bit steadily till about 10, then the bite turned off at slack tide. Br. Big then hooked a TOAD. She got under/through something, though, and we tried for about 20 min. to get her. She did not come off, but weigh in was at noon, so we finally had to break her off. The big fish for our little group was a 6-7# beauty. Sun - Few nice keepers incl. a 2.5# on poppers(!?)Had a couple of bucks on jigs, then bite turned off for 4 hours. Bite came back on in afternoon with the tide and lower sun. 9 keeper+ fish for the day.
      City: belmont

      Tips: Summer time patterns. The cheese is ripe.

Saturday, July 10th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Paradise from 6:30AM until Noon with a couple of CVBC members-Fished Disappointment and Honkers. Decided to live or die with a jig-Fished brown/brown jig until 10:30AM-End result-Death w/jig-Caught 3 keepers on brass-n-glass on a witches tea. Witty caught a nice 4#er on white blade-Will try and resurrect jig next time. Mayday out
      City: Belmont

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Delta top water going strong, try buzz baits and frogs, also some action on poppers. Best bites are in the early morning or latter on in the afternoon. If you can find moss matts throw a frog. Try a white buzz bait in franks track in the deeper water next to toolies. Both big and little Break producing some nice fish, also fishermans cut for some smaller fish. Look for slack water at the mouth of slews, fish are stacked in these areas, made 8 casts and cought 5 fish. We fished the afternoon bite to late evening and had over 30 fish, no big ones, but a lot of fun.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: look for moss, fish the weedles water between the rocks and grass. Fish early or fish late. Bring the sun screen.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there early and 75 boats were blasting o. Decided to start o at the ramp throwing rogs, buzz baits and spinner baits. Had a limint by 0630. One went 6.5 lbs. and the rest were 2.75 - 3.5 lbs. Atr 0900 should o pulled o the lake and went home cause no other bites ater that.
      City: olsom

      Tips: Frogs and docks seem to be the ticket

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

      Report: I ished Laayette Reservoir on July 10 rom 6:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M. and didn't catch a single ish. Not even one bite. Very slow, very tough. Good Luck!
      City: Laayette