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Sunday, August 1st, 1999

  • Solano County
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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.

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      Water Temp: over 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main lake stanley shoreline used plastic jerkbaits, and 6" worms on 8 # test worked great released at least 10 ish in a 5 hr span o time Main lake paid o again! also at sunup caught 1.6# on a 3/8 terminator spinner bait.
      City: remont

      Tips: ish @ stanley shoreline and use a variety o baitish colored lures in white and blue or black colors!

Friday, July 30th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: caught high tide fish flipping tight to tullies caught lowtide fish tight to weed lines. flipped all r fish. biggest on a fluke and the rest on a red worm.all fish were in 2'to 5'of water.best 5 went 16 or 17 lbs had a great day with crazy george.
      City: oakley

      Tips: fish seem to not be in the mood to chase the lure all fish came on the initial fall fish slow and flip accurate.

Wednesday, July 28th, 1999

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

      Report: Went out to paradise point on Wednesday. Got there about 6:30 , fishing was slow the whole day. I managed to pull in a 3.5# for my first fish and a 2# for the second fish at about 7 or 8 in the morning. I caught another 2# and a 1.5#. Not bad considering fishing was terrible. My friend only managed a 2# the whole day. One thing i was happy about was catching a fish on a spinnerbait. Other than about 5 quality fish I've seen much better days. Oh well that is what fishing is all about. If anybody can email me about how to fish low tide in the delta id appreciate it cause I swear that is the worst time to fish for me.
      City: Galt

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 72 +

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: air to good on cats
      City: los angeles

      Tips: ish topaters, zara, rogs in evening.

Monday, July 26th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unsure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Holland tract area last evening for a couple of hours. Landed three keepers. High tide, fish were tucked down in the weeds. Landed all three on spinner baits; had about half a dozen blow ups on frogs. I guess my reaction time last night was a little slow. Always a nice time on the water.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Slow cranking spinner baits seemed to be the trick.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This last Sunday i had my Cousin Steve Price up from Castaic. He sold his Tracker bout 3 years ago and hasn't really been out bass fishing since. So I took the oppurtunity, to sneak out with him before our family reunion on Sunday. Not having much time and a difficult tide, I took him up to Vierra's Resort and we went smallie fishing on the Sacto River. We fished from 6:00a till 11:00a, from the ramp all the way to Minor Slough. We cranked fish all the way, probably caught 20+ smallies with the biggest goig about 3.5 pounds. The bait of choice was a Rebel Crawdad. We started out with the Brown/orange, then green/orange and finally the dark brown/red. The better fish all came on that red pattern. Fish were along the rocky banks where ever there was a small indentation that broke the current. The best fish came whenever there was a change from old levee rock, to new levee rock. I had one fish come up and grab that crank about 6 feet from the boat, to my surprise, when I lifted it was a 25+ salmon, bright and silver. I hollared at Steve to get that fish, it was lazilly thrashing next to the boat, he asked, "Where's the net", I said, "Don't have one". Should have seen the look on his face. Well, we gave it a valliant effort, but were unable to land this toad. Come to find out, they are running real strong on the Sacto right now, lotts a folks catching em. Might wanna go check this out. This Delta is just amazing!
      City: Oakley

Sunday, July 25th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing is horrible. there are no fish.A shark was caught at antioch bridge.
      City: clovis

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Night time is what's happening at Lake Oroville Right now. Gold Country bassers held a night Tournament last night and my partner Chris Oatman and I managed to get on a good spinnerbait bite and won with a 7 ish over the slot limit or 13lbs 15ozs. No big ish, just solid hard pulling spots. We caught 20+ ish between 7 and 2 a.m. Second went to Andy and Wayne with 6 ish and 3rd to Fred and Keith (?) with 5 over. Most o the better ish came on black spiunnerbaits ished along darker steep banks and pockets. Many o the ish were right on the bank. Also got a ew ish on splash-its beore dark, ished slowly also right on the bank.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Black spinnerbaits. Dark steep banks. Hide rom the moon.

Saturday, July 24th, 1999

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

      Report: Started out at 5:30am from Brannan Rec. Park, caught 2 nice 5# with Ratl-trap. Slow from there on until 10ish drag blade near tullies and 3 more around 3-5#. fish those blades real slow.
      City: Union city

      Tips: When I said drag those blade, I meant "drag" it. Let the it hit the bottom, if feel a light strike don't set the hook, wait just a tap.

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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Pajaro Valley Bass Club held their July tournamet at Los Banos Creek and the ishing was extremely tough. Only nine ish were caught the whole day. The winner caught only two ish but one was a nice 6.37 lber that would have won the tournament by itsel. He caught his ish on blades around wood cover at the back o the lake. All o the ish caught were caught early in the morning most were on super lukes.
      City: watsonville

      Tips: Get out there early and concentrate along the tules at the back o the lake twitchin lukes. Once the sun gets up go have breakast.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One ish 2.6 .Out rom 10pm to 1 am. Had a couple o blowups on a rog but they were no very aggresive.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Did not do good enough to suggest

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I was ishing or bass, but no takers. so I decided to ish or catish. About two minutes ater I cast my line. I had a bite. Ater 20 minutes o ighting, I landed a 16.7lb blue cat. What a rush!
      City: Richmond

      Tips: I the bass aren't biting ish or something else.

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

      Report: Slow or Bass. dinks only.
      City: red lodge

      Tips: Put on a panther martin. cast out, let sink. Catch a ewgood rainbows. Got one into the boat, 17" about a # and a hal. Better than nothing! (inlet end o the lake)

Friday, July 23rd, 1999

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

      Report: Took a friend and my stepson to Walnut Grove for some smallie action. We landed 20 and lost about another 10. The usual crawdad cranks worked: orange/brown shadrap, crawdad fatrap and brown/red poes. Fish went up to 2-1/2 pounds. My friend lost one that was probably around three pounds.
      City: Concord

Thursday, July 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at daylight from out of Blue Oaks. Looked in Ramos and Big creek for any topwater action early. Nothing. When sun came up went to wormin caught a few, biggest was 3. Very slow is the word going around.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Main lake points. Slow presentation, long pauses.