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Monday, July 5th, 1999

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught about 15-20 ish o plastic worms
      City: Chico

      Tips: Fish were not on the shore caught most o my ish in 30 t o water. Dragging it real slow

Sunday, July 4th, 1999

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75d

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the best time to catch a big ish is when the hook is in her mouth. ishing in the water helps, using some kind o bait. getting serious, has anybody been doing good at all at new melones?
      City: Sac

Saturday, July 3rd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED EARLY W/ A GREAT TIDE FOR SHERMAN LAKE..BUZZ BAIT 'N BLADES (CHART/BRONZE HAMMERED COMBO BLADES)SEEMED TO BE THE TRICK..LOTS OF 3-4#'S A LITTLE CLEARER WATER SEEMED TO REALLY HOLD MORE FISH.. PG/E WAS WINDY BUT PICKED UP A FEW..WENT TO DUTCH SLOUGH WERE 'EVERYONE'ELSE WAS AND PICKED UP A 7# WITH A BLUE/BLACK JIG W/ A JUNEBUG TRAILER, PARTNER PICKED UP A 4# W/ A BRO/CHART ZIPPER WORM..7# SCARED THE HECK OUT OF ME WASN'T READY AND WHEN I SAW MY ROD HEADED FOR THE TULES FIGURED I BETTER SET THE HOOK AND HOLD ON! GOT HOT WENT HOME B4 CRAZY WEEKENDERS GOT OUT...
      City: FREMONT

      Tips: NEVER GOT TO THROW THE FROG UNFORUTNATELY BUT LOOKS LIKE ITS TIME...STAY AWAY FROM THOSE ^)&^*)*(^ JETSKIERS!!JIGS/WORMS WHEN THE SUN GETS UP FIND SHADE AND COOLER H20..

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 78-82 deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sporadic topwtaer action. Best with white buzzbaits and spooks on points. Never could get a good worm bite going so I decided it was time to break out the jig. Then started whacking 'em. Never ished deeper tha 20'. Fished sloping points with rock. Water was high so there is a little grass up shallow that a spinnerbait will get you ish. Brown jig with watermelon seed w/ red lake twin tail trailer worked best. Had numerous spots over the slot and at one time had 5 ish on 5 casts on this jig (1/4 oz). Graphed lots o baitish on points but they only seemed interested in jigs.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Find pointst hat have baitish on or nearby and ish them alot.

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

      Report: We were catching 1-1.5 lb large mouth on topwater and spinnerbaits along weedlines. Rattle Traps in 10-15 eet o water near bridge.
      City: Foster City

Friday, July 2nd, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: High 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nicolo and I tubed Calero from about 9AM to 4:30PM. We found fish while split shotting 4" Green Weenies in 10'-20'of water. We also found fish along the mudlines on jigs. We landed 12 fish including a 6 pounder and two 4 pounders. All others were about a pound or so. Tight lines. -Brent
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Most fish were deep from the three consecutive dyas of miserable heat. So back off the shoreline, out past the weeds, and start dragging.

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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed 8AM - 4:30PM. It was very windy and VERY cold untill about noon. We worked the shoreline on the opposite side from the boat ramp. Frogs, spinner baits, and crankbaits were useless for us today. We did find a lot of fish though, and ended up with a 6 lber, two 4 lbers, and about 10 dinks.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: For quantity, split shot green weenies in 15-25 feet of water, just about anywhere. All three of our large fish came on jigs, one in 20 feet, and the other two in 5-10 feet once a mude line from the water skiers had established. The big fish were all near heavy rock cover with some weeds.

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      Water Temp: High 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nicolo and I tubed Calero from about 9AM to 4:30PM. We found fish while split shotting 4" Green Weenies in 10'-20'of water. We also found fish along the mudlines on jigs. We landed 12 fish including a 6 pounder and two 4 pounders. All others were about a pound or so. Tight lines. -Brent
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Most fish were deep from the three consecutive dyas of miserable heat. So back off the shoreline, out past the weeds, and start dragging.

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      Water Temp: 79-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed 8AM - 4:30PM. It was very windy and VERY cold untill about noon. We worked the shoreline on the opposite side from the boat ramp. Frogs, spinner baits, and crankbaits were useless for us today. We did find a lot of fish though, and ended up with a 6 lber, two 4 lbers, and about 10 dinks.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: For quantity, split shot green weenies in 15-25 feet of water, just about anywhere. All three of our large fish came on jigs, one in 20 feet, and the other two in 5-10 feet once a mude line from the water skiers had established. The big fish were all near heavy rock cover with some weeds.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 80's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Turkey NCBF Shoot, placed sixth by flippin Brown jig with Junebug Trailer in calm water all morning. Best 5 fish would of went 16-18lbs. Caught the fish in 1ft to 2ft of water. Was fishin off of old river (Cuts)
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Waters starting to clear with no cloud cover throw brown jigs with Plastic trailer tight to tules or in them with 20lb line (you'll need it, he he). Worms color SP-20 or a Junebug/Pumkin made by Rainbow Worms

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 77-82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 6/28-6/30. Concentrated on the lower lake. Fish seemed to be on the outside corners (points) o spawning coves in 10-15 eet. No topwater in the morning. A ew hit very sotly in the evening hours on Ricos. No reaction bite either during morning or aternoon. Success came or us only dragging or casting worms (5" Iovino, Green Weenie Paddle Tails were best). No big ish. 2-5 lbs. Night bite good with 10" black Power Worms and black spinnerbaits.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Most ish are in post spawn. One tip I have is to get amiliar with the downshot technique. Normal split shoting gathered weeds and algae on the worm. Downshoting allowed us to bring the worm 18" o the bottom producing more bitesand ar less problems. The bites are more aggressive with this technique as well. 8 lb test seemed to get more strikes, check the line or rays requently. Also, no need to use expensive brass and glass sinkers. Simple round split shot works great. Use whatever size needed to maintain good bottom contact.

Thursday, July 1st, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the east shore, near the dam, as the sun went down; quickly turned to topwater, since the weed growth on the bottom was such a drag. Even my suspending jerkbaits got caught up in the muck. Had some *ferocious* attacks on my chrome/blue Chug Bug, but only got one all the way to shore. The fish didn't go for a Spook, Splash-It or buzzbait, but they sure went after the Chug Bug!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Now's the time for some late-evening topwater action (in the morning, too, I'm sure; I just can't make it out then, during the week).

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the east shore, near the dam, as the sun went down; quickly turned to topwater, since the weed growth on the bottom was such a drag. Even my suspending jerkbaits got caught up in the muck. Had some *ferocious* attacks on my chrome/blue Chug Bug, but only got one all the way to shore. The fish didn't go for a Spook, Splash-It or buzzbait, but they sure went after the Chug Bug!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Now's the time for some late-evening topwater action (in the morning, too, I'm sure; I just can't make it out then, during the week).

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78-85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the day off yesterday for some much needed R&R on the Delta. Skies were clear and blue and very warm when we launched. My guide trip this day wanted a summer jig lesson. We started of pitching brown jigs with a 164 Yamamoto twin tail, picked up a couple of real nice fish early including a 7+. All fish were cauhgt on deep wood structure. By 9:00, we changed patterns and went to fishing deeper as the surface temp was over 80 degrees. Noticed at about 10-15 foot depths, the temp was a cooler 68-72, depending on where we were at. We switched to a black jig with a Junebug twin tail and caught fish the rest of the day doing this through out the central Delta. A couple of keys were involved in locating these better fish. First we had to have little current. We fished deep weed lines next to tulles birms that had a flat adjacent to the drop. This area is used as a spawning ground for the bass as was evident by the number of schools of fry we saw. If there was no fry, we never got bit. We caught another over 7+ and a couple at 4-5, aong with many in that 2-3 pond range. Cooch
      City: Oakley

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We Caught 9 Bass Fishing With Berkley Frenzy Crankbaits along the Southwest Shoreline. Fog and Wind was absolutely terrible in the early morning
      City: Cupertino

Wednesday, June 30th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just spent 4 days and did real well. The ish we patterned were post spawn & were between the docks in the tules just outside the spawning areas. We caught a 7.5, 6.5, a ew 5'sand a bunch o 4- 3.5s. The bass were not very aggressive until night time, we dumped a ew 10+ ish at night. The top water was rustrating because we would see 5 & 6# ish swim up behind and just check out the lure, and then go away. Mainly stayed down south or the deeper water. We did see a bunch o males gaurding nests, and even a ew bed ish, but I don't ish or them. The lures we used were baby brush hogs, and june bug worms, the topwater ish that we did catch came on Ricos. Watch or your line to move more than the thump that you usually get up there, even the night ish hit like bluegills. We did some rock pile ishing which did not produce to well or us and that was when we moved into the tules and ound our pattern.
      City: San Ramon

Tuesday, June 29th, 1999

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6:30 to 11:00 rom a boat. Saw a bunch o hawgsright o the bat but they weren't interested in anything Ihad to oer. That was the theme or the day. Managed tocatch 4 bass rom 10 to 14 inches on weightless our inchworms. It was a very rustrating day. No one else wascatching so I guess I should be satisied. Will be backsoon or the luke bite once it heats up.
      City: Laayette

Monday, June 28th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68 - 83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Sat 6/26, & 6/27 Sat - did good, bite changed throughout the day. Morning - poppers and spinnerbaits, afternoon jig bite. Sun - went out with Mayday, got a nice keeper on popper, couple on worms, then moved to the jig. Not as good as Sat, but between us, we got 11.
      City: belmont

      Tips: The muddy, warm water seemed to have NO fish. Best areas are big blocky riprap with sparse tules. The cheese is almost ripe.

Sunday, June 27th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day in a small harbor, my partner and I threw blades and I stuck a 6lb.bass. We caught fish on worms as well. Not much wind made for a hot day. The fish seemed to be on the bank, even on the falling tide.
      City: San Lorenzo

      Tips: Blades (white/chart) Worms (Junebug/elect.blue)

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70deg,

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: New plant o trout seen. Trout seen swimming in schools.Fish early in the morning or late in the evening.Lunkers also seen planted on evening o 6/27/99. Sunset campground has no drinking water so bring plenty o your own.Campground ees are hal price because o no drinking water.Lake Pillsbury Resort and Soda Springs has all the camping necessities(ice;water; bait; irewood;gasoline )your amilies will need to make your trip enjoyable.Please watch your ires its hot and dry.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Trolling early morning or evening .Worms are like gold.Lures and crankbaits also work well.Good luck