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Sunday, May 30th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on Sunday, May 30. Despite more boats and PWC's on the water than I could have imagined, we landed 19 bass three bluegill. Largest bass was maybe 14". Most were caught on 4" S&P ringworm. Did get a good rip bite at dark. Despite the fact that there were boats in every cove (non-fisherman)we had a good day. After seeing the full moon, wished we had stayed home during the day and fished all night.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Tips: We noticed the fish were concentrated at the 10-12 foot range. Possibly due to the clear water/boat traffic. In the evening the fish got more aggressive and wanted movement, that's when we switched to rip baits.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to paradise point on Sunday. Got there about 5:15am. Right away my friend caught a 2.5pounder off the dock on a crankbait. As the day progressed we managed to get about 4 over 2 pounds, I lost about a 2.5 pounder and at least a fish over 3.5 , needless to say some profanity was involovled. My friends dad managed to catch a tagged fish, i asked him how much, he showed me two fingers, i said 20 bucks? he said no, i said 2 bucks , he said no, i said 200???? he said yep, i had to look for myself and to my surprise there it was. Overall a very good day on the delta.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Tips: Flippin motor oil brushhogs into the tulees, or 4 inch power worms pumpkinseed. Neutral colors seemed to work very well!

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a real good day today. Went out with DanD. We fished right in the break and boated about 15 fish. All but 2 would have kept. All the fish came on jig/ grub combos. Dan caught a HAWG!! it went 10-2 on the digital. Think she was on a bed. Had eggs coming out and wasnt holding on anything. The wind had us at bay..but the fish were bitin our jigs thats for sure.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Granite Bay at about 11:00 AM. Fished in the Rattlesnake area and caught 7 bass in about 3 hours. Mostly small spotted bass. It was real windy and diicult to ish. Caught almost all ish on brown salt and pepper grubs. Caught a couple on a green Yamamoto grub with red lakes.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: n/a

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Early morning spinnerbaits and pearl super lukes were the ticket. Fish were chasing large shad and we pulled probably 40 ish rom an area in 2 hours. They were not interested in topwater or crankbaits or ripbaits. But they ate the luke like dessert. Ater the sun came up we switched to shad colored worms on short leader split-shot rigs and continued catching ish. Also caught a couple nice spots on a jig. Then the holiday boat traic got to annoying.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Find the baitish - right now they are orientated to points. Early morning lukes and spinnerbaits-white skirts or white blades and possibly topwater. Ater that continue ishing the points except a little deeper and slower with shad colored worms.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: did a little preish or the up and coming bass tournament june 6th. ished the upper endusual black 6"worms worked the best.tu weekend lake was very busy caught 2 ish at the min sizelimit. the rest were dink,dink,dink,dink,and so on.hope the tournament goes better.
      City: Fortuna

      Tips: main points,black 6"worms

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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING WAS SLOW BECAUSE OF THE WIND,CAUGHT A LOT OF BUCK OF THE POINTS, BUT ENDED THE DAY WITH A 10 LBS 8 OZ LARGEMOUTH.
      City: Hercules

      Tips: BE PATIENT, I DID, AND LOOK AT THE RESULTS.

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      Water Temp: 55-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to the back ponds didn't catch sh@% threw buzzbaits spinners 4" worms on 4-6# test no hits ish were there but not hitting. Went to the main lake and right o caught 2 keepers 2&3 Lb ishing 4" worms in purple color.
      City: n/a

      Tips: Keep to the main lake back ponds have wasted my time 5 times so tried main lake and hooked up 4" worms with 6# test or smaller.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Slow bite. Caught 2 ish. 1 on a Brush Hog and a nice 4#er on a blade. Another guy I talked to had 3 on cranks. Visit the Sonoma County Bellyboat Bass Club Website Check out http://www.tweenit.com/scbbc
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: n/a

Saturday, May 29th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started, False River at Fishermens Cut 9:00am. Bait fish 1hr. on sardines and reeled in (3 Cats, 7 to 10"). Way too windy, anchor was slipping, so we headed down Taylor Slough from False River, Drifting using crank and buzzbaites with no luck. Unable to control boat because of the wind, made my life misery. It wasn't until about 11:30am when our luck started to change. Still on Taylor, we come up to a couple of kids floating on innertubes near Anchor Marina, spinning with purple and brown powerbait 7" warms. We watched them 10min. pull out (4 largemouth). Need I say more
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Tips: Until the wind dies down and the water clears up a little bit, plus a little warmmer water, look for the fishing in Delta to remain the same. (LOUSY)

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished at Discovery Bay for stripers. My friend, my dad, and I caught 8. We caught them on anchovies. It was really windy! We only fished for a few hours. I took my little boat out and caught a 4 pound bass on a big crankbait in the riprap.
      City: Pleasanton

      Tips: Tips: Try to find spots sheltered from the gusty winds.

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Did great today for the first three hours, at high and outgoing tide. all fish were on cranks. biggest was about 3.5 When the tide hit bottom we lost the fish and could not find them again. Only picked up a couple after that. All together about 18 fish most & all but a couple were keepers.
      City: Los Banos

      Tips: Tips: Could really use some tips for a low tide.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We had a very entertaining house boat trip rom 5/20 to 5/27. We visited much o the Lake Shasta shoreline. We caught a ton o small bass on Yahomoto (msp?) grubs and 4 inch plastic worms; crawish colors, at times the chartreuse grub double tail and single tail were great. The spots and smallmouth were on the small size. The largest perhaps 2.5 lbs, but most were around 12 inches. We ished primarily rom dawn to 9 and 6 to dark, it was hot during midday. We had wind the irst two days, but you could always ind shelter in the coves. Shasta remains a beautiul lakeand super ishery. The trout were hard...only lead core trollingproduced...who wants to do this when there are so much bass. I have only one question: Where and how do you catch the big ones?....but who cares.
      City: Mission Viejo

      Tips: Fish the shade and early morning/evening hours.

Friday, May 28th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished from 2:30pm to 6pm. I started out at a point to the left of Calero Dam. I used a fire-tiger spinnerbait and chrome crankbait, but no fish. Switched to red 4 inch curlytail worm with only 1/16 oz weight and swam it. Got one small bass to follow it, but still no bites. I moved to the other side of the dam at the end of the cove and away from the boaters and skiers. I threw the red worm on the first cast in front of a boulder and got a 3 lb, 16.5 inch bass! Also got a 12 in, 1.5 lb bass on a junebug worm to the right of the big pipes. I got a few other bites, but set the hook too soon. Caught fish using twitching method. Water was pretty clear up to 10 ft from shoreline. Fish seem to be holding right at the edge of dropoffs. Fish hit when the wind died down.
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: Tips:If from shore, stick with plastics.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished from 2:30pm to 6pm. I started out at a point to the left of Calero Dam. I used a fire-tiger spinnerbait and chrome crankbait, but no fish. Switched to red 4 inch curlytail worm with only 1/16 oz weight and swam it. Got one small bass to follow it, but still no bites. I moved to the other side of the dam at the end of the cove and away from the boaters and skiers. I threw the red worm on the first cast in front of a boulder and got a 3 lb, 16.5 inch bass! Also got a 12 in, 1.5 lb bass on a junebug worm to the right of the big pipes. I got a few other bites, but set the hook too soon. Caught fish using twitching method. Water was pretty clear up to 10 ft from shoreline. Fish seem to be holding right at the edge of dropoffs. Fish hit when the wind died down.
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: Tips:If from shore, stick with plastics.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: high 60's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished holland tract area with two friends visiting from out of town. Wind was a little tough on us (I have an aluminum boat). We managed about a dozen bass up to three pounds. They were concentrated on the tules, along the bank and especially around the tule islands. One was a female still with eggs, the others appeared to be post-spawn. all were caught shallow.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Tips: Fish in and around the tules in shallow water.

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught several nice 3.5lbs. to 4lbs. one at 10lbsone at 6.5lb one one at 6lbs. and one just under 5lbs.At Hensley Lake just southeast o Eastmen Lake.we were ishing in the late aternoon about 2:30pm to 8:pmtrolled around the banks about 20' to 30' o the banksin 3' to 15' o water with lots o underwater and above waterstrucure split shotting plastic and a little top water.averaged about 6 to 10 ish per hour each, most where releasedthey are hot in there right now guys.
      City: Madera

      Tips: slow presentation, split shot plastic mostly motor oil, andshad pattern worms 4" to 6" couldn't keep the ish o.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Threw everything in my tackle box, then almost threw my tackle box. Bass are shut o, wateris rising ast, not helping the situation. Talked to several people, all with the same story. Tried Rat-l-traps, plastic worms (purple), crankbaits, nightcrawelers, chartreuse nightcrawelers, evenRoostertails. Caught a couple Bluegill, that's it. Fished rom 2:00pm 'til 9:00pm, clear skies, slight breeze, still about 90 degrees on the lake. No ish, but still better than being at work!
      City: Turlock

      Tips: Most action I had was with Rat-l-traps o the points. Several strikes, but nothing hooked up.

Thursday, May 27th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My uncle (72 yo)and I fished the southern part of the lake from 0900 until 1500 and took 26 bass. Had a great day with hardley any wind. Most of the fish were taken with 4" worms close to structure and a few on black and silver crankbaits. It was nice giving back to someone who had time to take me fishin' when i was a kid. Fishin' is great right now at berryessa.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: Tips: 4" worms with sparkle (smoke w/red and green flake) cast near isolated structure.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out this aternoon between 2-5 caught lots o ish mostly blacks all on crankbaits
      City: Chico

      Tips: Crank ast.