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Wednesday, May 26th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: REACTION BIT EARLY UNTIL 11AM. FLUKES, LUCKY STRIKE RIP BAITS. TOPWATER THROW SPLASH-ITS INTO BANK AND WORK WEED EDGES AS WELL. AFTERNOON, SWITCHED TO #82 MAGIC WORM AND SPLIT SHOT POINTS AND ISLAND TOPS. 75 FISH DAY !!!
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to enjoy the Memorial Day Madness. It was interesting - lots of wind, skiers, cruisers and topless women. Yay. Fished the three spots that are fairly sheltered from wind. First spot, got 6, best went 3#, all on white/chartruese spinnerbaits pitched under trees, slow rolled. Second spot, zilch. Third spot, did great - five fish, all quality, biggest went 5#. All on jigs.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Tips: A bit of wind makes a good spinnerbait bite. Watch the entry, as most of the bites are within the first 6".

Tuesday, May 25th, 1999

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mid day bite was great or 3 to 4 lb. ish.
      City: Gridley

      Tips: n/a

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 69.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom about 10-3. Caught about 10 Keepers and hal a dozen dinks. Fish were between1-3.5 pounds mostly small mouth with a ew large mouth back in coves. All were caught on 4" paddletails around docks. saw alot o big ish roming the shore some between 4-10 pounds.
      City: Salida

      Tips: Fish this lake like you would a large mouth lake to get the biggest small mouth.

Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING WAS GOOD, FOUND A LOT OF KEEPER IN THE COVES, LARGEST WAS A 3LBS TRY TO STAY OUT OF THE WIND AND CHECK THE POINTS.
      City: Hercules

      Tips: Tips: AS ALWAYS, BE PATIENT, AND THE SPINNER BLADE HELPS.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: GOOD FISHING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, FLIPPING AND CRANKS. FISH TWO - FOUR POUNDS. SATURDAY, WINDY FISHING TOUGHER - FOUR FISH - 2-1/2 LBS - FLIPPING.
      City: Alta Loma

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 64-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers Two Day Team Tournament, Launched out o the Anchorage in Lakeport, I ished in the north end o the lake, ished the cove beore Rocky PointSplitshotting Walton weeenies in the tules, threw about a oot into the tules and work it out as your wieght bumpedthe tule beore the out side edge this produced the bitebut it wasnt your tap tap, it was just pressure, set the hook and the ish was there, cinder block walls also gave up a ew ishI would catch a limit and my partner would cullmy ish, I also approched a boat dock that had tule growth under it and lipped a jig (Denny Brauer) 3/8thoz. Black and red with a Uncle Josh #11 Pork rog to a dark pocket in approx. 4t.o water and KER-Thunk set the hookAnd boated a 5 1/2 pounder that put me and my partner in irst place and big ish we had 24+ pounds or two days, pretty goodor this club, second place was 23+. The Weather pattern was great in the morning and the wind blew in the aternoon, beore we weighed in we saw bucks ALL OVER the bank outside the Anchorage. Saw small ry everywhere too. Tight Lines, Procrat PeteTips Please Practice Catch and Release During the Spawning season.
      City: Martinez

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held 4th event o year @ Lake Ilsanjo in Annadel State Park. Winning weight was 7.51 lb. Second place was 7.44 lb (less 0.2 lb late meeting timepenalty), 3rd @ 7.10 lb. Big ish was 1.85 lb. Eleven anglers participated, & nine o them brought in 5-ish limits. 51 bass total weighed in. Fish went or a variety o lures, including crankbaits,spinnerbaits, lukes, buzzbaits, & jigs & sot plastics lipped & pitched into tules. Congratulations to our 4 new anglers, 3 o whom brought in 5-ish limits (the other weighed in 4 ish). Also, one o them caught big ish (not easy on this small ish lake).
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: *** Float Tubers/Kick Boaters: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club will next meet on June 2 @ 7 PM @ Coddingtown Round Table Pizza in Santa Rosa. Next event in June 6 @ Spring Lake (also in Santa Rosa). And, check out our web site @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc/index.htm. E-mail me i you would like more ino on club. ***

Saturday, May 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started early, 5AM caught dink on buzz at holland. Next went to Franks Tract and caught small keeper on buzz, small keeper on crank, tiger speed trap. Wind started and it was Helllllllllllllllllllllll. Where did it come from? So fishermen and weathermen lie. Next to little mandeville two 2#ers on crank and jig (black and blue with black and brown plastic pig. Next to rock slough and 4 small keepers on jig. That is it for a bad day on the Delta.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the lake on 5/21 and 5/22 and ran right into some high winds. ishing was good or spots 1 to 2 lbs. in the coves o the pit arm. most ish where caught in about 10-20 eet.
      City: n/a

      Tips: n/a

Friday, May 21st, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not too amiliar with this lake, so bare with me. My buddy and I lauched out o granite bay, and headed east, to some bridge.We ished alot o dierent colors and only caught them on naturallooking stu(blacks, withches Tea, brown). Mostly small spots, anda ew smallmouth. Our ishinder was broke, so I'm gussing 10-30'o water. Then we headed back up towards Rattlesnake bar, andthe ishing was a lot better. We stayed with the brown wormson darter heads, and carolina rigs. My riend landed a nice one!It was about a 4lb spot. I was lucky enough to stick a smally about2.5lbs. All day I'd say we caught about 30 ish, and a buzz.Good luck.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: n/a

Wednesday, May 19th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched rom rattlesnake bar at 5:30 wednesday evening. went right towards the main body. caught ive bassin two hours one on a white spinner bait. the others on plastic wormsalt and pepper with chartreuse tail all were about one poundlot o ish around rocks but mostly small in size.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: carolina rig salt and pepper or cotton candy worms with chartreusetails. also white spinner baits. last week had good successcanking a shad rap. also just beore sunset weedless grass rognear shore.

Tuesday, May 18th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: HELP.... we are fishing at the Delta this weekend and would like to get our hands on some updated information. Anything would be great. Are the fish still biting. The latest update is from the 10th of May.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Tips: I'm not giving advice, I'm soliciting advice.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ound by drowning worms, seemed to work very well, in shallows and coves. Usually this time o year live bait does not leave you skunked.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Trolling a crank in 10 eet near rocks works well, too.

Monday, May 17th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished after work last night near Orwood. Was great being on the water with no other boats. Only saw 1 boat and 1 jet ski. AHHH how peaceful. Tide was low and incoming. Fish started off at the outside edge of the weed line then moved up to wood cover as the tide came in. Tried several baits. No luck pitching plastics (zippers, and lizards) picked up a few on a white spinner bait. At dusk I tried some topwater. Caught a few on a Skitter Pop. Tried a buzz bait with no luck. All fish were small biggest went about 1.8.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great day 5/16/99. Fished Rock Slough and caught 11 fish, lost 3. Largest was 7 lbs. Aside from 1 dink, the rest were all in the 2+ range. Most caught early on a spinnerbait, later fish caught on jig and pig. Fish hitting pretty hard so no problems telling a hit from bouncing off a log or rock. Caught fish all during the falling tide. Most were sitting in 4 ft of water or less. As tide went out fish moved deeper and started hiting rubber worms in about 6-8ft of water.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Tips: Spinnerbaits early then switch to dark color jig and pig or rubber worms.

Sunday, May 16th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 100% Bass team tournament out o Lakeport.Blast o @0540 Burrrr air temp 40degrees.Picked up irst ish east o Rodman Slough,in the timber 4-5t.,with a Texas rigged Blackand blue Strike King Flippin Tube (2# male).2nd Fish caught 2 hrs.later at the top o Rodman,on a Vyper tandem willow chartreuse on the edge o the grass.(4.6#).Two other ish caught late in the dayby willow point,both with watermelon red baby brush hogs.Ended the day with 4 ish or a total o 14.06#.Winning team had 32lbs. 7 ish limit pitching brown jigs by Rattlesnake island.Tips Brush Hogs in the timber.Teams caught most o their ish With watermelon and pumpkin colors.
      City: Napa

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: low 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass-n-Tubes tourney on Sunday was won by Tim Crane, Jr., with 7.78 lbs. Andy & Kevin joined us rom the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club. They hiked over to Cherry Creek rom Yorty, where they said they could SEE some monster ish in the shallows, but couldn't get them to bite. Weather was beautiul -- wind was manageable when it kicked up; otherwise, it died out completely at times, with air temps into the 80s. Water was real clear in the coves, with a nice green color in the main body. I caught most o my limit split-shotting 4-5 inch worms & T-rigging a Baby Brush Hog. Tim caught one or two on a spinnerbait, one crankin', & a ew more with a Gitzit. Sounds like the big mamas were up in Cherry Creek, though. I missed 3rd place by .05 lbs., ater missing adecent ish in tangled brush just minutes beore weigh-in. Ain't that how it goes?!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: With little or no winds, inesse techniques seemed most eective.