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Saturday, May 15th, 1999

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my club tournament today and it was a beautiul warm sunny day.Started ishing themain lake area with topwater and caught our ish.Once the sun came up topwater bite shutdown.Fishedthe rest o the day with 4" & 6" lizards and worms.The bite was real tu appears alot o the ishare postspawn and are not aggressively biting.Only caught three more with plastics and i didn't evenget a limit.My draw partner caught two ish on a spinnerbait.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish the submerged trees with reaction irst then go over it with plastics throughly.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did well the irst day o my irst ever tourney. Got lucky and got a great boater who knew where the ish were, and weighed in a top (or the day) 25.60 limit. My best day ever ishing, including a 10.3 toad. Sucked eggs the second day and only managed to land one ish, ell to third best.Tips split shot lukes with 1/16 - 1/8 oz, 12" leader tossed very lightly, retreived very slow with twitches. You rarely eel them, mush bite.
      City: Belmont

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished six bit caught almost all are ish there.
      City: Modesto

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62.0-63.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Granite bay at 06:00. Second cast o the morning produced 2.5lb spot on pop R.Fished worms until 11:00 and caught a total o 22 ish mostly smallmouth and spot mixed. Biggestish 3.00lb. Had my son and his buddy with and they landed their share. No ish on jerkbaits although they showed but would not hit threw worms back and shook this produced 3 ish. Good time toish olsom use electronics. Most ish active in the 13-15' level.Largemout seem to have already spawned now concentrate on spots and smallmouths or a good limit. 5 best ish 11.50lbs.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Topwater early. then when the sun is up shake worms in shad color, depth 10-15'. Fish areextremely active and now is the time to ish. Sot jerkbaits should produce soon.Fish relating torocks.

Friday, May 14th, 1999

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 57-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took my dad down or the weekend. We had heard so muchabout the lake that we had to visit. This why my irst time on the lake. I had had alot o tips rom others so I was prepared, but nothing prepared me or this ishery. It is onominal. In the two days that we ished the lake we caughtover 150 ish. These were the irst spots I'd caught and theycan ight. We caught evey ish on worms. Oxblood, witches titblueghost, and a number o others. We had the best luck on rock banks. I'll be back or sure.
      City: Cottage Grove, OR

      Tips: Fish the worms slow.

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      Water Temp: 47-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We spent a great week ishing Shasta. Spent the most time on the Pit arm. Caught lots o spots to 2.5 lbs., a couple o blacks and a ew smallies. Fish any rock bank . Points producedbetter than coves . We used 1/8 and 1/16 oz. crappie jigs in white and also brown. Fish very, very slow. There was usually no perceptable tap, usually just a little resistance on the line. I hopethis inormation helps.
      City: Escalon

      Tips: It is windy so be prepaired. Keep the baits small and ish them slowly.

Thursday, May 13th, 1999

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a7# on Tues,went back on Thur and caught the lake record large mouth sight ishing rom the bank on Stanley Blvd in the main lake using a 4" banjo minnow. What a thrill it was to land that 12#er. These were the irst bass I've caught in my lie. I'm hooked now.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Waltons Pond in San Leandro is a good source o ino and products i you want to learn more on bass ishing.

Wednesday, May 12th, 1999

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had 30 minutes to ish yesterday, on third cast rom shore I hooked and landed a 7pound 2oz bass o a sea wall.Figured I couldn't do better than that and went home ater a picture was taken and she was released.Tips white spinnerbait, gold blades.
      City: Lakeport

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bite is wide open. Caught 8 ish (all spots and smallies) on Rico's in baby bass and trout patterns between 6:00 and 8:00 am in the north ork. Then cranked 14 ish (mostly spots and twosalmon) to 3 1/2 pounds using silver/black Shad Raps. Fish were suspended on big lats next to deep water with no obvious structure nearby. Also ound some late spawners on beds. Let them alone but saw several over 3 pounds and one monster that looked like an easy 10+.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Water was very clear. Had to use lead thread on the shad raps to weight the ront hook and long casts on light line to get down below the light penetration depth (about 11 eet) once the sun got high.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on 05/06 rom 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Managed to catch 8 keepers between 2 o us, ranging rom 1.5 - 4 lbs. All ish were caught on 4" curl tail grubs in either a chartruese or clear w/ silver & blue lakes. Also managed to catch 2 trout on the grub as well, was surprised that they were able to mouth it. Only saw 1 other guy out there besides us, he was working the oppositebank and managed to land a ew nice keepers as well. All o the ish were pre-spawn.....they were all at and heathly! The ish are there, but they're getting worked hard.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: n/a

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: caught a 8.75# largemouth in the west branch on a super magnum tube (trout color) in twelveeet o water. Several Spots on a shad/silver spinnerbait holding on suspended above submergerdbrush around the Lime saddle area.
      City: Chico

      Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 10 ish Mixed bag o SP,LG,SM no hogs. All in 0-15t o water. pink /char magic worms
      City: Chico

      Tips: n/a

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 61-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or 3 days at Skunk creek arm, lots o ish but mostly small 1 to 2# . lizard workedbest in the shade. Wind very bad 30+ Caught most ish way back in creeks out o the wind. Overall agood trip.
      City: Eureka

      Tips: n/a

Tuesday, May 11th, 1999

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a irst time basser up to the uppper end and we ished rom noon until dark. The weather was constantly changing rom overcast to clear with rain and wind mixed in all day. The dinks were out in ull orce as usual but we did manage to get three over the 15" limit- 4.7, 2.6, and 2.1. The larger ish came on prime staging areas o the bank but I did not ind any concentrations o larger ish. The 8-12 inchers went or everything but spinnerbaits or us, easily had over 50 ish. Larger ish went or jigs and one on jerkbait.
      City: Arcata

      Tips: n/a

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I had a nother good day at the lake. The wind picked up at about 10:30. I had two other people on the boat and we all caught ish. We boated a total o 16 ish. The biggest was a5.5lb bass. I cant igure remember what was more un, catching it or letting it go. I have ound mysel getting into a certain color pattern and I would like to use some dierent styles and colorpatterns. I you have any helpul tips please e-mail me.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Catch and release. The number o ish in this lake always amazes me. To keep these numbers we need to catch and release.

Monday, May 10th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 56-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in North end with new friend and fellow "nutcase" (HooksettR).Started in the Vineyards with reaction baits and got the donut.Started dragging green 6" Zoom lizards. Did pretty well, but nothing over two lbs.Caught maybe ten fish between us in the morning. The fish we caught were post spawn,1st and secondary points. NOTHING IN THE BACKS OF COVES! I thought the backs would be loaded,wrong! We moved to the West side about 11 am.This is when hooksetteR came alive. He was splitshotting a 6" green/weenie.He got 3-4 fish between 2-3 lbs.,promting me to switch. It seems that the higher the sun got,the fish got more selective.They would'nt touch a lizard or jig in the afternoon. It also got real slow.Water has really cleared up lately.Visability is around 10-13'.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Tips: Fish your best water early,then lighten-up as the sun gets on top of you.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 65-68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 3:00 PM to dark and caught over 30 fish. Up to multiple 4#ers and one that went about 5.5# on the scale. We killed 'em. It was a blast. Mostly on shallow running crankbaits. If was low tide for most of the afternoon AND WINDY! Caught some on spinnerbaits, some flippin', but mostly cranks. No topwater bite at all (where we fished) and we really tried to make the top water bite happen. We fished in the Holland Track area.
      City: Danville

      Tips: Tips: They are everywhere. It's hard to miss. Some fish are spawned out and some are not.

Sunday, May 9th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My wife wanted to get out and do some fishing for Mother's Day. Dang, I'm lucky! Only got to get out for about four hours and it sure was windier than I'd like, but hey, sometimes you got to get out when you can. We caught seven. Big fish went to our son, Little Mike, 3-14. We tried a jig, speed trap, spinner bait, and even a buzz bait for a while. The only thing we caught fish on was a 6" greenie weenie.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Tips: Tips? I don't know if I'd listen to my tips. I just like being out on the water!

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and a buddy ished the road side bank o the smaller lake.I was beaten the shore and he was on his loat.Weather was on the windy side,with mild rought water.Clear clody skies.Fished jigs,worms and spinners and no ish to talk about.The tuber ished jigs,worms,spinners andcranks and no ish to talk about.FYI seen a number oblack crapi dead loating.
      City: Morgan Hill Area

      Tips: Do better then we did.

Saturday, May 8th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished several areas with no luck then found an area near Mildred Island with good numbers of 2-4 pound fish. Fish were in areas with quick access to deep water. Picked up 20-30 fish within 2 hours. Best 5 went just over 15. Bigger fish were on a flat adjacent to deep water till the water dropped to under 2 feet.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Tips: They seemed to have an appetite for black lizards. Keep at it! I did not get a fish till 10:30.