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Sunday, March 14th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ripped one 2# at ramp at 9 am.went north and ripped two more in the backo a cove.all on van dam mystique i think?? got two on worms in 10! includeing a3# all in all not to bad a day.just a couple more degrees and it will turn ongood.no pass yet or would be there today. that 11$ is a killer. tight lineseveryone.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: rip early points near rocks,kink o a slow rip , give them time to eat it good.move out in 15 to 20 as the sun moves up.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: me my wie and my brother put in at the tuttle town ramp. we arived at approx. 12:30pm. We started out ishing the main body o water hitting the points in deep water, throughing jigs, salt and pepper grubs and crank baits. these areas produced nothing. we decided to roll into morman creek. we hit the bank on the right that has an obvious structure change. the structure went rom allen brush to a big rock wall. my brother tossed in a brown jig with a yamamoto 180 blugill super grub trailer, he landed a nice 2lb bass. that day he managed to hit 3 o these ish all about two lbs. as or my wie and i we never got touched.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: ish in about 15-20 t o water. dont be araid to try the creek chanelsthe weather was severly over cast and chilly but not real cold.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Rip bite is on, especially in the morning. I used aBlack/blue/silver rip bait to catch 3 good ish to 17" beore 7. My partnerFrank Souza and I tossed brown jigs and worms the rest o the day and caughtanother 7-8 ish. Fish seem to be oriented to points in most parts o the lake. Hit enough points and you will ind them.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: Rip baits, brown jigs and worms on points.

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Oroville Sunday in very overcast weather. Caught rip(silver/black Rogue), spinnerbait (white/white) and crankbait (crawdad colorRattlin Rap) ish or the irst hour on shallow, lat points. Then, switched toplastics and jigs or the rest o the day although I continued to throw reactionbaits occasionally but got no takers. All worm ish came in 15-18 eet on sideso long lat points. Threw Caliornia Custom Worm 6 inch in Summer Moss Brown.Caught 13 or 14 ish - many just over the slot. Weighed 13lbs 9 oz at the endo the day anchored by the irst ish o the day a 2# 11oz smallie.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: 1. Fish are in prespawn staging mode. Find one, you're one a bunch. Lookor good spawning lats and then ind the nearest drop o leading to deepwater. They will be stacked up on that edge. Then, they move up and downduring the day based on light conditions and water temperature.2. For numbers o smaller ish, copy the local trend. Use baits that are knownlocally to produce. Right now that seems to be a 6" worm called a spot spankerand another worm that escapes me. But, or bigger ish, go against the curenttrend and throw jigs or brown/green worms. Fish shallow to deep until you indthem.3. Because o all the ish released at the spillway, the points adjacent to thatarea are producing huge numbers o typical tournament size ish.

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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started at 10:30-4:00 caught 11 ish while shaking a six in. purple ghost worm in ten too twenty-ive eet o water had 1 3.0 and the rest between 1.9-3.0 had a good day.
      City: Truckee

      Tips: use an 8th dart head i water is calm.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Mc Cloud, Squaw, and Pit arms. Had some success in each armusing sot plastics, and Rogues. Fished the steep shale clis and the Red Clayareas. Most o the ish we caught were in the 18-25t area. Quite a bit o preishing going on or the ABA event coming up. Caught and average o 10 per day(all Spotted) with the largest coming in at about 2lbs 4oz. Some guys "claimed"they caught over 50 in one day and to me that is really stretching it! Theconditions were tough and I mean tough. Cold, cloudy, and a threat o rain orthe whole time we ished! The Sun tried to come out in the aternoon and onlystayed or a short time.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: We used the Smithwick Rogues early in the morning then switched to sotplastics around 7am. Had the most success with a newcomer called "Daddy's Worms"in the 6" Purple Illusion Scorpion pattern the 4" Finesse model in a GreenWeenie with Red Sparkle pattern. Dragging and Shaking were the most errectivemethods o presentation. We ished slow, slow, slow!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 53-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are still staging waiting or warmer water. We caught8 ish rom 1lb to 3.7lbs. Most ish came o carolinarigs with Zoom and Power lizards in black-blue colors.1 ish caught lippin a jig and pig in 2 eet o water.All other ish came out o water 8 - 30 eet o shallowlats next to creek channels.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: In muddy or stained water, use a short leader on yourcarolina rig to put your bait closer to the noise oyour weight. Makes it easier or the bass to ind.

Saturday, March 13th, 1999

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on friday,we did prety good, han around 15 fish to 3lbs. Most came off points and then only one or two per point. Fished the north end of the lake. Could not find any fish that have moved up on the flats. I think we still need some more warm days to bring them onto a good bite on the flats.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Tips: Caught several shacking a purple worm in 12 feet of water. Also caught some just letting the worm sit. Fished slow for the most part. No bite on cranks or blades yet, it's coming.

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      Water Temp: 45-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished narrows and Markley area. All fish caught in 20 ft plus. Found much better action late with the heat. #s but no size.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Tips: moringdawn june bug witchs t slow

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Weather was fair (perhaps in the 60's), high clouds all day with occasional wind gust ... getting stronger later in the PM. There were 31 people fished, 29 caught fish. There were 13 limits and it took ~11.5#'s to win. Seems like with the exception of a few, most struggled to get limits and near limits. To whit, the winner had exactly 6 bites and landed 5. But he had the right 5! He was fishing areas that were in 15' or less, but had deeper water right next to them. Caught them on spidergrubs and jigs. A few had crank fish early. These crank fish was caught cranking shallow divers VERY SLOWLY in the AM up in the back of Putah Creek. The best bite seems to be in the Narrows fishing the major points and cuts. One boat who had 2nd & 3rd places were catching fish with spider gubs and the other split shot a Chartruese weenie worm behind him. Another top 5 finisher caught his fish in the narrows fishing a cinamen pepper grub. There were a couple of other limits that came from Putah creek. Both these folks were in the same boat and one cranked up a limit of fish, their fish were smaller and there were smallmouth mixed in, while the folks fishing the narrows had mostly largemouth. Another fisherman reported fishing a jig all day and caught over 20 fish. He exclaimed that it didn't matter what jig, he used Blk/blk, brn/blk, 3/8oz, 1/2oz, etc. Fished mostly on the east side of the lake. Mostly "spawning areas".
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Tips: look for the bigger fish to start moving up to spawn on the next moon phase. Soon as we get a couple of warm days, these fish will just go nuts! Otherwise, fish SLOW!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on the 13th. Fishing was good again. The weather was very foggy in the morning and people were getting lost. We heard several boats asking themselves were they were and how to get to their hot spots. It's a good thing my partner knows the delta like the back of his hand so we didn't have to waste time wandering lost in the fog. My partner and I caught 14 fish with a few 3 lbs-ers. We fished the west delta and caught most of our fish using a crankbait bait, but the the few that came on the jig & pig were of better quality.
      City: n/a

      Tips: Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 52-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a club tournament on 3-13.My partner and I fished blades and flipped jigs most of the day only catching three fish between us all on spinnerbaits.The winner of the tournament had 14.5lbs with a big fish of 7.5lbs.He fished a 1/4 ounce crawdad colored speed trap in whites slough.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Tips: Fish rocky shorelines with crawdad colored crankbaits cast up on the bank crank it down to the grass and let it back up off the grass and crank it down again.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lots of fishermen were out on the water today but I managed to have a fairly good day. Fished sparse tules and rocks and caught 19 bass. Only 7 of the 19 were keepers. Biggest fish went 2.5 pounds. I can't seem to catch any big bass. I had most of my success fishing baby brush hogs, zipper worms, and crawdad pattern speed traps.
      City: n/a

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Time: 0800 to 1400 Clear skies no wind 60-65 air temp.Fished the back side o Hat island. Caught 8 bass 2.5 to 3.5 lbs. in 4' to 8' o water.
      City: Jackson

      Tips: All ish caught on light weighted Carolina with Baby Brush Hogs inGreen/Pumpkin.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished old and new keys, bladed,cranked and lipped brush hogs. No luck. Went outside o keys and ished lats. No luck. Went west near Anderson Island. Still no luck. Went west to Gazebo area just west o State park. Saw SteveLarson catch a nice 7 pounder on a gold jerk bait. Helped him land the ish.His one and only bite o the day. We then went to the slough next to the Gazeboarea. Caught one ish 2lbs 09 oz. Let and went to north shore ished docksand old tule line. No luck. Ended the day back in old keys. Results o theday--- one bite-- one ish. Very windy day. Rollers 2-3 t. Bad day ishing,but better than sitting at home watching a ishing show and wishing I werethere.Tips n/a
      City: Yuba City

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WON Bass Mother Lode Teams on Sat.Cold ronts pushed ish back into their deeper haunts. First Place team had 13.45 or 5 ish with a 6lb kicker.Fish were caught on jigs,plastics, and a ew blades but overall a slow day. Partner and I worked hard and only caught 3 all day. I think we stayed with our shallow pre-ish water too long. Oh well maybe next time.
      City: Sonnora

      Tips: 1/4 oz jigs brown and brown, baby hogs mojo rigged at 20-30 eet on steepwalls and main lake points.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main lake points with not much happening, moved to secondary points in coves throwing black and blue jig with Zoom trailer and caught one ish in the 7#class and one 3# with 3 more in the 2# class, this was ishing behind two boats that I igured were in a tourney with Won Bass going on at the same time. The ish all were caught in about 15' o o the points
      City: Sonora

      Tips: n/a

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 11:00 am to 4:30 pm and caught 6 largemouth, 3 smallmouthand 2 trout. Largemouth were good size up to 4 pounds with average about 2,smallmouth also good ish with 1 about 3lbs. 1 trout was 23inches caught on asmithwick suspending jerk bait, which was responsible or catching most o theish. 3 largemouths were taken on a 4" zipper worm o wood( what little thereis). the bite really turned on at 4:00 on shady side o rocky banks. 3 ish werecaught in the south arm and remainder in channel arm.
      City: Diamond Springs

      Tips: Fish windblown rocky banks with suspending jerk baits

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 44-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Most bass were caught in thge 24' range, shakein light colored 4" and 6"worms and 1/2 oz smallie jig with #1 blue & black pork. Most bass were settingon the north sides o main and secondary points. However Hawg Hunter picked upa nice 3+ spot pulling a worm away rom an incoming stream in the midle o acove. Fished the main body, Sacramento and McCloud Arms and ound ish at eachspot we stopped.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: Low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty incredible day (or ME, at least!) at Stevens Creek. Most ishI've ever caught out there in one day -- one 5.1, one 4.9, one 3.4, & 8 or 10more between 1.5-to-2.3 lbs. (per my Berkley scale)! All were caught on a5/16-oz. pig-&-jig, black #11 pork, on a black jig with a ew chartreusestrands. Fishing rom my 8-t. Outcast kickboat, I caught 'em tight into heavycover, some o bare banks, & some under loating debris. The big ones werecaught in the back end o the lake, but even ater moving out about halway tothe picnic grounds, I was able to yank out a ew 2 lb'ers o both sides o thesparsely-covered banks. Nothin' but the jig seemed to work, so I pretty muchstayed with it all along. Met up with Nicolo, who, ater ollowing me back tothe back end, hauled out a 5'er o his own! Anyways, they're out there, but Iknow this can be a tough lake to ish. Wanted to let you know, though, thatthey CAN be caught, i you time it right with the water l!evel, weather, wind conditions, etc. (Water's up into the trees in the back, bythe way). Tight Lines!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: n/a