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Sunday, January 17th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 44

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled around Empire Tract all day with bombers and caught a few nice striper. Also worked deep water structure and caught three largemouth on jigs. My partner hooked what appeared to be a hog but it snapped his damaged line. Had the most luck fishing Disappointment Slough.
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: Tips:n/a

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WON team yesterday overall still a tough bite or larger keeper ish. First place by Kyle Rasmussan and partner ishing spoons over suspended ish above the shad.Bass were biting above the bait instead o below. 1st place wt. 7.9 lbs. Lots o 5lb limits and several boats without a limit. Fish 40 eet plus and go slooow. spoons, 4" purple ghosts, baby brush hogs. A lot o pressure bites.51 boats in tourney. Good Luck to all.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Purple Ghosts at 40-60 eet deadsticking. All pressure bites with spots spitting out 4" shad.Spooning chrome blue castmasters in and above bait schools.

Saturday, January 16th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 45-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland caught 4 stripers and 1 large mouth on jigging spoons and rattle traps.
      City: Bay Point

      Tips: Tips:Fish the spoons deep were there is bait fish.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 44

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Norcal Trophy Hunters had a small tournament out o Folsom this Saturday. Fishing was tough and the bite very slow. One member managed to locate ish up to 2# on deep points throwing a Watermelon Red Brush Hog and brown jig. With the recent rain, we ound warmer water in the backs o coves up to 48 degrees. Found numerous shad balls but no ish eeding under them.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: n/a

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decided at 9am to go ishing ater all.I called my buddy Brad as i didn't want get in trouble by mysel as my wie didn't know yet.Got to the lake about 11:15 and the wind was blowing bad.We ished or about 2 hours without a bite. We inally ound a spot in the middle ork with less wind and picked up 8 ish on jigs in about 35t.It was worth getting trouble ater all
      City: n/a

      Tips: 35t brown jigs seemed to be the ticket.

Thursday, January 14th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 39-43

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished southern part of Delta. Cold morning fog with light wind. Cold. Caught 7-8 fish in different locations. Points and deep water seem to be productive 20+ ft. Fish painfully slow. Look for isolated structure away from bank.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Tips:Split shot or drop shot 4" worms and grubs. Fish deep and slow with minimal current.

Tuesday, January 12th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I hope you all don't mind a striper report. and a negative one at that.Fished Disco-Bay last weekend during the freeze.The water temp dropped another two degrees. I was spooning at 25 ft.and never got bit.The fish and bait are still present.They just seemed to have lockjaw that day.We had been enjoying 10-12 hook-ups per day before that.By all means,don't try the Smoothie,3/4 oz.purple/silver flash.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Tips:Slow.

Sunday, January 10th, 1999

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Family club, Delta Bass Masters, ished Sunday Jan. 10th on a cold and oggy lake. When we were able to ind where we were going, it was almost weigh-in time. Bite was very tough, but one team was able to scratch out 4 ish or 8 lb 8 oz.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Take warm clothes, your heater, your hand warmers, your blizzard suit, OR STAY HOME!

Saturday, January 9th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today the sky was real overcast and the winds where coming from two ways, the east and the north. It made for some real tough fishing. Slow rollin' 1/4 oz. shad/yellow scale blade with no. 5 nickel willow caught two nice keepers. these fish were two hours apart though so switched to a slower more deliberate method. A dart head 1/4oz. with a 4-inch junebug ringworm was the ticket. Through it to isolated weed beds and popped the hook out of the weeds when it got caught up. this is where i got the strikes, on the fall after the pop. This toned up the bite and took two more fish in a short hour. all fish came in 5-8 ft. of water. Fished from 9:30-2:30.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Tips: Bundle up and stop wishin' and just go fishin'.

  • Nevada County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to grams with my pops today, he watched the Niners, I knew better and went out ishing. Checked some o my local hot spots o the rock pile, there is still a bunch o deep grass growing in 18-25 eet, but I could not coax any ish on the jig. As I was moving accross the lake in my 10' stump jumper I stuck about a 4-5 pounder out in the midle o nowhere in about 30 eet, hmm okay a pattern, honey whole....NOT! Only that Kamakazi. THen cruised over to a another avorite spot and bingo, ound em stacked out on the ends o the docks in about 18 oot. Good solid 4-5 pounders caught 8 ish on the 1/2 oz brown jig with blue pork. Dang these gin clear water ish are purty! Then headed back to ind out the Niners lost, see, good move on my part, my pops was pissed, a real bear to ride home with. Cooch
      City: Oakley

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a Club tourny (Diablo Hawg Hunters) on 1-9. It was cooooold and oggy. Caught 6 ish (2 keepers) dragging a 4" blue ghost worm around in 50t. o water. Fished steep banks around the dam area. Fish were also caught (by another club member) in 20t. dragging the same color and size worm.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: In whatever depth you ish, ish it extremely slow.

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      Water Temp: 50-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 7am,real oggy, visability about 50t. water very clear, managed to boat 2 keeper ish,1spot,1lack,ish came out o 30 to40t.o water on a 38 oz. black jig with blk&blue plastic craw trailor,hey guys and gals i planning to head up here be extremely careul about the og ,in some areas when driving up.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Basic winter pattern ind the ish on your electronics,and stay on the spot and ish real sloooow!!!,light line is also a plus due to the gin clear water.

Friday, January 8th, 1999

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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner caught a 2 lb'er on Tuesday, 12/29; I ollowed suit the ollowing Saturday, Jan. 2nd. Both ish were caught lippin' a pig-n-jig into heavy brush in the ponds in the back o the park. It's basically pretty slow right now. The ranger told me they ound a 10-12 lb. bass loating near the tules back there recently. I've heard o 8 & 9 lb'ers coming out o there, primarily rom the back side o the levee. Just to help get the word out, they have established a new rule here, regarding loat tube ishing in the back ponds: they will now allow kickboats back there -- as long as you don't take your oars! I you have oars, I guess that makes you a 'boat,' as opposed to a 'loat tube,' where you only use ins & waders. Kayaks, canoes & aluminum boats are still prohibited, outside o the main lake. They came to this 'compromise' as a result o inconsistencies experienced in the enorcement o the park rules between dierent rangers. I'll take that compromise! Now bring on the SPAWN!
      City: San Jose

Thursday, January 7th, 1999

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 47.5-48.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched in the og and headed out the North Fork. Marked a lot o ish in the 24 - 36 oot range holding o rocky points in the Narrows. Picked up a keeper using a Texas rigged 5" green weenie with red lake. The aternoon was spent in the main body area ishing humps. All ish seemed to relate to the South sides o the humps and were holding in 6 - 13 eet on structure. Splitshotting a 3" purple leach brought in two more. Strictly a pressure bite with absolutely no tick or tap, just pressure. Once I detected pressure that move with the rod, I would eed line to the ish. Sometimes they would drop the bait, but i I didn't give them extra line and attempted to set the hook at irst detection, I would only bring in a 2" leach.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Key to catching: Slow presentation and giving them line. Hope you have a successul trip next time out.

Tuesday, January 5th, 1999

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club torny at tulloch in december. 31 guys ished and 9 caught ish I took 8th place with 1 ish or 2lbs. It really sucked.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Try jigs or 6inch junebug wormin 25 to 35t on the creek chanels

Monday, January 4th, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around Empire Tract most of the day for largemouth with no luck. Got a few hits but no ripped lips. In the afternoon we started trolling bomber crankbaits and caught several keeper size striper and a lot of undersized ones as well. The fog never lifted and it was a very cold day.
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: Tips: Dress warm!

Sunday, January 3rd, 1999

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED FROM 12:00 PM TO 5:30 PM CAUGHT AND RELEASED 7 FISH FM 14" TO 17" ON 4" KEEPER WORMS SPLIT SHOTTING IN 15' TO 25' OF WATER ON MAIN LAKE POINTS WITH ROCK STRUCTURE LITE LINE WAS THE KEY WITH A SLOWER THAN SLOW PRESENTATION.
      City: Valley Springs

      Tips: LITE LINE, SMALL LITE COLOR WORMS, LONG 2'TO 4' FROM SPLIT SHOT TO WORM

Saturday, January 2nd, 1999

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of the Break, fished the coves by the Minnow, then inside Dutch Slough. Not a bite in 4 hours, using Spinners, Worms, and Jigs. Where are all the fish????
      City: antioch

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out crankin rocks in the morning with no success.Fipped the tules in the State Park area without a hit.Switched to wormin in the early aternoon around the docks in the Nice-Lucerne area.Caught 7 bass with the largest going over 6lbs.The other ish were in the 3lb class and all at and chunky.TipsDress WARMLY in the morning as a 70 MPH boat ride will put you in pain.As the water temp warms in the aternoon it seems to make the bite better.
      City: Windsor

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      Water Temp: 47.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are in a deep winter pattern. Basically they have lockjaw.I caught one ish on a worm.
      City: West Side

      Tips: Wait until February and go to McClure.