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Thursday, November 27th, 1997

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Day ater Thanksgiving, 4 o us went over in two Boats. Len Kovats and I paired up in mine. Fishing was tough or numbers, we only caught 4 ish, but they were pretty good ones. Our buddies in the other boat only managed 3, biggest around 2.5. I had a keeper and a 5-7, Len had a 5-10 and a 6-14. Total over 19 pounds or 4 ish and 18 or 3. Fish came o rocky banks and rom the ends o docks in 18-20 eet. Len caught his two on a brown/Orange jig and grub trailer and mine came on a brown sculpin o a 1/4 oz darter.
      City: Marysville

Tuesday, November 25th, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a short spell on Saturday. Water temp still stable at 62 degrees. Fish have definately begun to move into winter patterns. Caught fish tossing a lipless crank on the outer edge of weed flats located next to a channel. Also caught better fish out in 10-12 foot of water along rocky levees. Gotta slow way done and fish the jig from the bank out into this deeper grass. The water temp down there appears to be cooler, as the fish caught in the deeper water tend to be darker black in color with the pinkis red bellies. This also tends to be a good time for those worm fisherman to break out the split shot rods. Using 4-6in worms, in Rythym & Blues or Oxblood, will entice many strikes from these deeper fish. Dead end sloughs and the deeper Marinas can provid some very good fishing from now until February.
      City: Oakley

Sunday, November 23rd, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Stripers still active. Cranked 3/4oz chartreuse traps and pitched 1oz hair jigs on edges of flats North of Sherman Lake. Caught 20 up to 10 lbs. Didn't hit any schools, just one here and one there but action was pretty steady. Water temp in that areah as been at 56 - 57 degrees for the past week. Imagine pattern will hold until next COLD storm drops water temp.
      City: Alamo

Saturday, November 22nd, 1997

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 1000 hrs to 1400 hrs.. Fished in the southork and graphed lots o suspended ish. I only caught three ish, two were keepers. Caught all three ish on a ProLine brown 3/8 oz. jig with purple grub trailer. I was not working real hard at i shing. I was working with my new Lowrance X-85.
      City: Marysville

Friday, November 21st, 1997

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 4 keepers o o two locations. Using plastic worms. also caught about 10 or 12 small bass. worm colors; black with chartreuse tail, brown predeter, and red, 4in.with blood line. Caught on rocky points in 30 to 35 t o water. Very light bite.
      City: Oroville

Tuesday, November 18th, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took 2nd in the WCB Pro-Am last week. During practice I noticed that the water temp dropped to the low 60s. This generally moves the fish from their fall feeding patterns into the staging patterns for winter. Knowing this, I checked a couple of areas wher e I find staging fish this time of year. Caught a 10+ on a jig and had 3 other big fish pick up the hookless jig. Also had a very large fish steal my hookless Red Bomber 7A. It is also very common this time of year for these delta bass to stack up and sch ol or hang out in an aera. The area that I was fishing was a long meandering slough with moderate to no current. The bank was a typicle rocky levee with very few tules. The bank was tattered with weed clumps up in the 1st 0-6 feet and then led to deeper w ter with very thick grass in about 8-12 feet. I decided to fish this entire bank for 2 days as I new it held extremely good fish and I had the best chance of catching a kicker here in two days. Upon 1st arrival I would toss the Red Bomber up to the bank w rking it down into the weed clumps. Most of the early fish would hit that crank ASAP, after the 1st couple of turns. After 2 hours of picking off the agressive fish I would then back off the bank and work it slower by pitching an R&B 3/8 oz brown jig wit a BoHawg Sr. pork. Initially I was working the the jig from the clumps right on the bank to the deeper grass. As the day wore on I began to pitch that jig to the outside edge of the clumps, let it drop to 6 feet and then work it into the deeper gras
      City: Oakley

Saturday, November 15th, 1997

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Morning o the 15 it was too windy to put in at the State Park. Launched at Red Bud. Limit on silver and gold white blades between docks in ront o tules in 8 to 12 t. Second day better weather. Still rained good and hard but wind laid down. 6.20 big ish o three caught that day. 23lbs or the two days. Won the tournament.
      City: N/A

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA team tournament. Rained steady all day. Started crankin in McCloud arm irst. Had a limit beore 11am but only about 1 1/2 lb avg. Went to Sac arm cranked shad colors rom shore to about 12 tdepth. Got a 3.05lb spot. ended up with 8.64 lbs.very slow worm bite. Had planned on spooks and blades but gave it up too early. Winners threw magnum spooks and spinnerbaits or over 14lbs. 50+ boats showed up or the wind and rain. Most everybody had limits.
      City: Grass Valley

Tuesday, November 11th, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out 11/9 with a buddy and fished sycamor and whites with little luck. Buddy caught 3 14in ,1 topwater, 2 crank'n a rattle trap. I was'nt so lucky with the bass, but did manage to land a 14lb. salmon on a super spot in whites sl.
      City: Brentwood

Sunday, November 9th, 1997

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA team Tourney found fish during pre fish on saturday holding at 15 to 30 feet caught two spots 4 smallies and one largemouth to two pounds. Fished putah creek on sunday and had a tough tournament, caught 11 keepers to 1.5 pounds dragging footbal l head jig with yamamoto spider jigs. The tournament was reportedly won with 17 lbs for five fish throwing blades.
      City: Windsor

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Stockton Bass held its final tournament of the 1997 season with the team of Hose Looper & Gary Gentry took big fish with 4 lb 10 ozs. Jack Strock (Wacko Tackle) & Larry Fraser took third place with a weight of 14 lbs. 10 ozs. Jesse Germano & Darion Fari as took second place with 15 lbs even. The winner was the team of Al Munoz & Vernon Gilbert with a total weight of 17 lbs. 10 ozs. First tournament of 98 will be January 18 at Buckley Cove. If you can't wait that long Delta Bass Masters 10th Annual Turk y Shoot will be on January 1st at Buckley Cove. Information & Entries call (209) 473-BASS or E-Mail JKMB@AOL.COM or ENPRINT@CWWS.NET. tips: Crankbaits, spinner baits & flippin.
      City: Stockton

Friday, November 7th, 1997

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I picked the perect day to go to Clear Lake, 20 plus mile an hour winds and the coldest day o the year. Cranked ish with little and big normans white with a ligtht purple back. Carolina rigged brush hog with red lake. All o o rock. While you were crankin you really didn't know the ish were there crank just kinda stopped wobblin. Couple o ish hit right at the boat. Crank as slow as you possibly can and make sure your diggin rocks. Could have weighed 7 ish or about 20 lbs.No big ish just some good 3 plus lbers. Caught ish all day long. Stayed and ished into the night, wind got worse, but was able to pick up 1 that was over 6 and another that was over 5 plus some smaller ones. Fishin the same, rocks, just switched to12in power worms.
      City: Suisun City

Thursday, November 6th, 1997

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 62.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Preished or the Gold Country Tour on 11/8/97. Caught a ton o ish on darthead worms. Morning Dawn, Magic worm seemed to be the ticket about 20 t deep. Fished points and ound ish in all areas o the lake. The tournament pays $100 a pound so there should be some real money won in this one.
      City: Marysville

Tuesday, November 4th, 1997

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the southork or two hours in the aternoon. Caught eight ish. six were over 15in slot. used a Rattlin Rogue in trout pattern to locate ish. then I threw a 6in roboworm in black grape. I also caught a largemouth on a Rio Rico in the Cisco P attern. TIPS: use ripp bait to draw ish up. i you don't catch them, toss in a worm, texas rigged with brass n glass.
      City: Marysville

Monday, November 3rd, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 67-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the 3rd WON team on Saturday 1-1-97. Took 18lbs for 5 fish to win it. Barrack & Bryant won the thing. Scary part is Bobby's just now starting to throw a crank bait. He's finally figured out that in the fall, if ya can't beat em, join em. He got a 7 1/2 lber kicker on a Speed Trap. Rick & I ended up 6th with just short of 13lbs. Where was my damn kicker! Fish have moved into their full fall patterns. Fish the outside edges of grass pockets and weed lines along rock levees with plenty of current, in-8 feet of water. Best bite right now is throwing a crankbait in either craw or shad patterns. The really bigger fish are holding on this same stuff just deeper. Use deep diving Poes or Norman cranks to get down to them. Our best fish came on these same bn ks with submerged wood. If they wouldn't hit the crank, after 3-4 casts, I would pitch a jig and WHAM! Also look for big weed flats on points, during the low tide. Come back and crank em when the tide is up. The fish are really stacking up in these typeof areas. Rick & I caught 25-30 keepers on Saturday.
      City: Oakley

Sunday, November 2nd, 1997

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The striper are stealing the spotlight now but, Salmon and black bass anglers are also having success. Hair jig anglers are working both ends of Mayberry Slough with success.
      City: Tracy

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 61-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Shasta Cascade Bass Angler's Fall Classic. Field o 74 teams. We ound ish pre-ishing during the week but with the shad constantly moving, we had problems inding the active bass on tournament day. No problems inding the shad, but there were so many shad balls, inding the active bass posed problems or us. We got 3 keepers on blue ghost 4in worms in 15-35 t. End o the day, w/30 mins let, we inally ound bass busting the surace, in a very shallow cove with 67 degree water. Picked u 2 chunky #2+ spots and several dinks on topwater beore we ran out o time. Our 5 ish weighed #7+. Took about #12 to get a paycheck. Winners got their #16+ on worms way up the Pit. Second place got theirs on worms, spinnerbaits and jigs....they oun shad on the bank being pushed there by active bass. 4th place had only 4 ish but they went or #13.5 ....all on spooks.
      City: Redding

Sunday, October 26th, 1997

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main lake around big island down from Pope Creek. Stayed near rocks and picked up fish on cranks, spoons worms etc. Just didn't seem to matter much. Find some bait fish and print some fish and bam. Great day on the water. Fished rom dawn to du sk caught fish all day. Nothin you could put on the wall but numerous double hook-ups.
      City: Suisun City

Tuesday, October 21st, 1997

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing in the aternoon ound spots on deep sides o main lake points w/rock. Shakin 6in worms texas 3/8 bullet weight with glass bead on 10 pound test. Fished into the night, ished moved up catchin them on 10in berkely power worms but had tobite o about 4in o the worms as it seemed the ish only wanted the tail and were bitin short. Same main lake points right out rom Bridge Bay and under the bridge right side. Rocks and deep water. During the day caught ish in 30 to 40 t. At nightstill near the deep water but they moved up into 5 to 10 t.
      City: Suisun City

Monday, October 20th, 1997

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 14 bass, range 1#4oz to 2#9oz. Morning bite 3 bass on Fenwick, crawdad crank, 5 bass on greenie weenies, outside weed or grass line for crank and 21-30', split shot weenies. Afternoon bite all on weenies in 15-31', split shot. Area Pope Bridge and Put ah Creek.
      City: Hayward