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Tuesday, December 31st, 1996

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a small tournament on Sat 28 Dec. It had 28 boats with 22 having a limit o 5 ish over 15 inches. More than 100 lbs o ish were weighed in and all released alive. My partner and I had the winning weight o 15.38 and big ish o 3.85 lbs. The bite seems to be awesome right now.
      City: Marysville

Wednesday, December 25th, 1996

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished prerontal weather conditions, which I thought might turn on the bass, but we only caught our to 1 1/2#. Three o the ish came on rootbeer colored twin-tail grubs at about 20' deep. The ourth bass was caught on a chartruese spinnerbait with twin willowlea blades in brass. It hit at about 5' deep, just ater the lure hit the water. The lake is about 6 eet down rom ull pool and rising.
      City: Concord

Saturday, December 21st, 1996

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Oroville with riend Mike Niemi. Rainy and windy most o the day. Had decent ish on jigs ished on or near points in the middle ork. Fish were mostly less than 20 eet deep. On several occasions had ish run right at us ater being hooked. As soo n as they reached the surace, they would roll and spit the jig out. Bites started out a deinite thump, but were much soter later in the day.
      City: Marysville

Monday, December 16th, 1996

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last riday on a nice sunny day. Only 3 other boats on the water. Water temp is beginning to drop and but there are some big bass to be had. Fish in about 25-30t with Carolina rig or use 25+ tcrankbaits chartreuse and red.
      City: San Bruno

Sunday, December 15th, 1996

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 8:00 till Noon and had my limit by Noon. Caught all ive ish that were around 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. average size in 30-40 eet o water o rocky steep banks using worms with an open hook dead sticking.
      City: Roseville

Saturday, December 14th, 1996

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today Bandon Youngblood and I went to Hog hunt at Clear Lake. Last year at this time we caught several ish over 7 pounds, and lots o ive pounders. We launched at Redbud Park around 6:30 andheaded to Jago Bay. This is the general area that we've doneso well in the past. We irst started lipping the docks with grubs and black pig & jigs. Nothing ater the irst two hours.. We then went toWindlower and did the same thing. NOTHING... We then went to Kona-Tee and worked all along the deeper docks. Iaught three small ish along these docks but they were only 1 1/2 pounds. We then decided to go back to Jago Bay, as the sun should have warmed up the water. We decided to crank red Poe's 300's ...BINGO. Branden caught a 6.8 pounder on the second cast. Ihen caught a nice 5.7... We caught several that weighed three to our pounds. We ended the day catching over 30 pounds... Not bador a day o un ishing.
      City: Rio Linda

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Won Bass team tournament today and had a good time. My partner and I had a limit o overs or 14.58 lbs. We won the tour and had big ish. All o our ish came on jigs 2 to 30 t deep. We moved around the lake looking or bait. Then ished rock piles close by. There were some good teams ishing but generally slow or over 15 in ish.
      City: Marysville

Thursday, December 12th, 1996

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Today we ished the Windlower area o Clear Lake. First several docks we caught nothing. We were trying to cover as many as possible. Finally we ound a dock that was loaded with ish. Earl and I caught and released over 30 bass on this dock. WHAT FUN!!! All these ish were caught on a silver 5in grubs with a 1/8 oz darter head. We then went over to the nice and Lucern area. Lots o bait here. The water is pretty shallow, I would say not over 4 eet. We caught over 15 ish here. Some o these were caughton a silver Rat-L-Trap. All in all it was a great day. Big ish was only 4.1 no giants today.
      City: Rio Linda

Wednesday, December 11th, 1996

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was great until this big ront moved through. Caught ish last weekend with some size. I would like to see how this ront is going to eect the bite.
      City: San Bruno

Thursday, November 28th, 1996

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A cold ront went through on Thanksgiving day so it was cool and cloudy with showers, but the ishing wasn't too bad. 'Spots' can be ound in the South Fork on the steeper banks with chunk rock or deep points. I caught only 4 bass but they were good sized, rom 2lbs to 3-1/4 according to my Normark scale. I shook worms in about 15 to 25 eet to get my ish. There are lots o bait ish schooling around so I imagine this is a good time learn to spoon.
      City: Lincoln

Tuesday, November 19th, 1996

  • Napa County
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner Bill Murphy and I won the 11/17 American Bass tourney last Sunday.We caught good fish on Yamamoto Salt & Pepper Grubs on 1/8th oz. dart heads and Rainbow Worm MadDog Craws on 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG's with 1/4 oz. bullet weights. All fish were caught off of rocky humps in 12 to 18 depths. Bill stuck a 7.5 lb Largemouth on his second or third cast of the day on a grub. We started culling at about 9 am and continued to cull until quitting time. If you can get up to Berryessa soon, the bite is great and there are some real toads to be caught AND RELEASED right now !
      City: Benicia

Sunday, November 17th, 1996

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just fished in the ABA Team Tournament and finished third. The fishing was fantastic. Lots of limits weighed in. Our pattern was dropping spinnerbaits and worming in the north end. We had a limit in the first half hour of the tournament and the bite was a ll day. Weather was cloudy and listening to others it seemed fish were caught from shallow all the way to 30-35ft. Our weight was 11.56 lbs for 5 fish. Winners had 15 lbs something, with a 7.5 lb big fish. Lots of nice Smallmouth weighed in. Had two over 2 lbs myself. Good Luck!
      City: Kelsyville

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Just fished in the ABA Team Tournament and finished third. The fishing was fantastic. Lots of limits weighed in. Our pattern was dropping spinnerbaits and worming in the north end. We had a limit in the first half hour of the tournament and the bite was a ll day. Weather was cloudy and listening to others it seemed fish were caught from shallow all the way to 30-35ft. Our weight was 11.56 lbs for 5 fish. Winners had 15 lbs something, with a 7.5 lb big fish. Lots of nice Smallmouth weighed in. Had two over 2 lbs myself. Good Luck!
      City: Kelsyville

Saturday, November 16th, 1996

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 51-55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Club tournament on Sat and Sun. Weather was overcast Sat w/ showers. Poured rain and windy Sat night but Sun was nice with mostly cloudy skies and some light showers. Winning wt. was 35 lbs (21 on Sat and 14 on Sun). No big ish.....all under 5 lbs., so those caught were good quality ish. All these ish came on either crank baits (crawdad) or traps (same) ished on both docks and tules. 2nd place was 22 lbs and all ish were caught on 4in worms around docks. I only picked up 2 keepers over the 2 days. On on a 3/4 oz rattle trap around docks and ripping a shad rap same area. Water clarity varied throughout the lake. Very stained around Lakeport, moderately around Nice/Lucerene and airly good aroundKonocti area. Lots o bait ish in the Lakeport area. Coudy weather kept water rom warming up in aternoon. Biggest ish caught by club over the 2 days was 5.8 lbs.
      City: Redding

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Folsom today with my ishing buddy Gary Nakamura. With the ront approaching we were hoping or a good day. Unortunately it didn't come about the way we hoped. I only had two ish all day, but they were good ones. I had a 3 lb spotted bass with a shad pattern crankbait on a rocky point early, then about lunch time, I had a 4.2 lb largemouth on a brown jig. This ish came rom 33 eet o water on a steep rocky bank. Took it's picture and released. Talked to others on the lake and everyone was having a tough day. By the way, the Fishin' Hole on Douglas Blvd is back open, they are sponsoring a team tournament at Folsom on Nov 30th. Call or details, sorry I don't have the number.
      City: Marysville

Monday, November 4th, 1996

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 58-59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in a tournament on 11-02-96. Lots o ish caught in shallow water on crankbaits (shad raps). We caught our ish on white spinnerbaits and plastic worms in the green weenie pattern. Spinnerbait ish were comming out o 3' o water or less. We had a5lb 4oz one come out o 2' o water. Had worm ish around docks in the 5-8' depth range. Fish were holding in between docks in the shade. Winners o tourn. were lippin ish in the tules. Winning weight with 5 ish was 22lbs something. Lake looks better al the time.
      City: Kelsyville

Thursday, October 31st, 1996

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 59-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On 10/20/96 a riend and I ished the south end o the lake in the back o the creek channels. We ished spoons in 35 to 45 eet. We had seven bass (three over 3#), a 5.1# rainbow trout, 1 crappie, one blue gill and a 15# carp. Talk about an assortment. We went back 10/27 to try it again. We went ishless until about 10:30 when I ound bait ish at 60 t. We dropped our spoons down and caught bass rom 59 to 65 t. We ended up with 7 keepers and 5 or 6 dinks. Big ish was 3lb. 14 oz. I have no idea why th ish went so deep in one week. The water temp. only dropped 1 or 2 degrees. We went back to are most productive spot o the week beore and the ish had moved.
      City: Valley Home

Saturday, June 22nd, 1996

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6:00am to noon. Partner (Tightline) had one ish early on a spittin image. Had three good ish cranking and three more wormin'. best ishing was on windblown points - gravel, near deep water.
      City: Orangevale

Saturday, January 4th, 1992

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 43

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of big break marina and had lots of luck. fished only from 2:30-5:00p.m. and caught eight fish. two 1lb, 3 2.5lbs, 3 3lbs, and one 4.75lb. All caught crankind a model 6A in black chrome pattern. I was pulling it two feet and stopping just long enough for me to reel back and pull again. pulling it only a tad slower than i would in summer. All fish were at scattered depths but all fish ate the bait well. the bait was all the way in their mouths. No luck shakin worms or flippin jigs. The craks were killin em. I think the key was using 10lb line. I didnt get a bite on twleve switched to 10 and killed em. All fish caught out of marina. Most marinas are stacked with fish just got to have faith and look for clear water. Try all depths fish are scattered. As i said before just have faith that the fish will hit the faster moving bait. Good fishin to all. any q's e-mail me.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Tips: switch from shad pattern in clear water to chartruse in muudy water.

Thursday, January 2nd, 1992

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Franks Track area all day. During early morning and late afternoon we got 5 largemouth bass - all smaller than 1.5 lbs though. Fished mid-day for stripers without a hit.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Tips: Rattle-Traps were working best for the largemouth - fish were in 10 ft of water or deeper. Fog did not clear until about noon so be careful out there.