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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Orwood w/TonyC. Started after blackies they were hard to find. Caught a couple on rattletraps on submerged islands, released them at the boat :-) - one would probably have gone at least 5 - oh well. After noon caught up Big Daddy in Disco - he told us where to go, along with a loaner Duh spoon - sure enough, found some stripers and caught a few, inc. a couple of sevens and five. Beautiful day to be out on the water. Got off by 2pm to finish xmas shopping!
      City: belmont

      Tips: Striper season baby! Hopkins & Duh spoons for stripers. Look for LARGE boomerangs on the depth finder. Found them outside of bait schools in deeper water - bite turns on and off randomly, so keep trying.

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      Water Temp: COLD!!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of big break marina today until 1:00. Got there at about 6:00 but soon found out we left the keys to the boat at home.My dad drove home picked up the keys and we were fishin by 7:20. Got one largemouth first thing that went about 4# on a small speedtrap. Drove to sherman and caught 4 stripers on speedtraps & rattletraps.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched out of Wimpy's and fished Beaver,Hog and sycamor. Caught fish cranking outside weed-line and on spinnerbait slow-rolled, also outside weed-line. No flip fish. Whats the deal I haven't been able to flip any the last three times out.

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday, 12/13 and Tuesday, 12/14, with son, John, out of Herman & Helen

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      Water Temp: 52 -53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry about being so late with my report...Fished Thursday of last week..Fishing on main river current breaks was excellent for us...our best 5 went 29lbs ...7 fish limit was around 32 or 33..broke my personal best with a 13.01 pig...and several other quality fish...friday put out some more good fish to 9lbs..though the bite tightened up a bit and put them in slower water with the front that moved in. All but a couple fish were cought in 8 to 10" of water...Points with rock...close to deep water...Payed close attention to water movement and eddies...I sent some pics in. see ya Dave
      City: San Jose

      Tips: 3/8 jigs stuck good fish..as well as medium diving cranks.

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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Foggy, had to idle through the fog. But once it cleared was very nice. The fishig was slow for us. Our fish came from rock banks with scattered tule clumps with deep water. We seemed to need 13-18 feet at the boat when we were 10 feet from shore. Two days turned up only seven keepers for 16lbs. Got beat by a team with a 24lbs. (9lb. Kicker).
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: The guys who one it said they threw craw cranks. We used medium diver shad frenzy. Speed traps in shad and Chartruese.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out w/hooksttr to prefisch walton's and to take advantage of day off. found decent qty in eddies and current seams. Best 7 might have gone 12# or so. plastics, jigs, cranks all worked. location seemed to matter more than anything else. look for warmer water.
      City: belmont

      Tips: slow down

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: How does a five foot six portugee kick him self in the head, well he does it when he's trying to kick him self in the ass for not paying attention to the fishing reports and figures out that is where his head has been the whole time, in his ass! Well thats what I've been doing ever since the last tournament I fished. Now each time I've gone out, twice out of the Break and once out of Ladds I've caught limits, nice limits. Ones that what have put me in the major money at the Stratos tourney. ***PAY ATTENTION TO THESE REPORTS***, IF I had only read the reports of guys like Cooch and Micster and paid attention to them I really believe I would done much better on tournament day. have done much better tournament day
      City: turlock

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: How does a five foot six portugee kick him self in the head, well he does it when he's trying to kick him self in the ass for not paying attention to the fishing reports and figures out that is where his head has been the whole time, in his ass! Well thats what I've been doing ever since the last tournament I fished. Now each time I've gone out, twice out of the Break and once out of Ladds I've caught limits, nice limits. Ones that what have put me in the major money at the Stratos tourney. ***PAY ATTENTION TO THESE REPORTS***, IF I had only read the reports of guys like Cooch and Micster and paid attention to them I really believe I would done much better on tournament day. have done much better tournament day
      City: turlock

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: City: concord

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      Water Temp: 60.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE BIG STRATOS TOURNEY. HAD LITTLE FOR 5 DAY PREFISH DURING WEEK PRIOR. STUCK NICE 7 POUNDER ON THE 9TH FLIPPING BLACK & BLUE JIG WITH BLACK & BLUE PORK. FOUND 2 POUND PATTERN FOR TOURNEY EACH DAY. FISHED PARALLEL TO THE 9 FT WEED BEDS WITH MED DIVING CRAWDAD COLOR CRANK. 8.66 POUNDS SAT, AND 7.98 ON SUN. PLACED 24TH. NOT GREAT, BUT GOING ON TO THE $100,000 TOURNEY IN APRIL. SEE SOME OF YOU GUYS THERE. THANKS FOR THE GOOD TIMES & PEOPLE AT BIG BREAK.
      City: BOISE

      Tips: FAST RETRIEVE CRANK TO DEPTH, AND SLOW ROLL ALL THE WAY IN. THEY WILL HIT INCHES FROM BOAT, BE READY.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pre-fishing for Stratos tourney on 13/14 and doing ok, but not great! getting small limits of up to 12 lbs. Do any of you guys have any ideas or have any patterns going on. Keep up the reports, some of us rookies need all the help we can get. email me @ basavedo@yahoo.com thanks
      City: turlock

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 10/30 - Went out of Orwood. tossed buzzes, zip. tossed topwater, zip. tossed cranks, did better. outside weedlines. Also caught a few on jigs. Caught a light limit of maybe 9#s. 10/31 - fished Walton's tourney out of Ladds. Worked the matwall first thing to no avail. Ran all over, got a few dink bites. Finally caught one suicidal squeaker on a woym. Hooked a large bass out on the meatwall just before weigh-in, but lost at boat. Doh! Second place went to boaters who stayed at the meatwall all day. Double Doh!
      City: Belmont

      Tips: cranks - speed trap shad. jig rocky areas. Heck - don't look to me for advice - I'm new at this too!

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Franks, Mildred, and connecting slough. Pitched brush Hogs, in Franks, caught 4-5 nicer fish, 2-3+lbs. Marked school of Stripers in deep cut in Franks, spooned em, not a bite. Ripped rattletrap through school, one small striper on the fall, released. Went back to black bass with rattletrap, speed traps, and glass shad. Caught 20 or so, most small, but nearly all keepers. Fish were mostly located in or near current on tule points. Most fish caught in/around Frank's. Not one bite at Mildred. Top 5 fish around 13 lbs total. No biggies, but constant action, so it was a lot of fun! Also, saw Dee Thomas - he and his partner came over the the spot I metered the stripers and worked it for ~45 minutes to an hour, but didn't get anything. He told me that a friend of his caught 25 stripers off this spot the day before. Guess they weren't hungry, but glad the blackies were!
      City: Half Moon Bay

      Tips: Had to get crankbaits and glass shad down in current to get bit. Best luck was on shad imitation speed trap and shad rattletrap. Delta craw speed trap caught fish, but not as effective.

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started fishing the break throwing top water, Frog, buzz, Ricos, had two blow-ups small, most likily small stripers. Went in to break water throwing crank (speedtraps) and found my baby bass. 6 bass about 6lbs. had fun. went into Sherman and started sticking stripers to 5lbs, that was fun until I inpelled myself with a 3/4 oz rattletrap in my index finger. day over instantly.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Don't take lures out of stripers mouth without pliers

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      Water Temp: 62 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished the san joaquin river today below Mosdale.fishing was tough river is still muddy and the water temperature is still to high.Still a little early.Idid catch 5 keepers all on jigs no crank fish or spinnerbait fish .
      City: Manteca

      Tips: river fish are hard to figure out. time on the water and keep checking it is the key.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Club tourney out of Kings Island. Pre-fish on Friday and the wind howled. Caught a 2# early on a frog twitching along the tules like a pop r. My boater got several dinks on a pop r. Spent alot of time in various places looking and caught lots of small fish on speed traps or jigs. Stuck a nice 10# salmon on a speed trap. Saturday's tourney: only short fish early on top water. Finally found keepers on speed traps on the outside edge of the weedlines. Got one keeper on a jig/grub combo in flowing water out of a cut. All keepers were small. Wind howled all day Saturday too. Missed Sunday's tourney. Had to go home due to fires in Redding.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 68 - 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Windy! Fri - went out with hooksettr, flyinV & hook's brother. We sucked. Tried a lot of stuff but it was a challenge finding areas that weren't blownout. Biggest was V's 2+ lber on a followup to a frog. We couldn't land a keeper. Sat - Windier! CVBC tourney out of Paradise. Fished some different areas, figuring all we did was to find where the fish weren't. Caught two early, then got blown off. caught dinks rest of day. only two limits caught by club.
      City: belmont

      Tips: wait till the wind dies down.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started early am Ist spot I fattened up my first fish with a couple of good ole salty worms, never managed a hook up though,strong incoming current kept washing bait a little to fast,and being in the very south when the pumps kicked in all HE$% broke loose and time to fly . Ran up in the holland area, fished a small dock with moderate current, it had plenty of small 2+ keepers all caught on worms,wind started to pick so I worked my way back south thru Woodard, no bites,but I was actually just doing a hit and miss thing and fishing to fast,wind blew hat off in floor- time to go- off the water at noon....saw Bob Santora and he said his luck was about the same.better days ahead.....
      City: Tracy

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      Water Temp: 65-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WINDY!! Blowing steady most of the day. Bite was tough for me. Managed a small limit on jigs and worms. Rock and tule clumps just outside of current. Cranked a few rock walls, but no takers.Incoming tide was strong today and the wind made for a tough day to be out there.
      City: Tracy