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      Water Temp: 54 on 12/20 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rick Tietz and I ished in dense og on 12/20. Caught ish on and o all day on tubes, jigs and spoons. Most ish came deep. Couldn't ind any shallow ish. Managed a couple limits between us with best 5 going a little over 12 pounds.We ished again on 12/27 in that reezing cold snap. Marked a lot o suspended ish but couldn't get them to go on spoons or dropshots. Switched to jigs and caught ish. The rest o the day, we caught ish on spoons, tubes, jigs and we inally got a dropshot ish at the end o the day. Rick caught a nice 6# 14oz LM and our best 5 easily went over 16 pounds. Didn't catch as many ish as the week beore but the quality was much better.I you ever get a chance to ish with Rick Tietz, DO IT! This guy has orgotten more about bass ishing than most people will ever know!
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Watch your electronics closely...we caught several ish right ater we saw them on the graph.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this lake the last 5 Saturdays in a row...and caught ish...Spots and largemouth. 17 the irst Saturday, 12 the second Saturday, 14 third saturday, 19 the ourth Saturday, a couple dinks but the majority was ish in the 1 1/2 - 3 pound range...Last Saturday the 4th o Oct... I caught 15 ish all in the 2-3 lb range and one 6.8lb kicker with one that broke o at the boat...Fished just past the narrows...using 4 inch Green wiennes, and morning Dawn. The water is dropping and you have to be careul i you are not paying attention you will be in 3-4 eet o water.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Find what seem to be mining tailings with deep water with a couple stick ups...use 4" green wiennies, morning dawn, Delta Reds...Look or humps in the open water and you will ind ish...

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Beneit tournament or a Elk Grove Bass member and reind whose house burned recently, tournament is August 23rd, i interested please E-mail....thanks to NCBF or their orum....EGBassPres
      City: Carmichael

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      Water Temp: 66-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Day was beautiul. Overcast in the mornings, clear in the aternoon, slight breeze, air temp around the low 70's. Bass was slim pickin's though. 5 bass in two days. Biggest was maybe 1.5 lbs near the dam. Lots o structure. Either they weren't hungry or they weren't there. Fished the north end and the dam area. Pretty disappointed. I hope Camanche isn't like this all the time.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Threw spinners, topwater, jigs, cranks, and worms. Only had bites on Senkos and tubebaits.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started ishing in the mornig with spinnerbaits up the canyon arm and got one nice smallie on a rock wall and that was it till i started splitshotting purple worms in creeks just pulling it into the creek arm in about 20' o water.
      City: yuba

      Tips: man i dont even think that the trout ishing was that good so go to the delta or amador. theyre the best right now!

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Since I have not seen a posting on this lake since mid March I will update it based on my recent experience. Looked or bass in the typical spawning locations. Water temp says they should be in the backs o the coves and secondary staging points in the cove. NOT There. Found 18 ish in 12-15 t o water along deeper river channel shoreline - rocky shores the best bet. 2.7 lbs was the best ish. Four ish in the 2 lb range. Rest were 1.5 lb clones. Sot plastics got all the ish which should be no surprise since that is all I tried. Senko, brush hog, lizzards, worms. Senko bites during early morning low light conditions only. None ater 8:00AM. Caught one 2lb trout trolling or trout mid day on a rappala near hat island.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Sot plastics 12-15 t along rocky shoreline with deeper drop near. Nothing shallow.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started in the river arm w/a pointer 128 in the back o a creek. Stopped the lure as I ripped it along and it got heavy w/a 2.8 lm. A ew minutes later, my partner, Je nails a 2.5 spot on a white on white spinnerbait. Then I dump a spot o similar size. Around this point, he bangs another 2.5 spot, and I dump another one.........I pick up the spinnerbait and catch a couple o 1.6's quick. Picked up a 3 lmb then it died. Fished up toward the bridge w/no success till I banged a 3.25 spot on a piling on a spinnerbait and then break o my next bite on 25 lb test.......must retie . He gets a keeper on a lash minnow but then no more action. Splitshot 3 more keepers where we originally started in the morning and Je caught his 4th on a texas rigged 6" worm. Later, James and Pat are in my area so we shared. Saw James catch a 3+lmb splitshotting as well. No bites or me rom 1:30-3! Best 5 went over 12 lbs or second place.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: spinnerbaits and ripbaits early then dragging rubber.

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      Water Temp: 55-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished gold country club tourney on saturday. We had rain,hail,thunder,lighting and sunshine. So it was a airly tough bite or most. I managed 4 largemouth or 12.68lbs with a 6.23 kicker. Caught my ish splitshotting a 4 inch lizard in shallow water 0-15 eet. Big ish came in two eet o water up the river. Guy in second had a 5 ish limit with 12.63lbs. I think he splitshotted some ish with a ew reaction bites early. Main body extremely clear, river arm has some color. ZERO jig ish today.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: When the bite is tough, splitshotting seems to always get a ew ish. Light line (8lbs) and small baits work or me.

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      Water Temp: 59-60 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: thanksgiving day we caught 5 bass plus one 4 pound trout
      City: waterord

      Tips: use spoons the ish are chasing shad at the time

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      Water Temp: High 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Only ished a total o 7 hours over the 3 days. On Friday aternoon, while the kids were swimming o the boat, I decided to throw a Baby Senko and caught a 5 pounder. Fished 3 hours Saturday morning and caught 3 very small ish on topwater. Things were better Sunday morning. Had a limit by 7:30, including a 4 and two 3s, all on poppers. The topwater bite shut down at 8:00. Was able to pick up a ew small spots with the Baby Senko o rocky points.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Fish topwater rom irst light until the bite dies, then switch to plastics and a slow presentation. Fish topwater baits over weed beds, and the plastics o points.

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      Water Temp: High 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Only ished a total o 7 hours over the 3 days. Friday aternoon, while the kids were swimming o o the boat, caught a 5 pound largemouth on a baby Senko. Saturday ished 3 hours in the morning - only had 3 small ish, all on topwater. Sunday morning things were better. Had a limit by 7:30, including two 4s and a 3 pounder. All ish came on topwater. At 8:00 the topwater bite died and I was able to pick up an occasional small spotted bass on a Senko.
      City: Pinole

      Tips: Fish topwater poppers rom irst light until the bite stops, then switch to small plastics.

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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake at 11:00AM Fri. Already 90 degrees. Stopped at the South shore camping area. First cast nailed a 7.33 LM on a Senko in 3 t o clear water near chunk rock wall. Weighed, photo, and released at the N. Shore Marina dock. It was all down hill rom there. Did well that evening on top water and senko. Same deal early Sat AM the top water bite was great until about 8:00 AM then shut down. A guy and his kid ishing the same water I was took three 5.0's in about 15 minutes within a 50 yard stretch. They won a tournament they were in with 19+ lbs. or 7 ish.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top Water early and late when the water glasses o. Use popping baits like a Splashit or PopR or best action. Didn't get a thing on the spook or buzzing. Smoke colored seko worked best. All senko bites were within the irst 15 seconds o all.

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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was solid.. 2 our pounders and a scattering o othersIt was Sat lots o boat traic and a ull moon was very surprised to as well as we did.They are hitting in streaks and then nothing or awhile.

      Tips: Same stu everyone else uses. Rubber baits, some topwater

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished GCB tournament. Overcast early. Decent Senko bite up the river arm. Had a limit early or about 7 lbs. Upgraded all day on senkos, but headed to main body or a change o scenery. Ended up catching 10 keepers to 4.46 or 11.72......just out o the money. Winning 5 ish limit was about 16 lbs caught in main body.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: 5" #208 senkos

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a club on Sunday. The storm blew through allday. Split shotting my partner and I picked up a lot o solid ish. Bait was a reaper clear with gold lake. We ished east o the narrows on the south side. We weighed 11.2 or 5 ish.
      City: ss

      Tips: Fish slow

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom about 9:30am to 2:30pmm caught a 15"trout cranking in the 1st hour heavy tule og kept us in the south shore bay till 11:00am no luck until in the river launcha plana area, partner caught 1 nice keeper and 1 dink at about 12:30pm went urther up river we both missed a couple partner caught one more dink and that was that. A hard bite, all were caught on plastic worms except the trout.
      City: manteca

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      Water Temp: 57-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishing in the Narrows to aviod the wind, which really wasnt that bad ater all. We tried a number o coves. We caught most o our ish dragging worms (6" in various colors) around submerged trees in 12-15' o water. Submerge trees around the small islands where the gravel and sand came together seemed to be our most productive area (either luck or maybe because the bass are about to look or beds). As the water temp. increased through out the day we tried to throw spinnerbaits. Caught one at about 1 1/2 lbs., but that was it. Worms and other slow baits are deinitely the way to go until the weather remains a little most consistent. Caught 6 on the day rom 1 1/2 - 3 lbs.
      City: Philadelphia

      Tips: Worms or jigs around trees rom 12-15' near gravel or rock. Try spinnerbaits or other aster baits when you get bored, hopeully the bite will turn on.

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up to Camanche or the irst time to take a look at the lake or an upcoming tourney in March; even though it will be a whole new ball game in March. Fish came on a Yamamoto spider jig set-up in cinn. brown with large green lake in about 25 eet o water. The ish have moved up into the wood now. I only caught our ish in the two pound class by dragging the jig very very slow. My buddy caught the same class o ish with a big ish o 3.33lbs. He was hopping the jig through the brush and weeds; more ish and better quality ish by doing so might I say. I was still stuck in the New Melones bite that took place earlier this month; I guess that i should have changed up huh?... I was also told that people were on ish up river with good numbers...but mostly spots.
      City: resno

      Tips: Use a 4 inch spider jig set up in cinn. brown with green lake...drag and hop as you ish it to keep it in and out o the weeds....good luck!!

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sat. a.m. we began ishing at sunrise, and at 7:30 Mike landed a 11/2#er on a crankbait bumpin it o the bottom. We ished timber in 5 to 10 to water. Mike started jiggin what turned out to be the bait we would use therest o the day, the ole GITZIT 4" tube bait, letting it all down the side othe sticks, beore 11:00 he had two more 1-2#ers to my zippo. Ater lunch weished the sticks some more and I was getting depressed ater he latched on toanother one, this time a 3#+ Florida strain. I was just takin pics o mypartner and his ish riends, when inally my luck changed and he got to takemine, and then another, then it was back to me being the photographer. I havejust started to seek these predators, and right now I thank my lucky stars, thatMike is taking the time to teach me what he knows. I couldn't wait til Sundaya.m. to go at it again. The weather changed quite a bit, it never seemed towarm up, I couldnt even eel my hands, we tried some !dierent areas and some o the same, Mike hooked up on three but didn't get 'emin the boat. I got a 1 1/2#er, and had what Mike said was to be a pretty goodsize ish but I was so jazzed I smacked the poor ella into the side o theboat, and all I saw was his tail-end. Can't wait til next time. All ish wecaught were photographed and released.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 47-49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Foggy but the lake is still full for Basin Bassmasters first tournament. winning weight was 12.56 dragging an jig (green is the color), deep crank baits and even a tube in watermelon red. Water is still stained, if the sun stays out the water will warm up and the bait will get better. Most of the bass were caught in 5-10 ft of water.
      Have fun and good luck
      City: Rocklin