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      Water Temp: 70 something

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Gold Country Bassers night tournament Saturday night with Doug. We started in some trees in the south end and lipped 3 or 8 lbs or so just beore dark. Ran into Konocti or dusk bite. Find 3 boats where I want to go, so we hit another area or two others, 1.5 and 2.5 by 9:15. A boat approaches and passes me rom I thought he said the red blu club. I get a 3.4 that they missed then a 4.1.......things are good. Interestingly enough, I caught 4 ish the irst hour ater dark, unusual. I then stick a 5+ and am eeling good. I inally got Doug to give a brushog a try. He gets an 8.36 and I get a 3.5.......things are better. One more 3.5 by the resort with a hundred onlookers. Dollar Island and shag rock were dead today. Very hit or miss places. 12:30 am back down to konocti where I stick a bigun behind a post and it saws through my line.....rats. Doug breaks a good one o also. We get another 2.5 and a 3.4 beore we have to get back to weigh in. Pat D. caught his personal best, a 9.24 lb toad. Good job Pat. All teams weighed ish. We ended up w/ 25.28 lbs or top honors that night. I igure we ended up w/ 15 keepers, all except one caught on brushogs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Plastics seemed to be the best. Some weighted, some not. Several guys got topwater and crankbait ish.

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water about 6:30 pm on the 23rd and went to the lakeport area . The trip started o with a boom, being short struck on a spook with what looked like a nice ish. Two cast later my largest spook ish, 7.3lbs. We ended up picking up 4-5 more ish to 4.5 lbs beore dark, everything ater the spook was on a zipper worm . There was a lull until 10 pm or so and the bite opened up until 3:00am. The backseat was out ishing me 2-3 ish or my one on a junebug deadringer but all smaller 2-3 lb ish. I was ishing a black/blue rattleback 3/8 oz jig with a #180 double tail grub. Ater his ,third or so ish I was about to switch to a worm when " thunk " , a nice beautiul 9.8lber, very next cast another one about the same size which broke me o at the boat- Too damn lazy to retie. I was using 20 lb p line which is slightly more limp than the stren.Oh, well that's ishing. Steve, my back seat picked up one around 7 , his best clear lake ish an hour later. We ended up with 15 ish between 2-9.8 lbs, What a night!
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Jigs or the bigger ish, day in day out. The 9.8 came out o 18 eet o water, the spook ish 2-3 eet o water. There were deinately two seperate patterns , one close to the tulle wall and another deep rock piles . Nothing on a crank, or spinnerbait.It was a jig and worm night.

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      Water Temp: 74-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started about 6am with topwater (sammy and buzzbait)on the north end. Mostly small ish, 1lb range. Stuck a 4 our on a black rog while working the moss holding on the tips o that green leay weed growing o Rocky point. Missed a second rog ish about the same size. Jumped around, ished State Parke (Kelsey Creek), Long Tule point, Lakeport area and the entrance o Rodman. Ended up with 12 or the day, mostly little ones taken on senko's and buzzbaits. Not a single ish taken rom the o shore weed beds. We hit em hard but ended up with all ours coming near shore, docks and rocks with weed growth.Started sun morning about 2am, ran south and tossed big worms around Sea Breeze and Rattlesnake. Boated a couple o 3's but mostly little guys. Tried Sammy's and buzzbaits at dawn around Konocti without a single bite. Picked up a ew more little ones on senko's. Then tossed a red craw model A down by the Pipeline and boated seven quick ish, biggest about 3. On the road home by 11am with 14 or the day.
      City: TRACY

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE NORTH END MOSTLY RODMAN SLOUGH FROM 5:00 AM TO NOON BOTH DAYS. HAD LOTS OF GOOD FISH FROM 3LBS TO 5LBS. I COUGHT ABOUT 20 FISH FOR THE TWO DAYS. BEST FISH CAME FROM TULLY POINTS RIGHT ON THE EDGES OF THE TULLIES. USING BLACK RED GLITTER BRUSH HOGS. I ALSO USED WHITE WITH BLUE BACK SPINNERBAIT WITH WHITE GLITTER SKIRT. SHAD COLORED SPEED TRAP ALSO WORKED FOR ME. SOME FISH CAME OFF OF THE WOOD IN ABOUT FIVE FEET OF WATER. I HAD NOT BEEN TO CLEAR LAKE FOR ABOUT 18 MONTH. BUT ITS STILL GOOD FISHIN.THE WEED WERE NOT TO BAD JUST BEFORE THE BRIDGE. GIVE IT A TRY AND GOOD LUCK TO YA.
      City: SAN JOSE

      Tips: MIX IT UP WITH LURES STAY ON THE LARGE SIZEFOR GOOD FISH.

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      Water Temp: 78 TO 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED WITH GREG CLEFISH ON FRI AM, TOSSING PERSUADER BUZZ BAITS AROUND DOCKS AND WOOD, NORTH END. WE WERE ABLE TO CATCH A 3.8 AND 5LB. THEN MISSED TWO OTHERS. SWITCHED TO SENKOS, CAUGHT 3 SHORTS AND ONE 2LB. BY NOW THE SUN WAS UP AND SO WERE WE FOR SOME FROG FISHING. BUT AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR OUR ENTHUSIASM BEGAN TO SLIP, THEN GREG HAS A BLOW-UP AND SETS THE HOOK ON A NICE 4LB. THE NEXT HALF HOUR, TWO MORE BLOW-UPS MISSED..AND THEN THE BIG ONE NAILED GREG FROG AND THE FIGHT WAS ON. ANICE CLEAN 8LB. CAME TO THE NET....GOOD JOB GREG... 5 FISH FOR 22 HALF LBS.. NOT BAD FOR 4 HOURS.. THE NEXT TRIP OUT MY CLIENT CYROS FROM WASH. AND I HAD LOTS OF ACTION CATCHING SHORTS ON DROP SHOT. HOWEVER CYROS ..FOOLED A 61/2LB!ER ON A PERSUADER 4 INCH BABY BASS, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST OF 7 KEEPERS THAT AM.....THE NEXT DAY MY CLIENTS ,ROCK AND BOB AND I STARTED TOSSING SENKOS IN AND AROUND WEEDS AND DOCKS ,BOB SETS UP ON A NICE 5 LB. I GET A 2 PLUS AND ROCK FOOLS A 7 POUNDER USING THE PERSUADER BABY DROP-SHOT RIG. ONLY 3 KEEPERS AND LOTS OF SHORTS,THAT AM...THE NEXT TWO MORNINGS WERE SPENT WITH DAVE & SOPHIA FROM SAC, USEING SENKOS, BUZZ BAITS & drop-shot. the larger ish (up to 6 plus lbs. )came on buzz baits worked over and around weeds...they hade 8 keepers or the two morings o ishing..plus a 12 lb.carp..on a drop shot.....
      City: KELSEYVILLE,CA.

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      Water Temp: 76-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the night o the 26th starting at 11:30 until irst light at about 5:30am. Third night ater a ull moon as well as the 2nd or 3rd night beore has been good or me.The bite never broke wide open with a ish or two or the irst hour or so. At about 2:30 until 4:30 I picked up my two largest ish or the night, a 8.2 and 7.6 one on a black ledgebuster spinnerbait and one on a norman crank. Not a single bump ater 4:30am. Found a cove and slept rom 5:30 until 10:00am.Total o 8 ish, the largest 8.2 the smallest a solid 3.5, no dinks which is interesting. Rarely do I catch the smaller ish at night,probably to do with bait size.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: A little bit o everything tonight, 2 on a ledgebuster spinnerbait, black 1/2 oz with a single colorado blade, 3 on a crank ( dark blue norman), one on a jig/double tail grub, and 2 on a yam. 8" black/blue lake single tail grub ( lorida rig 1/4 oz). The 8.2 came out o 3 eet o water over chunk rock ater a long cast,talk about un. She sounded like someone throwing boulders in the water when she hit the surace. The other ish were deeper down to 26 eet or the jig ish,although the jig never made it to the bottom beore the pick up.Warm night , no wind and plenty o light with the moon, it does not get much better than that. A little breeze would have helped with the bats. Hint, do not wear a white hat around the black light with no wind. The bats will think you are a landing platorm.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished night tourney on 7-20 7pm to 1am. Tough bite. 3 ish won it all coming on senkos. Most o the ish caught in the tournament came on senkos. Majority o anglers noted rare bites ater the sun went down. I ished with Rick Tietz who is a Rep. or several bait companies including Duh and Basstrix. We caught our ish dropshotting prototype Basstrix baits and Predator worms o rocks that dropped rom 9-20t. Rick was an absolute joy to ish with. Very knowledgable and helpul.
      City: redding

      Tips: A ew anglers including Rick mentioned the bite really turned on ater 430am with ish up to 8+ lbs. Unortunately we never got to ish that time rame. Good luck!

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Midday trip today. Started near redbud on docks I usually dont venture near. Caught a 3.0, 1.5, and 6 or so dinks.....good to see small ish except when they keep tearing up your senko. My buddy Dave, struggled w/my baitcast outit, but stuck a 3.2 in a tree. His biggest bass ever. I lipped a 1.5 out o another tree. Every other dock today had a dink on it. Seems like my best docks I hit at the wrong time o day/sun angle and The gooduns werent home. At 7pm I skipped my lure under a good dock and proceeded to dump a 4.5 or so. Dont lose many on senkos. I threw topwater or 2 hrs beore dark in konocti bay and never had a bump. Threw senko in good weedy areas beore dark and came up empty there too.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I've heard that the ish are not on the rockpiles yet, but I may try them w/jigs on riday. Maybe the good ish will be on deep docks around midday. I'll ind out!

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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Late aternoon, night trip with calm water or a change- almost too calm but ater my trip on the 5th I'm not complaining. No ish beore dark ; however I only ished a Rico, Spook, and buzz bait. No top water bites and the same held true or the am . My irst ish was in Soda bay on a june bug Hoo-daddy in 16 oot o water at 2:00 am. Nice ish at 7.8 lbs at with beautiul markings. Two more ish on a norman red/black DD-22 at about 3.5 to 4lbs, did not weigh them rom shag rock and that was it or me. My buddy got the skunk. All in all a slow night but calm and a great alling star show.
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: Tons and I mean tons o bait ish on the Lowrance. With the water at 82 and the ammount o ood I'm expecting the ishing to slow down or me. O to the Delta or the next month as I have two tourn. in August there. Good luck and make sure your bilge pumps work.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Redbud at 7pm, ran to Konocti Bay irst. Since sun had just gone behind the mountain, I started with a spitin image around docks & pilings. Third dock, irst ish, 4#er. No more bites there, moved to some points past the resort, and got 2 more 2-3#s. Switched to 10" power worm, nailed one FAAT 3.5#er. Moved over by Anderson at dark...I thought it wasn't supposed to be windy?? Anyway, nailed a couple more on the power worm 2-3#s. Funny, the wind didn't die down, just switched 180 degrees. Fished around Dollar, and set on something that didn't move initially.....I'm thinking...alright, a hawg.......nope..8# Cat...rats! Fished around a little more, only got 1 more 2#er. Took a nap until 1st light, then started throwing a black buzzer, nailed a couple more 3.5#ers, and one 2#er on a brushhog. Pulled out at 9am.
      City: san jose

      Tips: I thought the weeds were supposed to be bad? I saw ew i any mats where I was....guess the weedkillers had been through there already

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the nephew out Sunday @6:30pm when all the holiday crowd would be gone. Hecka windy, but picked up a 4.5 on a tree ater ishing a normally productive line o trees w/no success. A guy was on a bank I normally ish and he tells me he caught 3 gooduns out o the line o trees.....rats! Catch 2 short ish on senkos o same point, then head out to the wind whipped south end. Man was it blowing. Throw topwater in protected area and nephew bangs a 2.5 or so on a popper. I have a chaser that nips at mine as I am bringing it out o the water. Head to some deeper water or dusk bite....nothing. Finally get a 4.5 on a brushog at about 10pm....I mean no other bites at all. Ater a sandwich break I start ishing weedline on a rocky bank and bang my biggest ater dark ish to date, an 8.3. The wind is keeping me in very sheltered areas, so I turned the boat around and get a 3.7 near where I got the 8 just a ew minutes later. Fished another 200 yards here w/no bites. Down the lake to another protected area in Konocti and still no bites on brushogs or 10" worms. Fish probably 400 yards and try targeting shallower areas and pick up a 4.5.....HMMMMMMM, maybe I am onto something. Navigate around a dock and sling it up shallow and eel one take o w/it. Wound up going 5.0. About 1:30 now and the nephew is inished. He has already ished the delta today and is too pooped to pop! The wind is laying down now, as it requently does and I toy w/the idea o hitting another spot, but He has to work 8 hrs rom now. I called it a night.......a night to remember. My personal best 5 ish at night....26.8 lbs.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The ish are not biting normal baits or me ater dark. My nephew threw 10" worms all night and never got a bite. I am experimenting w/a new night bait that I'll keep under my hat or now.

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      Water Temp: low o 69.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Night ishing trip rom hell. Started out about 8:30pm, nice and calm went by and spoke to a group o riends who were celebrating the 4th, while it got dark. Then the winds picked up and blew and blew. Thank God or Ranger boats otherwise I would have been on the bottom, totally swamped my boat in 4 oot rollers while trying to make it to the back side o rattlesnake or some calm water. That was about 12:30 and it was dark as a mine shat while I yelled at the stairs, what the hell am I doing out here? Any how I ound a tulie berm somewhat protected and waited until daylight.From 5:30 until 11:30 am I ended up with a limit , the largest was 7.1, another 6.8, and 4.6 along with 2 13 or so inchers.All three big ish were on rock humps 20 oot + deep and caught on a pumpkin with red lake yam. grub ( 7" ) Flordia riged 1/4 oz. weight. The two small ish on a luckey crat crank bait, 6-12 oot rock tulie breakline. Found a jet sky ellow who snapped a couple o pictures or me and o the lake or a day o drying tackle and the water vac.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: I had two boats ish to me and past me moving too ast. The larger ish wanted it sloooow.The strikes were hard though. Nothing on a spook or buzz bait early.

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      Water Temp: 71.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7:00pm until 3:30 am and or the irst time in my experence ishing clear lake got on one o the "wol Packs". My irst ish o the experience , all North, was a 6.2 lb on a black ledgebuster spinner bait, shallow at 10:00pm. Only one other beore dark on a 7" senko on the outside edge o tulies. From the spinner bait ish I went to 3 submerged rock piles and caught 12 ish between 5.6 and 8.3 lbs. I did a milk run rom the 1st to the 3rd rock pile picking up a ish on each one until 3:00 am at which point I was exhausted. The ish that I landed were between the above weights and I had two at the boat That would not it in my net and came unbuttoned. Absolutely the best trip I have had . The quality o ish in this lake never ceases to suprise me.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: The later ish were on a Florida riged Yamamoto 7"black and blue lake Grub in 14-26 oot o water. This trip made up or more than a ew trips in which the wind kicked my be-hind this spring.Night rules on this lake..

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Monday night. Got on water @ 8:30 or some more topwater experimenting w/a magnum bait.....no luck. Full moon made navigation easy. Fished Konocti area and up to shag rock and as ar south as the boatworks. Caught my one and only ish, a 3.2 @ 10:30. I had one other bite on a 7" senko that ate the bait in hal. I ished tules, rocks, docks, shade, etc, and had more than a couple pecks and pops, but came up empty every time. I igure they were bluegill or small bass. I would have believed i someone told me that I caught the last bass in the lake. Lack o bites was disappointing, but otherwise a peaceul, relaxing night on the water. Oh well, cant get them all the time!
      City: Yuba city

      Tips: I thought a night or two w/in the ull moon would help the postspawn june ishing. Boy was I wrong. The only thing I didnt do was crank as I let that rod at home. BTW, the ish I did catch was on a brushog by the girl scout camp.

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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Redbud @ 5:30am in to Konocti bay to try a magnum topwater I am trying to become amiiar w/. No bites on it, a chugbug, or senko.....oh boy. Get a 10" @9:30 in tules. I had basically ished inside stu with the spawn and all. Headed toward the narrows and ished a coupla docks with no bites. Rats. Fished a marina near the narrows where I usually catch a maximum o one ish. I ish the whole thing, very careully. Catch two 2.5 lb ish on senkos and 2 dinks on trees. Shag rock gave me a 2.5 on a luke. Fluked soda bay and henderson area or several more missed bites and 15 or so ollowers. Tried splitshotting windmill pt w/no results. Spooled up reel w/ 30 lb or lipping heavy wood in south end and caught keeper # 4 a 4.5 at 4:30pm on a brushog. Caught a senko dink later and headed home @ 5.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I believe the lack o reports here gives insight to the ishing......tough. I know they are biting something, but I just didnt get on it....still un though. I dont believe I missed any/many bites.

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      Water Temp: 66-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished around Lakeport o and on throughout the day on sunday and or a ew hours monday beore we let. We boated 10 bass and missed about the same. Aside rom 2 dinks, most were nice ish. Several in the 2 1/2 range, a couple 3's, one 4.0 and the two largest went 4.9 and 4.10. We concentrated on the creek channels and boat house areas. Got them all pitchin Brush hogs and Senko's. Saw a dozen or so bed ish, but I've never been very good at bed ishing. Although, I did have one about 5 chase a swimbait all the way back to the boat. Tried a Sammy o seconday and primary points and a rog on some o the mats, but no topwater action or us.
      City: TRACY

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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: The Bass Classics o Santa Clara Valley had a tough time at Clearlake with a ront moving in and rain on Sunday. Rich O'brein was able to put it together and catch 8 ish or 31.68 lbs. he was using a brn jig and brn plastic chunk trailer. He was ishing in the Lakeport Trailer Park around the docks and nailed three rom the same dock in two days. He also caught one on a Senko he said you had to move the bait real slow to get bit.In second place with 16.91 lbs. Russell Witkowski had two cranking metal break walls with a crawdad wiggle wart on Sat. On Sunday he caught all our o his ish on a Texas rigged watermelon baby brush hog on the rocky island in Soda Bay. He also said they were rom 5 to 15 t deep and you had to go slow and work it hard. In third was J.R. Taylor who had 3 nice ish including the 2nd big ish o 6.45 lbs. or a total o 16.72 lbs on Senko's in the Keys. He said most o the ish were relating to the roots o the trees and on the points. In orth was Mike Riggio with 14.01 lbs ishing in the trailer park he had two on buzz baits and two on Senko's in two days.In ith was Izz Byrd he had the big ish o the tournament a 6.72 lber and one other ish or 11.64 lbs. on Senko's and rock with tules. In sixth was mysel again I had three ish or 10.50 lbs all cranking a rocky shoreline with crawdad speed traps on Sunday.We had 22 guys catch 46 ish or 162.71 lbs and a 3.54 lb average.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: The ish were hard to locate but when you did you should stay with them and come back two or three times to try it later. Use brn/brn jig and plastic trailer behind the docks in the keys. Everyone had Senko ish that did catch ish watermelon blk/lk, or Rootbeer

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey "hook Eye". How did you weigh thoseish you missed?? Inquiring minds want to know.I lost a 14 pounder on the Delta and missed a 9 pounder on two consecutive cast.Think I need a new scale!
      City: lower lake

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wind was howling on Thur and Fri. Launched out o Library Park and only ished the No. shores. (didn't wanna hastle the 4-6 t waves). Me an my buddy caught 2 6.8's, 2 4.5's, 3 5.2's. He missed an 8, and I broke o a 5+.. Sat we launched outa Redbed and he lost a 3. I got a 6.8 and a 3.5, missed a 4. All were got on Senkos in 2' or less o water against rock walls. We were throwing motor oil color.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Senkos on Rocks.

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      Water Temp: 65.0

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: No wind until 1:30pm and then we were in or a ride. I only saw three other boats all day. That was a change or this lake. I wonder how the tourn. was Saturday. I did see quite a ew bed ish, nothing large. All in all not a bad day or daylight ishing at clear lake. My largest ish was a 7.3 lb spawned out hen rom about 15 t, o water near the county park-deadsticking a senko.I only caught 5 ish or the day but none o the ive were below 4lbs. Another 5 or so got around the minkota and came unbuttoned at the boat and I broke my line on a toad. 14lb. Suguri Flourocarbon. RE-tie, Re-tie, Re-tie. Oh well, SLOTH will sneak in where he can. In a tourn. I re-tie this line ater any decent size ish is caught.I can't wait until the nights get warm, killer lake.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: everyting I caught was on a senko, watermelon , black lake. Nothing on a jig, spinner bait or top water. Very sloww presentation , almost deadsticking - makes or a long day. Did not mess with the bed ish.