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Thursday, July 21st, 2005

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      Water Temp: warm and very c

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished smaller pond closest to parking lot from 6:30 to 11:30. Caught 6 fish with the 2 best over 2.5lbs. 1 Caught on white 3 bladed buzzbait working it slowly parallel to the weedline, pretty hard hitter. Other was on a green and yellow jig with black and blue trailer. It hit it on the move,others caught with Yamamotos all fish(except the buzzer) were caught where the sun and shade met. Good luck!
      City: Hayward

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good top water fishing. Bass are chasing dragon flies. Total had about 10. MOst are small ones besides 1 16inch, and 1 18inch. A friend i met there caught one that's about 4-5lb range. Its hard to locate bigger ones now. Too much small ones around.
      good luck fishing
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Top water lures.

      Anybody has any suggestions about where to fish now on the tube besides shadowcliff. Kinda wanna try somewhere else.
      I went Chesbro last month was alright. I'll be appreciated if i can get anything new informatioin.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished as early as they would let me launch (8AM). Had a couple of blowups on a buzzbait but only one small fish. Pitched a watermelon colored tube along the shore for an hour before the sun got too high. Caught a decent one(1.5lbs) and a dink. Dropshotted until noon off the main lake points and caught 6 more. Biggest was about 3lbs.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Summer is tough at the Santa Clara County lakes because we can't get on the water early or late. Sorry Zack, I have to agree with the others...the rangers might get the job done, but their rules are not in favor of fishermen. Santa Clara has to be the only county in CA that doesn't allow fishermen on the water early and late in the day...which makes for tough fising in the heat of the summer. We will have to fish 'em deep until they change the rules!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks for the report Zack. Very enlightening. The rangers are the folks opening the gates @ 8am and setting the rules. We would go you ask... to the same lakes, just earlier in the morning. FYI, we also have Del Valle, Berryessa, The Delta, just to name a few. Since it is near impossible to understand what you are getting at, I hope this helps. Hunter, what is a Blew Gill? What does Huckups mean? You must be using some inside Bass language.
      City: Vacaville

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Early start on Disappointment again.Tide was high.Started throwing prop,spook,popper,and buzz again with only one strike. Sun rose and with little success so switched to senko, grub, and spinnerbait with immediate results. Caught mostly 1lb upto 3lbs on spinner and only dinks on the grub. A couple on senko. Largest was just over 5lbs on a senko. Caught 16 keepers. Best 5 total was 17lbs. Off water by 11am again.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Topwater was not the ticket for me again. White kalingrub, Chrt/wht spinner w/nickle willow, and cinn w/purple flake senko.Wtrmelon w/redflk senkos seem to have lost their magic. Fish were located in tules because I dont like to fish the rocks or levee side and seem to do well enough in the tules.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started off @ first light down south w high tide and dead calm water. Went to work on a grass flat,,was dead sticking a white frog in the open pockets. Had a couple small bites then a small keeper. Next fish went 8lbs 5oz and was a perfect football, nice.. Stayed south a few more hours alternating between the frog and buzzbait...lots of bites but not many over 2lbs. Moved over to Mildred around 10 and started buzzing (very slowly) grass lines and pockets. Got five more in the boat three being 3lb + fish. They were absolutely expoding on the buzzer when they bit,very cool.. Off the water @ noon, best five about 19lbs
      City: TRACY

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Made my first trip here this year and found the lake full with no fisherman..Had heard some bad reports so I went to try it out..Fishing was good for me and my son..We landed 9 fish in three hours and missed some big blowups.All fish were fat and healthy between 2 and 5 pounds.I can't understand why there are no fisherman.It cost 15 dollars to get in but you use virtually no gas..Do the math..
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Frogs,Texas rigged worms and Senkos

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      Water Temp: ...

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a lot of bass on buzz bait. Yes a buzz bait. The biggest was around 3lbs. Then i split shot nightcrawlers and got 6 more. Great day!!!
      City: Orinda

      Tips: Try around the docks

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out by myself for a little R&R today. Went to some of my early June haunts and fished slow and deep ( 25-30') and lo and behold the fish were there right on schedule. It's hard for me to beleive that after the past couple of weeks of HOT weather we are still behind the times pattern wise, but we are. LM to near 6 and smallies to near 4 are still readily available if you are patient enough and know where to look. I was fishing Yum Dingers ( the really big ones) in 25'+ and was wishing I had brought a pillow. But they worked. Boring as H but 6lb Lm will wake you up. Just don't expect to feel a bite as it takes slack line to get them down. You have to time your casts with a calendar instead of a clock but if it works......
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Any time you can combine R&R and R&D it's a good day.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

  • Solano County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Sacto John try going up by vierra's and fish around the rip-rap and wood pilings with jigs and beaver's.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: work slowly

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished today with my friends David and Nick. We started at the boat ramp at about 8:00 am. I noticed that the lake has been lowered and didn't like that. There was also an algae bloom and that didn't seem to help much either. We didn't catch anything at the ramp so we moved toward the island and channel point throwing frogs, jigs, and plastics. Nick had one small fish on a spinnerbait fishing the rocks by the pool. He also had a nice one blow up on his sweet beaver as he was taking it out of the water. He went to the corner by the dam past the back dock and threw jigs and t-rigs. I lost one small fish on a jig and then caught a small keeper. Nick caught 3 on a Yamamoto Kreature and 1 on a spinnerbait all in that area. The biggest was about 2lbs with the other going 1lb to 1.5lbs. I caught one more small keeper on a jig and so did David. We fished back to the boat ramp and Nick lost 2 more on the Kreature, but they were small. We left at about 9 pm.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Jigs and Texas rigs to imitate craws. There are a lot of shad in the lake right now so a shad pattern spinnerbait also worked.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to lake around 7. through buzz bait off boat ramp for a little while. nothing there, so i tossed out a yamamoto blue/black flake creature texas rigged. third cast picked up a 2.5 pounder. got it as i pulled it out of the water. casted after that one and another one took it. had it on but came off. not good enough hook set. went to spot near bridge casting towards island. saw a nice pocket of weeds and tules. tossed it right in and got a hit fast. it was a pig. pulled it out of weeds but it then went back in and my line snapped.eventually got to north shore and flipped a 5" berkely bungee hawg blue/black flake. got a 13" in a pocket bouning the hawg up and down. that was it for me. the bite died down a lot after that. through everything i had for the rest of the day and no takers.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: in the morning the bass liked anything that would be easy to get. drop shot, jigs, texas riggs, those kind of slow retrieve baits. all my reactive lures i had no action at all on.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I am 8 years old and I caught 2 fish and it was my first time fishing. The first fish was a spotted bass. 1lb, 12 inches. The second fish was a largemouth bass. 2lbs, 14 inches. My dad didnt catch one.
      City: roseville CA

      Tips: I used a Carolina pole. The bait was rubber worms. I caught both fish using deadstick technique. My friend Todd taught me deadstick technique.

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: Mid to low 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was Alright, Morning crankbait bite was good untill 8:00 am and then the heat kicked in. Fish went down or into deep cover. Caught a couple of keepers pitching into cover. As the sun got higher and hotter, I started drop shotting in 20-35 ft, had a lot of fish come in that way.
      City: Simi Valley

      Tips: Stay cool.

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      Water Temp: bathtub

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished saturday night and sunday morning in the small pond. both days were similar bites. good top water. small fish, biggest was 2.11 on saturday around 8:30 am
      City: redwood

      Tips: black frogs fished slow worked well. fish were in open water as well as close to shore

Monday, July 18th, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: After several stable weather 100 degree plus days, started at 7:30 pm with cooler temps (air about 88) and a delta breeze. Only decent fish during light hours was on a spinnerbait. After dark, senkos were the only thing that worked. Biggest night fish was 3.9 pounds. Pre-dawn bite was underwhelming - only about 5-6 fish biggest going 3.9 pounds again. Only picked up about 8-10 keepers total with top five between 2 and 3.9 pounds. A decent night bite ended around 2 am when about a 20 mph stiff breeze from the south east came in for about 2 hours. The bite didn't start up again until pre-dawn. Off the water before 7 am.
      City: folsom

      Tips: While it could have been the weather, I'd say don't fish here within 5 days after a tournament as I think the fish get very spooked. At this point, I'd say wait till fall.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Is that water temp. correct? 87-90?
      City: antelope

      Tips: If so .... put banana boat on your bait!

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: no summary.. just want to know reservation's now or what..
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: open the lake at 5.30 so we can fish, and by 10.. in the A.M.. Let everyone else have their fun.. other than the ranger's . Which I might add have to deal with the traffic.....Hey..how about giving a thank's to the Santa Clara Parks and Recreation.. To all of the Staff..that without them.. WHERE THE HELL WOULD YOU GO... Again..If you disagree.. write... Let me know

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 5:45am,later than I wanted. Fished Disappointment slough.Used a buzz and a prop bait for topwater. Caught a couple of 3lbrs right away along tules on the prop. Then caught a nice 7lb striper on the prop. Once the sun rose some more used brushhog, wht grub, and spinnerbait.Nothing huge, many in the 1-2lb class but even more dinks with the largest bass at just over 4lbs.Caught almost 30 fish, a couple of those were stripers and crappie.Off water at 11.Nice day out on the water.
      City: stockton

      Tips: Use prop bait early before sun hits the water. Buzz still seems to be a slow bite for me. As the sun rose began to flip spinnerbait, brushhog, and grub into dark pockets in the tules.White Grub produced the most but were mostly dinks or crappie. Wht/chrt spinner along weedline or flipped into tules.

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      Water Temp: 75 - 78 on GPS

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the first spot a 5:30 am- used a storm rattlin chug bug in a frog pattern, threw between the bank rock wall and the weed pockets, let the rings disapate, the bigger fish hammered it then,
      the smaller fish hit it on the way back to the boat had a four fish limit by 7:30 on the bug, threw a 3X type senko and found fish tight to cover in the weeds after the sun came up, culled two fish, 4 fish weighed around 15 lbs off the water by 10:00 a.m. Also had two dinks on the bug at 1 time.
      City: Martinez

      Tips: I replaced the rear hook on the chug bug with a red treble hook, just let it sit, it seemed to drive them crazy , a couple came out of the water
      and went down on the bait to eat it.

      Pete