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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

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

      Report: went to rainbow lake for short 2 hrs fishing today. IT WAS STILL REALLY SLOW. This year the horseshoe and rainbow are weird for bass. I guess the water is too high still. Last year me and my buddy were nailing the smallmouth and the largemouth together. hopefully its going to pick up again soon.
      City: fremont

      Tips: dropshot for bass is the ticket for the hot weather at rainbow lake.
      good luck fishing

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Jim T here are a few tips for you figure heck the lake will be gone in a few months anyways. 4" Kalin Hand poured green weenie/black pepper flake worm on 1/0 EWG light wire hook on 8lb mono splitshotted just kills em. I have never done well here on the drop shot most of my fish come on --SLOW-- draggin those Kalin worms. Also have great luck on RI Dominator worms here in watermelon/ black flake with the tail dipped in spike it. Go to the windy banks and throw flukes. This lake is tough and I would say I average 5+ fish a visit(usually 1-4lb). Use the softest plastics you can find here. Good Luck. Oh yea bring some swimbaits.
      City: Walnut Creek

      Tips: Slow your presentation down, then slow it down some more.

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Ace. How did you do in the tourn"y hope fully well .. It was a windy thing....great at 7 but at 8 it rolled in....and stopped and then again... what time did the thing start.. talk to ya soon.. Drug
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Cant find them anywhere..Wheather has been weird this year and with the water up ,, scattered.. tip, the best tip .. is watch the bird's.. they see the bait fish.. before yoour finder..can see them... when they start diving....and snivvling, throw a crank bait..chrome and blue has been working for me....

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?noguage

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ran the custom Valco bass boat all the way back behind Garlic Brothers to get out of the wind. Fished from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Six fish for 6 bites. Biggest bass was just 2.5 lbs. Spinnerbaits and Strike King Bitzy Jigs (red/black) was the ticket for me. All bass came off the deeper rock side during the out going tide.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: WINDY WINDY WINDY Find the calmer water good luck. I had a fun and wild ride back to Ladd's when I hit the main channel. I got wet from the white caps . :-)

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

      Report: Caught a 1.5 pound bass on a Skeeter-Pop around sunset, across from the island and just south of Coots Landing. Had a few swirls after the lure but no other real takers. At Coots Landing, somebody caught a 10 pound bass reeling in a rainbow trout. A real trout, not a Huddleston. Seems some other bass was chasing trout nearly to the shore. I haven't had much success yet this year on crankbaits or plastics. Anybody got any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! Especially what colors work and when.
      City: danville

      Tips: Reel slow, much slower than normal. That seems to work better at Chabot than just about anything else. Catch and Release all bass.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 61-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Once again Jim and I went looking for our widen gold mine along the rocks at the dam. This time they have moved and no were to be found. The small lizards seem to get some nice 2 lbers. They must be in postspawn at this time. We did not have alot of time to go check out the rest of the lake. The rock garden area looked good but no time.
      City: rocklin

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lake is great .. slow bite ..1 dink
      City: morgan hill

      Tips: Drop T...be nice..

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out there about 5 pm fished till 8:45. Caught one small bass on a kastmaster. Also a 10 inch crappie on a 4 inch white senko. The water temp looks good but he water is really green. Looks like a lot of bait fish are present. Saw a guy catch a 4lbs. bass on a white crappie jig. my cousin who was with me hooked up 6 trout but landed 4 in about an hour and a half. 16 in and the rest were about 12.
      I'll be out there soon to spend the morning out there fishin
      City: Union City

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

      Report: Fished the lake for a couple of hours. I spoke with a father and son team that caught and released a 5 pound LMB in North Lake this afternoon. I didn't catch today, but did see a couple of good size bass cruising around. Used Senko, RoboLeach. Fished 'em slowly...until the wind came up. Maybe tomorrow, after work.
      City: Daly City, CA

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: by noon 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good day on the lake 17 fish L/M lots of 3/lbs'ers All on reaction baits. Started at 8:30 am

      Tips: Throw any thing that runs 5 to 10 feet

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

      Report: i was out in the island started fishing about 7:00am the bitting was slow then about 9:30 i pulled out a 8 pound spoted bass there was schools of them after that they were just passing buy i cought about 10 bass 2 pounds and above
      City: moreno valley

      Tips: use the purple plastic worms with the curly tails and also purple lizards they were all over both everytime u get a bite change the worm with the same color so the fishe will think its a different worm just jig the lizards in the middle and the worms bounce them on the bottom if u do what i did u will get a monster i saw like at least a 15 pound larg mouth it mwas huge couldent belive it

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

      Report: Jones Valley slow and tuns of traffick went to macloud and caught some on a new worm from a guy just started pourin great worms we caught 50+ biggest 4.75 but lots of keepers no rats I really like these new worms we fished until 7:45pm main body ski island bam 9.46lber on one of these worms oh my God...goin back again to see if these are the bomb or what.
      City: REDDIN

      Tips: 1/4 dart with this new worm and hang on...

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 72-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Full moon conditions. Fished from 6:30 pm till 2:00 am. Lake still nearly full (about 1 foot from full). Got no fish during the day and about ten fish after dark. Saw another boat land a (one) decent fish around 7 pm in Rock Creek. Senkos, jigs, worms, and spinnerbaits accounted for the fish. Nothing big - biggest went 3.0. No topwater yet. Bite really slowed down around 10:30 pm. Weeds are already showing up in shallow water.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: I'd stay away from this lake until mid or late June when the summer pattern should finally kick in.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Don, I know what you mean. Fished the Lake 3rd week in April and got skunked!!! The trout fisherman were even bitchen. NO fish were caught the day I fished, by anyone! 8 hours. This lake has a great rep.With the money you pay- you expect to hook-up. However, as we know that is not always the case. Your deadright on the cost. Wayyyyy toooo highhhh. It is what it is. Until I here awesome consistent reports from here, or the costs dropsssss way down-Its not on my list of go to places anymore.
      City: antelope

      Tips: look elsewere.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Ryan, just spent Sat-Sun at the lake and saw a couple of "Bow-hunters". Spoke with them at the launch ramp today, and they got 150lbs.in the keys sunday-and 300lbs. in north lake on saturday.
      Now for the good part the bass report-or not so good. Wind played a big factor this weekend.lots of it. Tucked away at Rattlesnake for a short time both days with just a few dinks to show for the effort.The keys seemed to be the ticket to shelter yourself from the wind.However, like most weekends there was yet another tournamant and the keys were packed.We have a house on the water, and most of the guys were froggin or using the old trusty Senko. Most guys said they had a small limit 10-13 lbs. The action has taken a down turn from the past 2 previous weeks.
      City: antelope

      Tips: Go to the lake anyways and have fun!

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      Water Temp: 75 F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out fishing this weekend hoping for a big one. I got there about 7:30 and shortly got 3 12-13 incher on dropshot and that was all for the rest of the day. I saw some huge ones chasing after a trout that was getting caught, but it didn't come back after that. My friend got a 2 and 3 later and the guy fishing next to us lost a 5+. Lately the bite has been on but only for the little guys.
      City: oakley

      Tips: DROPSHOT

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

      Report: We caught some bass on minners. We cooked some bass on the house boat for lunch ummmmmmmm. We are here all week between the six of us we caught 200 and plan to catch more in the Sacraento arm.
      City: Redding

      Tips: minners catchem good

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      Water Temp: 58-61

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: out @ 5:30 till 10:30 on a house boat this is a great place just too kick it walked the bank flipping a sinkin rappala fire color few dinks but a few 3.5 to 5 lbs hard to get the shelfs but wow what a mornin wish some one would invent a back pack coffee maker needed some on the walk back
      City: Bend

      Tips: again what a place to enjoy a family vacation and get some great RIPPIN LIPS and a smile//Grreat people @ Silerthorn and @ ANTLERS RESORT

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      Water Temp: 57-60

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: CANT WAIT TILL WE CAN ALL GET ALONG AND HAVE A BIG FISH FRY, OTHER THAN A BIG RIP ON A INNOCENT GESTURE DO NOT KNOW ANY OF YOU BUT BY NOW EVERONE SHOLD JUST GET THE BAIT OUT THERE AND RIP A LIP
      City: BEND

      Tips: DOSENT DO ANY GOOD TO CUT ON ANYONE WE ALL ARE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THIS.WE HAVE ALL MADE A MISTAKE OR TWO INTENTIONALLY OR UN INTENTIONALLY LOVE ONE AND GET LOVED BACK.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the afternoon off the kayak on the sac arm. used the usual 4 inch roboworm in the sculpin pattern. the pattern is knocking them dead. caught another 30 + fish. biggest was just over 5 lbs. scored a couple bass over 3 lbs. most fish were in the small range, but who cares. fish are fish. besides i'm only using 6 lb test. fish were hitting on the drift. i was barely moving the lure at all. shallow banks and back coves. some fish were hitting in the deeper water 20-30 ft. most fish are shallow ...........................