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Friday, October 15th, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Juan....damn shame isnt it? We spend all this money on our gear and license etc and with all the taxes we pay and stuff you'd think they'd have enough to get enough people to patrol. It's such a shame we all do everything by the book and one small percentage of poachers takes it all away. Have you been up lately? I was thinking of taking my new Stratos up tommorrow (sat) to see if I could boat my first fish outta her! Tight Lines-thanks for caring and doing what you could man-wish everybody did the same-GOOD JOB!
      Tight Lines-see ya on the lake!
      Scott
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Report each and every poacher you see!

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

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      Water Temp: COOL

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: NOT MUCH HAPPININ
      City: SJ

      Tips: BE PATIENT

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

      Report: THANKYOU PHILS STAFF I WENT FROM 5-6 FISH A DAY TO OVER 50 A DAY ON THAT NEW DROPSHOT RIG THANKS I DID NOT CATCH ANY GIANTS BUT I FELT GOOD WHEN I WALKED TO THE TRAILER.
      City: REDDING

      Tips: PINK POON WITH MORNINGDAWN TRAILER .

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a bigger fish than Ryan Davis Troughton!
      8.2 pounds on a fluke. Threw it into a brushpile with my pink fishing rod. Dad was proud. By the way, I love you Ryan.
      City: brentwood

      Tips: Love Ali

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      Water Temp: 65-66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: no wind yesterday. we fished dawn til about 1pm .. was starting to get hot . caught several dinks and some keepers . still some frog fish out there but with water temp dropping not as many as a couple weeks ago ..caught a couple and missed a couple ..was mainly pre fishing for or club tourney coming up this weekend so don't want to give much away as i know vince reads rhis.. also with won bass saturday and the hook tourney sunday we will already have enough competition as ours is a two day ..
      City: sunnyvale

      Tips: follow someone you know catch bigger fish

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      Water Temp: 63-65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out around 0630 out of Franks and got a 6+ at first stop. We fished until 5:30, a long day and got several Flippin over 4lbs. The only wind today was moving from one place to the other. Flat all day long had to work for the fish but had a great day.
      City: Fairfield

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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing at 1:00 PM in back yard with senko.
      Caught largest bass of life. 7.25 lbs on dads Cul m right scale. Later caught a bunch of smaller bass.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Pitch into shade pockets during middle of day.

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      Water Temp: 67.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Three buddy is out just called and said they have 3 small ones 7 to 10 lbs range. Waiting for the tide change at noonish for the bite to turn back on. Sorry fell to mention that in front of the diversion dam we tire up to the floating dock and cast out to middle of the river when the tide is slack or slowest that's has been the best action last week and this week so far. This area usually fast running but the damn gates are not open so the tides are perfect. When the water are moving then we drift or slow troll.
      City: San Bruno

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

      Report: Great day, caught 14 fish between the three of us. 1 10+ lb. cat, and 1 15 + pound cat. A lot of small trout and panfish.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Don't cry.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Horrible Horrible!!! That explains todays outting. The fishing sucked. I hadn't been since August. The lake dropped at least 25 feet. I caught one bass, four inches long, in six hours on a chug bug . We did everything. Talked to a local bassfisherman when we got back to the marina and he said that the lake is turning right now.
      City: Boraga

      Tips: Don't waste your time and money fishing here right now! Wait about two weeks. It is pathetic. Good luck to whoever tries!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 64-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A a great rip with a client from Folsom..Best five 14+...very good for Melones and surprising.Cooling water has brought the better fish back on. In fact we caught more quality than not. Lake was flat calm and best bite was on reaction baits..Some drop shot fish but not red hot,too calm..Caught fish from the surface to 42 feet.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Sounds like a broken record, but stay with the bait. They are not spitting shad yet but they are in the area. Will breal wide open soon!!!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Just a quick report of my guided trip, teaching a client ways to approach the lake. The fishing was tough overall after several days of north wind and VERY hot temps. The early morning was good for topwater with 2 over the slot and 2 over 13 inches. One on a rip bait. After that we threw one ton jigs (Yamamoto #297), drop-shotted, and split-shotted. We looked hard for bait and did find some in a few areas. Instead of catching several in an area, it was just one or two. We wound up with 13 tournament keepers - five for about 9 pounds. We caught 6 shorter bass. Very slow presentation worked - felt almost no bites!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We fished all forks and the main body. Since I believe he is fishing a tournament, I won't say any more.

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

      Report: Has anyone fished Lake Elizabeth in Fremont? I fished there about 15 years ago and remember catching some Huge crappie and bass (also Planted rainbows). But I have not been out there in years, is it still open for fishing?
      City: Alameda

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out on the water about 2:00pm today, with my buddy Rich. started with rattle traps, got one shaker in the old river. Decided to switch to crankbaits on the rock banks. Got seven bass to 3.9lbs. Went back to the traps and caught two nice stripers. 6:45pm off the water.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: good stripers showed up at dusk

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: had some major boat trouble...but my buddy let us use his boat for the day...life saver

      so we didn't get going until 930am fished the south end south of konocti..caught a lot of fish on drop shot and grubs..nothing too big. 4lbs with most fish around 14 inches
      a lot of fun but couldn't find any quality fish..suprising since we were catching most fish in 12-15 feet of water
      City: Los Altos

      Tips: once the water cools the fishing should pick up big time

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

      Report: Had a great time tuesday with my friend Tony. Started getin them right off the get go...It just got beter after that ,well..... a few spots got hits but we blanked on them. We went through two and one half lbs of Dead Shad in 4 hours 20+ keepers,(kinda lost count) over 30+ in all.
      Some on plastics(shad colors) but mostly smaller fish. We were fishing in 30 to 50' of water
      Drop Shot rig. We are also moving with eltc. motor.
      City: Dos Palos

      Tips: Look for Break lines , you have to meter fish.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 69.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: not a fish report but some advise for those going to the BASS check-in:
      The Holiday Inn on Hilltop is best accessed from the north whether you are towing or not. From I-5, take the 299E(Lake Blvd) of ramp and head west on Lake blvd, get in the left lane and turn left onto Hilltop at the light(Bartels Hamburger Stand on the corner) Go down Hilltop about 2.8 miles and move into the right lane after Dana St. Continue south to the Holiday Inn and turn right onto the property and then left through the lot to the south end and right again into a huge parking area on two street levels. Lots of parking out front for trucks/tow vehicles only.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: First I want to thank all of you who post and share your information-as a begining fisherman I find it really helpful and generous-THANK YOU!
      I have a club tournament this weekend and would like a few pointers (so I know how/what to pack in by bag and what rods to bring). It seems like it has been slow up there, so I'm thinking split-shot, drop-shot, some finesse jigs??? Any information would be helpful- Thank all of you for your posts and keep up the good work!GOD BLESS
      City: YUBA CITY

      Tips: Any would be helpful!! :-)

Monday, October 11th, 2004

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: yeah, what the smart hunter said, he knows everything to fishing this small lake,
      City: s.j.

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 70ish

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went to anderson, caught 5 in 3hrs. fished the shore, lots of 1-2inch shad running the shoreline. My best bet is that the bass are eating them, try cranks spinners robo's and other shad baits to immatate them.
      City: s.j.

      Tips: best of luck