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Thursday, July 29th, 2004

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: me and steph were a little bored friday night so we thought coyote dam sounded just right we made it to the lake at about 4 am it was perfect cought
      3 fish all on texas rigged worms, fish went from 2-3 lbs all nice keepers.it wasn't perfect but really fun, fished till 6:30 am.
      City: Aptos

      Tips: tried jig,topwater,splitshotin,dropshotin,and rippin thank god for the good old texas rig.

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      Water Temp: warm 70+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Been fishing the freeway side the last couple times according to the last report posted. Caught several small fish on a 1/4 oz. blue/chrome trap, but nothing big until I started tossing a t-rig grub in shad colors. I was not getting bit as much with the trap but they were better quality fish up to 2.5#.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Vary the retrieve on the trap. Let the grub sink to the bottom and a nice slow retrieve back. Most fish hit it on the initial drop or pick it up on the retrieve. Better fishing when it was hotter last week.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 81.2 to 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers at 4:30PM. Ran up the McCloud to Ycotti and picked up a nice 3lber. first thing with a 1/2 oz. football head with a BnS twin tail in #22 Brown Melon. Things went slow after that. Moved across to Greens Creek and started working the points moving down to the main body. Picked up a 2.0 on the same rig with a #23 Melon Pepper twin tail. The total for the night was 10, the best fish for the Blonde in the back was a 1.4 on a darterhead with a #23 twin tail. It was a beautiful moonlite night.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: If you are out after dark be sure and watch your speed, the patrol boats are out doing their job.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: ...............

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got there at about 8:30 it was nice cold in the morining then got hot at 11:00 the fisging was good but the bitting really hard to hook only cought 1 samllie
      City: south san francisco

      Tips: find a really quiet are try lucky craft and plastics

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: One person guide trip with Joe. Working on flippin and pitchin technique. Woring the outgoing tide around Franks, Quimby, Mandeville and Holland. We targeted islands and weed edges and after a little trial and error we ended up using the New Doc Waters tube. Was a great bait if you think tubes are only for spring your mistaken. From 6:00 to about noon we landed about 30 bass to 3.5lbs some small one but most were quality fish 1.5-2.5 lbs and about 14lbs for 5. After lunch the flip bite slowed down and we went to cranking the speed trap and caught another 15 or so most all small.
      City: Concord

      Tips: The better fish came form 5-10ft deep on water melon red and motor oil Doc waters tubes

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother Jack is in from Houston and we have been fishing every day with fishing slow this time of year until our planned night trip to Clearlake. Launched out of M&M and all the reports were no topwater, dragging a purple worm off Rattlesnake and Senkos up until nightfall and then no bite until sunup. We started out near Windflower Point throwing blades and nailed a couple up to 2lbs and then headed for Jago where my brother caught more bass in 2 hours than he had all week. Working the docks and rocks we killed them on jigs. Next stop was the state park tules where Senkos were the item of choice, averaging 1-3 pounders and then when the sun went down, the bite got slower but NEVER disappeared and that probably was due to the good moon we had. Nailed our largest 5.25 pounder at 3AM on a 10" worm near Konocti. When the sun started coming up we started all over again catching one after another until I said we gotta go as I need a break and we finally pulled off the water around 9AM. It was extremely hard to figure our count for the night but a minimum of 50 keepers were brought to the boat, not mentioning our misses. Clearlake is HOT, HOT, HOT right now and you better get out there. We hit it on a good night as the lake was calm all night and made running easy.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: When they are on Senkos, it doesn't really matter what color you are throwing and we were throwing them weightless. Our 10" MGM Baby Bass were in hogsbreath scent and weighted Texas rig while a 5" purple worm worked slowly near docks and rocks was very effective.

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

      Report: Has anybody been at the lake? I have a tournament this weekend and was looking for a little help.
      City: Livermore

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: nice day! water was calm.we fished in the large cove by the parking lot in the evening! caught 2 on a shad crankbait and one on a trout rattletrap. also i was fishing with a popR and had a huge blowup but mist the darn fish, he hit the thing twice but missed both times...gotta love seeing a fish strike a topwater bait...
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: use crankbaits, that seems to work the best at UVAS

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: probably around

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: nice day! caught 3 by the rocks on the west side of the lake across from the ramp. caught 2 on a senko and one on a brush hog. fished the afternoon for about 2 hours or so. biggest fish was around 5 pounds.i mist a huge fish...
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: pay attention when fishing

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished White Slough in the Delta today slow bite only caught four fish to 7 lbs. & pounder came on a double wide sweet beaver teas craw color. My friend did not believe me when I told him to flip really tight to the bank so I had to show him how to do it. Another fish came on a frog. Water temp 78.5 mild wind and sunny.
      Fire Jon
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Still learning the Delta

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Sounds like Chris likes to speed around the lake.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had an absolute blast on Tuesday fishing with Julian and Damien from Kansas. Damien's goal was ta git a giant Delta frog fish. I explained with the cool nights, our windo would be in the afternoon and we would just putz around fishing topwater early, then some dropshotting, then some pitching and flippen and around 2:00pm we'd begin froggin when it got hot and the tide was moving up. This worked well as we caught 8 topwater fish on Spooks, poppers and Trixie shads fished around tulle islands in the first 1.5 hours of the day. Biggest was a 3.5 on the spook. We then went off to dropshot and just had an absolute ball catching a large numer of fish, over 50 fish in 5 hours up to three pounds. Many of these were smaller fish, but we had easily 20 keepers. The next couple of hours we spent pitching and flippen Beavers and the new Yamamoto Creature to weed clumps on steeper rock walls. Not near as many bites, but much better quality fish as we put 9 fish in the boat from 2.5 to 4.5 pounds. At 2:00pm we began frogging and had 19 blow ups, and boated 7 of these, with the biggest being Damien's personal best of 5.8 pounds. I had two absolute behemouth bass just lumber up and grab my frog right in front of us, each time before I could set, these fished turned, loaded my rod and the braided line snapped like powder. Geeze, I just bought those "perfect" frogs! ARGH! Awesome day fishing and catching on the River!
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Don't get too hung up using one technique. Early morning topwater bite is there, but must fish big buly baits real slow. Dropshot the outside weed edges on the falling tide, large numbers of fish can be found near openings with current flow, that have big grass beds near by. Pitch and flip bulky creature baits to grass clumps on rocky levee banks, 5-7' depth is the best zone. In the afternoon, find wind protected banks wit calm water, tulles with a trough and close weedline, slow twitch a frog till the sun goes down.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out at about 8:30 am for some tubin'. Stated my first hour with out so much as a bite. Started to move out and found a fish with a spook something in the 7-8lb bracket but he got off decided to switch the hooks on the spook and didnt lose another fish all day(Very important to switch the hooks out). Got a 5 on the end of the island flat. Kept moving along out in the end of the island flat with out any more takers on the spook or C rig. Moved to the north point of the east cove and had no takers got my next fish at the dam with jigs got fish all along the dam including two fours and 4 fish going 2-3lbs each. Got around to the east bank which has never been good for me and still isnt :) Started seeing movement in the cove next to the boat ramp lots of shad flying and bass in hot presuit couldnt get those fish to go on a buzz bait or spook moved along to the next part of the cove got a quick 2lb fish and a 5.1 over all a good day.
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: Topwater and jig bite are on colors are up to you to decide.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out again using the 6in MM roboworms. worked the north shore for a while a had some bites but missed them. i then went to the rocks behing the lagoon on the south part using the same things. i got A 1pd trying split shot. a two pounder drop shot style and got a 4pd off a blue gil curly tail roboworm. got lots other small ones too. going out again thursday with my brother.
      City: oakley

      Tips: the plastic worms seem to be working good right now. when your at the rocks cast out pretty far. i got some past the booies.

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

      Report: Sounds like chris like to speed around the lake

Monday, July 26th, 2004

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

      Report: I don't know if there is another Lafayette lake in the bay area, it can't be the one I fished. I fished from 7:00 a.m till around 2:00 and caught about 40 fish but not one over 8 inches, rented a boat and covered the entire lake and didn't see one fish over 10 inches, lots of dinks, don't know where all these record bass are in this lake?????Are we talking about the same lake guys
      City: Alameda

      Tips: Lots of action on drop shot with purple senkos in the tules, but no big fish around.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley 7am fished humps in main body of pit and up the squaw, fishing slow at best and doesn't look to better in near future. Spent the night fishing for catfish. Return to ramp to find truck broken into and gas siphon seems to be a regular event on the Jones ramp. Wonder what it would take to get a few fisherman together and work with the sheriff's department and put in a few surveilance camera's.
      City: Redding

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Franks as the tide bottomed out and into the first few hours of incoming. Lots of fish on buzzbaits (both wht and blk got an equal share), mostly little guys w/a few 2+ lb fish in the mix. Had two big bites, one I'll never know for sure but guessed about 6-7lbs. We made the classic mistake of crossing over each others lines and it hurt, big time. As I was trying to horse the beast out, my girlfriend, who's line was over me hooks up too. First time a double hook-up ever bummed me out. Oh well, I made up for it a few minutes later with a 9lb 12oz toad and this one stayed around long enough for a few pictures. Also got to see a 20+ lb striper blast what looked like a 2lb Sac pike right along side the boat, very cool..
      City: TRACY

      Tips: Little fish were everywhere we went, both big bites came from tule points just outside the current.

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

      Report: Went out tubing, started around mid-day. Fished around the boat launch and in the cove directly across the lake. Had a good day with plenty of small fish, largest was around two pounds. Caught all my fish on blades and traps. There is some nice fish in here, you just have to get in the 15-20 ft range. Great place to crank, and burn blades. Lots of fish along the rocky points.
      City: san jose

      Tips: blades, traps - try some jigs too. Saw people banging out fish while drop shotting. I'm sure a purple roboworm would clean house. Very easy to have a 20+ fish day.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Was at the lake 6am-9am by the diner area. The water level look shallow and saw alot of fish jumping. Fishing on the shore using popper-R, rooster tail spinner and live bait(nightcrawlers). But no bite. Man, these darn fish are hard to catch. Haven't caught a fish at this lake yet. Any suggestion? which part of lake is good spot?
      City: San Jose