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Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launch out of Rivers End with Fred for San Diego. He hasn't been on the water for about a year or longer. We(or I should say He) caught alot of (dinks) (30+)fish on a blade, buzzbait, spooks, tubes and drop-shoting. Fred had a good limit in the first 2 hours. I got alot of binks untill 11:00. The bigger fish came way off the bank in the weeds or in deeper water were there was alittle current.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Find some current and a weed line and throw a buzzbait in the morning. Back off the bank when the sun comes up and throw a blade or shallow running lures over weedline.

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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at wimpys, ran up to Lost slough.Started out slow, using a buzz bait, picked up a few dinks and one that went 3.14 on scale. Got hot so I grabbed the frog rod first 2 casts stuck a 3 and a 6lber nothing else the rest of the day.
      City: Sac

      Tips: Don't listen to Tritonboy, Lost slough is just starting to get good. When it gets hot don't be afraid to grab the frog rod.

      Frog colors: yellow-headed blackbird and red-headed blackbird.(stick with it until you get the BIG bite!!!!!!!!!!!)

Tuesday, July 6th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of Wimpy's and caught a few fish on frogs in lost + middle biggest was about 4lbs. i only got 5 on frogs. nothing else.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: stick with the frog no matter where you are for the big bite

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      Water Temp: 74 - 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: put in at ladds and headed out for columbia cut. there is a litte break off the cut that produced a 3lb er, plus several smaller fish. had plenty of mats, so i tried the frog with no luck. then moved on to area near king island. again severl small fish. then moved to whiskey slough where i had good luck the previous week. nothing to mention at whiskey. then went to 14 mile slough and landed some more dinks. any way had alot of fun even though i only caught 1 worth talking about.
      City: modesto

      Tips: go out have fun.

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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I'd have to agree with Big Daddy Blue Rangers' last report. Since I'm trying to learn the Delta, throwing the frog is letting me cover lots of water, and catch some nice fish. Last Friday the frog brought a 7.5lber for big fish, and yesterday my best 5 went a little over 22lbs, with another fish over 7. Throw the frog!!!!!
      City: Modesto

      Tips: FROG....FROG.....FROG.....FROG....!!!!!!!!!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks. BassinBy,
      I actually only got to fish the river on the Hghwy 89 I think it was for just a little while. I was throwing a casting bubble with an olive colored fly/nymph. No fish. My neighbor had fished Stampede lake and got ten on the troll. Anyway, I should of drove down the road and hit up the other bodies of water, but time has a funny way of running out to quick

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 85.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: a hot one today, redding at 115, in at Jones Valley at 2055, air temp 99, lake down to 48ft, slight push out the south, over into the middle Pit with the first one on at 2104 and ten more by 2215 when things came to a halt, no skiers tonight and the sheriff came by twice before 2200. The wind came up a bit at 2200 but gone as quickly as it arrived. Only one more inside Jones Valley at 2330 so I got out, the hump is up at Jones Valley, used a 3/4 jig tipped with a B&S lures twintail in melon pepper and soaked in their goop. no size to speak of with most being clones near 1.6, fat and spitting up crawdads and shad, no dinks. out at 2345, airtemp still 95 lakeside and muggy.
      City: Redding

Monday, July 5th, 2004

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

      Report: Caught 1 from shore useing a blue grub bait from berkley, it was small but still ok size(1 lb). Other than that nothing from shore. Other people were cathing 10+ from there boats. Its just to hard to move around when your on shore. good luck.
      City: san jose

      Tips: there are a lot of boats out there so its best to go later around 4. And if you have a boat use it!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out around the break today. got one 5#er in the marina and 2's on matts on the western side of the break. Frogs and Senko's worked best. also ran up to Hog, and Lost Slough the day before. Didnt catch a thing except for some dinks on a popper in hog. i never do good up there though.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: The frog bite is getting better and better!

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      Water Temp: 72-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to fish the Break since we haven't been there in a while. My girlfriend stuck a 2lb frog fish on the outside edge of a mat before we got out of the marina, nice start. Spent a few hours throwing spooks, frogs and buzzers around grass and tule islands w/a few rolls and none in the boat. So, my girlfriend went to flipping and quickly started putting fish in the boat, small fish, but still fish. I stuck w the frog and kept insisting the big bite would be on top. I think she was on her 8th or 9th fish when the opportunity window opened: my first bite went 6lbs, followed by two more over four all within about 20 minutes. She switched back to the frog but had missed it, only small fish from then on out. Best five around 17 1/2lbs
      City: TRACY

      Tips: It take decipline to stay w topwater all day, but the big bites will come.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We went out of holland riverside today for about 5 hours. Started out at about 11:00 am throwing spinnerbaits and caught one about 2 lbs. and saw another fish, a little bigger collowing him. Found a big mat, and tied on the frog, and had 3 blowups, but somehow missed all 3. my dad caught two frog fish, biggest on a little shy of 3 pounds. kind of small for a frog, i think. went back to the spinnerbait for a few hours and caught a few to about 2 pounds. Nothing on senko all day, until about 2:30. went into some slough to the left when you come out of the marina and cast a six inch watermelon senko into a pocket in the weeds about four feet away from shore and stuck a nice kicker around 7 pounds. got me stuck in the weeds, but managed to land him.
      City: concord

      Tips: fished chartruese white spinnerbait around weeds and in shade, and fished black in the sun. frogs were black/blue and black/red tourney frogs.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for a couple of hours in the morning. Moved around a lot mainly fishing the points. Caught a few small bass with Carolina rigged Roboworms. Fishing was tough. Biggest was just over a pound.
      City: San Jose

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

      Report: 5" inch watermelon roboworm drop shot got me a nice 3-pound smally in about 20' of water at the drop off by Hetch Hetchy Group camp area around 2pm on July 3. The wind was blowing 10-15 MPH but didn't keep the fish from biting. I was simply drifting and had 3 bites but boated only one. But that one put up and good fight and made the day worthwhile. Del Valle is a great bass lake.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish deep along dropoffs. Bass are deep this time of the year.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The fish are killing shad like crazy right now. I don't even bother float tubing. If the weather is hot the fishing is too. I fished it 4 times last week from the shore on the 17 side. Plastic bite is slow and you catch a lot of dinks but there are quite a few 2+ lb footballs lurking out there. Tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits and jerkbaits, nothing works. It's all about rattletraps, vary your retrieve, fish the flats and the points.
      City: Santa Cruz

      Tips: TIP: Put bigger, better trebles on your lures or you will lose fish! Stock hooks suck on rattletraps. Evening bite is on, Broad daylight has been good too. Tight Lines. Z

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      Water Temp: 77 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Okay Hogan fisherman, It has been a long time since i have seen any reports for this res. Tried searching for the surface bite for stripes was pretty dead yet maybe in a couple of weeks.
      Went out mid day and fished the rock walls and main points for blacks.
      Even though the boat traffic was insane I managed to catch some pretty nice fish about eight from 2-5lbs These fish are some pretty strong fighters. Been fishing the Delta so long I forgot what it was like to have fun out on the lake.
      Caught all the fish throwing plastics.

      Success to all,
      Phil
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Fish hard even though the sun is smokin hot!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the north fork today for the first time. I did not get as many fish as I would in the south fork but I landed 7 large mouth all over 2.5 lb it was great I have never caught a large mouth there caught them on 4" plastic.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: take a kid fishing I took a nine year old with me and he caught the first 3 fish of the day and now is hooked on fishing.

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Pardee the first time this year and it was a slow day for us. We boated a total of about 10 bass in all, a couple spots and the rest L.M., no smallies. All fish came in about 30 feet of water near shaded areas on downsized finess baits, with a couple on crankbaits. The water was so clear you could see about 30 feet deep, and that didn't help us out any.
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Not much in the way of tips other than to downsize bait and line diameter. Green colors worked for us on the few we caught.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: 4TH time out.
      Fished all day. Tried eveything you can imagine.
      Not a single bite all day..........!!
      City: bolinis

      Tips: DONT WAST YOUR TIME HERE!! THIS PLACE SUCKS

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I don't think there are any stripers here. Fished from about 7am to 12pm. Tried top waters for about an hour with no takers. Tried casting and retreiving a grub on a p-head. got nothing on that either. Tried a magic worm c-rigged and picked up 2 dinks and 1 about 2#. Tried a Senko from the boat launch area and hooked one about 3#. Caught another dink from the same area on the c-rig. Tried a brush hog along the bank by uvas road and got another about 1.5#.
      City: san jose

      Tips: apparantly the fish were at or near the bottom. The main "cover" at this lake is probably on the bottom- changes in bottom contour, rocks, old creek beds etc.

Sunday, July 4th, 2004

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: Didn't even che

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Stevie "Guitar" Miller, fireworks, and a wide open drop-shot bite!Man,what a cool 4th of July!After the party on the water(there must have been over 500 boats),wife and I motored South and tied off at windsock point(don't know the official name).They have placed a steel pole w/flashing light and ROCK sign at it last week.We fished until the moon came up big over the hills,when I decided to sleep for a while.The self appointed drop-shot queen of Clearlake continued to splash my face with bass thrashing in the water until she got tired of unhooking them, at least 25 fish from the same spot!They went from tourney keepers to over 5lbs.and it didn't even make a difference what color ya used.They're also on the jig bite pretty good.4th of July on Clearlake, highly recommended,just watch out for drunk a-holes in boats! God bless America,Rich.
      City: Hidden Valley Lakes(Middletown)

      Tips: We used purple neon,rythem & blues,arrons magic, and what ever old stuff I had in worm bag. All nose hooked w/14" leader.Brown jigs w/dark trailer seemed to work good too. Also,pinch down barbs on drop-shot rigs to make it easier on all dem bass so they can become Clearlake trophies!