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Saturday, June 5th, 2004

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: warm maybe 68-7

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well another day at the ponds ive been fishing here since before the fence was put in 19 yrs ago and this place has had good ones in it before i think if they made it MANDATORY catch and release this lake could improve tremendously !! i was here opening day and saw 8# smallies taken out i was pissed cause those were not planted the were natives anyhow today i got 3 largies and 2 smallies none over 3# so this place may come back around but its gonna take alot on ALL of us to keep it good! catch and release is a must here please let them go !! maybe my luck is karma who knows
      City: fremont

      Tips: try jigs black with red in horseshoe near swim lagoon early and from island to north shore towards the trout fisherman's side.smallies came from a black with blue denny brauer super tube

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the back island pond we caught 8 bass. 4 on a craw & shad crank bait, 1 on a blue spinnerbait, and 3 on a texas rigged 4 inch pink worm. good day of fishing
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: crank baits were working good but u have to fish them slow or they will just dive down into the weeds unless u can find some open water with no weeds

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: You two, Jerry and Bryce, are obscene in talking of those worms like that.. Smile/Hee Hee, just
      joking. On a serious note, Bryce, that #23 is working well here on Almanor and I will try it on another lake and tourney on Sunday. Looking forward to giving the others colors I got from you
      a try also. Will let you know the outcome and what they ate. Bill K
      City: Eagle lake road

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 70-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out around 5 pm Saturday evening to avoid all the ski boats. We decided to start up the Warm Springs arm since I haven't fished there in a while and before I could get the trolling motor in the water, my buddy Max was reeling in a fish. Then on my first cast I caught a 12" bass and 2 cast later a 14" keeper. We were both tossing blades and continued to catch about a dozen fish up to 3 lbs within our first 30 minutes. The wind was howling all evening which made it very tough. After dark the bite really slowed down and we only managed a few fish. Off the water around 12:30.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Reaction bite is going strong around the windy points. Fish in the evenings to avoid the boat traffic. For plastics, try brush hogs or grubs.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: SPENT 1 NIGHT AND 1 DAY FISHING TULLOCH OUT OF FLOAT TUBES WITH 2 OTHER FRIENDS WE FISHED DURING THE DAY AND DURING THE NIGHT. WE FOUND FISH DURING BOTH TIMES. ALL SMALLMOUTH EXCEPT MY BUDDY GOT 1 LARGIE. ALMOST ALL FISH CAME ON DARTERHEAD GRUBS A FEW TAKERS ON TOPWATER COLOR CHOICE WAS HIT AND MISS GREENS, WHITE, GRAY ALL SEEMED TO WORK. WE ENDED UP W/ ABOUT 60-80 FISH BETWEEN THE 3 OF US. NIGHT BITE WAS BEST FOR ME. WE DIDNT COVER MUCH WATER BUT THE WATER WE DID FISH THERE WERE SOME FISH THERE. MOSTLY SMALL FISH WITH A FEW 12"-14" HERE AND THERE BUT STILL A BLAST.
      City: SANTA CRUZ

      Tips: FISH LATE AT NIGHT IF YOU CAN STAY UP WITH THE BIG BOYS. DONT HOOK YOUR BUDDYS FLOAT TUBE IT CAN START LOTS OF PROBLEMS AND MAKE FOR A QUIET FLOAT SESSION FROM 11PM-3AM. SORRY GUYS I HAD TO FISH. BY THE WAY ALL YOU OTHER FISHERMAN THAT ARE THERE WHY NOT TRY POSTING A REPORT SOMETIME IT HELPS EVERYONE THANKS.

Friday, June 4th, 2004

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 70-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 2-6 pm at some submerged trees. Got 9 fish- 6 smallies, 2 largemouths and a real nice spotted bass. They were all keepers except the first one - it was 11 1/2 ". Got all the keepers on a 5" watermelon/red lizard t-rigged. The biggest one of the day was 2 pounds exactly.The wind seems to really rev them up. I had a 13-14" smally chase the lizard for 20' all the way back to the boat- nipped the tail 3 times but wouldn't swallow it! Just go.
      City: napa

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

      Report: My father and I hit the water around 8:30am out of lads. We fished a couple points that were productive in the past my father caught the most using senkos. We went further back into some quiet parts of the delta and I decided I wanted to fish my confindence bait. I tide on a speed trap and through off of some tall standing weeds. BOOM felt like a freight train hit my reel. After a brief fight trying to keep it out of the grass I pulled out a 23" 6.6lbs large mouth. My largest fish to date. You could see she was just post spawn or she would have weighed a lot more. Her sides felt hollow.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Fish your confidence bait. We checked all of the websites and everyone said senkos were the way to go and the bite was bad. My father caught all his fish on senkos about 7 if I remember right. I think I caught 2 on senkos and 2 on speedtraps including the 6.6.

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      Water Temp: 72 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day from 6:30 am to 8:30 pm. The basses were jumping when I got in and heck of anxious setting up my rigs. I started with cranks and had alot of followers, then switched to spinnerbaits and alot of followers, still no takers so I went smaller... spinners roostertails and bang a 1 lber nailed it but no hookset, I saw the fish and it spitted it out in front of me on the dock... they'd all were still jumping feeding, I'd wonder if this is breakfast for the basses feeding on bugs... lol, make me wanna try fly fishing. I didn't get a solid bite until 8pm, weightless plastic was useless all day. Caught 1 2 lber at 8pm which I released to fight another day. Trout fishing been slow too. A bank guy using catfish bait caught a friggin 7lber .. no picture for him cause the concession was CLOSED after 7pm but he weighted her at 7lbs. He told me she bit around 2 feet from shore. The dude kept the fish and decided to eat it... lol, I wonder what so good about basses, damn meat is tough and tasteless IMO, crappies are the best eating fishes in the sunfish family. Besides, most LM and SM basses are internally fill with mercury. Folks, better catch and release than getting sick eating basses. Oh well... that was it today for me just 1 solid bite around the boat launch. I didn't see any fishes around the tules but alot of shads feeding on bugs all morning.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Don't waste your time getting up early cause they'd ain't biting until late afternoon when you get solid hooksets ... after 3pm is a good time to start and fish till San Pablo closed which is 9pm, a good solid 6 hours of bass fishing.

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      Water Temp: Nice

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, fist time this year. Started in the back isloand pond at 7am in my kick boat. Kinf of slow. changes ponds 11AM. had 8 fish. Nothing large. Started east end of the long pond. Found the fish. I was fishing too shallow. Once I started fishing off the drop off in 10 to 15 feet of water I really started killin'um. From 11 to 4PM I had 40+ fish. they hit anything I could get that deep. Jigs, plastics, Senkos, blades. Didn't matter. Larger I had 3 or 4 to 4 bls. It was a good call changing ponds and going deep. Very fun trip. I saw two other tubes out there. all were catching fish.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Deeper water. Slow presentation.
      Dark colors, Plastics.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a couple of hours first thing in the morning. Caught 2 in the north end right away on a Senko. As the sun came up I fished texas rigged Roboworms in about 15ft of water and caught 4 more. Biggest was one of the Senko fish - just under 3lbs. The rest were 1-1.5lbs. Off the water before 11AM.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Lots of fish to be had this time of year. Fish the steep banks with your favorite plastic baits. Have fun!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 74 to 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers at 5:30 PM. slight wind out of the southwest. Went up the Sac to Potty Point and fish the wall to the north. Had a few hook ups but couldn't get anything to the boat. I was throwing some new colors and baits I had made earlier in the week. I think it was 7:30 or so before we boated a fish. I ended up with 12, but most were dinks, largest went 1.9lbs. The Blonde only caught 6 and she is looking over my shoulder to make sure I tell you hers ran from 1.5 to 2.0lbs., no dinks!! We used different worms, jig trailers, and a 4" lizard fished Texas rigged. All the plastics were BnS Worms in #23 Melon Pepper, #11 Motor Oil Wine, #30 Fall Craw, #31 Silver Shad(Ginger's worm), and your basic black trailer after the sun went down. Out at 12:00 midnight. Another beautiful night on Shasta.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: The better fish came after dark on the way back to the ramp in Packers cove. We caught fish from the bank to 25 feet deep.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004

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

      Report: Check this out...www.BerryessaTrails.org. The tree huggers would like to make some changes at Berryessa, and its not good for us fisherman..Any ideas..
      City: Penngrove

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Ok so I went out today before work 7-1130 in my float tube. Started out at the island and promptly cought one about 1.3lbs wormin moved, kept moving around got a couple more on the same worm moved found an area that looked too good to not parallel a spinner bait along the tulies see a swirl and feel something hit my spinner so I set and after about 3 cranks the fish jumps and my spinner gos flyin the opposite direction of the fish probably good for at least 5lbs probably more, kept moving along into the channel got a small one at the opening and nothing more back to the bridge. Hit the tulies next to channel pt next and got a decent one in semi open water went about 4lbs and another off the tulies by the rock pile that went 3 or so, Got a few more in the tulies next to the cove to the left of the boat ramp then had to get to work.
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: Its muddy near the boat dock and the further you get the clearer it gets, there was a big party type pontoon with guys doing work on some new pice of machinery near the dam dont know what it was though never made it that far out.

      Tom

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in the water at 4:30am ,calm darn near full moon.
      1st stop top water bite, on but only small fish.
      finely triggered a 2.7lb Largemouth to smash a chugger.moved up the river and fished solid rock walls up and back to Barrets several fish ,not many legal. purple seemed to be the color of choice.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Wait for thre new Moon and fish Mclure it is a much wider open bite.


      shakin b8ts , Bassrancher

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

      Report: Told my son about the bass I stuck at Lake Merced two days ago. He went to the lake in the am before work and found the spot. No bedding fish, no nothing. He cast a few baits around and still nothing. It was early, so he went back at lunch.

      The sun was bright, very little wind, good visibility, no fish.

      A guy comes by and asks if he's had any luck.

      My son says "No, but there should be a couple of largemouth bass on the beds, here."

      The guy says "Oh, yeah...somebody told me they caught a couple of nice size bass here - yesterday"

      Well.....
      City: Daly City, CA

      Tips: These bass were guarding a spawning bed. Now, some idiot has taken them both out had apparently had them for dinner.

      Please catch and release, that in a few years the
      same idiot can take a couple of fish home to eat and there will still be bass for others to catch for sport.

      I really should have mentioned that in my report a couple of days ago.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a couple days on this Memorial weekend. 1st day I fished a southbay lake morning bite and grounded twelve bass from 1/2lbs to 2lbs. For the afternoon bite I decided head to San Pablo to give it a try. The bite was real slow there and got nothing. I did see a nice estimated 7 lber that an old man had caught earlier that morning on a crawler, it was dead on a rope. No hope of saving that fish.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: Fished slow....w/plastics

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73.2-75.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 740PM, air temp 76, 95 in town, lake at 24.5 ft down, wind wnw at 5, ran up the McCloud a bit and the water is dirty with mudlines spread out nearly 1/8 mile with all the traffic over the weekend. Started throwing at the bank with a B&S twintail in melon pepper on a 3/8oz dart head but I wan't getting bit, about 9pm I switched to a 1/2 oz football head and started dragging it over red mud points and hit them good boating 18 small fish in the next 45 minutes then I ran out of the melon pepper twin tails. Stuck some different grubs on and caught 3 more but the bite shut down when the moon got on the water. Ran back to Bailey and got out at 1145PM, very little traffic, air temp 67 and a very pleasant evening.
      City: Redding

      Tips: the evening bite is great at sunset and a little after then it quits, fish were 12-18ft deep at first and on the bank by 915PM.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: i forgot

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started kinda late. took out my grandpa and can't do the 4am fishing trips. so i left the city at 630am got on the lake at 8 and started fishing around 830.....well i had a good time and he told me he did too..i limited out around 12 noon.
      the only problem i had was getting my grandpa into some fish..i got 6 and then he got a dink. i wonder how guides do it...
      he was using all my stuff and all my equiptment is pretty good, shimano reels and lOOMis rods...maybe he is just rusty...i'll fix dat..
      i left kinda early because my grandpa wanted to get off the water. he told me, "grandson we got our limit let's go have lunch"....my response ..sure grandpa =)...
      City: san francisco

      Tips: well..........keep in contact with your lure!!!..i fished deep...i always fish deep or most of the time....if you can teach your grandpa how to catch a limit in 5 hours, maybe u should be a guide....i want to......

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I have been out twice this week(Sunday and wednesday) Sunday I got two keepers at #2..one on a brn jig 3/8 oz with a 5"yama cinnamon twin tail, I got my other fish on a darthead worm 1/8oz arrons magic red flake..Wednesday me and Eric got in at 5 am, fished till 8:45am. got 4 fish combined for 6lbs8oz. 1 fish on a sppok jr(okie shad) with one of my dads tournament feather trailers to match..got other dragging worms arrons magic, oxblood, and watermellon...
      City: redding

      Tips: that time of year..fish real early or real late..start with top water..spook with feathered trailers to match( get ahold of me and I can have some made)...then drag worms down banks...

Monday, May 31st, 2004

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 2 bass (both one pounders) at Bass cove on Saturday around 9am using Norman DD22 purple crank bait and dark green senko around the tullies. No luck with topwater baits nor spinnerbaits. Send me an e-mail if you want to do some bass'in with me this coming Sunday (6/6).
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish in the morning at Chabot before the wind picks up.