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Saturday, June 5th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished three days before the Future Pro event and the tourn. Tough bite all week. Actually, Monday and Tuesday were so tough that I almost did not fish. The bigger fish were really scattered and clearly in a post spawn mood. On Thursday I found a good concentration of Fish in Franks Track which was several hundard yards off shore and consisted of a ditch about 5 feet deep on low tide by 100-150-yards long and 20-30 yards wide. I was fishing with a competator who was having trouble finding fish so I gave him that water and planned on using it for a backup place to get a limit. The fish in that location were all 2-3.5 lbers. Tour. day was a total weather change, windy and my "kicker" water in Disapointment did not produce and neither did my next "big " fish water in Middle River. So no fish and 11:30 found me in Franks back at my ditch-thank God for GPS. We started catching fish immediatly and by 3:00 pm had culled three times, literly one ounce at a time.
      We came in 7th with 11.80 lbs and we both lost a 3-4lber that would have helped out. Fun afternoon tough morning.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Lipless crank baits. Not one fish pitching and flipping that morning and not one top water fish for me. Every fish we caught was from a very defined area and on orange or red traps. Tough bite out there right now if you are just covering water, but then again that's how I found that ditch - covering water and when I got bit went over to see why that fish was in the middle of no-where. Someone caught a 12+ on froggie. Another month for me and the frog.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Future Pro on Sat out of Brennan State park
      couldn't buy a fish, Threw Brushogs, Frogs, spinners,Jigs,senkos,Ilkas, dumpped the tackle box!!!, fished Franks Track, Fishermans cut, sand man,to name a few, couldn't find a pattern, had only one strike and was a 4 (inches not lbs).couldn't stay to see results but didn't seem to be many fish being weighed.Made me wonder if levie break has effected the bite somehow on Wed we nailed em in the pre fish up to 6lbs with best 5 over 20lbs?
      City: Alameda

      Tips: Wind was pretty bad in the AM white caps on Franks might wanna avoid that.

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      Water Temp: 68 - 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tough day for us. Wind was definitely a factor as it kept the surface temperature of the water pretty constant (and even cooled it a little) all day and made it difficult to control my boat. We managed 4 or 5 keepers to 2 pounds on spinnerbaits cast around the tule berms. Couldn't get bit on any flips along the rocky levee walls or in and around the tules. With the wind, we couldn't stay still enough to work Senko's effectively. Tried to use a small bullet weight to help, but didn't get any bites.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Move around until you find conditions that are favorable with wind and current, then stick to that pattern. White and chartreuse blades worked best for us - colorado or willow didn't seem to matter.

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are a biten,but no reports,???? Ok got a nice 6lber in stocton,@ladds,and a bunch of dinks,but 2's and 3's were brought in,try drifting senkos in tullies,from the bank to them.How about spinners in 8-9 ft. of water,that was the 6lber.i m guessing go w/ 4or 5 colorado blade and semi slow fillin that bottom.good luck.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: They might help,so people post

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

      Report: I threw a 1/4 speed trap from 5:30- 8 am, Picking up 20+, Biggest one was 19inches ( around 4-5 lbs) . I fished Pirate cove and fished a 200 yard stretch in a float tube. even caught one on a white buzz bait, single blade, I would like to thank Walton's for hooking me up with current fishing report.
      City: Gold River

      Tips: Bigger fish were caught on the end of the docks but fish were all along the docks.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I see none of my compatriots want to own up, so I'll do the telling. Four of us out there on Saturday night at the damn, and not one fish! We tried just about everything, and tried multiple sites, but nada. We blame it on the near full moon and recent trout plants. All the fat girls were full of planters, why would they want to chase down a facsimile? Still a good night of fishing with friends, as our Terminator/Gov'nor says "we'll be bach".
      City: SJ

      Tips: None, we sucked.

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My uncle caught a 12.6 bass using a minnow. We were despert. I seen over 20 bass over 10 pounds. No joke.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Try swim baits, but if you wanna catch a trophy, bring some jumbo minnows. You could catch the state record. Castaic doesnt have shit on Lafayette.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Oroville to fish the Anglers Choice Semi-Pro on June 5. Played the numbers game and spent the day on the Cul-em-rite. Caugt fish on topwater(spittin' image), rip-baits, hulas, and dropshot. Caught my first 2 largemouth on this lake both were in the trees and caught on a Roboworm 3 inch leach in Aaron's Magic on a dropshot. Caught some fish on the hulas in motor oil and brown with black flake. We caught many fish (lost count) mud lines made by all the boat traffic were the best for numbers using the drop shot, especially later in the day. Caught a fish on each of my last 5-6 casts, sure makes it hard to leave. We weighed in 5 for 7.79 with a .2 dead fish penalty that ended us in 7th place, 7.81 would have tied for 5th. Big fish was 2.24 and I think 8 something won it. I have heard of schools of roaming fish and finally saw them in 2 different coves on the lake, kills you when you know 1 solid bite will give you the win and you see about 10 of them just cruisin and none will bite. Talk about frustrating. All in all it was a good day. We spent our day in the Middle Fork but I think the bite was the same all over. Lots of healthy fish, but the decent bites were hard to come by. Anyway these lakes are not our forte and the learning curve is steep, but we will keep plugging. Now back to the Delta for some froggy action.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The main points held fish but it was the points within coves that we really put the fish in the boat. If you have a young one that wants to fish get a dropshot with a small green worm/leach and fish the mudlines, after getting used to the soft bite you should be able to put a bunch in the boat. loads of fun.

  • 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