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Thursday, May 27th, 2004

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in at 8.00am and fished till 4.00pm. Rained the night before but water wasn't muddy. Hit up the north end. Fished points and secondary points. Caught 3 on a spinnerbaits(shad color) in 4-10 ft of water. My buddies who were with me caught the same amount on spinnerbaits as well. All were dinks to 1.5 lbs. Tried for bigger fish on rock walls and nothin,. Then hit up another big cove and got them on carolina rigged brush hogs. Lots of fish. All were 1lb to 2 lbs. ALso tried south end and my buddy caught one flippin the brush with a senko. He was 1.5lbs. Biggest fish of the day was a 2.5lbr on a texas rigged red senko caught by my buddy Matt. There were a lot of fish at the two first spots we hooked up fish but not any others at other places we tried. So we went back to our first two spots and nailed them again. Total # fish on the boat was about 16. All were small.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Find gradual sloping points and throw brush hogs(watermelon red, junebug, and grn pumpkin)carolina rigged with at least 2.5ft of leader. Work it slow.

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

      Report: Had a great time just fishin. Keeper 082r and Junebug in the Fat Mini style were catching lots of fish everywhere we went. Tried some Top Water and caught fish on an old Michael I have all thruogh the day. Fish mostly steep rock banks in the canyon areas had the best day on Don Pedro I have had in almost 10 years
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Deep Water close by and fish slow most plastic bite came on the fall.

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      Water Temp: 67 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last friday 5/22 and gotten 2 bites all day again. Both males around 1 1/2 pounds, seems like the females and momma hawgs are DEEP feeding on shads around the reservoir and middle of the lakes. I don't rent boat atSan Pablo because it's so expensive and when you get skunk or catch 1-2 fishes it just ain't worth it. The trout bitesstop for some reason, maybe they'd are feeding on baby frys from the bassess, carps or crappies. Well, if some of you want to know the action around the dam it's real dead, you have to work real hard all day to get some bites, but if you do get a bite it's usually a big fish, my buddy caught a 11+ pounder momma hawg last year there but didn't have any luck this year. The cranks and spinnerbaits are the only thing working for me right now, getting too much snags losing plastics dropshotting around the tules and rocks, alot of gears lost so far. The crawlers netting bluegills right now so the cranks and spinners are the only productive bait so far.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Just keep working the rapalas and spinnerbait around docks and tules, 20+ cast will net a couple of 1-2 pounders, plastics work too but prepare to lose gear and water level is down exposing alot of big weeds, tules, and rocks. The bait get caught when you starting cranking it back on shore, a boat will help if you own one and you are deeper water than on shore.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

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

      Report: threw spinners with no luck. rippin' in the shallows, still nothing - went to drop shotting, had a few strikes, landed nothing. Finally caught a dink on a four inch junebug lizzard. Where the hell are all the fish?
      City: san jose

      Tips: I dont know, plastics are still gettin bites, so stick with them.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 69-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First night trip of the summer. Started out about 5:00 pm outside of Lakeport throwing a Spook,nothing so about 8:00pm I went to Jago and caught 4 or 5 quick 2 lbers dropshotting a trick worm on the outer tulle edge and pockets. Started my night run and did not catch anothre fish until 11:30 which was a huge 11 inches long. Thinking I may have picked a night a little too early in the season I went to one more rock hump and picked up a 10.01 and a 4.39. From 12:00 until the moon set about 1:45 was good, mostly all solid 2-3lbers and no other big fish. Slept in the tulles fromm 2:30 till 9:00 am. Alot of 2lbers on Thursday, again drop shotting and topwater with a Sammy. WINDY.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: The 10.01 came out of 20 plus feet of water as did the 4.39, same rock pile. Not a mark on either fish so I think they were in the earliest spawn and have already moved into the summer pattern. Favorite night bate, 8 inch Yam. grub, Florida Rig, in black with blue or red flake. Alot of hits on the jig but they were eating my tails of the grub, darn "pearch".Real windy and it was nice not to see a lot of boats this two day trip.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fair day at The Coyote. Worked the north end from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM in my float tube. No takers on a Carolina-rigged senko or a pig'n'jig. Caught one dink on a small Mission fish swim bait. Those Florida strain bass are aggressive! Packed up and fished the south end, caught a 1 1/2 and a two pounder on a texposed senko. Fish were relating close to cover, right up in the trees. Not too shabby, pretty quality, but nothing worth hanging on the wall. Water level is HIGH.
      City: Belmont, CA

      Tips: Weightless senkos up and in the trees and brush, south end.
      Try splitshotting a reaper in the shitter by the ranger kiosk, usually good for a few keepers.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 73-74.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at 4:00p for evening trip, hoping for topwater action. Found that lake level had dropped nearly 10 feet in recent weeks. Virtually no action until after six and only in shade. Fair topwater action for small spots, redeyes and LM, in that order. No size. Best probably two+. Need stable water levels.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Best topwater locations seems to be large rocks with some sparse wood adjacent to good depth. R

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      Water Temp: not tested

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: There to fish for trout nothing much happening I only got 3 bite from 3:30 pm to 5:30 all on nightcrawler with power eggs 2 are dinks and 1 is about 2.5lbs it seems that thing are slowing down right now. by the way I'm trying to get a hold of Rob Beloni if he guide me fishing on beryessa or clear lake Rob if you are reading this please drop me an e-mail thanks
      City: San Francisco

      Tips: Nightcrawler are pretty much working than powerbait

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out about 6:oo an tuesday. Picked up 10-15 bass in the evening. The bite is hot at sunset. Largest was 16 in and around 3 pounds. Motor oil and shartruce tail working ok. Bigger fish on sencos.
      City: redding

      Tips: most of my sucess was on rock drop offs 8-30 feet deep,

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: fished from the bank today not enough time to get the boat out, caught about 8 or 9, 2 fish went 13 inches then the dinks for the rest of the evening.
      City: bv

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My first time to the Delta. launced out of Ladds. Fished Turner Cut, Whiskey Slough, 14mile Slough, and the main channel. Lots of little males on rip rap. My biggest fish was 3.5 flippin in some tullies with a sweet beaver in turner cut. Caught others on buzzbaits, texas rigged brush hogs, but they had no size. Had fun for my first trip and can't wait to go again. If you guys have any tips for me out of Ladds, e mail me.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Want lots of little guys? Watermelon red flake Brush hogs texas rigged with a red bead on any rip rap you can find. Get there before the wind.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished by myself Tues morning and took an outdoor writer Wed morning. I caught 9 on the first trip and 8 today. The bite was fair in the morning on Senkos and jigs. The bass are spitting up crawdads and hitting brown/orange Rodstrainer jigs very well. The fish were fairly small the first day, but the second, thank goodness, I caught several spots in the 1 1/2 to near 2 pound range for a good photo!! The lake is definately experiencing post-spawn, and it is clearer than normal, making for tough mid-day fishing. Morning dawn and smoke blue worms work the best when the sun is high. Topwater is dead, at least in the morning.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Look for shadows in the flooded trees. Many fish will be there until the water becomes too shallow. The off-shore structure will become better every week now as the lake continues to drop. Jigs are a good way to catch quality fish right now.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out for a couple hours. put 3 in the boat on darter heads in the south arm
      City: Sac

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got up to the lake at about 7:20 and headed up to dry creek area. we fished in yorty creek, and found 2 bass on drop shot and senko, then went to warm springs and got 4 more on same lures. so on a rating of 1-10 id give today a 3 or 4. i dont know what happened, i guess it was just too cold.

      Tips: caught bass on points, and rip rap and near wood.

Monday, May 24th, 2004

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out of wimpy,s in walnut grove. caught 10 on senkos and a bluegill on a senko? best 5 went 12lbs. big fish was 3.5.
      City: sacramento

      Tips: senkos in black and blue flake.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 72.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Jones Valley at 815pm, air temp 74, water temp 72.5 at the ramp witha slight push out of the south. Got on some submerged humps in the lower Pit and started throwing a blade and rip bait with no takers. Tied on some new plastics(twin tail grubs) and got bit on third cast by a fat 3.08 spot. replaced the twin tail on the 3/8oz darter head and moved a bit and got another one about 2 minutes later that went 2.65 and I am liking this new stuff. Ended up with 9 more by 1015 pm when the wind came up out of the east and things got a bit chilly. My team partner and good friend Bryce Fuller has gotten caught up making his own brand of plastics and i went to his place earlier today and picked up some stuff to try out. I was particularly interested in the twin tails he is making and managed to beg for about 4 different colors and probably 6 a piece in each color. The most productive is his Black Root Beer ,#18 and his color #14(Dark melon oil) and #23 Melon Pepper.My best three fish on any color came on the #18 and went 7.34lbs. Missed about 20 others and had a few dinks but all in all a nice evening out. I didn't throw any of his worms, kinda hard to lay down my darter head rig when I am getting bit repeatedly. Good stuff Bryce! Got out at 1030 pm, temp down to 59 with a chilly wind from the east. There is about enough for 4 rigs in the gravel right now and the lake is 20.24 ft down.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Bryce can be contacted by email at brycensusan@juno.com, He lives in Cottonwood just south of Redding. Phone number is (530)347-1779 B and S worms is the name of his new business.

Sunday, May 23rd, 2004

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: warm, dunno fe

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: dead sea. fished all day, got 5 for two of us. best at 3, 2, and 1 with a few even dinkier. no topwater yet. down 20-45 ft.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: long casts, slow down. then slow down some more. blue/purp jigs. did i say slow down?

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 69-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a windy day yesterday at the lake - that delta wind - NOT breeze - started around 10 am and really became annoying! I was guiding three guys, so that made for a hard working day for me! The foggy morning was calm and one of the fellows wanted to catch a topwater bass real bad and I told him it was pretty tough lately. I started them all split-shotting 6' Camanche Jack worms and I threw a Chug Bug to see what would happen in a cove outside Markley. Fish on - a 15" spot! So I gave him the rod, told him to stand right next to me, showed him how to work it, and he proceeded to slay them on the Bug! I think he caught 7 on top. I lucked out in the choice of starting areas - the cove was full of bait and bass! My X-19 was in full color!!! The worm bite was on too and I just ran around the boat - bumping into people - netting bass after bass. Wow! I had a moment to make a few casts with a Sammy and hooked a monster smallie which cost me 15 bucks! Guess I'll retie more often! We fished the west shore, trying to stay out of the wind. For the first time, the middle of the day bite was slow for us - a fish here and there. We wound up with 23, and many, many missed fish because of the wind.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I would like to congratulate the idiot in the bass boat that was doing about 40 mph in the 5 mph section of big island. I'm sure he did a lot for our image! Another bassin' guy decided to scare all of us in the afternoon - roaring by within 75 feet of our boat. Couldn't believe it!! Anyway, we didn't target big fish, just tried to have some action. I had a chance to do a litle drop-shotting, but it didn't work yesterday. We got one or two on a Senko, but the worms worked the best, about 15 to 25 feet deep. Some of a purple color in the worm worked best, although the morning dawn was fine as always. The lake now has good color - not too clear!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of rio vista, fished cache, prospect and steamboat. can anyone tell me if there's fish up in these parts!!! tried buzz, spinners rattle traps and senko's! no luck
      City: rio vista

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Whiskey Slough. Tried white skirted spinnerbaits with no luck. frogs....nothing. Even the old Senko didn't work for me. Slow rolled a snap-back green lizard and nailed a 5 lb 4 oz hawg!!!! Threw it back in the same spot and reeled in a 3 lb 8 oz. After about 20 mins of nothing...I threw out a Madman craw...dragged it real ssssllllloooowwww....then BAM! I brought in another beast at 6 lb even!!!! This all occured within 2 hours. Called it a night after that. The trick seemed to be slow.....I mean dead slow. Just barelt drag along the outside weedlines.
      City: Parts Unknown

      Tips: Carolina and craw baits. Be patient cuz the slower I seemed to fish is when I caught my stringer. Im talking drag 2 feet. Stop...count to 15-20...and slowly drag again. They always hit after the 3rd or 4th pause. Tight Lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!