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Thursday, January 1st, 2004

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out New Years from 9:00 to 3:00 to very tough conditions.Windy and between fronts. Tried all the usual stuff dropshot,jigs,spoons with no bites at all.I went to a carolina rig with 4.5'' worms and ended up with two spots.
      We had five guys fishing in three boats and my two fish were the only ones caught.
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: If your baits moving your going to fast.

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

      Report: To all volunteers to help us at quarry. Please remember to bring your raingear and gloves just in case. Anyone who needs to get ahold o me can reach me at basshunter4u@aol.com As ar as the shocking goes. I dont work or the parks dept. I go on the shock boat to moniter the bass populations and make sure there is no hanky panky. its because o them transering the bass to quarrys in the irst place is the reason we are dumping trees. Kinda like the parks slap oo the wrist. Remember I am a tournament bassisherman and I care about our lakes.
      City: Castro Valley

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

      Report: went out around 5:00am decided to go fishing for some bass I went to the south side of the lake started fishing around 7:45am I had no bites I headrd some fish jumpin and i looked back they looked diffrent the any fish i have seen. I casted out a crankbait on the third cast i felt my rod bend i set the hook and the fish started to pull drag out for a couple of min. it took 15 min. to bring in, it was a weird fish when i got to the dock i asked around to see what it was they said it was a sturgeon it weight 10.6 pouunds they said they were geting reports aof sturgeon caught but they didn't belive it until know. Their really is sturgeon out their who knows what else could be out their.

      Tips: fish the trees

Wednesday, December 31st, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the mainbody showing a riend withhis new boat around the lake mainly justinstructing him how to operate a big boat.well anyway the ish were in 12 to 16t onpoints and structure oriented. I did stickish the back o coves with structure andrunning water. All ish were taken at BigIsland area o the lake. The ish were a mixed bag o Spots and Smallies to 2lbson Texas rigs and carolina rigs and Dropshot rigs...nothing rippin yet
      City: woodpile

      Tips: color didn't seem to matter going slow doesind small breaks rockpiles anything or them to station on ....they'll be there. andyou don't have to be deep to catch ish.

Tuesday, December 30th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 47-50

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My brother and I got on the lake at about 9am. Water temp was between 47-50 dierent places on the lake. Lake is really low right now...read only 40 ish probably all day. Most are suspended below 40 eet deep. Not a bite all day. Tried everything. Jigs, drop shot, cranks, rattles, spinners, spoons, sots, everything we could think o. We ished iddleneck, the river arm, the ar end o the lake, the dam, wrinkle cove, and everything in between. Hal the lake isn't deep enough to hold bass right now with the temp it's at, so hit the deeper areas to ind groups o ish. We sure couldn't ind em!
      City: modesto

Monday, December 29th, 2003

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my kids out around 12pm today and ished 'till 4pm. Tossed Powerbait and nightcrawlers, nothing. Threw some plastics and jigs, but no action. Spent good quality time with the kids beore heading back into work Monday.Water is really muddy. It's not worth heading out until it clears up. Saw six other boats trying to igure out where the ish where; none had any luck either.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: cool

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TO WHOM EVER CLEANED THE TRASH FROM THIS FISHING REPORT PAGE THANKS.MAYBE FROM NOW ON ALL OUR REPORTS WILL BE CONSTRUCTIVE.MAY YOUR FISHING TRIPS BE LIMETED IN THE FUTURE.HAVE A GREAT NEWYEAR.
      City: remont

      Tips: GO FISHING AND ENJOY THE OUTING

Sunday, December 28th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water late. 9:00am Had to make to drive to Tracy to get some Jumbo minnows. Launched out o Orwood with my son (Niko) and headed to Disco. Dragged minnows around or hour with nothing. Saw some birds diving and headed that direction. Got to the area and the depth inder went black. Balls o shiner under the boat. Dropped the shinners over and BAM-BAM-BAM The stripers were there.. 7 Hook-ups and only 3 to the boat in the hour. We got a 3#-7#-14# and we called it a day around 1:30. It is great to end the year ishing with my son (Niko). I look orward to many more years and maybe one day he can pull me to the water. Happy Holidays and be Sae out there.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Look or the diving birds...

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ?/

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fellow anglers, I'am sorry or asking this on a report. But dose anybody do any catishing on this lake?? Any ino would be great!! please post or email. Gopedxr
      City: Walnut creek

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the inal FOLSOM BASS LEAGUE event and had a great day boating around 25-30 ish or the day. Most o those were darterheaded early in about 55 t and most o those were rats. Found a good darthead bite up North near Eddie Murphy as well as on jigs. Weighed in a limit or 12.35# which was good enough or a 1st place tie with Russ & Johnny.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Jigs up shallow or the rest o the winter or kickers, ind bait and darthead or dropshot or limit size ish.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my new Ranger out or it's irst test drive with my 12 year old daughter. Did well or the irst time out. Caught lots o spots rom 25'to 35'. Lots o short ish but did manage a ew close to 2 lbs. Caught them all split shoting a Black/blue lake senko and also brown/brown jigs. Fished in the river arms and deep coves o the main lake. Thank you to Robby Vann or taking such GREAT care o his boat. He sold it to me and or an 88 Ranger, it's in mint condition. For a great local bass club, check out Sonora Bass Anglers.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Dress warm, bring hot coee, be patient

Saturday, December 27th, 2003

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom noon til dark pulling a doger/crawler 100 "pulls" behind the boat, 25' down on the downrigger in the channels by the Dam. The irst ish was a 22" Salmon that came to 3.14 Lbs. The next was a 13" Spotted Bass! Two hours later, I decided to check the crawler and to my shagrins, I had been pulling a 10" Dink Trout around, that did not release the downrigger or who knows how long! Ended up with 4 Salmon, 1 Trout and that 1 Bass. It was a perect Day!
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: All Fish were caught between 25 and 35 eet deep.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake when it was still dark. Found a huge school o bait on the graph at the irst point we were ishing. Got 2 (one about 3+) on a spinnerbait. Then went some submerged rockpiles and got 4 dropshotting/spooning. let at about 11 00 cus o trolling motor problems.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Find the bait and stay w/them.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 50 to 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the lake at about 8:30am and roze our butts o. Caught 2 steelhead,on a tube and senko,1.9 largemouth and a dink spotted bass. The day was slow ,but it was a nice day on the lake.
      City: Paciica

      Tips: dropshot with dark colors

Friday, December 26th, 2003

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 47.8

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake again looking or a ew big dogs. Grabbed up the largest minnows i could ind and headed to the lake. Well this day was very dierent than our last trip out. The wind was blowing hard big rolllers on the south end. We tried to hide in Jago...didnt work....Konocti...didnt work so we headed to Buckingham we were protected but no ish...Wind laid down a tad so we went over to Henderson and Shagg (snag) rock...nothing at all...headed towards water treatment plant where we caught some nice ish the Sunday beore and our course the wind started up again...waves so big i started taking water over the bow...(i have a 18.5t Nitro) so they were some big waves...headed to a protected spot and sure enough we started catching ish...we caught over 30 ish but with only 2 or 3 keepers...i mean 13" keepers we ound the nursery...i noticed some ish in about 24t o water and thought hell ill try spooning..well they were ish alright a huge school o crappie..or the next 3 hours we caught a mix o baby bass and huge crappie...partner landed one about 2lbs we caught plenty o 1-1 1/5lbs alla in all a good day we roze a bit caught some ish and ound out how lucky we are inding all those crappie...
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Bring crappie jigs just in case...i had 1 in the boat we dropshotted and caught ish bass and crappied on roboworms very ew ish on minnows or some reason get a weather report we did and it was asle the wind did blow rekin weather.com liars....

Thursday, December 25th, 2003

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

      Report: This message is or Donald C. Osborne....Mr. Osborne, you appear to be very much in tune with the events that transpire in and around the Quarry Lakes area. Can you ill us in on the "Shocking" o Largemouth, Smallmouth, and even Stripers rom all o our surrounding bodies o water to stock the Quarries??! This includes Chabot (which has a population o bass I could probably count on one hand!) This was done without a permit-But o coarse, "IN THE NAME OF GATHERING DATA" right? I you have zero knowledge o these events, pardon me. I you do.... Give US all a break, please?!
      City: Fremont

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003

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

      Report: Should I bring some plastic ties?? I remember last year we had some trouble with the small ones. I could bring some bigger one i necessary. Let me know.
      City: San Leandro

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In a whim I decided to hitch up the 520 and go to Clear Lake so I would orget how to get there!! My wie said I was crazy - like she hasn't said that beore! I knew the og wouldn't be too bad with a ront coming in, and I thought the night bite would be ok since it wasn't too cold. I started at 10 pm, throwing a black/red brush hog. I was ishing one o my avorites ledges near Rattlesnake Island. The 4th cast produced a heavy eeling and lo and behold I had a ish on! It turned out to be 6-13, and at!! I called my wie right away on the cell to see i she still thought I was crazy. She did!! She probably had the last laugh since or the next 4 1/2 hours I got 2 bites and one o them was 1 pound!!! Boy, there went my average in a hurry!! I ished several good areas, but to no avail. I don't understand why it was so dead, but it was. Anyway, the lake was beautiul with the cloud and og ormationss and dead quite! I didn't see or hear a soul, except the coyotes!! Interesting - just beore it started to rain - about 2:45 am, carp started to roll just like someone had turned on a switch. But not one turned on the bass. I sure was happy with the one I got - a beautiul, clean bass!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I just ish brush hogs and Weapon jigs - didn't try much o anything else. I saw ish on the bottom, catish or bass, but they wouldn't bite. There is a possibility that the eed soon ater dark and I missed it. I really had some quality time however! Sorry, the only tip I can give is - enjoy your Christmas season!!

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out in the morning and it was very oggy. Drove around or a while and ound where we were going. Got one on a 1/2 ounce yamamoto spider jig right away, and went til noon w/nothing else. inally ound several ish dropshotting in 35' o a blu wall. then got one about 4 lbs o some stick ups on a submerged island at about 3 00 with a speed trap.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: drop shotting in 35' produced the most ish w/magic worms.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 54.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: while trolling saw christmas trees being delivered at middle shore o horseshoe lake.hope they are put them into the lake in a constructive manner this year.maybe weighted on the base o trunk so they sinb trunk down.caught no bass,see anglernet.net or troutreport
      City: remont

      Tips: ish and enjoy the outing