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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ater work looked great or me,unortunately i picked o only one,1.5 lber on a nice spinnerbait.This Bass had a ull tummy and was over illing.Took about an hour to get even bit so be patient.Inoticed a couple o little lunkers cruising the bank,n.wall.
      City: Fre

      Tips: keep catching and releasing

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We got to the lake at about noon...(better late than never!) First cast, I got a dink on a drop shotting a Roboworm. Main points produced ish but not much size to them. I got a couple bigger ish drop shotting shallower (12-20') o water. Biggest was at 3 pounds. Couldn't buy a bite on a jig today...all drop shot ish.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: "My worst day ishing is better than my best day working!"

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Week-day bass club outing, we lauched at day break and headed toward day. We were pitching brown jigs. Partner yells ish-on and i start to reel in to grab the net and my rod loads up. He loses nice one and i put 2.5lb black in boat. We move another twenty yards and he swings on a 3.5 and that goes in live well. He has two more come unbuttoned at the boat so i start throwing a chrome speed trap a put two more keepers in the boat. Bite was slow but somewhat consistant. Winning weight was ive or 14.98 and second was ive or almost 9lbs.
      City: Hilmar

      Tips: Early morning jigs on any type o rocks or structure changes. As sun comes up blades and cranks in chrome or shad patterns. Fish will move deeper as soon as the sun hits the water so drag a worm or drop-shot and ish slow, slow, slow.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 57-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bright bluebird day today..Caught all ish dropshotting main lake 37-42 today. Saw much more bait than Friday. Had one nice largie that was close to 3..This lake continues to produce a lot o ish.Need a good rain to start the jig bite...
      City: sonora

Monday, December 1st, 2003

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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Met Dick out at Loma today and he had two nice trout. Was ishing the south-east side o the lake. He said he had a giant on but could not get it in. He was using lime green Power Bait.
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: Roll Power Bait into worm shape beore you put on hook!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 53-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out or a ew hours beore having to pick the kids up rom school and had a great time. Wind was really blowing when I arrived so I decided to throw a Osprey swimbait on a long point up the north ork. 10 minutes wothout a bite or ollow, I then moved to another area and put a 2.5# smallie in the boat on a dropshot rom 46 eet on a ????Roboworm. Staying in the same area I moved around to ind bait and located a 29 oot hump surrounded by the 45 eet and put another solid ish in the boat. Moved over to Eddie Murphy to chuck the swimbait some more and ound the place to be loaded with bait. Dropshotted another solid keeper then it was time to go. Fish not quite in the winter pattern yet as the lake hasn't turned yet, but with the wind, rain and colder temps, they lake should turn soon.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Dropshot, dropshot, dropshot. There are probably some reaction ish irst thing with all o this cloud cover, but you can dropshot 20-30 ish a day i you're in the right area.

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

      Report: The Cottonwood Bass Team will be holding its 10th Annual Team Bass Tournament Sat. December 6th. on Shasta Lake out o Bridge Bay Resort. It will be an 80% payback with 1st place paying back at $100 per lb. 2nd place on down will payback at $50 per lb. until the monies are gone. Big ish will payback at $100 per lb. and is included in the entry ee. The entry ee is $150 per team. Signups will be taken at Phils Prop Shop thru Friday the 5th. Signups will also be taken tournament day at Bridge Bay Resort starting at 4AM. Awards and a rale will be held at the Tail-o-the-Whale immediately ollowing the tournament. Hope to see you on the water,Cottonwood Bass Team
      City: Oak Run

Sunday, November 30th, 2003

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another very successul trip at Collins yesterday. I guided two brothers and one o their older sons on a cloudy day with rain all around but it missed us or a change!! The wind wasn't a problem this time and the ishing was good, but not or a big ish bite that I thought we would get with the dark skies. They wanted to break last weeks number o bass and they did - we caught 32 bass with only 2 or 3 under 13 inches. All spots except 4 largemouth. The biggest was only a 2-10 spot but our 5 ish limit was 11 1/4 lbs. We caught ish drop-shotting, shaking 6 inch worms, and several on Rodstrainer jigs in brown/orange and purple. The ish were a little more shallow than last week, but not much. The lake is still dropping about a oot a week - we need some serious rain. We caught ish all over the lake rom the river arm to the dam. Several spots oshore were very good.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: These bass continue to spit up more shad than I have ever seen at Collins. I think that is a good sign. Bass are starting to relate to sharp dropos.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: REALLY COLD 1 SMALLIE IN A.M. A FEW SPOTS IN THE P.M. NOTHING SPECIAL TODAY.I GUESS I WASN'T HOLDING MY MOUTH RIGHT!IF YOU FISH HARD YOU'LL CATCH THEM. YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT YOUR HEART INTO IT!FISHED BEAR,ANGELS,AND 49 AREA.
      City: OAKDALE

      Tips: WORMS AND SPOONS IN 35-55t FIND THE SHAD THATS THE KEY!!!!!!

Saturday, November 29th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day with stripers up to 8 pounds (lost one toad). All on surace baits with the exception o a ew on 6 inch tube baits. The ish were chasing shad in most cases but not all. We lost count at some point, but probably hooked upwards o 30 including some nice largemouth. Memorable day. Had one clear two eet rom the surace attacking my woodchopper and missed. Close enough that it almost landed in the boat. You don't want to be a shad in the Delta during striper season. :)

      Tips: Surace baits or surace baits, i not try some surace baits. We also caught some on a surace bait. Although we saw another boat catching them on surace baits. But generally speaking, the best bet is a surace bait. :)

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Shore ishing rom 3-5PM. Overcast sky and light wind. Perect condition, except the water was extremely low. Caught one that hit crankbait lightly but ought very hard.The ish weighted 4 pound 6 ounce, 22" long, 13" girth. That was the only action. Also saw a lot o crawdads crawing the shoreline. Tried jig-n-pig, got one tap, but didn't hook. Hope the rain on Sunday will bring water up.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Try to cover a lot o area. Fish are all spreat out.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the day on Oroville with my bro-in-law just looking to get bit, as he ishes a bunch but doesn't do much catching. I had ished here about 3 weeks ago and done well, so I igured I'd just pick right up where I let o, right? WRONG! Although the techniques used were similar, the locations had changed considerably. The channel banks which had been so productive on the previous trip were barren now (lake has dropped about 10' since then), so I had to do a bit o searching to get back on the ish. On this trip, windblown (albeit a light breeze) blu banks were the key. I you were 15' rom the bank and had 60' o water under the boat, you were okay. Found the bait layered in about 40'-70' on the shale rock breaks, and the bass were right with 'em. Dropshotting Angler's Choice and Roboworm shad colored plastics was the key, with depths ranging rom 40'-75'. I'd guess we inished the day with 35-40 bass, and 4 over the slot. All-in-all, a lot o un, as my bro-in-law told me he caught more ish on this trip than on all his others this year combined (maybe no ish in Minnesota?). :-)RR
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Put that graph to good use. Look or the bait to be close to structure and layered in a horizontal band. I you see short streaks moving at diering angles within the bait pod, get ready or action. LUNCHTIME!!

Friday, November 28th, 2003

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 57-58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in the narrows all day long in the rain. Caught ish all day long, I caught 3 ish one spotted bass went 2 1/2 pounds and my partner was on a roll with the largemouth. He caught a 3lbs, 2 1/2 and one more that went 2 lbs. Almost all the ish we caught were shallow.
      City: Woodland

      Tips: Caught or ish on a darterhead and a drop shot. Fish 10 to 30 eet deeep and use this wimpy looking worm that catches alot o ish called morning dawn. I hate to say it but it really works. Drag the darterhead on the bottom and pop it now and then.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: STARTED OUT CRANKIN SPEED TRAPS 1 IN THE SLOT FIRST 5 MINUTES,NOTHING AFTER THAT.FEW BITES ON THE JIG.SWITCHED TO WORMIN BROWN COLOR (TOUGH)OVERCAST & SWITCHED TO PURPLE GHOST AND IT WAS ON.MY PARTNER WAS IN ANOTHER BOAT USED PURPLE ALL DAY AND HE TORE IT UP.HE PUT ME ON HIS WATER AND IT WAS ON.FISHED HIS WATER FROM 2:15 UNTIL ALMOST DARK BOATED 6 MORE ALL KEEPERS EXCEPT ONE BEST 5 WENT NINE LBS.BOTH BOATS BOATED 26 FISH NOT A BAD DAY

      Tips: BROWN/ORANGE WITH SUN.PURPLE IF IT'S OVERCAST

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 56-59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not wide open like October, but still good..Twelve keepers or the day with more largies showing up.Best ish 2.75..All ish caught dropshotting 35-55 eet.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Fish today came o creek channel breaks, deep guts and sides o islands..Worm twelve inches up...

Tuesday, November 25th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: IT BULLSHIT THEY GIVE SOME A BOAT WHEN THEY COME IN 10 MIN LATE
      City: oroville

      Tips: IT BULLSHIT THEY LET THIS STUFF GO ON

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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was out at Contra Loma today and would just like to report that the water was way down. Must have been 15 to 20 t. o bank showing. One o the locals, Dick, has been having a tough time catching trout. A ew chances early and that's it. No bait jumping. SHADWIZARD
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: Bring your boots!

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 59.5 - 61.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished hal a day today. Caught 5 ish / 3 keepers or 4.11lbs. Two on black jigs, 1 on a smoke / purple zoom lizard, 1 on a Keeper 082 dropshotting, and 1 spooning. I missed several on the lizard,lost one on the jig and missed one shaking the trees in 35 eet o water. All the ish were on drop-os where the water was about 15-20 eet and dropped o to 30+ eet. There was no reaction bite at all. I threw crankbaits rom 5 to 25 eet and ripped or a couple o hours in areas where ish were suspending, and nothing.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: Heavy Jigs in 25+ eet o water

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

      Report: To raymc, I enjoy reading your reports and your tips. I am a bass isherman but do appreciate your tips to catch trout. I plan to bring my son trout ishing and your tips will help. Seeing resh reports on Quarry just bring about connection to the lake.Look oward to seeing your next report.
      City: remont

Monday, November 24th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at Amador at about 5:30am ished till about 11:00am only managed 1 ish a 4.2 in the Carson arm. Fish was caught on a blk/red jig in about 15 eet. Also had a ew tail biters but that was it. I needed one last ix beore I hang it up or the year so I thought I would try my luck, though it was only one ish I did get my ix to get me through the winter. Is it spring yet?
      City: Carson city, NV

      Tips: Stay warm!