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Monday, October 13th, 2003

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Blasted o just beore 7:00 am, headed up the middle with the wind slightly blowing. First spot cranked up two ish abot 1 lbs each. Moved all the way back past the no ski signs. Caught a 3 lber, then two 2 lbers cranking windy banks. The crank bait is a Zenith/Specilaity tackle.com bait. These baits are great.The wind died down and I threw a Rico on shady walls and pick up several ish over a pound. Ater 10:00 am I dartheaded and texas rigged worms with a lot o success. Most o the worm ish were in the 15-25 t range. i also taught a riend to Dropshot and he caught several ish as well.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: I the wind is up, it's reaction time. Other wise dropshot, darthead and texas rig worms. Good colors are Aaron Magic, Babybass and Oxblood light with red leck.

Sunday, October 12th, 2003

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tree dumping date has been established or Janurary 10th. Hope to see everyone that helped us last year and maybe some new aces. I will have more ino ater the last meeting on Nov 6th. I am not sure but there were talks o Del Valle this year. I will post all the ino in 3 weeks
      City: Castro valley

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished o shore rees and caught one 2 lber on irst cast as soon as it hit the water I was thinking oh yea we are gonna have a great day but that was not the case, it took me 2 more hrs beore I landed a ish not including the 4-6 inchers that would hit and run and not take the hook. I did inally get on to a patern on deep docks wacky rigging a 3 inch leech on a drop shot rig and got 3 more landed and lost a 4 lber that rapped me around a dock post.The wind picked up and I was ishing out o a 12 t boat with no trolling motor so I had to go in.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The drop shot rig with a 3-6 inch purple worm or leech will work. I spoke to a man and lady that were doing well tossing white spinner baits,they had 17 lbs or 5 ish. I don't think water clearity had anything to do with the bite being slower than 3 wks ago I think its the moon phase and weather.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 71-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: As I headed west, do I keep to the let to Oroville, or hang a right to Collins..Had not ished the lake or a ew months... Right turn. Spent some time looking around.Headed to the lakes center shallow area and ound the bass slamming the surace.No wind.Cast to the surace action, single tail grub, didn't matter the color... Set the hook. One o my better days on Collins. Good un. Top water action.. Rip bait,spinner bait, no drop shot action. At the launch ramp got rid o the trout that hit my spinner bait the spot dropped to a couple guys with no action.. That was the word at the launch.. no action.. no ish.. I had a great day. Might take the motorhome down next weekend or two days ishing..
      City: Penn Valley

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Boat launch is not useable! That means no obnoxious Wake board boats! Float tubers dream, We can ish the main lake without risking lie and limb! The water is realy low way past the weed line. there is some mud lines and the water is stained. ishing was slow but we I did get 5 bass, my buddy Kyle got 4. I hooked one that ran like a big striper and broke my hook on a sturdy jig! Oh My God didnt see it but I know it was a "BIG FISH" I'll be back. The all bite hasnt started but hope it will soon.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Swiming jigs with yamamoto grubs, in smoke w/silver sparkel.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main body points got a ish on irst cast but that was it on the main body and than headed up the middle eather river ork and caught one ish at each stop. Usually you will sit on a spot and take 5-10 ish once you ind them but I could only get 1 ish per spot no matter what I did.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Caught one ish in 5 t all the rest were in 10-25 t. ish real slow dragging the worm. I caught ish on drop shot rig, dart head and split shot just go deep and slow. For Oroville ishing is slow need bad weather.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tree dumping date has been established or Janurary 10th. Hope to see everyone that helped us last year and maybe some new aces. I will have more ino ater the last meeting on Nov 6th. I am not sure but there were talks o Del Valle this year. I will post all the ino in 3 weeks. Please e-mail me or call me at 510-910-3637 or urther ino
      City: Castro Valley

Saturday, October 11th, 2003

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Whats going on ? Does any one ish B.bute? I'm going to day 10-11-03 and haven't heard any report's. I'm going to spend the night & ish or cat's,crappie,bass,any thing that will bite !!!!!! Will report back when I get back . Da Wurm
      City: burney

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Rolled out o Disco, you know, about 11 trying to hit the tide change around 1. Made our way up to disappointment and it was exactly that. Threw rattles, rogs and senkos o course. Only managed two on the rattletrap o weedlines and docks. Starting to wonder what the hell I am doing out here. Got o the water around 6 with very little to show or it. All in all a very unesquire day.
      City: Davis

      Tips: I guess just listen to other anglers as I don't know what up. Do you think you can hang yoursel with 17lb. test?

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the uture pro-tour. Great turn out with 100 or so teams. Fished solo, my partner could not make it. One o those weird mornings-still, no breeze, no haze and the sun was hot at 9:00am. My conidence bait this time o year is a super spook and a sammy. 5 undersized ish and a 1.5 lber later I put the spook up. Went to jigs and plastics. Dink ater dink so I up the size o the bait and went to a yamamoto 8" grub lorida rigged 1/4 oz, and worked the outside o the weed beds. Picked up a 5.3lber and then a 13" ish ater several more 12.5 inch ish. Tough day or me , three ish 7.9 lbs.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Feast or amine on the delta or me. My sugestion, i it is cloudy ar an approaching storm is coming leave work and go. All my ish even the dinks picked the bait up as it sat on the bottom, not the usual all. Once it sat there or several seconds tick-tick. Even upsizing did not discourge the dinks- they just ate the tail.Gotta love the delta in the rain as some o my best memories have been there.

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      Water Temp: 62 - 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished outgoing low tide. Got nothing but dinks on watermelon/red lake Yamamoto's and red traps ishing outside weed lines and breaks. Looked or eddy's and even got some out in the current. Past rog places were blown out.
      City: Manteca

      Tips: Got to see some hazards on the low tide and made note o them. You ind all kinds o junk out there! :-) Sorry, no ish tip to report, was just just chucking and cranking.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Bass Busters o Santa Clara county ished their 10th tournament on 10/11. Fishing was reported by all contestants as very diicult. The water was warm and clear with almost no wind and very ew aternoon mudlines. The winners came in with 11.43 but ailed to score a limit. There was a short lived topwater bite in the morning around timber. The rest o the day was dropshotting or splitshotting worms and lizards. The contestents tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ripping Lucky Crats, Senkos, and jigs. The slow moving worm was all that worked and it was very slow ishing.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Go slow, then go slower. Some o the best ish came while dead sticking during a time a isherman was raching or a Coke or a cigarette.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched out o Hobbie at 3:00 pm. Fished the Southork. Could not ind a pattern. Only caught two @ 1.5# each. One on top water, one on drop shot. Go igure.
      City: Folsom

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to take the tube out and loat it Saturday morning. On the water around 8am. Me & a bud launched rom the second parking lot. Water level way down, made or an interesting entry or me. Anyhow, we both landed 3 ish each, none heavier than a pound. We each had 2 almost landed, but they got o just at grab, and a ew grabs but no hook sets. Had a "double-hookup" too, pretty much at teh same time! That was kool! Fish were out rom bank and maybe 15-20' deep. Wind came up around 11:30am I was using Berkly power worms (7" pumpkinseed) Partner had a jig on. Wish we landed all that we elt, but all in all it was a good loat. (we wern,t skunked!)
      City: Scotts Valley

      Tips: Need more water! RAIN RAIN RAIN!

Friday, October 10th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 69 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED OUT AT WIMPYS AT 6 AM AND FOR 3 HOURS I CAUGHT CRAP AND IN THE NEXT HOUR I HAD MY LIMIT AND THE BEST 5 GOING 30LBS AND I WAS USING SENKOS AND TRAPS ALONG THE ROCK BANKS 3 ON SENKO AND 2 ON TOPWATER I CAUGHT A 10LBER AND A 7LBER AND 5LBER AND 2 4LBERS I WAS ON A ROLL TODAY VERY HAPPY WISH I WAS IN A TOURNAMENT B/C I WOULD HAVE ONE!!!! HAD A GOOD DAY AFTER THAT. LAUNCHED OUT AT 12PM
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: TOPWATER AND SENKOS B/C THATS ALL THEY SMASH AND THATS ALL THE BIG KAHUNAS WANTED TODAY

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      Water Temp: 69 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED OUT AT WIMPYS AT 6 AM AND FOR 3 HOURS I CAUGHT CRAP AND IN THE NEXT HOUR I HAD MY LIMIT AND THE BEST 5 GOING 30LBS AND I WAS USING SENKOS AND TRAPS ALONG THE ROCK BANKS 3 ON SENKO AND 2 ON TOPWATER I CAUGHT A 10LBER AND A 7LBER AND 5LBER AND 2 4LBERS I WAS ON A ROLL TODAY VERY HAPPY WISH I WAS IN A TOURNAMENT B/C I WOULD HAVE ONE!!!! HAD A GOOD DAY AFTER THAT. LAUNCHED OUT AT 12PM
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: TOPWATER AND SENKOS B/C THATS ALL THEY SMASH AND THATS ALL THE BIG KAHUNAS WANTED TODAY

  • Ventura County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Piru or the irst time Friday 10-10-03 due to Castaic being blown out.Arrived late (8:30 a.m.) and luckily they had just planted trout-- we headed over to the east shore and threw crank baits but had no bites or an hour or so, we then decided to go back to the launch ramp and limited (5 each) on trout 1/2 to 1 pounds each--dinner!Ater lunch we tried the dam and ished it all the way to the southern shore, picked up 1 nice bass, then headed down the western shore and ended up with 8 ish!Threw a Fat Free Shad-- hit the pockets near shore-- ish were holding in about 8-12 eet o water.A good day out o a potentially really bad one!!
      City: Newport Beach

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 20000

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I CAUGHT OVER 200 BASS ON A TWO TRIPALL WERE OVER 90LBS
      City: PORTLAND

      Tips: NO TIP FIND OUT YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>..>>>>>..................>!!!!!!!!!!>!!!>!>!>!>>!>>!>>!>!>>!>!!!!!!!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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      Water Temp: 71 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: spalshed the ol" valco at holland track, the last 2 weekends,and managed 15 each trip , mostly along the rock walls using a plastic worm ,black with chartrues spinn tail and did well, 1 place, i casted and got some back lash , so i striped the birds nest o, and started to reel in the line i just casted, and wam!! 2 1/2 largee on, it was exciting. spinner blades early am produced bigger ish, but not as good as along the walls, mid tide. great day on the water again! hey ishing ool, like to read some storys o yours RB ish on everbody ****
      City: pittsburg ca

      Tips: palstics, plastics,plastics***

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 77-79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish are still deep, caught 6, all largemouth and all at or below 25 eet deep. This lake still has some cooling down to do. Most ish on the LCD were at 40 to 60 eet deep.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Pray or some cold nights and this lake will turn on!