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Sunday, October 12th, 2003

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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!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Folsom with my best ishin' buddy Rick Tietz - the "spoonmeister"!! Anybody that can design his own line o spoons (Duh!) should be a pretty good spoon isherman and believe me - he is the best!!!! This time I actually kept up with him in numbers - almost!!! He got there at 10 am and I arrived at 11. I told him to ind them irst and he did - 4 at smallies and spots between 2 and 2 3/4 pounds. We ished together until around 6 pm and landed around 20 smallies and spots, and a 2 1/2 largemouth that I got on a Rodstrainer jig (rockpile)! The average size o the ish was amazing - spots up to three pounds and smallies up to 2 3/4. We only had 3 small ish. We ished only main body stucture - ollowing the bait. We spooned all o them except one or two on a dropshot. The spoons were ar more eective - we used morning dawn and shad colors with spoons up to 3 ounces. I can't imagine a more un aternoon o ishing!! And I got a DFG $10 tag on one o the ish to boot!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: This is the time o year that your meter is worth more than the weight o gold! I you understand structure and the movement o baitish, you can have some non-stop action in the all. In lakes with shad, the bass gorge themselves in the all - we had shad all over the boat as we landed each ish. You can be 20 or so eet away rom the bait balls and miss all the action. One thing about this kind o ishing - it is east or amine. Anglers will oten have great action during the day - in spurts! Sometimes you will run into a school o smaller bass eeding - just move around until you ind a school o larger bass. Believe me, Folsom is ull o them!!!

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WELL HAVE NOT FISHED HERE SINCE MAY AND THOUGHT THE EARLY FALL BITE WOULD BE GOOD LIKE IT WAS IN MAY.WELL SURE ENOUGH IT WAS.FISH WERE NOT AS BIG BUT DID GET A LIMIT OF TWO 28".COUGHT ABOUT 20 ALL TOGETHER.JERK BAITS ON ALL FISH IN SHALLOW WATER.JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ON THE LAKE EXCEPT DAM AREA.
      City: SALINAS

Tuesday, October 7th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Eastman "puddle" tuesday morning-we got to the lake around 630am and decided to start in the dam area.We cranked the dam and caught a dozen or so up to 3 1/2 lbs.We also threw plastics on darters and caught several up to 3 lbs-that died out so we proceded to the north end o the lake and had a couple nibbles but no hook ups.We motored over to the east side o the lake and again immediately got back into them on both crankbaits and plastics. A beautiul day with my dad-the lake is so low there isnt much let toish-not many decisions on where to ish! Also the water is the typical eastman algae green but the ish were all at and healthy and good and strong-tight lines to ya!
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: ish are really aggressive-the stink...smell like they are eeding on crawdads so no is the perect oppurtunity to "match the hatch".We caught ish on crankbaits in both shad and crawdad patterns-plastics were crawdad colors as well. WATCH FOR ROCKS-there is ALOT o shallow water areas even in the center o the lake-be careul!

Monday, October 6th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I guided Friday and Saturday day trips and ound the ishing to be air at best. Friday was ok with the usual all problem - ish jumping shad all over but not hitting topwater lures as in the summer. They are chasing shad to the surace and then going right back down to ind another bunch. We got one on a topwater and one or two on grubs thrown to the suracing bass. I tried a little spooning with a Duh! spoon and did manage a 2 1/4, 3 1/2, and a near 4 pounder - landed in open water at about 40 eet. We drop-shotted a ew and wound up with 7 or 8 bass, about a 14 lb limit. I ished the evening some and a little while at night and did very poorly. I talked to a riend that ished Sat night and he did poorly too. The Saturday trip was very slow, cool breeze, and very inactive ish. Not a touch on a spoon or a jig. My client did learn to drop-shot and caught 3 or 4, though they were not too big. Two o three other bass guys out there were rustrated too, could not get the eed ish on top to hit anything. The ones that were caught were small. Better ishing is around the corner - I think - I hope!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Two or three weeks ago the ishing was good when the shad bite started and some big bass were caught. Last week there were some good bass caught in my boat to nearly 4 pounds. This week the eeding ish were really small. Did not hear many good ish boiling. The night bite may be good ater 1 or 2 in the morning but with day trips, I didn't stay up late enough to see. Once the shad surace bite slows with cooler water, the night bite will probably pick up again - it usually does.