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Monday, October 6th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: SORRY about the wasted post.My bad.Well anyway. Went over to Tom Payne Slough outside o Tracy this Saturday 10/04/03.Me and a buddy enjoy ishing near one o the pumping stations.While he was rigging up at the car.I went down to the area we like to ish and within a 1/2 an hour to 45mins. I had 6 six ish.5 Dinks to maybe a pound and a hal.I enjoyed the action especially when #5 came along.It was my personal best Delta Bass.She weighed out to 7lbs. and 11ozs. All ish came on Spinnerbaits.The big girl came on 3/8 oz. Chartruese Head.Chartruese and White Skirt with a White Curly Tail Grub as a trailer also Colorado Blades slow rolled and bumping the bottom and croosing the pipes.Bait ish all over the area.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Slow roll bladesand be aware o what your bait is doing.The ish elt like snags and then the ight was on.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We got on the water beore light. We threw top waters at sun up. Nada. We started hooking up on spider grubs and drop shot in 20-40 eet o water. We were picking o about our bass a spot. We caught about 30 ish, mostly on drop shot. 2 bass were about 1 1/2 pounds. caught a lot o tiny dinks. Im surprised with the small averadge. Email me or questions or or a back seat!!
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Throw 5 inch spider grubs in green pumkin or watermelon. 5 inch robo worm, summer shad, mm 2

Sunday, October 5th, 2003

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got to play ri,sat,& sun.Had a great time.Caught ish every where we went.Caught em rom 2 t.-10 t. 2's & 3's consistently with a ew 4's & a 5. Used tubes,brush hogs, senko's,grubs, robo's, rattle traps. Light traic, great lake.
      City: Hilmar

      Tips: They seemed to want your bait to move alot or they wouldn't hit it.

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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went rom good to dead. Fished it 3 days this week and my hotspot went cold. Only caught 1 keeper to every 3 dinks.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Wait or stable weather or true Fall weather. This hot & cold weather makes or pretty tough ishing or me.

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A antastic 5 day stay at Lake Almanor Resort. The smallmouth ishing was great. My wie caught her all time 4.0 lber. Also a 3.1 . The smallmouth were holding between 18 to 23 eet. We ended up catching our largest ish by draggin jointed Rapalas at 20 eet deep using the riggers, still it was a blast. The best time was discovering that in the aternoon the wind would come up and blow the smelt into small coves on the east side o the lake, the birds were our ish inders, and the ishing was ast urious during these times. Not only were the smallmouth located here but the Trout were piled up in these coves. Incredible time, incredible ishing trip. Thanks to Frank at Lake Almanor Resort and thanks to Larry or his last report about this lake.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Fish are in small pockets, ind them on your electronics and work lures that resemble the orage(Pond Smelt). Look or the birds working, thats where the bait is balling up. Fish outside the bait using kastmasters or bronze or gold jointed plugs.

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Flipped/Pitched worms to the weedbeds all over the lake - no bites. Switched to light line texas rigs &split shots and caught mostly small ones, with one 3 lbs on a texas rigged worm.
      City: san jose

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Collins or about 3 1/2 hours Wed morning, using mostly topwater. I started with Chug Bugs and got a 2 lb largemouth on the east side. I ished between two bouys and missed a good ish - maybe 4 lbs. I think I tried to set too quick. On the west side I got a 13" spot on the same Chug Bug. I tried jigs some with no luck. I started throwing a Super Spook around 10 am over deep water ledges and soon had a 2 1/4 lb spot just nail it! That was worth the drive! Only 4 hits - three in the boat.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Water is very clear and ishing is tougher on sunny days. The water is still warm and the good all bite is probably a ew days o. Topwater should get better soon.

Friday, October 3rd, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THOUGHT I'D GIVE AMADOR ANOTHER TRY TODAY AND TRY THROWIN SENKOS AT THE DAM PER KATHLEEN. AS I WAS HEADING TO THE LODGE, A COUPLE SAID THEY DIDN'T GET BIT THE LAST TWO DAYS. THEY SAID THEY SAW SHAD BUSTING BUT NO TAKERS. I DECIDED TO WAIT FOR THE NEXT STORM FRONT TO COME IN. WE SAVED $28.
      City: Sac

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Bethel Island (my very irst time) at 9am. Casted some senko's, spinners, cranks, jigs, etc...Caught a whole bunch o dinks but a riend caught a at 4lber. Got o the delta by 5:30pm.
      City: Hayward

      Tips: I saw lots o bait by the tulles. The bigger bass were in deeper water. The dinks seemed to be all over in the shallow water.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We launched out o big break. Mysel and a riend. Fished low tide about 8:00 am to about 10:00 around big break and landed a lots o small bass. We moved on, things were slow untill the tide started to come in. Once it started to low we went crazy not a ish was under 4 lbs, largest 8 we caught a total o 11 quality ish.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: or us it was incoming tide,senco's and blade's. The ish are on a shad bite. Lookor isolated weed beds.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: got out there with my kayak at 7:15am hoping or a bunch o nice ones. Well, i ished very thouroughly the entire south end o the lake with a senko. Only got one bite which took my lure under logs 6 eet down and the ish came o. Thats all that happened. Iv caught ish there beore just like how i ished there today, but today sucked.

      Tips: honestly, im stumped, i ished more thourougly than i ever had. I guess senkos just arent working. There are a lot o weeds down there, so, i guess in the morning topwater looks good. Catch and release only, good luck.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2003

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      Water Temp: 69 overcast

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: early start trolled thomas buoyants 1 7lb trout on top.2 smaller trout later in the day 5 pan sized channel cats.1 other boat on lake
      City: remont

      Tips: troll spoons top early deeper as day progresses.change colors se what catcheschicken livers nightcrowlers or cats

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 69.5+-

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: There is a decent blade bite going on ishing the wind blown lats and pockets w/ sparse weeds & deep water close by..you can catch the same ish with plastics but it's much easier and your #s will go up with some kind o hard bait in the wind...ski traic doesn't hurt the ishing there but it was light today and made or an nice day.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: ish the wind ..char/wht/gold spinerbaits..S20 spade tail

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was slow going today. Caught a ew decent largemouth in the morning, using worms and jigs. Then it shut down and I couldn't get a striper or even a cat to take home.Deinitely didn't catch near as many as 50+ like the previous poster. That guy must have been using top secret military issue bate or something.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Lure suggestion is to email previous guy and see what the heck he was using. I tried just about everything in my tackle box but had little luck.

Tuesday, September 30th, 2003

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I KNOW THERE HAS TO MORE REPORTS OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well i got there aroun 430 and stayed till 745..it was air...i mean c'mon and a bass angler on shore at san pablo to me,,, getting a ew bites and having one come o is a pretty good day LOLZ . i saw ish chris up there too, what a treat...c-ya next time
      City: san rancisco

      Tips: well i go by the weather o course.. and the resivor was open till 8 today as well..i ished structure mainly and the deeper the water was my gamble. i only tried two things today a jig and night crawlers....my tip to anyone would be tight lines and keep it natural in all ways u can.

Monday, September 29th, 2003

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: i just want to say irst is .....I KNOW THERE ARE MORE REPORTS OUT THERE BUT NO ONE WANTS TO SHARE..LOL...ok well or my report, here it is...i was out on sunday and it was pretty air. as usual my irst ish was hard to ind but i ound it and a ew more. the size was air 14 inches was the average. all the ish ought hard and looked healthy..BUT all my ish that were caught were not at the normal spots i ished. it was more like all the ish let the summer resorts and went home.,,lol...there i go again trying to be unny, but it's true.
      City: san rancisco

      Tips: i suggest to everyone........i know we all have our avorite lures and rods, but don't be like me. i bought a jig a while back but never used it because it didn't look good enough or me to TRY it instead o using my conidence lures. well this sunday i ran out o conidence and i went into one o my trays to look or SOME CONFIDENCE and there it was..i went home with two bass, lost two, and two monster bluegiles. i ocus alot on the weather and season as well..i beleive it is a major impact in success...tight lines everyone..............

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake at 6:00am to ind ish tight to the trees in the South Arm towards the bridge. Fish hit on black and silver Pop-R's and white spinner baits. O the lake by 10:00am, too windy. Only had 3 in the boat.......better than work.
      City: South Lake Tahoe

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THROW SENKOS AROUND EDGE OF WEED BED. ME AND MY FRIND CAUGH A TOTAL OF 20 BASSAROUND 1 1/2 TO 3LB AND ONE 10POUND
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: FLIP JIG IN A DARK COLOR OR 5AND7 INCHSENKO IN PEAR OR DARK CORSHOT

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 71.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: this is a report or conditions or those o you who are heading up or the Newbass Team Spectacular on 4-5 Oct. The lake is 52.5 t down and alling slowly, a cooling trend is coming with day time temps in the mid-80's, the lake is still airly warm with this mornings temp at 71.2 at 0630 rising to the mid and upper 70's as the day progresses. To say that things ar slow would be an understatement. I participated in a mid week bragging rights turkey shoot last wednesday and managed to win as I was the only one to get 2 ish(2 ish limit). I ished against some good sticks and all o us managed only a ew dinks and a ew barely legal ish. It is gonna be tough as the conditions and catch hasn't changed. Bailey Cove is out o the water, the loat is in but is sitting in the mud, rom the reeway it looks ok but don't take the trip down the hill, Jones Valley- stay in the 2 lanes nearest the loat to avoid the end o the 4 lane ramp. You might want to put in at Packers or the tournament as Bridge Bay is pulling out all their houseboats and the island parking is limited, Packers is down to 2 lanes with the mud hump blocking the lanes away rom the loat, Hirz Bay north is out, Hirz bay south is in as is Centimudi and Antlers, Sugarloa is still looded. The shad are all over the place and not bunched up yet, the water will have to cool another 8-10 degrees beore that happens, just about every ish in the lake is suspended, this am they were in 9-15 t over 30 t o water and not on any bite that I oered. One rip ish and one on a jig with a ew trout busting the surace or about an hour. Good luck to all, it ain't gonna be un but the weather will be great.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 64-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: what is the lake record or a smallmouth i caught a 6 1/2lb. and a bunch o 2 and 3 lb. near lakehead near I-5. i really recommend it or your 5th wheel they have hookups and i kept my basstracker right on the water in a slip what a lie and nobody ishing in the river but me.
      City: Corning

      Tips: stay or at least 3 days i caught mine on spinners blue ox