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Saturday, August 30th, 2003

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got there today at about 6:30 p.m. and landed 2 dinks on jigs. The water level is slowly dropping.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Try topwater early and late. Float-tube will be excellent right now since the water is low.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: splashed the ol" valco sat and sun 6am, and ished the holland trach east side rock wall with the wue and boated 39 ish all about 1-2 lns, tons o un. the wie and i both were using a small black worm with chartruse spinn tail againt the wall, most o the strikes were urther out near weed line, swimming the bait back slow also produced most o the strikes, o the water by 10:00 boh days, wind allways picks up, and my little 14 ooter is like a leae on an open lake, get blown out easy. great weekend on the delta. we usually launch at sunset on bethel isl, but desided to go over to hooland or a change, glad we diid,well, every body keep a tite line, ish on RB*
      City: pittsburg cali

      Tips: any plastic with brite spinn tails worked great this trip, reg worms were slow, no blade ish, and top water was slow. water temp droped rom 80 to 72 at times. rock walls were the best, tule action was slow.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WELL OH MY MY ALL THESE GREAT FISHERMAN OUT HERE FISHING THOSE SIINKOS THERE THE BOMB IN THE TOWN YO .THERE ON THE HOOK FOR SURE WITH ALL THAT SALT AND STUFF PACKED IN THERE TIGHT LIKE WOW.MAN 2 INCH MAGIC WORMS WHY I OUTA SLAP SOME OF THOSE OUT NEXT TRIP FOR SURE TO MY REPORTS ON THE CATFISH FISHING WAS OF THE HEZA FOR SHEZA MY ROD WAS BANGING ALL DAY WITH SOME BIG CATS ROLLIN IN THOSE WATERS ON SOME STANK BAIT STRAIGHT OUT THE HOOD.MY CATS WHERE ALL GREAT SIZE BIG FILLETS FOR MY BIG OLD BELLY AND MY WIFES BIG BIG OLD BELLY WELL STAY HONEST GUYS AND DONT GO BEING SOMETHING YOUR NOT!! WELL I AM TALK A LOT OVER AND OUTS..............+
      City: antioch

      Tips: BIG OLD BALLS OF STANK BAIT!!!!!!!!

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: nice

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: was there last weekend! smooth and deep is the answer! (just have un!)

      Tips: ish early and late!

Friday, August 29th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: today me n jimbo went out to contra loma or the irst time since 99. man it's changed a lot. sure are a lot o bass but not as many as there were beore lol. i got my limit on sinkos and wacky rigged worms. i kept a 2 1bers, 1 1/2 lber, a 2, and one big ol 5.8 lber it ought like mad. man i got a recipe or bass mmmmm good eatin. jimbo didnt do as good he got 5 but they were all 12 to 15inchers. man we gonna have some good supper tonight
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: wacky rigged magic 2 inch worm. they knock em dead. write back with any other secrets you know bout that lake.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The early morning bite has been great. Last riday I had 5 ish in one hour rom a grassy lat that totaled 15lbs. This morning my irst ish was a nice 4.4lb and ater that the wind came up but I did get a couple o 2 pounders and a couple more missed my bait. Oh, yeah I caught them all on one bait. A yellow headed blackbird buzzbait...Check em' out at Outdoor Pro Shop in Rohnert Park.
      City: Sebastopol

      Tips: Fish early and look or areas o lats next to deeper water.

Thursday, August 28th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the South Mokelumne rom New Hope Landing to Sycamore Slough.My ishing buddy and I caught about 25 dink's. Best ish went 2, 2 1/2 and a 41/2 #. Almost all ish were caught on Senko's. No luck on blades or top water. This is my 2nd trip to the Delta. Need more experience on where to ish and what lures to use. Will keep trying.
      City: Orangevale

      Tips: Go with a good guide and learn rom him how to ish it.

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took a guided trip yesterday with Mark Lassagne. Was looking or some help ishing the delta tides & conditions throughout. Fished mainly around the east side o Frank's Tract. We caught ish everywhere that we went, rom irst light up until about 1:30 or 2. Nice topwater bite early. That was a gas. Then blades and buzzers caught em along the rocks with current. Coaxed a couple in the boat on helix worms. Landed a ew on a white speed trap. Later had several double hook-ups while dropshotting around weed beds. Had some un throwing rogs, boated 1 or 2, and like every one else, we missed a couple o monsters in the pickle weeds. They're deinitely there. I'm inally getting that rog ishin igured out. Seemed like we caught a hundred ish, but was probably about 40. Biggest 5 went 20#...maybe a little less. Even caught a mammoth shad that was worthy o a couple o pics. Most un I've ever had on the delta. Thanks Mark...Great Job! We'll be doing this again, or sure.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: I you want to ish the delta irst class with a guy that knows the terrain, then give Mark a call. He answered all my questions and oered tips & tricks on delta ishing that that are dierent rom lake ishing. He'll put you ON ish too, no doubt! GET THE NET!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 79-83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a aternoon hal day trip and with the dropping water went to check out my all spots or some drop shot lessons..Once again to my surprise the ish were not deep. I was starting to get a little nervous about catching ish when I hit my third spot and the meter stayed void o ish..Made a cast op shallow a hung one in a tree.Ok, now I am seeing alot o bait suspending..Started looking or suspended bait and ound a huge school ten eet deep over 90..We stared to ish through the bait and it was on..The spots were in there as thick as I have ever seen here.We only caught three keepers ,but had over 40 ish..And about our bags o lost worms..We then hit some humps that I had ound in deep water this spring...They now were in the right zone and the largies were there..We ended up with solid limits and ish to 3 1/2 pounds...
      City: sonora

      Tips: Lots o ish are suspended o bait in 18 to 25 eet. You have to keep at them and they will eed at some point..Still a typical summer pattern.But lots o un and action.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water with the loat tube at about 12. Went straight to the lonely mat in the northern end and ater going halway around got my irst blow up, and it was a big one. That ish was there the last 2 days in the same spot hitting and totally missing what was thrown by her. Well i igured i try and see i she would hit again, 4 casts later i got her to suck it o the top and was able to put a hook in her and get her in. it was an 11.14 lb 27 by 19 inch bass, i only it was at it could have been a lot bigger, i posted the pic on the photo page. ater that got a 4 lber on the patch o mat that will always hold a ish, again this one hit and missed and then nailed it the next cast on the edge o the mat. not that much more action on the mats so moved up against the tules and had one boil on a senko, so i tossed the rat to the same spot and it just sucked it o the top and i hooked up and landed it, only about a 1.5 lber, something was going on with the ollowing hits today, lucky or me. Nothing more in the green slop so i moved down the lake ishing the western shore and caught one about a pound skipping a senko under trees on the middle island. headed back to the mat and right away had one nail it but broke it o when i set the hook. put on a new rat, and moved along the mat and had another nice blowup and set the hook hard but shortly ater got my rat back and had the hook buried into the plastic, i hate using the brand new ones, the plastic just is to thick. called it a day ater that and headed in, all in all a pretty good day.
      City: windsor

      Tips: rat and rog bite is good, also i heard the deep scattered weeds were producing with spinnerbaits and rip baits.

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 77.1

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went to Centimudi at 0515, air temp a cool 70, lake is down to 47t and releases have slowed, motored over near big backbone and got into the middle o a bunch o trout(do they count?) and caught 4 o them on a rip bait. changed to a popper and caught the irst small spot, and I mean small, the bait was larger, started throwing jigs to try to ind some size and got bit twice but no ish, kept at it or 2 + hours with no luck. Ran back out into the main lake area and cruised the bank and ound a scadzillion ish on my meter in 26t and suspended in the 14-18t depth. Got out the dropshot equipment and dropped down an MGM#127 sluggo and it got blasted by a 1.6 spot. Went back in with a #109C 4 inch curly tail tight on top o some bigger that average blips and got my best smallmouth o this year ater it charged around boring deep 4X, get it up and slide it into the net, a nice at dinner plate looking ish that went 3.26lbs on the culemrite, Got over that one and caught 11 more(5 small mouth) on the 109C curly tail. The skiers and jet skiers started up around 0900 so I went home
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 75+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ve been going to eastman or a ew years. But I just started ishing it about 6 months ago. I usually stick to the markers o the bank and recently have had some sucess with pur/smoke and smoke colored grubs I also use;ZOOM 4" lizard and roboworms. My question is, is there much action in the trees back in the 5mph or by the dam. Any tips on what to use or hotspots would be much apprecated.
      City: resno

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 79-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished yesteday evening, bite was very slow only had nibbles rom dinks using dropshot and plastics. Ater the sun was o the water started catching keeper size ish on main lake points on shad cranks. Caught 8 keeper size ish in 15 minutes.
      City: Sonora

      Tips: Shad cranks on main lake points.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: oops

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I did it again, the report or today is on the Almaden page( a senior moment)
      City: Redding,Ca

Tuesday, August 26th, 2003

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last two weeks three times and had some luck. 6 ish including a three pounder. This is a spinnerbait lake and has orage but the DFG does not give about this lake
      City: S.J.

      Tips: stick with it

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

      Report: Picked up ish rom Anderson Isle up to North Fork spooning. Total o 8 ish, but decent quality rom 2-4 lbs. They were coughing up shad. All on deep points but structure didn't seem to matter. Just turn on the graph and trolling motor and chase balls o bait.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Fish were any where rom 30-45 t deep. I was using a 3/8 oz. silver spoon with a custom #4 Gamakatsu treble hook/eather trailer on 4# Iron Silk. Hits were on the all mostly, so I was controlling the rate o sinking and not letting it lutter too much. Cover a lot o water ast.

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

      Report: It is good to hear there will be another tree planting this year. I enjoyed last year's planting and look oward to the upcoming one.
      City: remont

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

      Report: Reminder!!!!For the chance to win a Ranger boat, ish the NEWBASS Team spectacular October 4th & 5th. See NEWBASS.com or details
      City: Castro Valley

Monday, August 25th, 2003

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out saturday got on a ok topwater bite early with a spook to land 4 bass all keepers biggest about 2 lbs .That went dead so I went with a crankster and got two more no size tough day out there or me I thought it might be tough ishing do to the weather that just passed threw but good to be back out on the water and ishing will try again this saturday any ideas and tips would be nice .

      Tips: I went with a spook ished it ast and they liked it also a crankbait ished ast silver and blue will get um

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone ish this lake lately?
      City: Palo Alto