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Sunday, August 3rd, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 7 Fish - all small ish - largest 2 pounds, launched out o Holland at 6:30 am, nothing on the rog,all hit char/white spinner bait and pumpkin/leck Senkos - ishing shallow weed beds 2-4' - had 3 blow ups on the rog but couldnt make it stick - o the water by 11:00 due to Lake/delta Lice (personal watercrat)
      City: WALNUT CREEK

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      Water Temp: 71-72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at irst light,(Holland) wind was blowing , the top water didnt produce any in the early morning, picked up the excalibur shad crankbait and stuck 2 dinks, tried ishing moving water but no luck, at high tide I threw the green senko with black lake and started catching keepers to 2.5 lbs. when the strike was hard they were dinks, the bigger ish would just pick the bait up with no stike , you had to load the rod up and they were there- mostly 5t. range- caught 10 ish best 5 went 11 to 12 pounds with big ish at 5 lbs that hit a small Gann's spinnerbait (white) in the shade o a eucalyptus (sp?)tree. Shad pattern seemed to catch ish , no craw type bites. O the water at 12 noon, too many wake makers.Pete
      City: Martinez

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Clear Lake, heard that the summer was a great time or top water action, well I ound it to be a little tough. Spent all day throwing a rog had some blow ups but nothing to brag about. Hit the tackle store in Lakeport (Tackle It), Great people. They switched me over to a Rico. Ater the sticker shock I hit the lake again, hit the places they showed me on the map and Wow, what a dierence I boated 8 ish, the largest a 7. They turned me on to a crankbait bite as well that boated a ew more good ish. Thanks
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Try using Rico's, LV 500's by Lucky Crat and Speed Traps. There is still a drop shot bite but most ish were in the smaller class.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or 4 days and ound the typical tough conditions or summer at Don Pedro. 3-13 was the largest ish or me this long weekend. I caught 2 or 3 keepers each day and lots o small ish. Darthead salt and pepper Keeper Custom worms, (color #'s 1001B and 1031) along with dropshot 6" worms rom Keeper in Shad patterns (color #'s 1048, 1064 and 170) worked best. The ish seemed to be about 15 to 25 eet. The thing I did ind was that i you ished in the shad you saw on your meter, Lowrance LCX15MT, ishing was tough, but i you ished where you didn't see shad on the screen and came across bass, those ish would eat. Less competition or the artiicial out o the schools o bait I suppose. Most o the ish were in the river arms that I ound. Main lake stu was real slow. Fish slow with conidence. Have un!
      City: Paso Robles

Saturday, August 2nd, 2003

  • Mason County
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: weird day . thunder storms then hot. ish on every point i there is not a ski boat on it.mostly small ones . then i caught the ish . in a tree with [ plastics] a nice 9 lber towed my boat around or a bit then got it. took pics. then released swimming away.
      City: scotts valley

      Tips: spinner baits on the points and plastics in wood others caught on sencos

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been isning this lake or years now, and this year has been the best ever, today i had a 3 and 4 lber largemouth on, lost both at the net, oh well i would o let them go anyway but what a photo it woul o been. Both o them broke water right at the boat. Lost another quality ish why i was on the cell phone. And ater that just the typical bullard 12inch ish rom then on. Summer is over glad to have my lake back
      City: b/v

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice day out there started at around 6:00 am and had A small limit by 7:00 am all ish I got today were all keepers best ive going around 7-8 lbs.Most ish were on the top with a sammy The rest those ish were on a jig and a senko all in all good day 8-10 ish today o the water at 11:00 am
      City: pittsburg

      Tips: Top water and they wanted it bad would hit it sometimes 3 times beore taking it great top water day!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished all day in the rain with only one dink in the boat on a shad crank in 6 to 10 eet o water near the trees.
      City: South Lake Tahoe

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Double WOW !!! Mark was right ! Bass were biting top notch this am during rain. Fished Dyke 8 with Roboworm green weenies and connected on 12 keepers between 1-3 lbs. Broke o biggest (5+) on shad colored 4" senko. Missed another dozen hits. Nothing on topwaters or blades, did best on carolina rigs.
      City: Rancho Cordova

Friday, August 1st, 2003

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Overcast skies put hope in the heart and boy what a payo. Pegged a nice 7lbr on topwater irst thing in the am and managed a ew dinks ater that. Couple blow-ups on rogs later on in morning, o the water at noon.
      City: stockton

      Tips: RELAX....enjoy the act that your out o the oice...big bites WILL come!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out loat tubin today at 6:30 a.m to 10:am tide was all the way up,caught a total o 10 ish in the 1-2lb range in Whiskey Slough.Nice healthy ish all were caught on lukes.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: When tide is up and rog ishing is dead ish the luke it never ails.

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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In the water by 6 pm. Main body south end o points. Lite breeze 2 on Senko and 4 on poppers. All ish around 2 lbs. O the water by 8:30 pm.Make sure you take a launching partner.Dock is up the hill about 40 eet rom water.No Dock to tie to. Campar say's that they are paving and putting new docks in this all ater water hits low point. We shall see.
      City: Roseville

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 79-83

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, I don't think I have EVER ished two more exciting summer nights weather-wise than the last two at Clear Lake. The lightning show both nights was spectacular (and didn't run us o the lake!). It really was hard to concentrate on ishing!Thusday night ound calm, muggy weather with the clouds moving in about 11 pm and some rain. Fishing, not catching, was abulous! Friday night was windy, a little cooler, and ishing was air or smaller bass up to 4 pounds. As a student o bass behavior, I just can't begin to tell you how amazing the dierence between the two nights was. The bass were in an aggressive mood as darkness ell Thursday evening, and instead o the usual shut-o at dark they kept right on eeding!! Both clients lost a big ish right at dark and I caught a 7 pounder about 15 minutes ater dark. Friday evening at dusk, same place, same baits, NO activity except or bass up to 2 pounds (the 4 pounder came about 1 am). I should have a great report o a 25-30 pound limit Thursday, but sometimes olks just can't put them in the boat and this was one o those nights unortunately. Again, it is the hook-setting thing or these big bass - some just have a hard time grasping how much energy it takes or a swit, hard hookset. They lost three big bass and about 7 or 8 others. Shortly beore we quit one got a 3-10 in the boat and the other ended with a 4-2 rom Shag Rock (I didn't think there were any good bass let there!) - I was happy or them and me! We wound up with 10 bass in the boat and a 20 1/2 pound limit. Thursday we started throwing Snag Proo rogs and the clients had a great time learning how to do that. I didn't think much would happen with the weird weather and we didn't even get a blowup - in about 6 dierent areas around the south end. Friday my client had great ishing skills but not too many bass to test them on. He did manage to catch 2 rog ish in the back o Konocti Bay, but they were only in the two pound range. The rest o the trip was hard work in the wind - very slow as I mentioned - but we did catch 12. The 4 pounder was landed on a Weapon jig - the only decent bass we hooked. We talked to another boat with the same story - only small bass. My Friday guy would have gone nuts i he had been with me Thursday night! That is the tough thing about guiding or me - I am thrilled or the clients that hit it right and sad or those who don't. Bass don't oten provide a level playing ield or tournament anglers, guides, or weekenders! I was reminded Friday night, ater Thursday's action, sometimes it's not the anglers ault when things are slow!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Many o you have been interested in my bass eeding - carp activity theory. I maintain that the nights the carp are rolling, or when they start to roll (around 11pm to 12am), the bass ishing is usually good (as a general rule). So, how about Thursday and Friday nights? You guessed it - Thursday night the carp were pretty active, ESPECIALLY around dark (hint, hint!), and somewhat the rest o the time. Friday night - a grand total o TWO carp were heard. Hmmmmmmm! 'Nu said. Another interesting thing happened - when we started worm ishing Thursday about 7:30 pm one client was ishing junebug, the other green pumpkin, and I decided to ish a pack o Camo Berkley 6" Pulse worms. I have never used that color. The bass hammered them. That's my job - to ind what works. I gave them to my clients and their action picked up. I used that worm because it had a little sparkle to it. I sure hope Berkley still makes that worm!! Both nights we used Berkley Power worms, Camanche Jack zipper worms and Dead Ringers. The 7 pounder was caught on that Camo worm. We ished rocky areas both nights - mostly walls - no rockpiles. The ish were 10 to nearly 30 eet deep. I think all the quality bass we hooked were at least 15-20 eet deep which is normal when the surace is 83 degrees.

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: WOW!!! Is all I can say, Folsom has not been this good since March and April or me.Cloud cover just about all morning slight breeze and biting bass. We caught 20 - 25 ish and iteen o them were 2+ or better. The best was a our and a hal lb spot, I got two smallies that went 3.9 on the Berkley scale. All ish were healthy and hungry. All ish came on the main body, I ran up South irst thing to ind no takers.All o the ish came rom 12 - 20 eet o water, Since this is me reporting you know how I caught them DUH!! Darthead and dropshot.Great Day on the water, I need to have more weekdays o or ishing
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: We were shaking the bait pretty good or a ew seconds then deadstick, then shake again the bites came just when you stopped shaking.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 78.6-80.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got the itch to get back up there, let town at 0315 and got to the stuart' ork ramp at0445, overcast skys and 70 degrees with a drop or two o rain on the windshield, sat around till 0545 and put the boat in, the lake is about 30 t down, moved away rom the ramp throwing a rip bait, then a crank bait and nothing, water a bit murky, picked up my spinning rod and dug around to ind some MGM hooktails an stuck one on, pitched to a stump and got bit right o and up comes a very small smallmouth, reload with another hooktail and throw at some willows and bang! another small ish. This kept up until 0915 when I ran out o the #109C hooktails, Had a 50 pack but went through them quickly just swimming them around any wood or rocky points in Stuart's ork and down in Papoose. Ended up with 38 with only 2 keepers that went 4 lbs, must have shook o as many as I caught, Over in Papoose the water was much clearer and you could see those little guys coming up ater the hooktail, saw one decent ish charge my bait but hit short and took o. Got out at 0945 and the air temp was 75, not a lot o activity on the lake, 3 others ishing and maybe 6 ski boats, one jet ski, reminded me o Shasta in early october. This was my irst crack at the south end and John at MGM gave me some good advice about where to go down there.
      City: Redding,Ca

      Tips: swimming a 4 inch MGM #109C(chartreuse tail) hooktail on a 1/4 oz darter head rom the bank out to 19t, also caught a ew on hula grubs, the two best came on the hooktail over in Papoose.

Thursday, July 31st, 2003

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      Water Temp: 85-87 deg's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Top 10 ish-o was won by George Rosales o visalia. 2nd was Harry Boudakian and 3rd was Brian Chance. I was ishing a ledge in 36 t o water and dropping down to 47 t. All spotted bass, lost 2 good ones and had 4 ish or 5.54lbs. All beore 8 a.m.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Drop-shot .

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

      Report: Thursday report. Launched rom Orwood and headed to a rock wall on the main river throwing Norman Crank DD18...Caught 15+ ish in a short time, most were small 1-2lb with largest at 2.5lb. Headed to another area in just o the main river and drop shotted 10+ ish with three at 2.5 and 2 over 3lbs...Best quality I have ound to date on the drop shot. Decided to throw jigs and blades or awhile without much luck on either. Headed toward home and ished a rock bank on the Old River and caught too many dinks to talk about on the drop shot. Also caught two large catish that at least got the adrenaline pumping a bit. Good day.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Rock, Current, with depth seem to be the key. Didn't get on the water until 11:00 AM and o by 5:00 PM. Otherwise, I'd recommend throwing topwater...Colors were white and watermelon that did the trick cranking and with the drop shot. Stay sae. TG

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On the water at 4:30 PM. Partner and I Fished windward side o lake with Texas and Carolina-rigged Summer Shad Roboworm and Yamamoto green/pumpkin skirted grub. Fish rom 4-6 eet. Slow pickups o a slack line. Caught/released our ish. 4 1/4 ,3 3/4, 2 and 1 1/2 pounds. O water at 7:30 PM. Noticed a very large number (several dozen)o bank ishermen ater blue gill.
      City: Atwater

      Tips: Fish slow to pick up bait, don't overreact to bite. Very overcast day and 2 cool days ater very hot spell brought them out. Large number o minnows around boat launch. Would try cranking minnows early.

Wednesday, July 30th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: just wondering what line you would reccomend or throwing crankbaits and senkos on the delta.just email me with your thoughts.
      City: Stockton

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      Water Temp: 82!!!!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Let the marina Sunday morning at 5:30 to go pitch some Senkos at one o my spots but when I got there one o the local heavys was camped out on it so I continued up river about a hundred or so yards to try a spot I scouted out the day beore during the low tide. Caught tons o 1 and 1 1/2lbr's all on 5in. Baby Bass Senkos. My biggest catch o the day was about a 2lb bullrog that I caught not once but twice also on the Senko. Saw him pop up on some dead tules, pitched it right in ront o him and he pounced on it. Let him go and about a minute later he popped up again. Pitched the Senko right in ront o him again and wham! He did it again!
      City: Holt

      Tips: I was ortunate to attend a seminar last year by Mr. Sapp and Mr. Cuccia and one thing that the both o them couldn't stess enough was to go out at the lowest tide, leave the poles at home and just go see what's out there. That alone has improved my ishing more than anything. You'll save on gas because you'll know exactly where you should be ishing or the conditions at hand and that nasty sunburn you always get rom spending the entire day trying to catch the big one will be a thing o the past!