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Thursday, July 10th, 2003

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went night ishing or the very irst time, drop shoting beore dark we caught a ew, and when it got dark we went cranking. did ok, a ew nice ish. we had a couple on spinner baits also, not to bad o a trip considering both the big motor and the trolling motor were jacked up
      City: b-v

      Tips: maybe when the water goes down to where it is a steady level it will pick up

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

      Report: anybody ished the lake this summer? Give me some tips
      City: Cypress

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: ?Best

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Here at the slough the bassin has been a little slow or quality sized ish, in the daytime that is! Livin on the water makes it easy or us that do to spend more time ishing at night. Getting ried in 100 degree weather with only a bunch o dinks to show or it can take it's toll on you. The last 45 minutes o daylight regardless o the tide direction has also been quite good o late using any lenth Senko in Cinnamon/Black or Black/Red. A couple o nights ago my ishin buddy on his last cast o the night caught a 9 1/2lb'r on a 5in. Black/Red Senko while I only managed a couple o 5's also on the Black/Red Senko right o my back porch. A day or two beore and ater a ull moon at night especially when the preceeding daytime temperatures have exceeded the 100 degree mark, the ishin can be downright awesome! Just you, the bullrogs,skunks and a zillion mosquitos! Who could ask or anything better than that!
      City: Holt

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      Water Temp: 70-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a lot o ish today but nothing very big. I caught 9 on a deep little N shad pattern along the weed edges. Pete caught three on a smaller crainkbait. 4 ish made limit with the biggest going 2lbs. The other ive and Pete's three were dinks. Threw topwater, lipped jigs, worms and senkos but couldn't get bit. Saw some guys catching ish on rogs in the south end. The bite was all day rom mid lake to the south end.
      City: Scotts Valley

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took a man rom Oregon this morning or a our hour "learn how to bass ish" trip. And I am happy to say "he learned"! I am going to start with the end o the trip. On our way back to the dam I stopped at a good spot and showed him one more technique - how to drop-shot. I rigged it or him, watched him ish it or a minute or so, then started puting rods away, etc. Within 5 minutes he looks over to me and says "how am I doing?" as he is ighting a bass. Ater I netted his 14 1/2 inch spot I said "just ine!!" Those Oregon bass better watch out - he is a natural! We started early in Canyon Creek with topwater, but with no real success though I had a blowup rom a large ish. He had never caught a ish on a plastic worm - so that was the main goal. We ound two groups o ish and caught several on Berkley Pulse Worms and Camanche Jack's worms. He caught the three largest bass - all between 14 and 14 1/2 inches. I taught him to use Senkos and he did hook one but missed it. Though we didn't ish the whole time, we did manage 12 bass. We should have had a lot more but it took him awhile to learn to put some wrist in the hook set. Ater that, he was ine. We ending up ishing shadows in the main body willows or the rest o our ish. I was truly thankul that this was a hal day trip - it was getting hot!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: The ishing reports may not be real great or awhile since they started "dumping" the lake - 10 eet or so in a week. That will cause the ish to start suspending and be more diicult to catch during the mid-day period. Shallow ish will be hard to come by. Drop-shotting will become more and more eective now. Fish shadows as long as you can. When the lake is high, I have a milk run that can keep me in shadows until 12:30 pm. Fish the shady side o the willows.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 79.7-80.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: You just can't take some people anywhere anymore, Keith Ogawa down rom Medord or a ew days and out we go, in at Packers at 645 pm and over into the midle Sac, lake down just past 20t, 98 degrees at the ramp, Spent the evening throwing at points rom the bank out to 30t or 23, the biggest a 2.1 by Keith, my best a 1.83.Tkae a guy out, show him where and what to throw and then he has the utter gall to catck the biggest ish! Keith caught his throwing a small spinner bait, mine came on a hula grub and 1/2 oz ootball head. we probably lost twice that amount as the ish were typical or the ater dark antics, grab and run right at you with repeated jumps. Some interesting boat traic last night with idiots out there skiing in the dark. Some o those humps about to come up are going to have an awul eect on these dummies. Lake airly quiet ater 11pm and I did see another bassboat working the shoreline near the O'brien inlet. Didn't bust anything o this time and no top water takers under that nearly ull moon. going back out again tonight, I think I will sneak out and cut the barb o o Keith's spinner bait hook.
      City: Redding

      Tips: color didn't make much dierence or me, I swam the jig all night as the ish were suspended in 8-15 t. Had 6 in a row on as many casts o the north end o Slaughterhouse.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A short and sweet night trip to Sonoma. Only ished 9:30pm to 1:30am, but scored a 22lb 5 ish team sack with the Dominator. Big ish was a 7, ollowed by a 5.5 and a bunch o 3+. Bite was slow until about 11:30. Midnight to 1 was lots o un.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Brush hogs in 5-10 eet around whatever structure or cover the ish are using. Wood was better than rock last night.

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

      Report: Yo Fellas!What is the lake level?thanks,Mike
      City: San Jose

Tuesday, July 8th, 2003

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today I went tubin' or the irst time with Alex. We started ishing at about 11:00 by the dam. Alex got a ew drop shot ish and lost a big one. I couldn't get jack to eat my Pop-R. We worked our way down to the cove by the dam but didn't get anything. Alex started using a senko and caught two ish on the west side. Then I switched to the senko and got a 1-6. We went over by the dock over there and ater a while I got a little guy which may have been a keeper on the senko again. Then we went over to the east side a threw spinnerbaits. Alex got two and I got none. Me: 2 ish. Alex: 10 or 11 ish. Not a bad day. Tubin' is pretty un!
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Senkos.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks Andy, went out there this aternoon and got skunked.. Oh well , i went to island pond rom 2 to 5 and threw senkos, rogs, spinners and buzzes and not even a nibble. What are the good times or the top water bite at the clis when ishing rom the shores?. Im stuck being a shore isherman till i get a new tube..Thanks guys..
      City: Dublin

      Tips: keep plugging away.. adjust your technique..

Monday, July 7th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Once again, ished the two major points above the spillway rom abou 17:30 to a little past dusk. Girlriend and I used plastics down to about 15' eet o water. Bite was slower than my previous trips but the highlight o the day came when I elt a tick on my line and set the hook on a quality ish o about 6-7 pounds on a baby brush hog. Between the two o us, we caught and released about 8 bass averaging 1-2 pounds.
      City: Sacramento, CA

      Tips: Points, points, points. Slow crawl and bump your plastics. Again, set the hook ast because these ish are hungry!!!

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Splashed the ol" valco ay orwood sat and sun with the wie, baged 6 in bareoot alley and rock wall in orwood slough, all on pastics. tried top water early, not 1 blow up, sun was better ,ished just outside o orwood along the rock wall headed towards dico bay, hammered 14 in 3hrs, wie did hal, had a great day on the water , got o by noon, been taken alot o pics lately, un to show others, well be out again as usual next week end, it ill" be a hot, stay cooland keep a tight line, FISH ON RB**
      City: pittsburg

      Tips: PALSTICS SEEM TO BE THE TICKET BUT SURE WITH I COULD GET SOME TOP WATER ACTION, THINK NEXT TRIP MAYBE OUT AT THE BREAK, OR FLANKS TRACK, NEED SOME NEW WATER** BEEN READING GOOD THINGS FURTHER INLAND WATERS*

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, Tom and I got out to do a little ishing yesterday rom the bank around 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM. I'm too lazy to write a detailed report, so here it goes. Three ish on the Pop-R (1-2#)... One ish on a jig (4#)... 2 ish on a prop bait (1#)... and 2 ish on a rog (1# & 9#)... I lost a giant bed ish, I never got a good look at her because her nest was almost directly under a log, but it was 7-10lbs anyways. I got her to eat a giant senko, but then she ran me into a log or something in deeper water and got me snagged and I broke it o. Now here's the deal with the 9lb rog ish. I was using a 1/2oz RED Snagproo Tournament Frog towards the end o the day. I picked up a 1lb 5oz ish with it in some slop, and turned to Tom and said..."How come I can only catch dink rog ish this year?" And then I told him, "That's the irst ish I've pulled out o slop. I've been catching all my rog ish in open water this year." So ater that I began ishing more open water with the rog, and it must've been about 10 minutes later Aaron and his cousin came walkin' on by. He stopped to talk to me or a minute, and as I was ishin' the rog, I turned to talk to him and as he did he 9lber just gobbled it down. It was quite the battle. I brought her in and weighed her with my new digital scale and she went 9-2. Tom came runnin' over rom the other side o the cove, and he snapped a ew pics with his digital camera and I posted one o them under the photos section.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: RIBBIT!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 79.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got in at Jones Valley at 0330, 3 spots in the gravel now, lake down past 19t, wind out o the N/E at 6, air temp 63, idled over to a cowpasture cove hump and immediately connected on 3 dinks in 6 t o water on hula grubs threaded onto a 1/2 oz ootball head, pulled out a new jointed black jitterbug about 4 inches long and tried that or ten minutes and caught the smallest spot I have ever caught, 3 ounces and not as long as the jitterbug, kinda makes you wonder what he intended to do with it. moved over to some submerged humps in the lower pit throwing the jitterbug as it got light out and got smacked big time, it was a a real decent ish but I never got a look at it as I only got back the ront end o the jitterbug, it was new and the irst time I used it, sure would have liked to get a look at the ish that broke it. Went over near squaw point and caught 3 more dinks and the bite(or me) stopped at 0515. back to the ramp at 0545, still no one there, air temp up to 66, had to go take care o a ew things. Parking lot has about 40 rigs in it but mostly vacationeers probably out on houseboats rom jones valley resort. main body areas airly clear, upper arms muddy rom all the traic. Shad starting to show in deeper creek channels with trout busting them on the surace at just beore irst light.
      City: Redding

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: good question

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went up to Sonoma with my dad or our annual ishing & camping trip together. The ishing was really good considering it was a holiday weekend and the crowds were out.The unny things is, just when ya think you've got a lake igured out, it throws you a curve. In this case it worked out in my avor. I irst got on the lake saturday morning around 8am and caught one ish deep on a 6" PBJ Zipper worm then another on a Rapala Risto Rap crankbait. That was it and I stopped or lunch. I didn't expect to ind any so I was happy. That evening I went over to where I caught the crankbait ish and ound 'em chewing white tandem spinnerbaits really well. I caught 6 to 2 lbs. Not bad beore the sun went down. I stuck around to wait or the night bite but never ound it and went to bed around midnight. The next morning I got out about 6:30 and promptly caught 5 keepers to 3 lbs all on the white blade. FUN!
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: The ish were on the lats in Yorty creek around the island. They were anywhere where green vegetation was. Mostly the new sparse tule growth and always near a good dropo to deep water.

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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished sunday morning rom 6:30-11:00 rom a tube.absolutely nothing. no strikes, no rises, nothing.threw spinnerbaits (white ones, black ones and chartreuse), shallow cranks, tubes, topwater pop-r's, rogs onto the weeds,jigs, lizards. you name it.totally sucked.
      City: petaluma

      Tips: are you kiddin' me?

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

      Report: In at Trinity Center ramp at 0500 ran stright to east bank and started throwing topwater, only one very big blow-up but no hook-up. Switched to spinnerbait, irst cast brought a 2.5 smallie connected with 2 more smallmouths on the same bank, headed or the tailings as soon as my graph showed 25' o water I started throwing my avorite black hook tail made by MGM Lures two more smallmouth to 2# then a 3.6# black, moved to east bank o creek channel throwing a 3/4 oz. ootball head with a 5" Yamamota hula grub tight to the bank, caught a 3.4# smallmouth that picked it up on the all. Ater 0900 I only managed to land two more qua;ity ish and several dinks. Out at 1530.Not to bad aday.Jim Mickelson i you read this give me a call, I lost your number.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Bite is good early morning and poor in the aternoon.

Saturday, July 5th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom dark to 2am. Caught ish near dam, rock creek and carson arm....all 2lb or less (30+). bite shut down around 11pm when the moon went away. can't igure out how to catch the larger ish. 3rd nite trip with decent #'s, but haven't caught ish >3lb

      Tips: dark plastic worms and brush hogs

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got a Hall Pass this weekend. Took my (10) son Nicholas out FROG FISHING again. Got on the water at 5:00, o at 11:00. Launched out o Rivers End and started ishing rogs. With 10-15 blow-ups w/ 2# and 3.5# rog ish in the boat beore 6:00. Picked-up and ran to the mat water, We both threw the new Wiggle Wog (Snag-Proo) with lots (10+) o ish in the 1-2 lb range. About 8:30 I hit a my biggest Wiggle Wog Fish so ar. She went 5.2 lbs. Niko hit a 4.8 Frog Fish last week and I knew he could not do it 2 weekends in a row. I inally out ish him on this trip. Nice try son, but who's your TEACHER?? Catch you on the water....
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Try the new Snag-Proo Wiggle Wog. It works great on the delta. Ask Me or Niko, We threw it untill our arm ell o. Great Lure.....

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, I went out to the lake tonight with just a couple o rods and a pocket ull o tackle mainly to just mess around with some topwater ish. I walked in on the backside so I could ish the back cove at around 6 PM. I began throwing my pink Pop-R, and on about my 4th cast I had about a 4lber chase my Pop-R down, but didn't eat it. So I quickly ollowed up with a senko where I saw the 4lber swim o to, and I saw my line jump pretty quick. I set the hook, and my line broke instantly though. Senkos just don't work on 6lb test. haha. Well, I kept throwing the Pop-R and about 5 minutes later, once again, I stumbled upon a great big bed ish. Why do I always seem to ind them when I don't have my bed ishing lures? Well, I threw a senko at her and a jig, but ater I ished or her or about 10 minutes she disappeared and didn't come back or a while. So I continued on ishing with my Pop-R and caught one 12". Ater I ished that bank, I returned back to where I saw the big bed ish, and there she was about 2t rom the bank. I busted out my lippin' stick with a 3/8oz blk/blu Bass Stalker Jig w/ a big 4" twintail black w/ blue lk yammamoto grub trailer. I pitched it out beyond her and began hopping it back, then when I got it right next to her head, I thunked her in the head pretty good with it. She turned her head really quick and I saw her mouth lex but I wasn't sure i she actually ate it. Then she started swimming away and I didn't see my jig anywhere, so I set the hook and VIOLA!! What a ight too. I landed her and thought...man, this could beat my lake record! Well, lucky me now...here I am, with no scale and no one around to take a picture and by now the ranger's station is closed. So I sat there holding her in the water or what must've been 5-7 minutes trying to igure out what to do. I tried to call Aaron and tell him to get his butt over there with his scale, but he didn't answer his cell phone. So I called my riend Ken and told him that I could be holding the next lake record in my hands and to go to Wal-Mart and buy a digital scale and I could pay him back and to get over to the lake and take some pictures. haha. Well, luckily I ound a garbage can with a brand new garbage bag in it, so I swiped that out o the garbage can and illed it with water and put her in it. From that cove on the back side o the lake, I hauled her halway to cattail cove beore the bag broke. So then what I just would run her down the bank, and then hold her in the water or a while. And I kept doing that all the way to the lagoon. My shoes were pretty wet by the time i got there. haha. By now it was about 20-25 minutes ater I had caught her, and she still seemed to be doing well. I sat on the rocks at the lagoon or about 5 minutes when my riend Ken came runnin' down. He gave me the scale and I put her up on it...at irst it read 8-2...and I thought...aw come on! That can't be right! I didn't go through all o that or an 8lber!...then I took her o, and put her back on...this time it settled at 9-7...so I tried it one more time...and once again...she came in at 9-7. So close! But not quite a 10-3. Bummer! Well, I got plenty o pictures anyways, and then waded in the water a little ways and let her go...and she swam o like a champ!!! Well, ater that...I walked all the way back to the cove on the backside...because I let all o my stu hiding in a bush back there. I didn't have too much daylight let by then, and I started throwing the Pop-R again. The Pop-R action was pretty good as I proceeded to catch 4 more ish weighing 1-10, 2-2, 1-3, and 2-6. Then I called it a day!
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Topwater is always un d:o)