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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003

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      Water Temp: 77/79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water at 6:30 AM. Missed the top water bite as sun was already on the water. It was HOT and getting HOYYER every minute. Bite was slow until about 8:00 AM when I started drop shotting a 4" rythem & blue straight tail worm. Just over a 7 lb'er or the 1st ish, minutes later a 5 1/2. Then a couple o 3's and a 4 1/2 or my last ish. Almost 23 lbs or ive. All came in just under 20' o water. Got o the water by 10:00AM as it was just TOO hot.
      City: Madera

      Tips: I've heard that buzz-baits are putting them in the boat in the morning and evening. A riend told me he had ive ish or over 28 lbs earlier in the week. Poor quantity but, as you can tell, great QUALITY

Tuesday, July 1st, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: Doesn't matter

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out o B&W today with guide Mark Lassagne. The day started slow, but inished with a lourish! Spent the biggest part o the day ishing around Franks and the surrounding areas. Caught roughly 45 ish to 3 lbs. Most on Helix's and Speedtraps, with a ew blade and buzzbait ish thrown in. We mainly ished rock banks with sparse cover. The last two hours rom 1 to 3 pm, we caught 30 ish, plus a couple o small stripers, almost all these ish were caught on Speedtraps. Nice way to inish the day!! Am trying to learn the Delta better, so went on my irst guided trip. I chose Mark Lassagne. Good choice. Learned more in one day ishing with this guy than in all my other trips combined. A class act all the way. (He's also pretty good at removing embedded treble hooks rom his clients ingers) I you're looking or a great guide, then Mark's your guy. His number's on this website under "Guides."
      City: Sacto.

      Tips: The bends in the boring looking banks might be worth checking out.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Whiskeycreek arm...I got 1 bite and landed it a 4 lb large...Jason got two bites...couldnt land them..slow bite..got mine on a dartheaded 4 inch MGM ox blood worm....Fished on a steep wall
      City: Redding

      Tips: dont ask me...

Monday, June 30th, 2003

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

      Report: Hey roger post your kokanee report on the kokanee ishing site, OOPS they dont have one, this is or bass ishermen. next we will be getting a blue gill report. thanks
      City: browns valley

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Weeds, weeds, weeds, - everywhere - already! I took two brothers Saturday morning or 6 hours to show them how to ish in the summer. We started out the the Oaks at 5:30 am and at our 2nd stop, near Rattlesnake Island, one o the brothers nailed a nice just-under 5 pounder. What a sound when the ish slammed the Chug Bug. We missed 3 others on topwater, then went to #221 and 214 Senkos and caught several up to 2 pounds. I then had one o the brother try a white Snag Proo rog and I used my usual "green special". We didn't land any but we each hooked a nice bass but lost it. Maybe because o the hot spell, the ish just didn't seem too aggressive. We did have quite a bit o action overall, it was a beautiul morning, and there wern't many bass boats or skiers. Wait till this weekend!!!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I like to work topwater around emerging weed patches now - that is how he got his big ish. These post-spawn ish are doing a lot o roaming right now, but will settle into a summer pattern soon. Look or areas o weeds that are close to deep water or a dropo - that should add to the quality o the bass you catch on rogs or topwater lures.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out today with my riend on our tubes tried to sneek by without paying or launch but dident work lol started out with a sinco and hooked up to 1 and missed it. a nice 1 to. drited down the tollies by the other side o the pool got 2 there. went to the cove got another one there went to the dam....OMG great ishing got 8 there all 2-3 lb on a crank bait bomber missed a 5+ bass jumped out o the water shook its head and 'pop' the lure pops out it jumped about 2 eet out o the water (you guys no how that eels) then got another hook up which i dident see but was ighting like crazy it was a lunker or sure. pulled it up to the tube and then when i got it up there was just a lure. got a ew today it was a great day!!!!!!! at the end we ended up getting 11 ish (2-4 lbs) and also got alotttttttt o hits in the ar cove. there on all the little drops os. we tried my riends ish inder and that things a nice one helped alot to show drop os and deph. all rock ledges are great!!!! ive never had such a good day in our tubes and the un part was that they were all light polls. well we got 11 and missed 6 not to shabby i cant belive we missed six but still got 11. well good luck. p.s. aaron i dident try the spinners but i dident need to at this rate thanx or the advise
      City: antioch

      Tips: crank baits at the dam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i ur on oos the cove like crazy!!!!!!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 5:00PM. Fished the lower Pit or 14, all small and a ew dinks. Jigs and worms or all but one that came on a topwater just beore dark. Out at 10:00PM. The Blonde had 4. The access road or the low water ramp is just out o the water allowing space or one rig to park, other wise it's a walk up the stairs.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: The banks are loaded with dinks, better ish around 25 eet.

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 75-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Amador last night rom 10:00 pm to 6:00 am (no moon). Partner and I caught 12 ish up to 4 pounds and missed 4 top water bites and 5 or 6 hits on plastics.Best ish (4 pounds) came on a buzzbait at 2:00 am...what a thrill! Also caught ish on 7" Cuttail worms (green pumpkin, rootbeer) ished with a 1oz bullet weight pegged 5" up the line, 9L Senkos (green pumpkin, watermelon seed, and black/blue) ished wacky/weightless, jigs (black/red) dragged along drop os and Dead Ringers (black/red) ished T-rigged. Note: all productive colors were dark. Tried chartreuse, white and clear with no bites.All ish came in less than 20' with most in less than 10'. Missed top water ish between 10pm and 1am. Probably would have had better success with a slower top water bait like a Spook. But, in the pitch black, the buzzbait was much more orgiving when tossed into trees or up on the bank. Also, broke o a toad on a Senko at irst light...hit in 2' o water.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: When daytime high temperatures shut down the bite, switch to night ishing.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 78.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kokanee ishing is great. Fished in ront o the dam. Had 2 limits within 2.5 hours. Fished down 30-35 eet with Baby Cowbells with a red Wedding Ring & white corn. Larger ish came earlier in the morning. Fish up to 13 inches long. Lost as many ish as we boated with those sot mouths. Use a rubber snubber, it helps.
      City: W. Sacto

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Rivers End. On the water 5:15 and o by 11:30 with my son Nicholas. To many skiers. Fished the river with buzzbaits with no takers, Threw a blade and hooked 5. Ran to ind some mats to teach my (11 year old) Niko to rog ish. Got a ew blow-ups right away. I was watching my rog when a heard a slurp in the back o the boat. Saw Niko set the hook, I told him to him to set it again and keep the rod up. He got it to the boat. His irst rog ish weighting in at 4.8 pounds. That made our day. Great job Nicholas. We end the day with a photo and a great memory.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Look or the mats and throw that rog. Fish are on current. Catch you on the water.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished late aternoon and caught two dinks on popper,missed one realy big ish that broke my 6lb line.moved to the docks and ished a rattle trap with only a dink,and i missed another big ish that broke my line.
      City: sacramento

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my buddy Will out or a ew hours o relaxing Bass ishing. Got there beore 6:00 am, third in line. Started with topwater over the weedbeds in the narrows. We connected or three ish on the Rico, all keepers, largest pushed 5 pounds. Missed two other blow ups. Will also scored a ew smaller ish, including a nice Bluegill on an in line spinner. Rest o the morning was a mixed bag. One keeper smallmouth on a Watermelon Senko and a 2lb black on a dart headed brown worm in Swallow Bay. The wind picked up and we moved to the south end. Picked up another Senko ish and a couple more 2 pounders Carolina rigging a 6" Zoom pumpkin lizard. O the water at noon.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Get there early. Poppers over the weed beds. I'm talking about the weeds that are in 6-7 eet o water, in ront o the tules. Ater the topwater dies go either 15-20 eet down or drag a worm through the weeds beds in the south end.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 78.7

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: should have stayed home, in at bailey cove at 645pm, air temp 94 lake down to 15.3 t. ran up the the upper end hoping to get away rom the skiers with no luck, ished around ellery creek down to moore creek or only 9 , 8 were dinks one was only 1.6. all came on 3/8oz darter heads wearing hula grubs, nothing on Mr Fullers bait, heavy boat traic until 915 pm so I said the hech with it, and got out at 945pm, air temp a nice 77 degrees
      City: Redding

      Tips: wait till labor day, Steve Pendill, your vacation is over, get back over here!

Saturday, June 28th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Bryant/Crenshaw Memorial with Cris VanCle. Had quite a day o catching considering we stopped ishing at 11:30 or our 12:00p weigh-in. Caught about 25 ish all morning, but o those maybe only 10 were keeper ish above 13". Our best ish, a 4+ came on a popper. Very subtle bite, even trickier to git em to strike and hold onto the popper. We lost 3 really good ish that took the popper down but never got hooked. Also lost a 5-6 pound ish on a rog, which came unbuttoned hal way back through the slop. The better ish all came on topwater baits. Never got bit on a buzzbait. We did catch quite a bit o numbers on a PBJ worm as well as a brown jig-n-grub combo. Swearengin & Merill took top honors in this event by lippen plastics, and secured the victory with an 8+ pound kicker 5 minutes beore their weigh-in on a rog. They had over 25 pounds or their best 7 ish. It's summer time in the Delta.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Tis the season to be tossing topwater baits early and all day long. Beore the sun comes up, slow ish the poppers. Buzzbait the weedlines where ya ind the shad starting to school. Frogs the rest o the day. Jigs and worms will work on transition points and ledges where the current is present. And i ya can't ind that topwater bite, let's go lippen!

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished saturday, got a late start about 7, ished backside o Rattlesnake, caught 11 ish up to 5lbs. Then blasted to Cash Creek, in 30 min caught 10 with the biggest around 2lbs. Coudlnt get anything to blow on the Frog, which is real strange??? But the senko caught alot o ish and I did catch one on a Drop Shot.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Top water in the am, rog midday and deep water drop shotting. When all else ails Senko, Senko, Senko.......

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started the day o with my boy and a buddy and his boy all throwing top water. I had a nice keeper blow up on a 5 inch spook. We tried spinners and buzz but no takers. Caught another nice keeper on a 5 inch senko. Sunny is really pounding the water and ish are looking or cover.
      City: Alameda

      Tips: Hit the top water action as soon as you get out there, but once the sunny peaks go to a SENKO

Friday, June 27th, 2003

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: nice

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got on the water at 8am, thinkin i was gonna catch tons o bass ater all the reports iv been hearing rom dierent tackle shops and the internet, boy, was i wrong. All i caught was 1 small bass, and aew good bites. Caught it on a senko, warm springs. I think its all the location, iv ished this lake many times all in warm springs, and iv only caught like 7 ish out o here, pathetic. Can someone tell me i cherry is really better, or what im doin wrong, thanks.
      City: ksjkalsd

      Tips: sot plastics, good luck, catch and release only

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was planning to ish Amador with a riend o mine but wound up ishing solo as he didn't eel well enough to come. I ished only about 6 hours - getting some evening topwater (smaller bass up to 1 3/4 lbs) and then some night ishing When I irst started a 4 or 5 pound bass hit my spook right at the boat - but pilot error - I think I set too quick!!. The leet was out, probably because o a previous post. Probably the most boats I have seen in the dark o the moon - many let early cause the ishing wasn't that good. I did ok, catching my biggest at 4-13 right at dark on a junebug Dead Ringer worm. Ater dark I used Berkely Power worms, Camanche Jack 10" zipper worms and 11" black Gator Tails. The best bite was about 20 eet. I caught lots o bass that actually were eeding - they hit pretty hard. I don't know how many I caught, but my 5 biggest were about 15 1/2 lbs. One o my 4 pounders was so skinny that I could have put a tip on her nose and shot her as an arrow! Now that is skinny!! Nothing great to report considering the heat, but a good trip anyway.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I did not ind many ish on points, mostly on walls and creek channels. Topwater ish were all over!

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 70 - plus

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing is good right now with ish in the 1- 3lb range being caught. Caught my personal best on monday (6/23) 11 lbs.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Postspawn patterns working well right now. Fish weedbeds in 3-10 eet with plastics and jerkbaits.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took our 8 & 4 yr. old grand kids out or their 1st boat ride on a big lake so actual ishing was limited to about an hour. Caught one in Lucas Bay on a split shot Yamamoto green pumpkin lat tail worm, caught one in Rogers Creek on a split shot Berkeley Power Hog, and then caught two more in the Canyon on a split shot 4" Purple Ghost. All our were keepers w/ the biggest just shy o 3 lbs.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Short time we ished we split shot and the ish we caught were in 10' to 15'.