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Saturday, June 7th, 2003

  • Merced County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 5:30-10:30am, caught 6 stripers rom 2-10 pounds trolling yellow hair-raiser o dam in 20-25 eet water. Wind was blowing 25 miles per hour. (all ish released)
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Very Windy this time o year! Smaller crat be sae on the water. (larger ish should start to hit in next 3-5 weeks as the water continues to warm)

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: olsom team ished this weekend. 24 boats and everyone had limits both days. The bite was wide open everywhere I went on plastics.Drop shot dart head spit shot shakin. Some bigger ish overall came on blades once the mud lines ormed. The lake is ull. I had biggest ish 3.72 up the sac arm. nice check commin. caught it on a 4 inch mornin dawn o well ormed point. about 15 eet o water. boat was in 40 oot.The ish were really on every point you could call a point. sunday I had to ish right near packers bay cauae my motor went bad. same pattern except larger logs in coves held some nice keeeprs.
      City: orangevale

      Tips: go ish have lots o un. Phils props has the worms ya need. nice store. ish ox blood,margareta mutalors, morning dawn all day. start shallow drag out till tapp. lots o short ish. caught 50+ a day.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 67-73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went looking or crappie today with my good riend Wes. Found a 3# bass on my irst cast.Lots o small bass 9" to 2# all over. Also ound some bass busting shad in the coves.We ended up with close to 70 crappie and 11 bass to 5 lbs. The big bass came on a ripbait. Fished rom 07:00 tp 11:30.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Crappie and small bass suspended around 16' in 30' water at large cove entrances. Lots o smaller crappie ound between 8' and 16' in weeds. Barbless hooks are the way to go.

Friday, June 6th, 2003

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hey mike i you want to go ishing here's my email
      City: brownsville

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: UNKNOWN

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: 3 o us went out today and came home with 14 keepers (biggest 2 were a 3 lb spotted bass and a 2 lb smallmouth). Caught a lot o undersized bass. Even caught 4 blue gills using 1/2 oz Rat L Traps. We ished all the man made rocky "walls" - staying about 40 t away rom the shore and casting toward the shore.
      City: Dixon, CA

      Tips: dbl bladed spinners w/white skirts - color o blades or type didn't matter. 1/2 oz Rat L Traps - anything w/chrome. Tried grubs and Senkos, but didn't get one bite.

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hey mike i you want to go ishing here's my email
      City: brownsville

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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on Coyote at about 7:00. It was a bit oggy in the morning and surprisingly quite a ew anglers both on shore and in boats. I had taken Friday o in hopes o avoiding crowds... Anywho reports called or an overcast day so I decided to stick with swimbaits or the duration. Began walking along shore towards the damn rom the boat launch and ater about 4 hours had my irst and only ish o the day. An 8 lb emale and my biggest bass to date! She was released and non the worse or ware.
      City: Campbell

      Tips: Mission Fish, Castaic, Basstrix, etc.. You know what to do

Thursday, June 5th, 2003

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: White luke with silver lakes on a 3/0 wide-gap hook working around the weeds by the shore o Island Pond got me a nice one-pound bass this past Sunday around 7:30pm.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: white luke works!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75.3-73.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I should have known not to go centimudi, 4 t o wood stacked up on the ramp with only two lanes open and olks trying to get out, got in quick and a nice guy in a jetcrat said he would hold onto my boat while I parked the truck, in at 745pm, at 101 degrees, tons o small debris around and within a 1/2 mile o the dam but the main body was clean, ran over near dolly point throwing jigs with only 1 smallmouth in the irst 45 minutes, picked up a rod with Mr. Fuller's avorite surace bait and the un got going ast with 17 between 830 and 930 and the best ive went 14.86, 3.8 the biggest and a 2.8 the smallest and you had to get within a oot o the bank or no go. ended up with 23 total and only one dink. quite a nice night with the 1/4 moon, no wind and 74 degrees when I got out at 1045pm. inally able to run a bit or the irst time in the dark but had to slow down when I was a 1/2 mile out rom the dam. one good windy day will clear things up nicely. lake down to 4.8t.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Ain't gonna give up Mr. Fuller's secret bait.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2003

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

      Report: Windy weather and a low tide during our aternoon o ishing. Not many choices... whitecaps on Connection Slough.Fell back to ishing marinas and got easy limits o ish to 3lbs. Plastics and topwater were best. Despite the low tide, lots o water: agencies releasing rom the upstream lakes?
      City: Bwood

      Tips: Move around, ind conditions you like

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I know this is past due ino but, I am trying to learn rom my errors.A couple o weeks ago I had the pleasure to ish the Delta with bassinan-(thanks bassinan- I really appreciate the backseat)We put in at a marnia between disapointment slough and wright slough.Their was an early topwater bite 7ish. then very ew ish ater that.The early ish were on spooks and the later ish were on seknos.(weightless and texas rig)water temp 72 ishmost ish were on transitions between rocks and tulles.I ended up with 4 small ish.this was a very unique experience or me I really enjoyed it- I was disappointed no more ish.Obviously the ish were postspawn.What should I have done diernt??Realistic I dont know when I will get to Cali again but you never know.PS. I anyone is visting the twin cities o Minneosta and is every looking or a backseat look me up at nordp@grovesacademy.org.
      City: Minneapolis, MN

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      Water Temp: 68-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: It was my irst time ishing Lexington and we got skunked. Got on the lake at 8:00 and let at 3:30. The wind blew all day. We threw spinnerbaits, crankbaits, ripbaits, buzzbaits, jigs, worms, rattletraps, swimbaits, senkos and not a ish. We used dropshot rigs and split shot rigs on the rocky points and coves. Flipped to the looded brush and weeds. Threw cranks deep and shallow around wood and rocks. Fished the north, south, east and west regions o the lake. It is a great looking lake but the ishing sucked or today. I anyone has some good tips or this lake email me, Thanks.
      City: Scotts Valley

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 73-77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We started at day break & ished until 11 am....Caught app 40 ish....Lots o small spots..We had 9 keepers up too 2 lbs...All ish were caught on plastics & dierent parts o the lake.. The keeper bass came rom the open areas o the lake & most o the small ish rom creek channels.....Only two keepers caught next to the bank & most o the small ones....
      City: RIV

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a greet day today, ished the Sacramento arm with my son just back rom Iraq. Caught about 40 ish between 1 to 3 lbs. one ish on plastic all others on crawdad color AA Bomber, & white spiner bait. Was back home by 1 pm. wish every day could be like that.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Reaction, Reaction that seem to be what they wanted today

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 68-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I have been to Collins three times in the past 2 weeks or short 3 to 4 hour trips. One was a night trip where I hooked 5 bass up to 2 pounds on jigs and really lost a nice spot - maybe 4 pounds! The irst trip was in the morning - I threw Senkos mostly in color #214, since the bass were eeding on bluegills! I caught 9 bass including a 2-3 largemouth and a eisty 2-10 spot. I ished Senkos in the shade pockets o submerged willows. Today I went with a riend o mine and we caught 11 in 3 hours - but no real size. We did see a lot o quality ish including a 10+ largemouth!! We caught a ew on topwater and then Senkos and worms. My riend lost a good bass that dumped him in the brush. The heat this week plus post-spawn had slowed things down. One boat we talked to didn't catch a ish. The water is very clear which will make day ishing tough or awhile.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Senkos, lukes, and drop-shotting next to cover is always good in June. We spotted a ew good bass about 25 eet on ledges (on the meter). They will start moving out to deeper water now as the lake begins to drop a bit.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Today Tom, Alex and I had our 4th KOTL tourney today. You prabably already know the standing i you read Tom's report. I got 2 today. 1 on a G-Splash about 11in. and a 1lb.6oz. on a buzzer. I also got a ew more blowups and swirls on those two lures. Towards the end o the tourney Alex spotted a bedish that he though might be 5 or 6lbs. Ater Tom was dubbed, Alex gave up on her and I gave her a try. For about 1hour and 45min. I tried a buzzer which she kinda looked at, a Frogzilla which I got her to bite when it sank, a Castaic bluegill, a senko, and a Lucky Crat Pointer. She lost interest in all o the lures but the Pointer. I threw it at her or a good 45min. or more. She would look at it but not take it. On this one cast I brought it up to the nest and let is suspend right in her ace and she nailed it. I set the hook as hard as I could and sunk the hooks into her. I knew then that she was more than 6lbs. I hualed her up onto shore, took the hooks out, and weighed her. 7lb.8oz.! Awesome! My second biggest bass at Loma and my ourth ish there over 5 pounds! And Alex couldn't even get her to bite. Haha. JK. I took a picture o her on the ground and then yelled or some kids to come over and take a ew pictures. I then released her and she swam o healthy as can be. I copuld have won the tourney i I had caught her during the tourney. Oh well. At least I got the thrill o catching the big girl. Ater that I let.
      City: Antioch

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out sat.with my riend on the water 6:10am went to the senko it was slow so drop shot robo worms got 4 ish up to 3 lbs.Later on went back to the senko and there was a good bite most small went to deeper water and got one 3 and then had a great ish that broke my line at least we saw it Good day o water 12:00.Sunday I went out alone on the water 6:00 am and started o with a dink than got 2 to about 2 lbs on top water buzzbait I then went to the drop shot and that was good 3 ish one 4 lbs rest 1-2 lbs in a area I never really ish which was nice .I then went back to where I lost the one sat.Got some small ones than about a 5 lbs but there was no hook good day.
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: To me early senko bite is not that good it picks up about 11:00 am Top water and drop shot are good early .I got the good ones when the wind picked up and went to where the water was dirty.Fish on

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: maybe 70 degree

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: i love spring ishing... i inally caught a 3 pound bass. catch, photographed, and released. white spinner bait. crankbaits didn't work. it came o o the 2nd drop o. the water is really high. beautiul evenings. t-shirt and shorts.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: blade bite is starting.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 70 to 74 degree

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Preished or a tourny. ishing wasnt good only caught 2 keepers. lots o little ones. caught most on top water and senkos. top water bite is good in the morning.
      City: modesto

      Tips: try using poppers and senkos

Monday, June 2nd, 2003

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Last time I ished this lake was 8 years ago... it certainly gets busier now than it did back then. Hit the water Thursday aternoon and did real well with shad imitation crankbaits up the Bear river arm. The wind came up that evening, and Friday morning brought overcast skies. Caught alot o ish on plastics (any color except black) and a ew on topwater. Nothing on spinnerbaits. Skies cleared Friday aternoon, and the evening bite was good on both crankbaits and plastics. Then, the yah-hoo's showed up. Fishing all but died as the boat traic increased. Continued to pick up a ew ish here and there i you could ind quiet places away rom the other boaters. All in all, caught over 60 ish in 3-1/2 days, mostly dinks, but a ew good ish in the 1-2 lb. range.
      City: Fernley, NV

      Tips: Hold your boat in 25-30 t. o water and cast to rocky areas o shoreline. Most hits came in the irst 1/3 o the retrive. Shad imitation crankbaits & plastic grubs, worms and Senkos... white seemed to be the best color, but every other color we used caught ish too. Fish during the weekdays.