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Saturday, May 10th, 2003

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6am to 2 pm starting in Piney Creek. Started with jerk bait and partner tried Zara Spook and then a spinnerbait. Nothing so partner switched to weightless white w/chart. tail luke and I split shot a 4" green weenie style worm. Partner boated several 13 to 15" spots while I managed one 14" and several rats. Moved down to Cottonwood around 11 and then inished o in Temperance. Bite slowed but still caught several more on lukes and 4" split shot worms. best ive weighed 7 lbs. 11 ozs.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Weightless lukes and ish oriented near wood.

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      Water Temp: 60ish

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom about 8:00 to 12 got 3 ish not much size only a 2lber. rest were dinks. not bad day missed a ew bites
      City: livermore

      Tips: senkos and worms tight to cover.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Up the Pit arm to Arbuckle Creek and ished white lukes to the standing trees. 12 ish, biggest at 2.5# and a couple right at 2#. Rest were typical 14" Shasta spot clones. Fished rom 1100 to 1500. Biggest 5 ish went almost 9.5#.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Let luke all on a dead stick. Most ish hit when it was down around 12' and almost out o sight. Had to let it all slowly with no twitching and the luke had to be right next to tree trunk.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 61 - 67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Yorty creek rom 7 am to 12 pm. Caught 3 bass to 1.5 lb. Caught them on a shallow crankbait and dark green senko. Had some trouble with my tube and had to keep blowing it up. I probably only ished or about 3 - 3.5 hours. Finally ixed it and caught a ew ish to make the trip worth while. All ish were probably males.
      City: Santa Rosa

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 62 to 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The ishing is on ire. We landed 14 largemouth on trout swim bait. You can see them ollowing the swim bait to the boat.We also landed 50 to 60 smallmouth rom 10in to 3.5 lbs. We use luckycrat ripbaits and strom crankbait. Also saw a ish that was 10lbs to 12lbs on a bed. We toss a swimbait and she ollow it to the boat. She ollow it two or three times. But i couldn't get her take the swimbait. But largemouth we landed were all in the 3 to 5 lbs. range. The most the largemouth came rom copperopolis cove. the smallmouth came rom the river and the POKER FLAT area.
      City: SAC

      Tips: To catch the good one throw big trout bait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, May 9th, 2003

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished barrett cove 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.. Lots o spawning ish tight to bank. Flipped hula Grubs Green/pepper on 3/4 oz. darter jighead. lots o' dinks. Moved to piney creek, lots o' dinks on silver cast master. 4 skinney trout on live medium minnows and tiny gold/black rapala's. Huge ish everywhere, but none in the boat. Tried everthing in tackle box. One really big ish on Watermelon Baby Brushhog (texas rigged) but broke o beore getting a look at ish. Moved to Cotton about 4 p.m.. Lots o big ish breaking topwater, but no takers.
      City: modesto

      Tips: I've never ished here beore. Any help out there?

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

      Report: Caught 3 ish (4-7 lbs)near the dam gates using rozen chad rom Lucky Larry's. Had to go down 50 - 75 eet. Fish were caught between 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM. Tried live minnows and anchovie also...no bites.
      City: Aromas

      Tips: Frozen chad at 50 - 75 t.

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      Water Temp: 60.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water with Chad rom Fishermans Warehouse in San Jose rom 6:00pm - 7:30pm rom the boat. Was able to get a 1.8lb bass on a 1/2oz Persuader White spinnerbait w/ white willow lea blades. Male was on a bed in about 2' o water near the launch ramp. That was pretty much it or the day. Pounded the banks with white spinnerbaits and dropshot the coves without a bite. Didn't have enough time to hit the ar back end o the lake so we made do with the time we had.
      City: Los Altos

      Tips: Either ish or trout or go to a dierent lake. This lake doesn't have a large population o bass. There are some, but the absence o thredin shad must keep the numbers down in this lake.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 63-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Black Creek; Zoom Tiny Brushhog (Castaic). Hot plastic lure or this place! Too many ish to count. Lots o dink w/ occational quality kicker. 5 ish @ 12.63 lbs, 2 above 4 lbs.Green Springs is good too, and a lot less dumb**& watersport enthusiasts.
      City: modesto

      Tips: Anything that looks like a crawdad (inesse) ished slow down to 12' ought to keep you busy. Early morning and late aternoon is best. Midday crank bite O.K. Good Luck

Thursday, May 8th, 2003

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished disco today, and I must say, it was one o my better days. The senko bite was on ire!!! primarily used black and blue but took a ew on hot pink. Most o our ish were in the 2-3pound range. Our biggest went 7 pounds with a 5 pounder to boot. All together my partner and I bagged around 30 ish. Those catish sure are biting good.
      City: byron

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I am getting the bug to do a little CARP shooting and I was just wondering i anyone has seen many carp lately? Thanks or the ino. Good luck with the bass.
      City: chico

Wednesday, May 7th, 2003

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

      Report: Finally was able to take a day o and go ishing. My buddy had been up in Disco last week working on a house and spent every morning and evening beore work catching 4-7 lbers. rom a paddle boat o the docks. So we spent almost the entire day there ishing the docks or 20+ ish between us. The size wasn't there most o the ish were small buck's in the pound in a hal class, hal a dozen in the 2-3 and one 4 lber. The better quality ish came o o older ladders on the end o docks or under the ront o the docks in 5+ eet o water. BTW our baits were getting banged by bluegill quite a bit. Even landed one on a 5" senko. Primarily threw senkos, then tubes.
      City: Newark

      Tips: Senko color didn't seem to matter much. Threw pumkin green/blk, rootbeer, brown/blk and black/blu. In a ew spots they were really stacked up. Partner pulled 5 ish o one spot.

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      Water Temp: 60-61.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well, my buddy and I planned on a hal day trip today. We launched out o Sugar Barge and headed into Franks Tract. My second cast with a rog and a nice one makes a try at it. I missed him and another 5+ a hal an hour later. Decided to mix it up and try some vertical jigging or stripers. I have seen people try it beore and I bought some spoons at the store last week. My buddy and I were amazed to ind that this techinque rocks and we ended up with around 30 stripers to 4lb. Man they ight like champs and they just slam the jig! Wish I could have gotten some bigger ish but, it was still un!
      City: Walnut Creek

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 59-62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took the day o to ish. Olny boated 2 ish, but lost at least a dozen including a couple pushing 5 lbs. Most o them bit a senko(watermelon w/ chart. tip). I just couldn't get a good hookset. I also had quite a ew ollow spinnerbaits, but only 1 actually hit. Better than work.
      City: gilroy

      Tips: 4" and 5" senkos

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 60-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started o good irst thing in the morning cranking with 2 keepers in the 2lb range on cranks. Slowed down towards noon but managed to pick up 4 more keepers on a grub one up to 3 lbs. Let at noon with best 5 going 9.2. Alot o dinks, get through them and the larger ish are there...
      City: Riverbank

      Tips: Fish the grub over 30+ eet o water on a 1/8 oz head, slow, ish pick up on the all.

  • Bayfield County
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      Water Temp: 43 -46

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started at about 0930.tryed various areas o the lake,points,wood,banks,rocks,no ish untill about 2:00 pm at south end o lake in 4 to 8 eet o water. missed 3to4 bass caught 2 bass 1 1/2 to 2lb smallmouth & 4 trout. wind inally blew us o the lake at 4:00pm
      City: Eureka

      Tips: white spinner baits and paddle ry lures.

Tuesday, May 6th, 2003

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

      Report: didnt get out until 2pm. took our shot in the south ork. nothing on reaction baits. I tossed Senkos and partner used other plastics. First spottie small around 11-1/2". Next was 12-1/2",next 14", then inally got one over slot limit size. Lost my inal hookup which im positive was a bit bigger than the previous ish.(and that was the rythm anyway). my buddy didnt get any hookups sorry to say. was expecting a bit better day but thats alright. we'll get 'em next time! On Easter, did stick one in the Thermalito Aterbay at 10.4lbs but skinny.you can the photo at www.trophybassonly.com. Its a great site i you dont know already.
      City: yuba city

      Tips: havent really ished here enough to know the patterns or oer any advice. But I am a true Senko isherman, and have all the conidence in them anywhere,anytime. watch out or some airly big debris when darting along.

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 62degres

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: weather overcast wind blowing trolled on serace down to ten t.one 3lb trout on grub behind seps lasher.two other boats on lake.one with 2 ish one with 5 all trout.met up with a tuber at the launch ramp took him trolling. result, the making o a good rienr ship.trout were being caught here and there rom shore line.lake level is very high.
      City: remont

      Tips: keep changing lures and baits till you ind what works best

Monday, May 5th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 54.3-54.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the lake is down 1.5 t and murky do to the rains recently, it has cooled o a bit or the same reason, debris still prevalent and touhg to see with the north wind blowing this morning, got in at Centimudi, all the debris has been removed by Shasta Rec. Comp. Ran over into the lower Sac around Dolly point and little back bone or a dozen and all were small with one at 1.8 on a hula grub, the rest came on the MGM #127 in a 6 inch curly tail on a darter head. No real pattern today, caught ish rom the bank out to 20 t with most in the 6-14 t area. Didn't ind too many in the back o coves, guess the weather pushed them o, did see some some bass ry roaming around and my best guess is that the spawn will be over soon. I did notice that the 1.8 was at and ull o eggs, 2 others were as narrow as a ruler and the rest were small males. 43 degrees going in, 61 coming out with about a 12 mph wind
      City: Reding,Ca.

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 50-53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday and Monday. Sunday was downright nasty, with a combination o rain and hail, 45 degree air temp. Water was 47-49. No takers. Monday brought sunshine and a 2-4 degree improvement in water temps, although the bite remained very tough. Fished 7 hours. Picked up 2 ish on a white luke, 1 on a rip bait. Very ew beds yet, and those that I saw were empty, but the hens are busting with eggs, so a ew days o good weather should break the bite wide open.
      City: Larkspur

      Tips: Work it real slow and stay in 10-15 eet o water until the water temp improves.