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Sunday, July 21st, 2002

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

      Report: Launched out o Orwood at 5:00 AM with Tourney partner preishing or Western Bass on August 3rd. Fished an area I've been saving in the middle Delta or him and we hit some quality ish...up to 4.2 lbs on topwater (Frogs and PoPr)...The winds hampered us a great deal so we went to another area where I used Cranks/Spinnerbait and he used Senko's and Brush Hogs...Caught too many ish to count...Most o the ish were in the 1-2lb class...Multiple dual hookups and a couple triple hook ups with his son using brush hogs...Which leaves credence to the idea that once you ind ish don't leave...A large number o yearlings in the mix...All in all a good day that gave us conidence we can ind a quality 14-16lb limit at least.
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: Topwater in AM and Senko's will always work this time o year. Best tide is outgoing rom high to low or me right now. On missed blow ups throw a bulky bait right behind it and 9 out o 10 times you'll get hammered. Stay sae and enjoy the waterways. Rock, current, weedline, or lot's o green cheese are sae bets to a un day...

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: correction; backseat had 18lbs. sat or a 40lb. boat total
      City: castro valley

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sat.club tournament launched out o holland,good top water bite on poppers around the track,ew good ish in the boat early,then backseat gets a 4.5 on a rog, then I get a 6.4 on a senko,then over to little ranks where my backseater(a.k.a.guide) knows a good spot when the tide turns,sure enough we get there and I get a 8.4 and a 3.5 he gets a 5.2 all in about 20 minutes and all on senko, we spent the rest o the day looking or big ish on rogs,lots o blow-ups but none in the boat,ended the day with 22.14 and second place by hal a pound,and backseat had 14lbs. or heavyboat total o 40lbs.,Sunday was windy and no topwater bite, most ish on senkos,ended the day with 14lbs. more or a total o 36 and second place, irst place had 40lbs. all senko ish , great weekend overall,Thanks Ta or all the TRICKSTERS!
      City: castro valley

      Tips: SENKO~ the no-brainer way to ish!

Saturday, July 20th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In the two weeks since I have been to Amador, things have really changed! The water has cleared up a lot and many o the weed mats that had ormed have broken up, maybe 'cause the water has dropped 2 eet. Anyway, tried a Snagproo rog or an hour beore meeting my client and had 2 air blowups and then had a 7 or so pounder leap out o the water ater the rog, but missed! What a kick to see, though!!! My client and I started ishing about 6 PM (Thurs) and ound ishing very slow. It didn't surprise me because the terriic Sierra thunderstorm activity was spilling over into the oothills and I have always ound that weather pattern to slow the bite. About 9 PM I was ishing a brown/orange Weapon jig in the main body and elt something "chewing" on my jig - NO bite! I set anyway and was rewarded with a 6-12 bass - somewhat skinny but a strong ighter. Ater dark we couldn't get much going - both o us were working worms. I was ishing a point in Jackson creek when I again elt a little pressure on my black/chartreuse 10 inch Power Worm. I set with all the orce I could, knowing my 30# Fireline could take it. One o the greatest eeling in bass ishing is when you do that and NOTHING MOVES - at least i it is not a snag! Finally she bucked her head and the ight was on. A beautiul, at bass showed up in the net, all 8 lbs 11 oz o her! The next bass on the 10 inch worm was a 10 inch bass!! Talk about variety! I managed another 3 pounder near the dam and that was it! My client had three bites but wasn't able to put one in the boat. However, he was very excited to learn so much about the lake and see how these bass are caught. It really was slow, but I guess one would have to say that it was a pretty good "slow night"! Three bass or 18 1/2 pounds is a good average.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Some o the bigger bass hanging around shallow water have now seemed to have moved to deeper water - probably as a result o the major heat wave o last week. The two big bass were about 20 eet deep. Because o the rontal movement, there were ew eeding bass on the surace and the shad were deeper. I think the summer pattern has begun. Good luck. It is nice to know the they will still take a jig, although not with much enthusiasm.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Honker cut this morning @6:00am headed towards Mildred island...boated 7 and 1 going or 3.5lbs. the rest o the day tried new water nothing but dinks...headed towards whites landed another 10 or so biggest going or 5 lbs o the water by noon. Had a great day wind was nice kept things cool....till next time Tight Lines....
      City: Stockton

      Tips: Senkos Motor Oil!!! nothing else worked but that...Power pro Line 30lb test love it!!

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took a ather and two sons to Oroville Wed or a day trip. Since they had to drive over rom Clear Lake, we didn't get on the water until about 7:30 AM. We started up the north ork and ished some walls and lats on the east side. I was thrilled when dad hooked the irst ish on a 6" Witches T Magic worm and it was a good one. I had told them how good the spots ight. It turned out to be 17 1/2 inches and weighed a little over 2 1/2 lbs. Good start. We used that color and morning dawn, but the darker color seemed to work better because o the algae bloom that day - the water wasn't clear. We ished a ew bushes in the back o a cove and he throws the worm in about 4 eet o water and gets bit! It was a 15 1/2 inch largemouth. Actually the rest o our bass were quite small with several under the slot. We did have another largemouth and spot in the slot. Wednesday was the coolest day (nice or ishing), but very windy by noon. Had to ish in Potters and didn't even get bit. The ish really shut o in the aternoon. At least everyone caught several ish which was a nice change rom Clear Lake!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: We didn't try a lot o other baits and these clients were doing well with worms, so we stuck with them. Obviously we missed the early morning bite which was probably better. In spite o the airly green water, the bass were 20 to 30 eet deep and more on walls than points.

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

      Report: Fished rainbow lake and not even a bite. This is the irst and last time I will be ishing this lake.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Fish Elsewhere

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 81.8-84.5

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: out with the Cottonwood Bass Team or a night tournament, in at Packers with the lake down past 45 eet, air temp 106 degrees at 5 pm, poor Ryan Pearson was unortunate enough to draw me as his boater, spent the evening dealing with dinks as did most everybody else withe the exception o Je Pyles who won the event and John Coyle who managed a 7.40 largemouth or the big ish prize. There were a number o short limits, me and Ryan included but I did manage to put a 2.41 smallmouth in the boat and got the smallmouth pot, everybody had trouble inding ish and when they did, they were usually small, no breeze to speak o and the lake is a mess. Since then I have been out once or more dinks in the Jones Valley with most coming on rip and topwater baits very early. Drop shotting the MGM #109 3 inch sluggo and smaller baits have been productive including the #127 in a 4 inch. Things are very slow, heavy boat traic and we are nearing 50 t down which will put the ramp at bailey cove out o the water by the 27th.
      City: Redding

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

      Report: Launched at 7:00 Am beore all the jet ski terrorist came out o the network. Not such a great trip (Again). Fished until 2:00 PM. caught 6-8 DINKS. About hal were on Senko's and the rest on cranks. Sonoma is not being too kind this year.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: #214 Senko, Black baby Senko, baby bass and craw cranks. Most o the ish were on rock and wood.

Friday, July 19th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 85

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the annual Basin Bassmasters tourney on 7-19. Overall a tough night. We started at 7pm on Fri. and weighed in at 7am on Sat. There was a total o 12 teams and only 2 limkits were weighed in the irst hal and 0 limits weighed in the 2nd hal. I lucked out and got 8.9 on a topwater and that with a small earlier limit was good enough or my partner John Kort and I to win the tourney with 15 1/2 pounds or so. There was also an 8.2 weighed in the second hal that ell or a 10in. PW. As you can see by the previous report rom Larry Hemphill, it is tough out there with the alling water and hot temps.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Tough to say. We caught most o early ish on topwater, but they were pretty small. We also got some ish on darter heads in 20 t o water. We tried shallow and deep during the night, but only got the one big ish on top. We did have to more blow ups on top water right beore day light that didn't hook up, but they were huge blow that sounded like the same size ish I had caught earlier. Also, caught some nice catish on blades and cranks. Even though it was slow, it was a beautiul night or ishing.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 76-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Customers reporting catching spotted bass mostly small ones but a ew decent size ish reported this week.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Cotton and Temperance seem to be the most popular areas. Evening and early morning are good but night ishing is probably best. Try dark worms, grubs or jig w/ grub trailer. Fish rom the bank to 30' water. For more ino. stop by STEVE'S BAIT SHACK @ 137 W. Main st. in Merced or call (209) 722-0800.

Thursday, July 18th, 2002

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      Water Temp: n.a.

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Eagle Pass at irst light. No wind went to the let side o dam to try top water.Used 6 lb. on an ulra light with a ly rod size hula popper and boated 12 bass. One about 14" the rest under 12".Ater sun got to high I started trolling and during the next 4 hours I caught 1-14" spot and a 15" large mouth- 5 more bass that were not keepers. Caught 3 channel cats 2-at 15" and 1-at 4lbs.Also caught about 20 squaw ish and the were ull o very small ry,they really are very hard on the bass and crappi ry. I kill them because o the damage they do to the ishery.Only one ishing and only saw 3 other boats.Great day.
      City: Corning

      Tips: Try to weed out out the squaw ish it will really improve the ishing

Wednesday, July 17th, 2002

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 77-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out rom 6-9 pm on Sac. Still too many boats in the lake. Main lake spots are hard to ish because o wakes. Got my limit again, but no size. Spooks and spinnerbaits giving me much pleasure. Had a great blow-up on a spook ater dark...couldn't see it but sure sounded great. Lost him at the boat. Thats OK, don't like removing double treble hooks in the dark.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Have to keep at it. There is oten a good lag between ish.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2002

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

      Report: Hello everyone. I was just wondering i anyone is seeing any CARP out there. I am getting the bug to go and do a little shooting. Any inormation is much appreciated. Thanks a lot and good luck with the bass ishing.
      City: chico

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 81.8

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Packers at 5:30PM. Boat traic not too bad or summer time. Went to Dry Creek to troll or salmon till dark. Ended up with 2 trout and 2 salmon to 2lbs. Just beore dark started topwater plugs around Slaughterhouse, picked up one 1.8 spot right beore dark. Moved to Bass Point and switched to jigs and worms, nothing. Moved to Packers Point and ished back to the marina where the wie picked up 4 small spots to 1.5. Out at 12:00 midnight. The ishing was a little on the slow side but we had a beautiul evening on the lake. Try again closer to the ull moon.
      City: Cottonwood

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished several mornings during our annual trek to Trinity. This year was the best ishing I have had in 18 years ishing here. Dropshotting was the ticket or us We used Roboworms in Aarons magic and the Baby Bass Color on main lake points. Limits o 2-3 pound smallmouth were common. We did get a ew largemouth and one that went to 5 pounds.We ished about 20-30 eet down mostly but did get ish in the aternoons in the mud about 10 eet deep.
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Main lake points in summer. with or without rocks. Bring lots o gear or the breakos that come rom ishing around submerged stumps.

  • Calaveras County
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      Water Temp: 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent the last week at tulloch and was airly impressed with the ishing. Past years were never very succesul. Despite the 100 degree weather and ishing in the heat o the aternoon we caught some nice small mouth bass. we never caught a whole bunch but ususally about 5 or 6 in a ew hours or so, some o our biggest topped out around three pounds. We used live crawlers and when we ran out switched to 4 inch dark blue worms. Both worked well but we caugh more bluegill with the crawlers. Those ish seemed to bite almost as hard as the bass and also cost us a bunch o worms but it was a good time. we also saw some huge carp so i there are any bow isherman here have at it.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: we ished near shore letting the worms sit in about 8 eet o water our biggest ish came in about 20 eet so theyre all over.

Monday, July 15th, 2002

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

      Report: went around 5:30pm. caught a carp but no bass. elt a couple o hits but none hooked up. water level in the res. is really low.
      City: san jose

Sunday, July 14th, 2002

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a couple o hours in the aternoon. Had a good bite in the mud line on the wind-blown shore. Was able to get 5 average sized (1.5-2.5lbs) bass in the boat. It was windy and I think that helped the bite. Used carolina rigged plastics in 3-10 eet o water.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out o holland @0600 ished the buzzer right o and picked up a 1 pounder on the second cast. ished a while without any other blowups. threw on the senko and lipped some tule burms with some slight current and picked up several smaller ish most under 1 pound ( starting to think i'm the best small bass isherman on the river, havent caught a decent ish in the last 2 trips)switched o between a blade and the senko throughout the day. larger ish tended to come on the blade with one toad that came unbuttoned ater 2 jumps he didn't exactly come unbuttoned he pulled so hard he broke the wire my titanium spinnerbait (TOAD) oh well you win some you loose some. o the water at 1240 all in all about 15-17 to the boat, not wide open but lot o un
      City: san rancisco

      Tips: current is good, blades are good, senko are always good