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Friday, July 5th, 2002

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: not a lake report, went down to the Red Blu Diversion Dam or some shad ishing with a local legend, Bill Quinn Sr. Bill operates a guide service on the river and Shasta Lake(530)474-3213 and lives up near Shingletown. I have known Bill or a couple o years and we talked about some shad ishing a ew days ago so o we went with my bride included. Got in at the dam at 0515 and ran downstream about 3/4 mile near salt creek and got onto ish right o the bat, Bill caught the irst and my wie,Bronla had one on just as Bill got his in, both at hens o about 4lbs. I got hooked up and brought a small male to the boat ater he surged around and under the boat. We averaged about a ish every 15 minutes and the wie caught a at emale at 9am that went over 5 lbs or the ish o the day, we lost as many as we had on. Gotta love these Sacramento River "tarpon". They are a great ighting ish and are beautiul in their spawning colors. Most olks up this way haved not gotten on the ish lately but Bill sure knew where to ind them. We moved twice and got bit in all three places, boat placement was very critical. We had a ball and I am looking orward to the salmon opener on the 16th, Bill's salmon inding skills are well above the norm. ended up with 20 ish total ater I kept hearing that "they ain't up here yet" rom a number o people. great trip on a beautiul cool morning. The rive is currently at 10,000 cs, put in at 68 degrees, out at 88 and the water is gin clear.
      City: Redding

      Tips: pink shad darts(crappie jigs) with a chartreuse tail did the trick or us

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: Mid 70's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there at 6:20 ished until 3:30. Caught alot o crappie, but no size. Too much boat traic to ish the main lake. Look or weeds next or adjacent to deeper water. Caught a nice bass 6.25 on a lizard. And a huge redear 2.21 all on a jig and wax worm. Also caught the wrong moon phase. I think that aected the size. Overall beautiul day ishin.
      City: Oakley

      Tips: Look or stained or weeded water. Guarantee ish are in the thick, because o the sun and plenty o shad.

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      Water Temp: Surace 72 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled trout most o the day beginning when the gates opened. First hook up at 11am and another an hour later. The last three ish came within twenty minutes at about 3pm. All were DFG size.
      City: Redwood City

      Tips: Needle Fish and troll very slow at about 30t

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

      Report: Fished with a client rom Redding who has not done much bass ishing, however he sure is a ast learner. Lunched at Trinity Center At 5:00 a.m. WE threw everything I could think o at them with some sucess, caught 26 ish, our best ish was a 4.1# l.m. also had 2-2.0# s.m.and a inish the day with a 3.2# s.m. on a jig. Back to the ramp at 3:00 p.m.,just in time to watch 2 people trying to launch and then proceed to inish loading there boats at the bottom o the ramp, they each took about 15 minutes to launch. must have been a couple o airheads Oh well just another great day on beautiul Trinity Lake
      City: Redding

      Tips: could not get bit on the 151 grubs or hooktails, Most on Jigs, 3/4 oz. ootball head jig.

Thursday, July 4th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out or the morning out o Orwood. Started o in Woodward picking up a couple 8" ish. Tried running South to Widow Island, but wind was bad. Threw a blade or a ew minutes then lat to head back to central Delta and see i it was still calm there. A ew miles up Old River the wind died. Flipped several 8-10" ish o a berm in the current. Caught one 2.5# ish o a small mat on a rog, worked the rog or another hour with only one more blowup. Ran to Franks where I lipped and cranked some o the openings with no luck. Picked up one more small but very at keeper and several more 8" ish lipping tules.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Been tough or me lately. Best ish have came on the rog, but they have been ew and ar between. For numbers lipping black/red jigs has been the ticket.

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      Water Temp: 72-74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out o rivers end around 6am and ished victoria slough got a decent bite on blades but most o the ish were very small less than 12 inches my partner got a small one on a buzzer and missed a rog ish. ended up getting one keeper out o victoria then we decided to ish union point picked up another keeper and more dinks. we noticed a pipe expelling water in the distance and decided to make a ew crankbait casts into the turbulent H2O and immediately hooked into a 20 inch striper he came o but there were plenty more where that came rom. my partner and i caught several sriper and a ew small bass mixed in. the striper bite died down and we had 2 20 inch stripers in the well. the rest o the day was spent cranking ish traps and dragging plastics on the outer weedline and we continued to score the little guys. as we let i decided to ish a rog or a spell and got my irst rog blow up (swing and a miss :( )oh well it was neet seeing my rog get smacked and pulled under-peace
      City: San Fransisco

      Tips: very low tide today try ishing the space between the shore and the weedline early, then ish outer weedline i that dosen't work

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 74-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The extreme rise in temp. this week has made it a little tougher to catch ish this week. Mostly small, slot-size spotted bass are what you'll catch. Crankbaits rom the bank to the boat and grubs working. Try split-shotting worms and work them real slow. For better luck head towards Bagby area where the colder water is.
      City: Merced

      Tips: For more ino. stop by and visit STEVE'S BAIT SHACK in Merced at 137 W. Main st. or call (209)722-0800.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out twice in the last ive days aternoon and evening ishing.with the wind crankin has been proudcing well on wind blown banks. dropshotin, still good around points where you can hold out o the wind. wood, rocks,brush,weedbeds are best choice the larger ish have been coming o the weeds,two to our lbs.the two outings we caught thirty plus ish.
      City: sonora

      Tips: rattlin type crankbaits,dropshot 4"worms lighter colors with blue,green,or brown.pratice catch and release,preach catch and release.there's to many ish leaveing our lakes.watch out or the Ilandtops thers a lot getting close.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Good top water bite very early. Ater 8:00 went to a drop shot 4" worm and picked up 5 small ish in 20t o water anong rocky shoreline.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Top water early then split shot worm or drop shot 12-22 t.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: lauched out o Rivers End at 6:00. I took my 9yr old son (Niko) to teach him how to work a buzzbait. He throws a Citica/6.6 enwick. He did real good, got alot o blow-ups and hooked 2. His big ish was a 14". I was lippin a deadringers and throwing blades most o the day, hitting planty o ish. Ended the day at 1:00 with 25+ bass, 1-3 lbs. Had a great day with my son.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: throw buzzbaits irst thing in the morning, then blades or plastic on the outer edge o weed line.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: One Person Guide trip, out o Lundborg Landing (Franks) Looking or quality rather than quanty today. Started on the south side rocks and weeds got one 2lber wht/wht SB, 1 little one on Cht/Cht Buzz and a couiple o small blow ups, went to Quimby in the ast water and a coupl on the SB and BB lost one pretty good one on the BB 2-3LBs, tide bottomed out and the bite died. To whites looking or cleaner water ound it but only a ew ish on the incomming tide, back to ranks, really windy, out going tide we ished sparse weeds o shore and got some quality ish a couple o 4+ a 3 and ew 2.5lbers in a hour. A tough day but some good quality or summer time. Only a couple o blow up on the rog.
      City: concord

      Tips: Slow rog bite when night temps. all / Slow bite on the incomming tide latley.

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      Water Temp: 77-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: A small incoming tide with a high low made or one tough day o ishing. Small ish all day. I didn't anticipate the lack o current or high water. Poor planning
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Plan. Plan. Plan.

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

      Report: A good way to save the ish when un ishing a Senko is to clip the barb o the hook and even when they take it deep you can careully remove it with a pair o pliers or one o those trout hook removers. Give it a try, it works pretty good.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice limit on the irst day, Jaxon!By the way, do you ish rom the shoreor rom the boat?I went there on July 31, but did badly.Got only two baby bass.
      City: Mountain View

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 74 - 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Droped the boat in at Angles Arm at app 5;30 am...Fished until 11:30 am...Caught 7 keepers up to 2 1/2 lbs...Lost a couple,both got o at the boat, 1 1/2 to 2 lbs...Caught app 25 bass.All on worms & top water..About 8 o these were the red eyes..Worm ish came in deep water & the top water ish by rocks next to deep water.
      City: Riv

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

      Report: Had parties out on the lake both Sunday and Tues. Sunday was pretty slow but probably hit 20-25 ish total. A 6lb. Largemouth saved the day. It hit a rootbeer senko in the tailings early. Couldn't get a topwater bite going either day, but Sunday's crew had a couple o boils. Tues didn't bring us the toad we were hoping or but the clients were mostly interested in locations and techniques that would produce bigger ish than they had ound in the past. With 25-30 ish caught, several in the 2lb range mission accomplished. Fish both days were caught mostly on senkos and darter head Pro Worms. Morning Dawn is still working good as is the Pro Gold red lake. I must say that I throughly enjoyed both days. It'snice to have clients who appreciate the eort and are also really nice people. Thanks guys.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Smallies are still hanging out on lats in 6-10'

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 81deg

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got there early and started ishing points no luck so i went in search o bass bustin' the shad. caught 4 little ones on a popper(biggest 1#)then i started to ish weeds caught one about 3# on a sumo rog and my partner got a 9# trout on a diamond shad (looks like a ratltrap)no more so went to coves and caught a ew on white grubs, zippers, and watermelon/red lake twister tails. saw one more bunch o bass bustin on shad and threw out a 4'' color#301 senko and ended up with a 4# bass last i ish in the cove right by the launch ramp and lost two nice ish on a white spinnerbait all in all a good day
      City: elk grove

      Tips: i think your best bet at bigger ish is using senkos around the bass bustin shad and white spinnerbaits in coves

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Capell at 6:30 AM and fished until about 2:30 and caught only two 1-2 pound range, cought both on black/blue 4" senkos. Fished everything buzzbaits, spinners, cranks, frogs, and every kind of plastic i had with me. Nothin
      City: Lafayette

      Tips: Senkos

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

      Report: Caught 9 on green double tails. ish are just out side the weeds. My riend caught 2 he just started. 2 were 3 lbs. one 2 lbs and the rest 1 pounders.
      City: san jose

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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Wie & I took the grand kids out rom 7 to 10 am. Water was super clear, no breeze & really got hot early. To bad the bite never really heated up. No spinnerbait or top water bite. Managed to hook 6 so the grandkids reeled in our 12" to 13" bass, one 10" dink and one hand sized bluegill. All ish came o o steeper banks that dropped quickly to 20'.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: 15' to 20' using split shot 4" green weenie worms.