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Friday, June 21st, 2002

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

      Report: Launched out o Folsom Point and ished the evening bite. Tried topwater over rock piles w/o luck. Might have been too choppy out there... Ran a spinnerbait over that same water and managed to land 2. No size to speak o. The bite is getting tough out here!
      City: Folsom

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a good day ishing. Started about 10:00, and ished till 6:00. Caught lots o ish, mostly drop shoting reapers in 15-20 t. Also caught some ish on hula skirt grubs. Most ish came o o points and lats on the main lake. Boated about 15 keepers, and caught lots o dinks. Biggest was only about 1.5lbs. Lots o un.
      City: Sacramento

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WENT OUT IN THE MOON LITE WITH MY WIFE AND HAD A GREAT TIME CATCHING A MIXED BAG OF FISH. SHE WORMED HER FISH WITH A NUMBER OF DIFFERNT COLORS, I USED A CHARTRUSE AND BLACK POES CRANK BAIT AND CAUGHT BIGGER AND MORE FISH ON THIS TRIP.HAD FISH UP TO SEVEN POUNDS BUT THE BIG ONES WERE NOT BASS. CAUGHT TWO CATFISH 7LB AND A 5 POUNDER ON A CRANK BAIT IN THE MOON,THAT WAS ALITTLE DIFFERNT. GAVE THEM TO SOME PEOPLE ON THE BANK WHO WERE FISHING CATS AND DIDNT HAVE ANY LUCK THEY WERE HAPPY. THE BIG BASS WAS THREE POUNDS .TAKE CARE WHEN THROWING A CRANK BAIT AT NIGHT IT CAN GET A LITTLE HAIRY OUT THERE WITH THOSE TREBLE HOOKS IN A FISH AND ITS FLOPPING AROUND AT NIGHT.I HAD SOME CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OUT THERE . MY WIFE CAUGHT A 7LB CAT ABOUT 10 IN THE MORNING ON A MGM 4 INCH WORM , SHE SAID ITS A GOOD ONE, AND IM TAKING MY TIME WITH THIS 6LB TEST LINE. SHES THINKING KICKER SPOT. IT TOOK HER A WHILE BUT GOT IT UP TO THE TOP SHE SEEN WHAT IT WAS AND SAID, WELLLLL I WONT SAY WHAT SHE SAID BUT IT WASNT PRETTY. WE FISHED OUT OF JONES VALLEY AND STARTED AT THE MAIN POINT OUT OF JONES VALLEY AND FISHED UP THE PIT A SHORT WAYS.
      City: ANDERSON

      Tips: FISHING THE CRANK BAITS IN THE ROCKS , MOST FISH HIT IN TIGHT TO THE BANK. CRANK BAIT COLORS WERE CHARTRUSE AND BLACK AND WHITE AND CHARTRUSE, MEDIUM RUNNING WAS WORKING GOOD

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Congatulations to Jerry on his new Dodge pickup. But next time come to Klamath Falls and buy rom a bass ishing sales manager. Keep up the good reports and I'll see you on the water.
      City: klamath alls

      Tips: Anyone else interested can call me at 1-877-733-5484 or a no hassle bass ishin' deal.

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      Water Temp: 74-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught 22 keepers, in little backbone in morning, all caught on lake ork super spook with #17 marks tail and black bleeding shad with #16 marks tail. main body ish all caught on rattle traps but not the quality as in backbone.rip bait also caught ish but not the quality o topwaters.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: ish one hour beore light till bite dies early in morning.

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 66.8-70.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: got in a trinity center at 0455 and ran into Squirrel gulch tossing spooks with Jack Kemper, got a smallmouth on but he got o while dancing his way back to the boat, Jack got two just under 2 lbs real quick, getting light so ran to the orth end in the tailings and caught 15 more, and 5 were largemouth and I got the ish o the day on a lucky crat pointer in aurora black, a nice at 3.7, the others averaged 1.5 and most came on spooks, the bite slowed around 8 am so we took o or Hay gulch and started tossing MGM worms in 127 and 151, Jack got a bunch o small ish, all smallmouth, on the 127 and I got 2 dinks on the 151, the bite quit near 0830 and we ished until 1030, many missed ish on the spooks when they came up and bumped them, porbably 20 more that didn't get on, the spook bite stopped just beore the sun hit the west bank. Not a single other boat out there and the water was lat, a great morning with Jack and I whooping it up as every smallmouth came to the surace and jumped repeatedly.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Take some MGM 151's in a three inch curly tail or ater the sun comes up.

Thursday, June 20th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: need to know

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: has anybody been ished a ull moon at amador. I'm going up on a ull moon on the 24, 25th and i need some tips
      City: San Jose

      Tips: i think that popppers,worms, spooks, buzzbaits will work. any suggestions

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 6:30 pm till 1 am. There was a good crankbait bite in the late evening although the ish were mostly small. Nite bite was slow and were small ish. Picked up around 15: 1-2 on topwater, couple on jigs, couple on worms (nite), remainder on crankbait.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Chartreuse blue back Deep Little N. Probably a shallower running bait to avoid the weeds would have been even better.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 74-78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at 5:30PM at Jones Valley to give the night ishing a try. Went across to Fort Cr., dropped the trolling mtr. and it won't turn let. It's an electric steering type Motorguide, been great up till now. Guess we'll have to send it in. Ended up with 17 total. Largest 1.9, and only a couple o dinks. Most came on jigs, two on surace just beore dark. We had a beautiul evening on the water, except or the darn trolling motor. I almost orgot, the blonde in the back caught 9 o the 17.
      City: Cottonwood

Wednesday, June 19th, 2002

  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: ""

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I tube in a U-Boat. I got nothing rom 10:00 a.m. to 12:00Then at 12:15 I got 3 strait on a Gary Yamo. Purple Double tail grub. The weeds are hard not to get caught on so I ished a little deeper than normal and I got them 2 were 2 lbs and one was 3 1/4 lbs. I have a little weigher. It is real handy. I hear that Dropshot is a better way. I'll have to try that the next time.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Stay out o the weeds. Go gust past them.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 69.6-71.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: back out this evening with Jack Kemper in his big wellcrat and ran over into Big Backbone or 16 to 1.8 between 8pm and 1030pm and most on jigs, Jack lost one underneath the boat that was BIG, never got a look at him, I lost one next to the boat on a jig when he jumped over the net and cvame undone, looked like a solid 4+, lake down past 23 t
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 70.6-72.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks to Fossil, computer back up and running, my cd-rom took a dumpJack Kemper up rom Benicia or a visit, got in at Jones Valley at 0435, air temp 66, 10 knot wind out o the east, lake going down past 23t and dropping ast, went over near Cowpasture cove and he got a 2.6 on his irst acast with a jig, stuck another dink in same place and went out ront on the jones valley point, no spook bite and ran up the squaw across rom Horsecreek point where Jack gets another nice 1.8 and I scrounge up another dink, came back down and over into the ort creek coves and Jack gets another decent ish and I get another dink, everwhere I stop he gets good ish! and i am getting my butt kicked, go over to Clickapudi and the catching stops around 0830 and the wind is now howling at 30 knots plus, we iddle around some more and then head back in, I may have to remove a ew hooks rom his stu, this ain't right! we may go back out tonight or some ater dayk bass bustin'.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: perect

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished rom 11:00 to 16:00,in the warm springs area caught 6. 5 largemouth and 1 smallmouth,ished long shallow points with grass and rocks,used crawdad crank's,senko's and 2 inch manns auger tail grub's.the smallmouth was the largest at about 3 1/2 lbs.the largemouth's were clones o one another about 17 1nches and 2lbs a piece.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: summer tactic's

Tuesday, June 18th, 2002

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

      Report: ished w/brother in law on tubes rom 7am to 11am. He got three quality ish two 3lbers and a 2.5 on the popper. I got a ive pounder that slammed my buzz bait, and broke my Laminglass rod in hal, the other two ish were 2 and 3 pound. Fish seemed to hit well this time o the year early on topwater.
      City: san jose

      Tips: top water going to plastics along rocks as the day progress. Hard to ish anything else since there seems to be so much weeds.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started late....didn't get out until 7:50pm. I took my sidekick Kenneth Kayge with me so I could show him the ropes when it comes to top water ishing. Some people would say I'm a topwater specialist. I took him out to a secret hole I've been going to since I was a young one. We ished these sunken tree stumps. I threw out a chartuse buzzbait. I nailed a 3 lber on the second cast. Ken was throwing shallow diving minnows, without any luck. I suggested he cast into this isle o tules, and when he wasn't sure where I was talking about, I casted out into the area or him and...BAMM!!! Reeled in another 2+ lber. Thats' 2 nice bass within 3 casts. Unortunately, Ken was not so succesul, he tried spinners galore and was never able to bring any in. That was all we caught on this trip..but we only ished or 1 hour.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: It's all about buzzbaits in the evening!!!! Fish the moon calenders.....Wont be ishing in 3 weeks though, can't miss NCW Summer Sanitarium.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A TACO SHAPED SUN BURN ON YOUR FOREHEAD....THATS A GOOD ONE, IM STILL LAUGHING MY ASS OFF FROM THAT ONE.
      City: MODESTO

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry, don't have a report, just had to tell Tom to NEVER lip a catish!!! LoL. I've heard stories about guys that did that and the catish clamped down and just crushed their thumb. They got one bad bite and can do some serious damage...LOL...
      City: Antioch

      Tips: throw a jig...

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The morning and evening bite are best. Target the lats and rockpiles. Start the morning out with topwater poppers. During the day use brown jigs with watermelon grub trailers. Senkos and Baby Brush Hogs lipped into the trees in watermelon works too. In the evening go back to topwater.
      City: Merced

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

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      Water Temp: 72.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 5 pm until 9:30 pm thinking I would miss some o the boat traic during the mid week. Did not turn out that way but the scenery was not bad. Slow bite, tried carolina rig, jig - both down to 25 eet, crank bait, Rico, and tube bait around willows, senko, nothing. Fished the main lake and beales point predominately. At 8:30 till 9:30 I picked up 5 ish cranking rockey points, 3 smallmouth, one spot and one largemouth. The largemouth had not spawned yet ( suprised me ), and was the largest, 3.2 on a digital scale.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Post spawn, and summer is here. Early and late in the day. I have oten wondered how this lake would be at 2:am on a ull moon.

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and Paul ished or about 6 hours to the let o the dam. First ew we went or cats, but with no luck. Switched 2 o our poles to bass rigs, and caught 1 each. Missed a ew more, but nothing to rant about. Fish were around 12 inches.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Shad Patterned Cranks...I was using a Shad Rapala Fat Rap, Paul was using a Shad patterned Fat Free Shad.