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Friday, June 14th, 2002

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

      Report: :Team Bass Tournament at Folsom Lake: Granite Bay Boat Ramp on Saturday June 22nd. Sorry about the conusion on area guys. $75.00 entry ee. BBQ ater weigh in, ree or all entries Trophies up to 3rd place true 70% payback plus Prizes Proessionally organized No membership required 5 ish, 13" on a lat board No live bait, Catch and Release, Dead ish penalty Check in and sign-ups at 4:00am at Granite Bay boat ramp. Blast o at sae light. Weigh in at noon. all tournaments or rest o summer are hal day due to ish and game regulations. Any questions call Shawn O'shea at (916)331-8174 or email Heath at heathp@pacbell.net
      City: Folsom

      Tips: This is a un tournament or all.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got here at Noon and was suprised at all tha anglers on the shore!! There were some trout isherman but most o them were carp isherman and the thing was that I knew most o them!! They all were my relatives one wa or another and came or a HUGE barbaque and all ished or carp with cornmeal. They got a couple good sized carp bit they said that they only bite in the morning and stopped biting at around 11am. I threw out my minnow jig or most o the day......no luck. Switched to my trusty Rat-L-Trap and caught one small 6 in bass. Tried my other cranks, no luck. Then used my minnow jisg some more, nothin. Stayed until the park closed trying to pick up a bass. One o the worst ishing days ever and also one o the most annoying days ever(im dont like my relatives and them being there made it that much more annoying).
      City: oakland

      Tips: Dont ish with relatives you dont like

Thursday, June 13th, 2002

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Large numbers o healthy 2-4 pounders caught all day long i you know where they are. Largest one 5lbs. These ish ight!! KBR is a great place to ish.
      City: Merced

      Tips: In the morning ish are on the banks. When the sun is up they move out to the oshore weedbeds. In the evening they move back to the shore. Dark colored Senkos are working as well as Brush Hogs.

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

      Report: Customers reporting ish topwater in the morning or bigger bass. Once the sun's on the water, drag a worm in 10-25' o water. Darker colored worms are working best. Target mudlines in the aternoon.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Stop by and visit STEVE'S BAIT SHACK @ 137 W. Main st. in Merced or call (209)722-0800.

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

      Report: SargeYou gotta put more ish in box out at the delta beore I haul your carcass all the way up here!!!!! Besides you wouldn't like it much up there, there's no trains to snap your ingers at.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: You know what you can do with your snapping ingers!!!!!

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      Water Temp: Ice cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: BillyJ,Will you take me to Pardee someday?

      Tips: With the snap o my ingers -Presto

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey, I'm tired o being too young or Bass tournaments and those bass-n-tube tournaments are too ar away so I was wondering i someone will help me and my riends start doing loat tube tournaments at shadow clis. Nothing big and ancy just enough to have un and get serious.
      City: P-Town

      Tips: Use trick worms, senkos. anything with watermelon in it thats rubber. Trick worms are good lures they all slower than a senko!

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      Water Temp: Hey Mallard man

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Responding to Mallard mans e-mail. I never said I caught these 7(6),8(4)and 9(2)pounders in one day but over a period o time.I've had 0 to 20+ ish days in the ront lake .Sometimes I"ll caught a double limit in the middle o winter.As or the back lakes-loat tubing- I"ve had 0 to a 40+ ish day.Sound like you haven"t been lucky enough to catch a big ish in the back lakes,but don"t give up junior just put your time in and the big ish bite. As I said beore and I"ll say it again I am the Shadow Clis Bass King!!!!
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Mallard man Quack Quack

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: black bleeding shad with no. 016 marks tails, aurora black LV500,blue spinnerbaits go to backbone AM east side,PM west side shade is key. all ish caught on points outside major cove or inlets, especially just inside 5mph bouy west side o little backbone 2-3lb limits all 4 days.
      City: portland

Wednesday, June 12th, 2002

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I went up on 6-12 and within 10 minutes I caught a 4 pound largemouth on a jig.The bluegill must be spawning because they hit your bait everytime it hits the water. My girlriend and I went 3 hrs without a bite until I pitched my jig between some tules and there she was.Ater a good ight and taking her to the marina she weighed 7.6,and was ull o eggs, What a ish.Tooks pictures and released her.Went back out and my girlriend caught two good quality ish in the 2to3 pnd. range.

      Tips: 1/4oz brown jig-green yamamoto trailer

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65.7-67.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy Bryce showed up at 4am and o we went or the upper Sac at Antlers, air temp 63 with a 5 knot wind out o th east, water at 19t and dropping ast now, motored over to a point across rom the antlers marina where we missed a ew, continues north a bit on rock walls and I manage the irst dink and Bryce is suering with the "missum-itis" the guy never has this happen but probably missed 10 in the irst hal hour with a ew bitten through worms as his reward. I manage another and bryce inally gets one in the boat on a senko, we run north near Middle Salt creek and ind a bunch on a rock wall and boat two doubles real quick but no size at approx 1.4 mine came on jigs as did Bryce's. We continue south now and pick up a ew more or 10 total and run s/b I-5 to the giant orange or breakast, nice morning. My lovely bride took me to Red Blu last evening and bought me a new dodge 4wd diesel, Thank you darling! lie is good!!! the ish are biting and the boat is running like a top.
      City: Redding

      Tips: get the woman in your lie to pop or a new truck, a 7 year 100,000 mile warranty is given ree o charge until sometime in July.

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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished right side, with minimal success. Started around 6 PM; Paul threw a Yo Zuri popper, and I threw a Terminator Buzzbait (white). Hooked up with about a 10 incher right away on the buzz. Paul caught several ish the size o his popper (literally) and I went hitless or the rest o the day. Overall, nothing above 10 inches.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Topwater bite was good, but all ish were small

Tuesday, June 11th, 2002

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

      Report: This is in response to the report below. I would deinitely start out with big topwater baits. Post spawn is a great time to stick a hog on top. When the sun gets on the water go with dark plastics. The delta is a little stained right now rom the winds and boat traic. I you get wind, head to some rip rap and you should get a good reaction bite on blades and speed traps. Good luck.
      City: Roseville

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I`m going out to ish the delta tomorrow and lauanching out o Paradise Point Marina. I've been ishing in this area a couple o times, but haven`t been out there lately. I just wanted to know i anybody could help me get the latest word on what the bass been biting on lately. I`ve heard o senkos, but what color. It would help me very much i anybody could give me some tips.Thank you
      City: sacramento

  • Alameda County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm glad people like Donald have taken action in making ishing at Lake Chabot better. I've been ishing there 13 years and never have had a good ishing day there. Thanks to all the poeple who sighned the pettition and thanks to people like Donald or saving Lake Chabot. I went ishing today ater work in the hot weather and cast a 5" plastic worm or bass all day. Caught one 7inch bass. Things are looking up already at Lake Chabot.
      City: oakland

      Tips: This time in 2-3 years, lake Chabot will be the Lake to be at!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I promised Tony that I'd be upront i I post without a report. Got a little round up here you might ind interesting though. Took my boat to the mechanic or engine installation and that means I'll be back on this lake soon posting valid (or invalid) reports. Sucks or you. The Golden State tournament was launched last Sunday in that sunny hurricane o a day. By noon State Parks closed the lake and cancelled the event. Sucks or them. How about the guy who drove through the tidal waves, got to a spot, and was sitting on a big bag when a ranger in a deep vee rolls up and says yo, yo, we've closed the lake. Pack it in or this one dude. My buddy Wildman took a trailer to Rattlesnake on a rescue mission and had a 20 minute conversation with a competitor at the ramp. He had about 12lbs, and when he let someone said hey, that was Skeet Reese. Wildman's brush with ame. I'm not the only one with engine issues this season- Hippie Mark, my buddy Brian, he had to be towed rom the back o the south at Oroville, C.B. lost a ring guide on a piston, get's it back and loses his lower end the irst day o practice or a two day at Shasta. He ished on the trolling motor and still kicked some bass. C.B. was me and Swimbait's supervisor back in the day when we gave up disco or Cheap Trick. Checked in with Swimbait and I'm waiting to hear the repeat perormance o a year ago when he nailed a 7 and an 8 in an hour on the bait that's his namesake. He notes the lake and the season is so much dierent this year. Saved the best or last, Blademan won the club's Shasta event on a darterhead. Blademan goes inesse? That's as big as Dylan going electric! Actually it's more like Metallica going unplugged. I'm suprised he was able to ind his spinning rod amongst all buba bait sticks on his boat. I they were Interlines you could bust out a couple balls and shoot pool on his deck. Heck, the carpet's red. 8 ball in the cupholder please. I igured he donated all his spinning gear to casting kids by now. He claims he lost a ew good ones because his rod was too sti- imagine that. He came back on day two and beat us by more than a hal pound anyway. I'm the one who's spinning now.
      City: El Dorado Hills

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65.6-71.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ryan rom redding came by early this am or our irst trip together, in the water at Jones Valley at 0445, air temp 63 water down past 17t, and the gravel is again available adjacent to the ramp or about 4 rigs, went out into Jones Valley where I got hooked up right o the bat with a dink and Ryan missed one, I caught 2 ore and one was a decent 2.8, all three came on jigs. We took o or squaw point and ound some ish but no go so we ran to the top o the squaw where I caught 2 more and had another jump o, all three were small and on jigs, the wind started to come up again at 0830 so we bugged out or breakast at the giant orange.It was a real pleasure or me to have a young man o 17 in the boat who is a very nice kid, those are rare these days.
      City: Redding

      Tips: tried a spook, a rip bait and a worm but the only thing working today was the jigs on 3/4 oz ootball heads.

Monday, June 10th, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake around 5:30 pm. We got bit on jigs (black/blue), junebug Berkeley Power hogs, white blade spinnerbaits, and the good 'ol chart/blue back Deep Little N all beore dark - biggest going about 4.4. Ater dark we got ish on black/chart jig and 10" and 12" red shad power worms. Biggest ive went 6.5, 5.4, 4.6, 4.4, 3.0. We let around 12:30 am so the ishing was better than usual. Most ish came rom about 12' with a slow to deadstick retrieve (except or the reaction baits). My riend lost a nice one on a swim bait at dusk. It was windy until around 9:30 pm then it dropped o to the normal levels. Some o the ish looked pretty skinny - spawned out.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Fish came rom all over - Rock Creek, Mountain Spring, Jackson. Points and regular banks - the steeper banks seemed to pay o better.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 65.6-71.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I haven't posted since 5-24 and have received 27 emails inquiring as to my health and so orth, I also received 3 phone calls so here is what happened. on the 24th I called a "riend" who ishes oroville with his team partner. I had him out on Shasta in April o 2001 to show him around, his partner and he inished well and took home some money. I was assured that I could call anytime or oroville help. Bryce and I ished the won bass team events and inished 1/100th o a pound out o the money on the 18th o may so I thought I would give this guy a buzz and get some help. I got blown o by him and he told me that he and his partner don't give out any ino, he was not ishing the same day and I assured him that I wouldn't post any ino that he provided. I got no ino rom him and ended up cussing him over the phone which I shouldn't have done. I immediately called his partner and got pretty much the same story which was nothing. To say that I was upset would be an understatement. I decide that I wan't going to post anymore and the heck with it. Since then I have received the aorementioned calls and e-mails. They were all supportive and I thank all o you or your kind words. I just didn't realize that the ino I pass along was that important. My wie told me to just say the heck with those kind o people and go ahead and post. So, thanks or the kindness rom Wash. State, Oregon, Reno.Nv ( steve&carol) and the SF Bay area. Since the 24th I have been out 7 times or over 130 ish with most on jigs, ollowed by the MGM 151 curly tail and the Rainbow worm company's # 99. Last thursday the 6th ound me in the big backbone early at 0505 o 31 beore 715 am on mostly jigs and a rip bait. My spook bite was just not there, ound ish in 11 to 18 t, my best a very skinny 3.2 came on the MGM 151 in a 5 inch curly tail, went out this am at 0430 at jones valley, air temp 66, water at 17t and starting to drop at a good clip, ran out to the jones valley point or 7 on a jig, the biggest was a 2.8. Ran up the Pit to lat creek, water at 65.6 up there and only ound one on a ghost minnow. Started downstream hitting points as the wind came up at 0645, giave up at 8am near blue canyon when it got into the 40mph bracket. Caught 4 more on the mgm151 and the rainbow worm co. #99. Stopped at the hidden valley market on the way home or a cold coke and talked to Larry who also gave me a pep talk and said "the ____" with them people, so thanks again to those who inquired.
      City: Redding

Sunday, June 9th, 2002

  • Mono County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to enter a report here...it's been blank or too longHad a tough day or Barrett standards, I got 14 LMB to 6.5lbs (on scales)...almost all on very s-l-o-w-l-y crawling (I mean 6-7minute casts!) blue/black pig/jigs, 7" lorida rigged dark worms, or drop-shot 4" dark worms, over rock piles in 8-12' water. I you went aster you just wouldn't get bit. Just absolutely no reaction bite except or one blow up on a buzzbait early..kept on trying (but blanked on) rico's and sammy's, deep cranks (DD-22+ chart-blue), blades, sot and hard jerks...these usually go over well here...it was smack in the middle o post-spawn.My buddy got 13 on the same except he got one on the early buzzer.A bad day here is still a very good day...most o the ish were 3-4lbs, a ew 5's and my 6.5
      City: Beverly Hills

      Tips: Post-spawn means slow ish'n! The water is a very odd greenish-brown...two guides deep and you can't see your rod...could bee a actor.