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Friday, June 7th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I would like to inorm all the honest tournament ishermen outthere about some o their dishonest ellow ishermen. Several weeks ago while ihing in a event my spinnerbait snagged a line, trolled the boat over and to my surprise on the other end o the cord was a small dog kennel (holder) the kind used by hunters to carry their dogs. I was ishing the whiskey slough area. I really hope who ever you are that you are busted by dg. And banned or all tournaments.
      City: manteca

      Tips: i you can't win air and square, don't ish.

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

      Report: Early morning ished the shore let o the boat launch with a sugoi splash and caught three in the 3-4 lb rang. Late morning took out a loat tube to ish the tules and caught nothing until I switched to a smaller size senko. The 3" pumpkin seed produced 5 bass rom just under 3-6.5 lbs. Lost one drop-shotting in a weed bed. It spun me around so it must have been a pretty good sized ish (I'm not a little guy). First time at Del Valle, deinitely not the last.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Threw a bunch o trout colored lures since they recently planted, but the senko is what they hit. I threw them weightless into the tules and let them all on the edges.

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

      Report: Water was real murky looking. Went ishing with 2 other guys, we came home with 5 Trout total, all on Green Power Bait at Cunningham Cove. The lake is loaded with Sunish. This lake is so pretty!
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: Powerbait and Worms seemed to be working real well.

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

      Report: started late at 10:45am, didn't even bother to ish the main body o the lake. With all the heat this past week, we headed up the river arm to a little cooler water. Fished up the river arm all day. Not much o a Smallmouth bite today BUT the Largemouths were on a absolute tear. We ended up catching over 40 ish by 8pm, Three Largemouths over 3lbs, biggest was 3.6lbs, a whole bunch in the 2lb range and several right around the limit, not many dinks. We caught the most on Zoom Finesse worms and small Crick Hopper cranks. We also got some on Zoom trick worms, Crawdad cranks(small ones) Chartruse mini jigs, 4" magic worms and Castaic swimming minnows. Tried to throw bigger baits, but they just didn't want them today. The best 5 were close to 15lbs and over 40 on the day. A really good day at this lake.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: DOWNSIZE everything. We tried to use larger cranks and worms and or whatever reason, they wanted nothing to do with them. Use light line and make long casts. The water is ultraclear.

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

      Report: Got on the water about 3pm, ished the shoreline to the right (looking out rom the ramp). Threw a black/red jig with a black/red craw trailer and a 5" watermelon/black lake Senko. No bites. Switched to a 6" Senko, same color, and inally got bit o the point across rom Marmo's. Missed it. Pitched the same Senko into a laydown, got bit, missed that one too. Got o the water about 7:15.Beautiul aternoon and it sure beat working but landing a couple o ish would have made it sweeter!
      City: Santa Cruz

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The Trout are biting like crazy...Limits three days in a row. No bass though. oh well at least i had un with the trout. Would have thrown the bass back but they were'nt biting. The trollers are doing very well.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: sit on the shore and dunk powerbait.

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      Water Temp: you tell me sha

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I really think that you are ull o Bull. I have ished the back lakes many o times and you are really lucky to evn catch an 8 pounder all year let alone 3 ish over 7 pounds all in one day. Thought I might let everyone else know that I think you are ull o it!
      City: Livermore

  • Trinity County
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      Water Temp: 65 to 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent a day on Trinity getting tuned up orthe August and Sep. trips I enjoy taking there and ished a little "trukey shoot" withsome riends. We caught good SM and LM allday on plastics, blades, and rip baits. Mypartner lost not one but two 5lb+ SM's swimin' a Yamamoto grub...what a bummer...buta great experience or him to hook these twoish. We ished exclusively the north end othe lake and caught quan. 2lb+ SM's and mixedin LM's in that same weight...a great trip with alot o action and beautiul weather. Looking orward to next month and Sep...getthat SB ready I gave you Mr. Rexord..thosebig SM are attening up or you right now!!!!
      City: Anderson, Ca.

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      Water Temp: 65 to 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spent a day on Trinity getting tuned up orthe August and Sep. trips I enjoy taking there and ished a little "trukey shoot" withsome riends. We caught good SM and LM allday on plastics, blades, and rip baits. Mypartner lost not one but two 5lb+ SM's swimin' a Yamamoto grub...what a bummer...buta great experience or him to hook these twoish. We ished exclusively the north end othe lake and caught quan. 2lb+ SM's and mixedin LM's in that same weight...a great trip with alot o action and beautiul weather. Looking orward to next month and Sep...getthat SB ready I gave you Mr. Rexord..thosebig SM are attening up or you right now!!!!
      City: Anderson, Ca.

Thursday, June 6th, 2002

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Coyote or the irst time..Thanks Bluelake or the ride..Hooked 4, landed 2..The weeds cove in the lake reminded me o a lot o Southern impoundments..Deinitely a bassy looking area..We couldn't establish any type o pattern..Started with buzzbaits and popper early..No takers..I lipped the weed hole with a Senko and caught 1..Tried shallow running crankbaits ticking the weeds and hooked two, but they got o beore I wanted them to..Finally got one to stay on down around the dam..It was great just getting out and trying a new body o water..
      City: San Jose, CA

      Tips: shad colored speed traps were working, the bass just weren't real cooperative..

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the rist web,s bait night tourney rom 5:30 to 9:00 we had a blast,cought alot o ish on top water and sheaking spot spanker worms in 25' also my partner Dave had the big one the only problem was it was so old it had whiskers oh well will get the next thursday..
      City: yubacity

      Tips: Try topwater in the shade, go deep with worms like spotspankers you can get them at webb'sbait .com GOODLUCK>>>

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Out on the Sac arm rom 1830-2100. About 15 in the boat, all 1.5 lb or less, about 1/2 keepers. All spots. Most on blue spinnerbait, some on shad rap.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Almost any bait will work.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: u.k.

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished aternoon only, got 14 ish, largest 3lbs. We ound the best ish near current, but the aternoon tides were real slow. Top water produce good ish, senko produce smaller ish.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Try dierent baits i you get bored or rustrated. For a ew weekslarge ish will be hard to ind.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone with ino on whether the delta is "ishable" on the week o the ourth o July any ino would be greatly appreciated. Will be in the tiki lagun, ranks tract area.ThanksTerran
      City: resno

      Tips: Praying or a little solitude on a busy holiday weekend.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Anyone with ino on whether the delta is "ishable" on the week o the ourth o July any ino would be greatly appreciated. Will be in the tiki lagun, ranks tract area.ThanksTerran
      City: resno

      Tips: Praying or a little solitude on a busy holiday weekend.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In response to Liprippers comment about using 12# test in the Delta--Forget that - 80# Braid and a 8' Flip stick and have no Mercy.......
      City: Napa

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished wed night in heavy winds and big swells. ished 7pm till about 2:30 am .. wind never did die down .. caught two ish one 4 on a jig and one three on a 10 inch worm .. was surprised at how much the weeds grew in about the month since i was there last .. makes night ishing tough since you can really see the weeds much at night ..
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: no insight here ??

  • Fresno County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 7am to 10am, lots o small ish .two 15" ish.one at 38'drop shotting and one topwater.most ish spitting up tiny shad(1")tried sammys and spooks,but the only topwater hits were on the tiny torpedo(chrome black).
      City: madera

      Tips: try small baldes and topwater.early and late.drop shot shad colors deep mid day.split shot morning dawn/char tail

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at about 2:30pm and headed o the main lake to start ishing the shaded areas. A very hot day so I igured the ish would be in deeper water or shaded trees. Zero, zilch, Does anyone have any ideas on how to ish when it is 102 on the water?Finally headed all the way back to where the river comes in and at 7:00pm the bite turned on.We tried everything at irst and then went to the plastics landing about 5 all in the 1-2 lbs with one almost 3lbs.4'purple and clear with black leck was the trick...we lost about 5 more and many bites took hal the worm o...I almost put a trailer hooh on but always catch and release so decided not to.
      City: Clovis

      Tips: Most had moved in close to shore ater in cooled and were inder loating debris.Move the worm slow and wait........don't set too soon and use salt impregnated worms so they won't spit it to soon.

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 70-76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fish ater work or a little bit. Worked the mud lines with a Fluke. Caught about 15 bass. only 2 over 12". Lots o red eyes.
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: Fish the cove near the campground to the south o tuttle town launch. The cove just southwest o the 49 bridge is hot too. Try Flukes in albino or trout color.