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Tuesday, May 28th, 2002

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hello. You would have had to catch 1 ish every minute and a hal. Get real.
      City: santa rosa

Monday, May 27th, 2002

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom shore or about 2 hours, no luck. We used green powerbait, night crawlers, and plastic worm. Not even a bite.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Don't know.

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: surface temp 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched At 5:45 At Markley Cove fished coves and drop offs. Threw poppes, spooks, buzzbaits, spinner baits, and crank baits. A wide assortment of them all. off the water by 9:00 just beat the pleasure boaters and skies.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Nothing seemed to work for me

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

      Report: hey lester or is it scott?must be hard having to rist names.sorry you never had a good day ishing on the delta,and i you ish the delta oten than you would know that when the bite turns on and your in the right spot that you can catch alot more than normal.now i never siad i caught all 23.and i your so technical(5.2 a min)than your not having un which is why you don't hear alot more about me in the (big time)i ish to enjoy mysel and the riends i ish with.so once agian i'm sorry you don't have better ishing days(hope you can improve your technical ishing)
      City: Byron

      Tips: i you don't have anything good to say maybe you should not say anything

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      Water Temp: 65-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launch at B&W resort at 6:45am headed to Franks, ished with Lucky Crat LV500 Max chartruse shad hit 3 small largemouth rom 1 1/2 to 3lbs and 2 4lb stripers, then headed to Mildred and pitch #301 senko's or a ew more small bass. Male bass on some o the bed's that I could see but most o the bass were hitting a couple o eet rom the bank close to edge o tules and weeds.Was an alright day till the wind picked up.Got o the water by noon lots o wind and Yachts.
      City: Fairield

      Tips: Pitch #301 senko's which are green pumpkin black,purple and green lake. Used a small 1/8oz brass and glass or added noise it seemed to work good. Also shaking the senko. Good luck.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well we had a un time at Lake Del Valle on Memorial Day there were alot o ishermen and people picnicing. We ound the trout around the dam area and my Daughter Michelle caught the irst one about 3 lbs on a #9 broken back rapala in shad pattern. We were trolling on the surace with a lot o line out and no weight. In the next hour and a hal she reeled in our more trout up to two lbs each on the same lure trolling the same areas near the dam. She also had one on the trout colored lure but they liked the shad alot better.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Troll slow around the dam or park it and bait ish we saw alot o people catching them that way also.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thanks or the ino Rob. I will submit a report next time I go and hopeully I will make it to the lake at irst light instead o 10:00 O'clock.I ish out o a black and silver 15' aluminum bass boat with a 25 horse Johnson and a Minn Kota Genesis trolling motor.i you ever see me give me a holler.I will try and make it out this weekend.I you ever need any ino or Woodward resevoir, Turlock resevoir, or Stanislaus/Tuolumne rivers let me know.
      City: Modesto

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I go near the end o the creek..casting weightless lukes(white or white and a dark color with some "kickin' Bass" Garlic stu..That sh*t stinks!!), ishing it like a jerk bait in the stickups and in shady overhangs. I make my hooks bareless because the bass swallow the bait beore I know it and get hooked deep. best time is like all bass..sring into early summer beore it gets too hot. My bite has been ending around 11am , picking back up at 6ish.There are not any stripers in the creek reservoir, only San Luis and the orebay..to the best o my knowledge
      City: Mtry

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

      Report: Hey Rick, Some dude just beat your record. The rainbow trout weighed 17.93#.Better go back and reclaim your title with a 20 pounder!!!
      City: modesto

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went tubing around early evening. saw a ew bass around 2-3 lb. didn't bite. tried plastic worm, rapala,rattle trap.
      City: remont

      Tips: someone tried broken back rebel. caught 4lb.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Was ishing with a night crawler and plastic worm, caught about a 6 lb carp!! But, there was a guy ishing next to us with a plastic ish and was nailing bass.
      City: San Mateo

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom shore or about 2 hours, no luck. We used green powerbait, night crawlers, and plastic worm. Not even a bite.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Don't know.

Sunday, May 26th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: What a day or ishings boats every where..let 0rwood at 6 am...started o with buzzbaits...bam!!! two stripers up to 4lbs..decided that this was un but not what I wanted...switched to senkos..I have never seen a bait like a senko...I am siting having lunch trying to think o where to go next...threw my senko out in the water..laid my pole down...three minutes later....bam!!a back bass..took him o turned him loose..started to eat again...bam!!!another bass...we caught 19 black bass plus stripers...ok day
      City: Discovery Bay

      Tips: I donot think you can ish a senko wrong..as long as you put it in the water

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ATTENTION: The next important meeting or Chabots Bass Fate is tuesday May 28 at the District Headquarters Board Room 2950 Peralta Oaks Court Oakland. Its located right at Dunsmuir house entrance. The meeting starts at 3:00 and is very important. I would have had this notice earlier on NCBF but the parks district did not notiy me until today. Hope to see some more o you there
      City: Castro Valley

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: More o a get out and enjoy haveing the boat back morning than Fishing. On the water at 5:50 till 7:50, I made a pact that as soon as I saw the ramps and water illing up withthe Memorial crowd I was outta there. Anyway three on a spook jr. and two bites on a dart headed morning dawn, NO size just a beautiul morning on the water. Good to be one with the Nitro again. Next week Shasta!Mark
      City: Sacramento

  • Leon County
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      Water Temp: 67-72 degrees F

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake today or the irst time in a while. Motored over to Harry's cove and immediately got about an 8 inch bass on a pumpkin/green lake 4 inch Senko. That was it or the rest o the day with the exception o a ew more strikes in the same area on other Senko colors. I was basically ishing 3 colors o Senkos and some cranks the whole day. Not a whole lot o action on the lake today, so I heard and observed, nor did I see as many bass as usually. Water was a little dirtier than usual, but was a nice temp the whole day. All o the ish I came across were tucked back in the tulles in response to the wind. Hope to be back out in a week or two, and will certainly post again. Good ishing to all.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: My best bet would be pitching senkos or brush hogs in the shallows and cranking along the deeper weedlines. Spinnerbaits could also work, along with rigs like a drop-shot or split-shot or the weedlines as well.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Rob, I catch and release all ish except an occasional striper. What size o ish are you catching? Are you getting most o your ish on plastics? What part o the lake is best this time o year? I will give the lake another try here in a week or two and I will post another report. Have you ever caught any there on a big swim bait?
      City: Modesto

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

      Report: OROVILLE AFTERBAY..........NOT Lake Oroville.This has turned into an annual day trip as I would never go to any o the big lakes on this weekend. What makes this one so good is that there is no camping and everyone has to be o the water at nightall so we arrive with no one on the water. Started o with blades through the grass and points and nothing was happening so swithed to a buzzbait and everything started to happen! First ish came on second cast and it was a healthy 4+ ollowed by a twin about 3 casts later. Once the topwater turned o, went to Senkos and continued catching nice, nice bass. Ran into another bass isherman who said he had tried to go to Oroville and both ramps were closed due to ull capacity. He suggested wacky style Senko ishing and worked that around tules with more and more nice bass. Terriic day and i you plan on ishing this impoundment, call (530) 534-2307which is the Oroville water resourse and they will tell you about levels and listen or aterbay level and i it is 130 (above sealevel) or higher, hit it. Lower than 128 and you have a problem getting to the back area which holds nice tule patches. Great place or ishing using vertually every presentation.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: White buzzbaits worked over grass lats and any type point. Senkos in and around tules and lipping jigs deep in the tules. No real pattern, they were hitting everything.

Saturday, May 25th, 2002

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

      Report: Launched out o Holland with my partner Dave "The Sarg" Sargenti. Fished a ew berms that were close by with Senkos and Trick worms and boated about 8 to about 4lbs, Went to Quimby, Mildred Island and Empire cut pretty much ollowing the same pattern and boated another dozen or so, nothing big, but still un. Last we just ished right o o Old River and caught another 8 or so all on senkos and Trick Worms. We really couldn't seem to do much on reaction baits all day, ish bit real light and weren't aggressive at all. We ended up with about 30 or the day.
      City: Dublin

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey tom thanks or that advice I did see some hatch too.Its just bad ishing conditions with them doing that and the weird weather does not help.Next time I go out I will post and save a spot or you on my boat.My email is down so keep reading the reports I will go out next sunday our the next.I will let you no Thanks Tom,ish on
      City: p-town