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Tuesday, May 21st, 2002

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Does anyone know anything about this lake or bass?
      City: Livermore

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 64.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 2 days o rain and I had to go, waited till noon and the weather started to break so I took o or centimudi, in the water at 1pm, temp at 57, overcast and spitting a little rain witha a south wind at 6 mph, lake down to nearly 12 t, ran to Big Backbone at Shoemaker creek and managed two on jigs, both dinks, let at 2:30 and went around the scorner into the little squaw and back in about 1/4 mile, tied on a MGM 151 black magic 5 1/2 curly tail and got six on three points in 35 t o water, the pressure drop and weather change has pushed them deeper, went all the way to the end o little squaw but no more bites, light rain o and on but pleasant out with very little traic and only 6 rigs in the lot at centimudi, got out at 4 pm, air temp at 61 and no more rain, the debris at centimudi is pretty much out o the water now and piled up on ther ramp, my partner and I ished the won bass at oroville last saturday and inished 8th and one spot out o the money with 8.58 lbs, they paid down to 8.59 lbs and my pro rom won bass pro/am last year was just ahead o us, Wayne, I think you should buy me and my partner a beer. most ish today were suspended ove 30-40 t o water at about 12-20 t, the spawn or the spots appears to be over in the main body o the lake.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shasta, May16-20. Clear and sunny the irst couple o days o a houseboat trip. Picked up a ew o the pound to 1 1/2 pound spots on 1/8 oz jigs and 4" worms in morning dawn, green, blue, oxblood. The storm moved in Sunday morning and that aternoon we put 100+ spots in the boats in a couple hours o ishing. jigs and mostly oxblood and blue or purple 4" worms. 20 eet o water under the boat and casting to shore. Fish were hitting most beore it hit bottom. Light taps and ish swimming with the lure. Nothing over 1 1/2 pounds but what a blast!! Bringing ultralite next time. Same pattern Monday morning in the rain. Brought in the boats to whitecaps and hail. Good ood, good company, good ishing.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: 1/8 jigs cast to shore in rocky shores. Nothing on mud banks. 4" worms in oxblood or darker colors.

Monday, May 20th, 2002

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: ????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: hello Donald i am 12 and can i sign that petition because chabot is my avorite lake to ish and cant catch bass and i hate it that they are taking away the ish making ishing worse
      City: Oakland

      Tips: catch and release chabot bass and sign the petition

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My mistake, It took 19.26 to win.
      City: Sacramento

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I waited or the tournament boys to blast o, get to their #1 spot and then went ishing. I started on an Island top by Folsom Point, shaking a 6" Green Craw Cali. worm in 25' and caught one ater another, all 2 lb.+. Then I went to an Island south o Beals, threw a Yamamoto grub over some boulders in 20' and caught an 8lb. 4oz. largemouth. Moved in closer to the bank, useing a 3/4 oz. Morning Dawn Duh spinnerbait and caught several spots rom 2-1/2 to 4 lbs.. Then I backed o and started shaking a worm in 20'+ around deeper trees and caught lots o 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 lb smallies and spots. Found a ew largemouth in the trees, but nothing over 2 lbs.I came in to watch the weigh-in, I assume it was a 7 ish limit? My best 5 ish went 18-1/2 lbs. It took 18.01 to win.I don't know how the tournament went on Sunday but I'm sure glad I didn't have to ish in that storm.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: A lot o ish have let the bank and are stacked up around 20-30 t. on deeper trees and structure. Shake darker worms and drop shot shad colored baits.

  • Mariposa County
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      Water Temp: 63-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished McClure this week. Went way up into Piney Creek. We caught a ew small spotted bass on crankbaits and grubs. We lost a huge bass on topwater, the bass slammed it and took it straight to the bottom, snapped the line and we never saw it again. A 10lb. black bass was caught on sunday across rom Barrett's Cove.
      City: Merced

      Tips: Try salt & pepper YAMAMOTO super grubs, Senkos, Speedtraps and Topwater Pop-R's. Good Luck. Stop by and visit STEVE'S BAIT SHACK @ 137 W. Main st. in Merced or call (209)722-0800. Thanks, Steve.

Sunday, May 19th, 2002

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We started at around 9am. Fished the coves just east of Markley Cove. Ryan started off with a spinnerbait, and got no action. As soon as he switched to a blue & chrome rattle-trap he couldn't stop the fish from coming in. It was a frenzy. About 5 fish within 30 minutes. Nothing huge...in the 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 lb range. I sight fished the rocks just about 4 ft. below the surface with a minnow swimbait. The fish seemed a bit finicky. I had to literally hit them right on the head for them to take the lure. I beleive I caught the same fish twice....little bugger. Nothing beats fishing for largemouth.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: Cranks and swimbaits are what seemed to work for us that day. Nothing else did. Be very careful...Mother Nature is beautiful, but she could be a bit nasty. If fishing from the banks, keep an eye out for Poison Oak. The banks are saturated with it. Remember, "If it has leaves of three, than let it be".

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My buddy and I Got to the lake after noon on saturday found fish on the rocks and around docks. Used flukes, Senkos and crappie jigs. By the time the rain hit @ 7 am sunday, we had caught and released about 24 bass, 15 or so crappie, 9 trout and a hand full of nice catfish and bluegill. Excellent fishing.
      City: Albany

      Tips: Wait for the warm weather and buy some polarized lenses, you'll find them.

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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: This is just a short report to let the readers know that the rain forcast for Monday decided to show up Sunday about 10 minutes after we started to fish (7 AM). It poured the whole time (I believe they are called showers!!). Luckly the clients needed to leave about noon or we might have drown! Since the 11 year old son didn't have a rain suit and dad and I only had part of one, we just fished the Markley Cove area and a little to the north. The young man missed several bites but did manage to catch his first bass - a 14 inch spot - on a morning dawn Magic worm. Dad and I were using Berkley 4" Pulse Worms and caught 7 between us. Dad got a nice 1 1/2 lb smallie and a spawned-out 15 1/2 inch spot, plus 2 others. I did catch a nice 2 pound spot plus 2 others also. All in all, a pretty nice short trip considering the air temp had dropped about 20 degrees in 36 hours.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I tried topwater and ripping a little, but no takers. We found most of our bass near the deepest part of submerged brush.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 60s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Wiskey Slough spent the day just ishing the weeds caugth many in the 2-3 pound range on white and grey spinner bait then switched up to senco caught a ew more then the big one hit 11 pounds 7 ounces. Seem to be inding them at the weed edges.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Hit the weed edges with the spinner bait and don't orget the senco's.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: John Walton o Waltons Pond and I have set up a sign up sheet at his shop to collect names and numbers o all you ishermen concerned about the shocking o bass at Chabot to be put in Quarry lakes. We need as many signitures as we can get. The parks dept said they would get back to us on the matter. I they dont in a month rom now John and I are going to call everyone on the list along with channel 2,4,5,7 news and then we might create some action. Those o you who cant make it in to Waltons Pond can call him at 510-352-3932 and he will write your name and number down on the sheet or you Thank you. Together we can unite to do what ever it takes to stop the illegall transportation o lake chabot bass to be eaten by Quarry lake isherman.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Please do not promote Quarry lakes. they are a catch and kill complex. Everything is too expensive. Lake Chabots uture consessions and boat rentals are at risk. Do we want to loose those activities at chabot??? Keep promoting the Quarry lakes and Chabot will be shut down because o lack o public unds

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      Water Temp: .

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing or bass today,Thats all I really ish or.Did very good cought to many bass lost count biggest going 4.0 lbs.Had a really nice one on east side.Seems like thebass were hungry..The one I lost was on a luke .Fluke was all day.Stripers well i I told you I cought another one You might think I was pulling your leg lets just say unreal!!!!Great day well I am going to start ishing San pablo now Loma has been great to me.But who is to say I might be back again some day.All ish were cought in the back cove.Lures where white lukes worked slowThanks or posting reports guys nice to read lets keep them coming.Hope this doesnt send a bunch o boats out there or my stripes p.s 16.0lbs and now hes back swimingFISH ON.
      City: pittsburg

      Tips: Put it on what ever you eel good with and just keep trowing it.

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: 61-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was solid. Hit the water at 6:30 ish on by 6:45. What I thought was a trout ended up being a White Fish or something.Hot lure o the day was a #7 broken back Rapala in Firetiger.Let the water at 12pm ended up getting 10 trout to the boat, up to 3.5 pounds, and one white ish. Gotta go....Fish On!
      City: Pleasanton

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      Water Temp: 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Buddy and I decided to ish Los Banos or the irst time and we got the boat in the water around noon. Within a hal hour we caught on largemouth around 3 1/2# on a 10 inch power worm. Fished or about another hour or two without a bite. The wind started blowing hard and there were gusts atleast in the 40 mph range. We kept ishing and caught another bass around 2 1/2# on a Dances's eel.We motored back around the launch area and caught one about 2# on a pop-r. The wind made it real diicult to ish the lake especially in a 15 aluminum boat.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: I've heard the lake is generally tough and I would assume the reason is because the lake is ull o every type o cover imaginable.I would concentrate on ishing the hydrilla around ten eet deep with plastics, spider jigs or large gitzits or larger ish. Fish the tule walls with sencos or limit ish. Topwater ishing looks real promising but not today. Get there early especially on a weekend!!!

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: NA

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did pretty well considering how hot it was today! Went to our avorite cove (ished o the bank) and hooked up a nice one on irst cast. Caught about 8 all together, most caught in the morning. Using Pumpkinseed (with green lake) Senko's seemed to be the ticket. Caught bass in submerged timber and o steep rocky slopes. Biggest ishes caught were 3.6lbs and 2.7lbs. Not many big ones, but there was some nice action.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Watch that line, most hits where on the all.

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Strapped it on or another ABA event on this lake and I'll never orget this one. I'm the back seater in this series, and it's natural the angler in back manages the live well. My partner trusts me and I trust mysel- more on this in a minute. Mixed up worms with reaction or perhaps reaction with worms in the south and the middle. The morning was prime pre-rontal warm cloudy and calm. The wind picked up steadily as the day went on and then began to howl. The ront arrived about noon and the temperature dropped at least 10 degrees. The bite simply stopped or an hour and a hal and we moved to a wind sheltered wall in the middle ork just to get out o the gale. We almost re-rigged to drop shot, but then the wind stopped and it bagan to rain steady and hard. My partner had two rain suits- the man's a prince and a stick. We put them on and I said got any spoons? Then the bite nearly exploded. Lost count o the ish we caught in the last hour and a hal, and we culled out everything but a 2.96 I'd caught early in the day. I nailed another 2 something and while it was still pouring I'm weighing ish, changing markers, and I'm under the console trying to write on a board that's wet. It was wild. We moved to our last spot on the main lake with 20 minutes to go. First cast my partner nails a good 1.7- culls out our smallest, and then another boat rolls up on the bank a ew hundred yards ahead o us. They're worming and putting a couple in the boat so Steve pickes up his worm stick and gets a solid 2lb with 5 minutes to go. It had to be almost his last cast. We scramble to get it in the well put down our equipment. We go past the check in boat and I check the well- only our ish. Utter disbelie. We weighed in 8.17lbs or 4 ish good enough or tenth and the 2.96 held up or 2nd big ish. Got our entry back, but it was no consolation. Winners had 9.49. Weigh master goes too bad you didn't get another ish. I said don't go there. So why would I get on this page and report this? The ishing was interesting with the rapidly changing conditions, but It's only air I get on this page when I'm successul or not. Got to stand up and be accountable. Give it up to my partner- he actually talked to me on the ride home.
      City: El Dorado Hills

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      Water Temp: 64-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: It was a good day to be ishing at San Justo. Started ishing at 8:00 and the wind was blowing a little so I started throwing a rattletrap to the tules. Rattletrap didn't work so I switched to a spinnerbait; no luck. Threw a crankbait and not even a look. Then I threw a zipper worm, again no luck. I switched to a carolina rig and worked a rocky point at about 15 eet. I kept coming up with a lot o moss so I switched to a drop shot rig. First cast on the same point I caught a 1 1/2 lbr. An hour later I had caught ive ish o that point. I then moved to the rocky points to the let o the launch ramp. I caught one more ish and then the wind came up again, only much stronger and rom a dierent direction. I stuck with the plan and caught 4 more o o that strech o shorline, the biggest being 2 1/2 lbs. I caught two more o o a weedy point that didn't go over 12 inches. Those two were the only one's that were too short, everything else was easily over a pound and bigger. All o them were caught on 4" worms in 15-25 eet o water. Good Luck.
      City: Salinas

Saturday, May 18th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 68-69

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished small club tourney out o lundborg.. great area or everything except parking ..parking suck unless you are one o the irst 6 or 7 boats launched... ishing or us sucked as we each had one keeper. several dinks cranking a speed trap . some o our guys did ine. we stayed in taylor, dutch, piper and sandmound because o NASTY winds. best succes semm to be the guys who would go behind the boat docks between them and shore. second place guy caught all most all his ish less than 500 yards rom ramp . had limit by 07:30.. one o our guys boat shut down out in the middle o ranks track coming back to weigh in ..SCARY to be out there will NO power o any kind. luckily another o our guys was ollowing him back and towed him in we had one guy only catch one ish but it was a beauty 11.3 pounds on a senko in the tules..
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: senkos and cranking with a ew on spinner baits. behind docks or places out o the wind seemed to work bes

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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started out at Orwood, back o the boat caught one 5th cast 2.5 on a senko, we ished rom 8am to 4pm and boated about 30 largemouth to 3lbs. all ish caught on senkos,looded tullies and weed lines,great day on the water, caught ish rom the irst spot to the last! only caught small ish in disco bay, bigger ish out in the channels. catch and release!good ishin Je!
      City: castro valley

      Tips: let them take it or a ew seconds then set the hook, better catch ratio.