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Saturday, May 18th, 2002

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 65 to 69

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On 5/18/02 at about 0530 hours, my riend and I ished a tournament Sat. We had a great time and we meet some great ishermen. The ishing was hard work, but i one color "Mr. Pink" works use it ! I tried several other colors, but nothing was working. He used the "Mr. Pink" all day and he put all the ish in the boat, but I was a great "NetMan". Well I hope I can add some ish to the livewell at the next one.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: split-shot mouring dawn about 5 to 12 eet in hard bottom areas. white lo with no weight are working in some areas.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on Saturday rom 8AM-noon rom the shore. Water has been constantly raising. It's about 2 eet higher than what it was last week. It's a perect time or brush ishing. I did locate looded bushes near a rocky point and caught 2 ish upto 2 lbs . Then I moved down south into the creek where I lost a big ish last week, but today with a heavier gear. I threw jigs, spinner baits, and worms but couldn't buy a bite today. But I saw three turtles inside though. I went home about noon.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished on Saturday rom 8AM-noon rom the shore. Water has been constantly raising. It's about 2 eet higher than what it was last week. It's a perect time or brush ishing. I did locate looded bushes near a rocky point and caught 2 ish upto 2 lbs . Then I moved down south into the creek where I lost a big ish last week, but today with a heavier gear. I threw jigs, spinner baits, and worms but couldn't buy a bite today. But I saw three turtles inside though. I went home about noon.
      City: Mountain View

  • Westchester County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water was crystal clear, until, wind picked up. Within 30 minutes o tossin my popper, I got me a nice 5 pounder. Tight line, caught and released. Fish still had previous isherman's hook on its lip. It rained, shortly ater and had to scramble out o there. Fear o melting...
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Keep pluggin' away and watch out or them rocks.

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: spent 9 hrs at both rainbow and horseshoe lakes caught a 1.4# smallie released it shortly ater then nada the rest o the day. got bit on a spinnerbait 1 oz white/chart. premiere elite. tried throwin all kinds o other baits just nothing was getting hit.OH well good luck its kinda windy there.
      City: remont

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 62-63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sac arm rom about 0700 to 1100. Used cranks,spinnerbaits and topwaters. Many blowups on topwaters, but nothing but a couple o dinks. Got about 20 in the boat, mostly dinks, maybe 7 keepers. None over 2 lbs. Only 2 smallies, rest spots. Quite dierent than this time last year.
      City: Redding

      Tips: Some ish hugging shore, others cruising 20+ plus o shore near points. Cover a lot o ground.

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 60 to 64 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the lake at 0745 ound plenty o ish on banks o main body. 1 to 3 lbs. Wind kicked up about 0930 so we headed or shelter up the North Creak arm. Caught a couple o ish o rocks in this area. Success came in Cherry where I caught a 6, 5 and 3 lb ish within about 30 minutes. Big one came on a baby brush hog, the rest came on Senko. Most o the bites were pretty aggressive, one 2 lber about pulled the rod out o my hand. Me and my partner had over 20 ish between us or the day, would have had a lot more but we were running rom the wind.
      City: Fremont

      Tips: The day beore a ront can be a great day. Fish the mud lines with baby brush hogs, ish the tress and brush with weightless senkos.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished warm springs area at 11;30am to 1500 and caught 11 totaled 4 largemouth bass 3 were keepers and 7 smallmouth 4 keepers on crawdad cranks and pig and jig .caught the biggest a 19 inch smallmouth on a 2 in. grub.the biggest largemouth was 17 inches while swimming the pig and jig over a allen tree the jig was on the surace.when the wind kicked up i called it a day.catch and release.
      City: oakland

      Tips: smaller baits caught the biggest ish,1/8 ounce jigs and jigheads right up on the shore pulled into the water worked best,

Friday, May 17th, 2002

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishing rom 5:30 - 8pm. Fished the area to the right o the bridge near the parking lot. Caught a 10 inch bass using a 4 inch Texas-rigged junebug worm o some boulders.
      City: Saratoga

      Tips: Use dark colored worms.

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

      Report: Team Bass Tournament on Saturday May 18th. $75.00 entry fee. BBQ after weigh in, free for all entries Trophies up to 3rd place 70% payback plus Prizes Professionally organized No membership required 5 fish, 13" on a flat board No live bait, Catch and Release, Dead fish penalty Check in and sign-ups at 4:30am at North Shore Blast off at 6:00am Weigh in at 3:00pm Any questions call Shawn O'shea at (916)331-8174 or email Heath at heathp@pacbell.net
      City: Folsom

      Tips: This is an awsome tournament to fish in! Camp Far bite is on........

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went out riday hit the water at 2:30pm ish till 4:30pm boated 23 ish 3lb to 5lb ished worms and blades was just getting good when captian wanted to call it a day because o the wind.
      City: byron

      Tips: ish were you wouldn't ish you will be suprized

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THE WATER WAS LOW SO I FISHED THE WEEDS WITH MY FLW TOUR PLASTIC WORM FOR A GOOD RETRIEVE.AT FIRST NO BITES BUT AS THE WATER BEGAN TO RISE THEY STARTED TAKING THE LURE WITH A FAIRLY SLOW RETRIEVE.I LANDED A NICE 6 POUND BASS AND A 3 ABOVE OTHERS.
      City: OAKLAND

      Tips: I FOUND THAT PURPLE TO GREEN PLASTICS WORK BEST AT THIS TIME

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Team Bass Tournament on Saturday May 18th. $75.00 entry ee. BBQ ater weigh in, ree or all entries Trophies up to 3rd place 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 4:30am at North Shore Blast o at 6:00am Weigh in at 3:00pm Any questions call Shawn O'shea at (916)331-8174 or email Heath at heathp@pacbell.net
      City: Folsom

      Tips: This is an extremely un tournament!

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

      Report: Team Bass Tournament on Saturday May 18th. $75.00 entry ee. BBQ ater weigh in, ree or all entries Trophies up to 3rd place 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 4:30am at North Shore Blast o at 6:00am Weigh in at 3:00pm Any questions call Shawn O'shea at (916)331-8174 or email Heath at heathp@pacbell.net
      City: Folsom

      Tips: This is the best tournament circuit going.

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

      Report: Team Bass Tournament on Saturday May 18th. $75.00 entry ee. BBQ ater weigh in, ree or all entries Trophies up to 3rd place 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 4:30am at North Shore Blast o at 6:00am Weigh in at 3:00pm Any questions call Shawn O'shea at (916)331-8174 or email Heath at heathp@pacbell.net
      City: Folsom

      Tips: This is an extremely un tournament!

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at 10am today headed or a couple o spots in the south end o the lake. boated two largemouths 13"-15" on a zoom worm carolina rigged. Couldn't ind much more in the main body, so we headed up the river and got into the ish the rest o the day. We stopped on a couple o vertical walls and slammed about 7 on spilt shotted zoom worms and deep diving cranks. We went arther up river and basically just ished the deep walls and ended up catching about 20 more ish to about 3lbs just split shotting worms and power craws. Total on the day was about 30 ish, more Largemouths then Smallies and no big ones, but still a good day with most o our ish ranging between 13-17 inches.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Fish light line. The visibility in the areas we ished was at least 20t with polarized glasses. Don't spook em'!!!

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      Water Temp: 62-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at 10am today headed or a couple o spots in the south end o the lake. boated two largemouths 13"-15" on a zoom worm carolina rigged. Couldn't ind much more in the main body, so we headed up the river and got into the ish the rest o the day. We stopped on a couple o vertical walls and slammed about 7 on spilt shotted zoom worms and deep diving cranks. We went arther up river and basically just ished the deep walls and ended up catching about 20 more ish to about 3lbs just split shotting worms and power craws. Total on the day was about 30 ish, more Largemouths then Smallies and no big ones, but still a good day with most o our ish ranging between 13-17 inches.
      City: Dublin

      Tips: Fish light line. The visibility in the areas we ished was at least 20t with polarized glasses. Don't spook em'!!!

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: n.a.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Jones Valley at 5:30 a.m., decided to ish the lower end o Jones or a change. Threw spook till about 1 hour ater sunrise,only had about 4 blow ups but no hook ups.That was o.k. because I pitched a senko ater each miss and caught a ish.Caught 32 or the day with 18 being keepers.Nothing big today ,ish up to 1 1/2 . Lot o small bucks still looking or a emale. Caught 30 on senko and 2 on crank bait.Water was rough ater 9:00 a.m. because o all the water skiers and wave runners.Really tough tying to get boat out (no manners) covers it all.Short time let beore the summer crowd starts up.O water 1:00 p.m..
      City: Corning

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: On the water by 5:45 a.m. Fished Pit Armuntil 9:30a.m.Caught approx. 20 keepers. Hadseveral blowups on topwater but no hookups.All came on plastics. Senkos and Predatorworm slugos. The slugo accounted or my 3best ish,all over 2lbs. with the biggesttipping the scales @ 3.6lbs.
      City: redding

      Tips: Literally deadsticking the bait. The slugois a 6" avocado/rootbeer w/red lake. Theish really have'nt seen this bait. Lots o pressure on the ish so you need to give themsomething new. 50% o the ish caught on slugo swallowed it. Phil's prop carry's somePredator baits. I they don't have what youare looking or just ask. They will orderor you. Good luck! P.s.- Had to keep yourdistance rom structure otherwise no ish.Make long casts....

  • Sonoma County
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      Water Temp: 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out at about 5:00 PM despite reports o a tough bite and wind. Fishing plastic up Yorty and Cherry we caught 7 ish, one at 4 lbs. and the rest around 2 lbs. Most hit on the all near the grassy banks. The boat was in about 8-10' o water. Short casts and lot's o them. Good luck.
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Any worm seems to do, rigged semi-weedless and weightless so that it alls slow and horizontal.