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Tuesday, May 7th, 2002

  • Tuolumne County
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing around our pm and noticed the ish had backed o.Threw top water on some avorite spots and only had one blow up.Watching the depth inder I was noticing bait and ish between 30 and 45 eet.Startd shakin but no takers.Switched to splt shottin and worked over submerged trees.This was the ticket.Got eight nice ish in an hour or so..Moved way up river and about seven o'clock got into a good top water bite as all the ish seemed to move right to the bank on steep walls.Got another ten nice ish.Good day but it's going to bust on the next heat spell.
      City: sonora

      Tips: Stay with the bait in this lake and you will catch ish.

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      Water Temp: Cold!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: my buddy reports the water as COLD and the level is down about 20 eet! So there is no tules or the bass. He caught 2 shaker bass on top water plugs.
      City: Mtry

Monday, May 6th, 2002

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: NOT SURE

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing for 4 days at berryessa with my son...we are amateurs but managed to get about a dozen fish over the period mostly recreational fishing...mostly cranked but fished w/ minnows as well...caught 1 trout, 1 crappie and the rest bass all on cranks...most of the fish seemed to be at about 12-18 ft of water....couple of top water strikes but mostly quiet....very windy a couple of days. didnt' seem many other people catching either or so it seemed....skiers and jet skiers coming out and campgrounds much more crowded on the weekends stirring up the lake. the water is still fairly cold as well.
      City: RESCUE, CALIFORNIA

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

      Report: Went out or about 2 hours and landed a small rainbow trout.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Powerbait

  • Butte County
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      Water Temp: 63 -67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: TOOK CLIENTS OUT FISHING FROM 6A.M. - 3:30P.M. LOTS OF MALES UP - NO FEMALES. CAUGHT 30-40 FISH RANGING FROM 10 -16" ON GITZITS. FISHED MAINLY SPRING VALLEY, DARK CANYON, AND THE NORTH FORK. THERE WERE ALOT OF SUSPENDED FISH. 1/2 WERE TAKING IT ON THE FALL; THE OTHER 1/2 BIT. BEST COLORS WERE GREEN WITH RED FLAKE, AND SMOKE PURPLE. USED 1/8 - 3/16 OZ. DARTER HEADS. CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE AT www.norcalbassin.com. GOOD LUCK, AND GOOD FISHING!!!
      City: Paradise

      Tips: THROW GITZITS. MORE TIPS TO COME AS I'LL BE TRYING REACTION BAITS TOMORROW WITH OTHER CLIENTS.

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

      Report: Plenty o bites using 1oz white and chartuese hair raisers and buck tails. 5pm-8pm at dam ace shore in small lake. 20inchs-25inches. Be sure to add a trailing grub to your buck tails. Fishing P
      City: Fremont

      Tips: Buck Tails, Top water (spooks & pencil poppers) only i you see alot o top water action.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Big striper had been caught at check 12 creek O'neil orebay. Saw some people used pile worms hook too many under size ish, and some o them are dead (loating on top o water) i the ish swallowed please cut your line don't worry about your cheap hooks, let them live.
      City: Milpitas

      Tips: Anchovy still working OK, early morning and late aternoon are best.

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

      Report: Someone lost a 22" 7.00 lb Spotted Bass rom their stringer last Thursday. One o our group ound it (still alive) loating in the middle o the lake near Jones Valley. You know who you are! Your riends don't believe your story but I do! E-mail me directly, we have pictures to back up your story! Our houseboat was in Blue Creek rom May 1 thru May 5. 10 ishermen in our group. We ished the Pit River primarily, Squaw a little. Bite was slow in the morning, and picked up during the day. Evening bite was the best or us. This was a consistent pattern on all baits. Seems the ish need to warm up.
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: Live bait (minnows and crawlers) were hot. On Thursday, between 3 pm and 7 pm I released over 35 bass ranging rom 11 to 15.5 inches. The most productive plastics (worms, grubs, tubes all worked) were salt and pepper or "slime" green. Spinners and other "hard" bait picked up a ew. Forget trolling (although it could break loose any minute), I spent many, many hours ishing or one 'Bow and one Chinook.

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing at irst light, could not get rog ish going. Went to senkos, picked up ish here and there. Fished a rock hole with IN-LINE FINESSE JIG & 4" JR. ZIPPER WORM WATERMELON WITH RED FLAKE caught a ew more. ish went 1 to 4 lbs. Moved to another area with wood use the same IN-LINE JIG HEAD and ZIPPER WORM got hammered and losed irst ish, continued to ish the same spot, next ish 5 lber. Caught 3 more. Tide had stared back in, so I went back to irst area. First cast with a senko 4.5 lber., better ish have moved up. I was able to cull early ish to build a good stringer or the day.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fish tight to rock, wood or tules, slow and slower.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I never post here, usually just read, but I'm bored at work so here goes. Tubed CL last Saturday. Got slammed on a white blade irst thing in the morning, hooking about 5 or 6 rom 1 to 3lbs in about 10 or 15 minutes. All but one came unbuttoned, need a crankin' stick. When blade bite slowed, lipped a senko or 2 dinks. Got tired o that, threw a speed trap and hooked a 6 incher. Wanted to get a couple more beore leaving, so I went to old reliable, texas rig. Picked up a 3, then a 1.5 on back-to-back lips. It slowed ater that, and I bounced.
      City: El Sobrante

      Tips: They seem to be getting active, but are still mostly in the tules. Can't lose lippin' plastics...

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went ishing out on my tube today,mainly on the east side.used a senko almost all day.got a ew bites then pulled up a 3 lb. bass with a belly ull o eags.got him on the tiny cove on the east side.they were jumping all over.my riend phill was using a plastic texas rig with a beed and got some bites but no luck.got one on a texas rigg yesterday and got one. GOOD LUCK!!
      City: antioch

      Tips: ish close to the tules with a senko or rapala.get as arback in the tules as you can get with a senko and have slack when you drop it in!!!

  • Alameda County
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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This was my second weekend out there. Last weekend we hooked up ive and landed 3 all about 1.5 to 2 lbs. Last weekend we landed two and one at 2.5 lbs. We ished rom the shore rom the dog walk down the steep bank.
      City: San Bruno

      Tips: Red White and Blue Powerbait and Night Crawlers

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: low 60's?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried 4 spots at the North end o the lake. Water color was a bit dirty up the creek but pretty clear rom the power tower south. Saw a 2 and a 4 lb.er both come up and take a very close look at a white lizard I was tossin' but wouldn't grab it. I believe part o the reason the bass wouldn't bite this day is all the bass ry that are available to them. In 2 spots I saw so many ry that you couldn't toss a lure without scattering them. I believe that's why this lake always has lots o bass in it. That and the semi-light ishing pressure. Saw another sight that is common to this lake. On the trail at the end o the road I walked up on a 4 oot long, very at rattlesnake. Looked dead but was only sunning itsel (4PM). Please be careul- I've adopted the goy looking habit o wearing black rubber kneehigh boots even when it's hot and sunny.
      City: napa

      Tips: Basic plastics in basic colors have always worked great or me. Weightless i it's not too windy- senkos i it is windy!

  • Benton County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT FIVE RAINBOWS TROLLING RAPALAS IN FOG
      City: CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: two o us ished 3pm till 6:15. No bites all day, 10 minutes beore calling it a day, my buddy hooked and released 4.5 and 6lb bass on back to back casts using a jig.
      City: Albany

      Tips: ish slow. use rip baits jigs.

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7:30-11:00 Sun. Lake was loaded with trout ishing boats. I wasted most o my time ishing the tules and you guessed it they were not in the tules. They were on the weed edge dropping to 12-18t. Zipper worms took my only two ish. One was 2lbs and the other was 6.4 lbs. Now that was un on 8lbs test line ultra lite spinning outit.
      City: Foster City

      Tips: Sot plastics on the weed edge drop o.

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 61.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In the water at 0515 with a club going out at Bailey Cove, air temp 54, water at 8.90 t and alling gradually, no wind, ran over to Shallow point in the McCloud and worked the stretch o bank north to curl creek, I never ish this piece o water much so I thought I would give it a try,stayed with it rom 0530 till 0830 or 38 to 1.8 with 15 on jigs, and 14 on the MGM 156, the rest came on the MGM 26, both worms were in the 6 inch variety, mostly dinks and no spawned out emales, 7 were smallmouth and 6 o those came o o one point across rom Ycotti, boating activity picked up quite a bit this am and I let at 915am, air temp at 61 and the lot was ull at Bailey when I got back, skiers and jet skiers starting to show. ound most early ish on main lake points and as the wind picked up the ishing got better out o 18 to 22 t.
      City: Redding

Saturday, May 4th, 2002

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

      Report: Launched out o Orwood at NOON...Yeah, not the brightest move, but ishing is better than working. Took two riends who never ish the Delta. In our our hours we caught 20 ish rom dink to 6lbs. Best (5) went 15+. Fish came on Senko (watermelon, red lake, Black & Blue lake), Junebug Zipper 5inch, Spinnerbait (Y/Y), and Crank. Tide was going out when we arrived and got real low. Missed two beautiul ish on Spinnerbait in low, low tide. Both rolled ater hookset but popped o. Biggest ish came on zipper in tight. (12 legal & 8 dinks). Too much boat traic to take the day real serious.
      City: Disco Bay

      Tips: SLOW PRESENTATION with inesse baits. Let the Senko sit or 30 second count beore moving at all. The Zipper worked just crawling real slow. Fished all in the South as usual.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Sugar Barge 6:30am on Saturday. Had an OK day, most ish caught during high tide. Had several blow-ups on topwater: buzzbaits and jitterbugs. Nailed a ew o them. They were short striking the buzzbait and nailing the jitterbug. Fished senkos the rest o the day, but to limited success. Tried blading and cranking, but no takers.Regardless, it was a beautiul day to be on the water.

      Tips: Any pointers on ishing the low-tide? Or should we just chase the high tide? Most o our senko ish (dinks) came out o shady pockets tight to tules or on 3-5' deep weed lines.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Sugar Barge 6:30am on Saturday. Had an OK day, most ish caught during high tide. Had several blow-ups on topwater: buzzbaits and jitterbugs. Nailed a ew o them. They were short striking the buzzbait and nailing the jitterbug. Fished senkos the rest o the day, but to limited success. Tried blading and cranking, but no takers.Regardless, it was a beautiul day to be on the water.

      Tips: Any pointers on ishing the low-tide? Or should we just chase the high tide? Most o our senko ish (dinks) came out o shady pockets tight to tules or on 3-5' deep weed lines.