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Wednesday, April 24th, 2002

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got to the lake about 3:30 ater work. Fished rom the bank at Beals Point until 7:00pm. Caught 11 ish up to 3.0lbs in the trees. All ish were released! Caught Spots, Smallies, and Blacks, including one Black with a $10.00 tag! Had un, great stress reliever...
      City: Fair Oaks

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      Water Temp: 61ish

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in a Float Tube at the campground. Got a ew hits and some small bass. most hits came on repalla 10 oot deep. Noy much being daught by anyone today.
      City: Los Banos

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 56 to 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at 8:15 at Packers. Ran over to Waters Gulch and stayed there till 3:00. 20 total, 1.5 largest 5 o them were smallmouth. Tried senkos or the irst time, had a ball. Caught 5 on weightless senkos the rest on jigs. The wie caught her 10 on darter heads and carolina rigged worms. MGM #54, and 4" zipper in june bug color. The wind died down ater noon and we had a very pleasant day. By the way, thanks again Jerry or the 2.8lb. spots you boated or us in the WON Team last Sat. I anyone was in the McCloud at 3:00PM I sure you heard us hoopin and hollerin. Next month at Oroville.
      City: Cottonwood

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002

  • Amador County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: From 3PM to 8PM I caught several nice ish. Useing a Chart. Duh jig, chart. Basstrix JP shad and a 5" shad colored sinko. My best 5 went 10/4,9/13,8/9,7/2 and 3/6. I lost a big one just beore dark that would have made a much better total but I'm not dissapointed. The ish are busting shad all over the lake.
      City: Sac.

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

      Report: This is or Pat Wilson, just wanted to congratulate you on the Delta BFL win. Great job! I'm glad you came through in the back o the boat at the Delta. It is kinda rustrating ishing in the back in the Delta, at least or me. See you next month at Shasta! Good luck. Splunkah Man
      City: Antelope

  • Yuba County
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      Water Temp: 64-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I took mysel to Collins today and though I didn't catch a big one, I did catch 22 bass - 18 spots and 4 largemouth. What impressed me was the quality o the spots - averaging about 2 lbs each. Biggest was pushing 3 lbs. I ished all over the main body, but caught most on the east shore. It was a very warm day and the bite started in earnest about 1 PM. Saw one giant bass in a tree, but there were no big bass on beds. Caught a ew on Power Tubes, but most on Senkos in brush. They seems to be in shadows o trees and brush.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: I was using the popular #194 Senko, but the top producer was a new color - #301. They really ate that one - even hit it sometimes. All bass were 1 to 10 eet.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went ishing with my brother-in-law i didn't catch anything but he caught a 4.5 large mouth at the south side o the lake
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: use white spinner bait

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: N.A.

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Jones Valley at 6:10 a.m. light breeze. Went to the Squaw, tried jr. spook had at least 10 charge the spook but not one elt the hooks. Caught a total o 18 spots i2" up to2 1/4 lbs. Fished cuts-willows and looked or shade 5 on spinner baits-6 on senko and 7 on crank bait. Also caught a 17" brown and a 16" salmon on crank bait. Had not been ableto get out or almost 2 weeks,it is nice to be able to catch some on s.b. and c.b.or a change.Wind was susposed to be upto 10 m.p.h.rom the north but-----by 11:00 a.m. it was 20m.p.h. plus out o the SE.White caps and some pretty deep swells.Caught last ish just as you enter Jones Valley.Out at 12:30 p.m.
      City: Corning

      Tips: Best time o the year to catch ish on what you want to use.

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      Water Temp: 62-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: THANKS TOM FOR THE GREAT REPORT!!!!!!THE BLEEDING SHAD WITH NO.15 MARKS TAIL WAS GOOD, BUT THE LAKE FORK SUPER SPOOK WITH A MARKS TAIL NO. 017 IS THE BEST ONE I SLAUGHTERED THE BASS THREW IT ALL DAY AND ENDED UP WITH 13.2lbs. FOR 5 FISH IT IS A REAL FISH CATCHER. I BOUGHT THEM AT PHILS, PLEASE GIVE MORE REPORTS TOM..... THE HAPPY CAMPER J.T.
      City: MODESTO

      Tips: LAKE FORK WITH NO.017 MATCHING MARKS TAIL.

Monday, April 22nd, 2002

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out lots but ailed to report, SorryMonday one person guide trip, launched @ B&W low tide light wind nice day. Fished the local rcks 1st thing and got 6 ish 1.5 to 3lbs 4 on blk/blu senko 2 on All cht Persuader 1/2oz SB. Next went to my avotire back rocks / weed and tules tide still going out and didn't get a bite, tide was not right. Ran to oxbow and ound some little smallies on cht speed trap, cht 1/2 SB and a ew on the senko ater one pass we went bake to the Mokelumme towards Tower park, low incoming tide no bite or almost an hour. Super high tide today so I decided to ish shallow weedy bank I don't usally ish, there they were we caught about 20 ish out o the shallow weeds until 3:00 mostly on speed traps (wht & crystal craw) a ew on senkos & jigs. No good one but a lot o un.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Fish are in the weeds / no weeds no ish

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Out o Lundborg Landing at 0830 , Fished Taylor slough or 2 hours, nothing. Back over to Franks Tract area, ished the tule lines till 3:00 pm, ended up with 5 ish or just under 20 lbs, with the largest going 7 and some change.all ish caught on watermelon seed brush hogs and in tight on the tules
      City: Oakley

      Tips: to the baby aced little caliornia ish & game guy who delayed me & my partners ishing or close to 45 minutes while you interogated us cause you didnt believe we were who we said we were : This middle inger is or you !!!!

  • Sacramento County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Even though I wasn't planning to, I ished the BASS Federation tournament Sunday. At blasto I noticed the water was calm over by the dam so I started ishing at the parking lot and caught several 1-2 lb. spots when I noticed ish breaking over deeper water. I picked up a top water plug,let it sit ater it hit the water and it was attacked by a 3lb. spot. I caught several more working over 30t. and then ound a school o ish on a rockpile in 35t. Useing a Yamamoto grub on a 3/16 darthead,dropshotting a morningdawn lahtrix and a morningdawn Duh spoon I ended up catching a limit o spots over 15lbs. I caught a lot o smaller ish shallow at Beals Point and Moony Ridge and saw huge numbers o ish milling around in the trees. I caught ish here too, but nothing big enough to help me, so I went back to deep water and culled a couple more.
      City: Sac.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A say good-by day to my boat and 2K or a month or a powerhead overhaul. Hole in #6 piston. Conditions were perect or a trolling motor only outing. Wind blew down the lake early and changed direction and blew me back to the launch in the aternoon. Between shits it died or a while and I identiied several beds and a variety o spawning activity. Some had a pair locked on, others a single roaming ish, others a locked ish. All were over 6 eet deep or more, and I backed o and blind casted Senkos or about 10-12lbs. Nothing over 3, but several plump 2lb spottys. Kinda un- I kept switching rom Yamamoto Sr's bait to junior's and the contest was a draw. I think Sr wins cause his baits are cheaper per each. Went in shore and looked or largemouth beds, but none ound today. Ripped a couple little bucks early. Wanted to stop by the Feds oice there at the dam, but I used all the time or ishing. Anyone know i they are going to start the dam improvements project? Break me o an e-mail. I'm pretty conservative, (Swimbait thinks I still have a Reagan shrine somewhere in the house), but we got to build Auburn. The project on Folsom is a bandaid at best.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: The spawn is on. Couldn't look around much, so don't know where the big largemouth are.

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

      Report: Walked the Conn Valley side this morning. Lake is just beautiul but the ish weren't there. Saw that the ew boats on the lake were out in the middle, so guess ish haven't come to the shallows yet. Seems late, but they just weren't there or me!
      City: St Helena

  • Shasta County
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      Water Temp: 58.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: met up with Kristin and Mark rom Clovis and we planned a ishing trip, they had their babies with them so I had to take mom separate rom Dad, in the water at 540 am at Centimundi, lake up to 8.5 t, wind out o the nerthwest at 5knots, ran over just north o Dry Fork and started showing Kristin the ins and outs o jig ishing which she picked up pretty quick,. we had 28 between 545 am and 11am mostly on brown and green jigs, my best at 2.6 came on the MGM-28 in a 6 inch, Kristin got pretty good at sticking them once she igured out to set on anything that didn't eel right, went back in and picked up Mark at 245 pm and put in at Bailey Cove and ran up near Ycotti but only managed 9 and no size to speak o , did see a large 7-8 spot on a nest and watched her swim o when we moved past, got out o the water at 745 pm and the temp was a pleasant 79 degrees.
      City: Redding

      Tips: 1/2 oz ootball heads and ur avorite twin tail should do the trick, brown and green was best along with the MGM-28

Sunday, April 21st, 2002

  • Plumas County
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Want to thank all that attended the Honey lake bass open. Reno, Redding, Burney and local's came out, weather clearedand some nice ish were caught. 1st place won with 16x onice smallies. big ish 4.86 The weather should clear and it will just get better. GreatBasin basser's have a open on may 4, 02. should be reallyhot by then. Give it a try. See you on the water.. bill k
      City: susanville

  • Napa County
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Camped in Spanish Flat and fished saturday and sunday. This was my first time on the lake so I was just learning. I fished along the west side of Wragg Canyon and saw smallies up in the shallows in the coves. All were dinks. Site fished a couple and picked up a couple around 10 feet deep and lost one at the boat. Went back out in the evening and fished on the west side of big island where I picked up one spot and my partner 2 smallies. Picked up one smallie on east side of small island. Sunday mornin went to Wragg and ran into a lot of company. Found an empty cove and my partner and I caught 2 smallies. Headed up to big island where I boated one large mouth. Headed to the ramp at 11:30 to pack up.
      City: Isleton

      Tips: I really had no clue what I was doing. I was split shoting 4" special FX ROBOWORMS in Aaron's R&B flk and Fuschia Thunder both days. Partner threw 4" witches tea worms and 4" cotton candy lizards on a T-rig. Im really not sure where the fish are. I think the weather has spread them out a little. Im novice, dont ask me, im just lettin you know what I saw. Tight Lines Everyone.

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 59 DEGREES

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT NINE RAINBOW TROUT, MOST GOOD SIZED TROLLING.
      City: CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA

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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 7am-1pm out o B & W. Couple o strikes early on wht/chart. double willow lea spinnerbait. Nothing on various colors o speed traps. 1st ish at 8:30 am in weed bed, 5' depth, on weightless watermelon w/blk & red lake senko. Split shotted several colors o 4" & 6" worms but only got a couple o strikes on watermelon w/red lake Bacon Rind. Boated a dink at 10 am on watermelon senko then boated last keeper in 3' o water o o stump near rocky pt. at noon, again on watermelon senko. Both keepers were 2.5 to 3 lb. emales ull o eggs.
      City: Delhi

      Tips: Nothing on spinnerbaits, blk/blue buzzbait, or Speed Traps. 2 keepers & a dink on watermelon w/small blk & lake senko.

  • Lake County
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      Water Temp: 55-58 degrees

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished with Bob Thein out o Bob Thein's Guide Service. We ished 3 days this past week, 4/16 thru 4/18. Although we threw most o the artiicials in the tackle box, the vast majority o the ish we caught came on large shiner minnows ished about 6 eet or so under a loat. Approximately 1 PM the irst day we had 5 ish that would average about 3 1/2 lbs in the boat when we moved up on a spot that Bob said held ish. The irst lob cast with a minnow brought a 5.8 lb largemouth into the boat. Four more casts gave me our more ish, the largest right at 8 lbs. We inished the day with 18 ish, with our largest ive going approximately 35 lbs.On 4/17 we started on that spot and caught 6 ish, again with the largest over 7 lbs. A ew hundred yards rom that spot I caught the largest ish o the trip, a 9.1 pound beauty. We ished under docks, skipping the senkos underneath and did catch 3 ish that way on Wednesday, but again the majority o the ish were taken on shiners. We inished with 16 or the day.The third day started with calm, clear weather and very ew bites. We did manage to scratch up 4 on shiners early on, but ishing was slow. We moved a couple o times, but stayed mostly in the Lakeport area o the lake. About the time the squall hit us, I hooked up on a nice ish, about 4.5 lbs., giving us 5 or the day. We moved approximately 200 yards south down the bank and ound them stacked o o a cut. We ended that day with 14 ish. The largest was a 6.4.All in all one o the most memorable ishing trips I've ever been on
      City: Modesto