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Sunday, August 6th, 2006

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

      Report: kinda slow to my expectations lotta small fish early. things picked up big time later on me and my partner (BRIAN PIMPPINS) managed a decent limit that wentbetween 13-15lbs. we both feel wer'e on to something with some bigger fish during this time of season! AND IT'S NOT SWIMBAIT.
      City: escondido

      Tips: DO YOUR HOMEWORK ON TIME

Monday, July 31st, 2006

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: ??? Gee??? No reports since 07 Month end... Anybody have something a bit more current for Nac???

      Appreciate some input....
      City: Santa Maria

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 83

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lake level is dropping rapidly. Humps I fished last week are out of the water now. Bite was a little tougher as well. Only caught 18 spots between the two of us. Fished from 7AM till about 1PM. Lots of skiers and wakeboarders still.
      City: Monterey, CA

      Tips: Go to Las Tablas arm (no wake zone) and fish 6-8" worms on shaky heads.

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

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

      Report: had a decent day lost a double-digit in a tree. throwing topwaters and worms (BIG WORMS). Best colors were chocalate and junebug.
      City: ESCONDIDO

      Tips: Watch me on saturday and sundays. I'll be the guy in the rental boat putting on a clinic. TULE POINTS AND DEEP WATER BREAKS(4ft-10+)BIG FISH DON"T DINE OUT THEY DINE IN! IF you on a good spot and you can feel it but "you're dinking up the place?" Leave! however, if you're striking out, throw a "BIGBAIT" with confidence and persistence. DON'T BE SURPRISE AT RESULTS. LATER DUDE!

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      Water Temp: 82-85o

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Gold Coast Bass Tourney -- 17 Boats - White Oak Launch - Blastoff @6:02 - Weigh in @ Noon

      Surprise weather conditions as the 112o temps two days before, were down to the pleasant 80's with high cloud cover. Partner and I headed towards the 1st boat ramp amile in towards the narrows and started with top water. No takers and we were really surprised that we saw no fish breaking the surface. Elected to hit it up and down on a two pass, then decided that the bite was off and headed towards Jackass. Picked up a nice 3-8 and several dinks on drop shot and weightless with a small sized Sweet Beaver. Several boats came in and left with nothing to show and conversations with other boaters were saying the same -- Seemed like the fish in this area shut down. Well, in other areas it was was a good day for the boaters.

      1st place in with 11.99, 2nd in with 11.94 and second also took big fish with a really nice 6.8 -- We finished a distant 10th and was a let down compaired to last weeks good weigh in.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Drop was working but the area we were in was slow. Some were hitting towards the store areas and the walls back in the narrows but never did get a positive location -- Will know where later Monday.

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 78-82

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Ax, first place in a recent tournament had 43lbs for two days.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Go fishin.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Well Brian thats not a bad story but if you want to win the BS award for the year you will have to do better.

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from daylight until about 11:30AM. Caught 15 spots, biggest about 2 pounds and caught 1 largemouth that went 3 pounds.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: Caught fish on just about everything but Carolina rigged 8" worms fished on offshore humps and main lake points worked best.

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

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      Water Temp: 75.3

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: RESULTS FOR GOLD COAST BASS TOURNEY --

      Looks to be a great day and a quick count indicates about 16-18 boats for this open tourney.

      Blastoff at 5:47AM -- My partner and I headed for the back of the bridge area looking for that great biteof 2 weeks before. Hit the top water with Rico's, spooks. Sammies and blades with only minimal takers. Lost a nice one on my Rico as it headed to a bush and got wrapped up. Before I could work it out, she broke off... Boo Hoo -- Was a sad one as we needed that weightbut 20 minutes later, I saw my Rico floating near the same tree area so -- Oh Well, at least the Rico's is in my box!

      Headed out towards the bridge hitting a nice Smallie keeper on a Spider grub on a Black Jig head. With no more response we elected to head off to our second spot, the Dam area.

      Tossed a few cranks and blades with no takers. Grabbed the 'drop-shot' and tossed out in the drop off just passed the brushline. Partner hit a good keeper, then another a few minutes later another good 3 pounder for the well. I tossed into the brush where I pulled out the 5 and 4 a week before but nothing was active so we puled off into 25 foot of water and started droppin again. With only 1/2 hour left, partner yanked in another keeper letting us 'cull' our #3 fish. Finally, with only 10 minutes left before heading back to weighin,I landed a very nice 3-4 to add to the tank.

      FINAL -- 1st place in at 12.78, Second in at 12.35, 3rd in at 12.06 and my partner and I in 4th at 11.80-- Big fish was 3.88.. So all in all, partner and I faied out nice with only a few ounces from taken home the $650 plus winners share and the $120 big fish share.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Dam area produced the better fish and nice 2-3 pound smallies on Sweet Beaver watermelon and Robo Ox blood red flake and People Worms dropshot. Rico's were hot in the early morning and jigs were doing well back in Arroyo Grande arm.

Friday, July 21st, 2006

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 82 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Up at Castaic 9:30 - 6:00. Hot few breezes. Not much action until after lunch. Thunderstorm clouds later in day. Kept throwing the ol' white spinnerbait, didn't even tie on any soft plastics. Quite a bit of bass chasing shad all over the lake. Did best near main lake shorelines. Storm wind was from north in P.M. Able to 'cast to boils' then wham!! Went over to Firebreak Cove and caught 4 3 lbers casting to boils. Ended up with total of 8 bass mostly chunky 3 lbers. Caught a couple small stripers too. Have Fun out here !!
      City: Oak Park

      Tips: Bass chasing shad/fry pattern ... best near grass beds and main lake shorelines. Spinnerbait still working pretty good.

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: started off cranking rocky ponit,had 1 about 6 & 3 went over to piney point & cranked up 4 more all about 4 pounds left by 10am great morning
      City: bakersfield

      Tips: crawdad cranks

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The word here is CRAPPIE at night under the lights on red/white mini jigs also nice trout are also hitting thoughs same mini jigs. bass are on the short side 10 to 14 inche fish are common with very few going to 3 pounds. most bass are in 4 to 20 feet of water jigs brushogs senko's will all catch theses fish.TRAFFIC IS LIGHT BUT HEAVIER ON WEEKEND WITH WATER SKIERS. Hit the tower for some nice crappie to a pounds trout are going up to 17 inches. Lights are a must if you want to land these fish.559-673-5151
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: RED/WHITE MINI JIGS BOTH TROUT/CRAPPIE JIGS SENKO'S BRUSHOGS FOR BASS.

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 74.9

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Last weekend to pre-fish for the 22nd Open Tourney .

      5:45AM launch and we headed to the walls and points just to the north of the marina entrance. Some light wind but the weather is warm. Hit some decent larges on Rico's, sammies, pop r's and Z-pop's and a few Strike King blades but nothing over 12 inch. Headed towards the dam area and got into some smallies on drop shot and cranks. Eased off and headed towards Vasquez and found a [sweet spot] I wont brag about and hit a 5-8 and a 4-6 on a peoples worm within 5 minutes and 100 feet of each other. OK -- Time to leave this sweet spot alone until this weekend . Finally -- An afternoon bite location that will work for sure!
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Picked up a few smallies that were 'spittin' up craws when I was removing hooks... Keep that one in mind.. People worms and a Summer Shad Robo worked. Lots of smaller larges feeding on top at Vasquez ientrance on the points. Huge amounts of shad in the area!

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

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      Water Temp: 82 to 84

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The word here is smallier bass in the 10 to 14 inch range. Senko's jigs and brushogs also are working here very lite traffic for fishing. Ive been hitting the tower at night for crappie under the lights and some nice fish been caught up to a pound also trout are hit red/white mini jigs along with the crappie and the trout are between 14 and 17 inches. Nite fishing is also hit and miss here also lake is still very full. park number 559-673-5151
      City: kerman ca

      Tips: Early morning and late evening bite are best.

Monday, July 10th, 2006

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Don't remember what the water temperature was but got in the water at 5:45 am and cranked on the main. Hooked first two fish with a crankbait within 5 minutes. Cranked again in Windy Gap but no takers. Went to a senko and found lots of small fish up to 11 inches. Went up river by 10:00 am and this time threw a darterhead 1/8 oz. shad color 4 inch worm. Shook darter head first two cast and lot two fish up to 2 pounds. My buddy also lost two fish a few minutes later in the same range. All together had about 50+ fish but all small ones. Nothing big. Seen a few 5 to 6 pounders breaking top water but couldn't get them with top water popr's at noon.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Should've top water early until 7:00 am but didn't do it. I will be there again in a couple weeks to try different things.

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

  • San Diego County
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      Water Temp: don't know

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fishing the narrows with big worms and 25oz parrelling the north side casting at a10-11 oclock angle stuck and landed 3 to 7lbs missed a bully.
      City: escondido

      Tips: watch me on sundays!

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      Water Temp: 74.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Early launch and hit Whittenburg reeds for a morning hit. Was totally shut off! Everyone we chatted with said the same. Was a tough day. Hit the walls to the east just north of the marina inlet and hit a nice 4# on dropshot but other than that it was a very slow day.
      City: Santa Maria

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The spinnerbait was a 3/8 oz willowleaf silver&gold combo made by FISH-ON TACKLE Ghost minnow was the skirt color.
      City: kerman ca.

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      Water Temp: 82 to 84

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Traffic was heavy during the weekend but the nite fishing was good. We started at 5pm saturday and fished till midnite.The bigger bass come on blades made by FISH-ON tackle and the color pattern was goast in 3/8 oz silver and gold combo and its great spinnerbait to throw. The bass were holding on rock piles and i had some nice bass to 3 pounds.The smaller bass were caught on jigs and were in the 10 to 13 inch range. then after dark we move to the tower and setup are crappie lights and within 15 minutes or so we started catching crappie and trout. The crappie were up to a pound and the trout were between 14 to 17 inchs long all caught on red/white mini jigs. They both came in 15 to 25 feet of water. LAKES FULL PARKING IS LIMITED 559-673-5151
      City: kerman ca.

      Tips: Evening bite has been better than the morning and crappie and trout under the lights traffic is heavy on weekends and parking is limited

Friday, July 7th, 2006

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 80 Degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Castaic Friday 9:30 - 5:30. SW Winds 20mph forecasted never happened. Some breezes. Stuck with spinnerbait fishing all day. Ended up with 7 keepers. 2 - 4 lb, 3 - 3 lb., 2 - 2lb. These fish were a lot meaner than what I have been catching past few weeks. Thought they were all stripers the way they hammered the s.b. and tore off toward parts unknown. All caught on white skirt silver willow leaf.
      City: Oak Park

      Tips: Fish main lake wind blown shorelines and 'cups' that make easy ambush locations for bass. Didn't have much luck in backs of coves. Also, target stick ups near off color water. If you see fry jumping around you are in a good spot. Have fun!!