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Saturday, October 30th, 2004

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Braved the cold Sat nite. Got out at 11:45PM. Man was it cold. No one was out on the lake. The fishing was hot! Great blade bite on the dam. Slow roll about 4 feet from shore & wham, they were hitting it hard. No big fish, our best went 4.1lb. but it sure was fun. 14 other keepers 15-17 inches & about 20 dinks. Colder water makes them strong.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Cast spinnerbait about 4 feet from shore & slow roll her bumping the bottom. Hold on or the fish will rip your rig out of your hands!

Friday, October 29th, 2004

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

      Report: very slow day for stripers,,my son caught one striper in the marina area, nothing in yellow bar or at the the dam,,,,we caught three large mouth and one smallie, and a limit of trout each. we fished about five hours.
      City: bakersfield

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

  • Tulare County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Rick probably took lessons from Frank Kaiser!
      City: Visalia

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The water is extremely dirty from the recent rain runoff. The largemouth fishing was very slow. A couple of nice fish on jigs. The striper fishing is great with fish averaging 2 to 5 lbs. I threw topwater, senkos, spinnerbaits. All produced good quality Stripers. I stumbled onto the Stripers while fishing for Largemouth.

      Tips: The Stripers are everywhere. From the shore to the middle of the lake. Throw a Senko right on the shore and you'll get fish. I'm sure all of the traditional Striper baits should work as well. I saw people hooking up throwing white Striper jigs .... Good fishing....

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

  • San Diego County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Great fishing at lake Hodges today. I caught twelve bass this morning fishing from shore with jerkbaits, blades, and texas rigged creature baits. my biggest one today was about 6 lbs caught on a creature bait. caught all of them shallow 2-8 feet of water. All of them were in the shallow trees, and grass not many on the rip-rap.
      City: Vista

      Tips: fish the vegetation with blades thats what caught most of my fish.

Sunday, October 17th, 2004

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

      Report: went to lake siverwood on sunday hoping for some stripers. it was pooring rain and very windy. we tried everything but no luck. only a bunch of real small ones.
      City: twentynine palms

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 66-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water around 6:45 a.m. Headed to Greasy Cove. My buddy Todd got the first fish on a 4" smoke texas rigged in about 4' of water. Fish were few and far between. Saw shad but nothing chasing them. Tried throwing a crank and a jerk, but nothing. Switched to a 6" Roboworm Margarita Mutilator color, texas rigged with a 2/0 bleeding red hook. Fish responded with a few more bites. Ended up getting 5 small fish to my partner's 4, SORRY TODD.....It was a beautiful day on the water for this time of year. Had a lot of fun. Even over the bitchin' of my partner saying that I back ended him all day and had him fishing for birds in the trees he was so close to the bank....."Face it son, I finally beat you...FAIR AND SQUARE!!!!"....Let me enjoy it for once cause it'll probably never happen again!
      City: Atascadero

      Tips: Fish slow....wait for 'em to take it cuz there's a lot of small fish just playing....not really committing to much at all....still a lot of fun just being able to fish in shorts this time of year....

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished for Crappie in the morning with the man and the geez.. Almost limited out in 4 hrs at the marina. Bite was slow and light. The average guy may have been skunked! Fish were caught on a white dipsy-doo. Had to put some fish in the freezer before winter. Also witnessed a guy hual in a 17lb Cat.
      City: Bakersfield

      Tips: Use light line and light action because the bite is LIGHT!

Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

  • San Diego County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Guys I Was Wndering If There's Any Shore Fishing A@ Night @ This Lake... I Would Like to fish this lake @ night cause sounds like the fishing is verr good at night?...so please if any one can help me ?... i would like to know the deal about night fishing @ this lake....
      City: La Ca

      Tips: Thank You...E-MAIL'S Welcome NickJewLa@Aol.Com

Sunday, October 10th, 2004

  • Washoe County
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: that lake does not produce bass maybe 1lber's
      but over all it sucks there aren't different
      structures to fish it's all the same . anyhow
      all we caught where 3 1lbers
      City: BAKERSFIELD

      Tips: maybe try fishing the shadie areas that we missed

Saturday, October 9th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went fishing Thursday oct. 7th late afternoon caught 3 fish between 3 to 3.5lbs. my partner lost a huge fish @ the boat on a jig. We caught plenty of small ones on plastics, majority of the fish were caught in the back 5mph zone. best times were at dark and after dark.
      City: sanger

      Tips: catch and release!

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: 70+/-

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Some friends took me to a spot on the east side of the lake off the shore. We caught a 18 inch striper, 17 inch large mouth and a 17 inch trout in 1-2 hours on crankbait near floating plants.
      City: moreno valley

Friday, October 8th, 2004

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

      Report: Went in the afternoon. Caught a lot of little fish on RattleTraps and Senkos. Caught two in the 15 inch range in 20 feet of water on a shad colored Rattletrap.
      City: Three Rivers

      Tips: Anything that looks like a shad will work. Senkos produce a lot of small bass in the 10 to 12 inch range.

Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: took the old man for the day.did not get on the water till about 11:00,he does not like to get up early,went to las tables whats left of it.like the report from ken the best method was to shake small worms.we cought most of ours though around what floating docks and pontoon boats we could find.he did catch two largemouth and one was as easy 3lber which is real hard to find in this lake.when we call it a day here we just troll back for white bass and we cought quite a few nothing to bid 1.5-2.0 lb average.as usual though and it is october during the week the jetskies and skiers out number the fishermen 10 to 1.this poor lake and they are allmost done with the new ramp a four lane with new parking lot will make it a complete zoo this summer dont even bother going.although all the bouldres around it for erosion will make a good spot to fish.
      City: salinas

Sunday, October 3rd, 2004

  • Washoe County
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: What a day!!!! Caught only 6 fish all morning, but they were all between 3 and 7 pounds. The six fish had a total weight of 22# 8 oz. Try split shotting 10 inch berkely worms. Soft bites so be ready.
      City: Bakersfield

Friday, October 1st, 2004

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

      Report: Fished at the dock using frozen anchovies doused with fish attractant. Let it drop to the bottom then brought up about 6 inches. Got bites all day and ended up with 9 fish. All in all a fun day, with the wind not getting too bad.
      City: Alta Loma

      Tips: Anchovies are the hot ticket item

Monday, September 27th, 2004

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 69 TO 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED THE FISHING ARM,LOTS OF BOILS THREW A ZOOM SUPERFLUKEAT BOILS CAUGHT 6 2 TO 4 LB FISH. SHIFTED TO A CLEAR SPOOK AND CAUGHT 3 NICE FISH IN THE 4 TO 6 LB CLASS. IT WAS A GREAT DAY
      City: PASADENA

      Tips: FLUKES AND CLEAR SPOOKS OVER GRASS AND BOILS

Saturday, September 25th, 2004

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started crankin the rip-rap on engineer point at day break. 1 keeper and 1 short. Ran to Orricks and headed north crankin the edge of the canal. no takers. Went over to rocky, still in the shade, and worked a rock pile with a t-rigged zoom u-tale in re-bug. nothing. Slowed way down with the t-rig and jig. Lake was dead flat. Beautiful morning. Headed toward camp 9 slowly casting to the largest trees. bam 5.4 on the worm. too many shore fisherman. Went out in the middle and threw a sb in the trees. 1 short. went home at 11am.
      City: Kernville

      Tips: The main launch ramp is in bad shape. the dock is completely out of the water. You can launch but nowhere to tie the boat up while you park. I'm going to try the launch ramp over by Reds marina next time.
      There is a giant rock just under the surface about 20 yds off shore....in front of the mobile home....toward camp nine.

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

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

      Report: Pre-fished on Fri and Sat for a club tourney on Sunday. Didn't get a keeper on Friday and not a bite on Sat. Tried everything. Was my 1st time here. There was another tourney Sat and just about every arewa had a boat on it. Sundays tourneys are always fishing 'used' water. Sun I started out on the East side of the lake on the cliffs and caught two, a black and a smallmouth. No reaction bite even though a lot of fish were rising to the surface. Went on main lake points and ended up culling three. Largest was a 4.65 black and 14.26 lbs total to take 1st place. Only two limits were brought in.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: use a dropshot on wind blown points

Friday, September 17th, 2004

  • Mohave County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CAUGHT 10 FISH WITH THREE KEEPERS, ALL THE KEEPERS ARE LONG AND SKINNY (17" @ 2.02# 13.5" @ 1.01# 13" @ 1.01.
      City: LA PUENTE