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Friday, September 19th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water a little late @ 7:30 am. Went across to the rock wall and picked up a couple nice largemouth on a crankbait. That died right away so I switched to a spider grub and caught 10-12 ish in hal an hour right o the bank to 12'. It got tough when the sun came up. Managed 2 in the three pound range in 22' o water on the point beore greasy. Those bit a senko.
      City: Reedley

      Tips: I you have the patience, sink a senko deep, otherwise get on the water at irst light and ish shallow.

Thursday, September 18th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went up at about 6am and caught a ew on the damn. Went a ew other places, but nailed a bunch across rom the second ramp o the channel drop o. (11t to 25t) Let the lake at 12:30pm with only 40 ish to my credit. :)(I counted those babies, because I hate saying I stroked 40 ish and someone saying "Did you count?", so this time I can say I caught 40 ish..and yes i counted.)
      City: Tulare

      Tips: Drop shotting 4 1/2 inch worms, brown with a gree blood line and Bold Blue Gill. But I'm sure any green weenie or Aaron's Magic type will do.

Thursday, September 11th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 77-79 deg's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up around 5 pm and met Bill Reeves rom our bass club. Told him about some ish i have been catching and he and i did some drop-shoting or some at 11/2- 2 lbs. When the sun set we threw on some deep,deep runners, ones that go down to 20 eet. We just paralled the bank and caught some dinks at irst, but as it got darker it got better. By 8 pm we were catching some 2- 21/2 lbers and casting over each other really covering the shore. At 8:15 he throws out and sticks one at 11 lbs- 12 ounces. But as he got smacked i got one too around 4-5 lbs. Took some pics and let her go. Bills new record. Took some on plastics ater that but the bite is slowing way down.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Deep runners and dark plastics.

Saturday, September 6th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 76-79 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went up with my neighbor buddy dennis around 8 p.m. . Did not make the early bite like we had a couple days beore. Lots o people on houseboats and crappie ishermen. Threw crankbaits and caught a ew small ones. About 10 pm. switched to worms and started to hammer them. o-10 eet out. Around 11:15 hooked up with a 91/2 lber. Caught quite a ew 2-3 lbs and ished till 5 am. 50+ or the night.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Dark worms and light weight.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003

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

      Report: Good little aternoon bite hear. I've been ishing Castaic alot lately but did manage to get up hear last thurs. We thru spinnerbaits to outside weedlines and o colored water breaks w/ good sucees. a ew 3lbs and a bunch o 2lbs. Strippers were on almost every point even though we did not target them we did get a ew on rip baits. Castaic has been on ire during the day also been getting a couple ish over 6lbs almost every trip.
      City: Palmdale

      Tips: I am a licensed guide so eel ree to contact me w/ any questions. cory_dispensiero@yahoo.com I currently guide Castaic,Pyrmid,and San Vicente as will as a private lake

Friday, August 29th, 2003

  • Mohave County
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      Water Temp: 80'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Large and smallmouth bass have been a steady bite throughout the summer. Topwater actionin mornings and evenings. Average bass 1 to 1 1/2lb. larger bass are harder to locate. Bill Williams have been producing some occasional 3-5lb. bass. Striper's have been boiling o and on throughout summer, and now we're coming into the prime time (Sept.-Oct.). The boils will be going all day with the birds working them so keep an out or the birds diving.
      City: Lake Havasu

      Tips: Grass is high in backs o coves, working spinnerbaits, rogs, and pupish across the tops o the grass has been producing. Striper's: topwater(pupish, pencil poppers), trolling(sassy shad, rattle traps or topwater)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2003

  • Mohave County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing around incoming storms seems to be best bet or abundant action or bass and or bluegill or sunish. Best action on small plastics and small cranks in natural colors.
      City: Lake Havasu

      Tips: Best action in early morning or late aternoon.

Sunday, August 17th, 2003

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: this evening,rom 6.00 pm til 7.30 pm,they bold again,rom cantias to christmas tree cove.white bass and spotted bass.top water plugs and kast-masters.we must have caught over 70 ish in less than 1 hour.i you can get hear,you must come.godbless bears93426
      City: oak-shores

      Tips: poppers and kastmaster

Thursday, August 14th, 2003

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: its back,the good old days,white bass boling or 1/8 o a mile in main lake.just beore you get to the 5 mph bouys and christmas tree cove,or over an hour o hard hitting bites.catch a white on avery cast,start around 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm.what aday.ish don,t even care about boats going by.god bless,bears93426
      City: oak shores

      Tips: poppers

Tuesday, August 5th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: on the water by 530 pm or a evening/night bite. the bite was wide open. probably 40+ ish by by dark. alot o 2 lbers. the spots seem to be lourishing as o late. quality and quantity. the bite stayed solid till the sun went down. then it slowed quite a bit. not sure o the exact time but sometime just ater dark i had an awsome battle with a huge ish. Tap.....Tap no, more o a thump....thump, i set, and it was on like donkey kong. ater a couple jumps and a couple heart attacks and what seemed like an eternity she was netted. "damn thats a huge ish." says james. a scale and a ew pics later she was set ree. the scale said 8.8 but man she looked like 12 to me. anyways we had several ater dark but it was much slower.
      City: visalia

      Tips: the ish were in 1" to 12'. right up on shore. 6" hand poured.

Friday, July 25th, 2003

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Tried soaking anchovies or striper in the morning with no luck. Started looking deep into coves. Saw many bass stacked up deep in coves. Some bass still showing "spawn-like" behavior, aggressively chasing anything that swims into their area, except my bait. Tried worms and grubs and got them to look hard but they would not take it. Can someone help me?? What else could I try to make them bite? Managed to scratch one small bass on a purple worm.
      City: La Crescenta

      Tips: Back in the coves, you need to use some sort o plastic due to all the underwater grass. Cast and retrieve is no good.

Saturday, July 19th, 2003

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing around 4:00pm and caught 5 dinks within a hal hour. Started to rain and the wind picked up making ishing a little hard. Fished the dead trees at the north end and greasy cove. Had better luck in the trees at the north end. Fish were biting on yamamoto grubs. 10"-13" dinks, but a lot o un. Let at dark catching a total o 13 ish.
      City: Porterville

      Tips: Yamamota grubs! make sure they are weedless because there are a lot o trees under water.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The pleasure boaters had the lake turned upside down Saturday evening. I could not ind one spot to mysel, let alone a prime one. It would have been easier to ish in the middle o a Navy battle. They have zero respect or ishermen and others just taking it easy.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Bring back the white bass and get rid o the idiots.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived at lake around 5:30a.m.Went to greasy cove and started ishing top water plugs. Caught several, all small.Let early due to water skiers and the heat.
      City: visalia

      Tips: water dropping ast.I think the night ishing would produce bigger ish,and be alot more peaceul and cooler. Any one looking or a beautiul 2000 Nitro boat or sale loaded and ready to go, contact me.559-733-4468

Friday, July 11th, 2003

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tried the ull moon and had a great time.Basically caught ish rom time we arrived(7:30p.m.) until 1:30a.m. Caught mostly spots, but landed bigger large mouth in the 2lb.+ range.Caught all the ish in windy gap.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Most ish caught on plastics,a ew came on a black spinner bait.I you weren't bit with in a ew eet o the bank, reel it in and cast right up against the bank again.Fish rocky banks mixed with sand.

Monday, July 7th, 2003

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got out to the lagoon early! Split shotted 4" oxbloods in shallow water. Ater a good two hours no bites. I went to deeper water where there was still hydrilla alomost at the top o the water. I threw a Robo kicker craw and just started busting bass out the weeds. Full limit in 1 hour with a 7lb bass to top all my ive ish.
      City: Granda Hills

      Tips: Fish your plastics "dead slow". Try a 4" bold bluegill kicker craw rom Robo. I you have live shad your getting wide open!!!

Sunday, July 6th, 2003

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: brian reader does it again,ishing was slow,but he had mind set to ish spinner-bait.he got a 2.5 cat-ish on a worm,o los tables island.then we went to raider point and he got a 2.2 bass on the spinner-bait.getting dark so we went to cantias creek.he throw up by some habitat and got his biggest bass this year.5.5 large-mouth.we had to take pictures,it was dark now,great job,god bless bears93426
      City: oak shores

      Tips: top-water spinner-baits 3" grubs on dartheads

Tuesday, July 1st, 2003

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished or a week straight 6-22 thru 6-29. I only ished the irst three hours o the morning each day. The bite was not wide open like I expected it to be. No topwater! It was steady or ish, but you had to work or them. The water is way way down and it seems all the good wood is out o water, also some o the good rocky banks are out o water. I tried a dierent area o the lake every day and learned a lot about spots I usually don't ish. From what I ound, the Narrows seems to be the best spot this time o year and with the water way down. I was texas rigging Aarons Magic worms and getting a lot o nice spots. I don't know why the topwater wasn't going?? I also got some on crawdad cranks. The water dropped about 2 vertical eet while we were there.
      City: San Clemente

      Tips: Texas rig 4 1/2" worms on rocks.

Sunday, June 29th, 2003

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      Water Temp: 65+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught two smaller bass let o the boat dock, towards the dam on green 5" senkos. all were sight ishing near the weeds.
      City: Rancho Santa Fe

Saturday, June 28th, 2003

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish were holding tight to the bushes and trees along the shorelines Red seemed to be the color. caught only 3 my partner caught 10 lots o boat traic

      Tips: split shot 6" red worms