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Friday, June 15th, 2001

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

      Report: Got started about 4:30 p.m. SLOOOWWWW Start. Finally got one ish about 7:30 on a drop shot 1 1/2 or so. Only stuck one more on a buzzbait. I had a bad evening, riend had a better one, but also commented on the declining bite. The ramps are ridiculous with the Skier types. I wish the rangers would start ticketing all those double-parking jerks in the parking lot. Those A&%$%&&^ need to learn how to drive, park launch, recover, etc. their damn boats. One guys took about 10 minutes and about 6 tries to get his boat on....with help. ARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Stay away during the daytime, it'll drive you crazy on the ramp.

Sunday, June 10th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught a lot o little dinks back in the Arroyo Grande arm(back under the bridge) on cranks and spinners. Some o these were almost smaller than the lure...I'm supprised that they would even try to eat it! Only caught one decent size and that was on a 4" purple power worm in a cove opposite Cottonwood Cove. Spent most o the time trying to ind pockets away rom the wind which was blowing all day.
      City: Santa Maria

      Tips: Be prepared or wind!!

Saturday, June 9th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 72 to 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ishing was tough, kern county bassmasters were there, took 20 lbs to win. caught 5 keepers on cranks o main lake points. in 14 to 18 t. water
      City: tehachapi

      Tips: be ready or the wind

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hey ysidro you need to start posting those reports. dont be so tight with the ino. leggo my senko
      City: visalia

Thursday, June 7th, 2001

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: pulled onto the water at 5:30, immediately started catching ish at horse creek split shotting. ished until 10:30 and had 26 ish. between mysel and my partner our best 5 were nearly 16 lbs. previous week i boated a 9.04 and 2 that were 3.5. i'm making a lot o casts and covering a lot water.
      City: cutler

Tuesday, June 5th, 2001

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nice weather, but a hanging low pressure on the lake all day really slowed down the action. Small plastics worked or just 4 ish rom 8am to 1:30pm. Whew! It was tough going! It seems as long as you can arrive on a nice steady air pressure day the ishing does well. It became dangerously windy out there rom 1:00pm on rom the ski arm and I'm sure some olks were sweating bullets trying to get thier boats in on the east ramp!
      City: Los Angeles

      Tips: The water or the irst part o the day is extermly clear and you can see some rather large ish near shore but with that low pressure present it WILL be tough going or you! Live bait might help in these tough conditions. Lite line is a MUST!

Friday, June 1st, 2001

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

      Report: City: marina del ray

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake, launched at about 12pm and let about 4pm. The wind was really a battle. We had a great time ishing. We caught one over ive pounds, one just short o 4 pounds and several just over 3 pounds, all largemouths. All but one on jigs and one crankbait ish on a crawdad patterned at ree shad. The ish were all at and healthy. We ished mostly main lake points, I could really learn to love this lake

      Tips: Jigs around rocky points.

Wednesday, May 30th, 2001

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 74-76 DEG'S

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: iT WAS AN AWESOME night. Got up at around 5:30 and stuck ish rom the irst cast to 8:30 at night. My 6th ish was a big 81/2-9lbs easy and she was barely hooked on her jaw and she saw the boat and ran like hell and my jig poped ree. Caught ish later on topwater till dark 2-3 lbs.
      City: Visalia

Saturday, May 26th, 2001

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      Water Temp: ambient 83 arhe

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A riend and I were using "Smirnho clear" with red,silver and blue large lake.We only caught 4 ish between the both o us by 12 noon (texas rigged.) Then we switched to oxblood drop riggers and caught over 15 dinky bass and my riend caught a 7.2 and were very close to keeping it.
      City: Fort Bragg/Mendocino

      Tips: Bring a digital camera,the right tackle and the proper rations or a good trip.

Friday, May 25th, 2001

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the lake rom shore 5/16-5/18. caught 4 very nice white bass, 2-4 lbs!in the early evening o 16th. The rest o the time I played around with the spots, all small, 13 inches the largest.Spots caught on various 4 inch worms. The lure o the trip though was a 1/2 oz Kastmaster! Caught all white's and a couple o spots on it.
      City: santa cruz

      Tips: White's just move around the whole lake, spots are near any cover.

Thursday, May 24th, 2001

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 75-79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 7:00 to 4:00. Five ish total 2lber biggest. Three largemouth and two smallmouth. Fished brush and overhanging bushes on main lake and Harris creek. Missed a couple with spinnerbait on mudlines and lukes on north end.Hey, lego my pink senko.
      City: Salinas

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2001

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched at 5:15am, caught three ish. largest going 7lbs. caught everything on watermelon candy brush hog. in about 10eet o water.
      City: milpitas

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 78-81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 6:00 irst stop was in Kincave cove and hit a ew to two pounds on a pop-r Fished a yamamoto jig and caught a couple more. Fished near the towers and the bass were chasing shad on top and a spinner bait drove them crazy the ising slowed down a bit around 9 AM but driting near the towers with the yamaoto jig caught one near 5 pounds the rest o the day was slow with a ew dinks in the trees at both ends o the lake.
      City: bakersield

Monday, May 21st, 2001

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

      Report: Started at irst light. Went straight to power lines. Fish busting surace all over. Partner immediately had one swirl on buzz bait but did not hook up. I threw a blade or a short period with several short strikes. Switched to Pop-R's and started reelin' 'em in. Had a blast catching ish up to 2 lbs. Moved to eagle's nest to try some ish that partner knew o. It was covered with boats rom Visalia Club tourney. So we moved to rip rap at bridge as next option. Cranked and drop shotted. No takers. Went back to eagles nest ater it cleared. No hits. By this time sun was up high. Went to docks and started "strokin" em. Nice ish 2 lbs plus. Skipping plastics as ar back into docks and under pontoons as possible. Partner had a nice 5 to 6 pounder break him o. Picked up a couple more drop shotting the dam around noon. Pulled o at 1:30.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Don't miss the top water bite in the early morning on the grassy North side. Pop'rs with a slower cadence. Ater Sun gets high, move to docks skipping plastics in the shade and hold on. Fish hitting immediately on drop. I no takers, pick up and skip again. Don't waste time working bait.

Sunday, May 20th, 2001

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

      Report: See Casitas Lake report.
      City: los angeles

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We did pretty good at Lopez using topwater poppers, Zoom Super Flukes(Babybass color) and Senkos. The lake was pretty crowded on Saturday with theWON tournament but we were able to take a ew. In act, we took a coupleright behind one o the tourney anglers o a point by the swimbeach.We probably caught around 12 or the three day just ishing a couple o hours each day. All seemed very healthy and at.
      City: Santa Maria

Saturday, May 19th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We did pretty good at Lopez using topwater poppers, Zoom Super Flukes(Baby bass color) and Senkos. The lake was pretty crowded on Saturday with the WON tournament but we were able to take a ew. In act, we took a couple right behind one o the tourney anglers o a point by the swimbeach...check out the picture! We probably caught around 12 or the three day just ishing a couple o hours each day. All seemed very healthy and at.
      City: Santa Maria

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      Water Temp: about 70s

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The ish were moving around and me and my dad got there about 8:30. Ran in to two rattlers ,but got ishing and I pulled three dincks then casting a meps no.1 red and white. I pulled in a 3 pounder and it was strong , but pulled in with 4lb line.
      City: Riverdale CA

      Tips: I think spinners and worms are the best bet but try every thing.

Friday, May 18th, 2001