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Wednesday, May 16th, 2001

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 68+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED LAKE HARD OFF AND ON FOR A DAY AND A HALF.CAUGHT OVER 50+FISH.SOME TOP WATER,A FEW CRANK FISH,BUST MOST OF ALL,4"PLASTIC WORMS.(any color)ONLY TWO SMALLIES CAUGHT,AND ONE WHITE BASS.THE REST WERE SPOTS.POUND AND HALF WAS THE AVERAGE.
      City: VISALIA

      Tips: FISH THE DOCKS,AND ALSO ROCK POINTS.5 TO 30 FEET DEEP.ANY COLOR PLASTIC,4".

Friday, May 11th, 2001

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

      Report: Got there about 7:00 a.m. Hardly a soul on the lake and it was glass lat. Parked at the marina and hooed it over to the dam. Caught 15 to 20 ish by 11:00 a.m. when it got too hot. Most ish were 1lb. to 2lbs. Had a couple on that would go 4 or 5 but they came unbottoned. Was sightishing till the sun got really high. Lots o bass ry in the rocks getting chased by bigger ish. Couldn't catch ish on topwater or cranks though. All ish came on 3" to 6" plastics in 1t. to 20t. o water.
      City: Los Angeles

      Tips: As suspected bigger baits seemed to attract the bigger ish.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went up today and had a pretty good start, but it didnt end up that way. the wind started howling just ater sun down. it was pretty bad,whitecaps and all. we lost our patients at about 9 or so, so we let. all together i think we caught 7 or so and lost a couple. one might have been a bigger ish couldnt tell. it had weight but it wasnt ighting untill it got to the boat and then it tugged real hard and came unbuttoned. this ish was hooked on a brown jig with a grub trailer on the dam. the rest were caught on rubber worms. we only ished or about 2 and a hal total. so it wasnt that bad i guess. see you up there. catch and release.
      City: visali

      Tips: most o our ish came right beore dark back towards horse creek. i the wind dies down the night ishing might kick in

  • Nassau County
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      Water Temp: 81

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with a buddy ater work, got on the water about 4:00. He stuck a nice 4 pounder right o the bat drop shotting a drop rom 3 to 15 t. Then we ished the trees in the north end, nothing. Went to some riprap and caught a ew more, about 2 pnd average. Kinda slow. Last hal hour o light and hal hour into dark we sat on the same spot we started on and caught about 15-20 ish, all about 2 pnds. They had moved up onto the lat. Strong ish, some ooled us into believing they were bigger, good little ighters.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: With the water temp so high, we thought we could get a reaction bite going....NOT. Went to dropshoting and it was only a pressure bite, rod just loaded up.

Monday, May 7th, 2001

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took the wie out, got there irst light. Central Valley was having a tournament so the ramp was pretty busy. Headed out beore the crowd. The wie caught one blade ish right o, then nothing else on that spot. Went to the next and OH YEAH!!!! Stuck a 12 pnd 9 onc PIG on my splitshot rig, 8 pound test!!!! She was still ull o eggs. Took her to Sierra Bait & Tackle or an oicial weight, then brought her back to the spot and let her go. She was strong and healthy. The rest o the day was just O.K., about ive more ish, two pound average. Only took 11 1/2 to win that tourney. Some one o these days I stick ish like that in a tourney!!!
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Despite what I heard rom riends, I don't think most o the ish have spawned. Fish the transition spots SLOWWWW.

Saturday, May 5th, 2001

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

      Report: On water at 5:45am. Noticed water level up several eet rom last Saturday. Lake at nearly ull pool. Bite really dropped o rom last weekend. Had to work hard and SLOW down to scrap out about 10 ish. No size. As sun came up, learned o trout derby in progress Sat & Sun. Trollers all over the lake. Felt like a lab rat running the maze to get across the lake in/out o trollers.Let at 3:00pm.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Let the trout anglers have the lake Sunday. Bite should turn by mid week.

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      Water Temp: 60-65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: lots o ish seen jumping in south ork,not many cought,looks like they are starting to move in

  • Tulare County
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ALL IN ALL PRETTY GOOD AFTERNOON.CAUGHT SEVERAL NICE SPOTS AROUND DAM AREA.4"GREEN WEENIE WORMS.NO LARGE MOUTH TO SPEAK OF.GOT ON SPOTTED BASS PATTERN AND STUCK WITH IT.GOOD FISH'IN,TODD BABBP.S.RELEASED ALL FISH!!!!!
      City: VISALIA

      Tips: 15 TO 25 FEET OF WATER,ON THE BOTTOM,ALL ON 4"WORMS.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 67 to 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Three o us ished rom one end o the lake to the other or one week.The spots were hitting any brown plastic worm or tube bait near the rocks. The whites were hard to ind and Corkey wasn't telling where he ound his ish. We ound the whites around Bee rock and cove down deep. Work white,yellow and green grubs on the bottom and pick up the big ones. P.S. dont ask Corkey.

Monday, April 30th, 2001

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished two days rom sunup to 2:00. caught 5 largemouth, all 2-2.5 lbs., along shore west o marina, on watermelon spider jigs and a 3# on 4" weenie. ound little activity in coves on this side o lake. next day ished harris creek and ound nothing. went to blus on main lake near the dam and caught 4 smallies on a yamamoto grub and a 3# smallie on a salt'n pepper spider jig. also caught a 3.5# largemouth and a ew smaller ones in a couple coves near the blus on grub/darterheads.
      City: paso robles

Sunday, April 29th, 2001

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Well, there's good news and bad news. The good news is anyone can catch ish just walking the bank still. The bad news is the bigger ish have moved out to deeper water now. For some reason they have really dropped the water level way too ast and too soon given the time o year! In just this last week the lake has dropped another 10 t. I hope the ry get to hatch beore the eggs ind themseleves rying in the sun! Mysel and one riend caught 9 ish but they were smaller males in the 1 to 2 lbs class. I your in a boat I would say, be on guard, I saw some very careless driving with skiers in tow!! And summer has'nt even started yet!! Good luck!
      City: los Angeles

      Tips: Once again the best bite was early in the a. m. By 11:00amthe bite starts to die o. We used nightcrawlers and small plastics. The boat traic is really up, which will create mudlines, which in turn will be an advantage later this summer. Were getting to the "post spawn" stage already and it's going to slow down or a while.

Saturday, April 28th, 2001

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught good numbers, decent size. About 35-40 ish between the two o us. Biggest was a 3 lb. largemouth, rest o the ish were spots between 13-16 inches. Had some reaction ish at irst light on a Pointer. Switched to split/drop shotting and throwing senkos on rocks and docks. Didn't see any shallow ish, but heard that a guy rom the Clovis club tourney caught a nice one sight ishing. Big girls will be up soon.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Stay away rom the lake, I want it to mysel!!!!!

Friday, April 27th, 2001

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: NICE DAY FISH WITH JIG BRN-ORANGE/WITH CRAWDAD TRAILER,SPINNERS,SENKOS AND THE OLD STANDER S/SHOOTING. NO BIG FISHTODAY ALL MY FISH WHERE ABOUT 2#+.THE FISH AROUND THE BACK WHERE VERY SPOKKEY. AS SOON BAITHIT WATER THEY WILL SPLIT ALL OVER.
      City: FRESNO

      Tips: FISH BERRY SLOW AND MAKE YOUR PRESENTATION QUIETLEE. IF FISHGET SPOKKEY LET LINE LOOSE AND BACK BOAT. WATCH YOUR LINE.

Thursday, April 26th, 2001

  • San Bernardino County
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the rocky points with crankbaits and worms in the early aternoon. Caught 12 bass, 5 in the 2 to 4 pound range. Spoke to Fish and Game guys and they said the Bass population is still less than 50% recovered rom the draw-down. Still, one o the better days o ishing on this lake in a long time.
      City: Rancho Cucamonga

Tuesday, April 24th, 2001

  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: LOW 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WHEN TO CHECK OUT SPAWING FISH. THE BITE WAS GOOD ALOT OF2#-3#, 2 OVER 10#. LIZARD/WHITE TEXAS RIG, BRN/ORANGE JIG WITHCRADAD TRAILER. SWALLOW TO 5'. DARREN YOU MISSED A GOOD BITE. WHERE YOU BEAN HOMBRE.GOING BACK ON FRIDAY.
      City: FRESNO

      Tips: MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD PAIR OF GLASSES. PUT YOUR TROLLING MOTOR DOWN QUIETLY AND ON NUMBER 1 OR 2.

Monday, April 23rd, 2001

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Someone caught a new WORLD RECORD Spotted Bass,10.48lbs..
      City: Sacto.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the bite was slow i tossed a bunch o plugs with no luck. i got bored and started split shotting and caught a ew the biggest weighing about three pounds.
      City: clovis

      Tips: ish shallow arund coves try salt and pepper grubs

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

  • Los Angeles County
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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Once again, here's the report or anyone walking the bank. The ish are still on the spawn and are in close or now. The un part is you can score on a big ish i you just keep casting! Mysel and two riends ished rom 10am until 2pm ( I know, I know, very late start) with the best part o the bite in the irst hour. We scored a dozen ish with the big ish o the day scored by my riend Joe at a even 5lbs, nice ish! Once the water started to dirty up( in the hot summer that's a good thing ) rom all the boats zooming around, (which had to be about a million!) the bite died o
      City: Los Angeles

      Tips: Once again, we opted or most o the day to use live nightcrawlers and lite line. Most people I saw were making one mistake out there. You HAVE to move your rig along the bottom!! You won't do very well just throwing your worm out and just sitting there! See you on the bank!

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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Another cold storm ront blew thru. Only managed to catch 1 legal bass and 3 dinks. All on 4" plastic worms. The highlight o my trip though, was my trout ishing riend managed to catch his irst bass. It was also a dink, but it was a bass. That made my day!!!
      City: Santa Maria

Friday, April 20th, 2001

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

      Report: Well besides getting rained on me and my partner Dusty had a pretty good day o ishing. We started throwing T.D. minnows and 4" rogues along the banks and really had un we caught alot o ish with several short strikes. Probably could o caught 100 ish i we would o thrown split shots but oh well. Caught are better ish shaking watermellon red lake baby brush hogs and 6" worms. Most o are worm ish were caught rom 1 to 15 eet with the better ish coming in the 10 to 15 range.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Most o are worm ish came out o B-rock and alot o are jerk bait ish were caught in Los Tablos in the back channel. T.D. color was gold and silver and the Rogue was black silver and orange. Good Luck All!!!!1