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Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son & I started the day way up the lake past the Narrows, in the very shallow upper end. It seemed every boat on the lake had the same idea so there was too much o a crowd or us. We had no luck there so we made ouy back down the lake. Everyone we saw was casting chartruese spinnerbaits to the shore. We had luck on dierent colored spinnerbaits out a distance rom the shore, on bass in 1.5 to 2# range. They were suspended over the weeds at 8-10' in water 16-18' deep. Also caught a 3# bass on a small silver spoon (Timber Doodle) tipped with a clear/sparkle plastic grub. That one came rom right at the shoreline in the Swimming Pool Cove. Fun ight since it was on ultralight tackle.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: We've had luck recently at Santa Margarita and other lakes (San Antonio and Casitas) using presentations very dierent rom what everyone else is using. The bass can really get conditionedrom seeing the same lure over and over again. For example, we've put our Chartruese and White spinnerbaits away or a while.

Sunday, May 2nd, 1999

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 64.5 - 64.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was okay at Nacimiento. Caught quite a ew ish, mostly spots using zoom superlukes around rocky steep shorelines. Also managed a couple on spider jigs. Fishing seemed toturn o in the middle o the day, most ish caught early and late. Tight lines, Kevin
      City: San Jose, CA

      Tips: Throw the Super luke around any kind o laydown or trees near shore and let it all into thecover.

Saturday, February 27th, 1999

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 54.3

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My ishing partner and I went down Saturday the 27th. For thewhole day, we landed over 40 ish! Nothing o size though.My 5 ish limit (released also!) was 6 lbs 14 oz. Biggest ishwas 1 lb 10 oz. 90% were spots only 4 small mouths. Caughtthem on just about everything. Early morning cranking a shadat rap in crayish colors, split shotting berkley power bait wormsin blue lec and purple, and green weenies. Also landed severalwith ootball jigs with brown skirt and orange yamamoto doubletail grubs. I even got one ish with a baby june bug brushhog. Fished main lake points with gravel bars in 15 - 25 oot
      City: Cupertino

      Tips: Pre stage patterns!

Sunday, February 14th, 1999

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      Water Temp: 46-47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: No wind on Sunday. Fished South Fork early. No good. Caught a 2 o o Rocky point shakin a worm in 20'. Two reinds caught an 8 lber. apiece on blades in Tilly Creek early.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: n/a

Friday, January 15th, 1999

  • San Luis Obispo County
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      Water Temp: 54-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Over the holiday weekends, some Bass-n-Tubes buddies o mine went & had a TIME @ Naci. Water temps were in themid-to-high 50's (as opposed to the *40's* up here at the Delta!). One Saturday -- 12/19, I believe -- Joe Puente caught a7lb.-4oz. Largemouth (!!!); then John Lake went back at 'em on Jan. 2 & caught a 6-lb.+ Spot -- a potential lake record! Ithink Eric H. also caught a 3-lb.+ smallmouth that same day. Storm Wiggle Warts, dartheaded worms & Carolina rigs seemedto be the ticket. Joe said he also caught a couple on the new Castaic crawish. They also caught *numbers* o ish, say 15-20ish or more, per day, per isherman (well, a couple o the other guys ishing with them might not have caught *quite* that many,but more than what most guys have been catching up north here lately!). That couple-hour's drive south can sure be worth it --especially when you get rustrated ishing or 6-8 hours at a time getting SKUNKED around here, like I have lately (around SanJose)! Oh, well, I'll get my chance soon: Nacimiento is the irst stop on the BASS-N-TUBES 1999 TOURNAMENT TRAIL-- a two day venture, Feb. 27-28. The balance o the schedule, which we just inalized this week, is as ollows: March 28: LakeBerryessa /// April 25: Pinto Lake (Watsonville) /// May 16: Lake Sonoma /// June 26-27: Delta - Middle River (2 days) /// July25: Pinto Lake /// August 22: Delta - Middle River /// Sept. 19: Woodward Reservoir (Oakdale) /// Oct. 9-10: Clear Lake (2days) /// Nov. 7: Los Banos Creek Reservoir. I you're interested in joining us, we'd be more than happy to have you! We're always looking or new aces! Call John Lake (408-263-6174) or Je Smith (408-224-9113) or details, or e-mail me rom here. It's *cheap* ($25 per tournament), *highly competitive*, and a heck o a lot o un! Do it, man! You'll be HOOKED, I promise! In the meantime, we'll see you at the Sportsmen's Expo in San Mateo, Feb. 3-7. Rip a Lip!
      City: San Jose

Sunday, January 3rd, 1999

  • Monterey County
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: A reind and I went down saterday and ished all day. We caught 7 ish all about three to three and one hal lb,s on jigs in 35t no bite to speek o gust elt heavy. next weekend will do better.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: In the winter you dont need anything but a 1/2oz jig to nail the ish at San Antonio!

Saturday, December 12th, 1998

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Dec. 12 with Golden Empire Bass Club. Tournament was won on jigs in 50 eet. Winner had 14 lbs. plus. Second place had 11 1/2 lbs. same thing. Third place had 8 lbs. 12 oz. split shotting reapers in 15 eet. I caught crank ish and split shot ish (crawdad).
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Lopez is a great winter lake. Fish jigs and cranks. Crank ish in Lopez arm and jig ish on the main lake points.

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  • Medeira County
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      Water Temp: 65.5 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: My friend Dan Gee and I caught some enormous bass yesterday off the Mokelumne River. His two biggest went 10 lbs 7oz and 6 lbs 13 oz. My biggest went 9lbs 11 oz. After we took pictures, We returned them to their waters so that they could spawn.
      City: Sacramento, CA

      Tips: Fish slow near deep water. Reaction baits aren't as good as old faithful plastic worm during the spawning season.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: um i love haters who cant fish and get their feelings hurt lol.. plus get ur facts straight world record spot is from ca.. from pine flat and its 10.27 pounds ...idiot
      the spots i caught were 20-25 inches so if a 25 inch spot isnt about 7lbs then i guess i dont fishing.
      City: fremont

      Tips: i fish about 8 times a month around california. north and south for 17years.. if you dont wanna take my word for it then so be it.. but dont waste my time saying i dont know what im talking about..losers.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: threw carolina bluue black flake senko 6:30 landed a 7 and a 9. around 7 i landed three fish around 3 lbs great day of fishing
      City: discovery bay

      Tips: spro frogs templeton

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: We celebrated our birthdays and 29th anniversary on Bass Lake in our brand new Bass Cat. It was slow but steady ishing. Kathy split shot a limit on Monday, I only managed 1, drop-shotting. Tuesday I caught 7 and Kathy caught 1. All o our ish came rom 27-32 eet o water, 30' being the "magic number". We ished some old outside stu that we haven't ished since '96 when we sold our Ranger. It was quiet, only 3 boats on the entire lake Monday, Tuesday there were maybe a dozen boats but most were trolling or trout, I love this lake! 6lb. P-Line, Robo Worms "Body Shad" (Aaron's Magic), and 1/4 oz. drop-shot and 3/8 oz. split-shot weights on #1 round-bend hooks. Had a blast, Pastor Will
      City: Atascadero

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ANYONE THAT PAYS THE OUTRAGEOUS FEES CHARGED AT THIS LAKE HAS THE RIGHT TO KEEP ANYTHING THAT THAT THEY CATCH WITHIN THE THE LAW.THIS APPLIES TO 13 INCH FISH AS WELL AS 13 POUND FISH.WHILE YOU AND I MIGHT CHOOSE TO RELEASE THE LARGER FISH,SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT NOT .GET OVER IT AND QUIT BITCHING.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: THis lake is great!
      City: Dublin

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Is this or bass lake Caliornia (near Oakhurst Ca?) or is there another more popilair bass lake in CAL?
      City: P

      Tips: my old ishing area

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      Water Temp: 77-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out early sunday morning had 3 nice topwater ish on Iovino splash-it.Ater the sun came up,went to the deep rocky stu.Drop shotted in 30 eet to get the better ish.anything shallower seemed to get the dinks.On Monday again started with the topwater but only had 1 on top.Again went out to 30 eet and got bit consistantly..No giants but a bunch o 1-2 pound ish. The best ish came on topwater 3 pounder.I was dropshotting 4"Iovino Fat boys in S1 and 4"Robos in Aarons Magic
      City: Burbank

      Tips: Fish topwater around small patches o weeds.Seemed to get bit better using a 18-24 inch seperation on the dropshot.

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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went ishing or the sleeper bass at "Bass Lake" on riday. There were only our boats on the lake; which was great. We went ater a cold ront which wasnt the smartest thing to do but hey what else is there to do on a day o. Located ish everywhere rom 18t. to 25t. My buddy and I caught 9 ish all together with about a two pound spot average. 5 on pig n jigs, 2 on a split shot worm (shad pattern and purple blue), 1 on shakin (purple blue), and 1 drop shotting (shad w/chartruce tail). The sun really didnt creep up over the mountains that day and the wind became vicious. I really had hoped to have a good day there because it was the irst time my buddy had been to the lake and o us that ish this lake we know that this lake can put out some quality and quanity. Another couple o weeks and this place should be boomin!
      City: Fresno

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: The ish there are biting on red colored jigs
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: Use red colors

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      Water Temp: 68-69 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished this lake all week, usually rom 5:30 AM to 11:00. No topwater action at all and some spinnerbait ish and crank ish could be caught early morning around weeds and rocks. Best bite though was on 1/8 oz dart heads and 4" shad colored worms o steep rocky points with some type o brush. Fish were caught rom 20-40'on these worms,shakin them and trying not to lose to many. Only had one ish all week on brass n glass. We caught a total o 60+ ish all week with many running rom 13-15" - 99% spotted bass. Bite usually shut down ater 9:00. No boat traic - NICE!! There was bait o these main lake points and that's where we ound the ish.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Be persistent - work that bait in and around the trees and bring lots o dart heads !!!

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: TOUGH!!! Started out trying to get a reaction bite. Partner got one about two pounds on a jerkbait o a allen tree, secondary point, about 8 t. Only ish or the trip except a crappie that was 1 1/2 pounds. SLAB!! Boat traic was minimal, the rangers have stopped enorcing the $50 ee now too.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Go somewhere else or now.

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      Water Temp: 54-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Friend had ive ish or 38 LBS the week beore sight ishing. He just missed the lake record with a 13.10.The rain brought the water up and stained it. The water temp dropped and the blacks went bye bye. Caught 35 spots rom 1.5 to 3lbs. All on split shot with green weenies. No reaction bite.
      City: HANFORD

      Tips: split shot the rocky lats with green weenies.