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Friday, January 25th, 2002

  • California
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      Water Temp: dont know

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: sorry rong date 12-25-02 right date is 1-25-02
      City: you know

  • California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Making my normal Socal journey Irvine was beutiul on this day around 70 degrees. No ish on my customized loat-cat. Used my normal 6"rebel but no luck. I've heard o big ish coming rom this place but all I got was 4 hours o sunshine. I imagine that this lake must have great topography below the surace because visibly it is just a muddy bowl. Water temp was a guess since I went to Corona the next day with a sonar.
      City: vallejo

      Tips: I you want to catch nothing, go to Corona this time o the year, much prettier.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: went up at 930 and o by 130. very cold today and water was muddy due to the rains. nothing in greasy cove. caught 3 to the right o the main point. 2 nice spots in the 2 lb range. and one nice 2 and a hal lg mouth. all 3 were caught in 10 eet o water and on minnows again. ish were very slow today with the weather cooling a little.
      City: visalia

  • California
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out about 9:00 in the morning with a riend. We ished rom our belly boats and both had success. Cautght a nice one on a swim bait,and another one on a crank bait. Both were trout patternd. It was very cold and ishing was slow, only got a coulpe bites.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Throw trout patternd lures while they are still planting trout in the lake.

Thursday, January 24th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Right now I'm in a green venture outdoors kickboat.I'm getting a outdoor engineering in a couple o weeks(blue pontoons).I might be out there on sat i it doesn't rain.I it does then I will go to shadow clis and lip the back lakes.
      City: remont

  • California
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      Water Temp: COLD!

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got SKUNKED again. One hit rom the boat ramp on a carolina Power worm (teq sunrise)
      City: Pittsburg

      Tips: I you think your moving slow right now move slower. Inlate a stinkin worm and loat em o the bottom nothing else is gunna work too well i you ind anything let me know

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started by the Tuttle Town ramp...Got 5 bits,hung one ish.Moved up the lake.Caught 4 & lost one....Made another move & caught 4 more.All Spots,rom 12 1/2 in. too 16 in..All ish were caught deep,but one & he hit a leach in 10 t o water,but he didn't have to go to ar to be in 60 t o water..Fish were caught on Keeper & Cali. worms.Texas rig & Darter heads.
      City: RIV

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I'm ishing rom a venture outdors kickboat(green pontoons).I'm getting a new outdoor engineering kickboat in a couple o weeks(blue pontoons).I might be there on sat.but i it rains real hard I'll go to shadow clis and lip the back ponds.
      City: remont

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well on January 19th the Bass Classics o Santa Clara Valley had there coldest tournament in alot o years with 28 degees in the morning and rost so thick you could make snow cones scaping the windshields. There were only 15 anglers willing to bear the cold and only 12 ish were caught by 7 o them.The winning weight was 9.27 lbs by Ray Garcia. He said they ound ish in 10 eet o water acting like spawners and with a long cast with a watermelon senko he caught the 5.27 lb big ish ater it wrapped itsel three times around the tree he had to dunk his shoulders in the water to net the ish. Then later he also caught the male 3.80 lb ish or the 2nd big ish o the tournament in the same tree. Rob Staben had three ish or 9.20 lbs and he also had ish near wood in 10-15 t on summer moss colored reapers and a dart head. Dieter had two ish or third on his usual avorite bait or San Antonio a pig and jig blk with brn pork in 15-20 t.There were some others using pig and jigs near wood in 10-15 t. Mike B nailed a keeper smallmouth drop shotting in 45 t on a tree also.
      City: remont

      Tips: Most ish this weekend came rom wood or trees in 10-15 t the bite was very slow and tough pig and jigs usually the best this time o year but Ray proved its not to early to throw senkos.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I guess I have created some conusion regarding the worms I use. The MGM 156 &157 are new and are not on the MGM website or listed in the MGM color chart. The Rainbow 99,286 &292 are not MGM colors, they are made by Rainbow worms in Newark,Ca phone number (510)742-1060, ask or Barry. Ryan, you should start with a 1/4 oz or your split shot, MGM has everything you need, I note that Phil's sells the Rainbow worms locally and has the 99 in stock, I don't know i Phils has the 286 or 292 in stock or not. sosrry or any inconvenience. Ken Allen eel ree to e-mail me directly or any ino you may need.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: on that last "report" the date should read 1/13/02 sorry guys....still up or some ishing ?
      City: pittsburg

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Would anyone be interested in a trade? I'm on to a school o 10" Spots and would gladly give up it's location or (1) 2lb. ish. 11a.m.-4p.m. North. 10'-15'o water. 1/2 oz. brown jigs.
      City: Auburn

      Tips: Tried something dierent. On clay/mud banks I set up shallow and cast deep. Banged the jig into all those old waterline ledges and ished way aster than should be reasonable given the temperature. No doubt about every hit. Unorthodox, yes. But i you're gonna reeze you might as well be catching ish.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 47 to 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 11:30am. Started at Jones Valley Pt. and missed 3 on a brown jig, must have jerry's disease,(can't hook um.) The wie boated a 1.4 on a MGM 156-4" carolina rigged worm. Moved down to Ski Island and got 3 more 1.1 to 1.3 on MGM 157-4" and a small pumpkin seed with brown bloodline Zipper worm. Moved across to Azelle creek and picked up 8 more to Azelle point. wind came up rom east. Out at 4:30pm. At least I kept up with her today, 6 to 6.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Green pumpkin seed Zipper worked or Susan, Carolina rig, drag behind boat. MGM 156 and 157 on darter head worked best or me. No size, 1.4 largest. 20 to 35 eet deep.

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'm new to ishing the delta and would like to know o a good area to ish this time o the season rom shore since I don't have a boat? I'm mainly looking to get some striped bass. Also, whats the best bait rig to do this? You can just email me or post on this board. Thanks in advance!
      City: Milpitas

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on the 19th and ished on what had to be the coldest I have ever been on the delta. We pulled up to the Paradise ramp in pea soup og and reezing temps. The entire boat was iced over and John and I were thinking 'what the hell are we doing out here'? We putted out to whites at about 15 mph and were inally ishing at 7:45 or so. We were ocusing on Stripers mostly, as we had been doing pretty good recently on the linesides. It was very hard to ish as cold as it was, but around 9am John hit a real nice ish on a crank bait. Around 15 minutes later, he landed a 22.6 pound striper. Beautiul ish. We then decided to throw or some bass to see i we could establish the same winter pattern we usually get on. John threw a black senko and I threw dark plastics up around structure in shallow water. We started hitting bass up to 4 pounds immediately and were going to leave the area, so we didn't drain the pattern, but the weather took a serious turn or the worse. The wind picked up rom 5 mph to 15-20 mph and this made or some serious windchill. We ished or striper or another 15 minutes and were o the water by noon. We were hoping to get down to Mildred Island, because we have some pretty good winter bass and striper spots down there, but there was no way we were going to make a long run in that kind o weather. A pretty good day or the nasty conditions we aced.
      City: roseville

      Tips: As I stated in earlier reports, structure is the key. The ish are not going to roam too much when the water gets into the 40's, but they are still looking to eat. Once again, all o our bass came in 3 eet o water or less. Try to ind water with at least a oot o visibility. The bites were not subtle, as the ish really jumped on the baits. Last, please let the smack talk die now. Everyone has made their point and it's kind o getting old. Let's just ocus on writing some good reports. Good luck and be sae.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went up today at 9:30 and o by 1:00. 2 ish irst 5 minutes. 1 small spot and 1-2lber. 7 ish all together 6 keepers. all 6 ranged rom 2 to 2 and a hal. all caught in 5 to 10 eet deep in coves. minnows again
      City: visalia

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey Swampy,What does your kickboat look like? Maybe I'll see you out there. The "Quarry" is my backyard ishin hole too.
      City: remont

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: real cold this am so I didn't get out until noon, in at jones valley, lake up to 39.5, airtemp going in was 44, 14 rigs in the gravel at the ramp, won't be long and we wil be making the long walk up to the top, went back into swamphollow at the back o jones valley and poked around a bit but the straw debris made me leave, they put a lot o straw down over new plants put in and now it is in the lake and mostly suspended, ran over to clickapudi or three at about 1.6 per, two on the mgm157 and one on the rainbow 286, then went upstream to blue canyon and into the back or three more and one good one, a 2.6 on the rainbow 99, the other two came on a mgm 54 in a 3 inch curly tail and a 5inch 156 with a curly tail, got into the shade in the back and the temp dropped about 10 degrees, went baack to the ramp at 330 pm and the temp was dropping down to 42, was a nice day, no wind and the lake was lat or as ar as u could see, lots o debris in the pit but not so big that u had to worry about it much. most ish came out o the 25-35 t depth, the largest was in about 10t and tight up against a steep bank with chunk rock on it.
      City: Redding

      Tips: mgm 157,54,and156, the rainbow 99 is producing the bigger ish(or me anyhow)lately

Monday, January 21st, 2002

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-53

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went there or a change rom the slow ishing in the valley. Good choice. We caught about 50 ish between the two o us. No big ones, all about 10-15 inches. All jig ish. I was using a 1/4 oz. brown/purple with a cinnamon double tail yamamoto trailer, buddy was using a brown jig with same trailer. Both o us lost all those jigs and just started using a 1/4 oz. ootball head with cinnamon hula grubs, caught just as many ish on that. Got 'em rom about 5-20 eet. My buddy outished me and I think the dierence was he had 6 lb. test, I had 8.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Jigs. Dress warm or the morning cold.

  • Westchester County, California
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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Quarry lakes are located in remont.They are new and just opened in december.It is an old quarry and is realy not a nice looking place.(there is no structure on the shore).It is also electric motors only and they do let loat tubes/kick boats.It's mostly a put-n-take trout ishery.but there are some good bass(smallies and large mouth).I realy just go there because it is so close to my house.
      City: remont