Fishing Report

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Friday, January 11th, 2002

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In at Bailey Cove at 9:15, no loat yet. Ran up to Ycotti Creek, picked up a ew there on MGM 156-4" 15 to 25 eet. Crossed over to other side and worked points down to Shasta Caverns. Ended up with a total o 17, o course Susan caught 10. Fish ranged rom 1.0 to 1.7 with a couple o dinks. Out at 4:30.
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Slow presentation used MGM 156-4", 106-4",and 109 dinky bugs.

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      Water Temp: 48 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I have not posted a report recently, even though I been doing alot o ishing in my new boat, even in the bad weather we had in November and December. The reason I have not posted is, through my ailation with MGM Lures I get eedback suggesting that I am hurting others and mysel by revealing where I ish and what I throw on any given day.Well the last two days are proo that i you think you can ish Shasta the same as any report, you are dead wrong!Witness yesterday I ished the main part o the lake with great success with 12.5 lbs. by 9:A.M. Today I ished with a buddy o mine throwing the same baits or a total o three ish weighing 5lbs.In the last two years I have ished Shasta over 400 days, in all those days no two were alike. The lake, the weather and the patterns change every day. I guess thats why I enjoy it so much. There is no place in this world I would rather be. I very much enjoy reading the posts o other ishermen and will throw in my two cents once in awhile with my regrets i I oend anyone.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Keith here rom Medord with his new boat so o we go this am at 0700 and get in at Bailey Cove, Keith has a problem so I drive back down and his oil alarm is going o, we check the tank on the engine and it is not ull so o we go to Ca. Custom, we ill the reservoir and try it agian and it works so back to Bailey Cove, in the water at 0900 air temp about 49, ran over to the shasta caverns and get two on the mgm157 but now I am out, keith gets another one on the 157 and I shit to the rainbow 99 or 2 and another on the rainbow 286 and lose one that rips my 286 o the darter head and split, go down to the pit river bridge and we both get one on a 3 inch idget in the mgm109 color and keith was throwing a clear worm, move to the island in ront o Allie Cove and he gets another on the clear worm and I get one on the MGM 54. We took o or horseshose cove in the pit and Keith gets another on the clear, we run to squaw creek and I get a smallmouth on a 156 4 inch,keith gets another on the clear worm, the worm he is throwing is made by Thunder Baits, in Medord Or. We head or Bailey cove and get out at 4pm
      City: Redding

      Tips: caught ish on the mgm157 and wish I had some more, keith and his clear worm was very eective.

Thursday, January 10th, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 50'C

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Things have been pretty slow with the water down as low as it's been. I ish the lake quite oten and have never seen it this low. The ishing has, or me anyway, has been hit and miss. The bites are not strong . When in doubt, set the hook. My buddy Kevin and I pulled in 7 ish our last trip. Mostly on points and rock walls. Kevin pulled in big ish honors with a chuncky 3.5 lb'er. I caught 4 dinks. The trip would have been un without ish. Good riends and just being in the water is good enough or me. The tackle we used was magic worms in a pb&j pattern, and brown or black jigs, 3/8 oz., and SSLLOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW. I you think your ishing slow. Fish slower. I hope to have a good year. I understand that its tough being a catcherman, and some o you are just that, and to them Im looking orward to seeing you out there on the water. To the ishermen out there, keep on hooken and someday you can graduate to the catchermans class.lol To all, have good and sae 2002 and look or us, team rope a dope, the catcherman division.lol out on the water. Good luck Matt,
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Slow plastics, worms, and jigs.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out o holland @ 0800 and ished holland cut or about 4 hours. ishing was slow or me but i was able to pick up 2 bass one went about 3 pounds on a white blade and the other went one pound on a black jig with brown pork. i was planning to do some running but the og changed my mind. i was so thick i couldn't get my boat on plane without ear o colliding with shore or boat.
      City: san rancisco

      Tips: both o my ish were caught in less than 5 eet o water. slow rolling blades and crawling the jig produced or me

  • San Luis Obispo County, California
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      Water Temp: 50 - 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Congratulations to Rduzac or big ish o the tournament (which he orgot to mention). Nice ish! Yes, or those o you who like catching ish and aren't concerned about monster bass, Nacimiento can be a lot o un. It was relatively slow or Nacimineto this weekend, but some nice ish were to be had. Water temp was 50 to 51.5 degrees. Weather was incredible or this time o year and great ishing conditions. I had a limit within 1.5 hours and like Rduzac said, you had to be patient and diligent the rest o the day. But give me a day on a lake with SPOTS any day! They are unbelieveably great ighting ish!! LB or LB I'd put them against smallmouths! I caught my ish on a magic worm "lshblue" in less than 10' o water the irst hour o the day "mojo" rig. Ater the sun hit the water I landed several more nice ish in 25 - 30t o water split shotting. I landed over 12 keeper ish with the best going a small 1.78lbs but it ought like a 4lb'er! Give me a spot any day! All o you guys looking or some thing extra or your ishing need to look into joining a club! The Santa Clara Bass Busters is looking or new members and you can have a lot o un and learn alot at the the same time. The guys are great and very riendly. Next month we're doing Lake Orovile, KING o the Spots Lake! See us at IHOPS on Stevens Creek in Cupertion. Check out our web site! www://santaclarabassbuster@homestead.com/sccbbhome.html
      City: Sunnyvale

      Tips: hit it early! most action was in the the irst two hours o the dawn!

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 53 to 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at Glory Hole and stayed in that area. The trout isherman were everywhere. Started throwing a Angler's worm on a 1/8 ounce dart head around drop os 15 to 25 eet. Caught several ish in these areas. Jiged a spoon or a while with no takers. Slow ripped some points with no takers Then started throwing a Rainbow Trout Castaic swim bait on a hump about 15 eet deep. Got slammed and set the hook. Thought or sure it would be a good one being winter and all, but hanging onto the tail was a Spot about 2 1/2 pounds. Glad I added a treble hook to the tail.
      City: Galt

      Tips: The Spots were aggressive on the dart head.

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

      Report: DIDNT FISH NICASIO!,tryed Kent lake(MMWD water supply reservoir) ished with a buddy or about 2 hours,hiked 4 -5 miles down rom alpine dam,ished a cove near a pumping station,tryed pumpkin brush hogs,several crankbaits,spinnerbaits,etc. inally got one 13",1-1/2 lb. largemouth on a yozuri crystal minnow(rainbow trout,4-1/2") with an owner tournament trailer in iretiger color, we saw a couple ish jump, the lake must be less than 5 t. rom ull capacity......didnt see any other anglers at all...why no ishing reports rom the MMWD reservoirs? Kent,Alpine,and Phoenix all have quality bass.
      City: san raael

      Tips: the upper mile or 2 o Kent lake is ull o brush,trees,etc. when the lake is this ull,there is a tremendous amount o cover or bass,large areas o this lake are nearly inaccessible. i know o anglers who have caught quality ish here on brush hogs.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2002

  • California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water about 8:15 in my loat tube. Swam across and the lake and ished the shallow south end. Got and 8.7, 6.7 and 3.5 on live crawdads. All released. Chest waders leaked so I roze my #$% o. Swam or shore shivering about 11am. Need to patch those waders.Mike
      City: Morgan Hill

      Tips: Water is very cold. Fish very slow. Then slow down to 1/2 that ast.

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

      Report: what a dierence a day makes!!! ater being skunked last 2 times on the water, went up with little conidence. on the water at 9:30 am, started throwing spinner baits shallow and blam! 3rd cast a dink. and then it was about every 3rd or 4th cast and the ish got bigger as the time went on. biggest at 3lbs. but had about 10 or 12 keepers. 5 biggest was about 11 or 12lbs. all on the same spinner. 3/8 oz white and blue specle. by 12:00 or so that pattern was dead and tried senkos with a couple hits but no takers. o water by 1:00.
      City: visalia

      Tips: slow-rolled?....even slower rolled, just barely turning the blades.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got into Horse Shoe area at day break.Got two quick hits on a 6 in Keeper (Shark) worm.Missed them,bit o about 1 to 2 in & caught two spots.We caught 22 more spots & one black.Fish came on shirted grubs & 4 in worms. worms was ished on 1/8 to 1/4 oz darter head.We caught ish in all 3 areas we ished.We had 3 just under 13 in & the reast were rom 13 to 16 in & caught rom 12 t to 40 t deep.We also learned real quick not too set the hook when we elt a hit,had too let them play with it or a while.Only had one ish that was hooked to deep to take the hook out.Cut the line on him
      City: Riv

      Tips: Small worms & light weight.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: In at Jones Valley at 9:00am. Ran up to Arbuckle Flat met up with Jerry and Bronla. First thing Jerry tossed something into out boat and said "Here Susan try this and don"t let Bryce have any." Well they worked and she didn't share. I guess its called MGM 157. She carolina rigged the #157 worm and got bit right o, 1.8 spot. I was throwing jigs and inally started getting bit, but couldn't get any to the boat.(out o practice HA, HA.) Switched to Texas rig # 106 and got a 1.7 in the boat. The only thing I caught on my jig was a 14" rainbow. The wie said they don't count. She caught 4 and I had 2 + 1 trout. No dinks, they all ran between 2.0 and 1.4. with at bellies. The wind settled down a little ater 2:00PM. Out at 4:00PM. It sure elt good to get back on the water. The lake is coming up nicely. Some debris in the water so be careul.
      City: Cottonwood

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      Water Temp: 48-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the wie worked all night and came home and said lets go so o we went to Jones valley at 0845, the island is almost completely under so the parking got limited quickly, 22 rigs in the gravel, air temp 45, water at 49 at the ramp, wind out o the north at about 8mph, ra upstream in the pit near arbuckle and get one on on irst cast on a new worm by mgm the #157 which isn't named yet, moved around a bit and started inding ish on main and secondary points, the wie boats her 2nd and third worm ish but having trouble eeling the bites and trying not to get stuck in the timber with the darter head, move downstream near dead horse where she sticks a solid 2 and I get a couple o dinks, run across to Dark Canyon anmd i get bit hard and play a 3.5 - 4.0 up to the boat where it comes out o the water about 4 t and spits my darter head back at me, nice ish, again on the 157, I stick one more dink and the wie is starting to ade so home we go so she can get some sleep, wind starting to really gust on the way back up near 20mph, go back in at 1130 and the water came up nearly a oot while we were out.
      City: Redding

      Tips: wie caught hers on the mgm 156 4 inch and a 69 in a idget, mine came all on the new 157

Monday, January 7th, 2002

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hey guys I ished Amador a bunch as a kid and am now geting back in the saddle again. I ound this sight by chance and got really excited to hear that the trout ishing was so good. I can remember the bass ishing being awsome, but was not aware that the lake stocked rom its own ishery. I you olk don't want to see ino on trout on your BASS sight can you please tell me where I can get the news on ALL o the ish that Amador oers? Its a shame that this sight has to be so one-track minded.See you all on the lake
      City: Sacramento

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I fished the AC team tourny on Sunday. Our T-day ended up alot like our friday prefish. Not alot of keepers(4-5 each day). We found our fish in 10-20 feet of water on points in the main body(jigs). No reaction bite for us. We tried blades and cranks. I think the guys that did the best found better places to throw their jigs. Where you say? I don't know. It looked like the majority of the fish weighed were smallies. One thing I looked for was bait balls like in the summer but couldn't find any.
      City: Auburn

      Tips: Jigs.10-20'

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Theres a point directly across rom the north end o the dam. I you'll cast close towards the shore and let your rig all you'll be in some kind o obstruction (weeds). It is easy to pull your rig through. Once the resistance is gone ish slowly, even allowing you rig to lay still on occasion, because ater your through is where I caught my biggest ish o the day last time I was out. I believe that may be the best place at this time on Kaweah.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Lilac worm with black and red lakes is always good at Kaweah.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Theres a point directly across rom the north end o the dam. I you'll cast close towards the shore and let your rig all you'll be in some kind o obstruction (weeds). It is easy to pull your rig through. Once the resistance is gone ish slowly, even allowing you rig to lay still on occasion, because ater your through is where I caught my biggest ish o the day last time I was out. I believe that may be the best place at this time on Kaweah.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Lilac worm with black and red lakes is always good at Kaweah.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Theres a point directly across rom the north end o the dam. I you'll cast close towards the shore and let your rig all you'll be in some kind o obstruction (weeds). It is easy to pull your rig through. Once the resistance is gone ish slowly, even allowing you rig to lay still on occasion, because ater your through is where I caught my biggest ish o the day last time I was out. I believe that may be the best place at this time on Kaweah.
      City: Visalia

      Tips: Lilac worm with black and red lakes is always good at Kaweah.

Sunday, January 6th, 2002

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Cold day in my 175 hp 96 ranger 482. use my trusted charlie brown zebco combination special with lite line and caught several 13lbs bass sweet day!! also did some trolling or stripers caught a ew 21 pounders.
      City: Atherton

      Tips: wear warm clothing and be very patient

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I have been ishing castaic or the last ew days preparing or a ABA tourney. On Friday the 28th caught a ew ish on jigs and split shot worms in 15-30 t o water. Metered a lot o ish suspended in 30t. Went back on Sunday the 30th, but this day was tough and cold. A ront moved in later in the aternoon and it rained! We didn't get bite all day and could hardly meter any ish. Moved up to some clis and ound schools o ish had moved into shallow water but would not hit anything we threw at them. So we looked shallow the rest o the day and say so many bass shallow but they all wouldn't hit anything. On 1-5-02, we ished the ABA tourney with 90 plus boats. We got skunked but lwearned that the ish had moved deep water. Guys were catching their ish anywhere rom 40 to 70 t o water on little georges and spoons. The winning weight was around 19 plus pounds topped by a 5.60 pounder.
      City: Santa Paula