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Friday, October 26th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went out with a ellow Bass Buster today. We launched out o Lazy M Marina at irst light. The wind was blowing until we got out o Italian Slough and it then it was pretty nice on the water. Overall, we caught about 8 keeper bass and 4 dinks, and 3 stripers. My partner Bill caught our bass using crankbaits and rattle traps. I caught all o my bass on Senko's. I did catch a 5 pounder on a 5" watermelon senko near some tules. Our best 5 went about 12 lbs.Overall, it was a pretty good trip considering that we were only on the water or 5 hours. All o the stripers were caught on rattle traps with the biggest going about three lbs. We ished the Coney(?) Island area.
      City: Tracy

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hooked up with my uncle or a Friday on the lake. He does some pond ishing and I said it was time he stepped up. He agreed. When I could catch ish on this lake he would come along. He waited a while. I made another concession agreeing to tow the boat to the Granite Bay side. I'll come back to that in a minute. Gorgeous weather- perhaps the last 80 degree day until March. Couldn't put down the reaction. Caught 6 including a largemouth and a smallmouth pushing 3lbs each. We ished in the north. Unc breaks out with "The lake's low, so the ish should be concentrated". Blademan's on the lake too and he rolls up with 3 ish or 10lbs. He's all "dude, it's about this lake level". Beore i submitted this report I sured some links provided by this web-site to determine why the dam releases have remained consistently around 1500 cs. The releases are draining this reservoir rapidly and the two remaining launch ramps will be out o the water soon. Speculation ranges rom power generation to terrorist prooing. The dam road is closed at night due to concerns over the latter. That's a precaution I can live with, but the idea o draining the lake due to terrorist concerns borders on hysteria. Oicially one web-site provided by the Bureau o Reclamation said 90% o the releases are or power generation. Remember there's an energy crisis? Crisis. Isn't the crisis about how cheap we want our power? Hyroelectric is cheap because the true cost o dam construction and operation is subsidized by the Bureau o Reclamation (eds), and we beneit by relatively cheap power and clean air. Consider the alternative: ossil uel power plants dotting the landscape. Build them in Nevada. Sucks or Nevada. I'll bet that's where we dumped the reactor core rom Ranch Seco- the ultimate cheap power-clean air solution. The bass in the lake at that acility are so big..... Besides, wouldn't ossil uel power plants add to that choking air pollution created by our irresponsible use o two stroke outboard engines? Don't get me started.
      City: El Dorado Hills

      Tips: Major weather change coming- could be the end o ishing reaction with success throughout the day

Thursday, October 25th, 2001

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTOctober 25, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 64-67 F ****** WARM CREEK HOT FOR STRIPERS****** Water temperature is 64 degrees which is the preerred temperature or striped bass. I stripers could choose any comort zone this would be it. They are proving that in Warm Creek right now.Starting at the mouth o Crosby Canyon stripers are present in many large and scattered schools.Most ish are graphed near the bottom but many are mid depth and some are shallow. Schoolsare easy to detect on electronics due to wide separation rom the bottom. Schools stretch romthe shoreline opposite Crosby Canyon to Wagon Box Draw (next canyon upstream on the right). They are ound at bottom depth beginning at 70 eet and continue all they way to bottom depth o48 eet. It is possible to anchor just about anywhere in this area, chum and catch stripers in largenumbers. Those without a ish inder can catch ish by inding the mouth o Crosby Canyon and proceedingdirectly east to the opposite shore where a long sandy point protrudes into Warm Creek. Anchorapproximately 100 yards o the sandy point, chum and catch ish. There should be other boats inthe area so it will be possible to locate hot spots and schools by watching other boats. Fish can becaught on the bottom but it is aster once the irst ish is caught to just throw a 30-40 oot castand let the bait swing back under the boat. Hold it there or a ew minutes and then reel veryslowly to keep the line tight making it easier to detect bites. Remember to use a low visibility,small diameter leader to prevent line shy stripers rom avoiding your bait. Striper ishing has slowed at Hite due to a loating algae bloom that has clouded the water. Motor downstream until the algae disappears beore ishing. Algae should be gone in a week ortwo. Bullrog has some stripers hitting in the very back o Bullrog Bay and Halls Creek. Thestriper ishing is still good near Piute Canyon on the San Juan. Wahweap is the place to be orstriper ishing this week. Warm Creek, Gunsight, Padre and Dry Rock Creek are excellent striperspots. Smallmouth bass ishing is still good in clear water. Bass are not as active as they were a weekago and ishing will continue to slow with dropping water temperature. Bass anglers can still indcooperative bass as long as temperatures are in the 60's. They are still hitting topwater lures earlyin the morning and tubes, grubs and spoons during the day. Target main channel rocky structureespecially where two habitat types join. Large bays like Good Hope, Rincon, and Neskahi may bethe very best smallmouth ishing spots. Bonus walleye, catish and bluegill will be encountered while ishing or stripers and smallmouth.
      City: Page, AZ

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

      Report: Have not been on the lake since the end o May,give it to the crazys till ater Labor day.Launched at Jones Valleyat day break. The wind was at least 20 mph.about twice whatwas orecasted.Went about 4 miles up the Pit dropped the trolling motor and pointed the bow o the boat about 10 t. rom shore. Started using my avorite spinner bait and special color skirt.Started getting bit about every 10 casts on the average.Fished rom edge o shore 3t. to 20 t.Caught 14 ish2 were dinks the other 12 were 4-13" 7-14" 2-15" 1-16".Lost at least 12 more which with a spinner bait does nothappen that oten and I did have a trailer hook.I think what was happening,they were coming rom deeper water andhitting rom the side,some o the hits were hard and whenI checked the skirt was pulled down in a wad.Great to be back on the lake till next May.Fished drop-shot or about5 minutes-1- 11" shaker.
      City: Corning

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: You know how people say it is important to eliminate bad water, well I did that today big time! in at packers at 730am, let a little late to avoid the Walmart BFL guys and not crowd them, ran into ther Eng bros at packers, Barry and I spoke a bit and he and his brother and riends took o or the pit arm,I ran up the Sac or a bit into a big cove and couldn't get bit, bait everywhere and scattered, chased some birds chasing bait and inally got one small one on a jig underneath a ew small shad, tied on some dierent worms and ollowed another guy down the bank with the 20 knot wind and picked up another small ish on an MGM #78 4inch, the guy in ront o me got a kick out o that and then he boated a small ish, we did this or about an hour and i the BFL guys were having the luck I did then they are in trouble, at 945am a lot o the were running all over the place so they may be having problems, went to the BBQ at Cal Custom last night and got to meet some olks i see posting on the NCBF plus a ew that I have corresponded with rom time to time (netster) Darrel Hagood and I shot the breeze or a bit and I went home, got out today at 1145 am, lake still steady at 100t, temp going in was 53, coming out was 67, water at 64 and dropping about a 1/2 degree per day.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, October 24th, 2001

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Luty, your're too unny. You're cracking me up. Rods were made to be broken. Oh man
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Use bamboo sticks or start praying to the ishing gods. Your luck will change soon when the weather changes.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2001

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

      Report: The bite is great until about 9:00 or me. Had around 12 ish in the irst hal hour, nothing solid, all around 1.75 on topwater. Cranks picked up a ew more and then went to the jig. A lot o the bait has really moved, looks like Im gonna have to burn some gas running them down again. The unny thing yesterday is that the graph would look just perect or dropshotting, and no takers. I inally got a smallmouth (2 pounds) in 5 eet o water on the dropshot- I just ollowed this one group in and got one. Hopeully the wind will subside and we can get some clouds and rain going.
      City: Redding

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at centimundi at 635 am and the ramp has been cleaned up good, all the mud removed, wind howling at 20-25, air temp 53, ran north to just south o dolly point looking over some new water, irst cast at 717am with a surace lure, 5 casts later 4 in the boat to 2.5, wal mart BFL olks roaring past and I get 3 more and pick up the jig rod at 745, 4 more ater that on a jig in 12-25 t or a total o 11, wind started gusting to 40 plus with some 4-6 ooters blowing down the main channel towards the dam, ran up and past bridge bay into the McCloud near birdhouse or three more on a crank bait when the shad suraced all around me, best 5 went 9.6 by 945 am, ran back down towards Centimundi and the water is ROUGH, got out at 1115 with 3 ooters breaking over the stern at the ramp, got home and ound a letter rom my avorite partner Ray Spoon rom the Casting kids gig two weeks ago, 7 pictures and a very nice letter rom Ray and one rom his mom, As Ray would put it"get in, sit down, shut up and hang on" God Bless you Ray, I had a great time.
      City: Redding

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 1pm to 5pm. Went way in the back and dropshotted baby brushhogs(water/red). Caught seven ish to 3lbs. Here's the bad part. All ish caught o steep rocky banks with tree stumps. Had to cast rom the cattle trail or about ten eet above the water. Could not get to water level because too steep. Extremely dangerous way to ish One slip and it's adios. You could get seriously hurt. Not a good idea to ish by yoursel. Be smart. Anyway I tried blading and crankin. Nothing. Shallow water. Nothing. The urther you can go back the better. Where it starts to narrow. I cast out and let some more line out and then I engaged the reel. The line would start to swing towards me and the bank. Three ish hit while it was still alling(suspended)? , the other our hit while I was reeling in slowly o the bottom. I'm sure I would have gotten a ew more i I ished earlier or later.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: The urther back you go, the better. Try dierent things. It does not have to be a baby brushhog, but I do know they like them. Obviously you can't bring all your tackle with you, so you have to have a little game plan. A couple o rods and a ew dierent lures and techniques. You don't want to be dragging !@$#% all over the lake. Blades, brushhogs and senkos or me. Maybe rattletrap also with the wind and suspended ish. Bring water and most o all be careul. No ish is worth getting hurt over. Finally, I could not help but notice all the debris out there. Its pathetic. I you can, try and pick up a ew pieces out there and put in garbage can on the way out. It can make a dierence. These !@#holes are ruining it out there or everybody. Some spots look like the dumps.

Monday, October 22nd, 2001

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched out o Granite Bay's last ramp so i'm told at irst light.Stuck a 16 incher on a spinnerbait irst shot out o the cannon.Minutes later stuck one on a jerk bait about the same size.Caught a ew more rats on drop shots but that's it.Be careull out there it's quite dangerous or your 500 dollar props.
      City: citrus hts.

      Tips: Reaction baits are catching the bigger ish.

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

      Report: LAUNCHED AT 6:30 AM AT PACKERS. GOT TWO SMALL FISH ON BLADES ON FIRST MAIN POINT ON THE EAST SIDE GOING OUT OF PACKERS. RIPPED FOR A WHILE AND NOTHING, RAN DOWN JONES VALLEY WAY AND STARTED PICKING UP NICE KEEPER FISH ON CUT BANKS AND MAIN POINTS IN 10 TO 35 FT OF WATER. USE A MGM IO9 AND A WORM CALLED MORNING DAWN THEY WORKED BETTER THEN OUR NORMAL COLORS WE USE. CAUGHT A COUPLE ON THE DROP SHOT USING A MGM SLUGO.THE LAKE WAS GREAT THIS MORNING VERY FEW BOATS AND CALM WATER. THE BITE WAS TOUGH, FOR MY WIFE AND I A LONG TIME BETWEEN BITES BUT THE FISH WERE QUALITY FISH THE BIGGEST GOING 2 1/ 2 LBS, AND YES MY WIFE STUCK IT, ILL GET HER NEXT TIME. I DID TAKE TWO FISH OFF THE NORTH PIER OF THE PIT RIVER BRIDGE WITH A HOPKINS SPOON,IT CAME UN BUCKLED THAT ONE THERE HAD SOME WEIGHT ON HIM BUT HE WON THE BATTLE TO BE CAUGHT ANOTHER DAY.
      City: ANDERSON

  • California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Oh man! So I head out on Spring lake at 5:30pm with the ather-in-law in the canoe to try out my new GL2 rod. As soon as we push the canoe in the in-laws rod catches a stump...and crack! Oh man it sucked. So we head out, and I thow some senko's, but tried some grubs splitshot. Lots o nice bites, and one little 1 1/2 lb bass. Not bad or 1 1/2 hours. Dad thru with the broken stick, and man I can't tell you how unny and pathetic we looked. We better get some good luck soon.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Plastic grubs, worms, split shot or carolina. Try a dark green w/ lake or Smoke.

Sunday, October 21st, 2001

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Amador Sunday rom 7 am till 2 pm with a riend. We picked up about 10 ish all 2 pounds and under on jigs and worms. Fish were between 3' and 15' deep. No big ish but we did miss a ew jig bites which might have been larger ish early in the morning. The bite slowed around 11:30 am and started picking up again when we let around 2 pm. Blades, topwater, and crankbaits didn't work when we were throwing them.
      City: Folsom

      Tips: Brown/orange jig with green craw Magic craw trailer, black jig with Yamamoto smoke/silver lake grub soaked with attractant were best baits.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Paradise marina at 5:30 pm. My wie and I headed up Disapoitment slough; looking or tullies near deaper water and current. Started with white spinnerbait with no luck, went to rootbeer w/red lake senko and hooked into a 2.6lb o a point. Also hooked small ish right ater that. Moved to rocky bank next to current and My wie ound a 1lb. ish near the bank. I also ound 1.8lb in same area. Moved to get out o the wind. Found some tulles and my wie hooked into a 2.6 pounder, on a watermelon w/red & gold lake senko. We ished until it was too dark or us to see.
      City: Escalon

      Tips: All ish and all bites were on senko.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I just got my butt kicked in one o the biggest tourneys I ished this year. DOH!!On Saturday I went to the narrows and ished Dollar Island and Anderson Island. First crack outta the hat, my livewell pump goes kaput and I have to ill the well by hand and add a couple bubblers or aeration. As it turned out, I never would need them. Jigs, C-rig, lippin', cranks...nada.On Sunday I went to Lucerne and ound lots o ish and caught 15 rippin a Lucky Crat. Only 1 was legal size and that was caught lippin' a senko.Clear Lake just kills me sometimes. I love that lake!
      City: Cotati

      Tips: Don't do what I did. LOL

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 65-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got there about 8:30 ished o the bank on the west side(bernosconie beach). caught our nice size largemouth(0ne to two pounds) on a carolina rig. Used 4" purple pigtail worms,bite was spaced out and died down ater 1:00. whtched boats ish around us and leave because they couldnt catch anything on there dropshots. Same thing on the bank.
      City: Riverside

      Tips: use worms(purple smutherd in hotsauce crawish scent) on a carolina rig the ish are seeing to many dropshots and need something dierent. Fish hard on rocky points dont give up they are there.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 64-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Sugarloa at 7am, loat knocked o track, air temp 49 and water murky with bottom scum coming up as the lake turns over. Made the trip north to get out o the way o the tournament guys, daughter here or ew days, irst 4 casts produced 3 bass to 2.6 on her secret bait, upstream rom the ramp, 4 more in next 10 minutes and I shited to a jig or another and then many short hits up by the railroad bridge, only two tournamet boats made the trip up. we got o the water early, shasta rec at the ramp and taking both loats out ater some idiot in a houseboat hit the loats and tore o the rail,i ur going to put in there u might want to reconsider i ur doing it by ursel, ok or two guys per boat but a real pain by yoursel, 100% team event today plus a local club and a club rom reno, next week its the big shootout or the walmart bl tues-saturday.
      City: Redding

      Tips: my jigs and Kelly's "secret bait" ok, she just said I can top water.

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey revrat, read your report. Start throwing big brushhogs(watermelon/red or junebug) with smelly jelly. Texas rig with 5/0 EWG. Trust me. I ish there sometimes. My neighbors ather owns a lot o land out there and he brings me out to his athers house sometimes. His backyard is Soulajule. Its awsome. They bite pretty good because there's no pressure. Blades are also good. Char/white with Yamamoto 5" single tail grub(green pumpkin). Also a Berkeley power lizard in black is good or a trailer. Hang on. They love them brushhogs. I'm sure Senko will deinitely work i wind is not blowing.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: Wind blowing -texas rig and blades. Try and get way back as ar as you can away rom the dam. I think that would be southeast i I got my bearings right. Work your way back and I'm sure you'll run in to them somewhere. Give yoursel enough time to ish areas slowly with the brushhog. Heck i wind is blowing, throw that LuckyCrat Pointer 100 rip bait. It should work. There's some good size ish out there i you're willing to put the time in. Good luck.

Saturday, October 20th, 2001

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 63-67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My wife and I got on the lake around 10:00am. Fished accross the lake from spanish flats marina. We got on fish around 11:45 working the main lake humps from 35ft to 18 ft dragging a 4" morning dawn magic worm on a mojo rig. We caught 10 fish from 11:45 till 3:45 when we had to have the rental boat back. We caught the last 2 at 3:40. This was our first time fishing berryessa so we did not know where to go plus having a rental boat limited us to how much water we could cover. The fish we caught were a mix of smallies, largies and spots. the size was ranging from a pound and a half to 3 pounds. My wife did have one major rod bending hit that about took the rod out of her hand and I had a largemouth that I lost 10 feet from the boat that was going over 3lbs. Over all, a great day with my wife with some fun fishing.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: work the humps on either side of the coves and look for fish in the 15-30 foot range with the magic number being 26 feet. Small worms drifted across the hump on a light carolina or mojo did the trick. nothing on live bait, one bite trolling a chartruse tail dancer.

  • Santa Barbara County, California
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      Water Temp: 66.4

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Water temp started at 62 or so and was not really a actor.My new best BUDDY Chris Washington o the Wasco bass Club e-mailed me a ew days ago to inquire about the conditions at the Big C. Well I've been dinking around with some saltwater stu and had not been out or ...something like 6 weeks so I e-mailed him back and said I'd get the dope...I was told that the buzzbait bite had died...wrong...here is how it worked out...Went down the lake to an allegeded killer spot and threw rattle traps until it dawned on me that it was not going to happen, went to my numero uno,Ichi ban, topwater spot and slapped out 3 buzzbait ish, that while they were'nt big they were ish... gooed around some more and then went back to the rattle trap spot and nothing until I lost the biggest ish I personally have ever hooked on a trap....It's like a horror movie that keeps replaying in my mind what could I have done dierently????I changed the hooks I had her or a good long time up comes the head and there goes the trap.....NO...No....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Sweet suering mother o christ she be gone....So I start looking around and there is baitish everywhere in the shallows...Really shallow...1 oot shallow throw the buzzbait "it's 11:00 o'clock ...Wham one ...wham two....thats it go till 11:30 throw out the rattle trap arther out but at the same depth "I was on stork lat" wham ...wham!!!!Ok time or lunch...I run into Chris Washington and his partner and they have 1....FISH....ollow me....I show them my spot and they just slapped 4 ish or 10 or so pounds....My second limit went about 12+ lbs.....or so I sure would have liked to see her in my LIVEWELL..pardon me as I digress....Chris and his partner came in 2nd I think ...they're best o the year...I could be wrong.....And Chris i you ask me a question I WILL ALLWAYS TRY TO GET YOU AN ANSWER...I am so sorry that I can't remember your partners name thats prolly why I ain't in MANAGEMENT.....
      City: Santa Barbara

      Tips: Go ahead and throw topwater right o the bat....the rattletrap conditions are not the best until the wind kicks in...turns out that a chart/craw or a solid chartruse is best ....go igure ....Later gater