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Friday, July 20th, 2001

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: my riend Keith showed up rom Medord,or to sample some night ishing so we took o or Hirz bay and got in at 6 pmBoy the traic was busy, lots o skiers and jet skiers, lakeast 62.6t air temp 83 and the water was very muddy, ran up to nosoni creek and the place was ull o houseboats, nothing there, went across rom nosoni and started wirking the bank downstream and I picked up a dink on a jig, Keith throws to somerocks and a 1.8 spot jumped on it. I collect another dinkand we move down adjacent to Dooles Creek at 855pm. I toss at a chunk o rock and something smashes my jig in about 12 t o waterand heads or the rocks ripping o line, I kicked the trolling motor hard let and head or deeper water, the ish comes up to the surace and rolls then heads or the bottom, 4 minutes later Keith nets a dandy 5.2 spot or me, I am pumped up!. We continue south or awhile and hit a number o spots with Keith boating one moresmall ish and that was that. Sure do like those good sized spots.
      City: Redding

      Tips: The MGM 109 twin tail watermelon green was the hot ticket or me

Thursday, July 19th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Guide trip with the Guys @ Coyte Bait & Tackle Fished top water (L-J PJ Pop & Splash it) in ishermans cut or the 1st hr along with a spped trap out o the back, one over 2 on top and 3 on the speed trap, the to washington cut and landed 3 on a persuader 1/2oz wht/cht gold spinner bait, on a point in ast water. We jumped over to Quimby an through senkos and top water landed a ew more in the current. Then ran down south past holland to some good low tide spot that I though we would try at high water and it worked we caught ish ater ish untill about noon and the tide bottomed out. Most o the ish down there were deep. I kept the boat o the bank and we would throw to the bank and drag it out, senko, worm jig what ever to about ten t then do it again. The tide went low we stopped or lunch the ished shollow weeds with wood and Eric landed a 4.7lber and another one about 3.5 on a senko, I got a 3.5 on a 10in worm and then a 3.5 on a buzz bait at 2:30pm in the current. We caught 45 ish most all in the current and most all in 5t or deeper.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Stand on the trolling motor until you ind active ish then slow down or 20 yards then back on it again. Eddys in th ecurrent were good

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished the dam at irst with senkos and had no luck. I decided to ish the irst cove ater the burner bank with a spinner bait and had a ollower! Then ished the bank to the let and caught a 2lb bass on a black and red senko. That was it or the day, but not a bad day or chabot.
      City: SanLeandro

      Tips: ish any weed lines you can ind very slowly with plastic worms or spinner baits. or big ish, ish areas in the morning close to deep drop o's with plastics or any other bass ood sources.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 72+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Actually we were ishing at Hidden Valley Lake, about 14 miles south o Clear Lake. On July 5, at 8:45am my eleven year old son caught a 3lbs. Bass with a Mistic Shad-R, using a $20.00, 4 t trout pole, while he was standing on a dock. There were alot o people atempting to ish on the 4th o July, using bass boats, trolling motors etc. but met with negative results. On the day my son caught his ish, it was the only day we had to seriously ish. The weahter was to hot to stay out past 9:00am and I'm glad he landed his bass beore then. I have to give credit o my sons catch to a personal riend o mine, Pro Bass Fisherman, Gene Iovino. With out his help and tips or catching Bass during hot weather, we would have caught nothing but a sun burn.
      City: Los Angeles

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out early and tried some topwater and jerkbaits and had nothing.Then I ound some weeds and landed a nice 4# on a senko.Then went to ind some smallies with a dropshot and darterheaded salt n pepper worm and some jerkbaits. Only had that one.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Be a isherman and try to igure out a pattern. UnortunatelyI couldn't ind one.

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a small club tournamnet Friday nigh on the lake, about 20 boats. Caught a nice 5.05 around 9:00 PM on a watermelon Senko. Pitch balck, no moon at all. Got about 2-3 bites between 10 PM and 6:00 Am Saturday morning throwing everything in the tackle box. My dad and I caught 4 more keepers between 6-7 dragging Senkos and 4" worms across rock piles in about 20 eet. We inished up second with 5 ish or 11.20. First place weight was almost 19 pounds, anchored by a magniicent 9.35-sweet ish.
      City: Elk Grove

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Deep diving cranks with rattles landed 10 ish 14-19 inches 9 spots and one large mouth in 20 t o water. Big ish went over ive. All ish were pulled out o mouth o same cove. And I am not about to tell you wich one. Good luck.
      City: hornitos

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Results o Thursday nites big bass tourney: Brent Deaner said he liked to crank and it paid o as he cranked up a beautiul 20" spot to win a cool $430.00 or him and his partner Sparky Healy out o McGraths Sporting Goods in Oroville. The pair said they caught it in the "slot". Other good ish were caught on spinnerbaits conirming the act that better ish are still being caught on reaction baits. Next Thursday's tourney will be ollowed by the 2nd Friday nite tourney o the dam with signups at Lake Oroville Bait and Tackle. Be there.
      City: Paradise, Ca.

      Tips: Don't overlook crankbaits on your next outing. Spinnerbaits still working good so I'm told.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished last night rom about 9pm to 1:30am. Could not go ar because I was by mysel and the wind was blowing again. Stayed near the marina area. Saw only one boat during that time. Kind o slow night or me. Got ish on blades and senkos. All shallow. Biggest ish was about 3lber on slowrolling blade. They were hitting blade hard. Every hit on the all. Reel a little and let it all and then hang on. Caught senko ish also. Black with blue lake. Does it really matter? As long as its dark colored or whatever your conident in. I had a guy with me one night sticking some nice ish with i you can believe this, 6inch morning dawn zipper worms. Go igure. Anyway, ish shallow and go through areas that you think might hold ish at least 3 or 4 times during the night. Keep returning to areas that you ished because eventually ish will move up during the night. Its a timing thing as G-man says.
      City: petaluma

      Tips: Blades and senkos or me. Keep switching them up. I you ind grass throw senkos. At some time during the night the ish will show up there. I guess topwater will work also, depending on the wind. I heard there's going to be another cooling trend towards the weekend. What that will do to the ish, I have no idea. Don't think, just ish.

  • California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north side in the evening, 6:00-8:45. Threw everything at them including every color plastic rigged every di. way, cranks, topwater, etc. Two o us caught 0 ish and no bites. Weather was horrible; wind and og. That may have shut them down. Even the crappies wouldn't hit.I'll be back......
      City: San Anselmo

      Tips: Never ished this lake. Anybody got any tips or me? Feel ree to e-mail.

Wednesday, July 18th, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 74-75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: STARTED IN VICTORIA CANAL . WATER FAIRLY CLEAR AND CAUGHT SEVERAL SENKO FISH BUT NO SIZE. WENT TO DISCOVERY BAY.. WATER REALLY DIRTY CAUGHT ONLY ONE CATFISH.. RAN TO ROCK SLOUGH ..WATER ABOUT THE SAME AS VICTORIA. ONLY ONE WORM FISH. RAN TO SANDMOUND.. HAD ABOUT A 30 MINUTE SPINNER BAIT BITE. CAUGHT SEVERAL FISH BUT ONCE AGAIN NO SIZE. BIGGEST MAYBE 2 AND A HALF..
      City: SUNNYVALE

      Tips: AVOID DISCOVERY FOR A WHILE WATER REALLY DIRTY.. SLOW DOWN . KEEP MOVING UNTIL YOU FIND SOME FISH . DON'T EXPECT MAYBE BIG BITES ..

  • Mohave County, Nevada
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      Water Temp: 80.9

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ME AND MY SON INLAW FISHED OUT OF ECHO ON SUNDAY DID OK NO BIG FISH BUT A LOT OF SMALLER ONES FISHED THE ISLANDS USING A 4 INCH RING WORM AND A BABY BRUSH HOG BEST 5 WAS 10LB4OZ
      City: LAS VEGAS

      Tips: FISH THE SMALLER ROCKS

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: who knows

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my daughter out today, we caught 6 or seven, one nice one!!!!! 16", the rest were just your average lake oroville ish, all spots, we pretty much ished the main body and the north ork, no real pattern some here some there. I was throwing a brown and green crawdad most o the day, tried a spinnerbait early but no takers, so thats it
      City: brownsville

      Tips: just keep ishing

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTJuly 19, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3671 Water Temperature: 77-83 FMost game ish are entrenched in summer patterns which mean early morning and late eveningactivity periods with a siesta at mid day.The very best time to ish is rom daylight to 9 am. Bass and stripers are chasing shad irst thingin the morning and are catchable every calm morning. Bass are taken along the shore line aroundstick ups and prominent rocky structure with surace poppers (Pop-r, Sugoi splash, chug bug).Cast near structure. Allow the lure to rest until ripples dissipate. Twitch once and rest. Twitchtwice and then work lure back to the boat in a steady chugging motion to tantalize bass. Stripers will be in open water. Watch or splashes and/or 2-3 swirls. The action may be verysubtle so concentrate on the water surace until you become adept at seeing the small signs. Individual ish splashes are probably carp but two or more splashes in close proximity are usuallystripers. A surace lure placed within the splash ripple created by the rolling ish will cause animmediate slash at your surace lure. (Excalibur Super Spook Jr., Zara spook, Jumpin

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the loat at Jones Valley is back in place, in a 835pm, air temp 78, lake at 61t, ran out near squaw point to ish a submerged hump, its 9t on top and slopes away gradually, caught two decent ish o o it in 13t, the irst was a black on a MGM 109 4 inch, at 3.8 ollowed immediately by a 3.2 spot on another 109 4 inch, ater that they were all dinks on Jigs, the irst two came right at 9pm, 14 more ater that and missed at least that many jumping o as they raced to the surace, lovely night with a hint o wind out o the north, didn't throw any top water. Saw Jim Miller coming out, he had a near 4.0 black but can't say on what, ollowed him home behind his super clean champion, very little boat traic, the houseboat crowd that was over in Fort Creek are gone.
      City: Redding

Tuesday, July 17th, 2001

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

      Report: Started at irst light,ished let side o lake 300 yds. beore ace o dam caught 5 bass, 4 or 5 more blow upsplus 2 that were hooked and went at least 3 eet airborneand shook o.Went across the dam and caught 6 more bassplus 3 or 4 more blow ups 3 under 12" the rest 12" to 15".All were caught on top water,2 on skitter pop the rest onbaby zara spook ish were extremely aggressive. Top water bite good or about 3 hours.Wind calm to verylight.Caught1 squaw ish and 3 more bass on cranking.Only 3 boats on the lake----perect.
      City: Corning

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-73 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Laayette today starting around 11:30, and ending around 5:00. I didn't ind much until around 2:30. I was ishing around in the east cove split shotting a 4 inch worm and managed to get a ew bites in about nine eet o water, about ive or six eet rom the tulles. I got one strike, then I cast again and hooked up on what elt like about a 2 or 3 pounder, then it got o. I ished the same area or another 45 minutes and got a dozen more strikes, all o the ish biting short and ripping up my worms. I inally let with no ish. The water temp was in the low 70s and I didn't see any ish, I just lost them. Oh well. The wind was between 10 and 20 mph the whole day, and it was a little hard to control the boat.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: I noticed a posting by Jon below. Jon- I'm no bass pro at Laayette. Scratch that- I'm no bass pro period, but I'll try to help. First o all, there are bass in Laayette, and not just a ew. I've seen numerous bass exceding 10 pounds, and many smaller ones. I've been ishing the lake or over three years. That isn't that long, but I have learned a lot rom and about the lake. Mysel and many o the people I've talked to have ound this lake hard to ish, but once you get the hang o it, you won't have a problem. I mysel am still working on getting the hang o it. As or a location, I look or sheltered areas in 10 or 15 eet o water. Most o the summer time the bass will be at these depths. I usually ish deep diving crankbaits over deeper weed beds and weed edges. A split shotted 4 inch worm is also a great bait to have. When the bass are more active you can also ind them cruising over shallower weed beds. Flipping and pitching into the tulles is also eective, I ind it to be the most eective during stable weather. As or good lure choices, perch and trout patterned baits are good. Any smaller split shot rigged baits, deep diving cranks, and spinnerbaits also produce. Many other baits are great as well, as long as you know where to ish them eectively. I hope I helped you, as I said, I'm no pro.

Monday, July 16th, 2001

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out with my ather or a pre athers day ish trip. we were ishing on the water beore 6 a.m. dad got two in the irst hal hour on a clear small zara spook in temperance cove. a couple o nibbles on a salt and pepper grub than we went to trolling by the dam down 70 t. to try something dierent. no luck so we went up by the inlet past the marina and ished untill 1 a.m. then the heat inally got to us. back down to the launch site where we saw no evidence o anybody else catching anything either - but still had a nice relaxing - but hot- day on the lake.
      City: novato

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the east shoreline rom 6:00 a.m. till 10:00 a.m.(been ishing same area or 13 years) it's hot but there are big bass out there..landed 6 ish-4 on a carolina rig with a our inch salt-in-pepper-grub(also with a red bead) 1-ish on a rattle-trap.. and get this a 7-pound ish on a A.C. plug...I spotted this ish in about 10 eet o water chasing around what looked to be like a small rainbow trout..so I had a 9-inch plug in my tackle box tied it on threw it out and connected..nice..
      City: pomona

      Tips: this place has some huge bass in it...don't give up anything shad colored will work...I think size is important here..this lake has a good population o bass rom the 5-6 pound range,,you see them every spring so I think bigger baits will get these ish to bite...try A.C. plugs....

  • California
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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Correction, I caught a largemouth, not a smallmouth. I don't even think there are any smallmouths in here, has anyone heard o anyone catching a smallmouth?--Erichttp://www.bayareaishing.net
      City: San Jose