Fishing Report

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Thursday, January 4th, 2001

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the loat at jones valley is ixed,FINALLY, ib the water at 915AM,air temp 41, ran over to ort creek coves, oops no ish, no bait in my usual haunts. moved out into 50 t plus and ound some ish but no takers on the MGM worms, pulled out and ran over to Clickapudi, not as many ish as yesterday but enough to give it a try, no takers on the worms so broke out the old reliable jigs in pumpkin pepper on a 3/8oz jig head, BANG, a 2.8 that sure elt a lot bigger when I initially stuck him. Weighed him and dropped him back in, next cast, 2.2 lber out o the same spot, back in or more but no go. Lake came up nearly a oot in past 24 hours, lots o olks out today but many let early. I didn't get bit until 1245 pm and then nothing ater that. The ish I have caught lately have been at as pigs. Got out o the water at 3pm air temp 62. water lat and no wind at all, yesterday had a little breeze.
      City: Redding

      Tips: BPS pumpkin pepper twin tail skirted jig on 3/8 oz jig head did the trick.

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2001

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-49 deg's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: WHAT A DAY. FISHED FROM 11 AM. TILL 4 PM WITHOUT A SINGLE BITE AND WAS CONSIDERING GOING HOME AT 2 PM. But i stayed cause i knew i would hook a good one. I was right as i caught 1 15 incher ollowed by a 2 1/2 lber 15 min. later and inished with a nice 2 lb. spoted bass. all on 6 inch twin tail yamamoto grubs # 286 and a 3/8 oz. jig.
      City: visalia

      Tips: lake still going down and water is getting colder.

  • Monterey County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunny, warm and no wind. Fishing very slow. Shad about 40 to 50 eet deep. Bass on worms on points about 30 to 50 eet deep. Texas rig, split shot and drop shot all produced using plastics. Extremly slow presentation. 3 to 5 bites a day is all I can get at this time. Could use a change in weather to shake the lake up. See you on the lake.
      City: Paso Robles

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out o Jones Valley again and over to brushy canyon, irst three casts
      City: jRedding

      Tips: used #69 idget 3 inches long(blue ghost) and #109 idget in same length rom MGM Lures on a 1/4 oz darter head with a 1/0 hook.

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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went out o Jones Valley again and over by Brushy Canyon, irst three casts
      City: Redding

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2001

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tough bite for the most part...Only had one snake until 2pm or so..Ended up catching 5 in the last 3 hours...Deep 30+..Except for one fish early on a worm in about 15 feet...I cought everything else on jigs..Jig fish were much better quality.. 2.5 - 3lb average. Have a good new year!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Ran points all day..Fished points close to creek channels with bait...No bait , No fish. WE NEED SOME RAIN!!

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      Water Temp: 48-49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: tough bite for the most part...Only had one snake until 2pm or so..Ended up catching 5 in the last 3 hours...Deep 30+..Except for one fish early on a worm in about 15 feet...I cought everything else on jigs..Jig fish were much better quality.. 2.5 - 3lb average. Have a good new year!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Ran points all day..Fished points close to creek channels with bait...No bait , No fish. WE NEED SOME RAIN!!

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 47-48 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Decided to learn the dropshot today. Worked it or 3 hours and maybe one bite. Nothing on a jig either. So back to the split-shot and 4" shad worm. Finally got the ish, all but one ish were 50-60' deep, the lone 'shallow' ish was 25-30' deep. One smallie, rest were blacks - 8 nice keepers total rom 1.5-3 lbs each. Ater that 'bite ' window rom 11-1:00 I never got bit again. Darn this nice weather. Tried shallow but nothing seemed to have moved up but then again thewater is real cold, a big high pressure sitting over us or weeks, lots o sun and very little wind makes or a tough winter bite. Only graphed one o the ish I caught - they must be hugging the bottom...
      City: Livermore

      Tips: slow and then slower, deep! Pray or rain !!

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I got a chance to ish over the holiday week and ater catching a limit o trout I decided to try and catchsome bass.I had read some o the reports and laughed at theireworks between "buba" and the other guys.I was not ableto do as well as "Buba" had done,but I did catch two niceblackies on an oxblood worm in about 30 t. o water.Notmuch wind made or a GREAT day.
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: SLOW SLOW SLOW splitshoting.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in late again, out o Jones Valley at 11AM, ran up to Arbuckle lat area, one pull down on a worm, ran back down to Panther canyon, couldn't ind any ish there, back over near the rockpile and poked around with no action until 130PM, put 4 in the boat with 2 more lost in 37 t o water, used a 1/4 oz darter head, and it came to a halt at 3 PM,biggest was a 2.2 ollowed by three 1.8's, llost one little guy at the boat and another decent ish that I never saw that wrapped me around a stump. air temp got up to 66, lake still coming up slowly, now at 63t. Jones valley loat still screwed up. used a blue ghost today and big daddy's special, the larger o the our came on a blue ghost. got out at 345PM.
      City: Redding

Monday, January 1st, 2001

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the annual New Years Day Stockton Bassers Tourny. My partner John Kort and I launched in fog so thick you couldn't see a boat 20 feet in front of you. It took us almost 1 1/2 hours to get to our spot, but we struggled through the soup and finally got there. We had been on a good bite for the past month and were anxious to get fishing. We had a limit by 9:30 and were culling shortly there after. We probably put 35 keepers in the boat with the biggest going 8'1. We ended up with 20.4#'s and took 2nd in the tourny with 2nd big fish. Bobby Barrick and his partner were the eventual winners, so guess it wasn't so bad losing to one of the better Delta fisherman in the state. Almost every fish was caught on reaction baits. We even had three or four doubles on. This is the best winter bite I have ever been on and I think the secret is water clarity. It was amazing to hear how many people struggled that day. I guess we were blessed to be lucky enough to find one of those winter holes. That trip marked the fifth straight trip we had put over 30 fish in the boat with at least a fifteen pound, five fish limit.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Water clarity. It's the only thing I can think of. It has been a winter where the storms have not come until late Feb.

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      Water Temp: Bit Chilly

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Only caught a couple of keepers today, used spinnerbaits with willow blades (Persuader). Ran into Tim Venkus and ended up trading fishing stories. Burned up a good part of potential fishing time. Fog finally lifted at about 4:00, not a big day for me.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: The only fish I caught were in some current and surprisingly shallow. The fish right now look great, and fight hard.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: the boat owner(my wie) said lets go so we got in at Jones Valley at 1045AM, air temp 52 and went over to the ort creek coves in the lumberyard, caught 2 out o 35 t o water on Big Daddys special, wie lost one on a jig, ran to Clickapudi, wie lost another one, yeah, I laughed and was struck with the business end o a spinning rod. coasted up to a stump and dropped my rig down or two more, all were about 1.6 lbs, the last one was 2 and little bit. I was always told that hooksets are ree so I got a good pulldown and stuck it H A R D, broke an old Wal Mart special at the reel seat, guess that was a rock, and in goes my abu 6500 c3, ortunately, I got that back, now she's laughing. We go home and I get orders to buy a new rod since I have one in the shop and this busted one. Gotta love this lady! got out at 145 PM, air temp up to 67 very pleasant day. Jones valley very busy, the loat is still messed up! Lake up to 63.25 t and rising slowly, clear down to 15t.
      City: Redding

Sunday, December 31st, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of River's End marina at about noon after the thick stuff burned off. Fished for at least three hours with nothing. Finally at the bottom of the low tide somebody hit the switch and my friend and I had 12 fish in the boat. The largest was about a 3#. This all happened within an hour to an hour and a half. Go figure. By the way that part of the Delta is the clearest I have seen it in a long time.
      City: Redwood city

      Tips: Senko Senko Senko Slow Slow Slow

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of B&W for the last day of the 00 year and of course haevy fog. Put the electric motor down and fished the west bank from launch to SJ river. Picked up three, 4.5, 3.5 and a 2 pounder. Had several bites but couldn't get em. All on plastic, 10" red shad power worm and senko. Tried cranks, spinners and flipping with no luck. Used the brail system to find Frank's Tract but nadda a darn thing there for me. Fog lifted at 2PM but i had to go.
      City: Sacto

      Tips: Used senko, roor beer w/gold flake, and Berkley 10" red shad power worm, all weightless. Tried others with no success. Must of wanted it slow. Bobby B and Chris B won tourny out of Ladds with 22 pounds, anyone heard how and where since they don't post.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Of Course I picked the day the fog refused to leave. We were on the water until 3:30. We had a total of 2 bites for 2 fish. We weren't able to run to any locations as it was that thick out there. We left the break about 8:30 and just put the trolling motor down. It was still good to get out. Did try anchoring down for stripers but only a couple small hits, no fish. I will be out again with the club on 1/13/01. Maybe see you out there.
      City: San Jose

  • Washington
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I was ishing early in the morning with a kastmaster. i hooked two and lost them both. but then i brought in 4 more beauties. about 5-6 pounds a piece. i was ishing rom the shore.
      City: Nine Mile Falls

      Tips: Kastmaster

  • Ventura County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Aternoon bite 14:00-16:001st choice: Brown or purple jigs with plastic trailer working rom shore-20' Rocky points2nd choice: Also caught a couple with a drop shoting purple worms
      City: Piru

      Tips: Stay on the steep points, watch out or the wind gustsLures: Skinny bear jigs, Gary Y. Trailers, Robo midnight 7" worms

Saturday, December 30th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: about 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9:00 to 11:30. One fish for the day. It was a nice 3.5er along the steep rocky banks across and to the right of the launch.Fish was caught early.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Carolina rigged-----ZOOM 4 inch mini lizard-10 to 15 ft. depths.

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      Water Temp: about 55

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished from 9:00 to 11:30. One fish for the day. It was a nice 3.5er along the steep rocky banks across and to the right of the launch.Fish was caught early.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Carolina rigged-----ZOOM 4 inch mini lizard-10 to 15 ft. depths.