Fishing Report

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Saturday, December 30th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: Cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Del's at 7:00 and headed South as far as Tracy Blvd, caught one 3# fish on delta red speed trap. Headed up to Coney Island and nailed two on a slow rolled white double willow spinnerbait. All fish were on rock with wood in about 6 ft of water. Headed over to Eucalyptus Island and fished until 4;30 pm, no more fish or bites. Delta was pretty barren, did run into a couple of boats and enjoyed trading info with them.
      City: Daly City

      Tips: White, double willow, spinnerbaits, pitched to the shore and S-L-O-W rolled back to the boat. One boat out there had 9 fish on black jigs with black/red glitter trailers. Pattern seemed to be: Outgoing tide, on rock with smal amounts of wood. No luck on plastics.

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      Water Temp: 48.6

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Lauched out of Orwood at around 6:30a.m. went to Ludo Bay in Discovery Bay.Saw some shad jump first cast got one on a gitzit.No more activity went to Marlin Bay caught one on live minnow about 25in.Made a run up to Mildrid Island, no fish were caught.Slow day.
      City: Castro Valley

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      Water Temp: UUHHH?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out today at around 9:am caught keepers up to two and a half pounds cranking grass on the SJ. Caught em on Timber Tigers, DC-8 and DC-5. I got the most bites on a chartruse DC-5. The fish also hit red colored cranks. No big ones today. I didn't get a hit on a spinnerbait. Spooned for a striper that went about five pounds. I never did slow down to worm.
      City: Rio Vista

      Tips: I didn't get hit ripping, or fishing jigs. I threw out a buzzbait I modified, just to see what it would fish like. The fish didn't hit that either, what up with that?

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Not a taker today had a 6 lb trout hit but no bass. I dont know whats wrong with the water in the lake. The water is green with algee or a high PH I dont know which. nothing doing anywhere. I hit all the avorites in my book today. nothing doing
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Pray or rain this lake needs a good lushing out

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-51 deg's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went to lake ater a bad morning at lake success. Arrived and started nailing them on jigs and drop-shot. ished till 3 pm and caught 15 ish and missed 10 more that got o ater reeling hal way up. 25-40 t o water. senko on drp-sht. and dbl tail yamamoto's , # 180.
      City: Visalia

  • Nevada County, California
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      Water Temp: 45

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I tried all over the lake with no luck until towardsthe end o the morning 10:30am I switched to a salamaderlure in the cove east o Woodhaven drive. Caught a 2pounder and a 4.4 pounder in about 8 eet o water. No luck with other rubber worms or grubs. In the previousdays I caught a ew more on sparkly louresent greengrubs with tails. The average size o those was probablyaround 2.25 pounds.
      City: San Jose

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: We ished rom day break too 1 pm...Caught 11 bass,8 were ron 13 1/2 in too 3 1/2 lbs.App. 8 o the 11 were spots includeing the 2 largest ish.We ished main lake coves onthe east side o the lake rom morman creek too the loating outhouse.3 ish came on drop shot riggs,one on splitshot & the rest on darter & ootball heads.Five caught on skirted s.tail grubs & the rest on worms,Dietent size & colors.All ish came rom 25 too 50 t deep.
      City: Riv

      Tips: Fish slow & deep

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My partner and I caught 40 bass o jig head split shot drop shot. Bass are really active right now
      City: chico

      Tips: ish where you ind baitish

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: COLD

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The ishing was pretty tough today. I started out ishing a deep drop-o and caught a 12 incher right away on a blue and black jig in about 25 eet o water. Then nothing or a ew hours. I started ishing a little ways passed the marina and caught one ish on a Carolina rigged senko, and that was all the action or the day. And rom what I hear the landlocked Steelhead bite at this lake has been terrible. I was talking to a guy that said last year he could catch 3 or 4 steelhead easy and now he's lucky to get a bite.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: The ish are pretty deep(25-40 t.) So use something that'll get your bait down there. And i you want to see this cool new site I ound go to: http://www.norcalbass.com/ it is similar to this one accept it's new and it has some neat eatures like product reviews, articles, and surveys. It also has a Free lure contest, you can ind out how to enter it at the site.

Friday, December 29th, 2000

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 53.5-55.1

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing woods creek draging worms and jigs to 60 t nothing. At noon moved to HW120 bridge on the south side moving into the canyon with 1/4 oz dart heads 4 in oxblood wormscaught 1 smallie 2lbs and 2 large mouth about 2 1/4 lbs ea.These ish were all in about 15 t o water.
      City: Livermore

Thursday, December 28th, 2000

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

      Report: Got out there in the kickboat again at about 9:00.hit all points on the opposite side of the dock with a jig until I came up on the second island, no fish. On the way back towards the dock, I hooked a 2 pounder on a sour grape carolina rigged baby brush hog. That was it for the day.
      City: san jose

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 2:30 got a late start. Started off at the rock horseshoe and stuck a nice 3lb fish on a jig in 10' of water. Then around 4:30 hit another nice fish on a 5" red shad power worm in 15' of water 2lb fish. Not sure what is happening. Saw a guy on the bank by the large dam catch 4 fish in 45 minutes. Oh well guess it was the line I was using. I will re-spool my rods tonite and get back out there before the Rams play Saturday and see what happens.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got out there in the kickboat again at about 9:00.hit all points on the opposite side of the dock with a jig until I came up on the second island, no fish. On the way back towards the dock, I hooked a 2 pounder on a sour grape carolina rigged baby brush hog. That was it for the day.
      City: san jose

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the water at 2:30 got a late start. Started off at the rock horseshoe and stuck a nice 3lb fish on a jig in 10' of water. Then around 4:30 hit another nice fish on a 5" red shad power worm in 15' of water 2lb fish. Not sure what is happening. Saw a guy on the bank by the large dam catch 4 fish in 45 minutes. Oh well guess it was the line I was using. I will re-spool my rods tonite and get back out there before the Rams play Saturday and see what happens.
      City: San Jose

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the late report but been fishin. Got out late today and launched in the fog at 2pm S.Delta. Fished high slack water on rocky point and caught a couple of split shot fish. went into protected areas out of current and found a good concentration of fish. Caught 18 on cranks. Nothing over 2.5# but lots of fun on the med-lt. G-loomis crankin stick. All the fish were located in a ditch in the back of a cove. Stumbled in to this ditch while fishin late spring and knew i would find them in there someday.
      City: danville

      Tips: When fishin new area always pay attention to electronics. When I return to the spot many times I shut the electronics off to keep noise down and work off memory, especially in shallow back bay areas.

  • California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake again today hoping my riend would show up with his boat. Never happened! Ended up ishing the Channel Pt. dock rom about 12:30 - 5:15 this aternoon. Threw blades, jig-n-pig, darterhead, split-shot, spoon, and lipped a crawdad. I caught one ish somewhere between 1:30 and 2:30. It was a 14" and I caught it throwin' a 5" straight-tail purple weenie colored worm on a split-shot rig. Was throwin' it out to deep water (about 15t), then I would drag it. Ater that I lost another 5+ lippin' that same jig-n-pig as I did two days ago and lost that other big ish. This time the hook just popped out as I was wrestlin' him out o the tules. That was all the action all day.
      City: Antioch

      Tips: Ya, I'm pretty sure you could get quite a ew ish i you just backed o the points into 15-30t o water and threw a splitshot rig or darterhead. I was throwin' that splitshot rig towards the point into about 15t o water.

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Harry's cove most o the day split shotting and drop shooting 4 inch worms and tubes. I also used a Rapala Down Deep Rattlin' Fat Rap. Nothing produced ish. From what I could tell no one else was catching anything accept the occasional trout, I'd say that only two or three o those were caught today. I you want more lake reports and inormation about East Bay lakes, eel ree to visit my web site at BGBAITS.COM.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Split shotting and drop shooting are probably your best bets. 4 inch worms are a good bet.

  • Fresno County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-54 deg's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished 10 miles upriver. caught 1 13 incher and had big stipper come out rom under the boat and try and take it. stipper about 11-12 lbs. caught one other about 16 inches by inegold at 2 pm and that was it . slow and no patience or this lake.
      City: visalia

      Tips: Fish somewhere else.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished tuesday and wednesday in main lake and pit arm, ish were aggressive on split shot in 25'. purple with black lake seemed to work best.caught 20 on tuesday and 12 on wednesday. any bank with a mixture o rock and wood and clay seemed to be holding ish.
      City: hayward

      Tips: aggressive and sot bites,be patient,i they want it they eat it

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      Water Temp: 51-52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: did my chores this am and hit the water at 1115 AM, ran over to the ort creek coves in the lumber yard and dropped a Big Daddy special down in 35 t and "bang", 1.6 lb spot. moved around a bit and caught 4 more on the "special". A guy moves up on me and I pull o a bit and hit another one, I look back at the guy and he is eyeballing me with some binoculars so done goes the rod tip with the "special" in the water. all ish caught in 28-35 t o water, the surace temp has warmed up a bit, was 53 when I got in and 68 when I pulled out at 230 PM ater busting o a rod at the second guide on another 1.8 spot on a jig over by clickapudi. Lots o olks out today, some 50 rigs were in at Jones Valley. Beautiul warm aternoon, lake moved up to 63 1/3 t with the rain rom last week. Pressure bite again today but the ish were a little more aggressive. All came o gentle slopes with wood around. Took the rod back to the retailer, she wrapped it up to send it o or a replacement. Jones Valley loat is still not repaired and is on the beach meaning you can't tie up on both sides o the loat.
      City: Redding