Fishing Report

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Friday, November 24th, 2000

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 51-52 deg's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Spent all day at the lake rom 8 am. to 5 pm. and caught 10 ish. big one was 17 inches and next 2 were 16 inches. I was using a drop-shot rig in 45 eet o water. Lots o boats but not to many catching ish. The bite was really light, like a small snap and them i would load up and nail em. it was the most patience i had in along time to ish like that but it put ish in the boat and i did have a 5 ish limit or close to 8 1/2-9 lbs. A good size or winter ish. good luck
      City: visalia

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

      Report: Main lake started at barretts cove south ramp went south 50 to 80' spooned and shaked worms 6" biggest 5 pds out o 9 weighed a little over 8 pounds. Last weekend ished in piny creek all day 1 on spooke 3 pounds one on brown & purple jig 3 pounds 1 on brown and brown jig 3 pounds. Limit or 8 pounds or 3 ish or 9 pounds decisions, decisions, decisions!
      City: Tracy

      Tips: GO FISHING!

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out this AM with Big Daddy, in at Jones Valley at 7am, temp was 37, out at 410pm, temp at 61, water down to 63.40 witha n/w wind 10-20 mph, went over by clickapudi or a quick one in the irst ive minutes, big daddy caught ive I was blanked, he only had one dink, ran up to the top o Squaw Creek where he dropshotted his irst ever drop shot ish, back down the Squaw near Baxter cove or another then returned to Clickapudi or another one. I got bit three times and missed all three. Get on up here Gary, there is a whole lot o water we have yet to prowl around on! There is a $100 per pound tourney next saturday being put on by the Cottonwood Bass Teams out o Bridge Bay (530)347-5178 and you can sign up as late as 15 minutes till blast o.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: not sure

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sonoma w/ ellow Nutcase Billy today rom 7:30-12:30. Dense og in the morning burned o later on. He landed 3 bass and missed a ew, I missed one and landed one. Nothing large. We caught them shaking small plastics in 30-40' o water. Water was very clear, 15-20'.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Shake small neutral colored plastics around the deep trees o rock.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2000

  • California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: This has turned out to be an annual thing since we live 15 minutes rom the lake, however only ish or 5 hours waiting or the turkey to inish. Headed or the Bear River arm and ished the deeper walls with jigs and worms and did quite well or the time there with a bunch o dinks, 3 or 4 in the 1 1/2 lb range, one 2 pounder and one real nice 4+ black bass. Camp Far has always been a better than average lake or nice ish and today was no exception. Launching was airly easy but not or a single person since you will have to all but beach the boat and those without a keel guard have to be especially careul. Water is still pretty clear and without all the power boats that you have in the summer, give this dandy little lake a try.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Jigs, brown/orange with single tail Yamamoto grub worked o the deeper walls and especially near ANY brush or stick-up. Fish came in water anywhere 10-15 eet, working the jig very slowly and you knew when they picked it up. Have un and see you on the water.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Starting to pick up looks like ish are going to shallow water. Caught 2 Bass today largest 8.12 and 7.00.
      City: Castro Valley

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2000

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: put in at Antlers, stopped at Charly Creek, one dink on a jig, ran south to sugarloa point, one dink, same jig, ran through the gooseneck to over near orked horn point and popped one more at 2.3 lbs, samejig, water down to 63.25 and stable, bottom scum starting to appear as the lake inishes turning over, in the water at 41 degrees out a 1pm in a balmy 61 degrees, water lat with calm winds out o the north. Spoke to two other guys, neither had a touch. trout very active on the surace in the gooseneck area. the dinks came out o 22 t o water, the larger one was in 8eet o water.
      City: Redding

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: hard ishing,4 ish all day.ished 30-50 eet.(points.)missed a ew at same depth.
      City: healdsburg

      Tips: missed 3 in a row on that long point on the right, just throughthe "s"turns as you are heading towards the 2 creeks.i you gosoon hit that spot.

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      Water Temp: 56 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass are holding in 30 to 60 eet o water. Use spoons and plastics, mainly grubs. Steelhead troll with leadcore in the 15 to 30 oot range on assorted needle ish, and kastmasters.
      City: Santa Rosa

Tuesday, November 21st, 2000

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished Clear Lake with clients Fri, Sat, and Mon. - all were late aternoon-night trips. I really hope my ingers thaw out soon - I am typing slowly! Friday started out good with me catching a 3 1/2 on a Rodstrainer jig by the metal wall near Rattlesnake Island, by hwy 20. Next stop was a rocky area a little north, where a client got one nearly 4 lbs on the same jig. Ater dinner, we worked rocky areas at the south end. One o the clients got his personal best, a nice 6-7 on a jumbo brush hog. Five minutes later, other client hooks a monster. I'm standing, ready with the net or what seems like ages, and the next thing I hear is "oh no"! That is always a rough time or me, when a client loses a huge bass. I know how excited they would be i they landed it. Anyway, he caught 3, other client 2, and me,1. Sat. night, one client and I landed 10 bass, with the biggest at 7-10. Our 5 best was 25 1/2 lbs. Sat. night the atmosphere was drier and slightly warmer, I mean, slightly less cold!! The ish were more aggressive, and a ew o them actually struck hard. We caught all our ish on Power Hogs and brush hogs, except the 7-10, which I caught on a Weapon Jig. Again we ished rocky areas with deep water access. Mon aternoon-night provided the weather I had been waiting or - some clouds and even less cold. Fishing should break open, right? Wrong! We only got 6 or 7 bites the whole trip. However, we were looking or quality, and we got it - 4 bass that weighed 4-10, 7-0, 7-1, and 7-6, or a little over 26 lbs. I could hot believe how dead the lake was, maybe because it was dead calm. The previous nights when we had so many bites, there was a slight breeze, which made a slight chop on the water, causing the ish to move shallower. We caught a lot o shallow ish on those night, but Mon night we were orced to try to get the deep ish to bite, and a ew did. They were caught in 20 to 30 eet o water on Weapon jigs. The brush hog bite was dead.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Always have a rog rigged with a jig, day or night. But have other rods rigged with other baits, and switch o oten. Bass change their preerences, even in the winter. That act was really driven home to me during those three trips. Also, shaking our worms and jigs worked well on Sat, but did not work on Mon. They just wanted the bait dragged very slowly. 'Tis the season or pressure bites, even when jig ishing.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Mid-Cal Bass will hold an open team tournament on november 26th at Lake McClure barretts cove north ramp.Entry ees are $50.00 per team with a $10.00 big ish option.Entries must be recieved by november 22nd or a $10.00 late ee will be charged at the lake. or more ino call (209)664-1286
      City: Denair

      Tips: please take good care o your ish, especially this time o year.Most ish must be stuck prior to putting in your live well.Carry a hypo needle in your tackle box. You can get one at your local arm supply store, a 16 gauge by 1 1/2 inch work well.Remember ,just because you practice catch and release doesn't mean that ish will live the next day, you must take that extra step i you want to preserve our ish population.

Monday, November 20th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake in sometime. Caught 11 fish on Spoons, swimbaits and dropshot rigs. Bite was good once you find them. The fish are spread out all over the lake but were better concentrated on the main lake points. Needed some crayfish to catch the toads I was seeing on the graph, but I'm not a live bait kind of guy. Fish I caught were from a 1 1/2 - 3 pounds and were looking pretty fat. Middle of the lake has fish busting shad but they are hard to stay with and move before you can set up on them. Don't recommend you waisting time on them unless they are really killing them and not moving to fast. Fish were on the bank and down to 30-36' in good numbers. Deeper than that and the numbers of them together were more sparse. Fished from 11AM to 4:30PM. Bite got better as the sun got lower. I'm sure the early AM would be good too.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake in sometime. Caught 11 fish on Spoons, swimbaits and dropshot rigs. Bite was good once you find them. The fish are spread out all over the lake but were better concentrated on the main lake points. Needed some crayfish to catch the toads I was seeing on the graph, but I'm not a live bait kind of guy. Fish I caught were from a 1 1/2 - 3 pounds and were looking pretty fat. Middle of the lake has fish busting shad but they are hard to stay with and move before you can set up on them. Don't recommend you waisting time on them unless they are really killing them and not moving to fast. Fish were on the bank and down to 30-36' in good numbers. Deeper than that and the numbers of them together were more sparse. Fished from 11AM to 4:30PM. Bite got better as the sun got lower. I'm sure the early AM would be good too.
      City: Mountain View

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished until 2 pm, had to leave biting fish. Morning bite was O.K. Caught most of fish on jigs with dropoffs and shelves in moving water. Just let jig slip into dropoffs and bites were pressure bites. Caught a few Senko fish in 6 to 10 feet of water with slow current mid morning. Lunch time the bite picked up and the fish were slamming the jig pretty hard. Numbers of fish to 3 lbs.
      City: racy

      Tips: All fish were in current and found on ledges, no shallow flip bite for me on structure. Water was clear for the Delta so use stealth mode.

Sunday, November 19th, 2000

  • Los Angeles County, California
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      Water Temp: 63*

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Frist time at Castaic ( windy S.O.B.)! Did'nt know where to start, hit the rist cove on the east arm, saw some other boats in it and thought it might pay o. Tied on a worm and hit the rocks, rigdes, drops os, switched to crawstried it agin, tied on a ball buster spiner and got a littlehit, switched to a dierent spiner(color & size) Nothing!that was about an hour! I ought the white caps across thelake to try my luck. Found another cove with nothing in it.I talked to someother ishermen, everyone said they did about as well as I did. There was a "American BASS Southern Caliornia Team Tournament" the day beor (11/18) but I dont think they ished the lake out! I have better luck at Lake Skinner! I might go back but not to soon.I just wounder how the tournament did?
      City: Whittier

Saturday, November 18th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 50-52

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my last tournement of the year out of Ladds. There were alot of boats on the water that morning due to the fact that there were a couple of club tournements going out of there also. My partner and I ran to our first stop up town a ways and tried to get the flip fish I had going but to no avail. We run to our crankbait water which overall has been our most consistant bite and pulled seven fish in five passes down this bank with five being keepers between 1 1/4 to 2 3/4 Lbs.We caught those fish on red med. crankbaits, When the tide got right we made our run to our primary water were my partner caught a 4.4 on a shad colored model A bomber, culled out a couple more fish and at 11:45 we were done. We weighed in 16 3/4 and took third.
      City: Galt

      Tips: Fish would not touch a RattleTrap for us with the water temp. dropping the way it did, we had to crank SLOWWWW and I mean slow! The Crankbait had to be crawled through the rocks and the bite was VERY soft, if you set the hook you missed the fish, you had to let the fish load the rod and then reel set them. We used red crankbaits for all our fish exept my partners big fish. Good luck and God bless!!

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: caught 7 ish, 2 went 3 lbs. and 1 was 2 1/2 lbs. all the rest were dinks. Used 3/4 oz. jigs.
      City: visalia

Thursday, November 16th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: this wind sure does blow!
      City: concord

      Tips: try what you think works. then try what you think doesn't.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2000

  • Kane County, Arizona
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNOVEMBER 14, 2000 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.comLake Elevation: 3675 Water temperature: 55-57 FWeather

      Tips: Jigging spoons

Monday, November 13th, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 57'-59'

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA yesterday out of Putah Creek. Very cold at blast off, but sun came out and warmed things up a bit. We started in the Vineyards carolina rigging baby brush hogs, cranking and ripping. We saw 6-8 fish caught near us early, how frustrating.We got our first keeper at 9am. Ended up with 8 keepers for the day, good enough for 9.95 lbs(best five) and 9th place.(72 boats in all).I caught four keepers spitshotting a 4" weenie, my partner got his 4 with the brush hog. I heard that two teams had 17 lbs,+.(what were they doing?)
      City: San Leandro

      Tips: Be persistent, throw what you believe in. Downsize if you must when the cold snap hits.