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Friday, November 10th, 2000

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: ???????

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: RAIN. BASS ARE GOOD. GO TO ME WEB SITE WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/JESSSE55/
      City: OCEANSIDE

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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: rainy bass is is good, but some guy ound a 17-9 loating in the water sitll alive because to mach sun. GO TO MY WEB SITE WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/JESSSE55/ THINK
      City: oceanside

      Tips: SPINNER BAITS ARE GOOD

Thursday, November 9th, 2000

  • Leon County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I have read a lot o reports o anglers who have come upempty handed with big bass, although everyone sees themhanging around at the boat docks.My riend and I do verywell in the summer months ree weighting worms and dartingthem along the surace. In order to catch these pickyish(5-10 pounders) try using Castaic yellow perch.People say that yellow perch are pests at Laayette, butI see them as just the opposite. I see them a a stable oodsupply or the largemouth bass there. They are easier orthe bass to catch because they are slender, unlike thebluegill there. I have landed bass up to eleven poundsduring the late hours o the day(6:00pm-7:30). Think aboutit. How many times have you landed a yellow perch and seena bass ollow it to the boat? It is tempting to use itas bait but that is unortuately illegal there.The big bass congregate around the baot dock duringall months o the year. Try the Castaic Yellow perchand see i you have any luck. Laayette has the healthiestpopulation o bass in the bay, but the are all REALLY smart.GOOD LUCK! Gone ishin'NOTE: I you catch a big one, let it go and take a picture so thepopulation stays healthy. I your going to keep your ishmake sure you dont keep them during pre spawn and spawn toensure a uture poulation.
      City: Piedmont

      Tips: Castaic TROUT and Castaic YELLOW PERCH

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing was slow, we caught 2 keeper bass. 1 o the road at Bernisconi Beach and another o o waterslide point.1 ish was caught on a split-ahot brown worm and the other was caught on a brown worm drop-shot rig.
      City: costa mesa

      Tips: Where are the ish ?

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went back over near the Rockpile with my knot tying problems over and put two in the boat in 5 minutes, a 2.7 and a 1.7, both spots were tossing very small shad when boated, the smaller o the two swallowed my dropshotted worm and committed suicide, water clear to 15 t, lake at 62.5 and stable, no wind but a storm is on the way, some surace activity noted, trout and small bass chasing the little 3/4 inch shad, thanks to all you nutcases or resolving my palomar knot problem, I was getting one loop over the other instead o them being side by side on the eye o the hook.
      City: Redding

Wednesday, November 8th, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I fished with a client yesterday in a very cold wind, oddly enough, coming out of the west. After 3 days of high winds, the bite was tough for numbers of fish, but the quality was excellent. We fished Markley Cove, the narrows, and part of the main lake. The day started poorly for me, as I lost a great smallmouth between 2 1/2 and 3 pounds. on a Rodstrainer jig. We were targeting larger fish with jigs and 6 to 8 inch worms. Our 5 largest bass weighed about 10 1/2 lbs, which I though was good considering the weather. We caught 3 nice spots to 2 1/4, and 2 largemouth about the same size. We caught 3 other tournament keepers, and one dink on a crankbait. We did well on windy points, but it was tough to fish, since the fish were deep midday. We tried all the reaction baits and topwater, but no response from the bass. which was not a surprise.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: It was proven again to me that jigs and larger worms will produce bigger bass, if folks have the patience to fish them slow when conditions dictate.

Monday, November 6th, 2000

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Guided Friday night and again on Saturday. The night trip was kind o tough - lots o short bites. We only put 5 in the boat but two were nice - a 4-5 on a 10" black/chartreuse Power Worm, and a at 6-4 on a Weapon jig. One was caught in the main body and the other in Mountain Spring. Our other ish were 2-12, 2, and about 1 pound, all on jigs. We tried very hard to get the deep, quality ish to bite - didn't work. We ound the two big ish on steep dropos in shadows. Crankbaits and spinnerbaits did not produce or us.The trip on Saturday was un, with 6 bass caught. The clients were late, so we missed the early bite. Didn't start till 7 am. All o our ish were caught on Rodstrainer jigs rom 10 to 35 eet o water. Client got the biggest - a 2-10 on an island top. We had a couple o 2 pounders and the rest about 1 1/2 lbs. Lots o pressure on the lake, mostly trout ishermen. Shad schools could be ound rom the surace to 70 eet. Amazing. The bass are at all depths now, but there was no topwater. We might have started too late or topwater, but we tried.
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Jigs seemed to be producing well, day and night. Maybe because o the sudden cold weather, the reaction bite seemed to die at Amador. No ish working shad, even the shad on the surace. Water had dropped rapidly, moving the ish deeper.

Sunday, November 5th, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 62-67

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Anglers world team tourney out of Putah creek marina. My partner and I finished 4th with 10.68lbs. 1st was 11.6lbs, 2nd 10.8lbs, 3rd 10.7lbs. We caught all our keeper fish on topwater in open water. Spotted lot's of suspended fish in open water so we patiently waited for the fish to break and made long casts to catch them. Most action came later in the day about 1 hour prior to weight in. Caught some smaller fish on 4-6in wennies on almost every point we fished. In all we caught 20-25 fish. Lot's of fun.
      City: Suisun

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Are there still fish in this lake? Launched at 8:30, fished till 4:45.....caught 1 13 incher on a c-rigged worm, and that was it!! I tried lots of other techniques, no luck. I saw other guys catch some fish....I think it was just one of those days for me. Next time I'll hit the Delta.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Fish somewhere else.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Are there still fish in this lake? Launched at 8:30, fished till 4:45.....caught 1 13 incher on a c-rigged worm, and that was it!! I tried lots of other techniques, no luck. I saw other guys catch some fish....I think it was just one of those days for me. Next time I'll hit the Delta.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Fish somewhere else.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Hook Tournament Sunday. Had a great day on the water and caught a lot of fish, but only 4 keepers for 8.19#. I made a few bad decisions and did not have the tide timing right. I fished from Big Break to the south Delta with all my fish coming in the south. Fish were aggressive and hitting shad pattern crank baits. Fish were relating to weed lines that dropped into deep water and points with current. When I would hit an area that was holding fish I usually would catch 3-10 fish from that area. Lots of small fish with occasional keepers mixed in. Best fish (about 3#) came on a point that was covered with a huge school of shad.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Cover a lot of water and when you find an area that is holding good fish slow down and figure that place out. In the Winter the Delta can be very productive if you find the areas that are holding fish.

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      Water Temp: 53 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Son, John, and I again departed Paradise Point Marina at 9:00 a.m. to fish the northeastern part of the Delta. Enjoyed another fun day on the delta, with very pleasant weather (mild wind), and few fish to top it off. Caught four small (1.5

      Tips: Crank the lure (red/black crankbait) down 'til it makes bottom contact, pause, resume retrieve, pause, resume, etc. Stikes came after resuming retrieve. Concentrate on outside edge of weeds, or on rock banks with few weeds.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 56 - 58 F

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held its inal regular season event o year @ Clear Lake on Sunday, November 5. Winning weight (4 ish) was 21.49 lb, including 7.79 lb beauty & another hawg over 7 lb. Second place was 5 ish or 16.35 lb, & 3rd place was 4 ish or 15.83 lb, including 6.71 lb toad. Another bass o 7.78 lb was weighed in as well. Sixteen anglers participated. Bass went primarily or crankbaits, spinnerbaits, & buzzbaits.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: I you'd like more ino about club, send me an e-mail or check out our website @ http://scbbbc.homestead.com.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: well i had a great day on sunday. I managed to take out three o my riends who have no idea how to ish and have a un time. Well i had un i manajed to catch 8 ish in our hours 10-2the biggest going 2.5. i only got to ish about hae the time because i was baby sitting my riends with thier snags and such. Oh well had un any ways. caught the ish on luckey crat stasy on all types o banks only picked up the worm rod once because my riends used them the whole day. good luck i igure that i i would have dropshotted or shock worms i would have loaded the boat on some o my avorite rock piles.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 61

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: in at Jones Valley at 630 AM, at 47 degrees and out a 11AM, 2 caught, one was a monster 10 incher but the other went 2.8lbs near the rockpile in the pit, talaked two three others, one caught 7 with thre keepers on spoons, the other two said the didn't catch anything, Martens won the Bassmasters again, Japanese gentleman came in 2nd, Townsend rom redding came in third, winning wight was about 32 lbs or three days, lake at 62.12 eet and stable, jones valley resort is closed, went salmon ishing over on the smith river with Mick (1-(800)-248-4704) last thursday with the river way down but still caught 20 ish, mostly bright jacks to 8 lbs and kept a god hen o 15 lbs, all were chrome bright, some had lice still hanging on, ish caught on roe, the bass today were chucking crawdads when I got them in
      City: Redding

Saturday, November 4th, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 63-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Great weather today. Fished 4 hours in the narrows. Caught 10 bass from 12" to 2 lbs. splitshotting 4-6" magicworms (#62 best), most in 15-20 ft. off points (best 5 maybe 8.5 lbs). One 2 lb. smallmouth in a cove and one 2 lb. largemouth in shallow (5 ft.)water off rocky point. Nothing on crank or spinner.
      City: Vacaville

      Tips: Temp. dropping every week. Be patient/slow with the light gear/worms and the fish will bite. No consistant pattern yet but you can run into some fish almost anywhere.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished tournement out of Ladds, had no clue prefishing Friday on what the fish were doing because of fishing the B.A.S.S Fed. Toc. at oroville the week prior. My partner and found spinnerbait and crankbait fish in practice so we figured we might do ok. At blast off we ran like crazy to get to our first rock before the fog came in. We started off throwing 1/2 red crawdad rattle traps and in a 200 yard stretch of bank we had our limit of 1 1/2 to 2 1/4 fish,running to our second spot my partner flipped a 3lb on a blk blu gitzit. We finally ran to our main bank and culled out everything we had,'but the 3lb bass' on red med. diving crankbaits and our Big fish came on a DUH!!! 1/2 oz shad colored spinnerbait, We took second place with a weight of 19lb 8oz.
      City: Galt

      Tips: Best bite seemed to be on the first half of tide change. Work your crankbaits SLOWWW, just crawl them though the weeds and hold on. Spinnerbait bite; pitch your bait to the rocks, if fish does not hit in first 3ft reel in and throw again. Fish are now schooling in weight classes if you find one fish there should be more close by... Good luck and God bless!!!

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I also ished saturday on the banks hopeing that the bass would be in the shallows hitting shad but they werent the trout were. I saw the weigh in on saturday i saw the monster bass (10 pounder). I ished rom 5:30 am til 6:00 pm my buddy and I walked the banks rom dotins point to the north ork. we caught 5 ish> we caught three in the mourning o a spittin image(topwater)then two at night o the same thing.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Don't know threw every thing hardly any ish

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      Water Temp: 58-60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: 6th Annual Shambre Invitational is now in the books with alot o IMPRESSIVE ish weighed in. Todd Crockett and Chuck Zaulers win with 15.6 lb. bag and a 10.1 big ish. They caught this ish "towing" a Castaic Trout in deep water. The top three all stated that they had caught their ish deep and mostly on plactics, but there was a brie reaction bite irst thing in the morning (although I didn't notice it). 34 ish weighed in or 60.6 lbs or a 1.78 lb average. The lake is on the verge o turning over, the bait and bass are still deep, so the Classic boys next week should have their hands ull with a totally dierent lake than when they preished prior to the cuto.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: move ast and cover water.

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did not hit the water until 9 am. Graphed alot o ish at 30' to 40' but only managed to catch three split shotting a 4" green weenie worm. All three averaged 2 1/2 lbs.. Tried spooning but no takers. Let at 1 pm. The three came o o points at mouth o coves in approx. 15' on both sides o lake out o the south ramp o Barretts.
      City: Delhi