Fishing Report

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Saturday, September 23rd, 2000

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 73-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started ishing app 6 am,caught 20 to 25 bass rom 8in too 14 3/4 in.All on plastic's,rom small worms too 6in.Caught 4 bass on salt & pepper,rest came on a varity o colors.Line size,4 to 8 lb test & 1/32 to 1/8 oz jij heads.We hung it up at app 1:15 pm.
      City: Riv

      Tips: Wind blown coves

  • Riverside County, California
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      Water Temp: 73 degrees

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Caught all my ish on the dam.I was ishing cranks early then when action slowed went to the drop shot and really cleaned house. biggest ish was 5lbs plus a ew 3 to 4 pounders the rest were nothing to talk about .I was ishing a at ree ry in the white pattern in the A.M. and then went to a 3" slug that is made by american ishing products in the mint pepper color,this color is the ticket on slow days on perris
      City: newport beach

      Tips: instead o shaking the drop shot rig try casting it and slowly dragging it with the rod and reeling up the slack

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 69-71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Picked up my uncle rom Indiana at 130pm and he had me in the water by 4 pm, went up to the upper McCloud out o Hirz Bay, Nosoni creek provided one small dink, moved south to Kamloops, nothing in the rocks so moved over to the shady side on red dirt banks, lots o taps, picked up three more,all legal with one to 2 1/2 lbs, on jigs, ish in 12-15 teet o water on main lake points, weather has cooled orm 103 on wednesday to 75-80 degrees now, very pleasant out, got out at 7pm, will be back at it in the morning.
      City: Redding

  • California
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      Water Temp: 60-70's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My riend Jason and I trolled starting at about seven in the morning using kokonee bugs with corn and worm on the hook. We caught one trout about 12 inches and a kokonee around 15 inches.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Kokonee are changing color and their lips are curving in to look more like a salmon. They will be starting to spawn so you won't be catching many. Night crawler is the best bet or trout

Friday, September 22nd, 2000

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 68*-70*

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched rom the park in lakeport, headed to Henderson tothrow a crank bait and caught allot o 4" bass decided to throw a luke and watched those little bass in buches try to eat the luke, tried ripping a crank bait and stuck a BIGcrappie. Rain came threw about 8;30-9 O'clockThe lake is about 6' down, ran to nice and lucern with no bites. inally stuck a keeper right outside the anchorage Inn. o the water by 1:30.Along time ago I expierienced the same type o bite , we caught close to 300 small bass in two days and very ew large bass were caught , almost like the lake was turning over.P.P.
      City: Martinez

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Put my loat tube in at the Wittenberg Arm at sunrise. Had some action in the sticks on topwater jerkbaits. Wind picked up early, about 10 AM.
      City: Santa Maria

Thursday, September 21st, 2000

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow, we just got our nice trip in beore the howling delta winds hit, and the temp dropped 20+ degrees. Client and I started about 6 PM and I got a 13" bass on the second cast, luckly not the irst! It hit a Rodstrainer jig. The heat had put the shad down, so there was not much surace activity at all. I did get a 2 1/4 pounder on a chug bug topwater bait. Just beore dark, client gets a nice 2 1/2 pounder on a Terminator spinnerbait near the mouth o Jackson creek. Ater dark, or an hour or so, we had the customary dead time. Then, about 9:30, I had a good tick on a 12" Power Worm and was able to land a at 6 pounder in the main body. She was about 20 eet deep. Two casts later, I mistook a big bass or a clump o weeds, and missed it. What a sickening eeling!! I caught 2 more worm ish, one almost 3 pounds. Finally, my client, who was ishing a Weapon jig, set the hook on a good 'un, and I get to net a beautiul 7 lb 3 oz beauty. This was about 11:45 PM, and the ish seemed to be moving a bit shallower - he caught her in about 10 eet o water. Ater I caught another shallow worm ish, about 2-6, client hooked another big one, but lost it in some wood. About 1 AM, the delta breeze started, the moist air set in, and the bass went out, somewhere. They just shut o. A very nice trip with 8 bass total, with top ive at about 21 lbs. Not bad or a Sept. evening at Amador!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Water temp will have to cool a bit or the surace activity to pick up. Reaction baits just wern't working well or us. Seems to be a worm and jig bite - 10 to 25 eet, on steep banks and some points. Don't shake worm or big ish - just pull it - slowly!!

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Started out looking for stripers with a friend from out of town. The stripers were nowhere to be found in the south this am. Started fishing for the green ones in the middle Delta and found a flip bite on Senko's that lasted until 2pm when we left. We boated lots of 12 to 14 inch fish. Had one over four and a couple of three's. All senko fish, couldn't get a jig bite going.
      City: Tracy

      Tips: The lower temps today (80's) may have kept the fish up. Senko's on tule points near rocks and current.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday 9/17/00.Wasted 1 hour driving to Hayward to PU a "riend" who begged me to take hom ishing. He never answered the door!!! Reminds me o whu I usually ish alone. Even with the 45 minute delay I was still at the gate (2nd in line) prior to opening.Seeing as how it was still dark I thought I would change my normal routine or the day. I bought 12 JUMBO minnows the day beore and ocused on Stripers. I hit every spot I had ever caught, seen or heard o a striper being caught. I kept 2 poles ready with dierent LARGE top water lures. I drited them deep, I drited them shallow, I tossed them into deep holes. NO LUCK! Hey it was a long shot anyway! How many people do you know who actually have caught stripers at Dell Valle. I have caught 2 and I believe hooked 2 others in the last 10 years.I strted ishing or bass with the let over minnow and had a great day. Caught 5 bass in about 2 hours. 1 at about 4 lb (at!!), 3 at 2.5 and 1 13 inch. Not sure how that little one ate that JUMBO!Switched to trolling about 11;30 Am. Trolled at 27 t deep and had 3 dolid hits in 1.5 hour. Caught a 13 inch trout and a 3 lb trout. Third one wrapped up in the down rigger cable and broke o. No salmon today!
      City: remont

      Tips: 4 inch white worm or JUMBO minnows! Rocky shorelines in 15 to 25 t.

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 77-78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: started o in greasy cove and only got one dink. ater wasting 2 hours there it was dark and we moved over to the dam and killed them. mt buddy je and i caught 20 bass along the dam and missed probably that many, they were on the shore and bitting hard. my biggest went 3 lbs. and we had 6 other keepers. moved over to the point across the marina and picked up 5 more on lizards and let at 1 a.m. . most were caught on 7 inch worms.
      City: visalia

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

      Report: Thought I'd never catch a ish here! ished one hour beore park closed on my loat tube trying a top water popper and caught our ish in the 1 lb range, small but there bitting.
      City: san jose

Wednesday, September 20th, 2000

  • Tulare County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-77

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: the bite was alittle slow and only caught 15 ish but i caught 2- 2 1/2 lbs. on back to back casts with crankbait. ished with grubs, cranks and worms ater dark.
      City: visalia

Tuesday, September 19th, 2000

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had jury duty in the AM so I went ishing in the PM o a very hot day. Caught a 1.5 on the back side o rattlesnake on a 208 senko. I thought, this is easy--wrong. Extremely clear water--no wind at all I saw millions o small bass(under 8") cruising shallows and nibbling on my senko. Fished docks, rocks, etc and no bites. At 6 pm, headed or thick wood by redbud. Caught two 3.5's. One one a senko, one on a rog. three more 1.5-2.5's on senko. Saw hal o them eat it. Fished shag rock at dark. Caught two 2 lbs on a brushog and one 3.5 on a 10" worm. Might have stayed later than 9 pm, but I had to work the next day. One interesting thing happened. I crank a set o 4 pipes in the aternoon. Today, I hit a bunch o moss w/the crank. A seven lb and a bunch o 4's and 5's ollowed the moss encrusted bait to the boat as I jerked it to try to get rid o the moss. Ater that, nothing would entice them. I wonder i a rip bait might have gotten a second glance.................
      City: Yuba City

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

      Report: Mid-Cal Bass will hold an open team tournament on october 22nd at barrett cove (north ramp).Entry ee is $50.00 per team with a $10.00 big ish option, entries must be recieved by october 18th or a $10.00 late ee will be charged at the lake. or more ino e-mail or call Kevin at (209) 664-1286 . see you on the water!!!
      City: Denair

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: looking basck at my last post and did some back tracking, I have had 284 trips on the lake since moving here on 12-31-98, on ive trips I didn't catch anything so I guess I can't comlain too much. Went out o Jones Valley at 8 pm over to squaw point, a dink on the irst cast, now i'm eeling better, poked around a bit and moved to Clickapudi and picked up 6 more, two were nice, water temp back up a ew degrees, lake down to 58 1/3 t, Clickapudi cove is really down now, at 11:30 pm the north wind started to howl so I moved over to a north bank near brushy canyon and picked up two more to 2 1/2 lbs, all on jigs. The wind really started moving at midnight so got o the water. Most ish taken in 15 t or less but did stick one at closer to 30 t beore the wind started blowing. in the water at 103 degrees, out at 87 degrees, things should cool o by Saturday, was 106 today.
      City: Redding

Monday, September 18th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: On water at 9:00 a.m. out of Paradise Point Marina with son, John. Continuing our learning of the Delta,

      Tips: Given similar conditions, I'd suggest a very slow retrieve, on or near bottom, on outside edge of weeds, with Texposed-hooked black-blue flake Senko. Fishing parallel to weed-edge optimizes time of exposure of the lure.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 70-72'

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished club event Sat.night.No wind,70" and comortable.Tried several rock piles,including 6-8 at Rattlesnake,with no luck. Had only one ish in the boat at 3am,so I went to sleep.At 4am my non-boat lipped one onto my belly.From then on it was a good bite,as we caught ive ish,and lost three,lipping blk/blu jigs under the docks in Pirates cove. The moon was pretty bright,and the bass were under the shade or some reason. I heard reports that at Frazier,the bite turned on at midnight to 2am. I guess the ish move up in mass at dierant times all over the lake.
      City: San Leandro

Sunday, September 17th, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite - 1 small mouth for 2.8# dragging a christmas grub, weight 1/8 oz. Putah Creek, Only fished for 3 hours, got too hot so returned to AC house. Results on 9/17, fish

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: On the 16th, launched out of Ladds, realized there was tourney goin on when i saw about 30 glowin lights on boats, pretty neat to see a blast off ...had never seen one before. Anyhow , first spot we fished was inside buckley cove, friend caught two fish usin a white buzz bait. Tide started goin out so we went to flipping senkos and some 4 inch power worms. I caught 2 bass on the power worm, a keeper and one small one. My friend tore it up with the senkos, nothin really big in size, biggest goin 1.9 pounds but he caught 5 fish off of the senko. Went over into the port and i put on a spinnerbait, my friend was tellin me how they use spinners to catch striper out here, as soon as he got done with that i nailed a striper, put up a good fight but just under 18 so i tossed him back. Went out on the 17th to Brannon Island hopin for a little better luck and some better size, welp shows what i know, had one bit, set my hook, had him on , lost him in the weeds....only action i got all day. My friend caught 5 i think total biggest probably around 2 or 2.5. Too damn hot out there , however did get a nice farmer tan!
      City: Galt

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing the Fresno club tourny Sun. We put in at Flemming. Blast o was 6:00am. Ran stright to the Woods and proceeded to throw about everything we had or the next couple o hours...we blanked big time. We started moving back towards the power lines hitting all the spots that should have been hot...I got a couple o promising strikes worming, & my partner caught a ew dinks on a jerkbait. He igured out that the most productive areas were the cuts that we had by-passed earlier...He produced a 1.5lber and they went cold again. We begain working our way back towards Flemming, and decided to work a rocky point that we had up until then neglected to ish. 2:15pm 6.75lber BLADEING in 15t. o water about 4t. down. I took 4th in the tourny with one ish... Which should answer your questions as to how diicult the bite was. I ish with some great guys who know how to put ish in the well...it was a tu day or most.
      City: Fresno

      Tips: Go with what you know! Persistance pays o.