Fishing Report

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Monday, February 21st, 2000

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a real productive day on the water today, but it didn't start out that way. I started fishing at 12 noon, by missing a good bite flipping a tree w/ a jig. Continued down the bank and fished some small rock, where I picked up 1 on a jig, then 1 on a zipper. Those were my only bites until 4pm!! Then I found a bank that was stacked with fish!! In the next hour I caught 6 fish, and missed 4 or 5 good thunks. I was throwing a Rodstrainer Jig in 10'-20' of water. Only problem with today was that all the fish were small, right around 2lbs, but there were alot of them.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Unsettled post frontal conditions made the afternoon bite tough. Fish slow, and try slightly deeper water.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero Saturday (2/19) - midday for a couple of hours. One bite, one bass, one pound. Still beats watching TV. Fish hit a mojo-rigged 4 inch black/chartreuse tail power worm. Tossed rattle trap, bigger plastics, not a bite. Conditions were good, just couldn't find fish that were active.

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      Water Temp: low 50's

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a real productive day on the water today, but it didn't start out that way. I started fishing at 12 noon, by missing a good bite flipping a tree w/ a jig. Continued down the bank and fished some small rock, where I picked up 1 on a jig, then 1 on a zipper. Those were my only bites until 4pm!! Then I found a bank that was stacked with fish!! In the next hour I caught 6 fish, and missed 4 or 5 good thunks. I was throwing a Rodstrainer Jig in 10'-20' of water. Only problem with today was that all the fish were small, right around 2lbs, but there were alot of them.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Unsettled post frontal conditions made the afternoon bite tough. Fish slow, and try slightly deeper water.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero Saturday (2/19) - midday for a couple of hours. One bite, one bass, one pound. Still beats watching TV. Fish hit a mojo-rigged 4 inch black/chartreuse tail power worm. Tossed rattle trap, bigger plastics, not a bite. Conditions were good, just couldn't find fish that were active.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: LAUNCHED OUT OF SUGAR BARGE ON SATURDAY, 2/19, OUT GOING TIDE, PICKED UP ONE 2LB. RIGHT ON THE WALL FIRST THING, LOST ANOTHER SLIGHTLY BIGGER. PULLED A FIVE OFF THE NORTH END FRANKS TRACT,PARTNER PULLED A THREE. RAN TO HOLLAND AREA, PULLED TWO MORE THREE'S OFF THE ROCKS W/CURRENT, ALL FISH CAME ON A FIVE INCH ZIPPER, CRAWFISH SCENT A MUST. CURRENT SEEMED TO DO THE TRICK ON THE OUTGO, NOTHING ON THE INCOME. FISHED SLOW, I HAD 5 BITES, FOUR FISH. SHOULD HAVE BEEN FISHING A TOURNAMENT!! BEST QUALITY FISH IN TWO WEEKS. RAN SOME BLADES/CRANKS, NOTHING. STILL FISHING SLOW.
      City: LAFAYETTE

      Tips: STAY IN CONTACT WITH YOUR BAIT AND THE BOTTOM. THE BITE IS SOFT, SOMETIMES JUST A LINE MOVEMENT. WATCH CLOSE AND BE READY.KEEP YOUR BAIT SCENTED IF USING PLASTICS. BRASS AND GLASS,1/8 OZ.

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: went out and caught nothing. I used jigs worms and a plug. not even a bit snagged a jig in some rocks though watter is really muddy about 4 inches o visibility. one guy caught a carp and another caught a pair o cats.
      City: cv

      Tips: nope

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      Water Temp: 50+

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: i ished or 4 hours with bright colored jigs switched to a rattlin viper than i tried small iness jig a renzy cran a yozuri jerkbait i tried blade an A.C.plug plastic worm i tried everything and not a bite
      City: castro valley

      Tips: dont go

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Needed to get out to erase my utter ailure that wasBerryessa last Saturday. No reaction ish in my usualhaunts so I plied those areas with plastics. Splitshottin'Seducer plastics in water rom 6-20 eet deep workedlater in the day. Caught three ish to 2.5 lbs. (1 smallie,2 spots). Ran into Scott Williamson up the north orkand witnessed him catch a 6 lb.+ catish on a darter head zipper worm (got the photo or evidence). Nice ishon light line, all the ish were returned to the laketo ight another day.
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: Water temp will become a actor in the coming weeks, ishare starting to stage on the irst breakline near goodspawning lats. Just keep moving and trying dierent things until you connect, then duplicate that technique.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on Shasta. Fished mostly pit and a little bit o the Squaw. Got one nice small mouth and some pretty good spots. any were rom 10' to 30' on worms. Managed to get one on jig.
      City: Susanville

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: GREAT lake sonoma was great i cout my 5 bass 2/2/3/4/6lbscout them al on crank baits around warm spring
      City: petaluma

      Tips: silver cranks and jiges

Sunday, February 20th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I went on 2-20-00 and caught a 5 lb. carp within 3 hrs. of arriving. A lot of bites on night crawlers but no luck on bass.
      City: Cantua Creek

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      Water Temp: 55-57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the hook tournament, Pre-fished Saturday, developed a patern for Sunday. O.K THROW that out the door. Rained wind blew, fish scattered. Finally located 6 keepers, my partner stuck an 8.3oz HOGG, all cranking. started back for weigh-in ran into Monsoon conditions, Holland was an ocean with 3-5ft swells, went through Franks with bigger and rougher water conditions. made it to the river which was not as bad as expected. Well showed up 6 minutes late. Dumped 18lbs of fish including the HOGG. Can't wait to see how many points it cost us, or how much cash we are out of.
      City: CONCORD

      Tips: Played it smart, better to be safe than sorry, @ least thats what we are trying to tell each other. CRANK ROCK WALLS SLOW

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      Water Temp: 45-55 dagree

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bass were caught close to bank when tide was in on a Delta Craw,Char.green back, and white speed traps. Tide went out fish held fish geld in nearest stucture they could fined from the bank because of boats. White yellow sided lucky craft pointer. Rip slowly, 1 rip about every 3-6 seconds depends how warm the water tempature is. Most fish caught on the rocks, and wood. There were fish up to 6 1/2 lbs. Smallest was 3 3/4 pounds.
      City: Petaluma

      Tips: In delta when tide is low, find high spots away from the bank. Spots that are 3-4 feet below water seface. Fish the rocky banks and rocky points.

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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: launched out of Holland,fished rock slough, nothing.Went down below Orwood, threw blades,jigs,and Rattle traps. took two fish on pumpkinseed rattle trap. Lost about a 3 right at the boat. Just can't do that on tough bite days!!Ended up in Discovery bay to get out of the wind.Boy,do I love fishin.
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: 52.5-54.5

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Big Break @0830 headed out to Dutchman slough.Where are the fish?Threw everything including the kitchen sink.New to Delta fishing any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
      City: Napa

      Tips: Alot of floating debris;alot of boats going very fast.BE CAREFUL!!!!

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      Water Temp: 55-56

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Hello nutcases my partner Gary and I fished the valley bait and tackle tournament today and it was tough we fished north down from ladds and caught 1 2lb. on 4 in. worm. we threw cranks and blades,jigs you name it the water is real muddy and the wind made it even more difficult.the tourn. was won with 2 FISH THAT WENT ALMOST 18 LBS!!!!!!! (a 9.10 and do the math on the other they were caught on cranks south of ladds near franks tract,mildrid some nice fish were caught up that way wish we would have made the run. well all i can say is go south and fish blades,cranks (speed traps of course the best crank ever made in my opinoin) and good luck resting up for WCB in march on berreyessa. later dom the hawg hunter.
      City: livermore

      Tips: cranks,blades in the cleanest water you can find! remeber this is hawg season CATCH AND RELEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out in East side o the main body 3rd cast on large white Poe and bang a 5+ ished on down the bank hooked 2 more in the 2# range. We were ishing bare banks and grass in 5-10 eet hooked 2 more ish bite turned o on the poe started worming same type banks in 10-20 eet hooked 5 more beor the end o the day on pearl 4" w/blue blood line. Great day!!!!!!!
      City: Oakdale

      Tips: Bare banks with grass in 5-10 eet Pearl 4" w/blue blood line

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: 53.3-53.7

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA tournament on Feb 20th. Jr. Sanches got our irst ish on a citris shad excaliber medium diver on the main lake. We got another one on a smoke grey/purple lake 4" ring worm. Moved way up river and got two more ish with our biggest a 3.36 lbs. on a bluegill color 4" worm. We had our ish by 1110 hrs and never could get another bite total lbs 8.22 We are ishing the Northern Traverlers Region and had not been on the lake in over two years. Since the weather was getting bad we let ater weigh in so don"t know the winning weight and big ish. Weather: some rain, high winds sometimes and overcast all day.
      City: Marysville

      Tips: We saw a couple o bass in shallow water where there was inlowing water but could not get them to bite. Maybe a loating worm would have done the trick. Fish are moving up to pre-stage and crusing the shallows in the warmer incoming water 53.7.

Saturday, February 19th, 2000

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: Surace/ 55degre

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived on the lake about 10:00am. Lots o trout ishermen some bass. Me and my ishing partner started in on the old spanwing beds,water their was strained. I was carolina rigged with crawish pattern 4" worm and my ishing buddy was texas rigged/white grub. He had the irst bite,low and behold a 4.1 ounce trout, sucked up the old grub just like old bucket-mouth.First twenty minutes o ishing. Then I hooked into my ish 3lb bucket-mouth, sure elt good. Then another one about 2lbs.Then my partner hooked another trout about 3lbs, I asked him i he was going to ish or trout all day or what. He inally set the hook on one ,he had changed to a purple curly tail worm, it weighted about 2lbs. It was about2:oopm and we were getting hungry,we had three bass and three trout in the live well so time to eat. ater lunch a ront had moved in and ishing just ell o the edge. We let the lake eeling pretty good about how we had done considering the conditions. Well that is all or now (FISH ON) P.S. We were ishing 5 eet to 20 eet deep.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: We ished slow to almost dead slow, Glass bead and bass sliding sinker 10lb test super tu. Texas rigged 8lb test and shake the worm when stopped.

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      Water Temp: Surace/ 55degre

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Arrived on the lake about 10:00am. Lots o trout ishermen some bass. Me and my ishing partner started in on the old spanwing beds,water their was strained. I was carolina rigged with crawish pattern 4" worm and my ishing buddy was texas rigged/white grub. He had the irst bite,low and behold a 4.1 ounce trout, sucked up the old grub just like old bucket-mouth.First twenty minutes o ishing. Then I hooked into my ish 3lb bucket-mouth, sure elt good. Then another one about 2lbs.Then my partner hooked another trout about 3lbs, I asked him i he was going to ish or trout all day or what. He inally set the hook on one ,he had changed to a purple curly tail worm, it weighted about 2lbs. It was about2:oopm and we were getting hungry,we had three bass and three trout in the live well so time to eat. ater lunch a ront had moved in and ishing just ell o the edge. We let the lake eeling pretty good about how we had done considering the conditions. Well that is all or now (FISH ON) P.S. We were ishing 5 eet to 20 eet deep.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: We ished slow to almost dead slow, Glass bead and bass sliding sinker 10lb test super tu. Texas rigged 8lb test and shake the worm when stopped.