Fishing Report

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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.

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Very tough bite for my first tournament of the new millenium. Hooked a 3 lb. smallie near Steele park Resort on a crankbait, but came off at the boat. Felt plenty of fish while wormin' around 25 feet, but it was the strangest bite I've ever encountered. It was a pressure bite, but the fish would only pick up the tail and just hang on. Teeth marks all over my worms and even some half worms, but no solid takers. Caught a short fish right before weigh-in. Total talley 0 fish for 0 lbs. Tough day for me.
      City: ROSEVILLE

      Tips: Lots of guys were hitting the submerged weed line in about 5-8 feet of water with darter head plastics.

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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the Newbass team tournament, bite was tough we caught a total of 8 fish culling one fish for 6 th. place. Early fish came on crankbait later came on jigs.Oh yea 7 fish 11.5 lbs
      City: Granite Bay

      Tips: Be patient, fish slow

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: The magic finge

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got up too late to take the boat up to the delta so drove on down to Calero for some bank fishin'. Hadn't been there in about 15 years so couldn't remember any bottom features. In order to be productive as possible, I set up a camp chair about 100' south of the ramp to be able to enjoy any Ramp Follies. :) Had several bites and actually caught a coupla 2 pounders by dragging a watermelon brush hog across the bottom. This area was fairly flat, about 2-3' deep, with what felt like small rocks. Water was muddy due to two ski boats that were out there. The nibbles fell off about 3 PM and I tried the point north of the ramp. Too weedy and too shallow. Went over and walked the bank from the dam down to the picnic area and got a coupla half-hearted bites, still on the brush hog. Saw Sea Ray or C-Rig (??????) getting into his tube when I first got there. Any luck? The ranger came around, carded me, and asked what I had caught. Said he had heard everyone was doing well with 2-5 basses each, even with the rain. Nice to see a ranger take an interest in the fishing! Can't tell you if this was a good or bad day for Calero but the weather was nice and it was a LOT better'n getting skunked! Sorry, no Ramp Follies to report. Bill
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Bring a watercraft! The small rock wall almost directly across the pond from the ramp seemed to be a popular place. Also, get outta bed early enough to get your boat in the water!!! <:-

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      Water Temp: The magic finge

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Got up too late to take the boat up to the delta so drove on down to Calero for some bank fishin'. Hadn't been there in about 15 years so couldn't remember any bottom features. In order to be productive as possible, I set up a camp chair about 100' south of the ramp to be able to enjoy any Ramp Follies. :) Had several bites and actually caught a coupla 2 pounders by dragging a watermelon brush hog across the bottom. This area was fairly flat, about 2-3' deep, with what felt like small rocks. Water was muddy due to two ski boats that were out there. The nibbles fell off about 3 PM and I tried the point north of the ramp. Too weedy and too shallow. Went over and walked the bank from the dam down to the picnic area and got a coupla half-hearted bites, still on the brush hog. Saw Sea Ray or C-Rig (??????) getting into his tube when I first got there. Any luck? The ranger came around, carded me, and asked what I had caught. Said he had heard everyone was doing well with 2-5 basses each, even with the rain. Nice to see a ranger take an interest in the fishing! Can't tell you if this was a good or bad day for Calero but the weather was nice and it was a LOT better'n getting skunked! Sorry, no Ramp Follies to report. Bill
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Bring a watercraft! The small rock wall almost directly across the pond from the ramp seemed to be a popular place. Also, get outta bed early enough to get your boat in the water!!! <:-

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Holland Riverside. Fished Rock Slough, then Connection Cut, and Mildred. Threw spinnerbaits, jigs, worms. Tried current breaks, tule islands, riprap. Water was very high, saw levees overflowing in places I never thought would happen. Water was not as muddy as I expected. Should have cranked, 'cause we got skunked. Hey Cooch, when can I have that jig lesson?
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Go fishing with someone who knows more than I do. :-)

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: My riend and I had a decent day today. We caught 17-20 ish. Most were in the 1 3/4 lb.class to 2 1/2 lb. We did take one at about 3 1/2 to 4 lb. In the morning we worked deep 30-40 t. Took all largemouth, all good ish. As the day warmed we started taking ish in shallower water but they were mostly spots at about 1 3/4 lbs. Took all ish on jig and pig, and keeper worms.Good luck
      City: Galt

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: didnt check

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ished the redwood empire this past weekend on the 19th.water color went rom choclate milk by rocky to gin clear by konocti. liped 5 or 12.99 by noon by the state park.all o them came on the outside 2 eet o the sparse tules.6-8 t. deep also seemed to be the ticket. spent the rest o the day bladin up north, probably shouldve cranked.missed one on a tandem 1/4 oz neutral colored blade . top 3 weights were cought crankin around rocky and little rocky point in the chocalate milk real shallow.23#s,22#s,22#s were 1st 2nd and 3rd,two tens got weighed in and a nine all beautiul ish .hope this helps you guys out. good luck any body ished oroville lately ?? email me at MTuckjr@aolishin a redman up there and any sugestions would be appreciated. thanks
      City: santa rosa

      Tips: crank up north in the dirty water or blade realy slow on the outside o the tules.

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      Water Temp: 43-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Had a tounrey that day. winning weight was 24 pounds. Noish under 4 pounds in that bag.there were two 10 pounderscaught in south end. All big ish caught tillin norman dd14char.blue back on bottom.
      City: Peatluma

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: we ished a bass'in buddies tournament (a rocklin club). the water has come up about 22 t in the last two weeks. it was pretty stained with 1-3 eet visibility. my partner and i started the day o throwing jigs and crank baits. we picked up two ish on jigs (one on a brown on brown jig the other a white on white). later we picked up another dink on a summer moss 4" zipper. the last ish we caught was late in the day on a oxblood 4" worm. the bite was pretty tough, with the big ish weighed in at 3.92 the tournament was won with our ish or 5.62 the weather was great. temp started out at 41deg. and ended up around 55-60. blue skies, with a light brease the majority o the day.
      City: citrus heights

      Tips: ish jigs in 10-20 t. drag them slowwwwwly. whites and browns seemed to be the colors that everybody seemed to be catching ish on. overall tough tournament, bite should pick up when the water clears and warms back up.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 53

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched around 12:30 Fished until dark. Caught 12 ish between my partner and I. All ish were shallow, in 6-9 t. Shaking worms on 1/8 oz. darter.
      City: Sacramento

  • California
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      Water Temp: 46

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: First time on the lake. No ish, not even a bite. Talked to a ew locals, no luck or them either. One guy remarked that the water temp was 54 last weekend (Feb 12), so that big drop in temp is probably the reason or the lock up. It was windy!!! The lake looks awesome though, we'll be back.
      City: Hanord

      Tips: Wait or the water to warm and the weather to stable out a little. Or just go... beats staying at home thinking you should be ishing.

  • California
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      Water Temp: 54-56

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 100% on 2-19. Had 7 or 13.80 (13th place). 29.54 won. He was lipping in Wittenburg. We had 3 crank ish, one at 3lbs. Other ish came on dartheaded rhythem and blues worms. From 10-25' deep on main lake walls. It took 20 lbs. to make the top 5. You have gotta love Lopez.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Don't orget to always ish shallow at Lopez.

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

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Oroville or the irst time ever today. No ish. Riped, jigged and splitshot in 5-40t.
      City: tracy

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

      Report: Wasco bass had a tournament, the water was clear and quite a ew limits weighed in. most caught on jigs and split shotting, largest weighed in was 2.89. looks like i the weather clears the ishing should get real good
      City: bakersield

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 51.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out to put a ew hours on a new boat and didn't expect to catch much, got a suprize. Fished 20'-40' o the banks in the narrows rom the damn to Bridge Bay and caught a 2 1/2 # Lg. mouth and trolled or a bit in the same area and picked up a nice Rainbow. Beautiul day !!
      City: Cottonwood

      Tips: Jig or Bass & broken-back minnow on the trout.

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 50 to 56 degree

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Our bass club out o San Francisco had a get together at Sonoma on the 19th. The bite was not great except or one member, Steve Gee, who caught his biggest bass: 10.34Lbs. on a Duh Jig (Don't know size or color or sure, I think Summer Moss 1/4 oz.). Steve was ishing Warm Springs, where the water was a little more muddy. My partner & I ished the main lake, where its a little more green color. My son & his partner went way up Warm Springs and ound clear, cool water & ish. I ished rocky points & coves w/ water alls, rom shallow to 40'. Caught 1 largemouth & smallie in about 5' to 10 ' later in the day ater the sun was out on the rocky points,ish were 1 1/2 lbs, got on 1/4 oz brown Duh jigs w/ Yammie Junebug twin tail trailers. My partner Willie got one 2lb. plus on split shot brown lizard. Steve was "the man" that day, he also caught three more or best weight by ar or the day. Sonoma should bust wide open anytime, i the weather stabilizes.
      City: Bay Point

      Tips: Fish slow and no need to get up too early.

Friday, February 18th, 2000

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water was muddy, but had close to a foot visibility. Gorgeous weather today, calm, clear, and warm. Water temp has come up a bit as a result. I had a fun day on the water today. Started off by flipping a 4lber on a black/blue Vyper Jig in thick brush. Continued down the bank and caught 3 1 1/2 lbers in about 10 casts on a chart/white slow rolled spinnerbait. Picked up the jig again and stuck a 2 1/4 lber on some adjacent rocks. That was my last hit for about 2 hours, when I finally caught my last fish, a 3 lber on the jig off a point. All in all another very enjoyable day on the water!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use scent in the muddy water and fish slowly.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Water was muddy, but had close to a foot visibility. Gorgeous weather today, calm, clear, and warm. Water temp has come up a bit as a result. I had a fun day on the water today. Started off by flipping a 4lber on a black/blue Vyper Jig in thick brush. Continued down the bank and caught 3 1 1/2 lbers in about 10 casts on a chart/white slow rolled spinnerbait. Picked up the jig again and stuck a 2 1/4 lber on some adjacent rocks. That was my last hit for about 2 hours, when I finally caught my last fish, a 3 lber on the jig off a point. All in all another very enjoyable day on the water!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Use scent in the muddy water and fish slowly.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED OUT OF BUCKLEY COVE, WAS SOCKED IN BY THE FOG BUT CLEARED AROUND NOON, FLIPPED,BLADDED THEN CRANKED. BOATED ONE REAL NICE FISH AROUND SUGAR CUT 5 LBS PLUS ON THE SCALE. FISHING IS TOUGH RIGHT NOW, LOT OF DEBRIS IN THE WATER AND NO WATER CLARITY MADE FOR A TOUGH DAY .
      City: MANTECA