Fishing Report

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Friday, January 28th, 2000

  • California
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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the lake at 8am. Fished muddy water on south side with no luck. Went looking or clearer water. Found stained water around the spawning cove and started catching ish 7-25' pitching to brush and trees.
      City: madera

      Tips: black 3/8 jigs with blue plastic pork. shake & S L O W DRAG.

Thursday, January 27th, 2000

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Wimpy's Marina about 11 am and fished until about 2 pm. Tide was moving fast and very muddy. Wasn't able to locate any largemouths, but did all right on the stripers. While throwing a speed trap at some levee breaks, much to my amazement, I landed two spripers. The biggest went 20 pounds and the other 18 1/2 pounds. The fun part was trying to lip them once the fight was over. Anyway, I had thought the striper bite was over in that area. Sorry about the striper story, I prefer to give my report on the bucketmouths, but nothing to report.
      City: Suisun

      Tips: When the water is too muddy and the current is rippin', try fishing the levee breaks for stripers. It fills in the time between the bass bites.

Wednesday, January 26th, 2000

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: water has risen 17 t in 10 days and caused the bass to spread out, they are still in deep water, 40 to 50 t, temp has dropped 2 degrees and ish are holding around stumps in the larger deep coves. The Pit arm is the most productive, I ished the McCloud today with no ish caught, had 3 taps, my riend went into the Pit arm and caught 4 shaking dark brown 5 inch worms in a stumpy area(dark canyon) all were small and under 2 lbs. probably best to wait a ew days or things to stabilize as the weather is clearing, a lot o water is entering the lake rom the numerous creeks.
      City: redding

      Tips: I am using green pumpkin twin tail grubs on a 3/8 ounce stand up type jig head, brown worms working well either splitshotted or 1/4 to 1/2 torpedon type sinkers.

Monday, January 24th, 2000

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52 to 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished main body around Granit Bay and up the north some. Fished all day till 3:30, caught eleven ish, best ive going 14.4 on the cull em right. Shook brass and glass all day in 45 to 60 t. Was suprised when my irst ish o the day was a 4lb 4ounce largemouth. Caught two more largemouth the rest o the day going 3lb 7ounce and 2lb 9 ounce. All ish came on a morning dawn 6inch worm. Tried reaction or about two hours with no takers so went back to shaking to ill out my limit. All ish were on deepwater lats . Only marked one or two at a time but set on them till they bit.
      City: Citrus Heights

      Tips: Watch your graph and ish deep. Also or every bass I caught I would catch two trout. I think they were schooled together but didnt mark many schools?

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 53.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED A LITTLE TOURNEY SAT, FISHING WAS GREAT. CAUGHT ABOUT24 TO 30 BETWEEN ME AND MY PARTNER.HAD 11.79 LBS FOR 7 FISH,FINISHED 11TH PLACE WINNERS HAD A LITTLE OVER 16LBS.WE CAUGHT OUR FISH IN 40 TO 50 FT. DRAGGING SUPER BAIT WORMS, 6 INCH BLACK GRAPE.WINNERS CAUGHT THERE FISH IN COTTON ARM ON POINTS IN 40 TO 50 FT. SHAKING A BROWN CALIFORNIA WORM.THREW A JIG FOR A FEW HOURS,BUTT JUST COULD NOT GET A BITE.
      City: DENAIR

      Tips: SLOW IS THE KEY

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished ABA this Sunday while preishing Saturday. Pattern was worming light colored 6" worms (morning dawn or chartruese) in 30'. Fishing south area, inding inlow o small runo and shaking. Had limit in irst hour and managed to cull or 3rd place inish with 10.5 ive ish limit. Many, many ish all day and although I heard ripping was also hot, never let the worm pattern. Weather was rain all day but it came straight down and was a very pleasant day.
      City: Wheatland

      Tips: Also ound ish o main points, again you MUST be in 30' and worms killed them.

Sunday, January 23rd, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: ???

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dad and I took Mike O fishing, and to test out the new throttle Well, I stuck my first smally 2+ lbs. Dad was real proud. We were fishing deep, just dead sticking, tighten your line - feel weight -set the hook- its a fish.The weather was great. Tag-A-Long
      City: Martinez

      Tips: Dark worms, 4", deep, dead stick-em.

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

      Report: Started out of Holland Track first thing. Partner hit a small one on a rattle trap in Rock Slough. I had a swirl on a suspending jerk bait but no takers. No other bites in Rock. Wandered down towards Orwood and he picked off another fish on wood in shallow water. We both missed a fish on the same spot. Mine bit my grub in half. When out to old river and up around Mandevile and I picked one off on a white speed trap. About 15 min. later nailed the last fish of the day on a jig in 14ft of water next to a dock piling. Fishing was sporadic. Landed 4 fish, 2 each.
      City: San Ramon

      Tips: Look for wood with deep water access. Fish seemed to be holding to wood. The south Delta is muddy but north of Orwood the water was still pretty clear.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Me and my dad started out fishin the break today, it was windy and rainy all day. We drove down near franks tract and started crankin. From 8:00 to about 12:30 we landed 9 keepers biggest being around 4#. Also caught 2 nice steelhead. We were using the same model crankbait but in different colors. My dads seemed to be working alittle better as he caught 7 of the fish. The fish seemed to be everywhere,rocks,tules,and wood. Wanted to stay out and fish but my wallmart rain gear wasn't doin the job.
      City: tracy

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      Water Temp: 50 ish not sure

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Wow! What a terrible day to be on the water. Fished Sunday, All day. Wind was bad 20 to 30 knots, Never stoped raining. Fished the lighthouse, Riverboat, and up in the Mukolumne(sp??). Could not buy a bite. Fliped jigs, BB Brush hog, Riped, Cranked, Nothin. Until I put on a fluke. Bingo. I wish I put one on before 2 pm..... I had 5 hits in less that an hour. in very shallow water. They were all medium sized fish. nothin bigger that 3 pounds
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Fluke brite colors, shallow, Wood, Out of current.

  • California
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      Water Temp: na

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Went by the res. to see how ull it was. Water level is so low you can see parts o the old bridge rom the town o Lexington at the bottom o the res.Didn't get to ish due to heavy rains (muddy steep banks). Lots o run o illing the lake making it the color o chocolate milk. Man I hope they got the repairs done right this time.Let it rain,Let it rain,Let it rain......:0)Jostasu
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Not knowing what the water level is going to look like this year. I don't have any tips or the lake.

  • California
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      Water Temp: unknown

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fishing rom the shore was very slow. We started ishing at 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Using Pumpkin colored grubs & spinners. No bass seen. Trouting near the dam on boats was a blast
      City: Hollister

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Shasta Lake is coming up now with the rain and more rain and Sunday it never stoped raining. The warm air we have had is all so keeping the water warmer than in pasted years. The ish are rom 1 oot to 100 eet. I ished Sat. and Sun. with most o my ish coming rom 8 or less eet o water. We had 5 ish or 13.66 lb on Sunday. We ished shad patterns most o the day in 4 and 6 inch worms on 1/8 oz jig heads and + oz tex. Rigs. We also took some pig&jig ish and rip ish in preish. 20 ish a day or now is a good days ishing. For now ish slow on rocky points and wood. The ish are just swimming o with the bait so don

      Tips: Fish slow and on points. As or color, it may not be to Important or now.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2000

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: NEWBASS held its first tounament of the Northern Team Division. The eager NEWBASS fisherman were presented with a partly-cloudy day, with lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s. Lake Berryessa was in true form, favoring the NEWBASS contestants with smallmouth bass, and a few largemouth. The Winners of the Tournament caught a great limit of smallmouth and culled one 2 pound smallmouth with an 8.5 pound largemouth. This largemouth helped put the winners weight in with over 20 pounds of bass. This weight brought over $1600.00 to the excited winners. Come out and enjoy a day with NEWBASS check out the tournaments at www.newbass.com and have a chance to win 2 RANGER BOATS at the GRAND FISH OFF!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: During this NEWBASS Northern Team tournament the majority of fish were caught on points 20- 25 feet deep using some sort of plastics. Although there were some shallow reaction fish, the majority came around 20 - 25 feet.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of lazy M at about 6:30.Cranked rip rap all day, took 4 fish,(about 10lbs total) one fish went 5lbs.All but one fish came on a red speed trap, and craw colored rattle trap. One came on a Power Worm on tules. Best I could do.got off the water about 1:00.Still beat anything else I could have been doing. Go get em!!!
      City: Fremont

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my kickboat to the delta for the first time today. My firiend and I caught 5 fish between us. We both missed 2 other fish. One I missed felt pretty big. I caught mine all with a shad speed tap paralleling riprap. My friend fished weedlines. My friend also caught a steelhead on his team daiwa crankbait! I didn't know there were steelhead in the delta. Over all it was an ok day. Pretty good for my first time at the delta. It was also pretty warm. The fishing should improve as the water warms. All our bass were in the one pound range except one that I hooked on a pointer minnow that felt big.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Fish shad colored speed traps slow parallel to riprap or deep weedlines.

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took my kickboat to the delta for the first time today. My firiend and I caught 5 fish between us. We both missed 2 other fish. One I missed felt pretty big. I caught mine all with a shad speed tap paralleling riprap. My friend fished weedlines. My friend also caught a steelhead on his team daiwa crankbait! I didn't know there were steelhead in the delta. Over all it was an ok day. Pretty good for my first time at the delta. It was also pretty warm. The fishing should improve as the water warms. All our bass were in the one pound range except one that I hooked on a pointer minnow that felt big.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: Fish shad colored speed traps slow parallel to riprap or deep weedlines.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south ork until 1:00. Caught ish in the morning until 9:30 then the ish just disappeared. Caught ish on rip bait and shaking worms in 15-20 eet. Best ish went 4 #'s.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Start shallow in the mornings. Then move to deeper water in the aternoon. I think that Is were the ish went to????

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 54-55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED A SMALL TOURNAMENT HERE TODAY. THE FISHING WAS TOUGH. CAUGHT 7 FISH ALL DAY, ALL THE FISH WERE BETWEEN 13-16". CAUGHT BETWEEN 10 TO 30' OF WATER DRAGGING WORM. COULD NOT GET A JIG BITE. HEARD RUMORS OF SOMEONE FISHING IN THE 75' TO 100' RANGE.
      City: MODESTO

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Cottonwood area with worms on 1/8-1/4 oz.darter heads.Fished Morning Dawn and Summer Moss w/Chart. tail.Fished daylight till 930-10am caught 2 spots in the slot.Couldnt get any thing else so we trolled or trout,deinately the thing to do....lots o rainbows jumping.We caught 6 13-19 inches,very healthy and ull o spunk.Bass might be hit and miss,but,trout are hot!
      City: Chowchilla

      Tips: Fish hand pours in summer moss,morning dawn,baby bass,etc. on 1/8-1/4 0z.darter heads.cWe positioned boat 25'-30' rom bank and cast to bank and work back,ish were in about 10'-12' o water.FISH/SHAKE SLOW,bite is light(non-existant)line will start to take o or worm will just stop.