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Wednesday, December 29th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 44-50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHED POINTS ON INCOMING TIDES. DECENT RESULTS FOR FISH FROM 1-3#'S. SIX INCH WORMS PEGGED 4-6" ABOVE BAIT. ANSWER TO A LOT OF QUESTIONS I RECEIVE WHEN OTHERS SEE THE AQUA VIEW IN MY BOAT. YES IT WORKS IN THE DELTA! ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR. 4-5' OF VISABILITY FROM LENS IN 6-8'OF WATER AND 2' OF VISABILTY FROM LENS IN 18-25'OF WATER.
      City: FOSTER CITY

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      Water Temp: 45 to 47

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough!!! Fished for a few hours in the a.m. without much succes. Three sqweekers was what I had to show for my efforts, water is very clear for the Delta and the fish did not want to coooperate. Fished south and middle Delta
      City: Tracy

      Tips: Follow Cooch.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the north ork drop-os caught my limit in an hour.Fish were all about 3lb at about 20 t. I went in the middle o the day.
      City: roseville

      Tips: Use dark colored worms and ish rock piles.

Tuesday, December 28th, 1999

  • Yuba County, California
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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I ished rom 9am to 1pm - beautiul warm morning! I ished shoreline rock steep banks with my usual Rodstrainer jig/Yamamoto grub combo - mostly black/blue with purple grub. It was slow but I did catch a 4 1/4 lb largemouth in only 15 eet o water. Also a 3 1/4 lm and 2 spots about 2 lbs each. Broke o a big ish! Cloudy weather should help the bite. Lake is down about 30 eet - I love it! A structure isherman's dream!!
      City: Yuba City

      Tips: Jigs are great at Collins in winter. You may have to swim them since rock ormations are wicked!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fish Piney and my brother had a 7.1 on a dad and then I caught a 4+ on a homemade jig. Only two bites. A riend had a ew dragging a bug. Biters were in 22-28 t. I'm still ishing where there is bait. Lots o bait. Catching a 5+ almost every time out lately but nothing over 10.
      City: bakersield

      Tips: Make sure you release all big ish. Way too many are being kept. Cold in morning, warm in aternoon.

Monday, December 27th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Headed out of Big Break at about 11:00 am with my Dad from Texas and my 5 yr old son. Trolled Fisherman's Cut with Berkley Frenzy (firetiger) crankbaits, landed two 2 lb striper schoolies on successive passes and then nothing. Trolled False River with no luck. Headed back towards the break and trolled off the San Joaquin around 3:30 pm in about 10' of water and my son landed a 6 lb and 3 lb. Dad hooked a whale on the next pass and played it for about 15 minutes on 12 lb spiderwire. It topped 16 lb 6 oz when we weighed it in the boat. We like this striper fishin'.
      City: Pleasant Hill

      Tips: Berkley 3/8 oz shallow diver (0-5 ft) crankbait in firetiger

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      Water Temp: 49

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of Big Break. First bite about 9am when the heavy fog lifted. Caught a 3 lb at the barge, slow rolling spinners in front of the tules. Another 3 lb on a speed trap in the same area. Then went into Sherman Lake and flipped Black and Red jig for a 3.5 lb. Only three fish for the day. The weather was great after the fog lifted. How can you not have a great day FISHING!
      City: DIXON

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kevin and I hit Disco Bay and some of the surrounding sloughs today. First thing, Kevin cranked one up off some rip-rap. After exploring/prefishing for the NCC all day, we headed back to Disco after not getting another hit. Within the last 10 minutes of fishing I hooked into a nice 10 pounder trolling Fat Free Shad. -Brent
      City: San Jose

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Was going to Don Pedro but my buddy said it was to cold to ish so I went to McClure by mysel..Launched at 8:30 at Barrett's south..Fished main lake all day..."WHAT A HOT BITE " on jigs..I started with purpleghost worms..just little ish 1-1.5 pounders..Switched to jigs and what a dierence..used brown/brown caught larger spots to 2plus pounds..then switched to brown/purple WOW..and they say color doesn't matter..smalest ish on brown/purple was 2.25 lbs bigest 4.5..lots o 2-3 lbs I mean lots..ish were in 20 to 40 eet..bigger ish were in 35-40 eet..near points, not quite on the point.I have a tournament in three weeks so I hope it holds..There must have been 60 plus boats on the water..doesn't anyone work anymore...
      City: Madera

      Tips: Key..threw deep and pulled shallow..had my boat in 5 eet o water threw out to 60plus and pulled shallow..

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Piney irst could not buy a reaction bite started throwing jigs and worms caught ish on every colorsize I put in the water ranged rom 1.3 to 2.2 as ater noon crept in moved near dam picked up a ew blacks rangeing rom 1.7 to 2.9 est 13 or seven
      City: Copperopolis

      Tips: ish 20 to 40 eet deep expect tons o ish pressure as every tourney org. in nor cal has an event there in Jan must have seen 30 boats alot or a monday.

  • Mendocino County, California
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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: **********TERRIBLE***********Don't waste your time coming up here!!!The striped, largemouth & smallmouth bass up here should be put on the endangered species list, because I think they all let. I haven't caught a ish or months here, and I was talking to some guys that haven't seen a ish pulled out o this lake or quite some time!
      City: Rohnert Park

      Tips: Don't waste your time coming here

  • California
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      Water Temp: bone numbin

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 10AM to 4PM in my tube. Was extremely oggy and cold. Was wearing 4 pairs o socks and my eet were still a little cold! Stuck a 6lber in the irst 15 minutes on a brown jig. Not a sni ater that. The ish came o a south acing rock wall, about 15 eet deep.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: The water level is still down 40 eet, so nothing is ishable past the near side o the picnic area. It's also airly muddy. Great time to explore the back endo the lake. The last two times I've ished, I've caught two ish, a 4-14 and a 6 both on brown jigs, both the only strike o the day. I you want more action trysmall purple worms or dark gitzits. I've got more strikes on south acing steep shorelines, and they are much more comortable to ish too. Trout won't getstocked here till March and the crappies are slow.

Sunday, December 26th, 1999

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

      Report: fished the break with crankbaits in the morning my dad caught a 5+ and a 3# on the crankbaits. Did not get any other fish for the rest of the day.
      City: Tracy

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: FISHING LAKE BACCARAC MEXICO IS GOOD AT THIS TIME.WE CAUGHT A LOT OF BASS THE BIG BASS WAS CLOSE TO TEN POUNDS.EARLY IN THE MOURNING WAS GOOD FOR THE LARGE FISH.LURES TO USE IS ZARA SPOOKS,WHITE YAMAMOTOS,BABY BASS REBALS GOOD ALSO.
      City: INDPLS

  • Alameda County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out in the middle o the day and cast out a brown and red viper jig with zoom trailer into some deep water and worked it back to shore very slowly, elt a little tap and set the hook into a 4.5lb. bass! I released that one and two casts later I had another one hooked. This bass was just under 5 lbs. according to mycheap zebco scale.These were my best couple ish I have evercaught out o chabot. I let both go without pictures because I orgot to pack my camera, oh well
      City: castrovalley

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

      Report: There is antastic minnow bite going on right now. Lots o big ish to be caught.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I you catch a ish, stick around there is more to be caught out o the same hole. Dress appropriately it is a very cold ride across the lake.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished T-shoot on Sunday with great results. Cranked ALL dayor 4 ish that weighed 9.4 lbs. Big ish weighed 3.3 lbs.Cranked Poes Super Cedar 300's around rock that had buckbrush and trees in the area. All the ish were in 10-15 eeto water and rom some o the other anglers stories, a goodreaction bite was ON.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: A reel with the right gear ratio is the key to successulcrankin'. My reel is a 1976 Abu Garcia 5500 spooled with 14lb. test Big Game line. With a 4.6-to-1 gear ratio, we wereable to crank at a slower speed. Also used a MODIFIED PoesSuper Cedar 300. I modiy my own baits by drilling a holejust in ront o the ront hook hanger a epoxying a 3/16 oz.mojo weight in the hole. This slows the baits wobble and allows the bait to suspend when stopped. All these tips puttogether allowed us to be successul on an early winter day.

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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished irst light to 2 pm. Caught 4 on a Cataic Trout. Largemouths o 4.0, 3.2, and 2.0. Also caught a spot that went 3.0.
      City: Orangevale

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished and put time on a new boat. Caught 4 spots, 3 were 1 1/2-2lbs. One dink. Caught all but one dartheading worms in 40'-50' o water. One came while the darthead was only 15'-20' down and swimming over 35' o water.
      City: Reno

      Tips: Dartheading with 3/16oz. dartheads or drop shotting seems to be the ticket. Did see several boats way up the north arm jigging spoons, but don't know i they ishin' or catchin'.

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: 59/60

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Billy and I was on the water at 7.00am, put in at Jones Valley and went up the Pit Arm, the irst time that I have been out in a couple o months, had only read the reports to know what was happening on the Lake. Ater about 45 minutes, come to ind that the ishare hanging outaroung trees, in 20t to 50 t o water, we were jiggin spoons, and dart headin worms>colors, were Tequela Sunrise and Blue Ghost, best response was jiggin spoons.We caught 6 keepers, and lost one about 3 lbs.Beautiul sunny day, light wind rom the northeast. Bassman
      City: gerber, ca.

      Tips: Jiggin Spoons would be your best bet, until the ish move up, hopeully we will get some rain soon, to reshin up the water.