Fishing Report

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Friday, December 24th, 1999

  • California
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      Water Temp: 51.6

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished hogan or about three hours today put the boat in the water around noon.Fished salt and pepper cht tail wormson rock piles and drop os all over the lake (main lake)had seven ish ive keepers and two short.
      City: valley springs

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 46-48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished mostly old and middle river throwin crankbaits on the outside of weedlines, picked a few up on jigs(bl/red) in Italian slough also. biggest was 4+. once I got my crank to the bottom, I'd fish it as slow as I could while still maintaining contact w/bottom.Nice day on the water besides getting a little misoriented with my map.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: like Cooch says "7a bomber" it does the trick

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      Water Temp: 48

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched @ Orwoods, fished the discovery zone threw blades,(white$ chart ) to land one 2lber fish about 3 hours worth not another bite also threw crank ( bomber craw ) nothing. went out on main river threw crank landed 3 blackies to about 2.5 lbs. Started throwing trap @ stripers landed 2 to about 4.5 lbs. Lot of fun fishing is very tough now with this weird weather, be patient. ( HAPPY-HOLIDAYS) from babybass
      City: concord

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 52

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Warms Springs and Cherry Creek all day (dawn to dusk). Slim pickens. Boat caught 2 or 3+. Sunny weather, no wind, clear water, even a sun bather on shore. Too bad the ishing was poor.
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: Fish deep and ish slow. Tough ishin in this weird weather.

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: don't know

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished mouth of putah. trolled. nice trout action on minnow immitations. drifted minnows up putah arm. 5 salmon, 1 trout, 1 small mouth, 1 catfish. all on minnows. 6-15 feet below bobber. salmon started to hit in the late afternoon. all on minnow. 20-30 feet water depth. beautiful day.
      City: millbrae

      Tips: markie caught a fishie! and he was so happy!

  • California
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      Water Temp: 46-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Took billiebass advice and ished rocky point but only caught a ew 2 lbers. Went to piney and caught a 6 and lost a ew more on jigs including one i couldnt turn. ish were 28-32t when inactive and 10-18t when active. Active ish are moving with the shad. look or a good ridge or ambush point. thanks bill.
      City: bakersield

      Tips: big jigs and warm clothes

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Ripped points and lats or the irst hour with no luck, so we started cranking shad raps, one dink; igured i they are notbusting shad they must be eating crawdads; I started throwin a speed trap (delta craw) slow and picked up two more both one anda hal. Bite has sure turned o, had been catchin two to three limits daily. Must have seen a dozen decent ish up in the shallowsbut make them bite.
      City: turlock

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ished a couple o days oaver vacation in teh angels creekarm rom shore and a tube. I saw quite a ew bass swimming around but could not make them bite. I trieda white tube, and jerkbaits. NO luck. One guy caughta spot while trolling a night crawler.

      Tips: ANyone know how to catch ishthat you see swimming around?I put many lures right in ront o them. They just swamaway?

Tuesday, December 21st, 1999

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I hadn't been to McClure or over a year, but managed to inda ew ish. Caught ten ish. Most were in about 15-20 eet, which kind o surprised me. Could not ind any ish deep and could not ind anybait. They are probably there, but I was unable to locate them.Caught hal my ish on jigs and the others came split shotting.I ished Horse Shoe and Main Lake.
      City: Fresno

Monday, December 20th, 1999

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 52 very cold de

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: In light o the act I was preishing or a T-shoot, I'llgive as much ino as I can. Picked up on a pretty goodcrankbait bite beore the sun hit the water. I believe thislunar cycle has alot to do with the increased BIG ish move-ments. Caught three ish totalling about 7.5-8.0 lbs. in 10minutes, then let not wanting to ruin a good thing.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: Shad replicas will work really good now. Slow your retrieveater about the irst 8-10 cranks o the reel, even pausingoccasionally.

Sunday, December 19th, 1999

  • Napa County, California
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      Water Temp: cold 57 degrees

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: self and two pals. took boat up putah arm. minnows and plastics. had great day. weather windy, hunkered down in cove. first fish in a.m. , 2 and 1/2 lb. small mouth on minnow, 8 feet under bobber off point. 5 trout, 2 lb. range. 3 salmon, 2lb. range. all on minnows, 8-25 feet. kicker fish, 4.4 lbs. 19 inch large mouth at 4 in the afternoon on 4 and 1/2 inch ox blood plastic. very few small fish. had great day. few boats on water. write me!!! sunday the 19th
      City: millbrae

      Tips: fish have good bite on minnows. use plastics very slowly in 25 feet of water.

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kick boated with Brent from about 10 to 4 today. Skunked! Whatever put the fish up on the bank on Wednesday wasn't happening today. Wind was blowing hard all day. It felt like I spent more time trying to position my kickboat than getting any fishing done. Got one good thunker on a jig and set the hook into the trailer. Brent caught two small fish split and drop shotting in deep water.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Picked up a couple of small fish on a Football Jighead with a Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub, Purple Smoke color. Fishing from the bank to the deeps, getting hit in about 20 - 25 feet of water. A fellow I spoke with said, he got a few early cranking a red firetiger speed trap right on the bank. I got blown off the lake at 11:30. PS: The lake is really low!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SLOW, SLOW, SLOW, your personal choice of deepwater confidence bait.

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      Water Temp: 51

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Kick boated with Brent from about 10 to 4 today. Skunked! Whatever put the fish up on the bank on Wednesday wasn't happening today. Wind was blowing hard all day. It felt like I spent more time trying to position my kickboat than getting any fishing done. Got one good thunker on a jig and set the hook into the trailer. Brent caught two small fish split and drop shotting in deep water.
      City: Mountain View

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      Water Temp: 49-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Picked up a couple of small fish on a Football Jighead with a Yamamoto Twin Tail Grub, Purple Smoke color. Fishing from the bank to the deeps, getting hit in about 20 - 25 feet of water. A fellow I spoke with said, he got a few early cranking a red firetiger speed trap right on the bank. I got blown off the lake at 11:30. PS: The lake is really low!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: SLOW, SLOW, SLOW, your personal choice of deepwater confidence bait.

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Trolled a Castaic Trout all day with no takers. Saw a point and on a hunch rigged up a jig and pork. First cast caught a 6.8 pound largemouth.
      City: Orangevale

Saturday, December 18th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 49-51

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Cooch the Cranks are still working for the Blackie's. Caught some spoon stripers also. Used the Large Duh spoon in Silver with Black top.Use the electronics to follow the fish. Then hang on.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: started at 10am, finished at 3pm. Ran to Woodward to avoid the crowds at Disco. Just can't bring myself to do the spooning thing. Anyway - found a pipe blowing in water from the fields - hooray! found baitfish and three stipers. Boy they do put up a fight! Went for blackies and found some around widows and the end of Woodward.
      City: belmont

      Tips: all (stripers & blacks) were caught on rattletrap. look for warmer water and current seams.

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

      Report: Fished or a ew hours this morning. Caught a 5.8 pound spotted bass on a Castaic trout.
      City: Orangevale

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished a turkey shoot and had un. We started in the morning rippin and we caught about 5 spots in the 1-1.5 pound range. As the sun came up and hit the water they went back down and we started jigging. Caught a 7 ish limit and we started culling squeakers. Ater all was said and done we had about 12.59 or 7 ish.
      City: Elk Grove

      Tips: Try rippin in the morning and jigging as the sun comes up. Also alot o people who caught limits said they were throwing blades around trees. Good luck and good ishing :)