Fishing Report

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Saturday, July 17th, 1999

  • California
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      Water Temp: Warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: CHECK THIS OUT!!! Went tubing in the island pond with a buddy. We bumped into two other tubers...one o whom caught a STRANGE species o ish on a crankbait. No joke...My buddy and I wouldn't have believed him but we saw it with our own eyes (he kept it in a mesh bag tied to his tube). This ish was about 14 inches long. It was white with no pattern on the sides, and large sized scales (like a striper). It had a long, lean and slender body, built just like a barracuda. Although it had a airly big mouth, it had tiny teeth. I'm very amiliar with the reshwater predatory ish in Caliornia and have never heard or seen anything like this. None o us who saw it have! It wasn't a pike, pickeral, musky or walleye. Hmmmm...Oh well, chances are i there's one, there's more...
      City: Livermore

Thursday, July 15th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the Delta Thursday after work with a friend and another friends son. We landed six fish to three pounds and lost about twice that many. My friends son is just starting out bass fishing and was having a hard time setting the hook (he's mainly been trout fishing up to this year) and consequently he lost a lot of fish. It was all topwater action, buzzbaits, frogs and jitter-bugs. Nice evening on the water.
      City: Concord

      Tips: Don't forget to try a jitter-bug at high tide. Some awsome and explosive hits!

Wednesday, July 14th, 1999

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

      Report: ished a 7pm to 7am turkey shoot. 9 boats showed, we won with15.02 most ish were caught rom blasto till dark. on a six in' brown/green worm splitshot hooked a ew on a black/red baby brush hog our big ish was caught on a chartucebuzzbait at the crack o dawn most ish were holding 15 to 20 eet deep
      City: Copperopolis

      Tips: try main lake big rocks close to deep water (dam) and deep points splitshot 6in' worms and work it out deep

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      Water Temp: very warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Thursday July 1st. Launched at highway 49 7pm. Went East to irst cove toward the south. Fish the whole tackle box at all depths. Too many dinks (to 10"0). Kept going east, same the whole way in about 3 miles. Fished all night and settled on any color 6" worm (got most hits with this). Dinks would machine-gun anything with a chartruese tail. Underwater structure was abundant. Fished coves, rocky points, deep water, shallow water. Still only dinks. 5 biggest ish only weighed 9 lbs total. Weather was HOT, HOT, HOT. No wind. Didn't put on jackets until about 4 AM. Mosquito's were there but not bad. Let the lake at 9:00 AM.
      City: Sunnyvale

Monday, July 12th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: way high!!!!!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Friday - fished Frank's Tract, Connection and Middle R. near Bullfrog. Caught 20+ fish ranging from dinks to 5#. Most on frogs, jigs and large plastics. Two biggest fish (5# and 3#) came on jig and frog, respectively. Saturday - fished Frank's Tract, Piper and Middle R. during B/C Memorial Tournament. Caught 15 fish...weighed 7 fish limit at 14#. Biggest fish around 3 pounds. Most fish caught on C-rig plastics (black/red). Biggest fish came on black spinnerbait.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Cold + windy early, hot later.....found best fish below 6 feet deep apparently avoiding both temperature extremes. Caught nothing shallow.

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      Water Temp: 70 - 82

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Sat - went out with a few club members, I backseated for Big Daddy. Could not buy a popper bite, but Mr. Big boated our big fish of the day first thing on a woym, first cast. Moved to Telephone, got bit but all small. That was the story for the day. We got bit steadily till about 10, then the bite turned off at slack tide. Br. Big then hooked a TOAD. She got under/through something, though, and we tried for about 20 min. to get her. She did not come off, but weigh in was at noon, so we finally had to break her off. The big fish for our little group was a 6-7# beauty. Sun - Few nice keepers incl. a 2.5# on poppers(!?)Had a couple of bucks on jigs, then bite turned off for 4 hours. Bite came back on in afternoon with the tide and lower sun. 9 keeper+ fish for the day.
      City: belmont

      Tips: Summer time patterns. The cheese is ripe.

Sunday, July 11th, 1999

  • California
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      Water Temp: 71-74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Took my wie(she doesn't like to ish.On the water at 6:30, o at 11:00. No wind and HOT. 1st spot, 1st cast, 2.5 in the boat. 7 ish in 4.5 hours, jumping around a lot(there was a tournament there and around 50 boats). Biggest 4.5, best 5 around 12lbs. Shakin a worm or throwing a Norman crank. My riends 11 year old son, Kyle Pearce, had his biggest bass, 6.25 lbs.
      City: Bakersield

      Tips: Find big submerged rocks. Fish are also on the lume.

Saturday, July 10th, 1999

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

      Report: Fished out of Paradise from 6:30AM until Noon with a couple of CVBC members-Fished Disappointment and Honkers. Decided to live or die with a jig-Fished brown/brown jig until 10:30AM-End result-Death w/jig-Caught 3 keepers on brass-n-glass on a witches tea. Witty caught a nice 4#er on white blade-Will try and resurrect jig next time. Mayday out
      City: Belmont

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Delta top water going strong, try buzz baits and frogs, also some action on poppers. Best bites are in the early morning or latter on in the afternoon. If you can find moss matts throw a frog. Try a white buzz bait in franks track in the deeper water next to toolies. Both big and little Break producing some nice fish, also fishermans cut for some smaller fish. Look for slack water at the mouth of slews, fish are stacked in these areas, made 8 casts and cought 5 fish. We fished the afternoon bite to late evening and had over 30 fish, no big ones, but a lot of fun.
      City: Dixon

      Tips: look for moss, fish the weedles water between the rocks and grass. Fish early or fish late. Bring the sun screen.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 76-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Got there early and 75 boats were blasting o. Decided to start o at the ramp throwing rogs, buzz baits and spinner baits. Had a limint by 0630. One went 6.5 lbs. and the rest were 2.75 - 3.5 lbs. Atr 0900 should o pulled o the lake and went home cause no other bites ater that.
      City: olsom

      Tips: Frogs and docks seem to be the ticket

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

      Report: I ished Laayette Reservoir on July 10 rom 6:00 A.M. to 1:00 A.M. and didn't catch a single ish. Not even one bite. Very slow, very tough. Good Luck!
      City: Laayette

  • California
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished rom 9pm to 1:30am. Caught good numbers o ish. All on rogs. Pitch black out(new moon). Caught several over 3lbs. Had a great time.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: Black rogs--pause and go...

  • Mariposa County, California
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      Water Temp: 80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Stayed the weekend ished or 2-3 hours Fri. night, 3 hours Sat. Morning and about and hour Sat night. Caught one ish each time out. Had alot o ish jumping but could not get anything on topwater tried spooks, lukes, spitn image, buzzbaits, props and poppers. ished worms at all depths to 25'. only missed a couple o strikes. Usually have no problems catching a good number o ish here, but not this year.
      City: Los Banos

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Dog and I went to Lake Sonoma early today started ishing at irst light. Top water was the approach early (zippin ziggy , poppers) along or small and large mouth.As the day progressed plastics (Buddaha Pillars , Brush Hogs) came on with a couple o jig ish thrown to the mix. Fiteen or so keepers to three and hal pounds.
      City: Sonoma

      Tips: Top water early and shallow. Plastics and jigs throughout the rest o the day shallow also (10 to 20 eet).

Friday, July 9th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: ~80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed Calero again this Friday. It was dead calm untill noon, and very hot. After that the wind picked up and the water skiers came out creating some good wave action. The fish were biting, though not many big ones. We caught almost 30 fish, and lost quite a few more. Two were about 3.5 pounds, 4-5 were in the 2 lb range, and the rest were dinks. One fish coughed up a dead shad on the way up, but we caught all the fish on crawdad colored worms and jigs.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Split shot green weenies in 15-25 feet of water for numbers. Use jigs for larger fish.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nicolo and I fished Calero today from about 7:30 to 4:30. We eneded up with around 27 fish. We had a couple of 2#s and 3#s and all the rest were smaller. We caught most fish split-shotting 4 1/2" Green Weenies in about 10'-30' of water. Pretty good day in all. -Brent
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The blue bird conditions and hot weather pushed the fish pretty far from the bank. At least until the mudlines were formd, then some came up shallower. Just drag the worm slowly. Once you fisnd a fish there are bound to be more in the area. We found two or three spots where the fish seemed to be schooled.

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      Water Temp: ~80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Brent and I float tubed Calero again this Friday. It was dead calm untill noon, and very hot. After that the wind picked up and the water skiers came out creating some good wave action. The fish were biting, though not many big ones. We caught almost 30 fish, and lost quite a few more. Two were about 3.5 pounds, 4-5 were in the 2 lb range, and the rest were dinks. One fish coughed up a dead shad on the way up, but we caught all the fish on crawdad colored worms and jigs.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Split shot green weenies in 15-25 feet of water for numbers. Use jigs for larger fish.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Nicolo and I fished Calero today from about 7:30 to 4:30. We eneded up with around 27 fish. We had a couple of 2#s and 3#s and all the rest were smaller. We caught most fish split-shotting 4 1/2" Green Weenies in about 10'-30' of water. Pretty good day in all. -Brent
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The blue bird conditions and hot weather pushed the fish pretty far from the bank. At least until the mudlines were formd, then some came up shallower. Just drag the worm slowly. Once you fisnd a fish there are bound to be more in the area. We found two or three spots where the fish seemed to be schooled.

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

      Report: I ished rom my tube out o Rattlesnake Bar. Began ishing right next to the launch ramp in the stained water.Lots o boat traic. I caught our ish in about 1.5 hours.I couldn't beleive my last two ish. One was 5# and the other was 4#. I caught them on a spinnerbait as it dropped on the shady side o a submerged bush. They were about 8eet deep. The our pounder had red on it like it was still in spawning mode. I am not used to catching such big ishout o Folsom. Try getting your lure/bait right down to the base o the submerged cover. Keep your line just tight enough to eel the tick.
      City: Sacramento

      Tips: I started using magic worms and caught magically small ish.When I switched to a larger presentation, I caught the bigones.

Thursday, July 8th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Got on the water @ 7AM. First fish @ 7:45AM on Chug Bug 1#er. Trolling motor prop came off @ 7:46AM. (ERRRR) Ran to Knowles for replacement prop at 9AM. 2nd fish at TommyP's tree @ 11AM on white/chart spinnerbait another 1#er. Last fish on split shot junebug worm 1.5-2#er in tight to tules @ 1PM. Left at 2PM-3 fish total-Mayday out.
      City: Belmont