Fishing Report

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Sunday, May 23rd, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: GOOD FISHING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, FLIPPING AND CRANKS. FISH TWO - FOUR POUNDS. SATURDAY, WINDY FISHING TOUGHER - FOUR FISH - 2-1/2 LBS - FLIPPING.
      City: Alta Loma

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 64-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: American Bass Anglers Two Day Team Tournament, Launched out o the Anchorage in Lakeport, I ished in the north end o the lake, ished the cove beore Rocky PointSplitshotting Walton weeenies in the tules, threw about a oot into the tules and work it out as your wieght bumpedthe tule beore the out side edge this produced the bitebut it wasnt your tap tap, it was just pressure, set the hook and the ish was there, cinder block walls also gave up a ew ishI would catch a limit and my partner would cullmy ish, I also approched a boat dock that had tule growth under it and lipped a jig (Denny Brauer) 3/8thoz. Black and red with a Uncle Josh #11 Pork rog to a dark pocket in approx. 4t.o water and KER-Thunk set the hookAnd boated a 5 1/2 pounder that put me and my partner in irst place and big ish we had 24+ pounds or two days, pretty goodor this club, second place was 23+. The Weather pattern was great in the morning and the wind blew in the aternoon, beore we weighed in we saw bucks ALL OVER the bank outside the Anchorage. Saw small ry everywhere too. Tight Lines, Procrat PeteTips Please Practice Catch and Release During the Spawning season.
      City: Martinez

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: 67-68

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club held 4th event o year @ Lake Ilsanjo in Annadel State Park. Winning weight was 7.51 lb. Second place was 7.44 lb (less 0.2 lb late meeting timepenalty), 3rd @ 7.10 lb. Big ish was 1.85 lb. Eleven anglers participated, & nine o them brought in 5-ish limits. 51 bass total weighed in. Fish went or a variety o lures, including crankbaits,spinnerbaits, lukes, buzzbaits, & jigs & sot plastics lipped & pitched into tules. Congratulations to our 4 new anglers, 3 o whom brought in 5-ish limits (the other weighed in 4 ish). Also, one o them caught big ish (not easy on this small ish lake).
      City: Santa Rosa

      Tips: *** Float Tubers/Kick Boaters: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club will next meet on June 2 @ 7 PM @ Coddingtown Round Table Pizza in Santa Rosa. Next event in June 6 @ Spring Lake (also in Santa Rosa). And, check out our web site @ www.tweenit.com/scbbc/index.htm. E-mail me i you would like more ino on club. ***

  • California
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      Water Temp: 70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: My son & I started the day way up the lake past the Narrows, in the very shallow upper end. It seemed every boat on the lake had the same idea so there was too much o a crowd or us. We had no luck there so we made ouy back down the lake. Everyone we saw was casting chartruese spinnerbaits to the shore. We had luck on dierent colored spinnerbaits out a distance rom the shore, on bass in 1.5 to 2# range. They were suspended over the weeds at 8-10' in water 16-18' deep. Also caught a 3# bass on a small silver spoon (Timber Doodle) tipped with a clear/sparkle plastic grub. That one came rom right at the shoreline in the Swimming Pool Cove. Fun ight since it was on ultralight tackle.
      City: Monterey

      Tips: We've had luck recently at Santa Margarita and other lakes (San Antonio and Casitas) using presentations very dierent rom what everyone else is using. The bass can really get conditionedrom seeing the same lure over and over again. For example, we've put our Chartruese and White spinnerbaits away or a while.

Saturday, May 22nd, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Started early, 5AM caught dink on buzz at holland. Next went to Franks Tract and caught small keeper on buzz, small keeper on crank, tiger speed trap. Wind started and it was Helllllllllllllllllllllll. Where did it come from? So fishermen and weathermen lie. Next to little mandeville two 2#ers on crank and jig (black and blue with black and brown plastic pig. Next to rock slough and 4 small keepers on jig. That is it for a bad day on the Delta.
      City: Castro Valley

      Tips: Tips: n/a

  • Shasta County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished the lake on 5/21 and 5/22 and ran right into some high winds. ishing was good or spots 1 to 2 lbs. in the coves o the pit arm. most ish where caught in about 10-20 eet.
      City: n/a

      Tips: n/a

Friday, May 21st, 1999

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Not too amiliar with this lake, so bare with me. My buddy and I lauched out o granite bay, and headed east, to some bridge.We ished alot o dierent colors and only caught them on naturallooking stu(blacks, withches Tea, brown). Mostly small spots, anda ew smallmouth. Our ishinder was broke, so I'm gussing 10-30'o water. Then we headed back up towards Rattlesnake bar, andthe ishing was a lot better. We stayed with the brown wormson darter heads, and carolina rigs. My riend landed a nice one!It was about a 4lb spot. I was lucky enough to stick a smally about2.5lbs. All day I'd say we caught about 30 ish, and a buzz.Good luck.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: n/a

Wednesday, May 19th, 1999

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 60-62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched rom rattlesnake bar at 5:30 wednesday evening. went right towards the main body. caught ive bassin two hours one on a white spinner bait. the others on plastic wormsalt and pepper with chartreuse tail all were about one poundlot o ish around rocks but mostly small in size.
      City: Roseville

      Tips: carolina rig salt and pepper or cotton candy worms with chartreusetails. also white spinner baits. last week had good successcanking a shad rap. also just beore sunset weedless grass rognear shore.

Tuesday, May 18th, 1999

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: HELP.... we are fishing at the Delta this weekend and would like to get our hands on some updated information. Anything would be great. Are the fish still biting. The latest update is from the 10th of May.
      City: Salinas

      Tips: Tips: I'm not giving advice, I'm soliciting advice.

  • Butte County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I ound by drowning worms, seemed to work very well, in shallows and coves. Usually this time o year live bait does not leave you skunked.
      City: Paradise

      Tips: Trolling a crank in 10 eet near rocks works well, too.

Monday, May 17th, 1999

  • Santa Clara County, California
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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

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      Water Temp: 65

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

  • Solano County, California
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      Water Temp: 68

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished after work last night near Orwood. Was great being on the water with no other boats. Only saw 1 boat and 1 jet ski. AHHH how peaceful. Tide was low and incoming. Fish started off at the outside edge of the weed line then moved up to wood cover as the tide came in. Tried several baits. No luck pitching plastics (zippers, and lizards) picked up a few on a white spinner bait. At dusk I tried some topwater. Caught a few on a Skitter Pop. Tried a buzz bait with no luck. All fish were small biggest went about 1.8.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Tips: n/a

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      Water Temp: 60+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a great day 5/16/99. Fished Rock Slough and caught 11 fish, lost 3. Largest was 7 lbs. Aside from 1 dink, the rest were all in the 2+ range. Most caught early on a spinnerbait, later fish caught on jig and pig. Fish hitting pretty hard so no problems telling a hit from bouncing off a log or rock. Caught fish all during the falling tide. Most were sitting in 4 ft of water or less. As tide went out fish moved deeper and started hiting rubber worms in about 6-8ft of water.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Tips: Spinnerbaits early then switch to dark color jig and pig or rubber worms.

Sunday, May 16th, 1999

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 56-66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 100% Bass team tournament out o Lakeport.Blast o @0540 Burrrr air temp 40degrees.Picked up irst ish east o Rodman Slough,in the timber 4-5t.,with a Texas rigged Blackand blue Strike King Flippin Tube (2# male).2nd Fish caught 2 hrs.later at the top o Rodman,on a Vyper tandem willow chartreuse on the edge o the grass.(4.6#).Two other ish caught late in the dayby willow point,both with watermelon red baby brush hogs.Ended the day with 4 ish or a total o 14.06#.Winning team had 32lbs. 7 ish limit pitching brown jigs by Rattlesnake island.Tips Brush Hogs in the timber.Teams caught most o their ish With watermelon and pumpkin colors.
      City: Napa

  • Sonoma County, California
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      Water Temp: low 60's

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bass-n-Tubes tourney on Sunday was won by Tim Crane, Jr., with 7.78 lbs. Andy & Kevin joined us rom the Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club. They hiked over to Cherry Creek rom Yorty, where they said they could SEE some monster ish in the shallows, but couldn't get them to bite. Weather was beautiul -- wind was manageable when it kicked up; otherwise, it died out completely at times, with air temps into the 80s. Water was real clear in the coves, with a nice green color in the main body. I caught most o my limit split-shotting 4-5 inch worms & T-rigging a Baby Brush Hog. Tim caught one or two on a spinnerbait, one crankin', & a ew more with a Gitzit. Sounds like the big mamas were up in Cherry Creek, though. I missed 3rd place by .05 lbs., ater missing adecent ish in tangled brush just minutes beore weigh-in. Ain't that how it goes?!!
      City: San Jose

      Tips: With little or no winds, inesse techniques seemed most eective.

Saturday, May 15th, 1999

  • Amador County, California
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      Water Temp: 66

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished my club tournament today and it was a beautiul warm sunny day.Started ishing themain lake area with topwater and caught our ish.Once the sun came up topwater bite shutdown.Fishedthe rest o the day with 4" & 6" lizards and worms.The bite was real tu appears alot o the ishare postspawn and are not aggressively biting.Only caught three more with plastics and i didn't evenget a limit.My draw partner caught two ish on a spinnerbait.
      City: Livermore

      Tips: Fish the submerged trees with reaction irst then go over it with plastics throughly.

  • Lake County, California
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      Water Temp: 58-64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Did well the irst day o my irst ever tourney. Got lucky and got a great boater who knew where the ish were, and weighed in a top (or the day) 25.60 limit. My best day ever ishing, including a 10.3 toad. Sucked eggs the second day and only managed to land one ish, ell to third best.Tips split shot lukes with 1/16 - 1/8 oz, 12" leader tossed very lightly, retreived very slow with twitches. You rarely eel them, mush bite.
      City: Belmont

  • Tuolumne County, California
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      Water Temp: n/a

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: ished six bit caught almost all are ish there.
      City: Modesto

  • Sacramento County, California
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      Water Temp: 62.0-63.5

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out o Granite bay at 06:00. Second cast o the morning produced 2.5lb spot on pop R.Fished worms until 11:00 and caught a total o 22 ish mostly smallmouth and spot mixed. Biggestish 3.00lb. Had my son and his buddy with and they landed their share. No ish on jerkbaits although they showed but would not hit threw worms back and shook this produced 3 ish. Good time toish olsom use electronics. Most ish active in the 13-15' level.Largemout seem to have already spawned now concentrate on spots and smallmouths or a good limit. 5 best ish 11.50lbs.
      City: Rocklin

      Tips: Topwater early. then when the sun is up shake worms in shad color, depth 10-15'. Fish areextremely active and now is the time to ish. Sot jerkbaits should produce soon.Fish relating torocks.