Fishing Report
Monday, June 30th, 2003
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Contra Loma Lake
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Water Temp: 73
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: went out today with my riend on our tubes tried to sneek by without paying or launch but dident work lol started out with a sinco and hooked up to 1 and missed it. a nice 1 to. drited down the tollies by the other side o the pool got 2 there. went to the cove got another one there went to the dam....OMG great ishing got 8 there all 2-3 lb on a crank bait bomber missed a 5+ bass jumped out o the water shook its head and 'pop' the lure pops out it jumped about 2 eet out o the water (you guys no how that eels) then got another hook up which i dident see but was ighting like crazy it was a lunker or sure. pulled it up to the tube and then when i got it up there was just a lure. got a ew today it was a great day!!!!!!! at the end we ended up getting 11 ish (2-4 lbs) and also got alotttttttt o hits in the ar cove. there on all the little drops os. we tried my riends ish inder and that things a nice one helped alot to show drop os and deph. all rock ledges are great!!!! ive never had such a good day in our tubes and the un part was that they were all light polls. well we got 11 and missed 6 not to shabby i cant belive we missed six but still got 11. well good luck. p.s. aaron i dident try the spinners but i dident need to at this rate thanx or the advise
City: antiochTips: crank baits at the dam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i ur on oos the cove like crazy!!!!!!!!
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: ?
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: In at Jones Valley at 5:00PM. Fished the lower Pit or 14, all small and a ew dinks. Jigs and worms or all but one that came on a topwater just beore dark. Out at 10:00PM. The Blonde had 4. The access road or the low water ramp is just out o the water allowing space or one rig to park, other wise it's a walk up the stairs.
City: CottonwoodTips: The banks are loaded with dinks, better ish around 25 eet.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2003
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Amador Lake
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Water Temp: 75-78
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished Amador last night rom 10:00 pm to 6:00 am (no moon). Partner and I caught 12 ish up to 4 pounds and missed 4 top water bites and 5 or 6 hits on plastics.Best ish (4 pounds) came on a buzzbait at 2:00 am...what a thrill! Also caught ish on 7" Cuttail worms (green pumpkin, rootbeer) ished with a 1oz bullet weight pegged 5" up the line, 9L Senkos (green pumpkin, watermelon seed, and black/blue) ished wacky/weightless, jigs (black/red) dragged along drop os and Dead Ringers (black/red) ished T-rigged. Note: all productive colors were dark. Tried chartreuse, white and clear with no bites.All ish came in less than 20' with most in less than 10'. Missed top water ish between 10pm and 1am. Probably would have had better success with a slower top water bait like a Spook. But, in the pitch black, the buzzbait was much more orgiving when tossed into trees or up on the bank. Also, broke o a toad on a Senko at irst light...hit in 2' o water.
City: Fair OaksTips: When daytime high temperatures shut down the bite, switch to night ishing.
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Bullards Bar Lake
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Water Temp: 78.5
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Kokanee ishing is great. Fished in ront o the dam. Had 2 limits within 2.5 hours. Fished down 30-35 eet with Baby Cowbells with a red Wedding Ring & white corn. Larger ish came earlier in the morning. Fish up to 13 inches long. Lost as many ish as we boated with those sot mouths. Use a rubber snubber, it helps.
City: W. Sacto
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 73-75
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Launched out o Rivers End. On the water 5:15 and o by 11:30 with my son Nicholas. To many skiers. Fished the river with buzzbaits with no takers, Threw a blade and hooked 5. Ran to ind some mats to teach my (11 year old) Niko to rog ish. Got a ew blow-ups right away. I was watching my rog when a heard a slurp in the back o the boat. Saw Niko set the hook, I told him to him to set it again and keep the rod up. He got it to the boat. His irst rog ish weighting in at 4.8 pounds. That made our day. Great job Nicholas. We end the day with a photo and a great memory.
City: FremontTips: Look or the mats and throw that rog. Fish are on current. Catch you on the water.
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 70
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: ished late aternoon and caught two dinks on popper,missed one realy big ish that broke my 6lb line.moved to the docks and ished a rattle trap with only a dink,and i missed another big ish that broke my line.
City: sacramento
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Temp: 75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Took my buddy Will out or a ew hours o relaxing Bass ishing. Got there beore 6:00 am, third in line. Started with topwater over the weedbeds in the narrows. We connected or three ish on the Rico, all keepers, largest pushed 5 pounds. Missed two other blow ups. Will also scored a ew smaller ish, including a nice Bluegill on an in line spinner. Rest o the morning was a mixed bag. One keeper smallmouth on a Watermelon Senko and a 2lb black on a dart headed brown worm in Swallow Bay. The wind picked up and we moved to the south end. Picked up another Senko ish and a couple more 2 pounders Carolina rigging a 6" Zoom pumpkin lizard. O the water at noon.
City: San RamonTips: Get there early. Poppers over the weed beds. I'm talking about the weeds that are in 6-7 eet o water, in ront o the tules. Ater the topwater dies go either 15-20 eet down or drag a worm through the weeds beds in the south end.
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Lower Otay Lake
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Water Temp: 65+
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Caught two smaller bass let o the boat dock, towards the dam on green 5" senkos. all were sight ishing near the weeds.
City: Rancho Santa Fe
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Shasta Lake
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Water Temp: 78.7
Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)
Report: should have stayed home, in at bailey cove at 645pm, air temp 94 lake down to 15.3 t. ran up the the upper end hoping to get away rom the skiers with no luck, ished around ellery creek down to moore creek or only 9 , 8 were dinks one was only 1.6. all came on 3/8oz darter heads wearing hula grubs, nothing on Mr Fullers bait, heavy boat traic until 915 pm so I said the hech with it, and got out at 945pm, air temp a nice 77 degrees
City: ReddingTips: wait till labor day, Steve Pendill, your vacation is over, get back over here!
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Saturday, June 28th, 2003
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California Delta
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Water Temp: 74-78
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fished the Bryant/Crenshaw Memorial with Cris VanCle. Had quite a day o catching considering we stopped ishing at 11:30 or our 12:00p weigh-in. Caught about 25 ish all morning, but o those maybe only 10 were keeper ish above 13". Our best ish, a 4+ came on a popper. Very subtle bite, even trickier to git em to strike and hold onto the popper. We lost 3 really good ish that took the popper down but never got hooked. Also lost a 5-6 pound ish on a rog, which came unbuttoned hal way back through the slop. The better ish all came on topwater baits. Never got bit on a buzzbait. We did catch quite a bit o numbers on a PBJ worm as well as a brown jig-n-grub combo. Swearengin & Merill took top honors in this event by lippen plastics, and secured the victory with an 8+ pound kicker 5 minutes beore their weigh-in on a rog. They had over 25 pounds or their best 7 ish. It's summer time in the Delta.
City: OakleyTips: Tis the season to be tossing topwater baits early and all day long. Beore the sun comes up, slow ish the poppers. Buzzbait the weedlines where ya ind the shad starting to school. Frogs the rest o the day. Jigs and worms will work on transition points and ledges where the current is present. And i ya can't ind that topwater bite, let's go lippen!
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Castaic Lake
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Water Temp: 74
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Fish were holding tight to the bushes and trees along the shorelines Red seemed to be the color. caught only 3 my partner caught 10 lots o boat traic
Tips: split shot 6" red worms
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Clear Lake
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Water Temp: 81
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished saturday, got a late start about 7, ished backside o Rattlesnake, caught 11 ish up to 5lbs. Then blasted to Cash Creek, in 30 min caught 10 with the biggest around 2lbs. Coudlnt get anything to blow on the Frog, which is real strange??? But the senko caught alot o ish and I did catch one on a Drop Shot.
City: NapaTips: Top water in the am, rog midday and deep water drop shotting. When all else ails Senko, Senko, Senko.......
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Dacy Lake
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Water Temp: 70-75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished all day with great success. Boated over 150 bass by mysel. Weather was great. A lot o the larger bass were cruising the weeds. Probably preparing or the winter.My partner and his son caught plenty o ish in the 12" size.
City: Las VegasTips: Wacky worming and tubes were the main producers o the larger ish. Broke two o and caught a ew dropshotting.Color did'nt matter on the worms.
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Water Temp: 70-75
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fished all day with great success. Boated over 150 bass by mysel. Weather was great. A lot o the larger bass were cruising the weeds. Probably preparing or the winter.My partner and his son caught plenty o ish in the 12" size.
City: Las VegasTips: Wacky worming and tubes were the main producers o the larger ish. Broke two o and caught a ew dropshotting.Color did'nt matter on the worms.
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Del Valle Lake
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Water Temp: 70's
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: Started the day o with my boy and a buddy and his boy all throwing top water. I had a nice keeper blow up on a 5 inch spook. We tried spinners and buzz but no takers. Caught another nice keeper on a 5 inch senko. Sunny is really pounding the water and ish are looking or cover.
City: AlamedaTips: Hit the top water action as soon as you get out there, but once the sunny peaks go to a SENKO
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Friday, June 27th, 2003
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Sonoma Lake
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Water Temp: nice
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: got on the water at 8am, thinkin i was gonna catch tons o bass ater all the reports iv been hearing rom dierent tackle shops and the internet, boy, was i wrong. All i caught was 1 small bass, and aew good bites. Caught it on a senko, warm springs. I think its all the location, iv ished this lake many times all in warm springs, and iv only caught like 7 ish out o here, pathetic. Can someone tell me i cherry is really better, or what im doin wrong, thanks.
City: ksjkalsdTips: sot plastics, good luck, catch and release only
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Thursday, June 26th, 2003
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Amador Lake
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Water Temp: 79
Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)
Report: I was planning to ish Amador with a riend o mine but wound up ishing solo as he didn't eel well enough to come. I ished only about 6 hours - getting some evening topwater (smaller bass up to 1 3/4 lbs) and then some night ishing When I irst started a 4 or 5 pound bass hit my spook right at the boat - but pilot error - I think I set too quick!!. The leet was out, probably because o a previous post. Probably the most boats I have seen in the dark o the moon - many let early cause the ishing wasn't that good. I did ok, catching my biggest at 4-13 right at dark on a junebug Dead Ringer worm. Ater dark I used Berkely Power worms, Camanche Jack 10" zipper worms and 11" black Gator Tails. The best bite was about 20 eet. I caught lots o bass that actually were eeding - they hit pretty hard. I don't know how many I caught, but my 5 biggest were about 15 1/2 lbs. One o my 4 pounders was so skinny that I could have put a tip on her nose and shot her as an arrow! Now that is skinny!! Nothing great to report considering the heat, but a good trip anyway.
City: Yuba CityTips: I did not ind many ish on points, mostly on walls and creek channels. Topwater ish were all over!
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Calero Reservoir
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Water Temp: 70 - plus
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Fishing is good right now with ish in the 1- 3lb range being caught. Caught my personal best on monday (6/23) 11 lbs.
City: san joseTips: Postspawn patterns working well right now. Fish weedbeds in 3-10 eet with plastics and jerkbaits.
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Don Pedro Lake
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Water Temp: 78
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: Took our 8 & 4 yr. old grand kids out or their 1st boat ride on a big lake so actual ishing was limited to about an hour. Caught one in Lucas Bay on a split shot Yamamoto green pumpkin lat tail worm, caught one in Rogers Creek on a split shot Berkeley Power Hog, and then caught two more in the Canyon on a split shot 4" Purple Ghost. All our were keepers w/ the biggest just shy o 3 lbs.
City: DelhiTips: Short time we ished we split shot and the ish we caught were in 10' to 15'.
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Powell Lake
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Water Temp: 73-82
Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)
Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORT JUNE 26, 2003By Wayne Gustaveson Lake Elevation: 3616Water Temperature: 73-82 FThe lake has reached its high point and will now slowly decline. That's good news or anglers battling muddy water at Hite where runo has made ishing extremely challenging. When the lake clears the stained water will produce a huge crop o plankton. The many shad spawned this spring will take advantage o the plankton bloom and grow quickly in size and number. Good orage conditions will prevail or the rest o the year. For this week it would be wise to ish in clear water. Bullrog/Halls boasts the best ishing or stripers and smallmouth bass. On a calm morning expect striper boils to start beore sunup and continue until about 9 AM. Surace eeding is repeated rom 6 to 9 each evening. Windy days spoil the topwater bite. The best action is ound in the moored houseboat ields at Bullrog and Halls and right in the main travel lanes as boats leave Bullrog Marina and head toward Halls. Stripers are in tight schools swimming shoulder-to-shoulder and not making much surace disturbance. They are eeding on larval shad which drit near the surace and do not swim well. Swimming and slurping in unison eeding stripers look more like a boat wake or wind rile. Investigate these strange looking surace disturbances by casting a Super Spook Jr. into the ray. You may ind more stripers than you can imagine during late June. Since the stripers do not need to swim ast to catch small shad the boil moves along at about 3 mph. Boat toward these ish in the same leisurely manner and they will stay on top. Rushing into the boil will make the ish go down only to resurace well out o casting range. Observe the school's direction o travel and idle to a point well ahead o the school. Let the boil come to you or best results. Smallmouth ishing is good lakewide but the summer pattern is well in place. Casting plastic grubs to the shallow shoreline is not eective. Bass are holding along the 25 oot contour. Park the boat in normal casting range to reach the shoreline but drop the lure straight down under the boat to ind deeper ish. Summer bass like a ree-loating, slow moving bait. The most eective presentations are the drop-shot or split shot rigs. The hook is about 18 inches rom the weight in both techniques. Drop- shot rigs have the weight on the bottom and hook tied up the line with a Palomar knot. The split shot rig is just the opposite with the bait on the bottom and the weight up the line. In both cases, let the weight touch bottom. Hold the lure in place and then wiggle it a ew times beore moving it to the next spot. When a bass picks it up, use a steady sweep as a hook set instead o quick lick o the wrist. Wahweap Bay has been slow ishing except or the deep bass rigs. Fishing improves with distance traveled uplake. The San Juan is still good near Neskahi Bay. Fish deep or bass and very early and late or boiling stripers.
City: Page
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