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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished the CVBC tourney this weekend. did not do as well as the other poster here, but did ind a good jig bite. Stayed in main lake and middle ork. ish were located rom 5 - 25 t. deep. They were biting - hard, but not taking the bait. inally igured out to wait them out, and set only ater eeling weight - still only managed to hook one in ten bites. 16.1# won or ten ish in a two-day tourney. Thanks to Scott L or letting me in the boat ater my motor blew sat. Thanks to CVBC member Dave R or taking time on a tourney day to tow me in!
    City: belmont

    Tips: rodstrainer ootballs - 1/2 ounce with yammie twin tail trailer. toss all the way to the bank and drag it all the way to deep water. be patient - many bites came as jig was not moving. oh - a bit o a ripbait bite too - on staysee ghost minnow. trick there was to work the ripbait very slowy.

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: preishing or our club tourney. suxed Sat. ew blowups on topwater, but they weren't taking. Caught my irst 'real' dropshotting ish, though, so it was un learning a new technique. Not many, and a tourney that went out that day (Chico Bass Club i think? - sorry, didn't get details) had a 67 boat tourney - winning weight was just over 11lbs. - team tourney seven ish, i think.. we caught our ish minly in areas with sparse standing timber. Sunday, did much better with about a dozen ish. I think that the cloudy day helped the bite on sunday. Fish were in dierent kinds o banks, just not in the gentle sloping areas.
    City: belmont

    Tips: dropshot and jigs. The spots were spitting up pond smelt like crazy..

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    Water Temp: 65ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main lake points and area near dam wed. catching ish dartheading 4" worms and dropshoting 3" worms in around 30t. Nothing on topwater and nothing on jigs, but never threw them much either. Best 5 went around 9 pounds or so with 3 o them over the slot.Thursday I started in the middle ork and got 2 on a super spook early. Both keepers with one o them being over. Located submerged hump 35t. down 200yds rom shore and not marked in the middle ork and got 5 o that dropshoting, all keepers with 1 over. Did'nt stay in that spot or more than 45 min., but I think I could o loaded the boat there. They were all over that hump. Fished and inished the day in the main body dragging dartheads, bouncing the dropshot in 40t., and throwng white spinnerbaits in the mudline. Caught bigger ish with the spinnerbait. Best 5 this day was around 11 pounds with 3 overs.
    City: Brentwood

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    Water Temp: 79-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with little bro (sPat) who lives 10 min. rom Lime Saddle. No dawgs but had a ton o un and a lot o ish. We were determined to not worm!!! Started with spooks and poppers with no luck and quickly changed to rippin' Lucky Crat and Husky Jerks and pounded 'em good. As the sun came up ripped deeper with shad raps and rattle traps and continued the un. Bounced brown jigs with yammie twin tails in 180,157 and spider grubs with ootball heads in 297,042,150. I did drag a yammie lizzard or a couple but that's it I swear! We also did a lot o crankin' white rattle traps, silver shad raps, and did well with ire tiger renzy divers and at raps where the water was darker rom wakes. Biggest spot (3#) came on a brass n glass brush hog in 15 eet dropped down by my brother ater crankin' a couple o a point and biggest largie came on ire tiger renzy over 10-15 eet (3+#) caught my me!! Also got 2 on a heavy blade around 18 eet. White/green with and gold blades.
    City: Bay Point

    Tips: I you're rom the Delta area like me, don't let the locals, like my brother, give you crap about only being able to catch largemouth!

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    Water Temp: 49'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished South Fork, Middle Fork and North Fork. Threw 4"&6" worms on dartheads-NOTHING. Tried jigs or awhile-STILL NOTHING. Caught one ish 1 1/2lb in South Fork on shad colored spinnerbait in 40' o water. Caught one other ish 2lb in Middle Fork on rocky point near water all. Again in 35'-40' o water. Not exactly what you would call "blade conditions" but it's the only way we could get em. Talked to several others at ramp no one else did as well as we did. Better conditions are coming though!!! Tight Lines!! Todd
    City: Reno

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: ished westcoast this weekend wow what a rush howling winds major waves and or me tough ishing .day one i weighed one ish caught three on a blue n morning dawn combo useing a darter on big rocky points .day two went much better i caught a limit by 9 on a 4 inch pink paddle tail worm there seemed to be two major actors in the dirence rom day 1 to day 2 clear water and kickbass we sented everything and that made the dirence or us .one o the three ishing teammatesor bluto baits scored another win or us bringing our total winnings o lake oroville this year alone is over 5000dollars our goal is ity thousand this year o to a good start.all on bluto baits what are you throwing and how much are you winning ?always willing to help any anglers with ish related problems regarding lake orovillelook us up r a strike ishing supply
    City: oroville

    Tips: scent everything avoid the muddy cold water

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We spent a lot o time ishing shallow with reaction baits. No takers. Only got ish when we went deeper and tight to the bottom. Most tournament anglers in the NewBass event reported catching ish deep on plastics.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Fish are moving up and down based on environmental actors such as water level luctuations and weather changes. Be prepared to make major adjustments in your ishing approach even over the course o the same day.

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished steep stu up the river or the irst time in a while. Found ish on bigger rocks in the middle or rom right on the bank down to 25 eet. My partner Dale Tuord and I caught about 15 ish in 3 hours, 3 over the slot. Even had a double hook up. Most o our ish came on brown jigs, and a ew on morning dawn worms.
    City: Marysvile

    Tips: Not too ast. The lake has turned I believe so the ish are at multiple depths

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished sat & sun launching out o Bidwell with the lake down about 90t I guess. Saturday we caught maybe 10 ish with 1 keeper in the slot. Got a rip ish early on the meat wall and the rest came rom the Lime Saddle area on 6" worms rom 20-40t with the only keeper coming rom the 40t range. Sunday we ocused on the 40t range and caught close to 3 limits with 8 o them being over the slot in spots all over the lake. The colors that worked or us were reds, greens, browns, and ew on blue. I also caught a nice 2 pounder on a superspook early on sun. The weather was beautiul and got to see 3 deer cross the cove we were in on sunday, that was cool.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Keep it in the 40t range and slooooow down.

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ished the entire labor day weekend at Oroville ished the morning and the evening rom 6am to 12pm then again at 5pm to 9pm. Saturday morning I ished the ork that heads to poe's dam the green bridge and stay right.I ound tHAT THE LAKE HAD DROPPED A TON since I had last been on it in June. I threw a buzzer and my buddy threw a spook, he popped one in the 2lb range. I stayed with the buzzer or about 35min put it down or a spitting image since its smaller and can be worked like a spook. We were able to start picking up more ish. The biggest was only weighed in at 2.25 and the smallest was 11 oz, we caught a totally o 5 ish that top water bite we only stuck with it till about 930 then threw it only by trees or signiicant structure. I then switched to a watermelton yamamoto jig on a 1/4oz wieght and began to get on them again my buddy threw a ox blood on a darter head same wieght and we were then keying in on the banks with the muddy line or turbulant water this held the bigger 1.5 up to 4lb ish they were on the bank I mean within a oot. The ish were either there or not they would hit it with in an second or two o the bait entering the water. I picked up ish out in to as deep as 25 eet with a split shoot and a morning dawn no chartruse. This pattern held threw to Sunday only with less o a top water bite and the size o ish got smaller.Sunday We ished the middle ork same technic's
    City: Granite Bay

    Tips: As or a weekend bite thats not busy as labor day I would say that the ish should start going into a all bite pattern. I ishing a rock bank with the muddy water toss it in the areas that look good trees protruding rock this held the ish the spinner and crank I couldn't pick em up on it stay with light line and natural colors till the water temp drops into the 60's

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Oro on Sat and Sun. Early morning rip ish are available,and even a ew on poppers. As the sun hits the water any light-hued worms or grubs will provide good numbers o ish.Jigs in brown or browm/purple take a ew nice ish worked throughcreek channels, as well. When the wind is blowing in the morning,the crank-bite is absolutely on ire, and will continue intothe aternoon as long as the wind blows. The crank ish areound tight to the bank at times, but most are caught >20 eeto, down around 10 eet deep.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: I you're crankin, keep the boat way o the bank and make longcasts, ish are suspending way out.

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Oroville or the irst time this weekend. On riday aternoon ishing was great. They were hammering everything I threw. Could see a lot o good ish in shallow water. Water was at 75 degrees. Through the weekend the ishing got worse. Water was dropping about a degree a day andished moved deeper and bites were less requent. Best consistent ish I ound were some three pound male spots that seemed to be guarding beds in about 18 eet o water around willows on lats.Caught them draging Black Zoom lizards.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Best baits besides the lizards were lukes, white spinners, and cotton candy 4" curly tale worms. On Sunday ish were not biting. I stuck on a very small spinner (Single colorado blabe and a hook) to ish or blue gill. Smalls and spots hammered it.