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Saturday, February 12th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: you may not believe this but on sunday when most of the area was experiencing a large storm the lake was very fishable. we got into a few groups of spotted bass in the narrows and main body of the lake. fish seemed very finicky on the take but all fish were good fish, up to 2.5 pounds. All of the fish cam out of 8-12 feet of water, tried deeper water but no takes.
    City: davos

    Tips: salt and pepper worms, or if you have it any of the predator worms with the blue or purple line down the middle

Monday, January 31st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50.5 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Today was rainy, especially this a.m. Didn't launch till 2 p.m., fished until dark. Fished south arm of lake, water temp. was 50.5. Caught 4 fish, two smallies and 2 largemouth. All fish were good keepers, one to 2lbs. Fished plastics in around 25 feet of water, on points....

    Tips: Try salt and pepper.......

Saturday, January 29th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water clarity was clear in most of the lake (that characteristic Berryessa Green tinted color), the mud line was well up Putah Creek after the big storms of last weekend. Even up Putah, it wasn't as muddy as I've seen it in years past. There's a foot or so visability up in Putah, about a mile past the Boy Scout Camp. Water was a little cooler up there compared with the narrows. Only got one small keeper largemouth in deep water off rock wall in the narrows. I was sitting in 50'. Talked to two other guys, one had just one smallmouth on a worm up in Putah, the other was Dropshot, who had 5 fish up to 2.5 lbs. Seems like all the tournament boats I saw were in the south end of the lake fishing the main rock walls and points.
    City: Bay Point

    Tips: No suggestions, cause I didn't do so well. Keep you eye out for wild life, though. I saw a bobcat and a pair of bald eagles up in Putah. Heard some coyotes howling too.

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main lake area, searched for rock piles and large boulder point (west side). Fished for 6 hrs, caught and released 6 fish had 8 hits. 5 of those fish averaged around 2lbs. Caught all the fish on either black or brown jigs with junebug trailer. Fish came from 15 to 25ft of water. Couldnt get a rip bite nor a worm bite to go.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: Right know Id stay with the main lake area, creeks are stained brown. fish main bays but stay on the out side near deep water, finding rocky area in 15 to 40ft of water. Fish jigs slooooow until you can determine what there aggressiveness is. Black or brown jigs will work.

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished main lake area, searched for rock piles and large boulder point (west side). Fished for 6 hrs, caught and released 6 fish had 8 hits. 5 of those fish averaged around 2lbs. Caught all the fish on either black or brown jigs with junebug trailer. Fish came from 15 to 25ft of water. Couldnt get a rip bite nor a worm bite to go.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: Right know Id stay with the main lake area, creeks are stained brown. fish main bays but stay on the out side near deep water, finding rocky area in 15 to 40ft of water. Fish jigs slooooow until you can determine what there aggressiveness is. Black or brown jigs will work.

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    Water Temp: 52`to56`

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished WCB teams today-tough bite overall. 8 bites,5 fish for 9.14 lbs. Small brown Worms 15 to 20 ft., cranked one smallie. Lots of boats on points, camped out. If you find fish- stay on'em a while and be patient. Not a great day for me ,farmed a couple possible money fish . Never really establised a pattern. Had to leave as soon as weighed in, didn't hear results or winning pattern(S). chilly all day-could have used more or thicker cloud-cover Don't
    City: WILTON

    Tips: split shot or spider jigs 15 to 25 ft submerged humps.

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: American Bass Anglers Launched five boats from Markley Cove The bite was tough- I boated 1 fish, and had another two hooked up that came unbuttoned, seems the bass were just short biting, the fish I boated was just a pressure bite , Mike Oron my no-boat boated two fish, we were wormin deep, 1 limit was weighed in for 6+ lbs. all spots.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: All fish came on worms deep Good Luck Procraft Pete

Sunday, January 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Dad and I took Mike O fishing, and to test out the new throttle Well, I stuck my first smally 2+ lbs. Dad was real proud. We were fishing deep, just dead sticking, tighten your line - feel weight -set the hook- its a fish.The weather was great. Tag-A-Long
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Dark worms, 4", deep, dead stick-em.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: NEWBASS held its first tounament of the Northern Team Division. The eager NEWBASS fisherman were presented with a partly-cloudy day, with lows in the 40s and highs in the 50s. Lake Berryessa was in true form, favoring the NEWBASS contestants with smallmouth bass, and a few largemouth. The Winners of the Tournament caught a great limit of smallmouth and culled one 2 pound smallmouth with an 8.5 pound largemouth. This largemouth helped put the winners weight in with over 20 pounds of bass. This weight brought over $1600.00 to the excited winners. Come out and enjoy a day with NEWBASS check out the tournaments at www.newbass.com and have a chance to win 2 RANGER BOATS at the GRAND FISH OFF!
    City: Yuba City

    Tips: During this NEWBASS Northern Team tournament the majority of fish were caught on points 20- 25 feet deep using some sort of plastics. Although there were some shallow reaction fish, the majority came around 20 - 25 feet.

Saturday, January 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a club Tournament on Saturday. Didn't have a keeper until 1:30 and caught 5 fish to 2.5 lbs by 3:00 using a Berkeley french fry worm. Several members had limits using cranks, jigs and worms.
    City: Rohnert Park

    Tips: Stick with jigs or worms in brown down to 30' and fish slowly. Try crank baits in shad patterns around long rocky points.

Saturday, January 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53 to 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was tough for us. We caught 2 spots first thing about 10 ft. After that we worked 10 to 40 ft. until 3:00pm and nothing. At 3:00pm we found fish in 20 to 30ft. in rock shaking worms.
    City: Hayward

    Tips: Fish slow. shad color.

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    Water Temp: 53-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Today my dad and I and Phil went to Lake Berryessa, I caught the biggest fish I ever caught there even it's the only fish I ever caught there. The throttle on the boat broke, my dad caught 2 smallmouth and 1 spot, the weather and the water were beautiful, Tag A-long
    City: Martinez

    Tips: We caught fish in 30-40 ft. of water shakin 4in. worms. good luck :-)

Friday, January 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught 14 fish
    City: sacramento

Sunday, December 19th, 1999

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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.

Friday, December 17th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 53-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: great winter day, blue skies, calm water and very few boats launch 7:00 am fished the narrows first, caught first fish oin 30 minutes shaking 6" blu ghost worm in 30" off main lake points with large chunk rocks. rest of the day was slow but persistance paid off. caught limnit with biggest fish 3 lbs also caught 2.5 lbs fish spooning. get out there and take advantage of the great weather!
    City: walnut creek

    Tips: be patient. must see fish ont your graph to catch them look for them in the 25' to 40' range. don't be afraid to use larger worms i.e. 6". smaller worms catch smaller fish. good luck

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    Water Temp: Cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Troy and I launched outa Markley Cove at 7:00am in my canoe with brokn' back rapalas behind us as we trolled twords the dam. We trolled most of the day, stopping occasionally at the points and thowing plastics at the banks. Nothin' hit until about noon were I foul hooked a pinner bass. That was it for the day. We saw wild turkeys on the banks. Fished for those things for hours and they would'nt bite either. Berryessa is quiet this time of year and it's worth a trip before all the knuckleheads return.
    City: S.F.

    Tips: Help!

Monday, November 22nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing with a friend on Saturday morning. We spent better part of the morning throwing and shaking darter heads with purple ghost/salt and pepper 4 inch straight worms and caught two nice smallies (1.5 lb plus), and a spotted bass (over a pound). All well fed, one smally let go several minows as it was reeled in. We were targeting points and small rock banks at the top of the narrows, before reaching the main lake. Fish were caught at 20 plus feet, although we also spent some time exploring the shallows.
    City: Fairfield

Sunday, November 21st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished ABA NorCal Region Opener on Berryessa. We caught a 8.72lb (10th place)limit on a variety of techniques. We worked on a single pattern: reaction baits on weedlines followed up with a carolina Brushhog on a rocky point. We used a shad colored crank on weedlines and caught 4 fish. We ripped one 2.52lb Smallie on top of sparse weeds. The conditions were: post front with a north wind, and bluebird skies. We stuck to the weed pattern discovered by our friend John Z. about four weeks earlier. John's team took 8.90lbs (9th place) by worming points in 8-12 feet, throwing spooks and spinnerbaits. -vernon
    City: Lincoln

Saturday, October 30th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the WON Team Tourney. My partner and I struggled most of the day and only brought two bass to the scales. However, one of them tied for Big Fish of the tourney at 4.48#. Took the big fish on top water up the creek at about 11:00. Picked up the scond bass on a crank. We didn't find any worm bite, however after the weigh-in several other anglers said they had worm fish deep - 40 to 50 feet. Others found blade fish on the main body. Lot of earth gass coming to the surface so lake seems to be turning.
    City: Granite Bay

Friday, October 29th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 61-67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished friday 10/29/99 trout limits in am to 17 1/4 inches on top. started bassing in pm 12 bass, 7 keeper size to 16 1/2 inches. plastics in various colors, mostly in 15 to 25 feet depth. try points and work pretty slowly, small fish were good and healthy, bigger fish were chunks.
    City: martinez