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Saturday, August 14th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Hogback with Castro Valley Bass Classics (CVBC) on Saturday morning. Tough day. Fished a deep diving Rebel craw and lost a keeper smallie at the boat. Caught lots of dinks. Only quality fish was a 3# largemouth on a 6" witches tea texas rigged. My boater stuck a 4.3# largemouth on a 1/8th (no typo) jig with a 4' power craw trailer. Mayday out
    City: Belmont

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    Water Temp: 68 - 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished CVBC tourney with about 8 boats out of Hogback - most folks fished in the area and upriver for smallies, and it was a mistake - tuff bite. Winners (boaters and nonboater) won by making the long run to Disco - brought back limits of 14 and 11, i think. The folks who stayed north caught mostly smallies - my boater had a squeaker 5.5# limit and still managed to come in 5th. Caught dinks all day. We also caught little stripers and one nice 18" striper.
    City: belmont

    Tips: North Delta - chartreuse, white and silver mini cranks. Some worm fish. Topwater was dead. South - Blades, worms

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First of all, I want to thank the fishermen for putting your fishing report in here. It helped me out on Saturday. Launched out of Holland, caught 4 bass - 7.64 lbs, approx. 2 pounder, the last two were about a pound, and a lot of dinks. Using crawdad speedtrap on the 2 big ones on outside of the weed line. Single-spin spinnerbait bluegill color (blue and charatruse) before the high tide and black 10" powerworms during the low tide. it was fun i had a good time. Check out my site http://members.home.net/scy33613/
    City: Fremont

    Tips: anywhere there was a solid weedline out of the ski boat traffic. the weedlines that where patchy didn't produce as well as the ones with a continuous line. rocks. no tulies.

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: American Bass Anglers Club Tournament- 6 boats launched out of B&W resort, 1 limit was brought back of small keepers, I had one bite and that was the only fish I had The Bite was TUFF, TUFF, TUFF, alot of fish caught on jigs my backseater caught his 1 fish on a viper spinnerbait(dark colored).The wind blew early and then the boat traffic picked up around 11 Tight lines P.P.
    City: Martinez

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of the break, got on the water by 6:00. Fished the south end of the break and got one fish went about 4 on a jig. Ran down to piper and cranked a few keepers. Threw blades around docks at pipers and got another keeper and a 5.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: ??

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    Water Temp: 76-79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Bob Howe out of Bend Oregon on Wednesday. Bite was wide open in the Break. We flipped about 10 great fish on any piece of cover that acted as a point or break to current flow. Brown Jigs with Yamamoto 164 grub. Also finally found a great deep weedline bite on the low tide. Then moved to a big fish area and struggle the rest of the day, only got 1 bite in 2.5 hours, but that fish was a 9.85 pound SOW! She ate a black Jig with a special FIT plastic Chunk. Right next to a big ole tree trunk, she was.
    City: Oakley

Friday, August 13th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 71 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Riverside Marina at 6:30am, fished the Holland cut near Quimby island along the tule's caught 5, 1# dinks, on 4" rubber worms (witches tea). lots of hit's and miss The sun started to beat down around 11:00am boaters and water skiers creating alot of wakes, moved on to rock slough area and caught 4 more 1# dinks in the afternoon. off the water by 5:00pm all n all lots of fun, 9 fish.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: magic worms(witches tea,1/0 worm hook, carolina rig, along the tips of tule's

Thursday, August 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HOGBACK? Why Hogback I ask. C.V.B.C had its annual upper Delta classic. All I could think of is MONSTER,MONSTER BASS!!(Roland) So I made the run.Just call me Disco,Disco Duck!!Caught fish all day.ON MY TOP SECRET BAIT.Lots of small shad around.But they want crawdads.tommyp,mayday,old round daddy...gotta make that run. OUT!!!
    City: Hayward

    Tips: CRAWDADS

Wednesday, August 11th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at Paradise Point at about 5:30, my brother and friend got some nice top water action early on, 2.2# big fish of the day goin on a popper at about 6:30 or so. Fishing was tough, wind didnt pick up until later . I caught one keeper, one dink, and one fished broke me off, thank god i didnt see the fish otherwise I might not have came home with a tackle box. Only 3 keepers made it into the boat. Get em next time i suppose. Good Luck!!
    City: Galt

Monday, August 9th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 67.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: (This is for you Tommy P ) We launched out of Hog Back early sat. morning,anticipating the Smallie bite on the Sac. Started throwing Buzzbaits in the marinas nearby,and scored on a few largemouth up to two pounds.Since I caught a few doing that I tried flipping the "Micster" worm,loaded with Smelly jelly. My first pitch into a bush produced a nice 21 1/2 inch,6lb plus largemouth.Caught a small limit after that and went to the sac.above the Isleton bridge. We ,(two boats) cranked till our arms went stiff.(four hours at least,both tides) and boated only one keeper. The bite was definately off that day, in that area.The fish were in the 12'-15' depth. I caught a few dinks split shottin.If I were to fish there again, I'd try nearer Vierra's,as Cooch and others have been getting better fish cranking those banks. See Ya!!!!
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Craw type cranks for the smallies. Don't overlook the Marinas and Oxbows like Cooch says.

Sunday, August 8th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 69-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: started late @ 10 am. got a couple on the ol' popper, then things slowed down. caught a couple on jigs in my usual spots in white's. tried frogs, but couldn't hook the few blowups i had. went to honker, got quantity on woyms peanut butter & jelly (thanks Big Daddy), biggest went 2#. Went to the cheese again, got three, all quality. biggest went 5# on the digital. took pic. Scorecard - 8 dinks, 3 keepers, 3 quality. That's all btw - Thanks mr. daddy for the report!
    City: belmont

    Tips: wind has blown a lot of the cheese away. Luv dem Frogs. Try some open water frogging Sapp style....

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Lundborg Landing and headed up the SJ River. Had 2 that were around 3# on a black buzz bait after the sun came out. Both came from the same large shallow flat with sparse weeds. Flipped a small island after that and picked up several that were 1-1.8#. Bite seemed slow could not get a pattern going. Headed in about 11:30 to watch the weighin at the hook.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Bite is tough with the cold weather. Pray for some summer weather. Better fish came off the buzzbait worked as slow as possible.

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    Water Temp: 72 - 76 F

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sonoma County Belly Boat Bass Club fished Delta on Sunday, August 8. Winning sack was 15.25 lb (7-fish combined limit), less 0.2 lb dead fish penalty, anchored with 3.9 lb big fish. Second place was 10.92 lb for 7 fish. 4 teams weighed in total of 27 bass. Bass went for spinnerbaits & soft plastics flipped by boat docks, tules & weedlines. A few topwater fish also caught. *** Belly Boaters/Float Tubers: Next event will be Sunday, September 12 @ Blue Lakes (near Ukiah). Next meeting Wednesday, September 1 @ 7 PM @ Coddingtown Round Table Pizza in Santa Rosa. E-mail me for more info. ***
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Belly Boaters - watch those currents in some of the sloughs! The outgoing tide in Sandmound & Indian Sloughs was strong.

Saturday, August 7th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Stickbait and I went out for some fun fishing. Caught fish on cranks, bruch hogs and jigs. Bite was ok, but not great. Found fish on main points and on tuleberm points near deeper water. Caught about 20, biggest about 3 and also got some dinks. Oh yeah, and stickbait caught a tagged fish with TWO $50 tags in it. i think he is on his way to DFG now!
    City: marysville

    Tips: Points with deeper water nearby.

Friday, August 6th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: cloudy, wind blown day. Launched from Vierra's and fished the lower end of the Sacramento, Cache and Steamboat. Best production in the cuts behind the islands downsteam of Vierra's. Crawdad and shad cranks produced a dozen or so smallies and bucketheads. Largest 5# and smallest 6" Had enough of the wind by noon. All in all a good day!
    City: Sacramento

Thursday, August 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: DON'T KNOW

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WENT TO THE DELTA ON THURSDAY OUT OF DEL'S. I CAUGHT 8 BASS THE LARGEST BEING 7 POUNDS. CAUGHT 2 ON RATS AND THE OTHER SIX ON A 1/4 BLUE/PURPLE V&V JIG WITH A BLUE UNCLE JOSH PORK TRAILER.
    City: LIVERMORE

    Tips: STAY IN THE MAIN CHANNEL AND FLIP THE TULES. WHEN EVER THERE IS A LOG IN THE TULES WORK IT VERY GOOD MAKE ABOUT FIVE FLIPS ON EACH SIDE OF THE LOG.

Sunday, August 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of holland(crowded beyond belief!)Fished the cut and all other areas.Bite was reasonably tough. No fish on topwater,brown pig and jig worked well on smaller fish.Went with watermelon brush hog in the p.m. and caught the only good fish of the day, a couple of threes. Caught a lot of small fish. Still beat anything else I could have been doing on a Sunday.
    City: fremont

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    Water Temp: 68.7

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Holland Tract. Started the early morning with a buzz bait with no luck. Went to flipping and got a couple of dinks (< 1 lb). Decided to try a spinner bait as the tide started to go out, knowing the fish would be moving out of the tules and down to the grass line. Worked really well. Caught over a dozen but nothing over 2lbs! Made for some fun though!
    City: Cupetino

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the NCBF Turkey Shoot on Sunday out of the Hook. (What a blast) Weather had warmed up a little and the water temp came up a couple of degrees from Saturday. Bite was not good for us on Saturday. However on Sunday it was a different story. Bite improved with the warmer water. Fish were tight to tulie clumps in 3-5 feet of water. Best 2 for me went 8.9 if I remember right. Had a 2.5 that came on a Skitter Pop in the morning and the 4 and 5 came on a Strike King Flippin Tube that was texas riged with a 1/4oz wieght.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Cold weather is making the bite very unpredictable. Normal summer patters are not working as well as in most years. If your not getting bit try other patterns. If it's hot with no wind try frogs otherwise flip tulies and weed lines.

Saturday, July 31st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Track at 5:45AM. Fishing is slow. Cranked a few small ones on a crawdad wiggle wart of rocks. Lost an ok keeper on a Chartreuse Rattle Trap in Holland Cut. My partner and myself each flipped a 3-4 pounder. Chased the high tide south in the morning toward Middle River. Flip bite is slow. Threw a Buzzbait...had one little fish swat at it with no hookup. Got off the water at 1:30PM
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Stay focused.....especially when flippin. I could barely feel the few flip fish I had today.