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Monday, June 26th, 2006

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake late so the reaction bite was not happening at all,Fluke's and Jerkbait not one follow.So broke out the old Anchovie's and ran to the dam to fish the trash rack's.Was flat calm in Portiguez cove but when i got to the dam man it was like an ocean 3 foot swell's easy.First drop fish on 3lb's.Second drop another one but by then after the third swell over the bow i thought safty first and headed back to calmer water but no fish there.Then about noon it laid down some so ran back to the dam and was catching fish allmost every drop.Anchovie's with smallest weight you can use and just mooch like your Salmon fishing.
    City: Salinas

    Tips: Use caution over here it can be down right dangerous.The only people catching fish with consitancy were boat's with electric motor's so your line is straight down not at an angle from drifting to fast.Fish are only down 25 35 feet over 230' of water.

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I've been fishing the O'Neil forebay the last couple a weeks(when it hasn't been raining)Water is highest I've seen in quite a long time and more rain is coming. Two weeks ago after trolling for two unproductive hours I threw in a zara spook and for two hours the bite was fast and furious. Needless to say I took home 2 nice 20,22 inch stripers but what suprized me was the 6lb and 4lb black bass that also hit the spooks. I would say top water bite is on. Going out tomorrow if it doesn't rain and am expecting to slay them.
    City: los banos

    Tips: Find the right spot, be patient.

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake earlier this time about 6:30 started at the back of dinosour cove picked up five fish in the first half hour all decent fish 3-6lbs.Then ran down toward's portiguez cove and fished my butt off for 4 more the same size.Some on rat-l-trap and some on jerkbait.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: Need the lake to start dropping to get some water movement to put a little color in the water.Once the sun get's a little higher it get's real tuff this water is so clear i swear you can see 30' deep.

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: hunted the morning and then went over to the spill way caught a couple small ones on sardines.
    City: san jose

    Tips: throw sardines in the curent when there pumping water in the lake.

Monday, December 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: -

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My freind and i went over to the oneil forebay today and caught a few. Nothing real big the average fish were from 2-4lbs but I'll take what i can get.We got there late in the day and threw some lures for a bit trying to find some active fish but not much luck there so we drifted a little and picked up a few. Weonly fished for a couple of hours and did o.k.
    City: salinas

    Tips: If you're planning on going to san luey go to the big lake and hit the dam with big rattle traps or head to porteguese cove throwin zulus or hair razors. Then if you don't have much luck DEFINATELY drift live shiners anywhere you graph fish1

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47/48.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: one more thing
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Oh yeah! If your using reation type baits, KEEP MOVING AND LOOK FOR THE SCHOOLS!

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    Water Temp: 47-48.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Forebay today, heavy fog in the morning, lifted a little on the south end but not much. It was real cold out there but no wind all day. Lanched at 7.30am. Started at the spill way, one blow up on my buddies super spook in bone color near the buoys, I hooked a 15" on a american shad color lucky craft rip bait about 15 yards off the rock wall next to the buoys. Then hooked a largemouth a few casts after on same rip bait. Next peice of action was on the flats. Two more 15" fish on the rip bait, and my buddy hooked a 18" on a blue back, babyblue body swimbait in 5" size with a 1/2 oz. head and a small largemoth right after. Then hooked a couple of shakers on a rat-l-trap in the same area. A few more blow ups on the spook and then the day was done. Off the water at 2:00pm.
    City: SanJose

    Tips: Best action came off the flats in about 8-12 feet of water. Positioned my boat on weed lines and butterfly casted along the weed lines and into open water. Didn't get to stay for evening bite but the evening bite has always been the best for me on the flats. Ripbaits(color according to water clarity), 3" to 6" rubber swimbaits with at least a 1/2oz. in shad colors. Larger baits for larger fish. The stripers like the baits presented fast, fast rips on the rip bait. Cast swimbaits and let sink to botttom and then burn it back home. Most action on super spook came when the spook disturbed the water a lot and made a ruckus on the surface. Burned the rat-l-traps too. Hope this info helped a bit. Any tips for me, I'd appreciate it.

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Very slow started at daylight with top water not a swirl.Wind started blowing about 25mph so i stayed at dino point.Finally picked up five fish on jerkbait all in tree's way in the back of the cove's.One nice thing two were 3lb black bass.Well i think that's it for me until spring to damn cold over there in that big valley never warm's up all day.About the only real good thing about Salinas is the weather.
    City: SALINAS

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got there at 6:30am ran to the big bay,i believe it is Goosehead and fished about half hour with Zara Spook nothing not a swirl.Then ran over to the flat's by the windmill's and picked up three on spook all 26".That dried up and switched to jerkbait and cought 7 more all small about 18".A few duck hunter's in blind's right where i useualy fish so i left dont want to ruin there day.Then went to the back of the cove at dino point and picked up four more trolling this plug i dont even know what it is or where i even got them.They are about 6"long clear with black stripe.I do know they go about 20' becouse when my meter read that depth they would hit bottom.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: Rip bait's and spook's in flat's seem to be the best for me.Good luck

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: caught fish along vertical rock banks
    reaction bite is still strong....softjerkbaits
    and hard suspending...nothing huge.but all
    BL's (barely legal)...12 fish over three hours
    City: salinas

    Tips: jerk it and they will bite.

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got there about 2:30. Started out fishing the weedline with a beaver and rattle traps and caught 8 bass from 1.5-4lbs. plus a few missed bites.Once the sun got low stripers started busting all over the lake.I started throwing a spook into them and it was on!! I caught a fish on nearly every cast until it was damn near dark.Awesome afternoon and evening on the O'neill.Just try to catch and release! I know they're good to eat but this fishery has enough people keeping every legal fish they can get there hand's on.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Spook's for the stripe's on top.Beaver's and rattletrap's for the bass.

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well it's the lonley angler again.Got on the water at 6:30 lake is dropping pretty fast typical here they send most of it down to la la land.First stop about halfway down to porti cove i saw some fish working the surface thought they were going to be carp.Well to my surprise they were striper's but they wernt boiling like they normally do just a fish here and there.so i started with a spook but all they did was follow it to the boat.So i switched to a large pop-r they were all over it.Nothing big average about 18" but every now and then i would catch one about 4lbs.The good part is they were in real good shape some had a pretty good gut on them.Latly the fish here have been real skinny.that dried up about 8:00 so went farther into the cove and found a spot where they were so thick about every 10th fish i would snag them using a jerkbait.They were all small fish though.you could actually see there dorsel fin's and just before the lure hit the water the whole school would go crazy.Never seen anything like it before over here.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: Call 1-800-805-4805 before you go to get the wind update allthough it was like glass when i went.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Mike, About them skiers and kids you encountered----ain't nothing. I've seen knuckleheads actually BBQ next to the ramp. And your cry for the rangers, good luck on that. The engineering corp handles the lake now. Don't worry about kepping your daily bag limit either, they never check. It's kinda good to thin the fish population though. They are too skinny, like there is no food in the lake. The limit should be 10 just for thinning purposes.
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Find the school and throw anything bone-white. If school can't be found, drift anchovy 100 ft deep.

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: am i the only one that fish's this lake and post's a report?well got there about 7:00am lake is dropping typical of summer here.started below the big electrical fan's if you can call them that.cought quite a few fish but all small useing jerkbaits what else do i use here.did catch four about 24" but the fish were pretty skinny.then ran across to fish the face of the dam.please dont follow me you are supposed to stay 500' away from the dam and trash rack's but no one ever does.also i just dont get it.i come back to the ramp where you can ony launch two boats at once the dock is only about 25' long.there are three jet skies tied to the dock and about six people with icechest full of alchohol beer cans floating in the water 10 kids playing in the water right on the pavement part of the ramp and they look at me like i am the idiot when i asked could you please move one of your skies and ask your kids to watch out i dont want to hit them.makes a guy just totally stop fishing after memorial day.where the hell are the rangers when you need them.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: stop your whinning mike

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: GOT TO THE LAKE ABOUT 8:00AM LAKE IS ABOUT FULL AND WATER CLARITY VERY GOOD.WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK OF DINO POINT BUT NOTHING.FISHED RAT-L-TRAP AND HAIRAISER.WENT BACK OUT AND FISHED SOME MAIN LAKE POINTS SAME RESULT NOTHING.DECIDED TO THROW MY FAVORITE JERK BAIT.ABOUT THE FIFTH CAST FISH ON.ENDED UP WITH A DOZEN FISH ALL SMALL 18" TO 24".ALL FISH CAME OFF FLAT GRASSY AREA'S.MY PARTNER NEVER HAD A BITE.I FOUND THAT THESE JERK BAITS HAVE TO BE FISHED REAL FAST AND HARD JERKS TO GET THEM TO HIT.HE JUST WAS NOT WORKING THEM RIGHT.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: BE CAREFUL OVER HERE GOT PRETTY WINDY FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.ALLWAY'S WEAR YOUR PFD HERE BE SAFE.

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is in great shape and coming up daily. A little off color but very fishable with about 2-3 vis.. We Launched at Dino Pt and fished in that area for the first couple of hours and also spent some time graphing for bait..couple of missed fish and two small ones to the boat...Went looking out on the main lake off some island tops for a another grab that also came up empty..Finally setteled down on main lake points for some 20-24" fish..Bait was hard to find and quality Stripers even harder. We had are chances that didn't convert into fish..it happens sometimes
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Hair Jigs, Lucky Craft jerkbaits & Live bait

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: started out where the water comes in threw rat-l-trap nothing.then went over and fished the rock wall rat-l-trap jerkbait hairaiser nothing.went out and fished the channell with bait nothing.never had a bite or seen any cought.well might as well troll for awhile same result.skunked
    water was very dirty not good for these stripers.
    City: salinas

    Tips: dont go by what won magazine say's.by the way i was fishing the forbay.

Friday, November 26th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing at around 12:99 noon. We launched at Dinosaur Point, and went across to the dam. We used live bait, shiners, and fished down about 120 ft. Fished for about 5 hours and caught only 3 fish. All about 4 lbs. Slow, but the weather was awesome.
    City: Salinas

Saturday, November 20th, 2004

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WELL NASCAR IS OVER AND THE NINER'S SUCK SO I GUESS ITS TIME TO GO FISHING.GOT ON THE WATER ABOUT 9:00 WENT TO PORTAGUEZ COVE FISHED THE LEFT SIDE REAL LARGE FLAT AREA.STARTED OUT WITH JERKBAIT AS USUAL COUGHT 10 FISH.ALL SMALL SOME
    BELOW 18".COUGHT THREE MORE ON RAT-L-TRAP.TWO LARGEST FISH WENT 22".DID NOT SEE ANT COUGHT ON BAIT.BE VERY CAREFULL BACK THERE WHEN I STARTED ON THE LEFT SIDE POINT BEFORE THE LARGE FLAT'S THERE ARE SOME HUGE ROCKS ABOUT 6" BELOW THE SURFACE THAT ARE FAR ENOUGH FROM THE BANK YOU WOULD THIK YOU ARE IN 30' OF WATER.BELIEVE ME THEY ARE ENOUGH TO TEAR YOUR LOWER UNIT UP BAD.LAKE IS FILLING UP NICE THOUGH.
    City: SALINAS

    Tips: WELL PROBABLY SHOULD START USING THE LIVE BAIT THIS TIME OF YEAR BUT I DONT GET ANY SATISFACTION CATCHING THESE STRIPERS ON BAIT.JUST MY OPINOIN.
    ALSO MAKE SURE YOUR PLUG IS IN MY WASNT BUT I FOUND OUT THAT WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT A RANGER IS TRUE I NEVER EVEN COULD TELL IT WAS OUT.

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a great time tuesday with my friend Tony. Started getin them right off the get go...It just got beter after that ,well..... a few spots got hits but we blanked on them. We went through two and one half lbs of Dead Shad in 4 hours 20+ keepers,(kinda lost count) over 30+ in all.
    Some on plastics(shad colors) but mostly smaller fish. We were fishing in 30 to 50' of water
    Drop Shot rig. We are also moving with eltc. motor.
    City: Dos Palos

    Tips: Look for Break lines , you have to meter fish.