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Sunday, April 18th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Me and my friends caught a total of 9 Rainbows largest being 2 1/2 lbs. Friend caught a 2 lb. Thunder Trout which put up a good fight for a fish its size. Person next to us caught a 7 1/2 lb. Rainbow and another caught an 11lb. 2oz. rainbow off a Rapala as well as a 7lb. Thunder Trout.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: -Chart./Spring green powerbait
    -lemon-lime powereggs
    -Kastmasters
    -Biggest fish near Dock #2

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went to Shadow to see if there were any spawners up yet and there were a few but not any big numbers yet. I did see a few about 7-9 lbs but no real big ones today. I also could not get them to eat anything. After the next storm I think there should be some good numbers of fish up on beds.
    City: San Leandro

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Are the back lakes going to stay closed to fishing forever? And is the closure just for fishing or can you still let your dog swim back there.
    City: fre

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Pete Alexander is the main contact for shadow cliff back lakes closer, March 1st. Please contact him with your concerns 510-544-2342.
    City: Livermore

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: If you haven't heard of what's going on, or have heard, but don't know much about the details, start with this link from Rob Belloni's Calfishing.com website... http://www.calfishing.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=11602&mesg_id=11639#11639 ...
    City: Fairfield

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Out at the back lakes for one of the last times due to closure by fish and game as of March 1, 2010. Without giving too much detail I landed one of the largest bass ever caught in the back lakes. The picture will be added to the photo gallery page for viewing.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Use this as a tip to help rally the troops to keep the back lakes open!!!

Friday, February 5th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Are the back ponds just closed to fishing or can you still bring your dog there.
    City: fre to the mont

    Tips: Unbelievable- what a waste, WAY TO GO D.F.G., couldn't find anything else to screw up, or was that just the easiest thing to do to make it look like your "workin"

Friday, January 1st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Back ponds at Shadow Cliffs closed forever due to Department of Fish and Game Commission Decision!
    City: Dublin

    Tips: Contact East Bay Parks, DFG, the Governor to complain

Monday, September 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my daughter and wife to back ponds not much action there. we caught 2 small ones under size and that was fun for my daughter and of course we threw em back.
    I met a cool guy and his girlfriend and their pitbull the guy was really cool if you see this post try to pm me i'd like to fish with you sometime or chat it up about fishing like we did that day .
    City: Fremont

    Tips: back ponds not really worth the time but mainlake should get better once the weather starts to cool off.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: pissed off i feel your pain man
    City: p-town

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Rent a boat to catch a fish.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Rent a boat.

Monday, July 6th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I wanted to go to Vaqueros (much more luck there) but it was too windy. Caught two bass in Arroyo back pond around 8 and 11am. One on a sunfish colored crank and the other on a night crawler. Seen about 4 nice ones swimming around, but they weren't hungry. Both were caught off the bank in one of the small coves.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Go early. Watch out for all the dogs and snakes. Vaqueros is better.

Friday, June 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: Enough for bass

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: <a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/2lo3q79.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a>
    Caught & Released. Gotta love those big bass chewin' on swimbaits. 6/19/09
    City: S.R.

    Tips: Go big or go home. Swimbaits.

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 1PM to 5PM today. It was a slow afternoon, and the fish only appeared to get active when the clouds came by for about a half hour or so while it cooled off a bit, then the lake became dead again when the sun reappeared. I caught one 2 lbs largemouth during this period, on a green/watermelon Texas-rigged lizard, halfway along the north side of the Island Pond.
    City: Livermore, CA

    Tips: I'm gonna try fishing a full day on Thu at the Arroyo Pond, see how the bite is really early and really late.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Island Pond until noon today on my float tube, but there was no action. Tried a couple texas-rigged power worms and a black spinnerbait, but no takers. It was really cloudy and cold out this morning, with an unconsistant breeze. This was my fist time back in a while though, and there's a lot of weeds in the water now too.

    Tips: Next time I'm going to try some frogs and buzzbaits above the weeds, and give worms a try again (texas-rigged roboworms, and try some drop-shotting along the northern side).

Friday, May 29th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tubed in one of the back ponds for an hour or two in the late afternoon. Landed 3 bass, each were about a pound. All the strikes came from soft plastics.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Wow..I miss this place alot ever since I got pissed while I was tubing in the back lake. This is the very first lake that I learned bass fishing. Good luck to you all this is a great lake to tube in the back ponds. I never got skunk with a tube back there. Maybe I should find a time to go back to tube there. Been very busy with my new bass boat. LOL
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Make sure dump the poor bass back into the POND. Its small ponds with good fish in there, don't ever let it stop. Maybe I'll see you all in the water sometimes. Favorite technique is dropshot and wacky senko. YOU NEED TO PITCH IN TO THE TOUGHEST SPOT TO FIND THEM WHEN FISHING IS SLOW.

Monday, April 6th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Has anybody had luck in the backlakes? Tips? Last two weeks have been slow for me.
    City: SR

    Tips: NONE

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Why do you cover up your pictures at shadow cliffs? I don't understand why people do that, especially there.
    City: Dublin

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

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    Water Temp: dsfsfss

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: yeah my tip is dont go to shadow cliffs
    City: bhood