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Thursday, April 25th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are getting active. Building beds but not locked on them yet. Caught 9 lost 3 all 1-2.5 lbs all on split-shot Roboworms.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was very tough. Water levels low and water stained. Fished hard all day only got a single 2lbr on a split shot black worm.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 51-55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nada. Fished from 0900-1500. Tried jigs, worms, C-rigged lizards and swimbaits. Some algae bloom was present.
    City: Monterey

Thursday, December 27th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 1 3#'r on a swimbait. Nothing on jigs or jerkbait. Water level has come up a little.
    Now just touching the tules.
    City: Monterey

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Skunked. Winds calm. Water level low, almost all tules out of the water.
    Saw another boat get a strike on a frog on some mats but that was it.
    City: Monterey

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I started the day with white lizards on the beds ,did very well,myfishing bud was realy on target with the fish in the back of my boat. I switched to black 4"plastic and thatalso worked.Boated 12 fish lost 5 , bigest went 3lbs.
    City: redwood city

    Tips: Whit lizards T-riged

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched yesterday at the D dam around 5:30 am,started to the right of the launch ramp with some Staysee 90's had a few hits with 2 hook ups,my buddy was throwing a top water and not even a boil.We then switched to plastic worms and the bite picked up great,had about 5 fish by 7am,fished till about 12pm.Finished the day with some descent bass,biggest was about 3 1/2 lbs caught near Pebble beach on a 8" straight tail worm.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Most of our fish came from shaded cover and deep pockets in the tully"s.

Monday, July 25th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 78-80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wanted to try out new Cal-West drop shot rod, so brother and I went to LB Creek to see if we could get bit. Got on the water at 6:00am and I caught three fish in the first fifteen minutes all on the drop shot; they would not eat spinner bait(white/shad, fluke(pearl)or crank bait(chart/shad) so I got out the new drop shot rod and caught three on a Keeper 082 4" worm.
    We did not get bit again until late in the day and I ended up catching about twenty more from 7:00pm until dark.
    Pitching drop shot to edge of tullies and just shaking it for a couple of seconds.
    Biggest one was pushing five with a bunch of 1.5-2.5 fish.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Pitch to tully edges and creek channel breaks. Early and late were great, mid day sucked!

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 1/2 the lake was covered in green goo... looked like the alge crap that Clear lake gets. Got 5 on senkos up tight to the bank, plus got 4 more bites flipping a craw imitation deep in the tules and tight to wood, but didn't manage to get any of those to the boat. Biggest was 4lbs exactally.
    City: Hilmar

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 63-61

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished yesterday evening from about 5:30 until sundown. The fish seem to be suspended no real pattern. Tried spinnerbait,crankbait,topwater,ripbait,texas rig,jiggs,shakeyhead.Caught 3 on a ripbait and 1 on t-rig. No topwater action at all. All fish caught seemed real sluggish. the biggest was a solid 2 3/4 to 3. The wind was blowing pretty good.Might have caught more fish if I would have pulled off the bank. All fish were caught about 10' off of the bank.
    City: Denair

    Tips: The reason why I threw topwater, I talked to a friend who fished there last Monday and had several blow ups.Used a Staycee 90 chartruse shad all fish hit on a long pause 30+ plus seconds or longer.Pitched a jig tight in the tullies no hits.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Planning to go to los banos crk. res.this sat.the 24th. can any one tell me if the fishing has been ok or good . thanks
    City: Redwood city

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i fished thursday and sat. on thursday i flipped, fluked and frogged for 6 bites, and caught 2 off of beds. long time in between bites though. the fish are super fat and healthy, and my best 5 went around 18 lbs. went up again saturday and didnt get bit once. there is a ton of bait everywhere. I was flushing bait along tule clumps and watching bass come out and eat the bait, but they wouldn't eat the fluke. I fished tight both days. never tried and finesse stuff in deeper water.
    City: hollister

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught fish to almost 4 lbs. most 1 1/2 to 2. All on wacky rig shakey head. Most fish were caught before 9AM.
    After 9 all small fish bites.
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Fish are in tight to reeds.

Monday, June 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 70-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: lake was very high!lots of bait bass didn't want anything I threw at them(the hole tackle box!!!)At night shine a flash light on the bank, and see how how many craw fish there is!!!!! windy and warm..

    Tips: I wish I had some!!!!

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: arrived about 1pm on Sat afternoon. really cold- really windy- Tried in the creek to the left as you head back away from the dam. Got nice fat 18 incher (I didn't weight) but it was a nice looking female caught with finess worm- very soft bite- I thought I had a stick but the stick started pulling back!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: keep warm- watch your line cause you may not feel the bite.

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 1-2#, 4-dinks. All caught on split-shot'd 4" black roboworms and 1 on a small Yoziri lipless crank (shad) and 1 on a Smithwick Ratl-n Rogue.

    How small were they? The rogue was bigger than the bass it caught.

    Windy early in the morning 8am the gradually died
    throughout the day.

    Tried without success: frogs, buzzbaits, cranks and jigs.
    City: Monterey

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

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    Water Temp: Term broken

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: tough fishing. smaller fish (.75 - 1.5 lbs) seemed to be schooled of points 15-20ft deep. bigger fish (one 5 lbs and two 3 lbs) came 3-10 feet off of structure close to deep water.

    Tips: stay cool and jump in the water

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: to cheap to pay at the booth, so i went to the dam and parked there and walked down to the water and fished 1 hr and nothing,seen couple of nice bass,cruiseing by.....
    City: los banos

    Tips: don't be lazy

Friday, June 5th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My bro and I fished on 6/3 started at 0530 he caught 2 I caught 1 (1 to 2 bs) on superspooks shad color along the rock wall drops on the southwest end of the lake bite died at around 730. Caught one 3lb on drop shot senko pumpkin with red flake along the rocky banks to the left of the creek arm on the right side at around 1030. That was it for the rest of the day. Called it at 2pm. I went back on 6/5 at 0600 caught nothing on top water went ban to the pumpkin red senko and fished the back where the creek drains into the lake about 6 to 8ft casted down the middle into the submerged grasses landed three loss two plus five hits biggest one 2 1/2 Lbs. It was a good day. Seems the bite is improving or maybe just found the right rig good luck guys prob be out again nxt week.
    City: Patterson

    Tips: Senkos purple or green pumpkin drop shotting roll the submerged grasses don't concentrate on the banks

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: CBL- Christain Bass League had another great day on the water. 17 teams enjoyed an unbelievable day of sight fishing. All the top finishers say parking in the tulies and targeting the beds was the key. Six teams were father/son type and all got prizes. Brushhogs, worms and even the drop-shot brought fish to the boat. We didn't have any fish in the boat at 1230 and by 1330 we had 6+ pounds at the scale. The BOY, Colton, caught his first bed fish. All for us came on the sweet beaver and Besersk creature style baits. M&R Gomez was the top Competitive finsiher with 12#11oz and the Taylors were the top Mixed team with 9#4oz.
    City: Turlockl

    Tips: The sight fishing is on like crazy. If you can teach someone how, now is the time. If you are bed fishing RELEASE ALL YOU CATCH for next year!!!