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Thursday, June 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: WELL WHERE DO I START? WENT TO FLOAT TUBE BY MYSELF. GOT A 2LB ON MY THIRD CAST 15'+/- ARONS MAGIC DARTER HEAD. 5 MINUTES LATER I GOT ANOTHER FISH SAME DEPTH SAME WORM. THE PATTERN HELD UP FOR AS LONG AS I WAS THERE I THINK I WAS THERE FROM 8AM-2PM ENDED UP WITH 12 FISH BEST 5 WENT 11LBS +/-. NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY......WHEN I PULLED IN TO THE LOT THERE WERE 2 TRAILERS THERE I GOT MY TUBE OUT (USUALLY BRING MY BOAT) AND MY GEAR GOT ALL READY LOOKED AROUND IN THE LOT FOR ANY SIGHNS THAT SAID TRAILER ONLY BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT ANY TICKETS, AND NEVER HAVING BEEN THERE IN A CAR WITHOUT A TRAILER I WAS UNSURE OF THE RULES. I FIGURED IT IS MONDAY THERE ARE 2-5 BOATS IN THE WATER EVEN IF THERE WAS A TRAILER ONLY SIGHN I PROBABLY WOULDNT GET A TICKET ANYWAYS, ALL LAKES I HAVE BEEN TO USALLY HAVE IT PAINTED IN THE SPOTS AND SIGHNS WELL POSTED. I GRABBED MY TUBE AND AS I WALKED OFF NOTICED A NICE PILE OF TRASH SOMEONE HAD LEFT 3 CANS AND A FEW BAGS, I SAID TO MYSELF I WILL GET THAT WHEN I GET BACK, SO OFF I WENT. DONE FISHING I HEAD TO MY CAR GET THERE LOAD MY TUBE IN THE CAR GRAB THE PILE OF TRASH THAT WAS STILL THERE AND OFF I WENT, HAPPILY DRIVING DOWN THE HILL AFTER A GREAT SOLO DAY I LOOK TO FIND A TICKET UNDER MY WIPER TO THE TUNE OF $35. I WENT BACK TO THE STATION TO SEE IF I COULD EXPLAIN WHY I PARKED THERE, WHEN THE BLOND LADY (BITCH) RANGER SIAD PROUDLY I WROTE YOU THE TICKET!! I CALMLY EXPLAINED MYSELF TO NO AVAIL. ALL RANGERS AT ANY SANTA CLARA VALLEY LAKES ARE DICKS OR BITCHES THAT I HAVE EVER DELT WITH. HERE IS THE KICKER THE PILE OF TRASH THAT I HAD PICKED UP WAS NO MORE THAN 4 FEET FROM THE WIPER SHE PULLED UP TO PLACE THE TICKET UNDER. I GUESS RANGERS DONT PICK UP TRASH WAY TO GO ASSHOLES, KEEP YOUR REPUTATION AS WE KNOW IT, I SEE I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE PROBLEMS HERE. THINK I WILL STICK TO MY SIDE OF THE HILL FISHING IS NOT AS GOOD BUT THE PEOLPE ARE A HELL OF ALOT BETTER.
    City: SANTA CRUZ

    Tips: STAY AWAY FROM SANTA CLARA PARKS THAY ARE FULL OF RANGERS THAT DONT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT WRITING TICKETS, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAYS OF A RANGER BEING A GOOD PERSON THAT WAS THER TO HELP YOU AS WELL AS KEEP THE PARK CLEAN. NOW THEY ARE JUST ARROGANT PRICKS W/ A BADGE AND A ATTITUDE!!! THANKS ALOT FOR SPOILING A GOOD DAY BLONDY WHY DONT YOU GET OUT OF THAT DAMN BOOTH AND PICK UP SOME TRASH OR HELP SOMEONE WHO ISNT SURE OF YOUR PARK RULES OR REGULATIONS.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 69-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out for a couple of hours first thing in the morning. Caught 2 in the north end right away on a Senko. As the sun came up I fished texas rigged Roboworms in about 15ft of water and caught 4 more. Biggest was one of the Senko fish - just under 3lbs. The rest were 1-1.5lbs. Off the water before 11AM.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Lots of fish to be had this time of year. Fish the steep banks with your favorite plastic baits. Have fun!

Thursday, May 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out in at 8.00am and fished till 4.00pm. Rained the night before but water wasn't muddy. Hit up the north end. Fished points and secondary points. Caught 3 on a spinnerbaits(shad color) in 4-10 ft of water. My buddies who were with me caught the same amount on spinnerbaits as well. All were dinks to 1.5 lbs. Tried for bigger fish on rock walls and nothin,. Then hit up another big cove and got them on carolina rigged brush hogs. Lots of fish. All were 1lb to 2 lbs. ALso tried south end and my buddy caught one flippin the brush with a senko. He was 1.5lbs. Biggest fish of the day was a 2.5lbr on a texas rigged red senko caught by my buddy Matt. There were a lot of fish at the two first spots we hooked up fish but not any others at other places we tried. So we went back to our first two spots and nailed them again. Total # fish on the boat was about 16. All were small.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Find gradual sloping points and throw brush hogs(watermelon red, junebug, and grn pumpkin)carolina rigged with at least 2.5ft of leader. Work it slow.

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 18 LM bass up to 2lbs. Best bite was prior to the overcast lifting and the wind coming up. Caught fish on 2 rigs - drop shot 4" worm and a carolina rigged brush hog. Fish were active shallow in weeds/grass where either boat waves or wind was direcly pushing into the cover and the water was stained. The fish were not huge but it was fun. This was my personal best at Anderson. It is tough fishing with the ski traffic. Tried spinner bait, senkos and rip bait with no luck but a bank fisherman reported luck on spinner bait around large rocks.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Use the boat traffic waves to your advantage. They can turn the fish on. Use darker colored plastics in off color water. Bite was aggressive while the overcast blocked the sun.

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8:30 to 12:30. Caught 6 LM under 2 lbs each. Caught one on a drop shot 4" worm and the other 5 on a carolina rigged brush hog. Drop shot fish was in 20 ft of water near a bluff. Carolina fish were in 2 ft of water near brush on a rocky shore line and a flat.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Fish are shallow early. I fished a flat with a steep drop nearby. When the ski boats take over go with a drop shot in deeper water.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out with a friend sunday at 8:30 started at woodchoppers went straight across into a little creek my friend pulled two little bass out of there on a green baby brush hog we cought five.The boat patrol is weird we were in float tubes and he asked us where are life jackets were and he said that you dont have to wear them just strap them to your float tube some how and he kicked us off the lake.Good day fishing though
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: try the banks

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 64 degreeZ

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good day. Caught around 17. Lost about a 6-6 1/2 at the boat. Darn! Big'un. Cuaght most of fish on jigs and tubes. A couple on the blade.
    City: San HO

    Tips: Fish are starting to move deep and onto points. Try Everything.

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake @ 0800 and fished intill 1800. Cought around 25 fish. one 4 lber and all the rest around 1 1/2 lbs. fished in the shallow coves using spinnerbaits in green and watermellon splitshot lizerds. fish are shallow so throw them right on the bank and deep in cover. will be on the lake on 3-29-04 all da hope to see you out there.
    City: Morgan Hill

    Tips: get there early the lakes are starting to get crowded. fished one cove with four other boats lined up to get in it.

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out at 8:00 took me and a friend about 21/2 hours to catch.started at the dam (nice) went to the right there was a cove with a lot of weeds pulled a 2lber out the one the same size off rocks right next to it.used texas rigged baby brush hogs and like a purple kind of texas rigged baby brush hog.real windy.
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: just wait and youll get one

Thursday, March 25th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the storm, It rained all afternoon, but the bite was on. Stade out of the main lake and went in the coves. Fished for about 4 Hrs and my partner and I caught 12 bass all around 1 Lb. Caught 1 on a spinner bait and the rest on crank baits. it started to poor so we called it a day.
    City: Morgan Hill

    Tips: Fish are starting to move up. we caught most our fish in aboput 2 ft. of water. use dark colored c-baits in the coves.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: water somewhat muddy .. caught 6 keepers all on spinner bait .. partner caught 5 2 on drop shot one on jerk bait and 2 carolina rigging a lizard . lots of wind .. thought the jerk bait bite should have been better but ??? i couldn'.t get hit on anything other than the spinner bait... of course it being my favorite way to fish i fished it a lot more than anything else... i love it when fish are biting spinner baits . all fish caught appear to be males in the 1-2 lb range....
    City: SUNNYVALE

    Tips: its spring..... get out there and hope you are there when they go on a feeding frenzy !!!!!! those days are CLOSE !!!!!!!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well beleive it or not a riend and I ished today. The weather in the bay area was rainy and 35-45 mph winds. The unny thing was at the lake it was calm with maybe 10 mph winds at best and no rain. The ishing was pretty good, caught between 25 and 35 ish and most were 13" keepers or better. The most o our ish came rom steep blu wall and steep rocky points in 5' to 20'. The lures o choice were drop shots in 4 to 6 inch robo worms in anything in green and the better ish came on a new jig and craw combo's rom Conquistador tackle. The best colors were green craw and PBJ. You need to check out the jigs at Conquistadortackle.com or Coyote bait/tackle and Reed's I heard will be carry them. They are in my opinion some o the best jigs on the market. Good luck I hope this helps.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: The ish are moving around but you need to stay close to winter area's that lead into staging area's. Electronics are key. The better ish are still out deep near staging area's

Sunday, February 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY LADIES AND GENTS. I FISHED MAINLY THE NORTH END OF THE LAKE AND MANAGED TO PICK UP 5 KEEPERS. CAUGHT 4, ALL ABOUT 13" & 14" ON DROP SHOT AND ONE ON A GRUB, ABOUT 2 1/4 lbs. THE DROP SHOT RIG WAS MARGARITA MUTILATOR I IN 4". THE GRUB WAS A BLUE GILL KALIN'S. NONE OF THEM WERE DEEPER THAN 15' AND ALL OF THEM WERE CAUGHT ON PRETTY STEEP BREAKS WITH DEPPER WATER(30') NEARBY AND LEAD IN SPAWNING AREAS. YOU JUST HAVE TO BE SLOW ABOUT IT AND ALMOST LET THE BAIT WORK ITSELF WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE WATER. JUST A LITTLE ACTION TO IT.
    City: SAN JOSE

Saturday, February 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out on saturday to anderson. very windy. ish seemed to be in a late winter mode. you had to put the bait right in ront o them. caught 11 ish 8 on dropshot and 3 on c-rigged. Worms used were the yamamoto cuttail in daiquiri and roboworm sclupin x series, and a small ribbon tail worm. every thing we caught was small biggest going 2lbs.5 biggest weight 5lbs.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: slow slow slow slow and more slow

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Anderson is now open! Arrived at 8:00 and ished until 5:00 PM. The wind kept us o the main lake points. There was a good bite on plastic, but you had to anchor to catch them. Caught 20 ish on rock out o the wind. Caught mostly small ish. The largest was 1.7lbs.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish plastic worms on rock points. Color didn't seem to matter, but size does.

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

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    Water Temp: COLD

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went toobin with some riends, drag the bottom with dark worms (PBJ, Junebug) or you will get nothing. Fish are as cold as I was. Very White bellies on em, ish REAL slow.
    City: Santa CruZ

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: According to Tamara Shear o the Parks Dept., *Final Inspection* on the ramp/acilities renovation is scheduled or 1/16. She didn't say what day it would open or launching, but someone told me they heard no earlier than the 20th. Looks like it should at least be open by the end o the month, with the 23rd probably a sae bet.
    City: San Jose

Monday, January 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A half day guide trip today with father and son team Jeff Silva from San Ramon and his dad Pat Silva of Union City.To sum it up in one word it was Brutal. The mud is creeping in from the north and the lakes getting smaller. I couldn't find a consentration of fish. They did there part and put 8 in the boat with a only a couple of missed fish..I just couldn't find em on this day. The lake is coming up slowly and bait is 20-40. Jigs and 6" worms were getting bit in the am and things shut down after 10:30..
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I wouldn't be afraid to throw cranks and blades right now. fishing will pick up with stable weather but thats not going to be for a while..It's still fishable at this point. On a good note the crappie bite is wide open on deep wood!!

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: Hi 60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Ranger said they may close the ramp or the rest o the year ater today, I would call in advance beore going.Nice to be out there even though I did not do well. On the lake at 8:30 and out at 4:00 and only 4 ish o no size. 10:15 dink on a drop shot 4" wacky senko, 10:40 1.2lb on a baby brushhog split shotting, 1:20 dink watermalon senko drop shot, 3:00 dink watermolon senko again. Wind was a actor all day and the water was muddy by 10:00. Fished rom 35' into shore tried blades, cranks, jerkbait, dragging a senko even a topwater. The small ones I caught were on plastic drop shot or splitshot. I did see two nice LMB in the 4 lb range sunning themselves all the way back in the last cove on the right in 3 t o water. Tossed my bait up on the hill behind them and let it roll o the shore and they still spooked big time.
    City: Paciica

    Tips: Better than working anyday!!!!!!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the west side o the lake near the bridge. Caught 9 bass most on pumpkin texas rigged baby brush hogs and a ew on 4 inch purple grape robo worms. Caught a at 5 pound bass in a cove near some wood and weeds. Caught it on a baby brush hog. A lot o little ones but i you ish hard enough, you will get a big one. Mist tons o bites near this little creek area by the booies and caught a bunch o ish too. Awesome day o ishing.
    City: Morgan Hill

    Tips: ish the coves with texas rigged plastics. i think any plastic will work. the bass are really active and boy are they hitting the baby brush hogs. always pay attention because ive mist a ew bites lookin somewhere else and they tapped the tip o my rod.