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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this lake for the first time with my buddy from AMR, Gerald Thompson from 8A-5P. We cruised the lake in his boat, and we did very well. He drop-shotted a prism shad roboworm on the banks, and caught 20 bass with an average weight of 2# to my 12. I used primarily Senkos: Natural Shad, Smoke, Pearl with Gold/Black, Pearl with Blue FLake, and Smoke with Copper/Green/Purple flake. I lost a larger fish in the large cove on the eastern side of the lake. I switched over to Drop-Shotting later and caught one fish, but all Gerald was doing was throwing right on the bank, and SLOWLY moving the worm back. I was definitely inpressed with the action, since most was in 1-6' of water, and the temp was still only 60 Degrees!
    City: Merced, CA

    Tips: Gerald showed me the way...drop shot Prism Shad with a 3/8 round weight and circular hook 2/0...throw up on the edge..wiggle and wait. The south end under the bridge was good as well.

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Three of us caught a total of around 60 smaller bass (1 pound-2 pounds) in any where from 1 foot to 30 feet of water all around the lake. Mostly in protected areas.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Drop-shotting, live medium shiners, and curly tailed grubs in a variety of colors. Work them sssssllllloooooowwwwwwwwww!

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water about 8:45am and fished until 1:00pm. Caught 11 fish, all on 1/8 oz. dart head with a grub from 5 to 15 feet of water. all fish were between 12 to 15.75 inches. Nice fish for Anderson!! Rocky banks; some inside the coves, and some outside.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Keep your bait on the bottom. Drag it rather than hop it. Small movments.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake at noon and the wind blew me off the lake 2hrs later with no fish to show for the misery. I hardly saw any fish in the finder and believe me I know where the fish are supposed to be on this particular lake. Fished from shallow to 25ft with drop shot and carolina rig and not a tap. The water needs to warm up before I will try it again.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Wait until the water hits 62 deg and then attack

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are still down, about 25'. Managed 4 keepers, and a couple of dinks. All carolina rig. All that I found were still at the mouth of creeks, non inside. I figure pretty soon, they'll be there. Temp is 54 on north (muddy) end, but drops to 51-52 in the main body.
    City: San Jose

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 49 to 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ 8:00a.m. The water was like glass aound the dam. Headed south and all hell broke loose. Wind started howling and had to keep the trolling motor on 40 to keep the boat still. Managed one about 2 lbs on a dropshot in about 35 feet. Headed north to try to get out of the wind. Didn't help. The day got worse. We managed to boat one more about 3.5 lbs in shallow water, about 10 feet. Had to leave around 11 the wind and rain was just nuts.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Saturday was an awesome day to fish, but was busy moving. So I guess my tip would be... Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow.

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 50.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Dropshoted North end. Picked up one 13", one 14 1/2" and partner picked up one 16" fat one. All in 50' of water. Missed a few but all in all a good day.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: It's cold, fish DEEP and SLOW! Tight Lines!

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 51.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: First trip of the new year; got skunked!
    Lake was low despite the rains. Only had
    one bite on a senko on the NE side of the bridge.
    Saw 12-15 boats launch, but none I spoke with had any fish.
    City: Monterey

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rockpiles and points in 15-50ft of water. Lot's of fish on dropshot. Quality fish from 2-4lbs came on jig

    Tips: Keep moving until you find fish. Then pick it apart!

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Thought today would be better than Saturday due to warmer weather, (so warm it brought out the lake lice) but water was 2 degrees colder than saturday (2 back to back freezing nights)and fish had moved off of our spot. Only three fish caught between my brother and I. There was 1 jig (black/purple) fish and 2 fish caught on tail spinner (shad). Jig fish caught in 20' feet of water and tail spinner fish were caught 10' deep. Nothing on split shot 4" worms, C-rig and rat-l-trap.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Key is to find baitfish and fish that depth with your favorite baits

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 9am to 2pm to get schooled by my brother he caught 5 to my 3 on jigs, drop shot worms and C-rigged Senkos. Biggest was almost 2 pounds on drop shot. Missed several other bites on jig.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish SLOW!!!!! Jigs were brown/pumpkin and shad color plastics for drop shot and watermelon senkos

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I apologize for hijacking bass reports but wonder if anyone has had or seen good crappie action at Anderson lately? I've posted several LM reports here but have not had a chance to check out the lake for several months Crappie fishing was slow for spring as water level was down...mimimal cover for spawning. So, would definitely appreciate any crappie updates. Thanks.
    City: Santa Clara

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 8 hours and they everything had lock jaw worse then Jenna Jameson after a porn shoot
    2 dinks all day fished all points high and low
    City: Salinas

    Tips: Don't teach a pig to sing it frustrates you and irritates the pig

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 31 fish for the boat. 12 over 13", 3 @ 3lbs. and 2 @ 2lbs. All caught between 20' and 60'. All on Deep points using Drop-shot Robo's.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Watch out for A-Hole Jet Skiers, almost ran us over twice!

    Tight Lines!

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 4 hrs on Sat Afternoon. Caught 17 bass all around 1.5 to 2lbs. Caught one shallow on a crank bait and the rest in 25-30ft on off shore structure on drop shot robo. Beautiful day with few boats out.
    City: Foster City

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Arrived at about 8:30am and only one boat out before me.Started at the first two point's at the ramp and picked up two small fish on Crankbait.Then went a little farther south and picked four more on topwater about 2.5lb's each.

    Then ran down and fished around and under the bridge and saw alot of fish working but tryed more topwater,crankbait's nothing.So I then ran to the north end of the lake just past the two cove's along the steep wall and picked up eight more on drop shot but only about 1.5lb fish.

    Finished the day around the day use area back south and picked up two more on a Fluke but better fish close to 3lb's in some grassy cover.
    City: Salinas

Monday, August 13th, 2007

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well got there a little after 8:00 and had to wait in line a bit for the pleasure boat's but they did a good job.Hit the first rocky point from the ramp in 30' and tried drop shot.My first drop I got a loop in my line and by the time I had it out I had a fish on.Ended up with three off that point all typical Anderson fish about a pound maybe.

    Left there and went and fished the drop off by the back picnic area at the south end of the lake with same rig but never had anything.Then went and fished directly under the bridge with same and cought four more but two were over 2 lbs.

    All of a sudden fish were busting the surfuce for awhile and after about five differant offering's without a look I put on a Kastmaster and cought 7 more fish some very nice for Anderson.

    I seen some of the shad they were chasing and I have seen them in here before and they were to me huge.They were all of 3 1/2" to 4" long.Why they would only hit a small 2" Kastmaster is beyond me.
    City: Salinas

    Tips: To the group of people fishing off the bank the LEGAL limit on Bass is 12" minimum length and only FIVE.

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Some wind and some muddy water where the wind hit muddy banks. Fished deep (25-45ft) landed 60 fish with many in the 2 lb range. Must have caught 30 fish in one spot in 30 mintes (3 people on boat)
    City: Anderson

    Tips: It appeared on this hot sunny day - fish were holding up in deep holes where there is consistant shade.

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: A duplicate report of T2's except I only caught 8.
    Got the first and biggest of the day on a DT watermelon HulaGrub on the rocky point near the launch ramp, 2#+ (dragging uphill). Very, very windy all day, 1 foot chop with white caps. Caught the rest dropshotting small plastics off of rocky points (15-25')and a few cranking a Rapala DT10 sunfish imitation in the mudlines near stickups.
    City: Monterey

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 2-6PM. Very windy. Caught 22 bass in 15-20ft off wind blown points. Used crank bait and drop shot cut tails. Mainly fished mud lines.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Fish points and mud lines in 15-20 ft of water.