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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Why is it that all the lakes in the south bay opens at 9am? By that time the best bite is over. I used to live in the south bay and when we were able to park on the levee road, we would have the best bite around 6am. Now that there is no parking there and the lake opens late I don't see fishing these lakes along with jet skiers and personnal water crafts would be that productive. Tell you what I'm living in Stockton now and the motherload lakes are kicking solid bass just like Calero use to when we were able to fish it early. Just a shame.
    City: stockton

Monday, February 14th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Heh Truth your an idiot. Guess ya must not get out to calero much. The ripbait bite will be smoking soon and the crankbait bite in September is unreal. Anyone who fishes Calero often throughout the year knows what I am talking about.
    City: San Jose

Saturday, February 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out first thing in the morning. Threw some reaction baits in the shallow water for the first hour without a bite. Moved back and dropshotted the rest of the day. Got 6 bass to 3lbs. All fish caught on 4" Roboworms.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: The fish are still in their winter pattern. They should start to stage any time now...we just need a little more warm weather. Fish slow.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Greg, Don't believe everything you read. The water has been very cold and just breaking 50. Nobody has been getting 30+ days in Feb

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey MikeT
    How do you spoon what types of techniques do you use. I've heard of spooning and catching lots of fish but never had a clue on how to do it. What types of spoons do you use, etc. Thanks Greg
    City: San Jose

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off at 830am. Hit 2 fish spooning in the first 5 minutes. I have been catching a good number of fish spooning and decided to try something else. Worked a jig for a couple hours and nothing. The threw a rip bait for the last 2 hours and caught 4 more fish.

    Spoon fish were in 25' of water and the rip fish were in 10'.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Towards the end of the month the rip bait bite is going to go nuts. Had many 30+ fish days ripping in late february to early march.

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    Water Temp: NA

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good to see the water up and fairly clear. Water temp must be a little on the cold side or my presentation sucks!!! Anyway, fished from 3 til' 5 and got 1 good bite on a jig in about 20 feet of water. It came un-buttoned!!!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Let me know what the hot tips are. Sorry, I don't know.

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: cold BRRRRRRR

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went fishing with my brother and my best friend today (2/5). Got to the lake at 10 am and left at 11:45 am. Only one fish was caught (2.5-3lbs).....bye me =) using a worm.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: still waiting for the water to warm up =)

Monday, January 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The lake is almost full and I think the city won't be filling it anymore unless we have another heavy rain. The water clarity is getting better towards cherry cove and the north end of the lake. I went out twice this past week and didn't get bit both days. Tried evrything. Tried shallow, tried deep, well deep was about 25 ft. Bait balls all around the main lake in 30ft+.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Winter fishing is tough, couldn't buy a bite. i have to keep telling myself, "at least i'm out here". The weather has been pretty crappy so I would guess that has a lot to do with it, but i could be completely wrong. A few more weeks(or days) and it should pick up. Hopefully. MAybe I should have went to Del Valle, or Anderson, or Coyote(but it's chocolate milk over there). Maybe I should just put the rods away until the weather changes a bit.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough fishing on Mon. Was faced wiht pretty bad conditions....cold north wind, overcast. Was hard to maintain boat control, but still managed 2 fish that ranged from 1-2 pounds. Caught on 1/2 oz. brown jig wiht matching craw trailor off a point in about 30ft. of water. Initially threw a 3/8 oz. jig but couldnt get it down fast enough due to the wind.
    City: Salinas

    Tips: The fish hit when it was motionless...hard to try ohter techniques but im sure you could get em' drop shotting and dragging a CA-Rig...Give it shot

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 8:15am and was off the water by 11:45am. Wind came up and got pretty cold. Caught 6 fish spooning. 25'-30' range. Largest was around 4lbs, spoon came out right as I went to lip her. Other fish all in the 1.5-2lb range. Tried throwing a jig and nothing for 45 minutes and went back to the spoon.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Rick P. when ya see this send me an email.

    Mike

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishin soon after the gates opened, didn't get bit till around 1:00pm. Caught two within 15 minutes from the same spot, for about 5lbs, dragging plastics split shot. Had to leave at 2:00pm.
    City: Morgan Hill

    Tips: fish slow, the bites were very light.

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at about 8:30 with pign'jig, picked up a 3 lber on the third cast in about 20ft. Got a few more bites throughout the next hour, then nothin the rest of the day. Threw drop shot, and cranks. Nothin after 9:00a. Left at 12:30p
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: Slow!!

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53.7

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: started about noon.Second time on the pond.
    Found a bump from about 40 feet down to 60 on both sides so i tried spooning.Didnt catch anything but i had one on for an instance.Switched to a carolina with a brushhog down points from 10 feet down to 30 nothing but one bite.Stearted throwing a jig and started catching fish and these came out of 15 feet.Best fish was 3lb and i caught 3 for the day.Not a great day but it was fun and just fine for this time of year.
    City: san jose

Saturday, January 8th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 51-52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The water clarity was actually not that bad. And the water level is real high up. Got out there really late.(about 3.00pm) FIshed a bunch of spots with jigs but I got skunked, towards the end, my buddy got a little guy of a rock point on a junebug brush hog. Marked fish in the deeps but they are full with shad. I wish I could have tried to south end but we had to leave.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Bite should pick up in a few more days after the fish get used to the new water levels. No tips for now.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: cold....BRRRRRR

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: took the day off Friday (2/4) and went fishing with my brother. Got to Calero at 8:45-9 am. Got one bass weighin' around a pound. That was the only fish caught between my brother and I. Left Calero at 11 am to eat pizza =)
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Water is higher so I'm waiting for the weather to heat up just a lil' bit. Then I'll be throwing everything in my tackle box :P

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Threw a jig for 30 minutes in the morning and nothing. Switched to spooning and had a awesome day. Hit a total of 15 fish from 8:30-11am. First toss with the spoon landed me a nice 4lber. After 11am I only got one fish at 2pm and it was a nice 6lber. This was a awesome day that was pretty hard to believe. Was so great I had called my buddy at 10am and told him he had to come out. Funny thing is he came out and we only got the one fish. Definately a morning bite..
    City: San Jose

Saturday, December 18th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about 2-3 hours in the morning, got one lost a couple. Dropshot very very slow. The fish that hit, really ate it. Not the funnest way to go but you can get em. After fishing for a while, motor wouldn't start so I took off. Real nice day but really bummed about the motor.

    Tips: Must admit I am Still trying to figure the winter bite out here and if I could have spent a bit more time that would've helped. Slow dropshot and next time throwing a spoon.

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off at 8am with a jig and no success. Then dropshotted for another hour and nothing. Around 10am I decided to try out the spoon. First hookup was a real brute, when I spoon I kep my drag pretty tight and this fish was able to strip out some serious line before coming unbuttoned.

    Continued throwing the spoon and found some awesome action in the 28' mark. Ended up catching 10 fish in the next 1.5 hours with the largest going 5.6. Lost 4-5 other fish and a couple felt real nice.

    Every fish I caught the graph read 28' and I few fish were spitting up shad at the boat. Going to head out again tomorrow and try the same pattern.
    City: San Jose

Thursday, December 16th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 50 -52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught two fish early, one @ 4.9 lbs, other @ 2.4 lbs. Caught two more after lunch, one @ 3.5 lbs. other @ 2.2 lbs. good day with light winds and cool temps. Both large fish came in less than 6' of water, other 2lbs'ers in deeper water 15 plus feet. Used large and small plastics and small tubes. Fish real slow and maintain contact with bottom.
    City: Santa Cruz

    Tips: Fish slowwwwwwww! Fish move up and down points and return to try again and again.