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Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished from 8 til noon and got 7, biggest going around 3 lbs. got most fish on a rip bait and two on a carolina rigged green grub. by noon the lake was packed with float tubers and skiers.
    City: los altos

    Tips: water is way up

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 55-59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First time in a long time. Water is way up and a lot of the grass and brush that was high and dry is now submerged and should die off soon. I could not get anything to go on hula grubs, tubes. Tried tossing a chartreuse rattletrap way back in Bailey cove and picked up three very shallow along the shoreline. Lost 2 more because I was too lazy to change out the factory hooks. The first two were 2# twins that were hooked good in the corner of the mouth, but the 3rd was a 1-1/2#er that inhaled it.
    City: Newark

    Tips: Change out your hooks on your rattletraps! Fishing should really turn on with this weather and water will clear up soon.

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    Water Temp: 52-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hooked 5, but only 3 in the boat up to 3.5 lbs. Senkos and worms. Some shallow (< 5 ft.), some deep (20 ft).
    City: San Jose

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished calero on riday...very nice day under og till 12....some some busting bait @ the dock. Fished drop shot one ish...brown jigs the other on the rock wall. Red mouth indicates...the starting o eeding on craws...spring here we come. Marked tons o bait with ish ollowing LOTS and marked very big ish on the inder stacked up arches, couldnt trigger the bite . Ended up with two one small and one 3.5lbs. Great day!
    City: san jose

Sunday, January 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 50-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish on sunday and had very little success. Hits were ew and ar between. Tossed worms, spinnerbaits, ripbaits and jigs. Caught a 6-lbs bass on a brown-rattle jig
    City: SJ

    Tips: real muddy water, go with loud lures

Saturday, January 10th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake by 8:30 and o at 4:30. Four ish caught. This was the slowest I have ever seen it at Calero. Big ish was 3lbs. Drop shot, carolina reg with each ish coming on a dierent color. Not much o a pattern.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I wish I had tips to give!

Saturday, January 3rd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We hooked 10, but lost 5 o 'em. Post-ront conditions with 6" water clarity. Blk. jigs 12-15 t. Lost some toads including one that might have been 6-7 lbs.
    City: San Jose

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Found a 1 1/2 lber shore pounding the Southern shore with a jig/craw. Wind was just howling or awhile! Got a nice 3 1/2 lber at the boat launch as I was preparing to leave due to weather. Two boats came in reported limits on plastics, but small. The two pontoon boats reportedly had a couple o atties, but didn't know what they were throwing.
    City: SJ

    Tips: plastics on the bottom, slow or stop and start. Weeds have died o now, easy to ish the bottom slowly.

Saturday, October 4th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Flipped/Pitched worms to the weedbeds all over the lake - no bites. Switched to light line texas rigs &split shots and caught mostly small ones, with one 3 lbs on a texas rigged worm.
    City: san jose

Wednesday, October 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 69.5+-

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: There is a decent blade bite going on ishing the wind blown lats and pockets w/ sparse weeds & deep water close by..you can catch the same ish with plastics but it's much easier and your #s will go up with some kind o hard bait in the wind...ski traic doesn't hurt the ishing there but it was light today and made or an nice day.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: ish the wind ..char/wht/gold spinerbaits..S20 spade tail

Sunday, September 21st, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: From the shore. Got a 3.5 pounder on white spinnerbait w/smoke-black-hologram grub. Casting at an angle and retrieving through gaps in the weeds. Rod tip up, bringing it in shallow. This pattern has been working well the last ew weeks. Two more 1 pounders lipping 4" smoke-black-hologram senkos between rocks and edge o weeds.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Shad Colors - White/Grey/Silver/Black

Wednesday, September 10th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Surace bite has been un lately, most ish between 2-4 lbs, with an occasional 5+. I ya want to stay busy, try inesse plastics just outside the weeds with a ish every other cast...not much or size. Most large ish have been o blades or me....white.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Bussbait in the middle o the day, but tight to cover....or over lats with weeds just under water.

Friday, September 5th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 5 ish in 2 hours! only two keepers but lots o little ones. the two bigest ones I got on senkos in the weed beds. the others were on the yamamoto grubs and little jig heads, swimming them on the outside weed line. How come no one is posting there catches? I know you guys are still ishing this lake!
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Senkos in brown or watermellon, grubs in smoke sparkel. around the weeds dude!

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake with my brother at 8:15 AM. Fished until around 2:30 PM. We caught a lot o little ish on inese plastics. My bro caught a 5.5 on a white buzzbait right in the middle o a big patch o matted weeds on the dam side o the lake. I changed to split shot 6 inch plastics in the late morning and started hooking up bigger ish in the 2 lb range.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Most o my ish were hooked using green pumpkin plastics on the outside edges o the weeds and at rocky points. Both worms and lizards were working. My brother was catching bigger ish, but not as many, using a white buzzbait right in the middle o the weed beds.

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    Water Temp: NA

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got there today at about 6:30 p.m. and landed 2 dinks on jigs. The water level is slowly dropping.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Try topwater early and late. Float-tube will be excellent right now since the water is low.

Friday, August 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tubed the aternoon,lot o small ish on plastics...worked a white buzz in the last 1/2 hour o light or our better ish up to 5.2
    City: San JOse

    Tips: Work tight on the outside o the weed lines

Thursday, June 26th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70 - plus

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing is good right now with ish in the 1- 3lb range being caught. Caught my personal best on monday (6/23) 11 lbs.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Postspawn patterns working well right now. Fish weedbeds in 3-10 eet with plastics and jerkbaits.

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out in the aternoon over by the 2nd dam. I usually walk way over there, unless we are in the boat. I ind plenty o ish over by the rocks to the rt. side o the 2nd dam. Fishing a Senko knock-o made by Mad Man plastics. I landed one ish in about two hours, but it was a nice 4'4".
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I like to always ish the rocky points. I usually catch ish with Senko's or Spinners.

Friday, May 23rd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished or 4 hours got 10 bass, nothing big all went around 1-2 pounds. caught most o the ish on carolina rig black worms.
    City: los altos

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i you like to walk the banks,WATCH OUT FOR THE RATTLERS, that have been spotted near the docks. i was told that there avorite spot is right next to the water. Also saw them on the trails, BE CAREFUL WEAR BOOTS, TAKE A SNAKE BITE KIT. (CELL PHONE)
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: GOOD LUCK FISHING, CATCH AND RELEASE