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Tuesday, March 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the water at 1:30pm. Started throwing 4" worms and stuck a 3lber in the back cove. Went to the spillway and hit two dinks. Then started fishing the main lake across from the boat launch. Hit one 2lber and one 4lber on the 4" worm. Then decided to throw a jig for the last 30 minutes and stuck a good 4 1/2. Tried cranking and ripping to no avail. Threw a blade for a good hour and nothing. Got a tourney this weekend so I won't be back here until next week. Hope the water clears up.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Purple jig with a roboworm trailer got the big fish. 4" robo worm dark brown caught the others. The big fish came in the 15-20' range, dinks came in the 1-5' range. Good amount of wind blowing.

Sunday, March 11th, 2001

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lake is filling nicely with lots of off color water which is full of debris. I fished from 9-4 and did okay considering the breeze and boat traffic. I hooked 6, landed 5, and missed one. Wound up with three around 2lbs, one 3, and a GIANT 7.8 w/ pics for proof!!! What a fish!!! Anyone lose a fire tiger Terminator?? Cuz the fish had one in it's mouth!! All the action was in 8'-12'of water on a 1/2oz brown/purple jig. Tried blades and cranks but they didn't work for me today.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Fish shallow w/ jigs.

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8 til 1:30. I intended to start searching with a blade first thing, and didn't have to search long..first spot nailed a couple 2-3#ers. Went over the same area with a brown-n-purple jig with a blue trailer and nailed 2 more. Continued this way for the next 2 hours and managed to get 4-5 more...the blade seemed to stop working for me around 10, so I fished jigs the rest of the day looking for some better ones. Caught several more 2-3#ers.
    City: SJ

    Tips: Fish were pretty shallow, all my bites were in less than 10ft. Got bit on three different color jigs, but black with blue zoom super chunk seemed to work best.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out from 6 am till 8 am and fished from the shore. Working the shorelines with a red timber tiger and landed a hawg. Didnt have a scale on me, but it had to go 7-8 lbs EASY. Got a couple good pics too. Thankfully the water maintenance worker was right by me and he shot the pics
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Lake is filling nicely with lots of off color water which is full of debris. I fished from 9-4 and did okay considering the breeze and boat traffic. I hooked 6, landed 5, and missed one. Wound up with three around 2lbs, one 3, and a GIANT 7.8 w/ pics for proof!!! What a fish!!! Anyone lose a fire tiger Terminator?? Cuz the fish had one in it's mouth!! All the action was in 8'-12'of water on a 1/2oz brown/purple jig. Tried blades and cranks but they didn't work for me today.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Fish shallow w/ jigs.

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8 til 1:30. I intended to start searching with a blade first thing, and didn't have to search long..first spot nailed a couple 2-3#ers. Went over the same area with a brown-n-purple jig with a blue trailer and nailed 2 more. Continued this way for the next 2 hours and managed to get 4-5 more...the blade seemed to stop working for me around 10, so I fished jigs the rest of the day looking for some better ones. Caught several more 2-3#ers.
    City: SJ

    Tips: Fish were pretty shallow, all my bites were in less than 10ft. Got bit on three different color jigs, but black with blue zoom super chunk seemed to work best.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out from 6 am till 8 am and fished from the shore. Working the shorelines with a red timber tiger and landed a hawg. Didnt have a scale on me, but it had to go 7-8 lbs EASY. Got a couple good pics too. Thankfully the water maintenance worker was right by me and he shot the pics
    City: San Jose

Saturday, March 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: Shrinkage cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water with my tube around 8:30 And fished the boat side of the lake. Used a dropper rig with various plastics, but only produced a few strikes. I'll use the full moon and cold water as an excuse and try again in a few weeks.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: cool

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We were the first boat on the water. Started fishing 10-15ft of water and did not catch a thing. We then found the fish in about 8-4ft of water. I caught a total of 11 bass, 9 of them caught on a texas rigged paddle tail.The other three fish were caught on free lined jumbo minnows. My buddy also caught 5 bass with on that weighed 7.1lbs. The fish are scattered and feeding shallow.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Suuuuuwwweeee. Call them hogs because there coming in!!!

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    Water Temp: Shrinkage cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water with my tube around 8:30 And fished the boat side of the lake. Used a dropper rig with various plastics, but only produced a few strikes. I'll use the full moon and cold water as an excuse and try again in a few weeks.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: cool

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We were the first boat on the water. Started fishing 10-15ft of water and did not catch a thing. We then found the fish in about 8-4ft of water. I caught a total of 11 bass, 9 of them caught on a texas rigged paddle tail.The other three fish were caught on free lined jumbo minnows. My buddy also caught 5 bass with on that weighed 7.1lbs. The fish are scattered and feeding shallow.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Suuuuuwwweeee. Call them hogs because there coming in!!!

Wednesday, March 7th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54 ^

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Didn't do all that well. Got a few taps with the walking worm, in orange, yes the one "as seen on TV", save your money!!. Did some drop shotting with live minnows, but bait shop (you all know which one) only had 4 jumbo's and a bunch of sickly mediums, most of which died in first two hours. But the good news is....the lake is getting full, the water is getting warm and those big ole bucket mouths are moving up. Partner got a nice 4.2lber in afternoon. its just a matter of days guys, and the bite is on!!!
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: talked to a few who did ok with Brush Hogs in black and orange. Fish slow, and with all the water flowing in, there is stuff floating all over, be careful. tight lines.

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day without a bite. Fished jigs, worms, spinnerbaits, cranks, lizards, and nothing needs to clear.
    City: SJ

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    Water Temp: 54 ^

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Didn't do all that well. Got a few taps with the walking worm, in orange, yes the one "as seen on TV", save your money!!. Did some drop shotting with live minnows, but bait shop (you all know which one) only had 4 jumbo's and a bunch of sickly mediums, most of which died in first two hours. But the good news is....the lake is getting full, the water is getting warm and those big ole bucket mouths are moving up. Partner got a nice 4.2lber in afternoon. its just a matter of days guys, and the bite is on!!!
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: talked to a few who did ok with Brush Hogs in black and orange. Fish slow, and with all the water flowing in, there is stuff floating all over, be careful. tight lines.

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day without a bite. Fished jigs, worms, spinnerbaits, cranks, lizards, and nothing needs to clear.
    City: SJ

Monday, March 5th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 49.5-51.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Havn't fished Calero for a couple of weeks ...fished from 9 to 5...Two of us cought 8 fish , all solid keepers with one going 7.5..All fish were cought on jigs except for one on a trap early..The big fish was cought on a jig in 20-22'..our other better fish were cought in that range as well..water is coming up ..the small over flow spill way is dumping a bunch of muddie water in ..and clear water is isolated to the main body..all that fresh water can shut the bite down if it blowes the lake out..It's flowing out of that spill way about 2 degrees colder than the rest of the lake..I think the water conditions are bringing the fish up more than I would call it a pre spawn mode..thats just my gut feeling..With good weather next month will be wide open for some great blade fishing...
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The recent rains muddied up the water quite a bit, but it didn't slow the bite. Three of us fished from 8:30 to 11:00 and managed to boat 5 nice fish. The largest was about 4 lbs. and the smallest was just under 3 lbs. All fish were right on the bank. We used small worms in dark colors and fished slowly. If the weather ever gets nice the bite should be awesome!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish are in their pre-spawn mode...fish shallow and always practice catch and release!

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    Water Temp: 49.5-51.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Havn't fished Calero for a couple of weeks ...fished from 9 to 5...Two of us cought 8 fish , all solid keepers with one going 7.5..All fish were cought on jigs except for one on a trap early..The big fish was cought on a jig in 20-22'..our other better fish were cought in that range as well..water is coming up ..the small over flow spill way is dumping a bunch of muddie water in ..and clear water is isolated to the main body..all that fresh water can shut the bite down if it blowes the lake out..It's flowing out of that spill way about 2 degrees colder than the rest of the lake..I think the water conditions are bringing the fish up more than I would call it a pre spawn mode..thats just my gut feeling..With good weather next month will be wide open for some great blade fishing...
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The recent rains muddied up the water quite a bit, but it didn't slow the bite. Three of us fished from 8:30 to 11:00 and managed to boat 5 nice fish. The largest was about 4 lbs. and the smallest was just under 3 lbs. All fish were right on the bank. We used small worms in dark colors and fished slowly. If the weather ever gets nice the bite should be awesome!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish are in their pre-spawn mode...fish shallow and always practice catch and release!

Sunday, March 4th, 2001

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    Water Temp: NA

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello all. I have been fishing Calero for nearly 14 years and have had my wins and losses, but most important of all, I ALWAYS practice catch & release. This is just a reminder to all the new anglers in our area that catch & release is VERY important, especially this time of year as spring and the spawn season approach. Good luck to all of you this season! See you out there!
    City: San Jose