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Wednesday, December 27th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of my kickboat today, got on the water at 10:00 went to the rocky point across from the ramp, second cast, stuck a nice 4 pounder slow rolling a 1oz. terminator with a single willow-leaf blade.That was the only one for the day.It was really calm out there till about 12:15 and then I got off the water.
    City: San Jose

Sunday, December 24th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7:30 til 9:30. Caught six fish up to 3lbs shaking a 7" red shad power worm in the 10-20' range. All fish were caught strait across from the launch down to the islnd on the right. Got pretty windy today.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: 7" red shad texas rigged in the 10-20' range.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 7:30 til 9:30. Caught six fish up to 3lbs shaking a 7" red shad power worm in the 10-20' range. All fish were caught strait across from the launch down to the islnd on the right. Got pretty windy today.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: 7" red shad texas rigged in the 10-20' range.

Saturday, December 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Calero today only for a couple hours. Got two fish a 4# and a 2.5# on jigs in about 15 ft of water on the wall straight out from the launch.
    City: SAN BRUNO

    Tips: Just drag a jig around on the rock banks and across points

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Calero today only for a couple hours. Got two fish a 4# and a 2.5# on jigs in about 15 ft of water on the wall straight out from the launch.
    City: SAN BRUNO

    Tips: Just drag a jig around on the rock banks and across points

Thursday, December 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well started at 1:30 today. Fished the same spots as yesterday. Caught 3 up to 2 Lbs on the 7" red shad in 25'. then fished the horse shoe side and caught 1 Ripping a 5" rogue, 2 more cranking. So 3 fish in 25' very pale color, 3 in 5' with more color. Wierd guess the fish can't decide what depth to hang out in. Largest went 2lbs. Only boat on the lake today, left at 4:30.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: 3 on a Berkley Red Shad Powerworm in 25' of water. 1 ripping a Silver Ratttling Rogue Rip Bait in 5' of water. 1 on a Fire Tiger Wiggle Wart in 5" of water and one on a pale red Crankbait in 5' of water.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well started at 1:30 today. Fished the same spots as yesterday. Caught 3 up to 2 Lbs on the 7" red shad in 25'. then fished the horse shoe side and caught 1 Ripping a 5" rogue, 2 more cranking. So 3 fish in 25' very pale color, 3 in 5' with more color. Wierd guess the fish can't decide what depth to hang out in. Largest went 2lbs. Only boat on the lake today, left at 4:30.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: 3 on a Berkley Red Shad Powerworm in 25' of water. 1 ripping a Silver Ratttling Rogue Rip Bait in 5' of water. 1 on a Fire Tiger Wiggle Wart in 5" of water and one on a pale red Crankbait in 5' of water.

Wednesday, December 20th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 130pm fished until 430pm. Caught 4 fish on a Orange Yamamoto spider grub. Fished from the newly exposed island on the right up to the long shallow point on the other sade of the small damn. Fished that back and forth the whole time. Missed a good 4 strikes on the spider grub and missed a good 5 strikes on a 7" berkley red/shad power worm. All fish were caught in the 25' range.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Nice day, very few on the water. Take advantage of this peaceful time before it starts warming up!

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 130pm fished until 430pm. Caught 4 fish on a Orange Yamamoto spider grub. Fished from the newly exposed island on the right up to the long shallow point on the other sade of the small damn. Fished that back and forth the whole time. Missed a good 4 strikes on the spider grub and missed a good 5 strikes on a 7" berkley red/shad power worm. All fish were caught in the 25' range.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Nice day, very few on the water. Take advantage of this peaceful time before it starts warming up!

Friday, December 15th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52 - 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Finally was able to get the boat out of the garage. Haven't been out due to construction at the house. launched at 11:30am and headed to my favorite winter spot. Decided to give this 'dropshot' method a try since it's what everyone is talking about. It works. Had four fish up to 2.3 lbs (it was short and fat) and missed at least six others. Fished in 25-55 ft. of water. One thing about the dropshot is you have to wait for the fish to take your bait, usually they just hit it hard and try to swim off with it, yet it won't move. Had many short hits that split my 4" worms. color didn't matter, neither did the plastic. Got hits on everything using this method. it's very boring, yet pretty effective. I could only take doing this for an hour or so, then went searching for fish with crankbaits. Had two others in about 8ft. of water on a fat rap, stained water. ****Be careful boating. Not all of the shallow areas are marked. Ran my boat up on a shoal in about 10 in. water that wasn't marked in the back of the lake. I knew the submerged island was there (it's out of water and I know this lake pretty well), however did not know it protrudes 25 yards out underwater and isn't marked. Not good. Went from 5ft. to 10in. with no warning. The water level is still dropping. It dropped appx. 2ft. from the time I launched to the time I loaded.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I have caught my biggest fish at Calero in Dec./Jan. using spider grubs in about 20ft. of water off main lake points. Largest winter fish was an 8.5 last year.

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    Water Temp: 52 - 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Finally was able to get the boat out of the garage. Haven't been out due to construction at the house. launched at 11:30am and headed to my favorite winter spot. Decided to give this 'dropshot' method a try since it's what everyone is talking about. It works. Had four fish up to 2.3 lbs (it was short and fat) and missed at least six others. Fished in 25-55 ft. of water. One thing about the dropshot is you have to wait for the fish to take your bait, usually they just hit it hard and try to swim off with it, yet it won't move. Had many short hits that split my 4" worms. color didn't matter, neither did the plastic. Got hits on everything using this method. it's very boring, yet pretty effective. I could only take doing this for an hour or so, then went searching for fish with crankbaits. Had two others in about 8ft. of water on a fat rap, stained water. ****Be careful boating. Not all of the shallow areas are marked. Ran my boat up on a shoal in about 10 in. water that wasn't marked in the back of the lake. I knew the submerged island was there (it's out of water and I know this lake pretty well), however did not know it protrudes 25 yards out underwater and isn't marked. Not good. Went from 5ft. to 10in. with no warning. The water level is still dropping. It dropped appx. 2ft. from the time I launched to the time I loaded.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I have caught my biggest fish at Calero in Dec./Jan. using spider grubs in about 20ft. of water off main lake points. Largest winter fish was an 8.5 last year.

Tuesday, December 12th, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched around 10am, tried top water, worms, cranks, with no luck. Finally went to the dam and spooned up a 14 inch bass. note the hook wasn't in him, managed to wedge the 3/4 ounce lure sideways in his mouth! Not a great fish, but good enough to win three dollars from my buddy! Note...dress warm, that wind is cold.
    City: campbell

    Tips: Fish all seem to be deep. Metered a mess of them, but with the cold front and recent cold rain, they were reluctant to bite.

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched around 10am, tried top water, worms, cranks, with no luck. Finally went to the dam and spooned up a 14 inch bass. note the hook wasn't in him, managed to wedge the 3/4 ounce lure sideways in his mouth! Not a great fish, but good enough to win three dollars from my buddy! Note...dress warm, that wind is cold.
    City: campbell

    Tips: Fish all seem to be deep. Metered a mess of them, but with the cold front and recent cold rain, they were reluctant to bite.

Saturday, December 9th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Fit from about 9:00-3:30 we were able to land 13 fish from 2+lbs-5lbs all on swimbaits in 1-3 foot of water.We fished just about the entire lake.started across from the ramp then kept the trolling motor going and didnt give up,on the shallow bite.
    City: Milpitas

    Tips: There are still some shallow fish,you just got to stick with fishing up close and cover a lot of water

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Fit from about 9:00-3:30 we were able to land 13 fish from 2+lbs-5lbs all on swimbaits in 1-3 foot of water.We fished just about the entire lake.started across from the ramp then kept the trolling motor going and didnt give up,on the shallow bite.
    City: Milpitas

    Tips: There are still some shallow fish,you just got to stick with fishing up close and cover a lot of water

Sunday, December 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing for bass at around 1:00pm. I caught two fish using Senco worms, both fish were about a pound and a half.
    City: san jose

    Tips: In spring I throw spinnerbaits, spider jigs,and lizards. In the summer, night fishing is best. Right now I would try spider jigs and senco worms fished past the weed lines.

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing for bass at around 1:00pm. I caught two fish using Senco worms, both fish were about a pound and a half.
    City: san jose

    Tips: In spring I throw spinnerbaits, spider jigs,and lizards. In the summer, night fishing is best. Right now I would try spider jigs and senco worms fished past the weed lines.

Saturday, December 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: tough bite for most , including myself..I managed only 5 bites all day....best fish went about 3lbs..Worms and jigs in 30' fished REALLY slow.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Once the lake level stays consistant there should be a decent winter bite here..lakes falling fast right now and has the fish scatterd from the bank where ever theres some sparse grass down to 45'...I can't find that shallow but some guys are..

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: tough bite for most , including myself..I managed only 5 bites all day....best fish went about 3lbs..Worms and jigs in 30' fished REALLY slow.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Once the lake level stays consistant there should be a decent winter bite here..lakes falling fast right now and has the fish scatterd from the bank where ever theres some sparse grass down to 45'...I can't find that shallow but some guys are..

Friday, December 1st, 2000

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent the day on the water today aboard Champ Driver's Champion fish n' ski. Great day outside, but the fishing was really tough. I managed to dropshot 2 Bass, 1lb, and 2+lbs on a 4" pb&j Action Baits worm. That was it for the day as far as Bass go. I also managed to crank a 10lb Carp....got him right in the dorsal. Wrong species though!!
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Dropshot/shake worms in 25-35'.