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Saturday, May 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 95

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: With the threat of rain today I decided to stay home and fish calero. Hit the water at 1:30 and left at 3:30. Stuck 4 huge fish on a rippin minnow (Team Diawa). Total weight of all 4 was pretty close to a Pound! Biddest one was almost 6". Wind really picked up and there was alot of traffic on the water!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Rippin was all I tried!

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went fishing about 8:00 to 12:00 caught 3 fish tubing baily cove first fish went about 2lbs second fish was about 7lbs third fish was about 5 1/2 to 6 lbs weather was overcast which made for a very productive day. hope to see more tubers out there
    City: milpitas

    Tips: used caroline rig with black&red flake lizzard draging through the hydrela. and please practics catch and release

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    Water Temp: 95

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: With the threat of rain today I decided to stay home and fish calero. Hit the water at 1:30 and left at 3:30. Stuck 4 huge fish on a rippin minnow (Team Diawa). Total weight of all 4 was pretty close to a Pound! Biddest one was almost 6". Wind really picked up and there was alot of traffic on the water!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Rippin was all I tried!

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fisged from 8 am-10am! Stuck two fish one dink and one around 1 1/2 on a Splash-It. Then ripped 3 fish the biggest went close to 3lbs. TopWater should break wide open anytime. One other boat on the lake, was pretty nice.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Topwater early. Then Rip!

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fisged from 8 am-10am! Stuck two fish one dink and one around 1 1/2 on a Splash-It. Then ripped 3 fish the biggest went close to 3lbs. TopWater should break wide open anytime. One other boat on the lake, was pretty nice.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Topwater early. Then Rip!

Sunday, April 30th, 2000

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    Water Temp: Still a bit chi

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put my tube in at the big dam fished from 3 till 5:30 or so a bit of wind and a bunch of boats. No fish. Fished a brown craw zipper and cranked for a bit. Wheres the fish??
    City: San Jose

    Tips: None here. Somebody help.

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    Water Temp: Still a bit chi

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Put my tube in at the big dam fished from 3 till 5:30 or so a bit of wind and a bunch of boats. No fish. Fished a brown craw zipper and cranked for a bit. Wheres the fish??
    City: San Jose

    Tips: None here. Somebody help.

Saturday, April 29th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started around 7:30 am at Bailey Cove, in our float tubes. Tried Zippers with no luck. Changed to a crankbait and nailed them. Cought 3 in the 2-2 and a half range. They stopped bighting when the wind came up. Good Luck...
    City: Gilroy

    Tips: Fish were in the deeper water in the middle of the cove. Light colored crankbaits...

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We started around 7:30 am at Bailey Cove, in our float tubes. Tried Zippers with no luck. Changed to a crankbait and nailed them. Cought 3 in the 2-2 and a half range. They stopped bighting when the wind came up. Good Luck...
    City: Gilroy

    Tips: Fish were in the deeper water in the middle of the cove. Light colored crankbaits...

Tuesday, April 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Drove all the way to Anderson and found the main Ramp was closed. Signs stated that the Coyote Ramp was open. Huh, that ramp hasn't been open in 10 years! There was some construction on the road and they said it would be a 5min wait. Said screw it and went to Calero. Wind was really THUMPING! Caught a few ripping a Rogue, decided to throw a blade for the next hour and caught a nice 2 1/2. 2 hours four fish, lot of traffic out there today. Fished from 3:30 to 5:30. Come on TopWater!!!!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Only ripped and threw a blade!

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Drove all the way to Anderson and found the main Ramp was closed. Signs stated that the Coyote Ramp was open. Huh, that ramp hasn't been open in 10 years! There was some construction on the road and they said it would be a 5min wait. Said screw it and went to Calero. Wind was really THUMPING! Caught a few ripping a Rogue, decided to throw a blade for the next hour and caught a nice 2 1/2. 2 hours four fish, lot of traffic out there today. Fished from 3:30 to 5:30. Come on TopWater!!!!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Only ripped and threw a blade!

Wednesday, April 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the wife out on the new boat for the first time. Caught 7 fish up to 2lbs on a Gold/Silver Rogue. All 7 came from the canal inlet between 2-4pm. Saw a few nice cruisers and alot of fry in the water! Come on weather heat up so we can get into some topwater action!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Ripping is the ticket focus on the 5-10 ft range.

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took the wife out on the new boat for the first time. Caught 7 fish up to 2lbs on a Gold/Silver Rogue. All 7 came from the canal inlet between 2-4pm. Saw a few nice cruisers and alot of fry in the water! Come on weather heat up so we can get into some topwater action!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Ripping is the ticket focus on the 5-10 ft range.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched in my kickboat from Bailey Cove and proceeded towards the stables area...nothing.Fished some wind blown banks with a jig, nothing again.I then made my way to a cove between the ramp and Bailey Cove. It was protected from the wind. I tossed a green weenie into some reeds and was able to land four fish in the last half hour of daylight.The biggest being about 3 1/2lbs.Also hooked and lost a nice one right before getting it into reach.
    City: santa clara

    Tips: Talked to some guy there on Saturday who said he caught one over 12 lbs. Could be true, I've caught an 8 and a 10 on the same day last summer. Carolina rigged(1/8 oz.) worms or twin tailed grubs in dark colors or chartreuse lizards.Brown jigs.

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    Water Temp: 64-66.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at 9am. Was expecting a good day. Wrong. One fish. Off the water at 1:30. Talked to three other anglers, all were having a tough time. It was a beautiful day, though.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched in my kickboat from Bailey Cove and proceeded towards the stables area...nothing.Fished some wind blown banks with a jig, nothing again.I then made my way to a cove between the ramp and Bailey Cove. It was protected from the wind. I tossed a green weenie into some reeds and was able to land four fish in the last half hour of daylight.The biggest being about 3 1/2lbs.Also hooked and lost a nice one right before getting it into reach.
    City: santa clara

    Tips: Talked to some guy there on Saturday who said he caught one over 12 lbs. Could be true, I've caught an 8 and a 10 on the same day last summer. Carolina rigged(1/8 oz.) worms or twin tailed grubs in dark colors or chartreuse lizards.Brown jigs.

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    Water Temp: 64-66.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched at 9am. Was expecting a good day. Wrong. One fish. Off the water at 1:30. Talked to three other anglers, all were having a tough time. It was a beautiful day, though.
    City: San Jose

Friday, April 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good day shore fishing. Caught 4 keepers and lost a 2.5 - 3.0 pounder. Fish weighed 1.5, 1.7, 3.25 and 6.1 pounds. I caught my fish on four different baits. A 7" crawdad-color paddle worm with a red and orange skirt with an embedded rattle. I also used a silver shad-rap, a tandem willow-blade spinnerbait with a shad-pattern skirt, and the big fish was caught with a shad-pattern roostertail !!! Switched to a shad pattern after my first fish had one stuffed in her pretty little face.
    City: Campbell

    Tips: Fish the primary and secondary points, drop-offs and creek channels for pre-spawn fish. Black and crawdad (i.e. brown/red/orange) 4"-7" worms fished slow. Deep-running (7 to 15 feet) crankbaits fished slow to moderate. Also, give a spinner/spinnerbait a try, but don't crank it like some Alabama yahoo in the summertime. Slow to moderate speed is the rule.

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good day shore fishing. Caught 4 keepers and lost a 2.5 - 3.0 pounder. Fish weighed 1.5, 1.7, 3.25 and 6.1 pounds. I caught my fish on four different baits. A 7" crawdad-color paddle worm with a red and orange skirt with an embedded rattle. I also used a silver shad-rap, a tandem willow-blade spinnerbait with a shad-pattern skirt, and the big fish was caught with a shad-pattern roostertail !!! Switched to a shad pattern after my first fish had one stuffed in her pretty little face.
    City: Campbell

    Tips: Fish the primary and secondary points, drop-offs and creek channels for pre-spawn fish. Black and crawdad (i.e. brown/red/orange) 4"-7" worms fished slow. Deep-running (7 to 15 feet) crankbaits fished slow to moderate. Also, give a spinner/spinnerbait a try, but don't crank it like some Alabama yahoo in the summertime. Slow to moderate speed is the rule.

Wednesday, April 12th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50ish?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We had a successful trip 2 weeks ago. I caught a 6lb largemouth on a 4" Witches T with a split shot rig across the boat ramp. It was in less than 10ft of water. We caught 2 other 1 lb fish both on the same rig.
    City: Campbell

    Tips: Plastic worms were the only thing that worked for us