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Saturday, October 16th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 64-66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hello everyone. I understand that Calero can be one mother of a tough lake, but right now is not one of them. I am just an average stick, and I don't want to p' anyone off, but fishing aint that hard right now. I've been throwing plastics and traps and hooking fish everywhere. The average depth has been 15-18' for good consistant fish using plastics. I'm talking bottom depth, not weed depth. Trap fishing has been best early on, in shallow water. They want to rip the rod out of your hand. Yee haw!! On Saturday I was out for only a half day and caught at least twenty fish. Yeah, some were dinks but the rest averaged a pound and a half and up to four pounds.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: The baitfish are everywhere and they're swimming shallow. Find the baitfish and defined weedlines and throw traps. Find weedlines and a few baitfish and throw plastics. Weightless has been the way to go. Not flukes, brush hogs. Watch out for the idiot skiers. Carry 1 oz. spoons.

Monday, October 11th, 1999

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ 7:30am. Fished the buoys and weedlines with plastics rigged many diff. ways. Not even a hit. At 10:15 headed towards the back cove and stopped off at the rocky wall on the left before getting to the coves. Threw a 6in. pump. lizard c-rigged for the first time. Boated a 6.5lbr. My biggest ever. Weighed him, took 4 pix of him, and let him go. Only one dink caught after that. Very slow except for the Big Guy. The fish are certainly getting bigger here. My ave. fish is about 2lbs. now. In a couple years this lake will be a trophy lake if the county keeps the water level up.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Have no clue. I've only been at it for a year. I fish this lake a lot, and still haven't figured it out yet to consistently catch a lot of fish. I do know that I've only caught good fish on plastics and topwater.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ 7:30am. Fished the buoys and weedlines with plastics rigged many diff. ways. Not even a hit. At 10:15 headed towards the back cove and stopped off at the rocky wall on the left before getting to the coves. Threw a 6in. pump. lizard c-rigged for the first time. Boated a 6.5lbr. My biggest ever. Weighed him, took 4 pix of him, and let him go. Only one dink caught after that. Very slow except for the Big Guy. The fish are certainly getting bigger here. My ave. fish is about 2lbs. now. In a couple years this lake will be a trophy lake if the county keeps the water level up.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Have no clue. I've only been at it for a year. I fish this lake a lot, and still haven't figured it out yet to consistently catch a lot of fish. I do know that I've only caught good fish on plastics and topwater.

Sunday, October 10th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Oh, yeah -- just a couple of things to add to my report from Sunday night: I did get a couple of additional strikes, beyond the 2 fish I caught, but what I forgot to mention is that almost every one came after I *STOPPED* the lure. The first hookup occurred when I took my eyes off the bait to look down at the mosquitos that were swarming around my legs. All of a sudden, I heard the splash, & my rod loaded up, pretty much all by itself. I wasn't paying attention. Just goes to show, sometimes the BEST lure action is NO action at all! After that, I began stopping it on purpose, resisting the urge to keep it moving. That's when I started getting more strikes. The action didn't really start 'til 15-20 minutes after the sun was over the horizon, too. That means that any BOATS would've had to be off the water by then, thereby missing this brief surge of activity. Ain't it a DRAG that these south bay parks kick us off just as the best bite of the day starts kicking IN?!!!
    City: san jose

    Tips: Try dead-sticking your baits sometimes. It may be just what's needed to trigger those strikes you're not getting!

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from shore near the dam for the last two hours of daylight on Sunday. Lots of baitfish activity around the abundant shoreline weeds. Caught 2, to 1.5 lbs., on my old stand-by chrome/blue Chug Bug.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Topwater, or maybe a weightless, soft plastic jerkbait, tossed around the shoreline weeds, early & late in the day.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man am I in a funk or what! Fished Calero both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I took the boat out and fished hard for 6 hours. I pitched jigs in what little cover I could find, worked flukes on the weedlines, threw reaction baits all over the place and drown worms in 10, 20 and 30 feet of water. NO BITES! Sunday launched in my float tube. Spent most of the morning between the dams and only had one bite on a borrowed purple power lizard. Friends Jerry and Leonard had better days. Leonard lost a nice fish and caught several 2 pounders. I don't think my poor effort has much reflection on the fish activity. I think fish can be caught but my planets were out of whack or something.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Oh, yeah -- just a couple of things to add to my report from Sunday night: I did get a couple of additional strikes, beyond the 2 fish I caught, but what I forgot to mention is that almost every one came after I *STOPPED* the lure. The first hookup occurred when I took my eyes off the bait to look down at the mosquitos that were swarming around my legs. All of a sudden, I heard the splash, & my rod loaded up, pretty much all by itself. I wasn't paying attention. Just goes to show, sometimes the BEST lure action is NO action at all! After that, I began stopping it on purpose, resisting the urge to keep it moving. That's when I started getting more strikes. The action didn't really start 'til 15-20 minutes after the sun was over the horizon, too. That means that any BOATS would've had to be off the water by then, thereby missing this brief surge of activity. Ain't it a DRAG that these south bay parks kick us off just as the best bite of the day starts kicking IN?!!!
    City: san jose

    Tips: Try dead-sticking your baits sometimes. It may be just what's needed to trigger those strikes you're not getting!

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from shore near the dam for the last two hours of daylight on Sunday. Lots of baitfish activity around the abundant shoreline weeds. Caught 2, to 1.5 lbs., on my old stand-by chrome/blue Chug Bug.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Topwater, or maybe a weightless, soft plastic jerkbait, tossed around the shoreline weeds, early & late in the day.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Man am I in a funk or what! Fished Calero both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I took the boat out and fished hard for 6 hours. I pitched jigs in what little cover I could find, worked flukes on the weedlines, threw reaction baits all over the place and drown worms in 10, 20 and 30 feet of water. NO BITES! Sunday launched in my float tube. Spent most of the morning between the dams and only had one bite on a borrowed purple power lizard. Friends Jerry and Leonard had better days. Leonard lost a nice fish and caught several 2 pounders. I don't think my poor effort has much reflection on the fish activity. I think fish can be caught but my planets were out of whack or something.
    City: San Jose

Sunday, October 3rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the afternoon (11 AM - 7 PM) from my tube. Not a great day, but better than just about anywhere else I could be. Cold and windy, too many water skiers, and no topwater bite(DAMN!). I explored a little over by the large dam and caught two around 2 lbs on a brown jig. Had a toad spit spit the jig right back at me near my tube, too. I kicked back and caught three more real small dinks bobbing around just south of the boat launch on small worms.
    City: Mountain View

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    Water Temp: 70-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished the afternoon (11 AM - 7 PM) from my tube. Not a great day, but better than just about anywhere else I could be. Cold and windy, too many water skiers, and no topwater bite(DAMN!). I explored a little over by the large dam and caught two around 2 lbs on a brown jig. Had a toad spit spit the jig right back at me near my tube, too. I kicked back and caught three more real small dinks bobbing around just south of the boat launch on small worms.
    City: Mountain View

Sunday, September 26th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hadn't been out to Calero on my kickboat in awhile. The wind was tolerable, but lots of boats (one with an a-hole wakeboarder who doused me from behind with a wall of water -- DICKHEAD!!!). Caught a few dinks on a shad-pattern jerkbait & a Deep Little N crankbait, then 3 solid keepers (1-1/2 to 2 lbs.) on a Carolina rig. The fish weren't BIG, but they fought pretty hard! Hadn't used a plain ol' Zoom lizard in awhile ('mossy pumpkin'); I've been using all these newer, latest/greatest, fancy baits of late. However, the old tried-&-true lizard seemed to be the ticket on Sunday. I caught one add'l C-rig fish on a Berkley Pulse Worm in Red Shad finish. No takers on topwater, although the birds were dive-bombing all around me, coming up with little silvery treats hanging from their bills. Head on for that Fall feeding frenzy! (2-day *Clear Lake* float tube tourney with 'Bass-n-Tubes' & the Sonoma County Bellyboat Bass Club is coming up on Oct. 23-24. Call John Lake - 408-263-6174 for details).
    City: san jose

    Tips: shad patterns shallow, or soft plastics in 15-30 ft.

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    Water Temp: 70s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hadn't been out to Calero on my kickboat in awhile. The wind was tolerable, but lots of boats (one with an a-hole wakeboarder who doused me from behind with a wall of water -- DICKHEAD!!!). Caught a few dinks on a shad-pattern jerkbait & a Deep Little N crankbait, then 3 solid keepers (1-1/2 to 2 lbs.) on a Carolina rig. The fish weren't BIG, but they fought pretty hard! Hadn't used a plain ol' Zoom lizard in awhile ('mossy pumpkin'); I've been using all these newer, latest/greatest, fancy baits of late. However, the old tried-&-true lizard seemed to be the ticket on Sunday. I caught one add'l C-rig fish on a Berkley Pulse Worm in Red Shad finish. No takers on topwater, although the birds were dive-bombing all around me, coming up with little silvery treats hanging from their bills. Head on for that Fall feeding frenzy! (2-day *Clear Lake* float tube tourney with 'Bass-n-Tubes' & the Sonoma County Bellyboat Bass Club is coming up on Oct. 23-24. Call John Lake - 408-263-6174 for details).
    City: san jose

    Tips: shad patterns shallow, or soft plastics in 15-30 ft.

Sunday, September 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?????

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the lake around 3:30pm, fished with 4"worms withces tea and oxblood colors, pretty decent bite, I caught 3, in the 1-3/4 to 2# range my buddy J. Hardin caught 3, in the same range my other half Gigi, finally caught 1, after gettin skunked at Chabot the day before(yea Gigi!!!) and well Jamie better luck next time. We fished until the patrol had to kick us off the lake.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: ?????

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out on the lake around 3:30pm, fished with 4"worms withces tea and oxblood colors, pretty decent bite, I caught 3, in the 1-3/4 to 2# range my buddy J. Hardin caught 3, in the same range my other half Gigi, finally caught 1, after gettin skunked at Chabot the day before(yea Gigi!!!) and well Jamie better luck next time. We fished until the patrol had to kick us off the lake.
    City: San Jose

Tuesday, September 7th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried a red 4 inch curly tail and blue 5 inch worms and fished them several ways. The only hit I got was on the north point between Calero Dam and the spillway. It came at about 4:10pm, but I didn

    Tips: If using plastic worms, stick with the more natural colors.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried a red 4 inch curly tail and blue 5 inch worms and fished them several ways. The only hit I got was on the north point between Calero Dam and the spillway. It came at about 4:10pm, but I didn

    Tips: If using plastic worms, stick with the more natural colors.

Friday, August 27th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brent and I float tubed 7AM-7PM Friday. Fishing was good, we landed over 30 bass. We caught 3 over 3 lbs on jigs in the warm muddy water close to shore and loads of dinks around 20 feet split shotting. We saw bass chasing shad on the surface about 4 times in casting distance. We threw zara spooks to them and caught two and had another good blow up. Big fish of the day was a 5+ pounder that ate a spook at about 7:15PM from shore.
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: Throw big white zara spooks at busting fish. Fish brown/pumpkin jigs in 5-10 feet for 3+ fish.

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brent and I float tubed 7AM-7PM Friday. Fishing was good, we landed over 30 bass. We caught 3 over 3 lbs on jigs in the warm muddy water close to shore and loads of dinks around 20 feet split shotting. We saw bass chasing shad on the surface about 4 times in casting distance. We threw zara spooks to them and caught two and had another good blow up. Big fish of the day was a 5+ pounder that ate a spook at about 7:15PM from shore.
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: Throw big white zara spooks at busting fish. Fish brown/pumpkin jigs in 5-10 feet for 3+ fish.

Monday, August 23rd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Nailed several 3+ pounders throwing a black/blue jig in front of the dam. Focus on the outside or backs of weedlines.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Leonard nailed a 10 pounder here picture to follow