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Saturday, June 19th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Troy and I were able to sneak in without reservations. We only had a few hours to fish and since we wanted to work jigs we fished every downed tree we could find. We nailed a couple fish in the 2lbs range and missed a few real nice fish. We also spent some time in the backs of coves working baby bass colored flukes.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Have your fishing license on. With the summer crowds and new rangers you will be checked.

Friday, June 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test of the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it works

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test of the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it works

Friday, May 28th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished from 2:30pm to 6pm. I started out at a point to the left of Calero Dam. I used a fire-tiger spinnerbait and chrome crankbait, but no fish. Switched to red 4 inch curlytail worm with only 1/16 oz weight and swam it. Got one small bass to follow it, but still no bites. I moved to the other side of the dam at the end of the cove and away from the boaters and skiers. I threw the red worm on the first cast in front of a boulder and got a 3 lb, 16.5 inch bass! Also got a 12 in, 1.5 lb bass on a junebug worm to the right of the big pipes. I got a few other bites, but set the hook too soon. Caught fish using twitching method. Water was pretty clear up to 10 ft from shoreline. Fish seem to be holding right at the edge of dropoffs. Fish hit when the wind died down.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Tips:If from shore, stick with plastics.

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I fished from 2:30pm to 6pm. I started out at a point to the left of Calero Dam. I used a fire-tiger spinnerbait and chrome crankbait, but no fish. Switched to red 4 inch curlytail worm with only 1/16 oz weight and swam it. Got one small bass to follow it, but still no bites. I moved to the other side of the dam at the end of the cove and away from the boaters and skiers. I threw the red worm on the first cast in front of a boulder and got a 3 lb, 16.5 inch bass! Also got a 12 in, 1.5 lb bass on a junebug worm to the right of the big pipes. I got a few other bites, but set the hook too soon. Caught fish using twitching method. Water was pretty clear up to 10 ft from shoreline. Fish seem to be holding right at the edge of dropoffs. Fish hit when the wind died down.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Tips:If from shore, stick with plastics.

Monday, May 17th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Bailey cove today from my tube. First cast and Wham! a nice 3- 3 1/2 pounder. Caught her on a green/ black lizard fished weightless. Still some fish in the coves, but they are moving out.Moved out to deeper water(15-20 ft) and saw alot of fish on the finder , but couldn't entice them with anything.Tried spinners, crankbaits, split shotted power worms.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Tips:Try soft platics. alot of weeds int the coves and it's just gonna keep on growing throughout the summer. Try anything weedless.

Saturday, May 1st, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lots of fish in baily cove.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:n/a

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: lots of fish in baily cove.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:n/a

Sunday, April 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 2 large mouth bass both were 2 1/2 lbs in a float tube weather was overcast in the morning but was good, fished from 9:00-4:00 after the sun came out the fish hid
    City: Milpitas

    Tips: Tips:4inch zipper worm grey with purple flakes, light line with a caroline rig fished 10 ft of water draging the bottom it is a solw bite but be ready for the big hit

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught 2 large mouth bass both were 2 1/2 lbs in a float tube weather was overcast in the morning but was good, fished from 9:00-4:00 after the sun came out the fish hid
    City: Milpitas

    Tips: Tips:4inch zipper worm grey with purple flakes, light line with a caroline rig fished 10 ft of water draging the bottom it is a solw bite but be ready for the big hit

Monday, April 12th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished from 1pm to 5:30pm. I only caught a 1 lber using a texas-rigged green weenie off the rip-rap across from the dam. It was a little breezy, but sunny. I tried spinnerbaits and crankbaits too, but no luck. I talked to one guy who caught a 4 lber using a chartreuse grub.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Tips:Plastics with chartreuse colors.

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished from 1pm to 5:30pm. I only caught a 1 lber using a texas-rigged green weenie off the rip-rap across from the dam. It was a little breezy, but sunny. I tried spinnerbaits and crankbaits too, but no luck. I talked to one guy who caught a 4 lber using a chartreuse grub.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Tips:Plastics with chartreuse colors.

Wednesday, April 7th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 64-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brent and I kickboated from about 10am - 4pm today. I caught one 4 pounder off a bed early on a tube bait and lost two others on a crankbait. Brent caught two small fish on plastics. Lots of small males up on the shallows. All seemed very spooky though.
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: I don't know. I can't say for sure what stage of the spawn these fish are in even.

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    Water Temp: 64-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brent and I kickboated from about 10am - 4pm today. I caught one 4 pounder off a bed early on a tube bait and lost two others on a crankbait. Brent caught two small fish on plastics. Lots of small males up on the shallows. All seemed very spooky though.
    City: Mountain View

    Tips: I don't know. I can't say for sure what stage of the spawn these fish are in even.

Saturday, March 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ventured Out on Float Tubes around 8am Saturday March 20th at the Horse Stable Entrance. Fished the small cove from 8am to about 9:15 and landed one 2 lber on a Green and Red Flaked Baby Brush Hog. Continued out to main lake and fished wall across from boat Launch. landed second fish on a 6" Zipper worm (Brown/Red) around 11am. Rains came down in the afternoon around 1pm and wind picked up making it very difficult to tube. Headed back to starting point and fished from 2-4:30pm. Partner (who had not caught a fish all day) began throwing a smoke colored weightless fluke along the shoreline in the cove near the horse stables and around 4:15pm landed a nice 6-7lber. That was the end of the day. We fished a variety of baits with not much luck.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:Reds and browns seemed to be the color for the day.

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ventured Out on Float Tubes around 8am Saturday March 20th at the Horse Stable Entrance. Fished the small cove from 8am to about 9:15 and landed one 2 lber on a Green and Red Flaked Baby Brush Hog. Continued out to main lake and fished wall across from boat Launch. landed second fish on a 6" Zipper worm (Brown/Red) around 11am. Rains came down in the afternoon around 1pm and wind picked up making it very difficult to tube. Headed back to starting point and fished from 2-4:30pm. Partner (who had not caught a fish all day) began throwing a smoke colored weightless fluke along the shoreline in the cove near the horse stables and around 4:15pm landed a nice 6-7lber. That was the end of the day. We fished a variety of baits with not much luck.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:Reds and browns seemed to be the color for the day.

Sunday, March 7th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thunked a nice 5 lb'er on Sunday, on a Carolina-rigged zipper worm -- about 20 yards & 10 minutes away from going home SKUNKED again on a terribly windy, not-much-fun day on the water! Amazing how my attitude changed with that one fish! Got out there a little late, around 2 p.m. After battling the wind all afternoon, trying to find a patch where the big boys would be hanging off the wind-driven currents, it wasn't until I came across the small inlet to the left of the launch ramp -- with the ranger hovering with watchful eye, watching the sun go down as I'm paddling in -- that my bait got SLAMMED with a terrific hit, in about 6-8 feet of water! Thanks, Paul Mibach ('FIT'), for your custom-poured, electric-blue 'FIT Plastics' zipster worm! I'll forward the photo once I get it developed, for your promo files! Tight Lines!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:n/a

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thunked a nice 5 lb'er on Sunday, on a Carolina-rigged zipper worm -- about 20 yards & 10 minutes away from going home SKUNKED again on a terribly windy, not-much-fun day on the water! Amazing how my attitude changed with that one fish! Got out there a little late, around 2 p.m. After battling the wind all afternoon, trying to find a patch where the big boys would be hanging off the wind-driven currents, it wasn't until I came across the small inlet to the left of the launch ramp -- with the ranger hovering with watchful eye, watching the sun go down as I'm paddling in -- that my bait got SLAMMED with a terrific hit, in about 6-8 feet of water! Thanks, Paul Mibach ('FIT'), for your custom-poured, electric-blue 'FIT Plastics' zipster worm! I'll forward the photo once I get it developed, for your promo files! Tight Lines!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Tips:n/a

Friday, March 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished about 5 hours and had 3 fish to show for it. All on Jigs. The fish had moved off their positions of the last few weeks due to a cold front (IMHO). Limited mobility (pontoon boat) so really only fished the shallows.
    City: n/a

    Tips: Tips:n/a