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    Water Temp: 53-54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough bite for the two of us in my boat..Total of 5 fish..nothing over 2 lbs..all cought wormin..missed a good blow up on top mid day.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: cool!

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I took my kickboat out for a little over 2 hrs. on Saturday. Got bit 7 or 8 times; landed 5 (nothing over 1-1/2 lbs.). They were hitting a drop-shotted Berkley 3" drop-shot minnow (on 4-lb. test), and then I got 4 strikes in 4 casts on a Carolina-rigged Zoom lizard (landed 3 of 'em -- of course, the one that got away was the biggest ;- ) ). Never really left the bank directly across from the ramp, given the limited amount of time I had on the water. One guy said he'd caught a few on jigs & plastic worms. A few guys passed by saying they were using nightcrawlers, but I never saw 'em land any fish. A couple other bass boats were out in the middle, droppin' a spoon (I'm guessing). It was pretty nice weather, not too many boats. Kinda mellow, but it was nice getting a *little* action! -- j
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Light-line drop-shot/split-shot rigs, jigs & Carolina Rigs, fished off the rocky-bottomed points.

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to calero and it was a tough bite i caught 6 from 7 to 4 pm biggest went 3.2 smallest about a pound,im trying anderson i heard the bite is a little better i hope so dont want to switch to live bait now
    City: gilroy

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rock wall just east of the spillway. Caught seven fish (all dinks) in deep water,15-20ft of water. All fish came on anglers choice four inch smoke/silver worm on a 1/16 lead head. Shake that worm. Had a big fish roll on a chug bug. In between moss patches. Couldn't get it to go again. Good trip, but would of been nice to find a decent fish. Keep um on the hook!!!
    City: san jose

    Tips: Shake that worm!!!!!

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    Water Temp: 75-80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: holy god. best trip out there.caught 15 fish from bout 5-10 o clock. with the biggest kicker goin in at 10 1/4 lbs. on the scale. no measeurement though. woulda made a beatiful mount. oh well. the smallest fish was bout 2lbs. with another one that went about 6. went out in tube. usin senkos during the light hours. and topwater when night fall hit. all in all the best day on the water i've ever had. damn! hah

    Tips: get out there during the early or later hours. too damn much boat traffic

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Multiple day post. Each morning I head to the dam and throw a spook and pup fish. Average day is 2 about #2. Must leave the lake about 9 due to Jet ski's and skiiers.
    City: Gilroy

    Tips: Fish another lake for the summer

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bank fished afternoon Sat and Sun. Caught 5 nice fish Sat. (all solid 2lb fish), caught 4 Sunday (same size range). Used Carolina-rigged lizard. Fish were holding well off the bank in deeper (6-15 ft) water for me.
    City: half moon bay

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well I decided to get to the lake at 5:30pm. Because yesterday the action started at 6. Brought one rod with my Buzzbait and expected to nail them like yesterday. Went to my usual spots and to make a long story short! SKUNKED! Had 2 blow-ups but no fish. Just goes to show that things can dramatically change in one day! Left that water at 7:30.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Well geeez I am at a loss!

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    Water Temp: 50-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Evening. Caught two fish, both about 1 1/2 pounds. My bro caught seven fish as he put on a show for all the live bait fishing loosers.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I used a spinner and fished it reel slow through the weeds. My bro won't let me tell you what his bait of choice was...sorry.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I don't want to sound like an idiot, but where is Baily cove? I've only fished there a couple of times. Mostly go to everything but Calero.
    City: Saratoga

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bank fished Bailey cove region Friday afternoon for 1.5 hours. 7 bites, 5 bass, 4 on spinnerbaits, 1 on mojo rigged 4" worm. Goin back to other spots on lake this saturday afternoon. Fish ran 1-2.5 lbs. Looked like all bucks.

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    Water Temp: 55 to 57 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sat with my wife, we got 12 total fish all on 3" & 6" chartreuse lizards carolina rigged. Most fish came on points in 2-10 feet of water. Ranged in size from 1# to 2#'s. Tap Tap bites... Wind made it tough to keep feel... Sunday the sun was out, and it was tougher. I managed 4 fish, but my partner blanked. I kept with the lizard pattern, and my partner was throwing 4" worms... again fish on points & south flats... nothing too big all under 2#'s.
    City: Sant Clara

    Tips: Big Bright lizards worked for me... Also used Chomper lizards with garlic scent... seemed to help... wind can be a real Pain I T A.... and the skiers are starting to show up too...

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    Water Temp: 45-50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FLIP OR PITCH NEAR STUMPS OR GRASS WITH BROWN JIGS OR PUMPKIN WITH GOLD FLAKE LIZARDS.I WAS HOOKING AND LANDING 4-6LB HAWGS BY SHAKING AND DRAGING NEAR STRUCTURES.
    City: WATSONVILLE

    Tips: BROWN JIGS WITH BROWN TRAILERS

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Calero Sunday afternoon for an hour. Once again, one bite, one fish, but this time about 4 lbs in weight. Saw another guy hit a couple of nice ones real shallow, looked to be 4-5 lbs each. Based on where I caught my fish and he caught his, the females are definitely staging up. Caught mine on mojo rigged reaper in junebug/chartreuse off main lake point adjaceant to shallow cove.

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    Water Temp: 50's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had a tough time out there today!! For 5 hours fishin, I managed only 3 fish. Got a 3.5 on a brown Rodstrainer, and 2 2's on a red/black BPS Jig. Also missed 2 other good hits. I was fishing rock in 10-20' of water. Seems like the fish backed out a little deeper, although some guys got them shallow. I tried flipping and fishing shallow first off, but scored 0. We need warmer weather!!!
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Continue fishing slow, and experiment with depths. Use a scent, as I believe it has been a key for me lately.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Calero in the afternoon Friday and Saturday. Friday caught 5 fish from 1 to over 4 lbs on mojo carolina rig with 4 inch blue worms and on black and blue 1/4 oz jig with blue ninja trailer. Missed another 6 fish - out of practice, I guess. Saturday caught 4 fish up to 4 lbs again, used 4 inch power worm on mojo carolina rig (black with chartreuse curly tail). Also picked up one fish on black/blue jig again. Missed 4 this time - still rusty. Saw a guy with two big fish (looked to be well over 5 lbs for one and the other looked to be about 4 lbs - he said they weighed 5 and 7 lbs each, but didn't look that big.) on a stringer that he caught with live shiners from one of my favorite spots. Didn't mind his catching, but noticed later after he had left that he left a bunch of trash at the spot (broken beer bottles, paper, etc.) Please pick up your trash. Sunday was raining and windy. Tried to fish for an hour. Had two hits, broke off the first one and embedded the hook in a scale on the second. Picking up hits in these conditions was difficult, so I called it a day early. The fish I picked up were generally hitting the baits well, except for the biggest fish, which simply swam off slowly with the bait. Unlike trips earlier this month, these fish really took off when hooked and fought well. Tight lines and please don't litter.
    City: Half Moon Bay

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with my team partner from last year Dave P. Started cranking speed traps crawdad and shad color, caught one about 2 1/2 lbs, in 2 ft found some fish sitting on the bottom in about 38 ft and had fish supending in 4 ft above them. Caught one bass spooning it went around 3 1/2 lbs. and one more on hula grub green with red,gold flakes. We talked to a few fisherman who where doing pretty good one guy said he caught 7 fish when we came across him, he was shaking a brown worm. We got off the lake about 12:30 Dave was getting HUNGRY.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: With the weather being sunny crank rock banks and points midday.Throw jigs or worms in morning shaking the worm and spoon in the deepest part of the lake

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    Water Temp: Brrrrrr

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I tubed Calero this afternoon from 2:00 - 4:00. My body could only withstand the cold and wind for so long. Not a bad day considering it's the middle of Dec. I landed two and had numerous other hits. One bass had some type of disease or fungus growing on one gill plate. It was very skinny and sickly looking. The other was healthy. All came on a pig-n-jig fished between 15-40 feet.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Stay deep with heavy jigs!

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at 9:30, tried to get out there at 8 but my friend took forever. We saw lots of fish busting on shad. One hit a buzzbait but after that they wouldn't touch anything. Decited to go deeper and we nailed them on points using carolina riged reepers, and magic worms. Color didn't seem to matter to much but the reeper were brown with a chatruse tail. Magic worms were brown, blue shadow, green weenie, or peanutbutter/jelly. Any dark color will work. At the end of the day we ended up with 26 fish. I got 14 my friend 12. I always backseat him. On the way home some b*tch rearended us, and totaled my friends boat. I guess he is out of fishing for a while. He is not trustworthy of me when I drive my boat. So I guess he won't be fishing with me either.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Don't tow your boat in trafic.

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished calero 7/31/99. Caught a 4lber on a 4inch purple worm in the evening!!
    City: san jose