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Monday, March 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried for an encore to Anderson's hot bite over the hill at Calero. On the water at 745 (they were open early!!!!!) and headed to the big cove in the back, caught 5 up to 3 lbs. then started to move arround the entire puddle. My buddy Jared and I ended the day with 17 fish all on dropshot. Another productive day on the lake my best day here at calero. Got pretty windy with the storm front moving in so i called it a day.
    City: Watsonville

    Tips: fish in 10-20 feet and keep your bait moving eraticly then poause and they will hit it.

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out sun. between me and my buddy we caught 5 bass and lost a few.the five we had would have went about 13. 3 3s 2 2s crankin and dropshottin
    seemed like others werent doin so hot so we were happy
    City: San Jose

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 55 - 57

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We fished from 12:30 to 4:30 and pulled in a 5 pounder on a flourecent green jig. We fished the entire rocky back just opposite of the boat ramp.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: The lake is really low on water at the moment. Watchout for rock islands...

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: caught two across from the ramp using a wacky rigged senko. they were both about 2.5 lbs and were in 10-12 ft. of water. Perfect weather!
    City: Santa Clara

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had an excellent day today caught about 15 or so from about 10:00-4:30. Caught all my fish from 10-25ft on the rockpiles.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I was pretty much deadsticking my baits or just shaking it in one place. "robo worms" thats it.

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice day on Friday. We fished from 2-4 and ended up with 4 dropshot fish. Two of them were pushing 3lbs and the other 2 were small. All were caught in 45ft of water off of rocky points. Nothing was happening shallow.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: The bite is still deep. We started shallow but didn't have any luck. Dropshot dark plastics anywhere you can find bait.

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished sunday morn. got on water about 8:30 went over by dam started dropshotting in around 35-40 ft. First fish of the came around 9:30 it was my new PB at 6.4lbs two dinks within next half hour tried crankin, jigs, draggin nothin hapening went back to dropshottin pulled in about a 2lb . up until about 200 that was it when my buddy stuck a 3.4 not alot of fish but some nice quality
    City: san jose

    Tips: Who says dropshottin only gets you small fish

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: It's been tough for me lately. I did catch 4 good size fish in 40 feet of water but dang!!! had to work really hard for them. The shallow fish didn't want to play with me on this particular day. Maybe my presentation was yucky . Tried everything in the box for shallow fish but no love........ Oh!, by the way leave Zack alone. Stop crying and fish alot. Tips don't guarantee catches. Don't get so caught up on tips. You need to stop crying and put tons of fishing time in to learn how to catch Bass or any other fish for that matter.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish are shallow and deep. Stop being a cry-baby and catch some fish. Maybe then you can give tips too instead of other fishermen/women doing all the hard work for you. Tips!!!? I usually catch the trophy bass here in about 15 feet or less on slow crawled plastics.

Friday, January 12th, 2007

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    Water Temp: cold azz ice..

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: windy cold... Hopefully everyone had a safe Holiday Season.. I will see all of you soon..
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: Take care , Keep warm.. these dog's don't wan't to get "bit".. crank it.. deep diver... / see ya soon.. Zack

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45-46

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the lake at around 8:30 and there was a steady cold wind coming from the north that really made things tough..started out fishing the island to the right of the launch..started in 40 ft and worked all the way into about 23 ft with no hits at all..dragged a hula grub and 6 inch robo..also fished a dropshot along with the occasional casts with the rip bait just trying to put something together, fished both sides of the island with nothing and then started hitting the points with the same baits and started out deep working our way in..finally after about 2 hrs with nothing i hooked up with a 2.5 in about 30-35 ft dragging the hula, thought we may have been onto something..only hooked up one more time dragging the hula grub on a diff point in about the same depth, but the fish weighed 3.4 so it was a little better...but that was it
    City: Salinas

    Tips: i wish i had some..i talked to one guy who said they caught 11 but with the conditons of how they were i kind of doubt it..wait for a low pressure system to come though and it would help the bite a lot, i just wasnt able to really put anything together..have fun out there

Monday, January 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Air temperature was nice, but the water was frigid. I thought my sonar might be misreading the actual temperature considering it was reported 53 degrees near the end of December 2006. Guys in boat reported same temperature (47 degrees) in post below so at least my sonar is accurate.

    Anyway I got two bites and managed to catch a 2.5 lb bass at 2:50 pm on a black/blue jig. Fished from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fist day of the new year at Calero. I wish it was last year... Me and my buddy were out there about six hours and tried everthing in the box. Worms lisards brush hogs crank bait swim bait spinners(every color in the rainbow) NOTHING!!!.It was a bad day, Talked to three other boaters and two float tubers and they also had no luck at all. Good luck to whoever can land a LMB out there.
    City: Los Gatos

    Tips: Dont go

Friday, December 29th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Pete, fyi, DFG does not plant trout in Calero. I imagine its because of the mercury in the water.
    City: San Jose

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Three fish over 4lbs. biggest a 6.8 by the dam brown with red skirted jig and texas rigged watermelon seed w/red flake 6" yamasenko caught the bigger bass today. Six tiny 1/2lb dinkers caught on various drop shotted fx worms.
    City: Bonny Doon

    Tips: swimbaits??? when do they plant trout

Sunday, December 24th, 2006

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    Water Temp: mid 50

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished Calero 3 times this week caught a 8.6 on white and chartruse spinnerbait tues. Caught two fish 2.11 each on thurs brown and blue jig. These were caught at 10 feet. Today caught one at 2.5 on a spoon in 18 feet. Each day fished from 10:00ish to 1:00.
    City: los gatos

    Tips: I tried a lot of techniques each day and worked one area at a time very methodically.

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the lake today, with three other boats.Once again makred tons of bait and fish at he 29-40 ft. Tried to Dropshot, but the wind was pushing by 11am. Off the lake by 1pm, no fish to speak of. Didnt see or speak to anyone that caught fish. Lake most likely has not turned over.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Best of luck timing the bite. There there, its all about targeting and getting in the bait pod.

Friday, November 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: e-mail correction.
    City: greenfield

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: the day after thanksgiving. there were a few bass boats and one brave skier on this cold day.anyways it was a little tough on the lake my friend and i manage 3 dinks and 1- 4.7 lm i caught the lm by the second dam and the rest were on the points.nothin like texas rig worm.first time on lake with a boat (and my friend kim.o manage to leave my camera in front of the live well and it manage to take a dive.) all fish were released.
    City: greenfield

    Tips: hit the rock piles they produce heat and you can't go wrong with a kinami flash 5" natural shad and baby bass colors,they never fail.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Oops, boat launch at Calero is open, I was trying to report on Coyote in Gilroy.
    City: SJ

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Boat ramp closed! Totally sucked, been planning trip for weeks, get there, ramp is closed. I have a small boat, but main ranger dude basically would not even consider me had launching my boat. Fished dam and shoreline anyway, no fish. What's going on with this lake? Probably a good thing fishing is poor, bit a break from pressure, and all the friggin trash tha accumulates on the shores. Fisherpeople, please don't litter, and even better, take some out with you.
    City: SJ