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Sunday, February 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My partner and I caught 6 ish total or 12.80lbs. missed 2 or3 .We caught a couple o our ish on a point 10-15 t near the narrows. The rest were caught up river on secondary points and cuts in 20 t . All ish were on dart heads 1/4oz oxblood/purpleand blue.Or C-rigs.
    City: Livermore

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Was very cold and right in the middle o two storm ronts.Got some hits on anch. and mack., but didn't get a thing. Trout pond was a bust nobody was getting much 1 or 2 small trout were taken i think. There stocking Trout pond once a week now.

    Tips: Power Bait or Trout and Anch. ,etc... For cats but bring a good book youll be there a while...

Sunday, December 3rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Same thing. Shad colored plastics, 36 to 46 eet.
    City: Lockord

    Tips: Watch or shad on your meter. Work slow

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Dierant same thing. Shad colored plastics, 36 to 46 eet.
    City: Lockord

    Tips: Watch or shad on your meter. Work slow

Sunday, November 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 50M

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught limit 2 to 4 pounds. Most about 40 eet on structure shakeing 4 inch shade and shade with chrt. tail. Both slip sinker and drop shot rigs worked. Used 6 inch on drop shot rig. Hot ish, cold day.
    City: lockeord

    Tips: stay between 36 and 46 eet or best results. Try a jig, but worm rigs worked best or me.

Saturday, October 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I FISHED A LITTLE CLUB TOURNEY SATURDAY AND HAD A LITTLE SUCCESS ON RATTLE TRAPS EARLY IN THE MORNING. AS THE SUN CQAME UP I SWITCHED TO A CAROLINA LIZZARD WORKED AT 50 FEET OR DEEPER. NO BIG FISH, HOWEVER THE BITE IS IMPROVING!
    City: SAN JOSE,CA.

    Tips: GO GET UM!

Saturday, September 30th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: PALLIE AND I GOT THERE EARLY AND STARTED THROWING TOP WATER AND SPINNER BAITS FOR BASS, NOTHING GOING ON EARLY! WEATHER CHANGES HAS HAD THE BASS UNSETTLED AND HARD TO CATCH. WE FISHED IN THE TOP 20 FOOT RANGE ALL MORNING AND ONLY PICKED UP ONE LITTLE FISH BEFORE NOON. WE DECIDED TO FISH DEEPER BEFORE GOING HOME AND I PICKED UP A VERY NICE LARGEMOUTH AT 50 FEET ON A LIZZARD. NOT A VERY GOOD DAY, BUT THAT ONE FISH WAS WORTH THE TRIP.
    City: SAN JOSE, CA.

    Tips: FISH DEEP

Monday, September 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday and part o Sunday. Caught a lot o small spots on top water early and late in the river arm. My only real excitement was catching an 8.5lb cat ish on a silver zara spook ished top water up against a blu. First time I ever caught a cat on top water. As soon as the spook hit the water, it was like an explosion. Great ight. Weather was great.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Saw a lot o small schooling spots thrashing bait ish in the mouths o coves and creeks. They have not move into the back o the creeks yet. Water is still too warm. Get out early and late. Tried several top water lures but the one that worked best was a silver chug bug.

Saturday, July 29th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got a late start launching out o North Shore, Ran to the cove with all the campers on it, dragged weinies and reapers rom 15 to 30 eet, nothing. Ran across the lake to the dykes and got one on a weinie, picked up two more o the sunken trees and another one o a island top near Hat Island. Fished or 5 hours or a grand total o 4 spotted bass. Best was a 3# The rest were just keepers

    Tips: go early and leave beore the jetski crowd wakes up!!!!!

Friday, June 16th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a 10lb. catish by the dam on chicken liver.
    City: san jose,ca

Saturday, June 10th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Sat and Sun up river. Caught 11 large mouth and 2 smallies. Biggest ish were 3.5lbs and 3.0lbs on top water. Caught 8 on top water (skitter pop) early morning and late evening, and 3 on split shot 4" worm on isolated weed beds during the day. Smallies taken on green with red lake tube bait on the all. Also caught 6 kokenee on kokenee rig trailing a roster tail in the middle o the river channel, and one 4lbs channel cat on makerel at night. A un weekend.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Top water 1-2 t rom rocky shore and wood. First time throwing a Skitter Pop by Rapala. Get one - blue and chrome worked or me.

Saturday, May 6th, 2000

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Slow action. Ended up with 13 ish, largest 3lb. All ish on ledges next to deep water on variety o plastics. Looked or bedding bass, ound none. Have any bass spawned in this lake yet? Its May!!!
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: plastic ished deep and slow

Tuesday, April 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Extremely slow day. The only activity came rom hundreds o carp rollicking in the bays--the lake is FULL o them... I wonder where the 7,000 lbs. o Florida strain bass went that were supposedly stocked last October! Did't see anyone catch anything during 9 hours on the lake... covered it rom end-to-end... My son Nate managed to ind and land a single 10" bass that was swimming in a herd o 5+ pound bottom-eeders... Never even saw any baitish... bad sign... weather was great, though...
    City: Wallace, CA

    Tips: Don't know i the bass are on the beds or what... nothing worked... slow, ast, bright, dark, shallow, deep, brush, rocks, lats, drop-os ... nothing even produced a ollow... Clueless as to what to try...

Saturday, April 8th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 60-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nor Cal tourney out o North shore, alot o ish being caught. Watermelon red brush hogs and morning dawn worms were the ticket.Fish em slow (drag them) accross island tops. Flukes in the backs o coves in low light conditions (dawn/dusk).
    City: turlock

Friday, April 7th, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: City: modesto

Saturday, April 1st, 2000

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This is not really a ishing report, more a wake up call. Saturday my partner and I were ishing Dike 2 when we saw a boat do something that did not look quite right. When we sped out to see what had happened. A lady was loating in the water and the other isherman had disappeared. The lady was ine with what appeared to be a broken arm. Unortunatly the man did not recover rom the accident. I will never be on the big motor again without a lie jacket. Accidents happen and always when you do not think they will. I am sorry to report this on this page but I elt that this is an important saty percaution that we all need to remember. Please wear your lie jackets!!!
    City: Pleasanton

Saturday, March 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My riend and I went up Sat. With water temp. up rom the last time I went, we thought the ish should be very active. That was not the case or us. We elt it was pretty slow in the morning. At about 11:00 we had about 10 ish, but everything was on worms and nothing on cranks or spinnerbaits. Continued to take a ew ish until about 2:00 when the ish seemed to go on a bite. We took about 15-20 ish in the next 2 hrs. All in all it wasn't a bad day, but the ish seemed to want the bait slow. All came on worms except or three jig ish. Nothing over 2 lbs. and they were in 10-25 eet o water.Good Luck
    City: Galt

Tuesday, March 21st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 53 to 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We had a tough day. It was windy in the a.m. hours. Caught a only largemouth rom 6 to 20 t. o water. Split shotting 4 inch plastic worms o darker colors. Mainly isolated o submerged brush and rock mixed in.
    City: Pioneer

Saturday, March 4th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52.8-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went by mysel on Sat. I had to leave at noon so I do not know how the aternoon bite was. The morning was O.k. I got nine ish beore I had to leave. All were in about the 2 lb.class. I had one ish at about 2 1/2. Everything pretty much stayed the same as the week beore. Most o my ish came at about 20 t. I did take 2 at 10-15. I got about 1/2 on jigs and 1/2 on worms. The lake is dropping.Good Luck
    City: Galt

Friday, February 25th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 52-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went by mysel today. Tried to get some ishing in beore the storm. The numbers seem to be increasing but the quality is not, at least not today. I caught about 20 ish, all were about 1 1/2 to 2 lbs. One ish 3 lbs. Caught a mix o spots and largemouth. Most were males with probably only about 5 or 6 emales. The ish that I targeted were in about 17-20 t. Took all ish on jig and pig,keeper worms, and ringworms. Although my ish today were shallower than last week I still needed to have deep water nearby. 30-40 t.Good Luck
    City: Galt