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Monday, August 29th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I might show up on saturday and sunday Ill be in a blue fishcat, brown waders.

    TOm
    City: pittsburg

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hitting loma with the tube this weekend. wondering if anyone wanted to join me there reply back.
    City: Antioch

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry about this question here but the fishing forum didnt work for me.

    In years past (8-10 years ago) I used to fish for striped bass at Contra Loma in September, I would see them chasing shad all over the lake. Are there still stripers here or are they no longer in the lake in the numbers that used to be?. In the current reports I never see mention of them.
    Thanks,
    Jim
    City: Morgan Hill

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: may go out on my tube in a couple weeks.
    City: antioch

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We fished the boat ramp and the dam without any luck. I threw a bobby's perfect frog in wild bullfrog in the back of the cove and got a blow up but I missed him. We threw out a dropshot with a bold bluegill roboworm, got a 10-11" and we lost a decent sized one. That was it for the day.
    City: antioch

    Tips: Throw dropshots and frogs.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished on the evenings of the 16th and 17th. On the 16th I fished in the back cove area with jigs and a frog. No frog fish. I could only get a couple small jig fish(1lber and a dink) right at dark. On the 17th, I started in the back cove and got a couple small bites on a jig. No frog fish either, so I decided to go to Cat Tail and throw a white Horny Toad. I caught a dink and a 1lber. That was it.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Fish for more than just a couple hours if you can. You need a little more time to fish more spots and try to figure out the fish. Other than that, I've been stickin the the jig every time I go out and its been working almost every time out. Also, try something different when you can't get anything on the usual. It was the first time I tried the horny toad and it worked for me.

Monday, August 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I went out today from about 3 to 8. I started at the boat ramp and caught one dink on a shad colored spinnerbait. I lost another dink around the island. I caught a 1lber on a Sparrow Bobby's Perfect Frog in about a foot of water on top of a mat. I then caught a 2lb. 6oz. frog fish on the same frog in open water near some tules by channel point. I fished my way to the lagoon with a frog, jig, and spinnerbait with no success. I got to the the lagoon rocks and started throwing a 3/8oz Brown Skinny Bear Grizz Flippin Jig with a Plum with emerald flake Yamamoto Craw. On about my 5th cast, I stuck a 4lb. 11oz. jig fish. Two casts later I caught a samll keeper and two casts after that I caught a dink. I got my jig stuck in the rocks and snapped it off and then left.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Walking the frog in open water near tules or twitching it on the mat. Spinnerbaits around weeds and tules. Jigs on rocks or hard and sandy bottoms.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out for abought an hour by the boat dock and caut 1 dink with a drop shot and a purple robo worm had some bites but souldnt set the hook
    City: antioch

    Tips: drob shot robo worms

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Good day, landed 7 lost 4. Water level went a foot or 2. dropshoting some robos in arons magic seemed to work.Got a great 4 pound 7 ouncer on boat dock by the cheese.Any coer frog works.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: dropshot, throw frog in cheese (moss)

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: Warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello! guys, well I have no idea what I'm doing different from you guys, other than I'm in a float tube, I caught 12 Fish from 2:30 PM to 7:30 PM I have the picture of my Limit posted in photos, they are in a stringer but don't worry I've put them all back to the water, after weigh in, I even heard comment from a fisherman on the banks that he only see that in TV.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: I only use drop shot!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Bad day. started at boat dock. used, buzz, senkos, sweet beavers, nothing but a dink. went along shore worked the spots that didnt have people. one rod kept on getting knots so that was a time taker. eventually got to beginning of north shore to find that over half the lake was closed from shore. fire danger. that stunk because i wanted to try the shore and dock. then all the better spots were filled with bait fishermen so we decided to call it a day.
    City: OAkley

    Tips: nothing to say, terrible day.

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day, landed one bass lost 3. We got em all on dropshots with 4.5" robo worms in arons magic. Landed one bass at boat ramp lost another good size there too. We also lost about a 3 lber near the wooden dock.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: dropshot

Friday, August 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went this evening for a couple hours. I caught a 2lb. 9oz. jig fish and that was about it.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Brown and purple jig.

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    Water Temp: not tested

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Justin my buddies and I are going to be there to I will be @ a CADDIS NEVADA Float tube see you there and Tight Lines.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: MM III rules & swimbait rules

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on the 10th from about 8:30am to 4pm. David and I started at the boat ramp and fished our way to the back cove. Nothing at the boat ramp or island. I caught one dink on a Junebug Super Hog at Channel point. Tried frogs, jigs, drop shot near the swim lagoon but still nothing. David caught a little keeper and a dink on a drop shot at the back dock. I caught dink on a black/brown/watermelon red jig on the point before the cove. I then switched to a brown jig with w purple doulbe tail grub and caught a 3-14. We went the the other point on the opposite side of the cove and I caught a 4-1 on the same jig. We didn't catch a lot of fish, but I did get a couple nice ones. That was it for the day.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Jigs and drop shot.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: im going out this weekend. first time in like 3 weeks. thanks for the info. gonna try kreature's, spinners, drop shotting, and whatever else i think will work. ive been going to the delta more and getting them off of sweet beavers. try those also. let everyone know how i did.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished there 7 & 8 of this month action is pretty hot we caught @ least 16 fish on the 7th in 3hrs and on the 8th I think about 13, fish are all over the lake, main bite we had was on the dock and backend cove drop shotting roboworm MMIII nothing big but majority are keepers, water level is pretty high.
    City: San Francisco

    Tips: Drop shots work pretty good on this lake.

Monday, August 8th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Justin. The water level is higher than it was when I last saw you there the day after the pro teen. But its still not all the way up to the normal level. There is some more weed growth it seems. As far as action goes, just read my last couple of reports because those were the last times i have been out there. Some people are catchin them drop shotting in the back cove area as well. I'll most likely fish there this week and will post a report.
    City: antioch

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: What's going on at the lake. havent been there for a while. got school and havent been free weekends. how is the water level? weeds? action? let me know cause i want to know whats happening there.

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out yesterday and this evening. Yesterday I fished from 7:45 pm to 9pm. I only fished in and around the cove on the west shore. I lost one fish that felt nice on a 1/2oz black/brown/red jig and had another fish about 5-6lbs jump out of the water after it as I brought it through some weeds on the surface. I caught one 1lb. 4oz. on a 3/16oz brown/black Bass Stalker finesse jig with a Yamamoto baby fat craw in green pumpkin w/ green/purple. I caught one other dink on the jig and missed another. That was it for yesterday. This evening I fished the same area from 6:30 pm to 8:55pm. I started at the corner by the dam and caught a 1lb fish on a 3/8oz brown/black jig with a green pumpkin/red Zoom Super Hog as a trailer. I had a few other bites but they were just dinks playing with the trailer. I lost one about 2lbs that got caught in the weeds. I caught one dink in the cove with the same jig but with a Big Texan Sweat Beaver on it instead. At about 8:40 I got to the point before the cove and on my first cast caught a 5.0lber on the same jig. That was it for the night.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Brown/black jigs fished with a steady, hopping retrieve around rocks and weeds. I assume topwaters would work as there were quite a few fish busting on shad. All I brought were jigs though so I couldn't test out the topwater bite.