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Sunday, April 25th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water is up, clearing, carp are spawning in shallows and near tops of tule's. Senko (or knockoffs') in watermelon colors were the ticket.
    Caught a kayak full of fish to 2.5 lbs. Missed alot due to soft bite. Roboworms got lots of bite's, but all dinks. Fished the cove opposite
    the ramp, didn't leave for 4 hrs, just went round in circles. I think with the water where it is, spinner baits might be worth trying reel soon.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Senko, Senko, Senko !!!! This lake loves that bait. Late spring here will bring big, big, numbers of fish (crappie and sunfish too!) There are a few nice bass 5 lbs+, if the water stays
    high the launch ramp will be happening in May.
    Fishing from a float tube or kayak is a blast,
    not to mention a perfect way to fish this boat shy lake.

Friday, April 9th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went striaght to the left end of the damn if you're facing it from the launch. Caught a 1 pounder on a orange jig and pig on the damn. Worked the shoreline in the backs of the two main coves on the left side. Caught a few 1.5 pounders on a green Gary Yamamoto lizard with 5/16 oz. wieghts, just enough to get it to the bottom. The fish were pretty shallow, i caught all of them in about 3-5 feet. The bites were really soft these fish would just mouth the lizards.
    City: Pleasant Hill

    Tips: Drag creatures through the spawning beds.

Sunday, April 4th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Check the bass-n-tubes.com website's 'Results' page ('Travelers Region') for some cool shots of their float tube tournament fish. There are also some post-tourney reports on the BnT Forum. Wish I coulda been there myself!
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out at about 8 30 the water was really low. We saw a couple of 2lbers swim off over by the 2nd dock. Mando caught an 8 incher. Moved on saw a few more little fish. Billy missed a nice fish. Mando ended up catching 1 more little 6 incher. Slow day all around. Even the guys out on boats werent doing to good, better but still not that good.
    City: Oakley

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 3.5 hours in the evening (till 7) Got one female about 3.6 right off the bat on a Super Fluke in Baby Bass, and a 1.5 and lost another about the same size on a Bold Bluegill 6in RoboWorm dropshoting isolated cover. The lake is still down about 4.5-5.0 feet and has little cover no fish I saw were up spawning and the lake is still fairly muddy. Lets hope it comes back up soon.

    Tom
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: Keep your eyes open and watch for bass feeding. Dont give up too soon.

Thursday, April 1st, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished for about 3 hours with my nephew, i managed to catch a 5.1 beautiful largemouth near the island,on a grape plastic worm, I released her after taking several pictures. The only other fish we caught was a ten inch dink on a brown jig,near the third dock. It was extremely windy out. IT REALLY CONCERNS ME THAT THE WATER HAS BEEN KEPT THIS LOW, IT SEEMS TO HAVE CONTINUED TO DROP SINCE MY LAST VISIT IN FEBRUARY. IF THIS KEEPS UP IT WILL RUIN THE BASS FISHING FOR YEARS TO COME. VERY FEW OF THE BASS FRY WILL SURVIVE.
    City: antioch

    Tips: Fish the deeper weedbeds, with the water being low, all tules are out of the water. water is stained use brighter colored plastics. HOPE THAT THE POWERS THAT BE, LET THE LAKE FILL UP.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out about 10:00. Started throwing a black and red Bobby D jig with a reaction innovations sweet beaver trailer black and red. Stop at the first cove to the right of the lagoon and worker a weed bed in about 3ft of water. I got bumps on the jig but no big takers. Then followed it up with a Grey Ghost worm in green, and bam the fish showed up. I got 3 in about ten minutes all about 2.5 to 3lbs. Saw a lot of bed fish some are very spooky, in fact all of them. The ones I caught I had a good angle on so they didnt see me. I saw a fish just pass the the third dock that looked like a whale. The fish was easily ten plus. She swam off and I could still see her in 3ft of stained water, and the male that was with her looked a solid five. She was way to spooked to be caught. There are already fry and baby bass swimming around so if you arent on the lake now your gonna miss out.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Get some good polarized glasses and pay attention to water swirls and splashes the fish will tell you where they are. And be patient good fishin

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 51?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Still off. Landed one on a drop shot cuttail-watermelon-red flake. Had strikes on crank baits and pointer 100 but nothing landed. My friend also had strikes on spinner baits and crankbaits-landed a trout. Acted as though they were protecting certain areas eliminating predators not feeding.
    City: Concord

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just thought I would report on bass fishing since there has been no post on bass and I like to read them.Went out sunday and started out at the dam fished it hard with no bites switched to a drop shot first cast had one on when the bait was falling lost that one it felt good.Nothing else at the dam around 3:00 thought maybe the fish were shallow and they were.Now I no this is a fish story but I did not think I would throw a senko this day so I had a slow reel and I paid the price 3 rd cast with senko nice fish on lost it few casts later a pick up lost it and one more to ad to the list I could not take the slack out of the line to catch the fish but I was happy to be out again and feel fish I will bring my senko rod next time out it will only get better from now on fish on
    City: P-town

    Tips: fish hard and stick with it they are there somewhere the water is up flip to tules in the afternoon

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went to loma to day. cought 10 and missed 5 more.trout were cought on worms and powerbait near the loogon.
    City: antioch

Monday, February 9th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: quick note.went out this morning on ish,no bites.still a little early in the year.water color on westside was pretty clear.
    City: antioch

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 48 to 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Came down rom Tahoe to visit and get the tube into Loma. The water is and has been down or a month or so.This time my buddy Paul and I got snued.We put in around 9am and let at 3:30 .Dropshotting mostly 4-6in Roboworms in various colors,cranking craw pattern suspending and deep divers,blades,senkos and whatever else.Turned out to be an educational trip seeing where underwater cover is and where some good holes and dropos are.Feast or amine, I luvs tha LOMA.

    Tips: I tubing while it`s this cold,try ootwarmers or don`t eel your eet.

Monday, February 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: NA

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Alex or Tom I just wanna know i they already allow loat tubes on this lake (loma), any updates too please let me know I'm planning to ish this week Thanks
    City: San Francisco

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 47-49

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First time ever ishing Contra Loma. I headed or the long rock wall across rom the launch and got a nice 4lber on the dropshot ater about an hour. Cranked another nice 2lber about an hour later and got another 1lb on the dropshot around noon. I even got a nice 18" trout trolling back to the boat launch. All in all the lake has potential I will be back. I ran into Sturgon Kid there today and he was troutin with a riend.
    City: Walnut Creek

    Tips: purple 4" robo worms on the dropshot in about 20' o water.

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out ishing this aternoon at about 2pm till 430.cought a small limit o trout on worms. i had 8 total bites.not bad or just a ew hours
    City: antioch

    Tips: worms, mightcrawlers,wigglers what ever you want to call them get you a worm blower and have some un.that is utill the bass start biting

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: been going out to loma the last ew days and the trout ishing has been really good.ish the east side with powerbait or try loating a night crawler.but i think everyone knows that.it was unny today i was one o the irst guys out there and i thought i was going to tear them up.it would o happened i i had some night crawlers.any one ishing with worms had ish.me no worms no ish.but the day b 4 anyone ishing power bait got bit and they would'nt touch the worms.
    City: antioch

    Tips: or all the trout guys watch out or the rock piles on the east side when the lake ills up.my buddy tom and i are getting ready or the bass in the spring,summer and all.you might want to check them out now b 4 the lake ills up and you cant see them.unless bill knocked them all over.those silly trout guys.

Thursday, January 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: late aternoon, partly cloudy. Fishing the point on the south side between the swimming pool and Tule island hooked a 5# bass on a panther martin #4 holographic. It was quite a ride since I was targeting trout w/ ultra-light tackle. This is the third 3#+ bass I've caught on a trout spinner since Thanksgiving. It was on the retrieve and not the all. Also earlier that day I got a CARP in the small cove on the west side. I didn't even know there were carp in here. Should we be releasing Carp? I also noticed large schools o extremely small(1-1.5") shad swimming just under the surace. Perhaps the bucket mouths are relating to the miniature bait ish. It looks like we're going back to yellow alert, so perhaps they'll let uslauch again soon
    City: Antioch

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Loma with Alex today, closest thing to action I got happend while testing the action on my new Lucky Crat Gunish I got a boil but not rom a bass turned out it was rom a small brown duck looking bird that was swimin around eatin shad, I thought he was just a duck and would ignore my lure but nope he tryed to eat it. Glad I didnt stick him thoughlast thing I need os to take the hooks out o some carnivorous duck har. Fish are relating to rocks but with the terror alert at HIGH they wont let boats or loat tubes on the water so good luck ishin the dam or any other rocks rom shore, plan on loseing some jigs texas and carolina rigs.Tom
    City: Pittsburg

Monday, December 15th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 50's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The old man had two on and one other bite or 3 hrs. o ishing. Using Power Bait. South-east side. Bites real sot. I watched him let one run, and it still did not stay on.
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: Be patient. Bring boots!

Tuesday, December 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Phil...well, my 10.3lb bass is the Oicial Lake Record. I've had 3 guys tell me that they've caught an 11lbers out o there, and quite personally...I believe them. One guy showed me a pic o his "11" and to me it looked every bit o 11lbs. So, whether or not anyone has REALLY caught a bass over my 10.3lber, is just pure speculation. Fact is, they didn't go and get their ish weighed on the scale at the ranger's station. Can't have a lake record without getting it oicially weighed. lol. You can check their records i you want, and or the Largemouth Bass lake record, you'll see my name with 10.3lbs. Frankly, I was very surprised when they told me I had the lake record with 10.3lbs. I KNOW there's much bigger ish in the lake.
    City: Antioch