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Monday, July 14th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Not much to report. What a terrible day. On the water at 6:00 am, not another soul on the water until ater nine and not a bite. Threw buzzbaits, senkos, Pop-R's, blades, Fat Free Shar, DD-22, Snag Proo Frogs and NADA. Maybe the ull moon has em shut o, but this reservoir is starting to get to me. 5 weeks o ishing and one ish. Oh well, it's better than working!!
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Give it your best guess.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 70-75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught a lot o ish today but nothing very big. I caught 9 on a deep little N shad pattern along the weed edges. Pete caught three on a smaller crainkbait. 4 ish made limit with the biggest going 2lbs. The other ive and Pete's three were dinks. Threw topwater, lipped jigs, worms and senkos but couldn't get bit. Saw some guys catching ish on rogs in the south end. The bite was all day rom mid lake to the south end.
    City: Scotts Valley

Saturday, June 7th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Small ish day, only 2 each. We both got a keeper though(14 inches each)water is down and the weeds are up. Had one ish boil on a sumo rog but didnt get him on the ollow up cast.People are still catching some nice trout.Nice day ont the water,not to many boats today.
    City: santa clara

    Tips: Senko in trout color or watermelon cream lamanent. Brown sumo rog,the trout dudes are doing good on power bait.

Friday, June 6th, 2003

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got on Coyote at about 7:00. It was a bit oggy in the morning and surprisingly quite a ew anglers both on shore and in boats. I had taken Friday o in hopes o avoiding crowds... Anywho reports called or an overcast day so I decided to stick with swimbaits or the duration. Began walking along shore towards the damn rom the boat launch and ater about 4 hours had my irst and only ish o the day. An 8 lb emale and my biggest bass to date! She was released and non the worse or ware.
    City: Campbell

    Tips: Mission Fish, Castaic, Basstrix, etc.. You know what to do

Wednesday, May 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Threw chugbugs and buzzbaits in the morning around weeds but no bites. The water is high and the weeds have yet to reach the surace. Switched to a chrome speed trap and hooked up on the irst cast. All ish were caught on the outer weed edges in 12 eet o water. Biggest bass was 1.5 lbs. Wind picked up but couldn't get any ish in the weeds or mudlines with spinnerbaits. Didn't get anything lippin' either. Caught 4 bass and 1 trout.
    City: Salinas

Thursday, May 15th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Windy on the open water, hard rom a loat tube. not one bass bite, threw out some power bait while I ate lunch and got 5 trout in less than an hour. nothing to big but nice ish. the only bass I saw ollowed one o my trout into the shallows.
    City: santa clara

    Tips: yellow power bait.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: last suaday was great, 8 ish all keepers. 2 were over 4 pounds, most were around 3. ished tuesday and only got one ish at 3.5. The water had droped a ew eet and the carp were spawning like crazy stiring up the silt and making the water cloudy in the shallows. I some one likes carp this would be the place! I there was as many big bass as carp this lake would be amous. Can you bow ish this lake to cull some carp?
    City: santa clara

    Tips: senkos were the way to go on sunday,tuesday they only got me one.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003

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    Water Temp: who knows

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I ished riday night with bass Dr. Boneaue or 5 hours and got 2 nice bass,the bigest was 3pounds 8 oz.saturday ished all day or two ish both in the 2 lb. range.Bass Dr. got more ish but they werent o braging size, like his 4 pound ish in ebruary. All were caught on sinkos.the ish were shallow next to submerged timber.the bass were holding close to the bottom and took my oering on the all. the weather was warm and we saw a lot o carp in the shalows.With some stable weather this lake should be great.see ya there soon!!!
    City: san jose

    Tips: yamamoto is king.try dark colors like purple or black.we heard one angler use ing camo sinkos and got ish.the rogs sang us to sleep each night, so Im getting some rog lures to work the weed beds this summer.

Sunday, March 30th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: John Fernandez and I went to Coyote last Friday rom 11:00am to 2:300pm. We had to ish almost entirley in the South end o the lake due to at least 20-30 mph winds that made the main body o the lake like the San Francisco Bay. I picked up two small one in the creek channel on a watermellom Senko. We decided to try the wind blown cover a ew hundred yards ater the 5 mph bouys. First cast John throws his motor oil/red lake Senko into a small channel in the trees and catches a 3.25 lber. I have a eeling that this lake will be o the scales in a couple o weeks in the south portion o the lake when the ish start to move up to spawn. John and I will try to hit this once a week and let you all know how it is. See you all Thursday.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on the 28th not a lot o ish but good quality to them 2 ish at 6lbs and 1 at 3lbs 1 at 2 lbs and 1 trout. All the bass took a large yamamoto tube in a smoke and silver color with silver lakes. I ished the whole lake and not one came out o the south end. I think the ish are sitll all over the lake.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: ishing slow worked or me

Thursday, March 27th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: DECIDED TO TRY SOME SWIM BAIT AT COYOTE . PARTNER AND I THREW THEM ABOUT 40% OF THE DAY ..NADA.. we got our keepers and a dink biggest keeper was 3.5 and looked almost ready to spawn .. due to high winds we ished most o the day down south trying to stay out o the wind as much as possible. all our keeper ish were caught on the cut tail worm rom yamamota. only other bite we got was the dink and another i lost at the boat on a white willow/willow spinner bait .. we made one run to dam to throw swim baits or about 45 minutes but ran back to south end because o wind . we ished rom 7 till 3:30 when it was time to head back to ramp lake looked like clear lake on a bad day / luckily its a short run back to ramp
    City: SUNNYVALE

    Tips: wait or better weather and keep swimbaits on at least one rod..

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: DECIDED TO TRY SOME SWIM BAIT AT COYOTE . PARTNER AND I THREW THEM ABOUT 40% OF THE DAY ..NADA.. we got our keepers and a dink biggest keeper was 3.5 and looked almost ready to spawn .. due to high winds we ished most o the day down south trying to stay out o the wind as much as possible. all our keeper ish were caught on the cut tail worm rom yamamota. only other bite we got was the dink and another i lost at the boat on a white willow/willow spinner bait .. we made one run to dam to throw swim baits or about 45 minutes but ran back to south end because o wind . we ished rom 7 till 3:30 when it was time to head back to ramp lake looked like clear lake on a bad day / luckily its a short run back to ramp
    City: SUNNYVALE

    Tips: wait or better weather and keep swimbaits on at least one rod..

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Worked the west bank in the south end to the bouy line. Landed two bass, including a chunky 2-3lber, on a 1/4oz gold Kastmaster using a slow retrieve. Unsuccessul in generating any bites using other lures i.e. swimbait, crankbait, plastics.
    City: San Mateo

Tuesday, February 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the usual suspects. Nothing. Went back into the creek had what looked like a 8 to 9 ollow my rip bait to the boat. Got excited pulled my bait right out o the water. Pulled one 5+ o the lats at the last tree headed into lake. Slow day lost 2 at the boat, one ollower and one in the boat. marked lots o ish suspended on drop os and in creek. Come on sun, come on moon. On the water at 9 and o at 2.
    City: gilroy

    Tips: Reaction baits or the larger ish has been the key or the last couple o weeks. When working a crank or rip throw a pause in there and reel as slooowwww as you can stand. Saw a guy catch a 3+ on a blade.

Monday, February 24th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got a line wet at about 8pm at the damn, road is now open 24/7 as ar as reports go. Threw plastic lizard, jig/craw, and split shot hula grub. Had one taker on the hula grub, but elt like a small guy, no hook set. Had one onther grab on the pumpkin lizard, but again, no ish. Lots o real salamanders on the surrounding banks, some in the water too. I saw/heard about a dozen surace strikes while there, but all very ar out, 60 to 100 yards out rom shore. No posting yet about trout plants at Ranger HQ.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I was ishing just prior to this Big Storm o 2/25/04, it was already stained, probably have to give it a week or two to settle down some.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Sunday night with a buddy. Fished rom the launch south caught a 3lber at about 6:30pm on a blue leck 10" power worm. Continued into the very back o the creek just to humor ourselves. We threw slammers, stocker trouts and jigs with no other ish. I thought with storm approaching and the warm air that the ish would be eager to eed.
    City: san jsoe

    Tips: It seems that the water is pretty murky. It was hard to tell at night but when i shined my lashlight in the very south o the lake the water was

Sunday, February 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On the lake at 7:00am, went to the creek channel, carp rolling all over the place. Tossed crankbaits, swimbaits, senko's, the whole tackle box, nothing. Picked up Dad rom the dock at 10:oo and ished north toward the dam. On his second cast with a bright orange crankbait, hooked a 4 pounder. Only ish all day.
    City: Salinas

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Bass ishing rom 9am to 4pm, nada, not even a bump. Saw one other boat pull in a hal pounder, everyone else skunked too. Very sloooow.

    Tips: Maybe live bait, but no artiicials seemed to work Sunday!

Friday, February 21st, 2003

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    Water Temp: 55-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Only went out or a couple o hours. Went back into the creek. Water was 62 and gin clear. No beds, no males, no bait ish. Went out basically to set up a pattern when those ish start to move up to bed. Caught one male on the drop o at the south bend o the main chanel. mabey 3+. Fished a couple o points on the main lake no luck.
    City: gilroy

    Tips: I the rain on monday is warm this hole should be on ire by next week. Very windy. Jet skiis and wake boats really muddied up the shallows on the main lake. less than one oot visability.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2003

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Didnt go out today but spoke to a ew guys that were catching crapie to 2lbs. That must o been what I was graphing in the creek chanel. Going out on Wed. and on Friday.
    City: Gilroy

    Tips: Wood rocks and Red.