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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: coolwarm

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 8 largmouth. All caught on beavers and lizards. Missed a few also. Piched the beavers and lizards around fallin trees. Only caught 1 near the tules. All the fish were between 2-3 pounds.
    City: Morgan Hill

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Good Day. Fished with the Paulboro Man from about 6-1, Clouds in the morning with sun popping out and not a lot of wind. Got numbers and some size. We got 1 smallie, 10-15 largemouth and 1 huge bluegill. Started with Topwater in open grass, close to tules, near deep water. Went to rip baits, blades and shaky head worms. When the sun popped out we went to pitchin Senko's to thick vegetation. Best 5 probably at 13lbs, biggest fish about 4+ so we had a fair size average. Quite a few boats out there but we could find good spots.
    City: San Carlos

    Tips: We moved around a lot in the morning to find active fish. Hunkered down when it got slow and bright and started pitching deeper tules. We got multiple fish in the "good" areas almost as if they would keep moving into these sweet spots as the day moved along. Saw a good amount of bait fish and fry. Monster Bluegill on the shaky head had to be the highlight.

Monday, June 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 6:30 AM at dam w. topwater had no takers, caught 3 large mouth 1-1/2 to 2# on white spinnerbaits, moved to the right of the dam in the cove and picked up 2 more large mouth on Texas rigged sweet beaver. around 12:30 moved into first bay to right closest to launch and picked up 6 small mouths in about 15-20 feet water on watermelon pig & jig. Again 1 1/2-2# each. Around 2pm wind realy was howling so I switched over to Rapala shad rap baby bass color and worked a real windy wall. Picked of 2 more large mouth 2-3#. Just about to call it a day when I wacked a 7# Rainbow on the same lure. I sure hadn't expected that, sure tasted good. Catch and Release(Bass that is, eat those trout)
    City: san ramon

    Tips: This was the first time I fished del valle as I had just sold my boat and had to rent a 12 foot aluminum. Had to rely on reading the area. Use a lure you have confidence in and keep the lines tight. Never know what you might catch!

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got a nice 2 pounder LM bass along the rock ledge on the west side just south of the dam. The bass are in about 15 ft of water and taking my Texas rigged 5" watermelon hawg. The bite came around noon, but that was the only action I got between 9am and 1pm. I also tried drop shot, crankbaits, and jigs but no takers.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Texas rig a 5" watermelon hawg along the rock ledges, deep in 15-20 ft of water.

Saturday, June 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was good until 10:00Am when it just turned off. Caught 7 fish. Biggets was just under 7lbs on a PopR top water early. Good top water bite until about 8:30 along the tule lines. Switched to carolina rig and texas rig along the tules and caught several fish under 2lbs. Also caught fish throwing a jig against a wall and letting it drop into 20 ft. Wind came up strong in the afternoon and blew me off the lake.
    City: Foster City

    Tips: Top water along tule line early, then switch to carolina senko or other soft plasic. Pitching a hula grub to rocky shore in shady spots also got bit.

Saturday, May 28th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: DONT FISH DEL VALLE ON A BUSY WEEKEND!! THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY. Fish were spooky by 10:00, all bites came early before the crowds showed up. Good luck to all, stay after em!!!!
    City: Oakland

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72-74.4

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started at 11:00a.m.Friend and I Caught 20 fishes by the end of the day.biggest was 7lb.lots of 2-3lb bass
    City: Castro Valley

Friday, May 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: -

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Have one of my best fishing days at good ole Del. Caught aprox. 25 bass. between 8-10:30am. Drop shot all day mostly shad patterns and purple just south of the docks. Had 5 keepers ranging between 2-2.5 pounds.
    City: Danville

    Tips: Have fun.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 64-65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: When out to Del Valle on my B-day with my brother-in-law.Got a late start and manage to catch 6 bass 3 each.biggest was 3.0lb to 2.0lb.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: fish with senko..slow....purple was the color.

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This report is for yesterday and today:

    Yesterday-
    Fished for a few hours with a buddy in the mid afternoon and got 5 largemouth bewteen us. All on senkos, mostly purple and cinnamon w/red flake. Most were caught at the south end, near the tullies along the shore. All were in shallow water, to about 8ft.

    Went out again that evening with my girlfriend, and we each caught a fish I have never seen and could not identify. Found out today that they are called "sacramento suckers", and that only 3 have ever been reported from Del Valle. Tripy looking fish, kind of a cross between a catfish, bass and carp.

    Today-
    Went out around 11:30a with my woman, trying to beat the rain. We went around to badger cove (mid-lake, Eest side) and trolled the shoreline, fighting a very nasty wind. Hooked into a 2.5lb largemouth on a cinnamon senko, just as it started to rain. we seeked shelter on the west side of the lake in an unnamed cove, and spent the next 2 hours there catching fish. We caught 2 smallies and 5 more largemouth in that cove, all on senkos. We also had many hits, and a few fish that we on, but managed to get free.

    All of them were caught on my new boat ...life is good!
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Catch and Release!

Friday, April 22nd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Awsome day I had with two clients from Danville, a father and son. The boy 7yrs old, became a vetern overnight. His first fish of the day a sweet 5.5lb largemouth.

    I started the day by the ramp to get some quik fish, dink, dink. We all were throwing dropshot rigs around 25ft. We were using the new on the market Quickdrops 3/16th and 1/4oz teardrops with a 9 to 12inch tag. Im moved within 15min's towards the dam area and decided to fish the dam's wall. Same thing dinks dinks dinks.

    With all the dinks showing I knew the larger fish weren't around. I moved to a break that I knew was at or around 25ft and bottomed out around 45ft. We were throwing roboworms in purple and green with no results until I went to the "Morning Dawn" (:Lovely Dawn:). The minute I but the worm on the boys hook. He caught the 5.5lb. For about 20minutes everyone including myself were in Ahwww!!!. Camera's were click'in and high five all around the boat. I just looked at his dad and said "we're playing the happy campers". From that point on we just fished slow and with a slight breeze we caught and release and even 20 fish. It was 3:15PM when we quit. In that 20fish there were only 2 dinks that came off of the break. The average fish weighted in at around 2.8-9 to 3fish over 3lbs. The Bite with the Morning Dawn lasted to around 11AM and then I switch a clear Hologram 5 1/2in with blue, black and purple flack. The bite continued to around 2PM and then slowed up. The breeze that we had diminished and so did the bite. Still one hell of a day. The picture of the boy will be up on Westernbass.com as soon has I can.

    Rich Thiel
    Delvalle Guide
    (925)292-5024
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Look for balls of shad around 18ft to 35ft a break line within that proximaty is a must. With the cold morning these past 5-6days are making the fish move to feed up.

    5 1/2 to 6inch Roboworms in Morning Dawn a must have...

Saturday, April 16th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out sat and the spot i wanted to fish was taken, so i fished another spot waiting for the boat to leave...i was shakn my 5" senko loose from a submerged tree my line started to move and i set the hook. at first it felt like a decent fish in a tree as i had a hard time movn her outa that tree..i really got worried as i noticed she was pulling the boat towards the tree..with the help of the trolling motor and a lot of luck i was able to pull the fish free from the tree..then i got a really good look at this sow as jumped...she was huge..anyway after a couple of surges straight down, she finally tired and we netted her, and took some pictures...she was 10.5# and beautiful..held her in the water while passing water thru her and 30 seconds she kicked, swirled, got me wet and was gone..
    that was our first bite of the day and the rest of the day was tough: 2 trout, 1 squawfish, 6 bass..oh yeh, never got another bite on that senko....good fishn
    City: orinda

    Tips: if you want to fish for big fish, fish slow.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and i fished plastics for half a day . Pulled in 10 largemouth . It was quiet windy . The dam was our best bet .Most of what we caught was there . Very soft bite . Del Valle rocks
    City: redwood city

    Tips: Bring your sunscreen

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: After reading all these reports, i felt like that i should post a report here. I went to Del Valle on 3/30/05 with my buddy, we did good in the early moring. we fish from 7am to 1pm, total we caught 10 bass total. Most of the fish are good quality, i caught 2 small mouth from 14 inch to 16inch, and 3 large mouth that's easy 3lb+. my buddy caught all 5 large mouth that's all easy 3+. most fish are caught early in the morning.
    Good luck Fishing
    City: Fremont

    Tips: We use senkos and lucky craft staysee. work along the covers, and tully.
    Good luck fishing

Monday, March 28th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: A purple senko by the weeds near the dam got myself a pair of nice 2 lbs LM bass yesterday. Fished for an hour from 11am to noon in the south end using jerkbaits and crankbaits but no bite. Then I tossed jigs for the next two hours along the rock ledges on the west side of the lake, still no takers. Finally I decided to try the northern portion of the lake and bam...one fish after another hit my purple senko and roboworm by the weeds for the next hour. I even got a nice trout who couldn't resist the enticing plastic worm. Got off the water just before the pouring rain. A week of sunny weather will set Del Valle loose!
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Purple senko (hooked straight or wacky style) and drop shot'in with purple roboworm will do the trick in the muddy water.

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: 4 NICE 2-1/2 LB. SPINNERBAIT FISH,AND 2 VERY NICE
    4+ LB. FLIPPIN FISH, GETTING READY TO DO THERE BUSINESS. IN THE BACK OF THE NORTH END COVES.
    City: PALO ALTO

    Tips: IT POORED DOWN RAIN ON US ALL DAY LONG, THE LAKE IS FULL AND IN GOOD SHAPE. IF WE GET A WEEK OF GOOD WEATHER, HANG ON, THE SENKO BITE WILL BE OFF THE HOOK.

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Guide trip today with Barry Damond of Alberta, Canada. Barry had never fished for bass before but is an accomplished Walleye and Pike fisherman so he adapted quick..He started in the narrows with plastics and it was wasn't long before he had his first ever largemouth. He also had a big carp EAT a drop shot bait that had me running for the net!! I was thinking big bass!! Anyway, we bounced around and found fish in most places of the lake from the south all the way up to the north end but fishing in the mid lake area was most productive. Lucky craft Stacey, Split shot wroms and crankbaits brought both largemouth and a few smallies in. Lake is in great shape.

    Dave
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 63.2

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Great day on the water. 8 Bass to 2.5 lbs 3 that were smallmouth. 30 trout to 3.5 lbs. most fish came on crack baits (want a blast) The trout bite is on fire. The water is strating to clear up.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Used small crack baits or senko will do the trick.

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Miserable weather on hand Saturday but that
    didn't seem to bother the fish. Caught 5 LM bass
    in 5 hours from 4lb-6+lbs all on Texas rigged
    Yamamoto bait. Caught most in 8-15' ft of water
    or should I say chocolate milk. Bites were real subtle missed several fish due to just a little slack in my line. Best success was slowly jumping bait up off the bottom. 1 lunker channel cat 7lbs! and the dam thing fought hard.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Bring a little luck with you, it definitely helped me out. Wishful thinking>>>>I saw one clown with two bass totaling 16 lbs! On an F'n
    stringer!! I'd bet a steak dinner that the catfish taste a ton better than them old bass any day!! What a moran.

Friday, February 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49-55

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water around 7:30. Started out on the left side of the narrows throwing jigs shallow, no bites. Moved out into 30 to 40ft. of water where we found most of the bait action. My partner Wayne and I started dropshotting 4in. senkos{Brn./Org.}and I a pumkin/red/grn flk. 4in. worm. Got bit 4 times, lost one. All solid 21/2 to 3lbs. Worked the area for a while and started moving around staying deep. We managed to catch a few more on a junebug worm and a white Ika. We ended up with 5 nice largemouths. A beautiful day on the water, it was like a spring day ,about 63.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Fishing was a little on the slow side, take your time. The lake is droping again about 5ft. down after the rain. It can make for a tough bite. Goodluck!