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Sunday, May 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing was solid. Hit the water at 6:30 ish on by 6:45. What I thought was a trout ended up being a White Fish or something.Hot lure o the day was a #7 broken back Rapala in Firetiger.Let the water at 12pm ended up getting 10 trout to the boat, up to 3.5 pounds, and one white ish. Gotta go....Fish On!
    City: Pleasanton

Thursday, May 9th, 2002

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    Water Temp: -----------

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: You can go to Coyote Bait and Tackle. They have JUMBOS (but there not that Jumbo or big....) And i think they have regular minnows too. Hope that helps. Im going up May 11th and 12th to Del Valle and going or Striped Bass with JUMBOS.
    City: Santa Clara

Sunday, May 5th, 2002

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    Water Temp: not sure

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was my second weekend out there. Last weekend we hooked up ive and landed 3 all about 1.5 to 2 lbs. Last weekend we landed two and one at 2.5 lbs. We ished rom the shore rom the dog walk down the steep bank.
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: Red White and Blue Powerbait and Night Crawlers

Sunday, April 21st, 2002

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    Water Temp: ------------

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry or so many questions, but when everyone says striper spot, what do you mean? Like, wheres YOUR avorite Striper Spot?
    City: Santa Clara

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    Water Temp: ---------

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: What type o rig do you use when using JUMBOS? What size weight, hook, leader? Any swivels?
    City: Santa Clara

Saturday, April 20th, 2002

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    Water Temp: 58-63?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: T'was a beautiul 420 morning, got in the water around 7am and headed out to Swallow Bay, not alot o action, so we picked up anchor and repositioned ourselves about 200 yards south o the launch ramp. Threw out the poles and waited, and waited....then about 9am the ishing was red hot! Limited out by 10am, other boats near us were not as lucky, we ound a hole and tossed the *ootball* weight with our *bait* and hooked up almost everytime in that spot! An older group cruised by and asked i we were doing any good, I told him to anchor right where he was , right over the *spot*/hole and once he dropped his line in FISH ON!!....they were now having un ater a morning o getting skunked. We didn't mind he was over our spot since we had only one more ish to go or a limit.Can't wait to go back....biggest ish was a 3lber....smallest was the Super Cuts little guy ....tight lines!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish till it hurts

Friday, April 19th, 2002

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    Water Temp: ----------

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: When your going or Stripers, how many JUMBOS do you stick on a hook at once?
    City: Santa Clara

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    Water Temp: ------

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: What do you (any o you) think is the BEST, ALL OUT BEST Striped Bass bait or Del Valle....??? Give me as many ideas as possible...Thanks
    City: Santa Clara

Sunday, March 31st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had to go ishing beore Easter estivities. Launched at 7:15 am and was o the water by 9:50 am. Landed 7 largemouth, about a 2.5 pounder was the largest. Plastic worms in dark green / white were the ticket. All ish were caught in 2-7 eet o water. Pretty good day or less than 3 hours. The day beore, Vern Sherman joined me and we landed 5 in less than an hour. It took us all day to ind 'em, but we ound 'em. Same thing, 3' to 7' o water on sot plastic. Gotta' love spring time!
    City: Dublin

    Tips: Fish are movin' up. Plastics in the shallows. Fight 'em ast and release 'em quick.

Wednesday, March 27th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WOW ! What an aternoon got out around 4:00 or 4:30 started right next to the ramp and stuck 3 in about 15 min. . The lake is a lot lower than normal so all the lats on the creek end are high and dry. Had to do a little searching but ended up inding a nice lat with 3' ledge on 2 sides pulled 3 more o that and had to called it a nite. Not bad 6 ish in 2 hours and that was with some drive time.
    City: livermore

    Tips: The ish are doing what there supposed to just in new spots dew to the lake level.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The weatherman on Friday night obviously wasn

    Tips: just go!

Monday, March 4th, 2002

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was a un day on the water today! caught two smallmouths and a couple largemouths, all on senkos right on the rocks!good thing it's warming up pretty soon these ish will be spawning. I also have a odd story to tell as I was heading in I trolled a crankbait and hal way in I had a hit so I stopped, casted out in the spot where I had the hit and BOOM! hooked it I thought I had a striper but then I brought it up and it was a northern pike! I work or east bay and I don't know nothing about pike in del valle.
    City: livermore

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: It was a un day on the water today! caught two smallmouths and a couple largemouths, all on senkos right on the rocks!good thing it's warming up pretty soon these ish will be spawning. I also have a odd story to tell as I was heading in I trolled a crankbait and hal way in I had a hit so I stopped, casted out in the spot where I had the hit and BOOM! hooked it I thought I had a striper but then I brought it up and it was a northern pike! I work or east bay and I don't know nothing about pike in del valle.
    City: livermore

Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 11:00 - 4:00. Looking or Mr. Bass. Caught three ish, a 2, 3.5 and 4+ in 5-10 oot o water. All were released. Used a brown 1/2 oz. Big Boy jig with Purple/black lake Yamamoto twin tail grub as a trailer, 10lb. test. The 3.5 and 4 were ull o eggs.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: The lake is several eet down so ind some areas with depth near shallows lats. The key was a north ace bank with lots o sunshine and a very slow presentation.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Not going to bore you all with my long narative (actually I want to, but busy at work!)so here goes ....Tried trolling or stripers in the south end. No luck. Tried driting Jumbo minnows or stripers. No luck. Tried trolling or trout. Caught 1 at 8 inch. Wish I could have tossed it out with a bobber! Went to work dropshotting in 35 to 50 eet and had a pretty good day. Most spots produced at least 1 or 2 bites. I wound up with say 11 bites and landed 6. All ish FAT and healthy. At irst glimpse in the watter they looked much larger as they were really at and thick. 3 smallmouth and 3 largemouth. Two largest (largemouth) weighed 3.8 and 3.6. Two largest smallmouth weighed 2.4 and 1.9. Smallest ish was the 1.9 or the day.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: go deep ....

Friday, March 1st, 2002

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started about 8:30 got irst ish (2lb) while buddy is parking the truck,then another as he is stepping in the boat both these ish were on a blade.For the next our hours the bite was on, all on blades.I tried cranks,worms and jigs, nothing.So back to the blade and back to catching ish.Final count 15 ish all between 2 and 3.5 lbs.Overall a good day.
    City: livermore

    Tips: blade color didnt matter.just slow role it on rocky banks and points.

Thursday, February 28th, 2002

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    Water Temp: cold?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out tuesday ater work with my 6 yr old(more teaching than ishing)only had a couple o hours so couldn't do as much as I wanted but did get 1 on a carolina rigged worm. Lake is down a couple o eet and still cold but ish are stagging o the pionts so it could be good i you ind the schools . Sorry bubba didn't mean to be rude but even the pro's have slow winters i'll see you out there this weekend with no kids and plenty o time. Good luck.
    City: livermore

    Tips: as soon as the salad grows back i'll knock em dead

Sunday, February 24th, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: ya right 35 bass a day in eb. how am I supost to belive the rest o that report
    City: livermore

    Tips: keep it real

Saturday, February 23rd, 2002

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Wasn

    Tips: deep and slow!

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    Water Temp: 56-57 F.

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished all day in the boat and nothing. Schooled ish were deep 100+ t. At the boat ramp I caught a 2lbs. small mouth on a Kastmaster. Other than that it was dead....
    City: Livermore

    Tips: try goin deep you might catch something. or wait until the water warms up a bit