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Sunday, May 6th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 70 F

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 6:30 AM to 11:00AM. Landed 3 largemouth and a 3 pound smallmouth by 8:00 AM. Nothing and I mean nothing the rest o the day. Lost my ishing license, broke my trolling motor, lost my best jerkbait and still had un.
    City: Dublin,CA

    Tips: Jerkbaits at the south end is the only pattern I know.

Tuesday, May 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 66 to 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 9 Lg.Mouth,1Sm. Mouth,1Trout. Fished the narrows irst pitchin'a 1/4oz. Blk.& Blue rattle jig w/ Blk' Bo-Hog Jr.in 1 to 10 t. Also used a 1/4 oz. Wht.& Cht.Spinnerbait.My partner threw a Wht. spinnerbait in tules and grass areas and did well. Dropshot in the main body in about 20t. along rocky shoreline with 4in. shad pattern worms. Saw some nice ish trying to bed, but couldn't sight ish em', got to windy.With the ull moon this week the ishing should be better.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Try a trailer hook on your spinnerbait, alot o short strikes and by all means, Catch & Release during spawn, then only keep what you eat. Goodluck!

Friday, April 27th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out loat tubing today with no luck. Water is still kinda o low with some o the tulle areas having will shallow water. It was windy and hard to ish rom the tube. Saw another tuber catch a good 5 or 6 pounder on a worm.
    City: Livermore

Tuesday, April 24th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First time out this year had no luck. partner had a couple o bites but none landed.
    City: livermoe

Saturday, April 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: WE would o done better i we stayed home, Fished hard rom 0600 to 1500 and only caught one shaker. Need the water to come up some
    City: San Lorenzo

    Tips: I I had a good suggestion maby I would o caught some ish.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tubed Coyote rom noon till about 4. Wasnt there 5 minutes and got a 2.5 on a black jig with a black/blue mad mad craw trailer caked with smelly jelly. Im thinking im gonna throw jigs all day but nothing else or about 2 hours. Saw some bed ish deep in the trees, but couldnt get em to hit anything. Got a senko dink a little later then got a MAJOR hit. Set the hook (30 lb. whiplash) that snapped the line. Must've been rayed somewhere. Right beore I let, got the hardest ighting 2.2 lber I've ever caught. Fought like a 7 or 8 lber. Got him on a 6"watermelon/black lake senko
    City: SJ

    Tips: all i threw all day was jigs, senkos, and a 6" zipper on my 3 rods. Dont be LAZY like me, throw more than 3 lures HAR!!!!!

Monday, April 16th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 57-60.6

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 2 ish on spinnerbaits in the tules on the south end o the lake when the wind was blowing hard. When the wind stoped I threw senkos same place in the tules and picked up 12 more ish .
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Never caught a ish deeper than 3 eet.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001

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    Water Temp: Felt cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I hit the south end last night or the last couple o hours o the day and I lost two solid ish beore I ever got to see them.I was using a crainkbait and you almost never loose a ish on a crankbait ater they grab hold o those treble hooks. Ater I changed to a dierent crank bait with BIGGER SHARPER hooks I did not have any more luck. I heard there was a good biteSaturday rom my reind (Davo),but the weather has changed and it was very chilly in my loat tube last night. I think alot othose ish in the shallows have moved or just are not bitting. The weather is supposed to remain winter like or the next ive daysso we will have to see what the ishes response will be. I will hit it again today or tommorrow and update.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: I was up there Saturday trolling down at the dam or trout/salmon with my girlriend (instead o catching bass with Davo)and the water seemed alot more stained last night than it was Saturday. Overall since the weekend the water is colder and murky. Big change.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished middle today with a castic trout and cought a small striper then I cought a 5 LB northern pike he ought really good , he hurt my rist because ii'm such an old
    City: livermore

Monday, April 2nd, 2001

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    Water Temp: 65 deg.

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Spent 3 days o relaxing and ishin.Caught some 2+ lb. largieson the dropshot rig in the south end and got a nice 3lb. ona senko in the shallow water.Did manage to crank one on a speedtrapnear a bush. The highlight o the trip was my little girl catching a 8.5 lb truot on light gear, at only 35 lbs it almost pulled her outo the boat...WOW what a ish. I think she is getting the ishing bug now, I'll slowly convert her over to Bass soon.
    City: San Lorenzo

    Tips: the bass are starting to thing about doing the scooby now, so look shallow.

Sunday, April 1st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 60 (north)-65 d

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water still 5' rom ull pool so not much water on the south end - tulies still out o the water. Fished north end in a real strong north wind. All I could do to hold the boat and cast on wind blown points. Best bait was crawdad Bomber crankbaits right up on the point where thewind was blowing into it. Three nice smallies caught this way along with a catish.
    City: Livermore

Friday, March 30th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 53.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: i ished with my girlriend with me and she whined the whole time even though i caught a ive ish limit over 25lbs....used 10 inch witches tee homemade worms...big ish went 8.5...this lake is too easy so im looking or a challenge....i ound em on the shallow lats 25-30 t.i was dead stickin' mostly....one on a blade only 3lbs...also caught a 20 lb channel cat on a worm.bobby bone sayin sayanara
    City: union city

    Tips: big worms...leave da beetches @ home

Sunday, March 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out around 10am, had to try out new 50lb trolling mtr.I like it!!! Any I ished worms,dropshot,spinners,cranks,and ew othersall the way down the narrows to were it opens up. Did'nt get a bite. Was mostly just checking to see i they have move up yet.Not yet but should be soon, the temp is right and the water is clearing up more every day.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: I would say go down by the dam till the water clears up a little more.

Sunday, March 11th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 51'

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched early, lake muddied up pretty good, until hal way to the dam, where it clears considerably. Last major cove on right, was holding plenty o trout, as we got in line to through our power bait out. Yes, I've decided to try trout and Bass. Well, long story short, we boated seven trout, to two pounds, then went bass ishing. Caught our, up to two pounds also. Caught the irst smalley o the year shallow. Real dark, almost black. Caught the three large mouth, in 30', dropshotting.
    City: San Leandro

    Tips: Still winter pattern. Tried shallow, but marking ish in 25-30'. Dead stick the drop shot worm.

Saturday, March 10th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tere is NORTHERN PIKE in lake! There teeth are sharp as heck too. I you catch one don't lip it!!!
    City: livermore

    Tips: ?

Monday, March 5th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom early until around 2:00. Not one ish! Trolled to the dam and threw everyting in the tacklebox. We anchored or one hour and "saw" two trout caught in about 15' o water. Tried to ind "BUBBA" or some advice, no luck there either. Was told a 27lb. stripper was caught the day beore.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Extremely slow going. Warmer water is needed to get the bite going. Any lure will work then.

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We tried to hit the lake beore the storm rolled in and saw "Big Daddy" on the water.I just hoped he let us a couple. Ater hrs. o ishing that was all I got, one ish about2 lbs. drop shotting. Not to good.
    City: San Lorenzo

    Tips: Bring a good book and ish SLOW !!!!!!

Saturday, February 24th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out omr 6:30 to about 2:00 and didn't get nothing. We tried to dropshot lil' Berkely Worms, and other inesse baits as well as split shotting white curlytail grubs, Dart heading salt n pepper w/ chatr. tail innesse worms , and Carolina rigged lizard. This was done in a range o 25-50 t o water. Bubba, Do you think you can e-mail me w/ some tips. Thanks
    City: Livermore

Sunday, February 18th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I went out over the weekend hoping or a couple good ish. I started ishing by the narrows and the rock wall on the right at about 30' eet o water. NOTHING but rost bite! It was cold and no ish I tried a texas rig then split shoting nothin. I tried a white and silver worm but no takers. Anyways haven't lost hope I will try it again next week hopeully NO rain. Lake level is rising. Good luck....
    City: Pleasanton/Caliornia

    Tips: TRY EVERYTHING!!!!!

Saturday, February 17th, 2001

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I kept an eye on the weather reports all week. On Monday they were predicting rain during the week and nice weekend. By Tuesday things changed and rumors o rain on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The good news is the temperatures were predicted to be high 50

    Tips: be willing to change depths.