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Saturday, September 25th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: They are dropping the lake down to the winter pool. The ish are are schooled up, 50 to 60 yards o the points suspendedin 15 eet. These ish seem to have a bad case o LOCKJAW.
    City: Dublin

    Tips: Wait until they get the lake level stabilized.

Tuesday, August 31st, 1999

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: the catish bite is picking up. ished south end near the river mouth next to the swim area.ished only or 2 hours. my girls had a blast. a lot o hits.inally hooked a 4 lbs 23 inch catish on crawlers. caught a 14 inch and 20 inchbass on popR. released the 4 lbs bass. it was great when the wind died down.a lot o bats lying around at sundown. it was un. tried chicken liver butcouldn't hook the hits until the nightcrawler. Check out my site:http://members.home.net/scy33613
    City: Fremont

    Tips: it gets great as the sun and wind die down. they're right longthe shore outside the weedline cruising or ood. bring a light jacket.

Monday, July 5th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 76.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished north end o lake irst thing 2 topwater ish using a popper then split shot worms in 10-20 eet o water ished mostly rocky areas all around lake caught and released at least 40 ish which averaged 1 to 3 # with a big ish that went 4#8oz. had a blast ished with my two boys who are learning about bass ishing.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: We used 4" dark colored worms and 1/8 oz weight worked slowly.

Friday, June 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a test o the automatic report cgi
    City: San Jose

    Tips: lets hope it worksFishing Reports or Lake Del Valle

Thursday, February 4th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went and checked out Del Valle..Fishing was tough or us, only two bites rom 7am to 2pm. Both were nice smallmouth though, 2+lbs each. Both came deep on jigs. I we keep getting storms blowing thru it's going to be a while beore they charge bank.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Throw what ever you have conidence in...There were a couple o reaction ish cought there today by a riend who was also ishing ...but water is pretty blown out so give it some time.

Sunday, December 27th, 1998

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lake has been drawn down a lot. The ramp is out o water and you'll have to launch on the lake bottom. I looked down and saw enough metal and whatnot to decide not to launch at all.
    City: Soquel

    Tips: Great time to get out there with a camera and take some pictures o the bottom. The boat house is on lake bottom and there's quite a walk to the water rom there.

Wednesday, April 8th, 1998

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: water is muddy aroud the edges but ishable. water level is ull. get there as early as possible. I seen some trout taken that looked like salmon. BIG. not much ishing pressure now but when the weather gets better more people will show up. Lots o boats around the marina. Try the dam as well. could be big ish there.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: It's always good to use power bait, but night crawlers, lies,and any shinning spinner will work. I use power bait on a #16 or 18 treble hook with 1/2 oz. sliding egg sinker with about a 24" leader. any color power bait will be ine.good luck?????????????

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Delvalle is not really a stronge lake for anything but trout and bluegill. Balck bass hit and miss. Stripers good luck. THe water is very warm right now so the fish are deep. The inspection is for only if you have a boat. No standing water or any water in your boat. Make sure youor lower unit is dry dry dry. I think the inspection is about $6-$7. Del valle can be a really good lake but it is tough in the summer weather.
    City: sj

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: frog bite is on HH frog

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I mainly fished for trout, fished from 7:00-1:00. The only thing we hooked up was one small trout that i cought walking the banks near the dam on a kastmaster, hook came out of his lip right before i could bring him on the beach. Through a spinner around for a while with no action. But early in the morning the trout were jumping everywhere, you couldnt look around without seeing fish jump, good sized fish too.
    City: sunnyvale

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Does anybody know what parts of the lake are best for smallies here and largmouth also? I need to know before tuesday june 14.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: i just picked up fishing in my school club last year. i've never fished here, but i've been told that i can catch a lot of great smallmouth here (and it happens to be my new years resolution to catch one). im not really sure what lures to use except that they attack tubes but im not sure what else. any tips would be greatly appreciated by this kid. tight lines and good luck this season!

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to the launch ramp around 9am and took a 10 minute run to my first spot. Started drop shotting with a 4 inch flat tail at 40-50 foot. Took about 20 minutes to pattern the fish and from there til I left was nailing them. Had to leave around 2pm and by then I had 24 fish, 6 smallies and the rest LM. Biggest was 4.05 and my best 5 was around 14lbs.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Fish slow and feel confident about you bait. Need a graph to locate the fish.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey JCAB, I called the OEHHA in Oakland after I saw the posters in Lake Del Valle two weeks ago, there was a study done on four bay area counties, do not know which lakes, but chabot and del valle were tested, (also shadow cliffs but they could not get a good sample). Alameda county did not want to wait for an official report from OEHHA and decided to post flyers about mercury (the other counties agreed to wait), OEHHA will come out later once all the results are finalized in a couple of months (not sure). Basically the person told me mercury affects the nervous system, so developing children and pregnant woman should not eat a lot of fish, older men are not affected by it as much. You can contact margie gassel at 510-622-3166
    City: Hayward

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: sorry i spelt my email wrong
    City: morgan hill

    Tips: always check to make sure you spelt thing right

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I dont think this lake is all that great of a place to catch bass. If you wanna catch some bass go to Shadow Cliffs and fish the back ponds. What also sux about del valle is that the boat patrol just stops every frickin boat there is that pasts by him. ITs ridiculous.

    Tips: Go Somewhere else this lake is ok

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: the catish should be pretty docile as the lake temp continues to drop. i anything, try the narrows with either cut bait or chicken liver

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: THIS IS A BASS FISHING SITE NOT A CATFISHING, TROUT FISHING SITE.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We hit the water yesterday around 12pm to under overcast skies and o&on rain. Water level is extremely low, be careul through the narrows, lots o shore ishing o the points and anchored boats. We hit the walls down the narrows and caught 2.5lb rainbow and a nice 2lb largemouth. My sister hooked on to a good size largemouth, but lost it when it outsmarted her playing in a submerged tree. Saw some good size trout in a ew boats, not very many limits. Lots o boats on the water, but it was good un.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Fish slow. Cranks, spinners and plastics all had saw action. Obey the 10 mph.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: snuck out o work early and got there around 1:30 and was dissappointed that the lake was sooo low making the south end not very attractive to ish, so i headed towards the dam...inally ound ish shallow using topwater and jerkbaits...caught decent ish until the sun went o the water and than the ish i caught were competition with my lure or who was the biggest...all in all caught around 15 bass topped by a almost 3# largie and a almost #3 smallie...a great time and no one was there.....
    City: orinda

    Tips: look or any remaining weeds, as it may be tough as the lake is down...all o the ish were caught in less than 8' o water.