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Sunday, July 1st, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: buddy and i rented a boat today. fished from 3-9pm. sunny and breezy. caught 20+ dinks in the afternoon. caught three 2# and one that was about 5# (in photo section)towards closing. fish were holding in 10-15 ft of water. all fish were caught finessing and all were C/R...
    City: pinole

    Tips: find the color of the day and stick with it yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.........

Friday, May 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the land from 1-7pm. Caught a lot of small bass 8-10". End up catching a 3.5# and a 2#. All finesse fishing. fish were holding in 2-15ft of water. A lot of toads followed the swimbait, no takers. fun day!!! All fish C/R
    City: Pinole

    Tips: All fish are in postspawn mode. Big pigs are potecting fry. If you see fry then there is a pig or two around. Caught the nicer fish in deeper water. Algae starting to disappear some.

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: got here at 3:30 and fished the land until closing. Hit my spots and caught 14 dinks. Around 6:30 I started to stick some nicer fish (1-2#.) After, caught a 3#, 3.5#, and a 5#. When I was reeling in the 3 a 10+ came and popped him. The 10+ was on a bed. I tried to work her but gave up after 30 min. 20+ fish including dinks. Great day!!!!
    City: Pinole

    Tips: All fish caught finesse fishing. Threw my SPRO swimbait a lot. Many followers, but no takers. Fish were holding in shallow water (1-4ft) all on beds or near structure. Be patitent 2-5 min casts. polarized glasses helped to locate structures despite algae bloom.

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: BMF -- what baits were you throwing?

    Thanks.

    -perry-
    City: Orinda

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished last few sundays with 15+ fish per trip.many pre,spawn and postspawn fish to 9lbs.all were C & R. Too bad for all those starving fishermen who had to keep many prespawned fish.not cool ( my opinion)large plastics and spinnerbaits worked for me.
    City: SAN FRAN

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Continuing the report, sorry about the incomplete first post.

    Caught 1 about a pound on a 297 green pumkin senko. He had a crawdad still stuck in his throat that was dark brown with reddish orange markings, for anyone who's interested. After catching a dink on a t-rigged tube, I switched to a white spinnerbait as the wind settled down into a nice ripple on the water. Caught one at around 4-5 pounds, very fat and healthy (my first decent California bass.) Missed two more and had one good one jump off. I was burning the spinnerbait, waking it under the surface, getting hit mainly near what appeared to be drop offs.
    City: oakland

    Tips: Caught fish slow and fast, with all the quality bites coming while fishing fast. Keep in mind it was very overcast.

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday from about noon until 4pm. Very windy and overcast and actually kind of cold when that wind hit you right. Spent most of the day hiking around trying to find an unoccupied place to get a line in the water, but I've got to say it was great to see so many people out, especially with their kids.
    City: oakland

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: Clear

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I heard ole Rob stuck a 6.8 pound slob the other day. What a stick that guy is!
    City: Lafayette

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: hit the lake around 1:30 with my son. he caught about 6 or 7. i got 4 or 5. nothing of any size - mostly dinks - 2 at 1+ lb and 1 at 2+ lb.
    City: Orinda

    Tips: dropshots in the trees. nothing from the the tules and no swimbait fish.

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: saw guys catching a lot of trout. This guy Larry was slamming the trout like i have never seen. Tried the same thing but couldn't get a bite while he was filling his limit. Don't know what he was doing. Awsome guy. If you want trout look for larry!!
    City: Walnut Creek

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishin is off the hook. Come stick some.
    City: San Jose

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went trout fishing and caught a limit off of the L-dock. While I was trout fishing, I was watching this guy named Rob just slamming the bass. Not sure how many he caught, could have been the guy from the previous post.
    City: Lafayette

    Tips: Follow Rob around, the guy must be a Lafayette Reservoir Legend or something.

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water is nice and clear and trout are being pulled out from the docks and buoys. The rain didn't seem to affect the bite in a good or bad way. Just wanted to post that if you are going after trout here stay out of the east cove. The trout don't hang out there at least right now. All other areas are solid. Usin chartreuse power for whatever thats worth, but eggs and worms are workin too.
    City: concord

    Tips: Go Fishin

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

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    Water Temp: not sure 45?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: to answer your question there are definitely fish. you can view the lassen trout plantings online but i haven't been successful my last couple outings. best advice is JUST GO FISHING. I'm goin back again today because it's on my way home from work so i'll post if i can find something
    City: concord

    Tips: AGAIN JUST GO FISHING..... then you can tell us where to go

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Not really a secret when you can see the fish (and the dozens of people pointing and shouting about it) from the parking lot!
    City: Antioch

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First time at the lake. Spent a lot of time walking around it to see what it had to offer. Picked up a 15" keeper on a Senko around 11:00 on a shaded dock across from the boat rentals. On my way back to the car noticed dozens on large trout near the dam. Grabbed my criplure and picked-up a 21" rainbow after a few casts. Nice place; I'll be back!
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Look for bass in the shade. If the bass aren't cooperating, give the trout or cats something to eat.

Monday, May 29th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went tubing with my girlfriend at 7:00am. Started off drop shotting across from the launch ramp and caught a couple of 1lb-ers. My girlfriend was nailing them with night crawlers so I swallowed my pride and went with the worms. Very fun day catching about 5 fish each in the 1.5-3.0 lb range. Quit at about noon. Lost a pretty big one on my trout rig, when it practially jumped into the float tube and snapped the line over my other rods.
    City: San Jose

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off throwing a carolina rig. Not a bite. Talked to a local who once had the trout and bass record at the same time a real bad ass. Looked like ISH MONROE,
    and he told me to move near the damn. Ended up sticking a nice fish, on a carolina rigged turtleback worm about 4lbs. Only fish for the day.
    City: Webb Tract

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: A catfish on a rat. Sure buddy. Lay off of the LSD's
    City: SB

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I ran into fish4fun and saw him stick a nice one on the banjo. I wipped out my Roland Martin approved helicopter lure and went to town. I had one blow up and hooked about a 6 pounder. Then I put on my Watson's Rat, and threw it in the thick stuff and caught a real nice catfish. Awsome day. See you on the water fish4fun
    City: Walnut creek