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Friday, March 18th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Invader are ya float'n , bankin it..? Oh yeah how bout them frking rower's? I heard the launch is open.. good shit... Watch out Los Gatos rower's... Here come's a crank bait...

    Tips: Invader throw a mag wort with gamma'ss on it. when the rowere's . get between you and the bank..Nothin worse than the coaches' the "punk Kid in the back, trying to tell them that they are worthless.. " What do you think? I need responses... Tip respect my right to fish don't get between Myself and the Bank...Rowere's stay centered.. the middle of the lake.,,

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thursday afternoon from 3:00-6:00 Didn't get squat, Right Vaughn?;)
    City: Ben Lomond

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Thursday 3-10 and Sunday 3-15. Did pretty well both days. 5 on Thursday(in 2 1/2 hours)to 2# and 10 on Sunday(in 4 1/2 hours) to 3#. All on plastic worms, all in 3' to 15' of water and all over the lake.
    City: Ben Lomond

    Tips: Zipper worms in Black grape.

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: No fish. Not even a bite. Tried cranks, worms, spinners.
    City: Campbell

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 56 degs at 8am

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: After having been skunked for all the trips in 2005, I really needed to prove I still have a capability to catch a fish. So I decided to go to my most reliable lake, Lexington. I checked the water level on the Santa Clara website and saw it was on the rise. As expected the water was quite muddy with about 11 inches visibility. I started about 7:50am and it was cold. While launghing my float tube, I saw a bait fish jumping in one cove. So I headed directly to that cove and threw spinnerbaits, worms, and Rat-L-trap but didn't get any bite. Then I fished a point near a summerged creek channel with dropshots (without any success). It was about 10am and I was ready to change me game plan. I kicked all the way across that point to the submerged pipe and stayed there for an hour and a half, mostly fished dropshot and Rat-L-Trap. I graphed some fish in 26 feet of water but couldn't tricker them to bite. About noon I was almost ready to quit, so I headed back to the launch point but for some reasons I decided to try my luck on a large flat. I fan-casted a Carolina rigged worm most toward deeper water most of the time -nothing. At one point, I was desperate enough to throw the rig into a brush. The first cast returned me with nothing. The next cast, which was off the same brush about 5 feet, the fish was on! Yahoo, my first fish of 2005 (largemouth, 15 inches long). The fish looked healty, very fat, very pale, and had red upper lip (indicating they are eating crawdad). It also told me I was wrong targeting only the deep water bass. For the next hour, I mostly fished brushes and got a very similar-looking bass on a 7 inches Texas rigged worm, pitching to a brush and working back to 16 feet of water. I called it a day about 1:45PM, ready for the Super Bowl. Well, 2 bass and I am a happy man now. :-)
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Water is pretty muddy now and scents seem to play a critical role. A interesting part was that the same brush I pitched to many time didn't seem to hold a fish. Then another cast with a fresh worm right off the package gave me a fish. This also happened to the first fish I caught.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: probably.. warm

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: havent seen it yet but from what I've heard it's ok....A question... Are the yellow pole's in the lanch ramp..is it usable...that's allright the "rowere's do what they want any way.. Hopefully ya all had a safe Holiday Season... Be safe... talk to ya soon..
    City: cupertino

    Tips: Hi "Big Harry"/// Sasquatch of Lexington.. don't think so..keep in touch , Ive been around here for more than a few... take care, and I would enjoy talking to you about different area's.. When the water is up and or down... Have a safe and prosperous.. New Year....Zack

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished Lexington with a friend Saturday around 11 am. We hit up the banks across from the freeway (I believe its the second parking lot). Water was very dirty. banks where very steep. We both where dropshottin' with no bites at all. I got stuck 3-4 times....must of been tons of rocks down there lol. We only stayed for 30-45 minutes and left. I think I'll come back with my float tube and fishin buddy. I hate to see Lexington like this. Ive been waiting for the awter to come back up. I miss the old days catching trout and bass left and right.....especially when the water was very high.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: I lost a few drop shot rigs so come prepared.

Friday, January 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: cooooooold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: geuss what big h got for christmas? a new rod! go figure. anyone catchin' any real fish up here yet? been to busy workin' to check things out. and who are all these new KNUCKLEHEADS posting these little kiddie reports?
    City: Los Gatos

    Tips: ameteur's "POSTED KEEP OUT NO FISHING" or i'll sick the piranha's on yer#@%%^^&**#

Saturday, December 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: Cold

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Float tubed Lexington from noon to 5PM. Got skunk! The water was cold and muddy, zero visibility. Tried to locate sharp drop-off near the south end but couldn't find one. Looked to me like a big flat with gradual slope. Average depth was 4 feet, with the deepest around 15 feet. Fished spinnerbaits, jig-n-pig, Rat-L-trap, and brushhogs but couldn't commit a bite. Decided to move north and fished the dam for about half an hour before dark. No bite there as well.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Wait a little bit until the water clears up.

Sunday, November 7th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Float tubed Lexington on Sunday from 11:30AM-2:30PM. Water was cold, extremely low, and muddy. Visibility was about a foot. The south end became a big mud flat with about two feet average depth.
    Forgot to bring a fish finder and had hard time finding deeper water. After spending 2 hours using carilina rig to prove the depth, finally found one drop off and imidiately caught one small fish (~1lb). Then moved north and caught a bigger fish (about 2lbs.) Both fished were caught on 4 inch plastic worm in watermellon color.
    City: Palo Alto

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day at Lexington. Condition looked very good but it seemed like the fish just disappeared. Fished the Highway 17, Halipad, and rocky shore on the east side. Not a single bite from 2PM till 5PM. On the way back, stated graphing some fish in 24 feet of water. Got 5 bites on brush hog but lost all during the fight. Probabley it was not my day. Finally picked up two dinks on dropshot. Called it a day at 6PM.
    City: Palo Alto

Saturday, September 18th, 2004

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We launched form the dam again int he morning, no wind (was real nice!) My buddies brother landed the 1st, at about 2 lbs. (pig & jig) About 2 hrs later my buddy hooked what looked like the same fish his brother landed hahah! (droppshotting 4"roboworm)
    Me, I was skunked. Not even a nibble! Dropshotting didn't work that day for me.
    wind came up around 10:30am so we headed for the trucks.
    City: Scotts Valley

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Oop! Sorry about the spelling. I meant to say "South End". (Thanks TIDEPOINT for correcting it.)
    City: Palo Alto

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I AM SURE HE MENT "SOUTH END" HOPE THAT HELPS YOU.
    City: WATSONVILLE

    Tips: USE YOUR MIND

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I AM SURE HE MENT "SOUTH END" HOPE THAT HELPS YOU.
    City: WATSONVILLE

    Tips: USE YOUR MIND

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: "Sound end"? Can you explain this term? Never heard this. Do you mean the side closest to hwy17? By the dam? Don't know "sound end"
    City: Scotts Valley

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Float tubed Lexington on Saturday from 8AM to 5PM. Light wind in the morning and about 12mph NW wind in the afternoon. Spent most of the day at the sound end. Didn't see any sign of fish for the first two hours. Then realized that I was fishing too shallow. Headed toward deeper water and caught 14 bass upto 5.5 lbs (average ~ 2lbs). Water was dropping. This pulled most fish to 20 feet depth. Had luck on Rat-L-Trap, Brush hog, and Dropshotted 4"-Brekley power worm.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Look for wind brown bank and try to find deep water nearby.

Friday, July 30th, 2004

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    Water Temp: warm

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched Float tube's from dam, Friday after work, we (me & buddy) fought the white water caused from the high winds that afternoon and my bubby lannded the first fish, a dink, drop shotting a robo worm. My 1.5# came about an hour later, also drop shotting a robo worm in about 25' water. My second fish came about 10min later in the same area. It was smaller, (again drop shotting)Buddy landed his second fish about half hour later. We worked the HWY17 side.
    The wind never let up. It made for a wet back in my case! At least we wern't skunked!
    City: Scotts Valley

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: warm 70+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Been fishing the freeway side the last couple times according to the last report posted. Caught several small fish on a 1/4 oz. blue/chrome trap, but nothing big until I started tossing a t-rig grub in shad colors. I was not getting bit as much with the trap but they were better quality fish up to 2.5#.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Vary the retrieve on the trap. Let the grub sink to the bottom and a nice slow retrieve back. Most fish hit it on the initial drop or pick it up on the retrieve. Better fishing when it was hotter last week.

Monday, July 5th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The fish are killing shad like crazy right now. I don't even bother float tubing. If the weather is hot the fishing is too. I fished it 4 times last week from the shore on the 17 side. Plastic bite is slow and you catch a lot of dinks but there are quite a few 2+ lb footballs lurking out there. Tried spinnerbaits, crankbaits and jerkbaits, nothing works. It's all about rattletraps, vary your retrieve, fish the flats and the points.
    City: Santa Cruz

    Tips: TIP: Put bigger, better trebles on your lures or you will lose fish! Stock hooks suck on rattletraps. Evening bite is on, Broad daylight has been good too. Tight Lines. Z