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Wednesday, July 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started by dam at 6 am w/crawdad crank. Hooked then lost a 4+ then boated an 11" dink. Switched to Pop R & had a 3+ inhale it beore the ripples settled ater the cast. Ater 3 drag pulling runs it spit the bait. Moved to the weed beds just west o the day camp & tried buzz bait, senkos, & worms w/no takers or the next hour. Cleared the weeds & started splt shotting 4" curly tail watermelon w/red lake worms along the rocky, steeper sloping banks just beore the blus. Hooked a 3+, 2.5, a 2, & several dinks. Curly tail motoroil w/red lake also worked but they wouldn't touch a 6" witch's T w/chartruese tail. Worked our way back along the south side rocky banks & wormed up several more dinks & one 14 incher. Out o the water by 11 am.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Top water or crank baits early then split shot 4" worm along the rockier, steeper sloping banks w/little or no weed growth.

Monday, July 2nd, 2001

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Rob,I am the Ranger at LB. You need to call 1-800-Caltip. Fish and Game will contact me ASAP and I will get on those guys taking small ish. I anyone else has seen problems e-mail me and I will stay on top o things. I am an avid isherman mysel so protecting this resource is more then a job or me. Anyway I got on here to check the ishing, I'm going out tonight. Hope the bight picks back up.
    City: Los Banos

Tuesday, June 19th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Slow day missed some strikes on the back o the lake mid day. Evevning top water action was ok. Landed and released three 12-15 inchers. Hey Rob instead o complaining about your bank ishing buddies in your report you should have let the ranger know what was going on. Reporting poachers is the only way we have to ight back against these people. Getting ined or poaching has stopped several people rom a lie time o poaching. It is very diicult however to catch these people in action. Next time call the Ranger we will all be very grateul.
    City: Los Banos

Wednesday, June 13th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 72 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: First ishing trip or 3 yr. grandson & our 6 yr. old granddaughter. Started at 7:30 am with top water but didn't hook one until I switched to spinner bait. Grandson got his thrill w/a 15" bass tugging the rod as we reeled it in. Got this one in the weeds just past the day camp area. Weeds have really grown in. Let the kids drive the boat a while then ished the tule/weeds across rom the creek mouth. Hooked two more on a Cultiva shad pattern jerk bait but they got o beore our granddaughter good reel them in. Finally hooked a 15" bass on a 6" green weenie & she boated it. Wind really kicked up & we along w/the other boaters got o the water at 10:30.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: With the weed growth a Senko in the weed pockets should work. Tried it a short time w/a couple o strikes but to slow a pace or the grand kids. Top water/spinner bait earlier than our starting time is another possibilty.

Wednesday, June 6th, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Top water plugs working well near structure along shoreline..early early morning and dusk.I caught 4 bass all 15" -20" and miss as many strikes. Please catch and release since ew bank isherman do. Many along the bank had illegal size bass and they were happy to eat them huge 9 inchers!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 64 to 68 degree

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing a little slower than last time we came here. Started at 6:30 am but no top water bite today. Switched to wht. & chart. spinner bait & boated a 13" at 7. Headed to the upper end & ished the tules on the north side w/no luck. Moved back down to the south side tules across rom the creek mouth & could see the bass cruising in about 5' to 8'. Slowly worked a split shot 7" curly tail smoke colored worm & boated a 5 lber. My wie boated a 13" split shotting a 4" grn weenie then I boated 2 more keepers & a dink w/a jerk bait. Caught one 3 lber in a cove in the creek. Let at 11 am. 5 & 3 lber still hadn't spawned.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Jerk bait along the outside edge o the tules or slowly work a worm thru the outside weed line.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2001

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    Water Temp: 62.8 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started ishing at 7 am & caught the 1st ish at 7:15, 4 1/2 lb bass. Was the biggest or the day & caught it on a Crazy Shad twin prop. bait. Had a couple o blow-ups on it ater that & the wie missed a couple on a Rapala skitter pop in shad pattern. switched to crawdad pattern 4" worms & was culling by 8:15 am. My wie was having one o those days where nothing went right. The bites were either a light tick, tick & she'd set to late or the line would slowly move o & by the time she noticed the ish would have her wrapped around tules or stickups. I didn't want to burn up all my avorite worms so I switched to a Gambler bacon rind, its like a brush hog, in watermelon w/red lake. These would last about 2 or 3 ish beore I had to put a resh one on. Wind picked up & we let by 11 am. best 5 went about 15 lbs. Fish have moved up shallow, 2 to 7'.
    City: Delhi

    Tips: Top water until 7:30 then your avorite dark craw pattern plastic. Bite is subtle & work your worm slowly through tule/stickup pockets.

Friday, March 23rd, 2001

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My report dated Apr. 22 should be Mar. 22. I you can get a week day o & haven't had a good bite at some o the other lakes, I've been skunked twice this year all ready, hit Los Banos Creek. Had a good time & some quality time with my wie.
    City: Delhi

Thursday, March 16th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 58 to 60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Top water was good. Started ishing top water at about 10:00. Used buzz baits and spooks. Caught 8 ish total 1 to 2 lbs. Lots o missed ish. Caught 2 in rubber worms in middle o day. Evening top water was good. Next time I'll be on the water at daybreak. First time on lake or about 2 years. Water looks great.
    City: Prunedale

    Tips: Fishing will be getting good real soon. Most o the ish were shallow above 10 t. Good action by the tulies. Good luck any tips are welcome Jim

Sunday, January 23rd, 2000

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing rom the shore was very slow. We started ishing at 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Using Pumpkin colored grubs & spinners. No bass seen. Trouting near the dam on boats was a blast
    City: Hollister

Monday, December 13th, 1999

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Valley Bass club tourney sunday at the creek, caught 5 blacks split shotting lost 3 in the irst hal hour about 20 t. deep then it died caught 2 more at 1 p.m. weighed in 7 and took 2nd place ishing is still very tough at the creek unless you get em early.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Fish split shot rigs move your rod with very short hops and extremely slow when the bite gets even slower go to dart heads.

Saturday, September 18th, 1999

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    Water Temp: WARM

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Floated around down the let bank o the campgroundstowards the boat ramp.No bass sorry to say.I didn't seenany bait ish activity either.Sun down till around 10:00 p.m.,Catish time.5 cats ques. avg. weight ea. 2.5+ / 3lbs..Big sized heads on this cats not avg sized like delta cats.
    City: SAN JOSE,CA.

    Tips: I gues the bass are down towards the end o the lake.That seems to be were the boaters go to.Maybe as the water gets cooler the bass will migrate down towards the camping end o the lake.

Saturday, July 24th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 74-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The Pajaro Valley Bass Club held their July tournamet at Los Banos Creek and the ishing was extremely tough. Only nine ish were caught the whole day. The winner caught only two ish but one was a nice 6.37 lber that would have won the tournament by itsel. He caught his ish on blades around wood cover at the back o the lake. All o the ish caught were caught early in the morning most were on super lukes.
    City: watsonville

    Tips: Get out there early and concentrate along the tules at the back o the lake twitchin lukes. Once the sun gets up go have breakast.

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 Los Banos Reservoir

Tuesday, April 20th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 63.4

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I couldn't believe the water temperature! Every other lake I've been to lately is in the mid 50's. About hal way upthe lake I started ishing and on the third cast with a Pradcominnow jerk bait, nailed a nice 16" 2.3lber. Landed 3 othersmaller ish with jerk baits during the day. Up at the top o the lake I worked a green weenie 6" worm in the tules or twoin the 14" size (about 1.5 1.8 lbs). Then I tried a june bugbrush hog and got two more 1.5 to 2 lbs rom the tules. Missedthree others. I kept setting the hook but they'ed shake loosewhen the line and ish got hung up in the tules. They werereally tight in the tules in 2 - 3 t o water. Ended uplanding two more beore calling it quits at 1pm with a spinnerbait (again only 1lb'ers). Not bad though or the irst timeon the lake this year. Could see lot's o ish in the shallowssunning themselves, but couldn't get any action on those ish.Only ish tight to cover were aggressive. Interesting day sinceno one pattern was working hot, but caught ish on several typeso deliveries.
    City: Cupertino

    Tips: Brush hogs in the tules. Fish it where you don't think you can get the bait too much less get the ish out i you hook one. Once it's through the tules and drops to the bottom, lit the rod tip and eel or a ish with it in the mouth.

Saturday, February 27th, 1999

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished six hours 9am- 3pm 17 ish 20 lbs. 6 pound test line. 4 people ished out o two boats. Fished at the end o the water with a zebco rod and reel o rbig ish. Use yellow ly's with martin reel. The best bait to use is Berkley.
    City: Dos Palos

    Tips: Dark baits, green or rainbow power bait . Jigs do not work, best lure is small minnows with rattle, the ish go crazy or salamanders. Cats are taking chicken liver and crawdads. Go to canal in dos palos Tie a piece o bacon at at the end o your line or crawdads. Good spot to ish now is at the river in dos palos, best way to get there is on valeria.

Saturday, January 2nd, 1999

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    Water Temp: 47.8

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fish are in a deep winter pattern. Basically they have lockjaw.I caught one ish on a worm.
    City: West Side

    Tips: Wait until February and go to McClure.

Tuesday, December 15th, 1998

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fog in the valley at sunrise. arrived at 10:30 am. Launched two boats. Threw plastics or about 10 min. Opted or the trout bite since the plant was only 2 days new. Fished until nearly dark. Boated 20+ keepers on mostly Silver/blue 3/8 oz. Kastmaster trolled on top.Highlight o the day was the local bass tourney...Big ish-3lbs.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Fish shortly ater plant or trout. Bass are taking brown colored plastics,jugs, grubs.

Date Unknown

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Flipped T-rigged yomomoto grubs pumkin/pepper on tullies, boatedabout iteen ish with my buddy rom Montana landing an 8.5monster. Fish the the tullies just like the delta.
    City: TURLOCK