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Sunday, June 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: mid 60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went bass fishing ended up filling the v-boat w/ crappie. Found a weedbed in about 14ft of water and could not stop catching them. The bigger ones went 10-12in. Caught at least 50(after awhile i stopped counting) drop-shoting a red&white crappie jig w/ a 3ft tag to keep it just above the weeds. I saw one gentlemen w/ a 4+ LM on a white blade, only bass i saw all day.
    City: San jose

    Tips: A great day fishing is a great day fishing no matter what the species. Any tips on bass fishing this lake would be appreciated.

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water is clear.. Hopefully your fishing is better than mine...
    City: Cupertino..

    Tips: My Tip.. is to let all of the the staff.. Of Santa Clara Park's and Recreation.. You are the best..

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: this lake is very clear..ya can see everything.. why aren't they biting....don't know...
    City: livermore,ca

    Tips: Tip of the day and It goe's out to all of you..Myself included.. Janine and crew are doing a great job..If you disaggree.. let me know.. OH by the way.. without Her and staff.. where would you go..Believe Me .. I fish these "Reservoirs"... Without certain people to handle issue's..Where would we go?... Anderson?I dare ya..lol....hahahahha if ya disagree.. try, Calero,, lol....Cool. talk to ya soon

Saturday, May 14th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Flaot tubed down right shoreline for a little ways this morning. used a drop shot, texas rigged worm and a couple of crankbaits with no success. quite a few people fishing off the dam and surrounding area for trout, saw a few caught. the bass must be down at the creek end of the lake to spawn.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: the water is CLEAR! wind picks up before noon.

Friday, May 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Water is very clear. Friday did some shore fishing and had 1 GREAT size 9lb bass. Sunday 5/15 went out shore again and had 3 1.5-3 lbs from 7-11 am.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Rapalas.. any type has worked for me, but jointed worked best.

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 2pm to 5:30 in a float tube towards the backside firehouse. Threw a lil bit of this and that. But the only action I got was a nice hit on a Buzz bait about 5. The wind would come and go and so would the rain. I dont really fish this lake much but i plan to tube there more often.
    City: Union City

Monday, February 28th, 2005

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    Water Temp: -------

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: by the way, addition to my last report: the water level is a little less than 5 ft before it reaches the top of the "line". the line u see where the water used to be.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: u can check the water height of most of the lakes around here on this site: http://alert.valleywater.org/gageresv-cross.html

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: i took my float tube out and dropshotted 4inch worms with a secret weapon that tends to catch fish everytime i use it so far. i caught two lg mouth bass, one 2lber and one 3lber. the best ive ever done here under the worst conditions.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: i caught them around 10am and 10:10am when it was barely drizzling, only started raining when i left at about 2:15pm. caught them around the same bank. they were fat and probably on beds. i learned awhile ago that SCR is ahead of all the other lakes in the Spawn, post spawn and pre spawn stages and the post spawn is longer bcuz of the coldness of the water takes time to get the bass active again. happy fishing!

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Water level is kinda low right now. Alot of debris (i.e. tree's and schrub) in water. Was out there from 8 A.M. to noon and no bass but switched to trout and caught 2 Med. size trout.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Stevens Creek Res. will probably be better in a month. Water is still to muddy.

Thursday, September 16th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ------

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Wow, this whole 'all trout have mercury or some amount' could make bass fishing more dominant. less people will go trout fishing which keeps more of them in the lakes for the bass to eat. Hope thats true.

Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: high sixties

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: arrived at the lake around five. We decided to fish the middle coves of the main lake, from our kickboats. The wind was blowing, but there were places where you could seek shelter. Managed to pull up two keepers, biggest going 1.5lbs. My caught one keeper. I also missed a nice one, off of a submerged tree branch.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Use suspending jerk baits, and deep diving cranks. Tried topwater-nothing

Friday, May 28th, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: This is a report for Friday May 28, 04. Here it is: The sky was
    over-casted and there was a little bit of rain at night. The condition was so convincing that I decided to fish for a few hours before school. Started cranking the dam with no bite. Then switched to
    a Carolina-rigged worm. After half an hour, got a good one, a 6-0 pound bass (23" length x 17" girth). This fish was my biggest Stevens' Creek bass so far. Then continued fishing the dam a little more with no more bite. Decided to move to the launch and caught a dink (about a pound). Called it a day around 10AM.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Due to the high water level if you fish from the shore, it's quite
    difficult to find a good cover. Instead, look for the transition zone such as where the concrete bottom changes to the dirt bottom.
    (I used the Carolina rig to probe the bottom.) And keep you bait there as long as you could. A small plastic in dark color seems to work well.

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the lake about 6:30 am in the very back of the lake, water was pretty warm and started with some top water-no luck, then switched to a suspending jerkbait, smithwick onrange and black, and caught 4 bass, biggest going 2lbs. my buddy also caught 3 fish none keepers. Tried spinnerbait bite, flip bite with no luck, night time might be better for topwater bite.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: early or late in the day is your best bet, topwater could get better with consistent warm weather, tight lines!

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Sunday from 9AM to 1PM from a float-tube. Caught 2 dinks using zoom brushhog. Spawn season stated. Saw many on beds, including one about 5-6 lbs. Tried to get her mad, but it's me who got mad. She just nosed down to check but her mouth never opened. I gave up after 45 minutes.
    City: Palo Alto

Saturday, March 27th, 2004

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Float tubing from 3PM to 6PM. Caught one trout and two bass. The trout hit a 1/2 ounce Rat-L-Trap that I intended to fish for bass. What an aggressive trout! Continued fishing the Rat-L-Trap for half an hour with no hit. Switched to Senko and caught two bass (6 and 12 inch).
    City: Palo Alto

Saturday, March 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: First time float-tubing. A lot of fun plus a lot of challenging. (I had some difficulties setting a hook. The tube tended to go forward to the fish on the hook-setting. This reduced tension in the line and I ended up loosing some fish. And most of the time fish swam toward the deep water (which was me) and I couldn

    Tips: Look for heavy cover or floating trash.

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tip for float tubing: Make sure your waders DONT leak!!! That water, on average, is about 50-55degrees and if your waders leak than it sucks a lot!

Sunday, February 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 4-5:30PM. Caught a 4 lber at the dam using Rat-L-Trap and retreving slowly. The ish looked like spotted bass, but not 100% sure. (Its jaw line didn't extend beyond its eyes.)
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Fish slowly and be patient. Expect ewer bites, but each bite will be a quality bite.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2003

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went ishing on Saturday rom 3:30-5PM. Water was death calm today. Caught a small one about a pound on Bomber7A. Let at 5PM due to the park was closed.
    City: Stanord

Monday, August 25th, 2003

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Night ishing is okey at Coyote reservoir. But not quite sure about Uvas.
    City: Palo Alto

    Tips: Let us know how your cat-ishing goes. Good luck. Catch & Release