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      Water Temp: 45-50

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: FLIP OR PITCH NEAR STUMPS OR GRASS WITH BROWN JIGS OR PUMPKIN WITH GOLD FLAKE LIZARDS.I WAS HOOKING AND LANDING 4-6LB HAWGS BY SHAKING AND DRAGING NEAR STRUCTURES.
      City: WATSONVILLE

      Tips: BROWN JIGS WITH BROWN TRAILERS

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero Sunday afternoon for an hour. Once again, one bite, one fish, but this time about 4 lbs in weight. Saw another guy hit a couple of nice ones real shallow, looked to be 4-5 lbs each. Based on where I caught my fish and he caught his, the females are definitely staging up. Caught mine on mojo rigged reaper in junebug/chartreuse off main lake point adjaceant to shallow cove.

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      Water Temp: 50's

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I had a tough time out there today!! For 5 hours fishin, I managed only 3 fish. Got a 3.5 on a brown Rodstrainer, and 2 2's on a red/black BPS Jig. Also missed 2 other good hits. I was fishing rock in 10-20' of water. Seems like the fish backed out a little deeper, although some guys got them shallow. I tried flipping and fishing shallow first off, but scored 0. We need warmer weather!!!
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Continue fishing slow, and experiment with depths. Use a scent, as I believe it has been a key for me lately.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Calero in the afternoon Friday and Saturday. Friday caught 5 fish from 1 to over 4 lbs on mojo carolina rig with 4 inch blue worms and on black and blue 1/4 oz jig with blue ninja trailer. Missed another 6 fish - out of practice, I guess. Saturday caught 4 fish up to 4 lbs again, used 4 inch power worm on mojo carolina rig (black with chartreuse curly tail). Also picked up one fish on black/blue jig again. Missed 4 this time - still rusty. Saw a guy with two big fish (looked to be well over 5 lbs for one and the other looked to be about 4 lbs - he said they weighed 5 and 7 lbs each, but didn't look that big.) on a stringer that he caught with live shiners from one of my favorite spots. Didn't mind his catching, but noticed later after he had left that he left a bunch of trash at the spot (broken beer bottles, paper, etc.) Please pick up your trash. Sunday was raining and windy. Tried to fish for an hour. Had two hits, broke off the first one and embedded the hook in a scale on the second. Picking up hits in these conditions was difficult, so I called it a day early. The fish I picked up were generally hitting the baits well, except for the biggest fish, which simply swam off slowly with the bait. Unlike trips earlier this month, these fish really took off when hooked and fought well. Tight lines and please don't litter.
      City: Half Moon Bay

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out with my team partner from last year Dave P. Started cranking speed traps crawdad and shad color, caught one about 2 1/2 lbs, in 2 ft found some fish sitting on the bottom in about 38 ft and had fish supending in 4 ft above them. Caught one bass spooning it went around 3 1/2 lbs. and one more on hula grub green with red,gold flakes. We talked to a few fisherman who where doing pretty good one guy said he caught 7 fish when we came across him, he was shaking a brown worm. We got off the lake about 12:30 Dave was getting HUNGRY.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: With the weather being sunny crank rock banks and points midday.Throw jigs or worms in morning shaking the worm and spoon in the deepest part of the lake

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      Water Temp: Brrrrrr

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I tubed Calero this afternoon from 2:00 - 4:00. My body could only withstand the cold and wind for so long. Not a bad day considering it's the middle of Dec. I landed two and had numerous other hits. One bass had some type of disease or fungus growing on one gill plate. It was very skinny and sickly looking. The other was healthy. All came on a pig-n-jig fished between 15-40 feet.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Stay deep with heavy jigs!

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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Started out at 9:30, tried to get out there at 8 but my friend took forever. We saw lots of fish busting on shad. One hit a buzzbait but after that they wouldn't touch anything. Decited to go deeper and we nailed them on points using carolina riged reepers, and magic worms. Color didn't seem to matter to much but the reeper were brown with a chatruse tail. Magic worms were brown, blue shadow, green weenie, or peanutbutter/jelly. Any dark color will work. At the end of the day we ended up with 26 fish. I got 14 my friend 12. I always backseat him. On the way home some b*tch rearended us, and totaled my friends boat. I guess he is out of fishing for a while. He is not trustworthy of me when I drive my boat. So I guess he won't be fishing with me either.
      City: San Mateo

      Tips: Don't tow your boat in trafic.

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished calero 7/31/99. Caught a 4lber on a 4inch purple worm in the evening!!
      City: san jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sunday morning, July 29. Out on tube, south end of lake at 6am. Fished till noon. Nothing. Lots of water still coming into lake changing the water temperature at that end. Tried Senkos, R-traps, topwater ....absolutely nothing.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: The county is letting water into the lake from other reservoirs. It has lowered the water temperature and increased the water level. The fish are less active. On 7-13 I caught four bass (1.5 - 2 lbs.) using a Texas rigged Kalins grub with a 1/16 oz. jig head. The light jig head reduces the weed problem. 7-26, the water level was rising, two fish (1.5 - 2 lbs.). 7-29, the water was significantly higher, one fish (1 lb.). All fish were caught on the same lure. The bite seems to be on from 7:15 - 9:00 with fish cruising the deep weed edges. Between the cold fronts and the higher water level, there are fewer fish actively feeding.
      City: Mountain View

      Tips: Any kind of grub / worm - weightless or with light jig head, 1/16 oz.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Went out Sunday with my brother and we only managed a couple 2 pounders. It was a nice fight and the weather was great. We decided to leave when a group decided to pull up next us a go swimming......
      City: San Jose

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: OK here goes. SUNDAY: WINDY!!! Everyone was saying "terrible fishing, too much wind" Anyway, I ended up with 6 and missed 3 in about 4 hours. ALL fish were caught inside the mud line by the second dam burning a 1 oz chrome rattletrap, including two 3 lbers. MONDAY: A little slower than Sunday. Fished for three hours. Got a 2 lber dragging a split shot 12" black w/blue fleck power worm, another 2 lber on a fat free shad and a nice sized crappie on the same fat free shad. TUESDAY: Fished for 3 hours. Got one on the first cast with a 1/4 oz silver terminator spinnerbait, then about 20 min later, got a 4.5 lber dragging a 1/2 oz black/red jig with a 4" madman craw trailer
      City: SJ

      Tips: Patterns seem to switch daily. Haven't even gotten a nibble on topwater in the past few days

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hit the lake on Sunday with the family, went to the back cove to beat the wind. We caught a total of 5 bass, up to 2 pounds (fun on light weight tackle). Made it of the Lake by Noon, a lot of boat traffic ...not to mention the water skier going the wrong way that almost hit us on the way out. Oh all the fish were caught and released....I still can't believe some people eat these fish.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I was using crank bait 2-4 feet.....

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      Water Temp: 70s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out on shore, not boat. used a plastic 4in. ZOOM hawg purple weedless hook. caught a 3 1/2 lber. beautiful.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: WEEDLESS hooks.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: OOPS that last report is for Coyote

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      Water Temp: ??

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sunday from 11-3 with wife and 14 year old son. Showed son how to use a split shot rig and caught a bass during the demo off a partially submerged tree. He immediately followed up with two more on his own, to 3#. Wife began catching them too once she switched to the same skinny 4" witches t with chartreuse tail. I was using a brown/orange 1/2 oz jig with power craw. I didn't have the quantity, but the few I caught off rocky banks were 3-5#. 15 or so total for the three of us. Big fish of the day was my wife's 6# fish, taken off a shallow rock formation on the windy (north) side of the parking area, fishing with a plastic worm from the bank as I was retrieving the boat. Pretty good day, especially considering the wind. The fish seem to be everywhere, and the bite is good. The fish will sometimes pick up a jig quietly, and other times slam it. Plastics seem to get hammered pretty hard. Have fun, and let 'em go!
      City: Sunnyvale

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I've been reading all the reports and wondering if it was all true. So I decided to stop by and fish a while today, I saw a lot of bass caught while I struggled (I'm not much of a bass fisherman). Well finally around 4:30 I got a hook up on a blk and chartuse jig with a white pork trailor...and BABY IT WAS THE BIGGEST FISH OF MY LIFE!!!! It took me forever to get the fish in... 11 POUNDER!!!(the guy next to me had a scale, real nice guy) i took pictures and release her (I hope the pictures come out.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I got lucky I need all I tips possible.

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      Water Temp: 53-54

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Tough bite for the two of us in my boat..Total of 5 fish..nothing over 2 lbs..all cought wormin..missed a good blow up on top mid day.
      City: San Jose

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      Water Temp: cool!

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: I took my kickboat out for a little over 2 hrs. on Saturday. Got bit 7 or 8 times; landed 5 (nothing over 1-1/2 lbs.). They were hitting a drop-shotted Berkley 3" drop-shot minnow (on 4-lb. test), and then I got 4 strikes in 4 casts on a Carolina-rigged Zoom lizard (landed 3 of 'em -- of course, the one that got away was the biggest ;- ) ). Never really left the bank directly across from the ramp, given the limited amount of time I had on the water. One guy said he'd caught a few on jigs & plastic worms. A few guys passed by saying they were using nightcrawlers, but I never saw 'em land any fish. A couple other bass boats were out in the middle, droppin' a spoon (I'm guessing). It was pretty nice weather, not too many boats. Kinda mellow, but it was nice getting a *little* action! -- j
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Light-line drop-shot/split-shot rigs, jigs & Carolina Rigs, fished off the rocky-bottomed points.

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      Water Temp: 55

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: went to calero and it was a tough bite i caught 6 from 7 to 4 pm biggest went 3.2 smallest about a pound,im trying anderson i heard the bite is a little better i hope so dont want to switch to live bait now
      City: gilroy