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  • Santa Clara County
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      Water Temp: 75-80

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: holy god. best trip out there.caught 15 fish from bout 5-10 o clock. with the biggest kicker goin in at 10 1/4 lbs. on the scale. no measeurement though. woulda made a beatiful mount. oh well. the smallest fish was bout 2lbs. with another one that went about 6. went out in tube. usin senkos during the light hours. and topwater when night fall hit. all in all the best day on the water i've ever had. damn! hah

      Tips: get out there during the early or later hours. too damn much boat traffic

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      Water Temp: 71

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Multiple day post. Each morning I head to the dam and throw a spook and pup fish. Average day is 2 about #2. Must leave the lake about 9 due to Jet ski's and skiiers.
      City: Gilroy

      Tips: Fish another lake for the summer

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Bank fished afternoon Sat and Sun. Caught 5 nice fish Sat. (all solid 2lb fish), caught 4 Sunday (same size range). Used Carolina-rigged lizard. Fish were holding well off the bank in deeper (6-15 ft) water for me.
      City: half moon bay

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      Water Temp: 67

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well I decided to get to the lake at 5:30pm. Because yesterday the action started at 6. Brought one rod with my Buzzbait and expected to nail them like yesterday. Went to my usual spots and to make a long story short! SKUNKED! Had 2 blow-ups but no fish. Just goes to show that things can dramatically change in one day! Left that water at 7:30.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: Well geeez I am at a loss!

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      Water Temp: 50-60

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Evening. Caught two fish, both about 1 1/2 pounds. My bro caught seven fish as he put on a show for all the live bait fishing loosers.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: I used a spinner and fished it reel slow through the weeds. My bro won't let me tell you what his bait of choice was...sorry.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I don't want to sound like an idiot, but where is Baily cove? I've only fished there a couple of times. Mostly go to everything but Calero.
      City: Saratoga

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Bank fished Bailey cove region Friday afternoon for 1.5 hours. 7 bites, 5 bass, 4 on spinnerbaits, 1 on mojo rigged 4" worm. Goin back to other spots on lake this saturday afternoon. Fish ran 1-2.5 lbs. Looked like all bucks.

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      Water Temp: 55 to 57 deg

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished Sat with my wife, we got 12 total fish all on 3" & 6" chartreuse lizards carolina rigged. Most fish came on points in 2-10 feet of water. Ranged in size from 1# to 2#'s. Tap Tap bites... Wind made it tough to keep feel... Sunday the sun was out, and it was tougher. I managed 4 fish, but my partner blanked. I kept with the lizard pattern, and my partner was throwing 4" worms... again fish on points & south flats... nothing too big all under 2#'s.
      City: Sant Clara

      Tips: Big Bright lizards worked for me... Also used Chomper lizards with garlic scent... seemed to help... wind can be a real Pain I T A.... and the skiers are starting to show up too...

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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

  • Solano County
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      Water Temp: 55.6-58.2

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Weather: Stormy, overcast, no winds
      Lake Level: Top of the high to out gong
      Quality bites are far and few between through out the day. The black jig bite flipped into tules and rocks tends to produce the best fish of the day. Have found small schools of smaller fish 1-3lbs, around docks willing to take a dropshot. Jerkbait bite
      Guide Information: www.CoochsFishing.COM

      Tips: Gotta move around a lot and find active fish when tossing reaction baits, cover as much water as possible and don't hesitate ta move. Bottom bite, the jig & dropshot, require patience and ya gotta slow way down ta get bites.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Bassnsalmonguy - Thanks for the concern and the heads up but I had previously checked the regs and all of the Mokelumne above the Highway 12 bridge (near B&W) is ok for salmon this year. It hasn't been in recent years. Last year the whole Mokelumne was totally off limits but not this year. In fact, while I was in the river on Friday, a couple of Fish and Game guys came by in a boat taking a survey. I told them I was going to try trolling for salmon but hadn't started yet. They said they didn't have any reports of salmon yet from that end of the Mokelumne. It was about 20 minutes later that I hooked into mine. Again, I appreciate your comments just the same.
      City: Stockton

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: @MYBOATSFASTER.... First of all if your wiping your boat off ON THE RAMP your just an ignorant prick. I have an extremly clean bass boat that I can easiely wipe down in a parking spot anywhere on the delta! OH and try to wave me off one of my spots and youll get an 8" would Punker with brand new 2/O Gamies in your face... Bet you dont even know what that is.
      City: Modesto

      Tips: SELL THE BOAT AND FIND ANOTHER SPORT!

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Myboatsfaster, I pre-fish all the time and I don't have any right to wave someone off a spot. In addition clean your boat the the parking lot like everyone else.
      City: Oakland

      Tips: Slow own on the water and be safe