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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Haha...!!!!! Thanks or the ino....but pirahnas??????weird...what are they using?
      City: Santa Clara

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      Water Temp: ***

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: One more thing..........Where is the "spillway"? Please Respond.
      City: Santa Clara

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      Water Temp: *****

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: There are steelhead in Stevens Creek Reservoir? Are there any Sturgeon?
      City: Santa Clara

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: They stock trout rom March to the end o June. Thats what i heard, but i know that they start in March. They should either start earlier or end later so they can have more trout in the reservoir.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Trout: Mid-Dam powerbait (rainbow or chartruese) with 3-10 t. leader. Or nightcrawlers threaded on the hook.Bass: Picnic Area, Accross rom the boat dock, at the boat dock, or anywhere with cover. bait: #1-LIVE BAIT irst...i none... plastics, crankbaits, whatever looks like ood.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: WHATS UP WITH YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!?! IS ANYONE FISHING AT STAEVENS CREEK?!?!?!?!?! SERIOUSLY THERE ARE SOME REALLY HUGE CATFISH THERE!!!!!!!!!! GO CATFISHING, FIND INFO!!!! DOES ANYONE FISH 4 CATFISH?
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: SMELLY BAIT!!!!!!!

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      Water Temp: airly cold then

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Nothin on a top water chug bug. Is there any catish? Where are they and what would you use? I tried getting 10 minutes o catishing with Anchovy tasting Chicken Liver!!! IT SMELLS BAD WITH A HINT OF SOURNESS!!! everytime i tryed to cast it ell o but i have had better luck at other lakes with it.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Catish....When, where, what, how, and when (time) besides night! Please Respond

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      Water Temp: 50-60s

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: ishing at the picnic area to the let where "no wind has gone beore" and near shore I had a 5-6lber hit my Ratl Trap 3 times but they were just hits not bites. Fish are just mad at my bait so they hit it.
      City: Santa Clara

      Tips: Fish early mornings near the cove by the picnic area and late evenings just throwing and retrieving.

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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Pretty slow day. My riend and I launched around 9am in loat tubes. Caught two dinks on magic worms-- and that wasit or the morning. I went to Uvas in the evening and caught a better quality ish. Water levels are low. All ish were deep. About 20-25 eet.
      City: antelope

      Tips: Try carolina rigs on points. Heavier weight, makes or better bottom contact at depths.

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      Water Temp: N/A

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: I started out this morning at 8:30, launching my kickboat rom the boat launch. I trolled around the lake or trout or an hour or so and then went towards the back end o the lake seeking bass. I only managed one bass, 5.2 lbs, on a 8" rainbow trout Yodo ished around poison oak. Ater ishing or bass or another two hours without a another hit, I went back to trout trolling. The water was a little more stained towards the back end, getting clearer at the dam, with at least 8' visibility.
      City: San Jose

      Tips: The bass appeared to be spawned out. I you can get out there on a sunny day, try jigs or lukes up shallow.

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      Water Temp: cold

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: the visibilty was about 6-8 inches. i jigged, spinnerbaited and mojoed every where; the brushpiles, the spillway, loating debris, points, coves and the island. came up with nothing. nobody else i asked had luck. tough day.
      City: Palo Alto

      Tips: i ya have a boat/tube/kickboat try ishing the trees in the back.

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      Water Temp: 73

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: HIT THE WATER ABOUT 5;30 PM IN MY TUBE .IN THE BACK OF THE LAKE .FISHED IN 4TO 11 FT OF WATER NOT MUCH LUCK FOR BASS ONLY TWO FISH IN THE 1.5 TO 2.5 RANGE .GOT BOTH FISH ON SHAMMI STRIPS .FISHED FOR CATS THE LAST HOUR BE FOR DARK. I KICKED THE F_ _K OUT OF THEM .I WAS FISHING WITH BIG CRAWLERS NEXT TO TREES AGANST THE BANK I NAILED 7 CATS INLESS THAN 1.5 HOURS RANGING FROM 2 LB -6.3 lb.GOING BACK NEXT SUNDAY.SEE YA THERE. PS. CATCH & RELASE MORE FUN LATER.
      City: SANTA CLARA

      Tips: SUMMER FISH TREES IN BACK WINTER FISH COVES .STEEP BANK. BASS GO AFTER THE DFG TROUT.FISH SAME PATTERN AS TROUT SPRING STAY WITH COVES & BACK END

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Robert.
      2.5 to 3.5 inch Green pumpin/light brown tubes. Use a craw scent. find rock piles, slowly work the tube down the side. Use just enough weight to feel the bottom, and use light line (6-8 lb). If the wind picks up throw jerk baits. Good luck.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Spillway Elevation 2368' Lake should be right around 103' down.
      City: McKinleyville

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am just trying to make sure that the facts were right. I love to fish trinity but i have a feeling that it is going to be a while before anyone actually pulls out a record smallmouth out of there. Unless they keep dumping the water out of it for the salmon. Only if the fish and game knew how to manage the wild game here in california then they wouldnt have this so called crisis to save the salmon. They really need to learn how to manage there big game animals, fish, and there money. Because it is crap that our license fees keep going up and it all seems to go to the stupid government.
      City: redding

      Tips: We need a new governor that is a true republican. Ted Nugent For California Governor.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Dear Mr. Mode,
      Dear Mr. Mode,
      I read your response on Western Bass and I was deeply disturbed by
      what you said. Now, I have many years experiance in dealing with people
      who have anger management problems. I feel you are a text book case.
      You should immediately seek professional treatment before the problem
      reaches a crisis stage. If you have any questions on where to seek this
      help, please feel free to email and I will send you a list of Doctors
      in your area. This will remain confidential. Thank you very much for
      taking the time to read this.

      Keep in touch,
      Thomas

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Hey John Mode
      get off the site. you are an idiot and no one wants you here.

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      Water Temp: I'd like to kno

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I am planning a trinity trip for this weekend. Just looking for anyone willing to give up some info. I am not fishing any tournaments, just looking for a big fish. Any help would be much appreciated. sorry to use this page for this. But I hope to post a real report soon.
      City: Mckinleyville

      Tips: Help a fellow fisherman out. what comes around goes around.

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: I'll be heading up to Wyntoon from 4/30-5/6....Any tips for a so cal guy on what will be going on around that time...
      City: Canyon Lake

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Some folks are just die hard Trinity lovers. The folks I fished with last week came back for a couple more days of that incredible topwater action. After the cold front this weekend which dropped the temp several degrees, the Topwater bite just didn't materialize yesterday. The topwater bite has been a game of patience, cast and let sit. We were all shivering so bad it was impossible not to move the Pop-R. Would have been great if we'd been shakin worms, it would have happened automatically. In fact the whole day was pretty tough. I asked them back for another try today and it sure paid off. A 5+ smallie smacked a Pop-R about 7:45 this morning. Clients went home very happy campers. I don't know how long this topwater bite is going to last but I sure wish I could be there every day for a while and find out. There has been a hatch of very small bugs going on and I expect it has the fish looking up. We were catching topwater fish at noon today.
      City: Weaverville

      Tips: Very few fish have hit topwaters on the retrieve and although we've been fishing Pop-R's a lot it seems that anything that floats will catch fish if left there long enough. We caught fish on cranks and jerks as well. Just don't crank or jerk em.

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      Water Temp: 72-75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Well John I think you were right. I was there for the weekend camping and got a little fishing worked into the weekend. For me the bite improved as the day went on with afternoons being the best. Saturday morning picked up a few fish quickly on a silver rattle trap. These fish were relating to points. Tried jigs for quite a while, but only picked up a couple fish. Changed to drop shot and picked up serveral more. Went out with the family late in the afternoon and the fish were on the stumps. Picked up 5 fish in about 30 minutes throwing drop shot 6" New Ayu worms near stumps in 6' to 20'. Best fish was a 3.8 LM. Sunday morning I ran to a creek arm and decided to fish there till 10:00am. Nothing until the sun was up then caught them real good. Caught one 2.9# SM off a bed. Did see 3 SM still on beds, but they were VERY spooky. After that started blasting down the bank hitting stumps. Caught about 15 fish in a couple hours with best 5 being all SM from 2.8# to 3.3# All were on a drop shot.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Was my first trip to this lake. There is some great Small Mouth fishing at Trinity. I do have to say though, I have never seen so many people keeping fish. While I believe there is nothing wrong with keeping a few fish to eat, I saw some pretty scary numbers of fish being cleaned in the camp we stayed at. I would hate to see this lake get overharvested. Remeber people, bass do not get planted like trout do, so a little catch and release will keep the fishing good there for years to come.