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• Lodi City Council to decide how long an RV can park in same spot

• Thieves smash car windows and steal purses across Lodi

• Regional Roundup

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

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• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future (60)
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Fishing with Russ

The Camanche is still good for trollers and bait fishing.

Troll from the narrows to the dam with Rapala F7 or F9 in the Hot Steel, Orange Gold or Black Gold colors or No. 2 or No. 3 needle fish, Excel or needle finish in red and white. Troll at 2 1/2 to 3 miles per hourat 12 to 25 feet deep. Bait fishing near the spillway has also given up some very good limits of fish. Tryston Dewalt of Lodi caught a 6 1/4-pound Rainbow on a worm near the dam bait fishing. Those fishing on the bank should fish in the main body of the lakecasting into 10 to 20 feet of water. Crappie fishing has been very good for large 1 1/4 to 1 1/2-pound fish. Use live minnows or crappie jigsaround the underwater trees or brush. The Rabbit Creek area is one of the good areas to try.

Melones has produced a very good number of Kokanee this past week and the fish have now moved down into the make body of the lake. Limits of fish are the rule now. Fish are small (10 to 13 inches) and are 30 to 50 feet deep. Best lures seem to be spinners, Kokanee bugs and hoochies (pink or orange) fished behind your favorite dodger. Best fishing has been in front of the spillway, dam, in the mouth of Angel Creek and off Glory Hole Point.

Pardee bank fishermen are still doing just OK with the planted trout in the marina cove. Best bait is powerbait in garlic flavor. Trollers are still struggling for trout and Kokanee.

Lodi's Tryston Dewalt recently caught this 6 1/4-pound Rainbow on the Camanche using a worm near the dam bait fishing. (Courtesy photo)

Berryessa has the hottest fishing in the whole valley. Trout, Salmon and Kokanee are on a great bite with limits on some boats in a matter 1 hour or less. Spinners, Hoochies and Apex in pink or red have been the colors of choice for many for the Kokanee. Trout and Salmonare being caught while fishing for the Kokanee trolling from 15 to 45 feet deep. The best lure for the Salmon has been the white shad tube bait by Radical Glow. The big Island area is one of the favorites. The Kokanee are 14 to over 17 inches and are very heavy for their length.

Delta Striped Bass fishing has went from good to great in the past few days. Two derbies were held last weekend and there were multiple limits caught on nearly every boat. Both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers have been red hot as well as the Old Sacramento River above Isleton. Fish to over 17 pounds were caught in the Central Valley Angler derby and the lures of choice were Bomber, Yozuri and Rebel. The colors varied but white/red head, chartreuse and clown were the choice of most. Sturgeon fishing is very good in the Liberty Island area. Cal Hieb and Larry Rayburn caught and released 17 in 23 hours of fishing this past weekend in Prospect Slough on ghost and grass shrimp.

Local fisherman Russ Faught is the owner of Fisherman's Friend in Lodi. To view his Web site go to www.mrkokanee.com.