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• Lodi repossessor uses tact, skill to bring in motorcycles, trucks — even a Rolls-Royce

• Lodi Electric Utility Director George Morrow heading to new job in Southern California city

• Regional Roundup

• Correction

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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Fishing with Russ

At New Melones, the kokanee fishing has slowed in the last two weeks. Fish are going deeper and are getting a bit harder to catch.

The Central Valley Angler fishing club had its annual Kokanee Derby two week ago and most had limits or near limits. The largest three fish weighed in were a little over 1 pound per fish. The best stringer was caught at 92 to 100 feet deep by Steve Quintel on the pink and white mini hoochie with a glow head.

The largest rainbow trout weighed in was 2.95 pounds and was caught while fishing deep for kokanee.

At Pardee, trout are still the larger fish to be caught and the best fishing is across the face of the dam and by the buoy line south of the dam at about 40 feet using a nightcrawler or worm wiggler.

The kokanee are plentiful using mini hoochies or spinners at 70 to 100 feet in the river arm of the lake. Bank fishing with powerbait near the marina is still doing well.

In the Delta, wind has been the biggest factor for fishing in recent weeks. There has been a little action for those trolling on the Sacramento River on the turn of the tides. There are still some reports coming from the area around Eddo's Harbor and that has been mostly on bait.

Black bass fishing has slowed a bit with the cooler weather this past week also.

At Camanche, fishing at night under lights is still producing limits of fish near the dam. Trollers are finding fish at 35 to 45 feet near the dam and in the narrows upstream to the bridge using either crawlers behind a set of trolls or fishing faster with spoons like the Excel.

Bank fishing has been a little slow. Those fishing overnight should remember the limit on this lake is only five fish per day and only one daily limit can be in possession per person.

Good luck and good fishing.

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