FISHING
JOINING TOM, DICK & HARRY AT STIENSTRA’S HOT FISHING LAKE LOS VAQUEROS TROUT TRIP FUELED BY CHILDHOOD SPORTS SECTION IDOL’S TIP By Chris Cocoles
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IVERMORE—As we headed along a lonely road bound for what Google Maps suggested was the fastest route to our fishing destination, I wondered where everyone else was. Granted, it was a frigid Saturday morning on Thanksgiving weekend, so it was understandable that during this pandemic folks would be staying under the covers in their postholiday slumber. But it also seemed like my sister Charlene and I were on the road to nowhere (spoiler alert: we were). A dead end awaited our arrival. Google Maps had us taking the North Livermore Road exit off Interstate 580. We followed the directions,
eventually passed by the Livermore Pleasanton Rod and Gun Club, a horse farm and then a gated barrier that was the end of our route.
We got back to 580, typed in Los Vaqueros Reservoir instead of my original destination, “Los Vaqueros Watershed and Marina,” and we were
Cars line up on a late fall Saturday morning to enter the Livermore area’s Los Vaqueros Reservoir, where the banks of the lake were packed with anglers out for trout. (CHRIS COCOLES)
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