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Sunday, August 31st, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: (Video here: http://youtu.be/__L7I4khgIs)
    I was lucky enough to get the kitchen pass to go fishing twice in one weekend! Launched out of Russo's at 7. Briefly fished a couple breaks and picked up some shakers. Hit the rip rap with very little luck. Tide went slack so we ran out False River and picked up a striper on a chatter bait. Went back to Franks and hit some tule islands. Started getting more shakers when one shook a treble hook a 1/4" into my thumb. Yowch. Ran back to Russo's where Chuck showed me how to "pop" it out with some braid tied around the bend. Really handy trick. Didn't feel a thing. Thanks Chuck!

    Headed back out and picked up 4 more keepers to the east of Franks and on a break at Mandeville. Called it a day with thumb showing no signs of infection! 15+ fish for me, 20-25 for the boat. Nothing bigger than two and a half pounds though.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Ok *this* time I got a tip: There's a reason they're called shakers. Just grab the shank of your treble hook and let them shake off. Really. It's not worth it. ;-)

Friday, August 29th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched late out of Russo's at 9AM. Immediately hooked up on shaker stripers at the breaks, ~10 in the first hour. Top water black bass on east/west rip rap just north of Franks. Punched submergent grass around tule islands for quite a while with no action. Switched to jerkbait and caught a bunch more. 30-40 fish in the boat but again only a handful of keepers to 3lbs. 3ozs. Video here: http://youtu.be/wYY8MzPi_kw
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Never bet on a 3 legged horse. ;-)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out at B and W marina for the first time with my buddy Tom to fish Sycamore. Got in around 8:15 with an outgoing tide. Caught a nice 1.5 LB on a frog at a point, then another 1.5 LB using a weighted creature bait thrown outside the water plants. Tom caught another two using his infamous purple worm. Low tide was significant and on the way back saw some exposed timber (sunken orchard kind of reminded me of Mildred Island wood). Had some strikes outside the center island tules in some of the open holes between the floating weeds. For the day had 4 in the boat, missed around 4-5.
    City: Orinda

    Tips: When fishing uncharted territory on high tide out, make sure to take it slow back-in on low tide, you never know what's under there.

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We launched out of Russo's at 6am and fished north east of franks track. Top water bite was very good, we were catching both largemouth and stripers. We fished mostly front sides of tule islands
    throwing poppers and whoppers. There is bait fish everywhere being pushed into the tules. when the striper would blow up behind us we would turn and cast into swirl and hook up. We had a lot of fun. Off the water by 11am. Boated 15, nothing over 3 1/2lbs.

    Tips: Get out early... share the knowledge

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's at 7AM. Already really windy. Found out later there was a small craft advisory on the west delta.

    Hit the breaks but got blanked. Crossed over to the NW stretch of rip rap to get out of the wind and got bit on top water and jerk bait. Caught em on drop shot the rest of the day. Missed a big one on Sammy and frog. 15 for me, 19 for the boat but no big ones.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Like deepv, I'm not one to be handing out tips. Still trying to figure out why i'm only getting small fish. Happy to get tips though!

Monday, August 11th, 2014

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Paradise Point around 6am on a high tide. Fished right across the ramp in Bishop Cut. Started throwing a spook but got nothing to go while my partner was hooking up on a popper. He landed a 2lb and one that was 3+lb. I put down the spook and tossed a green chatter bait over the weed line and got hit instantly, all fish within 2lb-3lb. Decided to leave into White Slough and fish the islands and was hooking up consistently with the chatter bait still. Once it started getting hot we slowed down and threw senkos(Bama Bug), catching a few that were real tight to cover. We then moved into Honker Cut and fished the grass mats with frogs. Got a lot of blow ups but no hook ups. Finally decided to go into Disappointment Slough and fish the grass mats in there with frogs and hit the pockets with senkos. Once again got some blow ups and finally a couple hook ups with my partner landing the bigger fish of the day going 4.4lbs. We left at 2:30pm because it got too hot. Overall not a bad. Lots of fish, but nothing too big.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Fish are active in the morning. Cover water with reaction baits. When it gets warm, slow down and fish cover that is near deeper water. Frog bite is finally starting to kick in so throw the frog out there.

Sunday, August 10th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at the Moke around the corner from B&W about 630am, outgoing tide...started crankin' and got a few dinks and almost keepers. Switched to black neon senko and boated a fat 3.12. Continued throwing senkos boating mainly 1 lbers and smaller. Partner continued with his 1/8oz bleedin' shad rat-l-trap and picked up a bunch of almost keeper to 1.5 lbers. Ran up to Sycamore but only managed 2 keepers and a bunch more almost keepers. Threw the popper frog and about 5 solid blowups that pulled under but no hookups. Prolly me. Back to the Moke and fav tule islands and threw parallel outside the weedline and picked up a few more solid 1-2 lbers. Total keeper size was 11; total fish on the hook - about 45+ due to about a 1/2 mile worth of fun hookups with shaker stripers 12"-14" hittin' our cranks...they were just on a bitin' frenzy, 2-3 hitting the lure. We were hoping for a keeper somewhere in there but not a one, just a lot of fun....have many cuts and punctures in my hand from just trying to get the hook out of them and releasing 'em. Fun day!
    City: folsom

    Tips: As stated previously, I'm not qualified to give tips, just what sorta worked for us. When we mainly hooked up dinks and almost keepers on the crankbaits, we switched to senkos and finesse worms (curl tailed robo and blk neon senko 5"). Slowed down and picked up plenty but cuz we were cravin' the crank, we threw the traps but mainly dinks. Still a fun day!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started late 7:15am at B&W...like El Guapo says, many many trailers in the lot so lots of bassers out. Worked the Moke with lipless cranks and lots of 6"-10"ers but no keeper size. Switched to 5" wacky senkos and started stickin' 1-2lbers. Continued to switch back and forth from senkos to cranks to senkos, senkos getting all the keepers. Ended day with 9 keepers, probably 25-30 total fish but again, other than the 9 keepers and maybe 2 keepers lost at the boat, the rest were either dinks or 11.75"ers.
    City: folsom

    Tips: I never have tips, we're not that great to give em....just sharing what worked for us... when we realized only little ones were hitting the cranks, we threw plastics, me senkos in black neon, junebug, watermelon red, and monster shad (from monterfishing.com)... most on inside or outside weedline or on tule points. my bud's go-to plastic is 4" roboworm with curly tail on a light spinning setup...most days he does this, his hookup ratio is higher than mine... but senkos outhit him this time.

Saturday, August 2nd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's at 6:20. Tons of boats on the water for at least one big tournament. Immediately started catching shaker sized stripers on the the breaks but no black bass. Worked along the breaks but wind came up fast and had to hide behind the tule islands. Stuck a 4.5lber on a jerk bait and caught a few more on drop shot later. 15 fish for the day but only 3 keepers. Video here: http://youtu.be/ka-mRV3B-po
    City: San Mateo

Friday, August 1st, 2014

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished areas in the east Delta including the San Joaquin and Mokelumne rivers and caught several nice largemouth to 3.5 lbs. More than half were in the 2.5 to 3.5 lbs. range with the top 5 slightly over 15 lbs. I’m trying to learn punching so I spent the first hour or two doing that with no hits (obviously need more work on that technique). I switched to Senkos, both Texas and wacky rigged, and immediately started to catch fish.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Most fish were in or near shade at the base of tules or under laydowns.

Saturday, July 19th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at six out of Russo's and ran straight up to the breaks. Got blow ups on Sammy but no takers. Switched to LC 128SP and immediately got bit, 3 3/34lb. Caught a bunch that way for awhile then switched to dropshotting around the backs of tule islands to get out of the wind. More quality fish, including a 4lb 3oz and many many more dinks.
    Video here: http://youtu.be/nwIerkjX4OM
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Water's cooled off a bit for some reason but it hasn't seemed to adversely affect the bite. Couldn't get a reaction bite other than jerkbait. Caught another pike minnow on a crank bait but that doesn't count. All my fish came on jerkbait, DS and t-rigged 6" senko.

Friday, July 18th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Plenty of action but many of the fish were on the small side. A few 2's and a few 3's - the biggest fish was 4 lb 11 oz. Fished in Potato Slough mainly in places where I could find protection from the hard blowing wind and small whitecaps. Most fish were up close and caught on Senkos (red shad - wacky) or on a red speed trap out at the edges of sparse tules and along rock walls. The big fish came on a popping frog in the slop near a laydown.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Can't somebody do something about this wind- HaHa.

Sunday, July 6th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 75-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Only had a half day so we mainly stayed on the Moke. Launched/Started B&W 615am..plenty light already. worked the far rock wall at the start of the Moke and hit many many many just under 12"ers but dang it was fun. I was using ultra light casters with a floating craw rat-l-trap so they simply loaded up and set the hook on their own. After my big brudda and me had about 25 of these (maybe 6-7 just at keeper size), we decided to go to senkos...my bro threw baby bass and I threw black neon (black/red flk) 5". picked up 9 keepers all 1-2 lbers with best going 2-12. then around 12-1230pm threw traps again just to have some more crankin' fun and picked up a bunch more. probably total dinks and almost keepers was maybe 30-35. total keepers was 9, me 6, big brudda 3. imagine if we had more time and went lookin' for some punchin' patches. off the water 1230pm ... oh, forgot to mention, kept a 23" striper caught on the crank....I'm filleting him right now!!! all blacks released.
    City: folsom

    Tips: I don't think I'm qualified to give tips...i'll just say I really like crankin so I started out throwing a 1/2 oz floating rat-l-trap in a crazy vivid craw pattern. also used 1/4oz cali craw but majority crankin' hits came on "pinchin' peach" floatin' super natural trap in 1/2oz. I really like this cuz you can take your time when you throw to the rock walls and don't have to worry about your trap sinking immediately, you can take your time. ...and many hits came as soon as it hit the water....I'm serious...I had some blow ups you'da thought I had a frog, Sammy , or spook tied on....but just a simple floatin' trap.
    but deciding the bigger keepers were hangin' out low, we threw 5" senkos in black/red flk and baby bass and that was the ticket...all the hits I had to dig the hooks out from deep in the throat, they inhaled em. on the 2.75lber, I took my dikes and cut 2/3 the hook out to let im live.

Sunday, June 29th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped in at Rivers End at 6:30AM, the tide was at the top, tried docks and walls with shallow water under the boat say 6-8 feet and no takers so I tried rip rap with shallow water under the boat say 6-8 feet and got a few on Senkos, jumped across the channel fishing rip rap only with 14-20 feet under the boat and that was the ticket, I was catching fish in 6 inches to 5 feet of water at high tide using every color and size Senko I had, color and size and rigging did not matter, T-Rig, Wacky or Back sliding it all worked. After I got about 10-12 fish to 2.5 lbs I decided to go looking around and burn some gas, I am not familiar with that end of the Delta so I did some scouting, went all the way up to Hwy 4 fished around Hwy 4 but no luck but did not put any deep water under the boat, came back and checked out Tracy Oasis Marina and they have a good tackle shop with the basics but spendy, I needed to pick up some more Senkos :) and grab a burger, back on the water and got 6-8 more, 2 on T-rig 8 inch black worm and 6 on Senko's again.

    Tips: I tried red rattle trap for about 15-20 minutes with no luck, I usually catch at least a few on it but not this time, my Son and I tried frogging for 30 minutes at about 6:30 PM but no luck, Flipped a jig for about 30 minutes and no luck. I think if I would have tossed a frog or jig in the AM I would have picked up a few because they were pretty aggressive in the AM but that Senko was working so I did not put it down, Even though I got fish on all color Senko's I would say the darker ones were working better. The evening tide was very low and that could have been why I could not get a frog fish, the water I caught fish on in the AM was 3 feet out of the water at 6:30 PM.

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's just before 7AM. Fished the wall with topwater baits but no takers. Ran out to the breaks at the north end and immediately started catching them. Fished that pattern for a few hours picking up the occasional keeper but went through dozens of short fish and shakers in the process. Caught em mostly on shad pattern jerk bait and bluegill color drop shotted Roboworm. You can see the types of areas we targeted here: vhttp://youtu.be/YC_Xf0DCKEM
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Couldn't get them to bite anything but the jerkbait and dropshot. Threw swimbait, cranks, rattles, senkos, chatter, walking baits, frogs but no takers.

Saturday, June 21st, 2014

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    Water Temp: 72-73

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge at 7AM. Ran all over the place but only caught a couple keepers out of the marinas near the mouth of the Moke. Went back down to the break at Franks Tract and starting getting shaker sized stripers. Went through about a dozen of these when I upsized to an S-Waver and whacked a 10lber. Video here: http://youtu.be/bX3PZhUF0jM
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Not sure what to do when the weather changes. Temps were down from the previous day and it was pretty windy too. Even drop shot was only marginally successful. Water clarity was an issue too. Only Franks had decent stained water. Muddy everywhere else.

Friday, June 13th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W and started at top of the Moke. Pretty breezy and then wind picked up. First sets of tules and rockwall was slow, but managed a few barely keepers. Moved to next sets of tules and rock wall throwing 1/4 oz rat-l-traps in red craw and baby bass and managed a few more 1-lbers. Assumed maybe slow due to full moon prev night??? Wind subsided a bit so moved up to Sycamore and switched to watermelon/red flk senkos, throwing to tule or rockwall bases and working out to weedline. Managed a limit and a couple of 1-2lbers. Ran into a fan boat spraying the vegetation. Anyone know what they were spraying and why? Anyway, headed back toward the slough entrance since we didn't know what/where they had already sprayed. Caught a couple more barely keepers just outside of the slough so worked our way back to Moke. The keepers that hit my senko were aggressive, grabbing it and yanking hard on the fall. Never had that happen on a senko before.
    City: folsom

    Tips: When throwing the lipless 1/4 oz, threw to base of tules and across grass/weed tops...snapping hard our of the grass. Hits weren't necessarily just after the snap but maybe 7-8ft later. For senkos, nothing between the rockwall and weedline. Threw to top outer edge and snapped one time to make it look like it popped out of the weed top and settled on the outside edge. got bit hard on the fall and sometimes on the first pop off the bottom.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Disappointment Slough and fished several locations that have been productive in the past. Tried senkos, deep and shallow cranks, spinnerbaits and frogs. Managed a few fish but the action was very slow. Saw a few large cruisers in the shallows but they weren’t interested. The one bright spot was a 5 pounder caught on a frog. I don’t often fish frogs so this one was interesting for me. It wasn’t the typical blow up but the bass just came up underneath and sucked the frog down. It just disappeared so I set the hook and it was off to the races. That made my day. Saw lots of fry in the water, mostly real small but some a bit bigger.
    City: Stockton

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

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    Water Temp: don't know

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Stockton port 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm
    City: oakdale

    Tips: Bass fishing launched under I-5 in the port of Stockton around 4:00 pm fished all the way to stanislaus river and a mile that way tell dark me and my partner caught around 8 bass each the later it got the more the bass turned on gary yamamoto sinko worked the best at the beginning of are day tell the end pumpkin baby bass and my favorite color sorry Forgot the name of the color. ..lol my partner did good with a bullet head working the bottom I couldn't seem to do any good wacky but as the day went on it turned to wacky and did a little better the later it got did pretty good on white spinner baits and frogs all the bass were only in the 2 pound range it seemed like 2 hours before dark you couldn't do wrong with what ever you used got a nice bluegill he had to be at least a pound and a half also the tide was coming in are in tire time it seemed about halfway on a rival and all most high tide when we left around 10 pm hope this helps good luck

Sunday, May 25th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: We launched out of B&W at about 5:30 and the wind was already up. We started in the Moke and had a couple swirls at a buzzbait, but no takers. My dad did hook up with small striper. We moved down to old river and found some fish on the main channel that we were able to catch with green pumpkin weightless texas-rigged senkos on the inside of the tules and punching the outside weed lines. We moved further south again with limited success, but the tide was moving out and then slack low tide while we were out. We called it a day around noon.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Weightless texas rigged senkos and punching were the most productive techniques for us, but the closer we got to low tide the tougher the bite became.