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      Water Temp: warm

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Went out of the Hook again this Thursday at 10:00 a.m. Lost one at barge cove on spinnerbait, so moved over to northwest side of big break near the San Joaquim. Spinnerbaited weed/tule clumps, no luck. Started throwing rattletrap on points with current and within 5 minutes hooked something big (slow, heavy headshakes - striper?) that was pulling the drag. Chased it with my trolling motor for a while but eventually it got off. Caught several smaller schoolie stripers, but no black bass, so moved upriver to Little Frank's, started tossing 'trap on channel side of openings into tract, and caught 5 nicer blackies, 2-3 lbs each. One near 4, which ended up being the biggest fish of the day. Started methodically fishing inside and outside of cuts into Frank's tract, and picked up fish on a regular basis, mostly blackies - occasional small striper mixed in. Ran to Mildred to a spot that has been consistent for me and hooked, fought and LOST 3 better fish. Each time as I got them close to the boat, they would make a last minute dash into heavy weeds and come unbuttoned. Ran down to Coney island area to pitch jigs along channel sides, had three good hits but could not connect. By now I had missed as many fish as I had caught, and was getting frustrated at the numbers of escapees. Ran up to Quimby area and had no luck on jigs or crankbaits. Cruised back out to Franks and started picking up 1-1.5 lbers on traps in openings with current as has been the case on these last two trips. Drifted over a school of feeding schoolie stripers at the end of the day and literally wore my arm out casting and fighting baby stripers from 1-4 lbs! was getting hits on multiple consecutive casts, and had the hooks ripped off my rattletrap baits twice - could see multiple fish following hooked one and trying to steal bait from hooked fish, which I think was how hooks were getting ripped off of baits. All told, about 30 fish, half blackies, half stripers, no size again, but much fun and better quality fish than caught Tuesday.
      City: Half Moon Bay

      Tips: The rattletrap looks to be a safe bet for filling out a quick limit or adding a final fish to complete a limit. Only caught fish near gaps draining water from or into Franks, little franks, big break, and mildred.

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      Water Temp: 72-76

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched early in the south to get topwater bite, lots of dinks but no keeepers. Falling tide and pumps on. Decided to forget topwater bite and throw senko's into pockets. Caught a few fish to 2 lbs. Most of fish were around points and current, fish were hitting the senko on the move. Changed to bomber 7A and that was what they wanted today. Boated about 12 to 15 fish, nothing over 2.5 lbs Tried dropshotting a senko in 20 ft had one bite and broke me off, 12 lb test dohhh!!! Hmmmmmmmm.....
      City: tracy

      Tips: No decent topwater fish for me, but the crank bite is steady with moving water.

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      Water Temp: 72+

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished 14mi, Bishop Cut and White's with Netster. Spent most of the morning throwing frogs and other top water. Got a few good hookups but slow overall...by 10:00 switched to Senkos. That did the trick! Netster nailed 10# 14oz beauty and five minutes later I added a 6 1/2 to the limit. Continued to fish Senko's and catch fish, although, after handling Netster's hawg, everything close to 13" looked too small to keep! Hahaha!
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Senkos are still working.

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      Water Temp: 74-77

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Had a couple of rough days this weekend. Fished a club tournament on Saturday and only weighed 1 fish for about 3#. Had a lot of blowups on frogs, but only caught the one. Fish were in the shade under weeds in 1.5-3 feet of water. Nothing flipping. Went back out after the weigh in a caught 3 from 1.5 to 3#s on Senkos inside the Break in the clear lane between weeds and tules. Sunday went out for a couple of hours and looked for some new current spots. Caught a 2.5# on a ReAction Gator Dog and a 3# on a Senko. Both came out of 3.5-4.5 feet of water on edge of current with deep water near by. While it was a slow weekend I still learned a few things.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Have had best luck flipping plastics, jigs have not been producing very well for me. Be sure to add a couple of glass beads inside your frogs. Did make a difference on the number of blowups between me and my partner on Saturday.

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      Water Temp: didnt look

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched out of Hollands at 5:30am. Fished the rock bank to the right all the way down to the fork. Had 6 blow ups on a buzz, no hookups though. Got a few on a jig, few on a 7" red shad and a couple crankin a fire tiger wiggle wart. All in all a slow day only had 7 or 8 fish, largest went 2 1/2. Off the water at 11am.
      City: san jose

      Tips: Try a buzz early then flip! Isn't that what we do every time out?

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: test
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: test

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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished out of thee break and found some fish willing to take the buzzbait. ,They are only slurping them. I waited for the tide to bottom and started hitting blade fish. Most of the fish were in 3 feet but very close to 15. The current was key. All were 2-3's. I was havin so much fun wih the blades I did not need to go to the frog until 2:30 when a 7+ munched happily. Best 5 went 16.5. The fish are as sick of the bluebiird skies as we are. Fall is around the corner. Keep it slow.
      City: Orinda

      Tips: A frog mat today, open water tomorrow. These are my favorite places

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      Water Temp: 72+

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the south delta took my cousin for a prefish for aba out of Ladds. We caught Several fish on Buzzbaits and flippin worms.We caught 16+#'s for our best 5. We had one 6+.Most of the big fish were caught on Buzzbaits.Caught the rest on the outer edges of weeds.My cousins is from Or.so I hope He and his partner show these Locals a few things or two.Ha Ha.Good luck Mike and Jesse.
      City: rodeo

      Tips: We fished the buzzbaits slow just bearly reeling them I think that made the difference. Also we tryed SENKO'S just caught baby's.I think the fish are on a summertime pattern now.

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      Water Temp: ?

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: fished the pro teen today with a great pro named Wayne and we had a fun day and caught a bunch of fish but no hawgs. He put me on fish and taught me somethings about cacching the hawgs on the delta. We got our limit, being 7.56 pounds and got 25th place. Even though the wind was blowing a 100 mph at the break his 2000 ranger handled it great. thanks NCBF for the pro/teen and thanks Wayne for a great day and hopefully we can fish together again.
      City: livermore

      Tips: tough bite be patient

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      Water Temp: 68-70

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished the teen pro am today with a great kid named William Probe from I think he said was from Forest Hill up by Auburn. As it has been for me lately the bite was tough. William did get his limit, one on a white spinner bait and one on a senko. We caught about 10 fish and four of them were big enough to take back and weigh in. They were good enough to push us up into 41st place. I heard that there were 71 boats. I would like to thank all of those involved in putting on this event and especially Andy Cuccia for inviting me this year and God willing with my health I would like to participate again next year. P.S. Liz Cuccia you can sell me raffle tickets any time. I won some great prizes.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: To be sucessful with the bite the way it has been I have to keep the trolling motor down and cover a lot of water. Good luck and for those of you who are struggling like me just bear down and fish harder. The bites will come.

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      Water Temp: 74

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: launched at hooker cut about 6pm within 30 minutes had nice fish break of 12# line using black senko fished till about 9.30 caught two more keepers .next morning on the water by 5.00 am low tide fished rock points with senkos again my son boated two 3lb fish and i managed two dinks flippen a 3/8 jig and grub all in all good trip nice weather not to much wind or boat traffic
      City: santa cruz

      Tips: if you are looking for senkos the hook has a nice supply

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished WCB team out of Buckley cove. Weighed 10# limit which wasn't bad since a lot of teams struggled. Event was won by 17 pounds and it only took 11 to get a check. We caught our fish on Iovino worms, Senko's and crankbaits. Had to sort through a lot of dinks to get a few decent fish. Most of our fish came tight to isolated weeds.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: At low tide, when water stops moving, throw plastics very tight to isolated weeds and shake or move past the weeds fairly fast. Slow moving baits like the Senko didn't work during the slack tide...faster motion seems to trigger the strikes.

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: Sorry for the repetative report, I didn't see that Dean had already posted. DDawg

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      Water Temp: 70"s

      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: Fished in 14 mile and up Bear creek. A few fish to 4 lbs on shad colored Senko's. Wacky rigged on a EWG 4/0 gammie. Not really consistant. Partner caught a few crankin'
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: For you guys that don't like using Senkos, there are just as many guys who will take your money at the next tournament!!! HAR HAR

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      Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

      Report: DDawg and I spent most of Sunday trying to get bit on anything OTHER than a Senko! Haha! Only managed two fish - DDawg got a 5+ on a popper and I managed a small fish on a 10 inch worm. We finally put on Senko's and within a short time were able to stick a 16# limit for the day. Caught fish right threw the slack low tide flipping Senkos into weed pockets and outside weed edges. Don't know where the frog bite went for me...it was pretty good a couple weeks ago.
      City: Fair Oaks

      Tips: Be flexible...try lots of approaches until you find the money presentation. The fish are THERE!

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      Water Temp: 78-80

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched from Buckley Cove at 5:30 A.M. I had 6 keepers for the morning. The biggest 3.8 lbs came on a brown jig with blue trailer around boat docks. I caught a couple on white spinnerbait with white trailer throwing against a rock wall with weeds next to deep water, just off the main channel. I threw a buzzbait and pop-r along the same type water and had not action. I caught a three more, throwing a 7" Senko, smoke with silver flakes, between the weed line and rock wall.
      City: Stockton

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      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: EAST BAY BASS CLUB TOURNAMENT. B&W RESORT JULY 16TH. TEAM, 6 HOUR EVENT, BARBEQUE ON THE LAWN FOLLOWING. NO NEED TO BE A MEMBER IF YOU HAVE'NT FISHED WITH US BEFORE. $40.00 PER TEAM. PAYS THREE PLACES, TWO BIG FISH. NO MONTHLY MEETINGS. E-MAIL AND I'LL SEND YOU A FLYER.
      City: WALNUT CREEK

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      Water Temp: 74-81

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Basshopper and I launched out of Lazy M at 8AM. Caught two fish on white senkos in between rip rap and weedline. Fished Victoria and picked up three more on motor oil w/red flake and watermelon red flake senkos. Lots fo ski boats. Ran to Discovery Bay and picked up one more. Very green in Disco. (Algae bloom?) Basshopper missed three on a junebug colored senko. She didn't catch any today though. Interesting tidbit for what it's worth-one fish had a large crawdad in it's mouth. Very dark red and black in color. All in all, caught six and lost four. Mayday
      City: Belmont

      Tips: Threw senkos between rip rap and inside weed lines. Subtle pickup.

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      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: EAST BAY BASS TOURNAMENT, TEAM, B&W RESORT JUNE 11TH. $40.00 PER TEAM INCL. BIG FISH/TROPHIES. 5;AM CHECK IN, 3:00 WEIGH IN. E-MAIL FOR INFO.
      City: WALNUT CREEK

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      Water Temp: 70-72

      Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

      Report: Launched at holland tract at first light. the parking lot looked like it does in the middle of the winter.Caught six or seven on slow moving floating top water for the first two hours. biggest was 2.5 most were 12''. Went as far as the north side of Quimby Island flipping as the tide dropped . The bite is slow now. We need another hot spell to get the topwater bite going again.Came off the water at 11:oo to beat the mad rush at the launch ramp and there was still no traffic. Where were all the people. Hi Scotty Perrin. I saw you out there yesterday.
      City: Brentwood

      Tips: Fish slow with all your techniques.