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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out o Tracy Oasis Marina, Picked up a 4lb at high tide on a rootbeer senko o rip rap. Partner caught a 3lb o same area. nothing the rest o the day, Fished sunday morning. Caught 4 o rip rap on Grand Canal by 11:00am, using the senkos, Wind was a pretty bad, had tough time ishing . Fish hitting pretty good.
    City: Sac

    Tips: Root beere senkos. High Tide

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out o ladds must have been a tournament cuz it was stacked with bass boats headed south on the main channel lost a phat buzzbait ish irst thing but made up or it later tried the boat docks on the channel but two boats were camping on them so i pitched senkos(watermelon/red-blk) to isolated tules and got nothing but big ish ... a 6 plus two 4rs..two threes and a cople around 2.. all ish were on tules no wood ish tules in 3t with boat depth o about 8 to 12 plus currentall with senkos and blk red lake lipping tubes.. great day on the delta
    City: mantweeca

    Tips: senkos still the strongest pattern or quality ish toss it to the edge o the tules and let it sink

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    Water Temp: mid. 60's

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished riday and saturday rom 1pm til dark both days.All ish were caught on poppers.Around island in south.Friday best 5 was between 18 to 23 lbs. Saturday 15 to 20 lbs.Both days were good or 32 keeper bass an 6 strippers. All on poppers go igure!
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Fish small popper in shadows, pop once and let set. Pays o with larger bass!

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: took out arend and his 5 and 6 yearold or bluegill ished in bigbrack ishing was slow but the kids got 6 or 7 and ate ahal duzen snacks about 11:am there mother thook them home .And it was our turn. Bassishing was slow only 2 a 3 an 2lb not as good as last week we turn to stripers got some small ish a got a good one on tryed to hard an broke it o
    City: waterord

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    Water Temp: 66-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Big Break about 10 am. Got a ew dink bass and a 2 1/2 on Rat-l-traps early on. Then lipped a 5 on a junbug 7" big dipper down near the reck at the bottom o the break. Got a handull o small stripes on traps in the same area. Started spoon jigging Dutch and got a ew more small stripes 2-3 pounds. Then hit 4 in a row o a rock pile in 14 eet o water all between 6 and 8 1/2. Ran to Sherman and picked up a ew more small stripes on traps. Bite slowed so we started searching or new areas and then it happened. I set down on a tule point with good current movement just because it looked good. My buddy and I got 4 stripes to 8.10 lbs right o the bat. Then we noticed about 25 yards around the point was a massive stripper boil and the birds were dive bombing like crazy. We must have caught over 25 stripes (average 3-6 lbs w/a ew 7's and 8's)on Traps and spooks in less than 30 minutes. The most un time I've have Striper ishin' in a while. Made up or saturday when I went out alone and only boated a couple dink bass all day.
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went striper ishing this morning @ holland cut and sand mound slough . no luck stripers are not in yet . actually i was waiting or tide to ebb . went to my avorite spot caught lots o big ish didnt do anything dierant . slaughterd them all day on the ebb .. biggest 7 lbs . lost some bg ish once again in the moss bedds going to up grade line next week . remember big plastics in the tules , i noticed you got to have combo o rip rap and heavy tules in ront . tules with no rip rap slow bite and smaller ish . so ind tules with rip rap behind them and you will produce big ish been catching over the 5 lb class and bigger gary yamamoto green red lake texas style with glass bead and bullet on top . dont ask me why but it works like nothing ive tried beore . jig and stop let stand then jig and stop . slow retrieve .. good luck hope im some help to someone . Im not like alot o isherman . i like to kiss and tell my secrets or i might learn something in return.. tight line to all see ya"ll on the water
    City: elmira

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: good day most ish 2lb + one 5lb two 4lb we got 12 ish two came on pointer on the weadline when the tide got up gave them junebug sinko uot a bad day on the water
    City: waterord

    Tips: points to the tide

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: was ishing tules across willow berm really tight in pockets troller down on #1 luipping gary yamamoto green with red and silver lake glass bead and 1/8 oz bullet landed some beauties 7 lb and 5 lb 3lb 6 lb at high tide o 5.8 !/2 hour beore top o tide ish only 2 hrs today catch and release what a day .. they were nice ish no scars perect...... so ish tight use a big plastic and heavy line . got to ind where ish are holding . I always have good days like today .. spinners are my avoite but not today.. TRY SOMETHING DIFFERANT big plastic big ish is my matto lost a very big ish between willow berm and the road my guess well over 15 lbs i had no chance hooooked it and it ran under the dock licly split my drag was to loose . i usually keep it tight or 9 lbs or less . this ish was out o control had to be ther to believe it..
    City: Elmira

    Tips: gary yamamoto greeen red lake and silver BIG PLASTIC AND PATIENCE ..........GOING STRIPER FISHING IN THE MORNING....AT SAND MOUND SLOUGH AND HOLLAND CUT MAY BE WINDY BUT HOPE IT WILL SCARE BOAT TRAFFIC AWAY

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I am going down to the San Joaquin near Newman. Any good ishing spots?
    City: Santa Rosa

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a club tourney out o Ladds. Picked up 3 nice ish all averaging 3# at our irst stop by 7:00. Ater that nothing but 1 or 2 dinks everywhere we went. Finally stuck a at 5+ with a tag. Good enough or irst place and big ish. Rest o club had a couple small limits all the way down to nothing.

    Tips: Everything on cranks! threw alot o Senkos which only caught 2 dinks. Overall tough bite!

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o Orwood at 1pm. Fished 'till about 7pm. Mostly small ish with a ew keepers. My ather in law caught one close to 4. I caught my ish on senkos wacky and reg. also had one lippin a speed trap against the tulies. All ish came o o tulie Islands with 10+ drop os near by. Father in-law caught his ish T-riggin 6" senko.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Seemed like ish were close to deep water no surprise there. I igure most our ish are caught on senkos cause mostly that's what we throw.

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had an awsome Friday morning, but Sat. & Sun. were consideratly slower. Cuaght and released 30 stripers on riday within 3 hours on superspooks and rat-l-traps. Released a limit o bass up to 3lbs. using small white spinnerbaits. Saturday and Sunday together 5 stripers and 4 bass. The biggest striper was barely 18". The larger stripers are still preering the night bite.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Look or schools o shad. The bass are holding in areas away rom the striper activity. The bass are also taking the injured shad ater the stripers go threw. That's how I'm getting my mixed bag. Saturday I made a visual comirmation that salmon are moving threw the area, but they are sluggish with the warmer water temp. I had a nice chrome salmon over 3 t. long ollow my rat-l-trap right up to the boat on Saturday morning.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: A riend wanted to ish a ew hours today so we met up and launched my tin can out o downtown Stockton. Fished rom 4:00 to about 7:30 this evening. We started out throwing sot plastics along the closest rock bank--Davey immediately picked up a one-pounder on a 4" shad/craw pattern worm just as we let the ramp. A good omen. I had a ew bites (pesky sunish, most likely) with a Camo colored Baby Brush Hog but no hook ups so we decided to work the dock pilings on the opposite bank. Picked up a couple more dinks and Davey broke o something pretty decent ishing deeper water with the same worm. And then the boils started--quick break out the shad pattern poppers and chase ater 'em!!!We kept our distance initially and picked 'em o at the edge o the boils but the school started moving and soon we were surrounded by mad boiling on all sides. Man, we were nailing stripers let and right, and it took longer to unhook trebles than it took to catch 'em. I have *never* experienced being caught in the middle o a striper renzy so you could imagine my excitement. They were all under 2 pounds but all that action was totally un. Gotta love targets o opportunity! We were throwing Chug Bugs and Splash-Its and then I switched to a ull-sized Zara Spook to discourage the smaller ones but they really did not let up. That block o action must've lasted at least a hal an hour.Ater the renzy was over I went back to working the cover with Brush Hogs but Davey was casting the opposite direction toward open water and still picking up stripers. I guess he was still mad or 'em. My biggest blackie (out o 5) only went to about 1.75 pounds. I think Davie stuck 3, none o size. We must've nailed a total o 35 linesiders though. 'Twas a day o numbers, not weight...
    City: SF

    Tips: Found out how easily hooks on Iovino Spash-Its bend. Gotta get some better replacements...

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    Water Temp: Upper 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Slow weekend in the down town area. I either missed the schoools o stripers or none came up into town. The bass bite was also slow. Cranked and spinnerbaited in the mourning. Then started split-shotting along the rocky rip-rap. Only dinks this time. The night bite ater work has been ok. Hooking bass on chartruese spinnerbaits up to 2.5 lbs. I ind the stripers are more active at night topwater plugs.
    City: Stockton

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    Water Temp: Upper 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Awsome three day weekend. Got a mixed bag o bass and stripers. The biggest bass went 4lbs. and the biggest striper went 5lbs. My son, Timmy (8 yrs.) and I hooked up the custom Valco bass boat and headed or the downtown area again during the three day weekend to get away rom the holiday weekend madness. This is Timmy's second year learning to cast a baitcaster and he's loving it. We threw spinnerbaits and cranks or the bass. When the stripers came threw we switched to topwater plugs and rat-l-traps. Next time we go out I eel it is time to start casting ull size spooks ater that 5 lber. hit my sons chug bug.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Fish or dierent species during the day to make it more enjoyable. Next month the salmon should be moving in soon. Imagine catching three dierent species during the day. I love it and so does Timmy. Have un ishing and good luck.

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o Orwood all 3 days. Morning (high tide) produced very good topwater bite (black/blue buzzbaits, pop-r), as well as a spinner bait bite. When the tide starting to back o the bite got a little tougher, with most ish coming on senko's, reapers, and brush hogs. We stuck with darker colors and got bit pretty consistent. In 2 1/2 days we managed about 50 ish, biggest going 4-3, best 5 about 15. Throw into pockets in the weeds.Special thanks to Lawrence and the guys rom bassbarbarians or the boat rental. It allows those o us who don't have boats the opportunity to get out there on some water we could have never reached. Thanks againwww.bassbarbarians.com
    City: Antioch

    Tips: black/blue buzzbaits, brush hogs, reapers, senko's

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched rom Holland riverside, headed to Quimby Is.Threw some topwater -buzzbzits and a dalton special -1 dinkon the dalton nothing else topwater.Went to throwing my avorite tube picked up a good 3lb'rlow tide in the morning - ished moving water and picked uptwo more 2-3 lbers. on the tube.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: It was nice ishing on a weekday though low tide is not myavorite.I noticed allot o ish ollowing the tube to the boat, one o the keepers bit the tube then dropped it, I saw this, killed the bait and the ish hammered it on the all and was boated. I your throwing plastics or jigs - swim it back to the boat and keep your eye on it.Good LuckPete

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My dog Randy was kind enough to let me in on the torrid spinnerbait bite he had unearthed on the Delta recently. The real reason he took me is because I like to cast incredibly ar in ront o the boat and parallel to the bank well o any visible cover(it works or me)thus making it impossible or him to pound the bank in search o dinks. 'I know he enjoyed watching me try to cast long As' on a 7'crankbait stick in tight cover. Have you ever heard what a long A sounds like when dragged across 5' o rusty corrugated rooing mat. 15' in the air on top o a boat house?Not pretty.Caught about a dozen 2-3+ lb. and can proudly say not one on a spinnerbait. Cranks and lukes did the trick or me. Randy had sucess on his usual spinnerbaits including a 9lb. striper. All in all not a bad day. Dylan
    City: Gold River

    Tips: Fish slightly o cover on moving tides in areas with a little somthing to break the current and hang on!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished at Middle River (the section along Bacon Island Road) all day yesterday. A riend wanted to go out and ool around on the Delta beore moving back East so we arrived just ater high tide and worked the usual spots with the usual methods (inside weedlines/rock banks with craw colored plastics). Had no problem nailing them even in the midday sun ater the tide had gone out. Started out with 4" red/blue worms (with a 1/16 oz bullet weight and red glass bead) and got a bunch o one-and-a-hal-pounders; switched to Baby Brush Hogs in watermelon candy (that's watermelon w/ blue lake) and caught bigger ones but nothing over 2 pounds.They were holding tight so you had to pitch right into the tulles; the numbers were higher rom ishing the inside weedlines. Lots o skiers as expected, and the water was pretty muddied up but the ish still homed in on plastics, even 4" oerings. We ished the likely spots and just scooted up the road ater working an area over.Ater packing it in I decided to stop at that irrigation ditch at the Woodward Island cable erry just to ool around. The ditch is right next to the levee; the oot o the ditch, where the gates to the main river are, is much like a arm pond and is partially ringed with tulle. Stuck a couple dinks on a 4" junebug worm and one on a rog patterned Chug Bug. I've heard o a ew big ones that have been pulled out o there but or the most part, the bass population probably consists mostly o dinks sucked in rom the main river.Altogether, I caught + released 10 bass. You gotta change locations a lot but they's still catchable, even rom the bank.
    City: SF

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: went out to holt this morning to ish rom shore. couldnt get anything on my buzz bait or spinnerbait. Fished it or a ew miles down the road in whiskey. Drove over to Bacon Island and ished a 1/8 speed trap, cht/wht spinnerbait. I ished a ew more miles and only picked up ish where the current ran into the rocks on shad speed trap. I re-ished the shore back to my car with brush hogs and senko's with no takers. best "and only" ish went 4 lbs. Let around 10:30

    Tips: share your knowledge. Ater a year o only reading the reports I igured I should give my new isherman report anyway. It might help someone. These reports have helped me greatly!