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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of paradise and went into disapointment and actually had a pretty good day compared to others i talked to. first ten minutes i already had 3lber right in front of the marina on a spinnerbait. 2nd spot caught a lot on senkos, cranks and lizards with one good one that went 5-2. after that it was just too darn hot. best 5 was around 17lbs.
    City: lodi

    Tips: pretty just went junk fishing with no real pattern. red cranks, white spinnerbaits, and watermelon plastics all worked for me. but when i found the fish they were really stacked together.

Monday, June 20th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66to69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished sunday and monday. sunday was a little tough ,only 9 fish but one good one 6lb12oz best 5 was 17lb 2oz. monday 18 fish total , best 5 was 17lb 12oz . no fish over 5lbs , best fish a 4lb12oz . 10 blow ups on frogs 4 landed ,one on a spook 3 cranking the rest on brushogs and beavers going on vacation tuesday ,won't be back till after 4th of july so no reports for awhile.
    City: oakland

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    Water Temp: 67-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Somewhat a slow day. fished honker, bishop, and white. Caught a few fish.Nothing larger than 2lbs. Tried senkos, spook, frog, buzz, bucktailjig, and crank. Caught fish only on crank and bucktailjig. Only one blowup on frog.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Fish were outside of tules along weedline in stained water. No fish caught in clearer water. Used a craw colored crank produced better than the bucktail.

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 66-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the River today with Steve and Jason, started out pounding the deap rock banks with a jig-n-grub & Beavers, put 12-15 fish in the boat to 3.5 pounds. Then found more post spawners willing to eat Beavers and 7X Kut tails in Fishermen's pitching to the pockets in the deep grass beds. Made a run to Franks and found a poket of nice fish in a group of tulles caught flippen. Topwater bite started to pick up and put some good fish, 3-4 pounders in the boat on Spooks and buzz baits. All in all, excellent fishing day with over 50 fish, most of them keepers, we did have a few REALLY small fish that weren't as big as a Spook, our best 5 going about 17-18 pounds.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Water temps have cooled down again and seem to slow the early topwater bite, it does pick up in the after noon. Lots of fish in transition from post spawn to summer patterns on deep rock banks and grass beds with deep water near by. Although no big fish, the overall bite on this cloudy over cast day seemed much better than the last couple of weeks.

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Taylor slough with Senkos, caught about a dozen fish, biggest 2.5lbs.
    City: brentwood

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    Water Temp: 66-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Man finally after 2 months I get onto some quality fish. Not the quality of some that post but after the 1-2lb size fish over the last couple months it was a nice change.

    Started off with a 5lb spook fish near Franks and throughout the day caught another 10 fish on the spook with the average around 2-3lbs. Started cranking a nice rock wall and caught a good 20 fish on a blue/yellow crank biggest 3 lbs but the majority were dinks. Then stuck a 3lb frog fish in the break with a couple dinks.
    City: san jose

    Tips: Glad to see the bigger fish are coming alive. take care

Friday, June 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Pre fished for the Elk Grove Bass Tournament. Spent the morning in Franks catching numerous small bass to 2 pounds on Watermelon Senos and Dirty Sanchez Sweet Beavers! Moved done to Connection and looked over my shoulder to see a funnel cloud........north of 12! ran up to Hog and continued with Senkos. Off by 2:00pm.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Cast between the weeds and shore, let it rest and a slow retieve to hook up! Senkos in almost any color and anything with red in it. Bass were spitting up crawdads at the boat!

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent couple hours on white's. very low tide. shallow cranks in shad pattern caught 5 and one on a senko. Anyone see the tornado north of HWY 12 today. After releasing a fish I look up and see a funnel cloud. I was like that is cool then I look down and see that it actually touched down. Once it had lifted and disappeared the wind kicked up and called it a day.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Fish caught on shallow cranks in shad pattern. Senko was in motoroil/ red flk

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

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    Water Temp: Didn't Pay Atte

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from River's End Marina (formerly Del's)at 9:30 a.m., off water at 6:00 p.m. Fished my way up to Discovery Bay and back, working hard for three small cookie-cutter keepers, a pound each. Two of them fancied watermelon baby brush hogs and the other a white 3/8 oz. spinner bait. Enjoyed 30 minutes of bonus fun catching and releasing 10 or so stripers, all 15-17 inches. They were busting baitfish on the surface approximately 200 yards from the marina, still in the "No Wake" zone. Quite a feeding frenzy...boil after boil but no birds in sight. Caught all of them with the white spinnerbait. Much to my surprise, they ignored my Storm swimbait and Rat-L-Trap which I tried just for grins. Went back to the spinnerbait and WHAM!!! Finally, the wind kicked my butt in the afternoon/evening...can't figure out how to operate in such adverse conditions.
    City: Santa Clara

    Tips: Only my second visit to the Delta. Still in the "receive mode" when it comes to tips.

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Sugar Barge at 6:30am waited for a friend and off we went at 7am. Fished an opening to franks tract and caught 5 bass to two lbs. on magic craw sweet beavers and crawfish crank baits. Wind was already blowing 10 to 15mph and got tried so looked for protected areas around the tract. Shook off a couple more small ones. Went back to Sugar to p/u friend and stayed in Piper Sl. to keep out of wind. Picked up one on a white buzz bait about 2.25#. Tried some other openings and got fish on craw crankbaits no more fish on plastics. Went over to holland cut using cranks and spinnerbaits and pick up 8 more to 2#. Ended the day frog fishing but got no blow-ups. Off water at 2:30pm. Water temp started at 69.2 and ended at 72.4, sunny and windy.
    City: san bruno

    Tips: we pulled off bank with spinnerbaits and crankbaits to start catching fish again.

Monday, June 13th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 67to70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: started the day at big break. hoped it would be like yesterday. ron gets a fish on his second cast with a spook, buts thats all we get in the break. headed to franks. fished a few new spots with not much luck. went to some of our go to spots and start catching some. by noon the best fish was a 3lb11oz, not bad but not like yesterday. with the tide just starting to move again i thought we'd try one last spot , we started getting a few small keepers an than bang , i hook a good one. she jumps than makes a run for the weeds than under the boat than i finally get her. what a nice fish 10lbs 2ozs. that was my 9th fish for the day, my brother was'nt doing so well, he only had 5 so i thought we'd hit the spot where i stuck a 5 westerday. we worked down the bank, and just as i said ,(we didn't any from here down) he swings his rod and it doubles over . he says, it's a good one ! it makes a jump , an we both go (oh my god) she comes straight to the boat and lip her. after high fives we weigh her , what pig! 10lb15oz !!! we've never caught two 10's on the same day , this a first. what a great day 15 fish total. best 5, well i only weighed three 3.11,10.2,10.15. well somewhere between 28 to 30lbs
    City: oakland

    Tips: spooks ,brushogs ,sweetbeavers. see photos

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 68to72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished aginst my brother today. i fished with scott mckenzie my brother fished with al suen . scott an i caught 18 fish total best 5 were 22lb6oz my brothers best 5 was 14+. great day !! see photos
    City: oakland

    Tips: sweet beavers,brushogs,flukes,johnson silver minnow and frogs

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a Police/Fire fund raiser event out of Russo's on Sat. Thurs pre-fish went well. Armed w a super spook, my first fish went 6.8 followed by another 6 and three more solid 4lb fish all in and around Franks. I didn't catch the seven keeprs I'd need on game day but w 25ish lb bag for 5 I was off to a good start. Fri went out with my girlfriend to new water from Franks to the Break. First fish again on the spook, she goes 6.2 then four hours without a bite. Made a few moves and switched over to kermit. Ribbit, ribbit, kawoosh! A solid 8.0lb and another 4. Picked up a few more 2's and a 3 tossin blades and pitching beavers at low tide on the weed lines inside Fanks giving us another mid 20's day this time for 7. And a nice pic.

    Game day started off very frustrating. I dumped a 4 right at the boat when she jumped over the net. Had another 4 come completely out of the water w the spook in her mouth never touching a hook. Then I lost a pair a 3's and was about to call it quits, this just wasn't my day. Fortunately my girlfriend was on, putting a solid 3 1/2 in the boat and got the ball rolling. We stayed on top all day and just never got the big bite we needed, oh well still a fun day for about 16 1/2 lbs. Winners had 26lbs and a beautiful toad just a hair under 10lbs reportedly on a frog.
    City: TRACY

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around Stockton area, Whites and Dissapointment. LOW LOW LOW TIDE....Lot's of weeds already!!!! Nailed a nice 9+ on a Brushog in Red w/ RED Flake. Concentrating on Rock w/ Tule, Wood Etc. Had a BALL after work started at 3:30 til Dark. Biggest fish came late afternoon around 4ish! Caught 25-30 fish w/ best 5 going 24+lb. Flippin' and Top-Water did the trick...BEST DAY EVER on a low-tide!!
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Throw all the way on shore and drag slowly to the boat....fish seem to be schooled up. Lot's of dinks and missed hooksets..be patient, bigger fish are mixed in.

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    Water Temp: 64-67

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the outgoing tide today starting at the Break. I've never done well on the low tide so this was my day to try and learn something new. Wind is STILL blowing so the water is dirty. Stuck a few small fish in Sherman then ran to Franks. Fished the outside of weed edges for about 6 or 7 fish in the 1-2 lbs range. Decided to try something different and ran to Mildred at the bottom of the tide. Different didn't work. Got nothing. Fish seemed to be schooled up so if you get on, keep fishing the area, others are around. I have on fish hooked and another followed it up and tried to take the bait away!

    Tips: I had my best luck dead sticking the bait for a little while. If I moved it to soon not bite. Leave it sit and the fish would pick it up and swim off.

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    Water Temp: 66to68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: didn't get a chance to post a report for last weekend till now. fished till noon sunday, lots of wind. only caught 5 fish total but one good one, 8lb10oz on a johnson silver minnow in black with zoom swim chunk (black). monday was a little better,17 fish total, best 5 went 17.6 .hope the wind lays down this weekend . took one over the bow on sunday an broke my windsheild
    City: oakland

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 65-69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: CAUGHT 17 FISH MOSTLY ON SENKOS AND JIGS. REALLY TOUGH TO KEEP THE DINKS OFF NO MATTER HOW BIG OF A BAIT YOU THROW. HALF THE TIME THE LITTLE SUCKERS CANT EVEN GET THE BAIT IN THERE MOUTH, CAUSING ALOT OF SWING AND MISSES.
    City: FRESNO

    Tips: SENKOS AROUND TULES ON THE HIGH TIDE, JIGS ON ROCKY SHORES ON THE LOW TIDE

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cold,wet,but little wind out on the kayak today. Fished white's for couple of hours this morning. Caught around 20 fish until 10 o'clock. More than half were keepers. Largest going just over 7lbs and others under 3lbs and dinks. Fished senkos, hula grubs, and buzz.
    City: stockton

    Tips: fished the deep pockets in the tules.kayak helped to reach those pockets. senkos and hula grubs in watermelon/redflk, motoroil, and red shad patterns. buzz did not do to well but still caught a couple.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 69-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: PC has been down so haven't had a chance to post. Last couple of weeks have been great. Limits or near-limits for 4 trips. Fishing hog/sycamore sloughs w/spinnerbaits and Rat L Traps. Largest fish during those trips was 4.5 lbs.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: On the water by 5:30A to catch early bite. Last Friday, 3 of us had 12 keepers and, yesterday, 4 of us had 12 keepers by 7:30A. Fish weeds. After morning bite, fishing was tough.

Monday, June 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Windy but fishable. Started at Franks again, picked up 4 keepers to 3lbs on white spinnerbaits. Only one other boat in Franks. Moved over to Holland and fished protected areas - Dinks!! On cranks and Senkos. Moved to windy area with rocks and timber, and picked up several keepers to 2lbs. Cranks in craw color. Tough finding any fish with size. Quit at 12:30
    City: South San Francisco

    Tips: Fish against wind to control lure presentation. Fished cranks/spinnerbaits. Look for rocks with weeds/wood. Fish holding tight to structures.