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Friday, September 10th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: One person guide trip, out of Russo's "nice place" We started in franks tossing poppers and spooks. They didn't want the spook this morning but the popper was hot client got about 10 in franks and missed one big one. Then went to holland cut and got another 10 on the popper and few on a speed trap "bleeding shad" then into Mandeville and got about 20 or so mixed between the popper and speed trap and managed 2 good ones on the spook about 10:30 the top water bite slowed but the speed trap was in full swing we jst fish out in the weed around rhode island, mandeville and holland fish were every where. About 100 fish for the day best 5 14 or so lbs
    City: Concord

    Tips: Keep your foot on the trolling motor and you will find them, good luck

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Solo trip today. Started off throwing a black buzzbait just outside of veale tract, dumped a hog there. Continued to get short striked by smaller fish so I decided to head to Connection. Fished the rock side, sparce tulle was the key. I found some areas not choked up with hyacinth and also found some fish. Throwing the frog, I finally nailed a hog. One problem, nick in the 50 pound power pro. bink! broken heart. One of those days I guess. continued on and kept getting short strikes so I changed up to a black scum frog. wow what a difference. those fish were inhailing that smaller frog! It really saved the day. I lost count of the fish I caught. Noting real big though. biggest went 3 plus pounds. Lots of 2's.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: wear sunscreen

Monday, September 6th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Great year so far striper fishing. Sunday the 5th my friend Frank and I started out towards Pittsburg in Honker Bay and four fish into it, I stick a nice 8lb striper, then a few minutes later the hooks pulled out of a 10+ pounder. So I was pretty pissed. Caught a few more dinks while fishing way up towards Mothball fleet. I made a quick cast to some tules that came off the main bank about 15 ft,(nothin) I made a second cast 10 ft to the right of that and BAM!!!! My half ounce rattle trap came to a dead stop. I saw a huge swirl and I knew I had a hog. After a 10 minute fight on 15lb test I subdued a 29lb striper. High light my weekend. But it continued into Monday. The next morning my father who is not going to be out done. We go out and start up towards, our first stop yields nothin. 20 minutes later we're in our second spot and its going well. With some really nice fish in the boat to 12lbs. Im workin the trollin motor while my father is talkin smack. I make a cast and my rattle trap goes flyin snap. So I sit down to tie up. ANd the next cast my father makes yields him a 31 lber. Oh my unbelievable, I was beside myself but I was happy my father got him one. So later that day my friend Frank wants to go out and to make an already long story short, he sticks a 25 on a zara, and we've got matching pictures of some delta hogs.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Never stop casting and good fishin

Saturday, September 4th, 2004

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: started off fishing old river near Tracy, flippin beavers, only got one fish, around a pound or so. continued south and started tossing a 3/16 strike king spinnerbait, wow, what a change,boated 10 keepers in the next hour and a half, outgoing tide, tight to clumps of grass.
    got out sunday afternoon, couple on the blades but the bite was alot slower, more pleasure traffic and heat,so headed up by the Tracy blvd bridge, throwing a crystal shad speedtrap. tight to the bank in the shade, got 4 there, with a 6 1/2pounder thrown in! what a fish, second biggest ever for me, and it took the entire bait in it's mouth, bout 2inches in, was fun to unbotton that one.
    all in all a good weekend.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: saw lots of boils and small bait flying out of the water, they're chasin smaller fish, thats why the 3/16 blade.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 14 mile slough and found a good wall. Worked it hard for a while and probably squeezed out at least 30 fish before 11am. I had good success drop shotting a 4" lizard and robo worms but seemed to target a lot of smaller fish but 3 of my 3 keepers came on the drop. My partner worked the outside of the second weed line with speed traps with some success. I fished the same area last week and didn't do much until I picked up the drop shot rig and immediately started picking up fish. You really gotta shake it sometimes. I had several fish that didn't give me the "tap, tap" but picked up and went the other way so watch the line. At the very end the fish really started to pick up on my partners split shot rig.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Don't be afraid to try something new if you're not gettin bit. If you're drop shottin, use firm sweeping hook sets, I learned this one the hard way to the tune of at least 3 or 4 break offs. Colors that worked for us were almost anything with purple or purple flake.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Boy, was it blowing yesterday (winds 30+ mph). The 3 of us was hesitate about going out, but decided to do it since we were there. Launched out of paradise point at 6:00A and fished where the wind took us (disappointment, 14 mile slough, and 5 mile slough). Off the water by 1:00P. For the conditions, was amazed that we caught 13 keepers (largest - 1.5 lbs).
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Stayed close to the levees to get some protection from the wind. Used white/char or white spinnerbaits and shad Rat L Traps. Had to ride the trolling motor most of the day.

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 74-79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Sunday with 2003 Pro-Teen winner Wesly Ford from Lincoln. Wes just turned 19 and mom bought him a guide trip for his birthday. Targeting big fish and flippen were Wes' desires for the day. So off we went to throw spooks, committing the first 2.5 hours to an area where I've been triggering some monster fish into showing themselves. After 30 minutes of no takers, noticing the void of shad and again remembering we had a full moon the night before, I knew this tactic prolly wasn't gonna work, but we committed ta do this, otherwise the conditions were perfect, start of the outgo, no wind, no skiers, and virtually no other fisherman. By 8:30 we had two keepers and one plop on the Cicada, time ta start flippen ahead of schedule. We tied on a Kreature, SweetBeaver and the brown jig-n-grub. As we moved to our first spot on a rock levee bank, Wes asked what I was gonna toss, I said the Jig son, the bite today is gonna be tough, I gotta stick with my confidence bait. Next hour we caught 8 fish at 2 pounds. We then bounced around and hit a number of key areas with current on them, about 11:30, while Wes is re-tying, I pop a fish at 5.5 pounds. We then changed up and went to Disco to dropshot some big baits in deeper water at 16-24 feet. We caught a number of fish on a 6" Mojo Reefer in smoke. When we found the shad, we found the bass. The better bass were in about 13 foot of water just outside the last weed line, the smaller fish were out underneath and chasing the shad in 18-24. 2:00pm we took off to go throw frogs the last 3 hours of the day. Quarter to 5:00 I finally git a 6.5 pounder to scarf my Cicada. 500 textbook casts later, we finally found that one good froggie fish.
    City: Oakley, Ca

    Tips: Today, we only had a 20 fish day, but by sticking to the big fish baits and keying in specific areas, we caught better fish, all keepers with the best 5 going about 19 pounds. Look for the shad balls, not the long, meandering schools. If ya see the balls, the shad are being defensive to something feeding on them. If the bass themselves aren't feeding on the shad, them big girls will be scarfing the small bass, gills, breem and other forage that are! Full moon still having a negative influence on the River fish. Grin and bear it, otherwise head ta ClearLake or pick a lake ta fish at night!

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: With blazing temps predicted we decided to get an early start. Fished around middle river and Mildred w buzzers, poppers and traps. Had a dozen or so fish in the boat withing the first 1/2 hour of wetting our lines. Mostly non keeper but did stick a 5.1 and another about 3lbs. Got a a fiesty 4lb stripe near the pumps at Lower Jones to boot. Off the water by 9am with twenty something boated, no other quality fish to speek of. For us, the topwater bite died off as quickly as it started and we didn't feel the drop-shot urge.
    City: TRACY

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had the pleasure of entertaining two of the Future Pro Tour's main Sponsors. David & Ron had never bass fished before and brought no equiptment with them. After the field had left we meandered down to Holland Cut, flipped a coin to stay out of everyone's way and ended up fishing between Quimby and Lil Mandy Islands. The topwater bite first thing in the morning has been producing some very nice fish around tulle, wood & grass islands in the middle of sloughs that have deep water access on both sides. I spooled up a couple of spinning rods with some braid and let em toss a buzzbait and a small baby bass prop bait. I fished the Super Spook and Cicada. No bites or takers until about 8:15 when the propbait got a small fish, then the buzzer got a keeper. I switched to a popper and started ta "bloop bloop" and two really nice fish swirled but did not take the bait. Seems the bite had died due to the full moon and fish must be feeding very heavily at nite. Then took off to Lil Mandy and joined the crowd drop-shotting, we caugh about 30 non-keepers the next two hours. Bite was very slow and ya had ta really shake that 5 3/4" Kut tail ta git em ta eat it. We then went off to Sandmound and flipped jigs and Kreatures. Lots of "tap-tappers", tail bites and dinks, only managed 3 keepers the next 2 hours before I had to have them back to Brannon Island. No real exciting bite on this day, but it was a special adventure with these two novices who certainly had a blast.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: The bite on the River has gone from "very good" and wide open, to "fair" with the introduction of the full moon. Active fish seem to be concentrated. I see two choices, dropshot and crank for tons of small fish or take your chances with a Spook, Frog or jig-n-grub and fire away at key big fish targets all day long and look for those few explosive bites.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Future pro tour on Saturday as well as my partner pre fished that prior Monday alone and the both of us pre fished Wend. and Thursday. Tough bite for us . Our best day was Monday and Wend. Thursday was a prelude to our day on Saturday. Probably caught 20-30 fish but only weighed in two for 3.5 something. Lost count of the 12 inchers and smaller. The important part is we had a good time, fished hard in both our prefishing and on D day and did not loose any fish. We fished in and around Venice , disapointment and the San Joaq. River.
    I think alot of the time we loose site of what this is all about, fellowship, the hunt, competion, friendship, and the freedom to participate in events such as this. Thanks to Vence and all the future pro staff who got up earlier and stayed later to make this circuit happen-- Good Job.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Most of our fish came from flipping the first foot back into green hycanthias(sp) as well as one early topwater fish on a buzz bait. Personally, I can't wait to see the glow of my black light on Clear Lake. I have been spoiled this Summer.

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    Water Temp: 72-74 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Joe Miller and I fished the Future Pro Tour tournament out of brannan island with 130 other boats. first flight wasn't until 6:15am, the sun was already up and the morning bite was almost gone by the time our boat number came up at 6:35am. the tide was a outgoing to -1ft, we fished around tule islands and long rocky banks. most of out fish came on jigs, senkos and cranking. no frog bite, spooks or blades this time. we missed alot of bites. maybe the tournaments can get started early.
    City: rocklin

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: One person guide trip, nice guy form Vegas. Today we got to look for some better fish. We threw top water all morning to about, we missed a big one on a buzz bait then the first fish in the boat was over 10lbs on a spook, then a 3.5 on a Nip-i-didee and a couple of 2s on the spook. After the 10 I gave the spook to the client I felt bad that I caught it, it was out in open water about 8ft deep. We then fished the tules arounf Franks using a white frog and landed 3 more 2-2.5lbers. As the tide started out the top water bite died, but the speed trap bite was on and we got a couple close to 3lbs and a bunch of keppper to 2lbs cranking close to the current on the islands around Franks. Then we hopped around Holland to Mildred, Orowood and the bite really slowed we caught a few but not very many. At 1::30 we rand over to Quimby and the bite was back on we got 2 3lber flippin one on the new Doc waters Man-o-war and a bunch on the speed trap. Pretty good day about 70 or so fish a limit of 3lber and a 10lb kicker
    City: Concord

    Tips: This time of yera the bite is pretty good so if they aren't biting move. Big ones are mostly on the best ambush sites.

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3 person guide trip, Father and two daughters almost whipped the guys from Texas with about 149 fish and I didn't fish. We started right by Lundborg landing and picked up a couple small one then moved around Franks on the high tide and over the Quimby fishing rocks and weeds out a little deep and finished up in little mandeville. Every fish was caught on a drop shot rig using a Sniper Lures snub in either brown / purple or dark green, eagle claw #2 drop shot hook rigged open. The big fish of the day was only 2.25lb we did get about 50-60 keepers. The guys were beginners and lost atleast as many fish as they caught.
    City: Concord

    Tips: The drop shot fish really wanted a small bait, a great time to get the kids out they will stay busy all day.

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

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    Water Temp: 70-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Don't Mess With TEXAS is what they said! I took out two guys form Texas,we caught and released 169 bass the biggest was about 3lbs most were small but we did manage about 60 or so keepers. Most of the fish were caught drop shotting pumpkin helix cut in half we also caught a ton on the southern shad assassinator spinner bait, bleeding shad speed trap and watermelon and pumpkin helix fished weightless. The fish were everywhere we stopped form Frank's to Holland except the rocks on Holland cut. On the high tise we fished shallow rocks and islands when the tide went out we fished canals and areas that concentrate the fish. The better fish came from prime ambush spots mostly points.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Toss the Helix weightless www.docwaterslures.com then when it get torn up save it for drop shotting, it really works great. For non believers I can suppply the guys email address.

Friday, August 20th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Paradise Point at 6:00A this morning with my 2 cousins. Caught 3 limits of black bass and 1 5lb striper.

    First black bass caught was 4 lbs. Last black bass caught was 7+ lbs (took time to weigh her and then released her). Most of the bass caught were 1.5-2 lbs. Caught a ton of dinks. Off the water by 1:30P. Best 5 around 18 lbs.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Fish caught inside open areas of weed beds or along outside edge. Most of the bass (including the big one) were caught on a 1/2 oz shad colored Rat L Trap (color code RT836). Used 1/2 oz char/white or 3/8 oz white spinnerbaits and got a lot of action too.

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The bite was good today on Franks,Sure hope we can maintain the quality for Saturday,white was the color of our frogs.Good Luck to all Saturday & Sunday.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Worked them fast,seemed more Blow ups came from areas where there was tules.

Monday, August 16th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Last couple of weeks has been steady fishing. spinnerbaits, topwater(chug bugs, spooks, frogs), Crank baits all working at diffrent stages of the tide. Big fish was 8.5 on topwater.
    City: Sacramento

Sunday, August 15th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Left Big Break aroun 0700 and went to fishermans cut area and picked up 3- 2 pndrs on wht and char spinnerbait. left there and went to Franks and picked up several for the next 2 hours, headed to potato and picked up several more. Had a good time catching numbers of fish but got nothing over 3 lbs. Spinner baits, senkos, lizzards. Did not use any top water, probably should have.
    City: Fairfield

    Tips: Be safe

Saturday, August 14th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-77 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launch out of paradice point marina @ 5:30am with the basin bassmasters from loomis, a 16 boat tournament. check in at noon. my partner was quency malone an old friend. we fished in white slough for the first part, using a white spinner bait. i hooked three bass and lost them at the boat, then got the winning bass for the tournament a 4.84 lb largemount. we fished around small tule islands with the wind and curents moving passed them, fished from the down and up side of them. not much luck on top water. found three more largies before moving to honker cut using 6" senkos , got four more dinks. we had light winds all day and the temp droped 10 degs until 11 am. tide was moving out early, we found one more keeper off of bishop slough.
    City: rocklin

Friday, August 13th, 2004

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    Water Temp: 73-77

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at franks tract at 4:30am hit a 3pounder off spook,in around weeds.Moved to rock slough at 5:00am and the senko bite was off the richter scale non-stop until 8:15am.Moved down towards mildred and hooked a three 1/2 pound smallie what a blast you heard.Finished inside the harbor of whiskeyslough catchinglittle dinks dropshotting roboworms in green pumpkin biggest going2 1/4 got too hot to trot.Pulled out by 1:00pm
    City: san francisco

    Tips: please use spooks in the morning followed by senkos.And don't forget your best shot.Good luckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.