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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.

Saturday, May 24th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched 615am at B&W and decided to try something different than we usually start (Moke) so we turned right and headed to SJR / Frank's Tract. Wind was whippin' pretty good on the open river so once we got to a rock wall (sorry, I'm not good with all the names of the rivermarks) just northeast of Frank's, we just drifted with the wind throwing lipless cranks in red craw. picked up many shaker stripers and a few almost keeper bass. decided to make our way to Little Connection/H&H for a bio break. Then went through Tower and back to our fav - Moke tules/rockwalls. There we hit more shakers and one nice 24" striper and some 1-2lber bass... mainly on lipless cranks but a few on wacky senkos in watermelon/red flk. Wind calmed down so we moved to Sycamore. There the bite was good for senkos while my buddy continued hookin up with small cranks...I mean small... like small rapalas used for trout. he also caught about 5 using a small curly tailed roboworm in shad pattern (he likes downsizing and using light tackle) Decided to work the crankin' again and we were getting bit as we ran them over weed beds...you could see 2-3 come out of the weedbed to chase the crank and one would take it. none were very big, maybe 1-2lbs max. stayed the rest of the day there til around 2pm and called it a day. high numbers of hits but nothing real big.... but just big fun.
    City: folsom

    Tips: ran our cranks diagonal and throwing straight to the tule edges, usually getting hit within 2-3 cranks or else as it strafed the tops of the weeds. some hits right at the boat, both striper and blacks. threw my wacky senko right at the tules and as I dragged over weeds, would either hit or just load up. not sure if we're even close to the right pattern for this time but seemed to work for us...mainly because we like crankin' and when that don't work, we throw senkos or downsizing to small curl tail roboworms.
    Worked for us this time around.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: I launched out of B&W at about 5:30 and headed to Little Mandeville Island. I picked up 1 but that went a little over 3#, but it seems that the action there has died out. I moved further south and keyed on sparse tules in about 5-10 feet of water with open water behind them and picked up another that was a little under 4#. The action was slow until the tide turned at 2:00 and started heading back out. Once the current started moving out the bite turned on quick and the frog was lights out. I caught 4 fish in 6 hours on the incoming tide and I caught 4 fish in 2 hours on the outgoing tide. The frog bite was in open water near weed mats and tules, but no action on top of the mats. All-in-all it was a great day with 11 fish and many more opportunities missed. My best 5 went about 14 lbs.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: The fish seemed to be shut down (or at least I couldn't locate them) during the incoming tide. I keyed on sparse tules that were near deeper water during that time with some good quality bites on a weightless texas-rigged senko, but there were just not many of them. The frog bite seemed to be from male fry guarders and they were very aggressive on the outgoing tide.

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught several nice largemouths in the Delta east of the SJ River. The largest was 4 lbs. Tried a variety of baits but the only ones working consistently for me were senkos and spinnerbaits. I didn't launch until about 8:30 and the action was very good until about noon, which was high tide. The wind started getting a little stonger then and the action really cooled down after that.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: The senkos needed to be watermelon with red flakes. I tried several other colors without much success.

Saturday, May 17th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 6 out of River's End and it was already windy. Fished east facing walls throughout the day to stay out of the wind. Picked up a 3 3/4 pounder on top water within the first hour. Couple more like that but no more after 9AM. Caught em here and there on drop shot for the rest of the day. Through frogs, cranks, jerkbaits and punched but no takers.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Drop shot is always my go-to technique when things get tough. I like some flash when the water is stained so typically something with chartreuse.

Sunday, April 20th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W again and headed back to Little Mandeville Island before sunrise. Started with buzz baits again and my 9 year old son hooked up with his biggest fish ever at 4 lbs. There's nothing better than seeing a young kid catch his personal best! We moved inside the island and I caught 7 over the next 2 hours using the Texas-rigged senko in green pumpkin with another 6 lb kicker. It was a slower day than the previous one, but still good with our best 5 going about 15 lbs. My dad lost one inside the island near a break that probably would have gone 8 or 9. The big girls still seem to be up shallow so now's the time to go find your personal best.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: The Texas-rigged senko is still the go to bait for us to get the bites and it is still producing the big bites as well with our best 5 for the two days going about 26 lbs.

Saturday, April 19th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: We launched out of B&W about 6:15 and were at Little Mandeville Island before sunrise. We worked some buzz baits and caught a 4lber on the outside of the island near a break. We moved inside and proceeded to catch about 10 fish in the 1 1/2-2 lb range working a weightless Texas-rigged senko in green pumpkin. We moved over to Mildred island and caught 3 more small fish and 1 that went 6 lbs still on the senko. We finished up the day at Mandeville Tip (that what I call it, it's the island just east of Prisoner's Point on the San Joaquin if anyone knows the actual name). I fished the eastern bank to escape some of the wind and caught another 6 lber up shallow in the weeds with the senko. All in all a good day with out best 5 going about 21 lbs.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: We've had more success with the Texas-rigged senko than anything else. I keep working with jigs and cranks, but just don't produce the bites that the senko is producing right now. Work the weed lines and tules slowly and you should have some luck.

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    Water Temp: 65-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W 6:45am, started crankin' at top of the Moke and worked down tule island strips...just one shaker striper on a crank for my brother. Just had the itch to throw cranks..dumb idea I guess.
    Decided to move up to Sycamore..worked jig w/craw trailer along rock wall/tule weedbeds finding potholes. Brother picked up 3 in a row and I followed him with 2 more. 5 total for me, 7 for my brother. brown/green jig w/Strike King Rage Craw in CA Craw color. Was **WINNNDDDYYYY** nowhere to hide from it!
    City: folsom

    Tips: All hits came on the fall except one as I was watching my brother catch one, I realized I was gettin' hit as my jig dragged through the weedbed... and all were aggressive males. 1.5lb avg. Looked for potholes in the weed patches but mostly threw at the wall and popped it back once or twice, then the hit would come letting it fall. Brother used a stinger hook on his jig and caught at least 3 on that stinger. I'm gonna try it next outing.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 66-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7:30 and tried for some top water just outside the no wake zone, but no takers. Slack tide. Ran up to Bull Frog Marina area, still no luck. Ducked out of the wind into Mildred and fished beds for the rest of the day. Caught 13 fish, almost all on drop shot, 23 total for the two of us. Biggest went just shy of 4 3/4 lbs., video here: http://youtu.be/mo9u5WjXgMQ
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: All fish on blue gill pattern Roboworms, 6" Fat. Look for light patches in the 1-4' of water. Most of the time I didn't actually see the fish on the beds but they were always close by. Caught a few fish on weed lines as well.

Sunday, April 6th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 59-62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7:15 and ran up to Franks Tract and fished the back of tule islands. Got windy so ran over to Little Mandeville to fish the breaks. 1 keeper, 1 dink, still a little breezy. On the way down to Disco, saw a little cove where we thought there might be some spawners. Picked up a couple keepers on dropshot (video: http://youtu.be/ivlyHSPSKD0) but saw no beds. Rest of fish came on dropshot (me) and t-rig weightless senko (buddy) down in Disco Bay. 13 fish total for the boat but only 5 keepers. This week should be off the chain.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: I don't care for finesse fishing (too slow) but man if they aren't even biting a jerk bait it's good to know a technique that'll get a bite. For me it's dropshot on 8# Tatsu, Pumpkin Punisher Roboworm. Get's em every time.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught around 15 bass in White Slough and Disappointment Slough but nothing big. Most were in the 1-2 lbs. range with a couple of dinks thrown in. Four were caught on a white/chartreuse spinnerbait, a couple on cranks, and the rest on a blue/black Senko.
    City: Stockton

Friday, March 28th, 2014

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    Water Temp: 60 - 93

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday 3-28-14, we launched out of Holland Riverside Marina and fished inside and outside of Mildred Tract (Island). We fished only with wacky rigged Sencos and drop-shoot rigged 7 in. RoboWorms. We ended the day with 64 fish. Almost all of the fish were caught on several colors of the 7 in. RoboWorms. Try different colors but those that are blue or purple work best. Only a few were caught on 6 and 7 in. Pumpkin and Water Mellon colored Sencos. The fished ranged from 1 lb. to 4 lb. with most in the 2 lb to 3 lb range (all males). The several fish that we caught in the 3 to 4 lb range were female. As the tide moved out there were no fish near shore. They were in at least 5 ft of water off shore and in the trees. Just before high tide and as it started to move out, fish were caught near shore. We did not see any beds.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: The water temperature is right for the spawn. However, it looks like the males are only moving in an out looking for bedding areas. They appear not to be committed yet because of the cold nights and the new moon.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7:15. Got one on top water just south of there then a couple more strikes. Picked up a couple more on a tule island point. Picked up dinner on another island point with a 46' drop off (see video). Few more here and there. All in all, pretty slow day with 7 fish including the striper. Still fun though. Here's the video: http://youtu.be/9G5kiXLQGq4
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: 2nd weekend on the Delta with the Luck-E-Strike RC Stick. Really produce numbers but haven't run into any bigger fish yet. Caught a couple on dropshot in Disco bay too using roboworms. Didn't see any bed fish and we were running around all over the place.