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Saturday, September 14th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 69-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started across from B&W; picked up 2 11"ers on red crankbaits. Outgoing tide was strong so went to tule strips and picked up a bunch of striper shakers to 17" on cranks and havoc sick fish 3.5"...fun but wondering where the bass were. continued fishing moke on inside/outside weedlines with cranks, spinnerbaits, jigs, and senkos, but only picked up a few here and there and most were barely keepers. Ran up to Sycamore and water was warmer, about 72-73, but on the low tide, same junk fishing as the main Moke. Just couldn't come up with anything sizeable today. Not even solid keepers.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Aboluly NONE. Sure would welcome some other more productive reports/tips. Ran into one bass boat working tule strip opposite direction we were working it...as we crossed, I told him we were only picking up here and there, bite was slow. He said same for him and his partner. He was cool. Was it a lockjaw day? Was for us.

Saturday, September 7th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 69-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W for a half-day of bassin'... started on the Moke at our tule strips...brother immediately hooks up a 2lber slow-rolling a white spinnerbait w/white trailer along the weedline. thought that was a sign for some action. Not. Hits were spotty at best as even with the high and outgoing tide, crankbait hits were so-so with many only about 10". I did get a nice spunky 20" striper early on but didn't hit anything else til late morning. Around noon, we ran up to the island just outside of Sycamore and tried to find moving water but everything seemed to be a dead calm the whole morning. I finally got a fat 2lber on a black/blue flk 5" senko. Ran back up the moke and picked up a couple more each on senkos. Ratio of catchin' was about 3:1 in favor of my brother.
    City: folsom

    Tips: None. Sure could use some suggestions when the wind isn't blowin' and the water is dead calm, whether high outgoing or low. thanx!

Thursday, September 5th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 70 ish

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went tubin in Sevenmile for decent action. Two punching, several smallish bass on red bomber crank and a couple on senko. Lost a big fish on frog fly right before dark after it buried me up in the grass. One dink on buzzbait. Red crankbait was the best.

    Tips: For me, low tide is a good time to dropshot. If its early or late, topwater. Dropshot 6" roboworms on a 1/0 roundbend offset shank hook to make it weedless. Drag it or hop it vertically outside the grass. Topwater work around the top of the grass with a buzzbait or frog. Strikes may come way out off the bank.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Mokelumne south of Hwy 12 and Potato Slough. Very windy at times but managed several bass - around 15. The largest was 3 lbs. The bite seemed to turn on and off so it was either very slow or lots of action all at once. A couple were caught on a red speed trap (including one small mouth from a rocky bank) but the rest were on plastic worms with wacky and Texas rigs about 50/50.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: The worm fish were either at the base of the tules near moving water or just outside the weed line.

Saturday, August 31st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 76-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went to sycamore for the first time in a while so had no real expectations. Fished the weed line along the bank and found fish both inside and out. Med diver crank bait and filpped for outside and frogs pop-r and flipped the inside. All techniques produced fish but only a few in the 2-3 lb range.
    After the tide bottomed out punched and frog the mats in some of the coves. Again most fish were of the smaller size. wind made fishing the islands a little tough most of the day. good to see that sycamore still producing even if it's not the bigger fish.
    City: elk grove

Friday, August 30th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W 6:30, water was smooth and still, not much movement. Brother picked up 3 decent keepers in a row, best 2.4 (ok not real big but fat bellies always look good to us) on white spinnerbait with curly tailed trailer, slow-rolled on outside edge of the weedline. After I got nothing on a lipless crank and senko, I tied on a Dandy Mr Boops spinnerbait and immediately picked up 3 keepers, best 2lbs; we kept working the moke moving south and then ran back up and worked the tules and punch mats for another 9 keepers...nothing over 2lbs but still fun. Nothing on topwater, not even a ripple or a bump, much less any blowups. But the lipless crank worked along with a 3.5" havoc sick fish on a dart head for some fun on light action spinning.
    City: folsom

    Tips: We don't have much on tips cuz we just try what we like (crankin', spinnerbaits, senkos). Just out there having fun. We usually just try to move out a bit but we always seem to return to the weed edges and tules no matter what tide. I'd like to really know how to work the low tide so if anyone cares to offer up some low tide tips, it's appreciated. thanx!!

Thursday, August 29th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 76

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday 8-29-13, my buddy and I launched out of Rosso’s (7 AM) at low slack tide. We started fishing cuts on the North end of Frank’s track. The bite was very good for about two hours as the tide was coming in. Around 10:00, the bite turned off. However, by this time, we had 10 fish. Around noon, we had enough of fighting the strong winds and current and moved into Pipers Slough for some protection. Again, we fished the cuts and islands entering into Frank’s Track. When we quit at 3:30, we had 10 more fish. Considering the windy conditions, 20 fish for the day wasn’t bad. None were big. We had one at 3½ lbs, three at 2½, a few at 2 lbs and rest under 2 lbs About half of the fish were caught using Wacky- style Senkos on a heavy-duty drop-shot rig to hold the Senko down in the current. The other half were caught drop-shotting six in. RoboWorms.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: Fishing is much more fun when not fishing in strong wind.

Sunday, August 18th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: not my day to be typing... correction: senko color 956, not 946.
    Watermelon w/Copper Fl./Orange w/Red Fl
    sorry for the constant correction.
    City: folsom

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Somehow some of my text disappeared at "best going 3.7 on a 5" keitech salty stick in red crawdad. #946 Watermelon w/Copper Fl./Orange w/Red Fl (aren't you glad I don't just give a #?)"
    The #946 was a Senko and it was the other producer. The Keitech salt core stick caught the 3lber but the Senko 946 wtrmln w/copper flk and orange w/red flk caught a bunch or the 1-2 lbers. We ended the day with 25 total but only about 15 decent keepers. Was still a good 1/2 day...off the water by 1pm.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Similar to DeltaBassBuster below...I've seen his vids, knows his stuff. (DBB, hope you don't mind me sayin).

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W 615am, lowering tide and water wasn't moving much. Worked around the corner at the Moke...picked up a mess of shaker dink stripers while cranking square bills and lipless in red craw. Couldn't pick up much else on the crank cept 6"-10"ers. All the fav spots just didn't produce. Went to 5" wacky senko's and downsized wiggle tail plastics on 1/8oz jighead.. brother used 4" swim senkos and we started picking up fat bellied 1-2 lbers, best going 3.7 on a 5" keitech salty stick in red crawdad. #946 Watermelon w/Copper Fl./Orange w/Red Fl (aren't you glad I don't just give a #?). Majority of the finesse hits were in 3-6 ft at the tules. Then my brother put a white split tail trailer on a white double willow spinnerbait and picked up 3 fat bellies along the rock wall in about 6-10 ft slow rollin' off the bottom. We continued working all the way down almost to Tower but then decided to give our cranking spots another try....nope, nada, zip... oh wait, I got another 10"er crankin' a LuckyStrike Rick Clunn square bill in red craw over the weedline. That was it for my cranking success today.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Just like DeltaBassBuster said (btw, glad you're back!) we just tried different things, though we were a bit hardheaded hoping the crankin' would turn on. But we went to senkos and downsized plastics with curl tails and finessed them.

Saturday, August 17th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 80 - 84 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: It's nice to be back on the water again(sadly though the Custom Valco BASSBUSTER1 stayed in the garage). A friend/co-worker invited me out to fish with him in his bass boat today. We launched out of Ladds at 7:00 a.m. and was off the water by 4:00 p.m. Total together we caught about 30 bass today with big fish going 3.5 pounds. With the over cast skys today I was surprised it seemed to me it was mostly a finesse bite probably from the crasy weekend boating traffic. We fished 5-10 feet of water when ever possible and wanted to stay around sloughs closest to the main channel even though it meant getting beat up by the boating traffic. Wacky rigged Zoom Trick Worms worked best for me today. We also caught a few on 5" Senkos. Had one blowup on a frog in open water early in the morning. Basically no reaction or topwater bites for us. Concentrated on riprap and tules with sparse floating vegetation.

    Tips: keep changing up until the bass tells you what they want and be contenet with what you catch.

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Orwood. TW was slow, but caught fish on senkos and punching. Fished from Indian slough, Old river and down to Hammer island. Fish were tight to tules with high water and got'em on the weed edges during the last part of the outgo. Ended with about 30 fish including about 8 dinks and a 6#kicker.
    The success was mainly due to luck and tips from 2 guys. Bob at the launch ramp gave me tips on senko fishing. Towards the end of the day I met a guy on Victoria who gave me tips on punching. I want say a big thanks to both of them as they had a big part in my good day. Hey Bob, hope you had your 50 fish day!

    Tips: Seems like the fish want plastics with some red. Punch the weeds.

Sunday, August 4th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched 645am B&W...tourney guys already in the water. Stayed clear and let em work through if we intersected. Worked tules along the Moke throwing suspending spot and red eye shad lipless cb's in crawdad colors...lots of 1-2lbers that had fat bellies. also worked senkos in junebug and watermelon/copper/orange... same thing, many 1-2 lbers and smaller, nothing larger. quit at 1230pm.
    John C... I had my Yukon XL vandalized about a month ago...broke both driver and passenger locks and then broke a window and got scared off by a kid fishing the dock. Since then, I've started fishing close by and I don't keep anything worth anything in my truck anymore. Lowlife scum! Louis at B&W assures me the parking lot is being watched closer and with cameras. Hope they catch the ^%^&)%$ers!
    City: folsom

    Tips: Threw suspending spots and red eye shad lipless crankbaits in orange and red craw. threw to tules and worked slow over the weedlines. sometimes got bit immediately at the tules or sometimes as it passed over weedline. fish had fat bellies, even the 8-10 inchers. worked senkos same thing...to tule lines and cuts and worked out to the inside weedline. either got bit immediately or just pulling up and over the weedline.

Thursday, August 1st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 72 - 74

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday 8-1-13, my buddy and I launched out of Rivers End (9:30 AM) about 1½ hours before low tide. We fished around Coney Island until 4:00. The bite wasn’t real consistent but we did manage to catch 17 fish for the day. Most of our fish were caught on points with moving water. None were big but almost all were keepers. Wacky- style Senkos on a heavy-duty drop-shoot rig work best. To hold the Senko down in the current, I used a ¼ oz sinker. A large ribbon-tailed worm rigged Texas style also worked to catch several fish. We did try several other techniques with limited success.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: Eat your lunch/snack at slack tide.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Test
    City: elk grove

Saturday, July 27th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Ladds (Buckley Cove) Beware... Got on the water around 8ish off the water by 4. Catalytic Converter stolen, I drive a white truck as busy as the Marina was that day, I'm sure someone seen something? I'm not asking for anyone to get involved, just be aware. We all enjoy being outdoors on the water, Just Be Aware!

    Tips: Fishing was great, Punched along the NE tulles, frog bite was decent.

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 75-79

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the high to the low tide down south. Had good topwater action all day on Plopper, Buzzbait, Frog, Buzz Frog. Fished tulle islands and banks, but most fish were caught on the north facing bank of tulle islands.

    Tips: Stay off the bank when fishing the topwater. They were out in the weeds.

Sunday, July 21st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off on the west side of Franks throwing blades and picked up a couple small keepers, moved to rip rap bank near Quimby Island and stuck five or six on purple/brown Berzerk Baits 3/8 oz jigs with yamamoto twin tail trailers in green pumpkin.
    Moved into Mandeville and started throwing buzz baits and blades, we caught another ten fish and culled up to a twelve pound plus limit!

    Tips: Fish first major break off the rip rap banks working into the current.

Friday, July 19th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Stockton. Stayed on main river throwing top water for first few hours. Several fish and one that went 8+ lbs on a Persuader buzz bait. Went deep with shakyhead plastics and found most fish relating to rock/weeds.

Friday, July 12th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 74-76 degrees

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished July 12-14 around various parts each day. It was pretty windy and cooler on Fri from the prior days, and Sunday. We tried some topwater but thought the cooler winds would shut it down. We got nothing except Sat when there was a warming trend. Most everything was on cranks and senkos on inside weed edge. Seems more fish were around grass, not around tulles, at least for us.

    Tips: red crankbaits on rock walls. Senkos on inside weed edge.