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Saturday, October 12th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 61.7

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W around 6:45am and started down the Moke throwing lipless cranks. Brother immediately picked up a 1.5lber and then 2 more solid 2.5lbers. For every solid keeper my bro landed, I hooked a dink or barely keeper. Tried senko's but only managed more dinks. My bro stayed with his lipless as well as a speedtrap, both in craw with orange belly. Don't know how many, but he finished the day with a bunch of 1 and 2 lbers and I finished with as many dinks. Not one keeper for me today. Oh well!
    City: folsom

    Tips: Whether low tide, incoming, or high tide, my brother threw to the tules and got hit at the weedlines. That was his pattern. I tried it, but just didn't work for me. I had no pattern...had no luck today. But still a good day for my big bro.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Russo's at 630 went north to Georgiana Slough. Found a 50' dock where the fish were stacked up. Lost count on how many fish we caught there. For a while it was a fish every cast. Most of the fish were 1.5 to 2+ biggest was 5.3. Did catch a nice 2+ Smallie. 6" plastic worms either watermelon red or green pumpkin. Off the water at 3. Btwn two of us 50-60 fish

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Tried way north today. Went to Snodgrass before first light. Buzz bait bite was really nice. First stop got 4 fish 2-4lbs. Cranked a square bill for a while but only a few small takers. Moved farther in when the sun was higher and marked tons of bait. cranked wind blown weed bed for quite a few fish from 8"-3lbs. Sad to say the top water bite was gone. Off the water by 12. Not a bad day for a short trip.
    City: elk grove

Saturday, September 28th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 65-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7AM. Got a couple on topwater within the first hour. Fished shallow cranks, jerk baits and LV200 but no takers. Switched to drop shot and caught em that way for the rest of the day. 12 keepers in the boat for two of us but nothing over 2lbs. Tons of dinks and missed tons more both on drop shot plus two punching.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Learn how to use a fairy wand. I didn't until last week and didn't realize what I was missing. Bit almost every Roboworm I had: Mean Green, Pumpkin Punisher, MMIII, Aaron's Magic.

Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 69-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out sun. Weather channel said clear sky and warm. That's what I get for trusting the weather service. Morning was cold, overcast, and breezy. Weather aside,with the storm the day before there was no top water bite for us. After the water dropped and exposed some of the deeper weed lines and the sun made its way out the flip bite was on. Lots of fish but very few but in the 2lb or higher class. the better fish came off weeds where there is a big drop off right against the weed line.
    City: elk grove

    Tips: If yesterday was any indication, after a storm back off and look for the first cover in deeper water. Still looking for where the bigger ones go!

Wednesday, September 18th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 72 - 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Wednesday 9-18-13, my buddy and I launched out of Holland Riverside Marina (6:30 AM) at high tide. Right outside the marina, we started catching small keepers. Almost all fish were caught on sparse Tule points and up to 50 feet on both sides of these points. The bite was consistent but slow until low tide. During low slack tide, we moved to the outside of Mildred’s Island. The bite picked up again a little after the tide started moving in. The same pattern fished earlier held. However, we were catching many more dinks. By 4:30, we had over 30 fish with only about a third of them keepers. The larges keeper was only about 2½ lbs. About half of the fish were caught using Wacky-style Senkos on a heavy-duty drop-shot rig. The other half were caught drop-shotting six in. RoboWorms.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: Tule points produce many more fish than long stretches of tules.

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

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    Water Temp: Forgot to check

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 7:30. Nailed a 3lb 14oz on top water (Sammy, bluegill) 3rd cast. Sadly it was all downhill from there. 6 keepers in the boat for two of us. Countless dinks. Wind picked up around late morning which just made things worse.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Get out before the wind picks up.

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood at 6:00am on first light. Tide was low, bottoming out at 8:45.

    I fished until 12:30 around the south and eastern sloughs of Woodward Islad. 16 fish, half dinks, half keepers. Biggest to 2 lbs.

    Early morning, caught dinks and keepers on shallow squarebills bouncing off inner weed lines or right up against tules. Early morning fish were really shallow, despite being low tide. Topwater and the outer weed edge were all unproductive in this situation.

    Later in the day after the slack, I caught the remaining fish on reaction bites with swim jigs and various depth crankbaits. The young ones were active. Other fisherman reported the same lack of bigger fish
    City: Redwood City

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.