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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.

Thursday, July 11th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 81 - 83

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday 7-11-13, my buddy and I launched from Russo’s(6:00 AM) just before high tide and fished Frank’s Track all day. We didn’t find fish until the tide started going out. The bite lasted from about 8:00 until about 2:00 when the tide went slack. Almost all fish were caught on Tule points facing into the current. Most were caught on wacky- style Senkos on a heavy duty drop-shoot rig. About a ¼ oz sinker was needed to hold the Senko down in the current along the Tule line. We finished at about 2:30 with more than 20 fish. The largest was just under 4 lbs. Only a couple were dinks. We did try several other techniques with limited success.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: Fish points facing into the current. Eat your lunch/snack at slack tide.

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    Water Temp: 71-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W around 10am; worked Moke toward Tower just crankin' a suspending Cordell Spot in Texas Red around piling and log structure; picked up 9 keepers and a whole bunch of spunky 8-10 inchers. Also picked up 5 keepers on Senkos...junebug and monster shad. Windy at first but fortunately it settled down to a breeze. Outgoing tide. Quit at 2pm to beat traffic.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Worked any structure we could bump the crankbaits and worked tule cuts with the senkos. Also threw cranks to rock walls and either burned them over the weeds or if there was weed clumps, just slow rolled em past the weed clump...got bit as it passed about 10ft off the rocks. All fish had fat bellies with craws in them.

Saturday, July 6th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood again at 6:15. Immediately got bit just outside of the no wake zone. Ran over to Bull Frog marina and picked up another. Overall I boated around 15 fish but only 8 kept. Partner boated around 10, 5 keepers. Most were on the levee breaks and weed lines (or combination of both) around Little Mandeville and Mildred Islands. Most were on LV150 shad but some on plastics and jerk bait (ghost craw, shad, ms American shad). Several stripers but all shakers. Also fished the flooded timber at north and south ends of Mildred. Water was gin clear. Fishy as hell but no takers. Need to figure this out.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Breaks: Look for moving water, throw into where ever the water is deflecting. In our case it was a weed line.

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    Water Temp: 70-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: CLARIFICATION to previous report ... when it warmed up, we went back to crankin' so when we started finding logs and tule structure that looked like it would give a bass some cover, we hit it. I love this cordell suspending spot... it will just sorta float til you work it, then crank, pause, crank pause.... they didn't hit on the pause, they hit on the next crank. go figure!
    City: folsom

    Tips: all in the prev report. well, that worked for us. the pro-ams were probably knockin' em out on other stuff but we got em on senkos and cranks when the above water temp got warm. (74-76). off to east cape for tuna/dorado/roosters/aj's/whatevers.... tight lines everybody!!! even the guys that don't wave back.

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    Water Temp: 70-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W 515am...kinda cold and windy. Was expecting the crankbait bite to be on but only an occasional dink. Moved on down the Moke and when it was apparent the crankbaits weren't what they wanted, went to senkos and curly tailed plastics. Immediately picked up 3 one and possibly two pounders. OK, kept workin' the plastics til it started to warm up and in that time, picked up several almost keepers and about 3 more solid keepers. Also lost what looked to be at least a 4lber, possibly bigger but the way it jumped and shook out my senko, just looked bigger than what we were catchin'...and that was in 3ft under a log. Got warmer and we found another log... I picked up 5 keepers including a 2lber and my bud picked up a nice 3lber. I kept workin' that log at different angles (my tracker 185 only has a 55lb minn kota so I make the movement work for us by hitting different angles) and for whatever reason, we got about 8 decent fish outta that log. just kept movin' on down the Moke on one side and looked for logs and pilings all along the way. picked up a few more here and there....called it a day around 2:30pm after everything was just churned up from the huge cruisers and wake boats....everything just sorta shut down cept maybe an occasional dink.
    City: folsom

    Tips: We looked for shaded or structure type tules and would throw cranks (I used a suspending cordell spot...love it cuz it won't just sink if you miscast it and you can stop and it'll just sit there and drive em crazy)....anyway we threw the cranks right up against the tules, then slooooow retrieve til they cleared the weedline at a diagonal path....i'd get hit 1. right at the tules 2. just over the weedline/log 3. just past the weedline or log if I paused. bam!~
    FUN DAY! and my truck didn't get broke into again. Louis, bud at B&W came out to talk to me about my break-in 2 weekends ago. He's watchin' and checkin' the camera tapes. Also, I got buds that are LEO and CO. word's out.... maroon Camaro perp. and B&W is being watched now.

Monday, July 1st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished Franks tract area,Middle River. Caught fish all day long I tossed a Frog and a crank my partner threw a senko no big ones but constant action all day

    Tips: the hotter the air temp the better for tossing a Frog

Sunday, June 30th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: left Ladds at daybreak. about 40 caught but nothing over about 2.25 lbs. Most on Zoom super speed craw, senkos and red Rapala crank. Rising tide to high tide about 10am. Best 5 about 10 lbs. Hotter an blue blazes.

    Tips: Crank outside weedline for prety good action. Senkos and speed craws to bank dragged out to inside weedline.

Friday, June 28th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 73 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Another late start but this time 7AM out of Orwood for the first time. Started with top water just outside the no-wake zone but no takers. Made my way north up to Little Mandeville, over to Mildred, down to Bullfrog Marina then back to ramp. Managed 15(!) using weightless Senko (grn pumpkin), KVD2.5 (chili craw), LV500 (Shad), Flashminnow (shad), 100SP MS American Shad. Focused on inside/outside weedlines depending on tide. Nothing over 2lbs but non-stop action was fun.
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Focus on weedlines, inside and out. Caught 'em all that way today.

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: BigBuddy - Seems like conditions changed greatly from Sat-Sun with the front moving in. I wonder if that had something to do with the bite. I've got an '07 PT190 with a motor that sounds like a hair dryer. Say 'hey' if you see me.
    City: San Mateo

Wednesday, June 26th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: El Guapo, I fished that area on Sunday. It was a hurricane that day but did manage to pick up 13 bass and a striper. Caught most of the bass on a Texas rigged beaver and a few on a crankbait. There r a ton of good looking areas around there but couldn't fish most of them Due to the wind. Good luck
    City: Lafayette

Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched 6am B&W, expected to see more but not a lot of boat trailers. Started out on the tules in the Moke; a little windy and picked up some dinks. Tried the rock wall and picked up some keepers but nothing big; crankin lipless and shallow divers in crawdad as well as white with black back. Continued to fav hotspot and picked up a few more 1 & 2 lbers but considerably slower than the prev day's fishing. Went back and forth from various fav tules and rock wall sections and picked up more 1 & 2 lbers and also watched a very large 4-5+ lber follow a small keeper...then noticed about 2-3 others around it. Tried to immediately follow with cranks and senkos but they wouldn't take. Ended day with maybe 18-20. Cranks and senkos mainly.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Not much to offer, just kinda tried crankin', then went back over and worked senkos. then back to crankin' and each time got bit, but nothing hot.
    btw, my truck was vandalized and attempted break-in at B&W so watch out. Sac Sheriff Deputy responded and left a card on my windshield, so someone obviously interrupted the low-life scums and reported it. I came back to a broken rear window and both driver/passenger door locks/mechanisms disengaged. But nothing stolen. We launched at 6am; report said they responded at 7:24am...barely an hour and a half after we launched. For the next few launches, I think we're gonna return every hour or 2 just to check. ...and lord stay my hand if we catch someone. Whoever reported the break-in, THANK YOU!! I'da done the same!!

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Rivers End and fished from 7-12. God was it windy!!!! Couldn't fish any of the areas I wanted to. Ended up with 13. Caught them on cranks, senkos, drop shot 1 on a frog and a beaver. All but one were rats. Never fished that far south. Awsome looking areas for flipping just to damn windy today.
    City: Lafayette

    Tips: Before you take your boat out, please know how to run one. Had to tow a ski boat into today with 4 mid twenty yr olds on it. They said they had way to much oil in their motor and when I told the guy to clip the tow rope on his bow eye he asked me "where is that" all I could do is laugh. Good luck fishing everyone