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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

Saturday, June 22nd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of River's End around 6:30AM. Fished the sloughs around Clifton Court and Coney Island until 2PM. At one point ran up to the tule beds around the train tracks and caught a couple dinks on weightless green pumpkin senko. Marking fish everywhere but could not get them to bite. Threw LV500/150, LC Flashminnow, A-rig, chatter bait in bluegill pattern and senko mentioned above. Is anyone else doing better around this area?
    City: San Mateo

    Tips: Don't fish with/around me. I'm bad luck apparently.

Friday, June 21st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 69-71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: launched b&w 630am; a few bass boats ahead of us. started around the bend on the moke. water was colder than last week...69deg... had 1 bassboat with some cool guys who just chatted up with us a bit...they had just lost a good one. then they moved across to work the rock wall. my bud and I continued on down past the first dock and on to our fav tule islands....a few dinks but nothing...wind was really picking up. managed 2 good keepers and about 5-6 almost working a lighter crankbait (little mini speedtrap) on spinning gear right up against the tules....cranke twice as soon as the bait hit the tule wall, then stopped and waited...if I didn't get hit, cranked 1 or 2x and would get hit. the earlier bassers came across to us about an hour later and said it was wide open along the opposite rock wall. they reached in and showed us a nice 2-3lber, one of many they said. they went back and we moved on to same side but further down. only managed a couple of barely keepers. so we moved up to sycamore but nothing there...wind was still crazy. moved out to the main slough outside of sycamore and picked up a solid 3lber on blk/red flk senko. decided to move back to main moke and whaddya know, the wind throttled back so we worked some fav hotspots for a total of about 30, about a dozen and a half keepers...water at this point was 71 degrees, still not warm like last weekend but sun was out and it got em movin' around. I even picked up 2 at 1 time on my Jackall Aragon jointed squarebill.... 1st one hit, then 2nd one tried to take it away....lots of fun!
    City: folsom

    Tips: if crankin, throw right up against the tules and just crank 1-2x and stop/pause, the slow roll or crank a couple times. if they're in those tules, they'll come out and take it. also waited for the warmer late morning early pm to throw cranks against the rockwalls and posts....many bass had crawfish in their throats and were bloated from feeding. you'd think they were still ready to spawn .... even the 1-12 inchers looked like they had eggs, but it was just a fat belly from gorging on craws.

    ok, well, hope all the pro-ams out there aren't laughin' at my report....but it's what got us some fish on the hook today....a good day.

Saturday, June 15th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took off early 345am to launch at B&W thinkin' plenty of time...ran smack into Angler's Choice tourney so just grabbed a parking spot on the grass and waited for them to take off...noticed majority took off to the right under Hiway12. We launched about 5am and went left to the Moke and our fav tule strips and started crankin' a red craw speed trap; buddy loves to go light like Jarrett E (light spinning 4lbtest) so he was throwin' a little rebel diving crank (like what you'd use for trout). We both were nailin' shaker stripers left and right but no blacks. Moved down to second set of tule strips and picked up some 1lbers and then 15ft from the boat a 4lber hits his rebel...he plays it for about 7-8mins and we boated it. Immediately after he drops it back in, I hook up with a 3lber on a blk/red flk senko. We picked up about 5more each, avg about 1-2lbs...he continued to crank with the rebel and sometimes a red craw lipless, me on the senko and sometimes the speedtrap. Picked up a 22" striper on the speedtrap. Went to sycamore but water is muddy/stained all over there unless you go way in but we didn't connect so we moved back to the Moke and continued to slam the 1-3lbers at various areas of the tules. Fish were full of crawdads and hittin' cranks...I even downsized to a small Rick Clunn red craw square bill and we just had fun on the light tackle. My power drive trolling motor steering died (I know, better to have cable) so we called it a day about 2:30pm.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Since the ratio of hookups was about 3 or 4 to 1 in favor of my bud, I downsized and found them nailin the small baits...even the almost keeper stripers we got (5 were 17.5") were on the small cranks. After seeing small fry, crawdad tails, and pinchers stickin' out of the small bass we were getting, we knew they were on a feeding binge on craws and tiny baitfish so we threw smaller cranks. we weren't really concerned whether the big ones bit...we've caught many PBs on tiny baits. we just wanted to hookup and have fun. btw, DFG was out in force and checked us after watching us gettin' slammed by the shaker stripers. They were very cool.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Spent most the day inside and outside of Mildred. Caught 19 fish on 5 types of baits. Texas rigged with brass n glass Yamamoto craw and senkos produced most the fish. Caught a few cranking and on spinnerbaits. Best 5 went 12-13 lbs. Couldnt catch any decent fish.
    City: Lafayette

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 71.6

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water about 8:00a. We fished around Mildred Island during the rest of the incoming tide and the outgoing tide. Caught about 20-25 bass, only 10 were keeper size. Biggest bass was around 2.5-3.0 pounds. Caught most of the fish on chatterbaits fished over the top of weeds. Also caught fish on a frog, buzz bait, and crank bait.

    Tips: We tied our lures directly to 65 lb braid. Caught the biggest bass on a white/chartreuse chatterbait that dove to the bottom of the weeds. The braid cut the weeds as I pulled the bass out. Doubt I would have boated the bass if I was not using braid.