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Friday, April 19th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Main, sounds like the conditions report on Bill Dance Outdoors!

Monday, April 15th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 8:30 - 11:30 High Tide
    From Accuweather for time between 8-12
    Moon Phase:Waxing Crescent
    8:05 AM
    48°
    Fair
    FELT LIKE:43°
    HUMIDITY:97%
    WIND:WSW at 12 mph
    VISIBILITY:10.0 mi
    DEW POINT:47°
    PRESSURE:29.87 in
    11:04 AM
    60°
    Sunny
    FELT LIKE:60°
    HUMIDITY:58%
    WIND:SW at 14 mph
    VISIBILITY:10.0 mi
    DEW POINT:45°
    PRESSURE:29.88 in

    Tackle-
    Dobyn's 805
    Powell 7105
    Abu Garcia premier both rigs.
    Pro Line 80 lb braid both reels
    Bait rig in order of assy.
    1. Bobber stop
    2. Elite Tungsten Blk Flippin 1.5oz
    3. Paycheck Punch Skirt sn#1010 color-Bub's Money Craw 4. 5/0 straight shank hook, snell knot.
    5. Innovations SWB-016BigTexan,4.20(orange side faces hook) 6. Smelly Jelly elite 3xxx crawfish Time/conditions 8:30- 11:30
    Caught 1 Fish 6lbs13oz - punchin' weed mat near Russo's Marina
    Caught 3 Fish- 1@5lb4oz, 1@2lb, [email protected] reeds/submerged tules sticking out of water in franks tract.

    Used same rig for punching and dragging through reeds.
    City: Sunnyvale

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 60-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched b&w 7am and straight to sycamore. no bites til we worked almost all the way in to the split. picked up 6 on blk/red flk senkos. moved to the outside of the slough entrance and threw red lipless cranks for 4 more and 2 more on senkos. off the water at 130pm.
    City: folsom

    Tips: none. we got thrown off by the weather change and just couldn't really adjust to get things going. just the brief honey hole area up sycamore and then last ditch crankin' just to try something different. any tips are always appreciated!

Monday, April 8th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Whiskey slough on Saturday an fished whiskey,Latham an the inside of Mildred island. I took out a youngster for the day an im sure glad i did! We caught around 25 fish inside mildred alone flipping green pumpkin/blk flake 6'' senkos. The average fish was close to 3lbs with multiple fish in the 4-5lb class an the biggest goin 6lbs. The best part of the day was seeing a 12 year old lip a 4 1/2lbr ,he was soo excited.That was his biggest fish hes caught so far! Then when the tide started going out we caught then on blades on the points in Latham...

    Tips: Senkos an blades in Mildred an Latham slough...

Saturday, April 6th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started at fav tule island around the corner B&W; no hits...decided to go straight to Sycamore where we had good action last weekend. However, because it was a low incoming tide and last week was high outgoing, we found the south rockwall and tules were hitting better....not sure why but we took note of that. 20+fish day with virtually all coming on 5" senko in blk/red flk, monster shad, and smoke/blk-prple flk. used bang craw/shad combination scent. pitched to tules, cuts, pockets, and tules jutting out from main strip. biggest fish were a 6.5 and a couple 4s...4.5 and 4.4. rest were 1-2lbers and a few dinks. brother also picked up a few on brown jig and creature. but more consistent bites were on senkos on the drop or working out to the weedline.
    City: folsom

    Tips: not sure...what we did worked for us...just worked the tules and cuts in 4-10ft. we were in low and incoming tide. going into sycamore, all rockwall/tule sections on the right. left side produced a few but not like the bite on the right

Sunday, March 31st, 2013

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    Water Temp: 58-61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&w about 8am, fished first set of tules with RedEye Shad in craw/chartr belly for 4 barely keepers. Then pitched brown jig with junebug craw trailer for two more egg carriers, 3&4lbs. Moved to dock and next 2 sets of tules but no takers and the wind was pushing my tracker 185 at a fast drift so we moved up to the island just outside Sycamore. Picked up 4 more egg carriers between the tules and inside weedline, 2,3&4lbers. Moved into Sycamore and had a great senko bite all along the tules and rock wall. Brother also picked up a couple on craw/yellowbelly speedtrap and a couple more on the jigs, but mostly monster shad and blk/red flk senkos. Pretty good day, even with the wind.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Not sure if what we did is already well-known or if we were even on the current pattern. jigs pitched to open pockets and cuts gave us our bigger egg carriers. wacky senkos at the tules and cuts gave us lots of action; also continued along the rockwall stretches between tules just popping the senko away from the rocks as it settled. Also, I'd work a few cuts and corners 3-4 times and then my brother would work them behind me and get bit...funny! crankbait bite was good for a few but wasn't really turned on for us yet. Probably just due to our choice of where we worked 'em.

Friday, March 29th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 61 - 63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday 3-29-13, my buddy and I launched at 9:30 AM from Holland Track Marina about 1 hour after high tide. We made the long run to Mildred Track and fished that area the remainder of the day. Fish were first caught in 2 to 5 ft of water and as the tide moved out, the fished moved out to 5 to 10 ft. My buddy caught most of our 18 fish for the day. All fish were caught on dark colored Senkos rigged wacky style. The biggest fish caught was 3 lb 2 oz. with the estimated weigh of 12 lbs for our best 5.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: The fish should be on their beds. However, we only saw cruising fish. Perhaps the fish are so skittish that they were off their beds before we could see them.

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    Water Temp: 58-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found a reaction bite this morning around tulle islands near Franks. My buddy was not greatest caster and had fun catching the bucks so I sought out cranking areas all day. He boated 7, I boated 10, but lost 4 and had 4 followers too. Biggest was 7-1/2 pounder! (Striper though.) I did manage a few spinnerbait fish too.

    Tips: There is a reaction bite if you don't mind chasing bucks. Caught spinnerbait fish in sparse tulles. Use Speed traps or BDS 3. color did not seem to matter. They seemed to hit after the bait reached the deep edge of weeds/grass.

Sunday, March 24th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Bank fished east delta today from 7-11am. Caught 7 greenies to 3.5lbs & two bonus stripers. Couple came on spinnerbaits, couple came on jerk baits including the stripers, rest came on creature bait fished texas rigged on a 1/2 ounce bullet aeight.
    City: Oakland

    Tips: How to fish senkos in delta?

    I always fish em weightless or carolina rigged in lakes so I do the same in the delta but the current seems to drift it into weedz before the pocket. How do yall fish em? Texas rigged with bullet weights? Wont that mess up the action?

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 55-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of B&W and headed upriver towards Sycamore. Fished from 8-3 and caught 23 to 3.8. All in all a good day. A little wind helped a lot.

    Tips: They were on the flats and hitting in the weeds in 4-5 ft near deeper water. Most came on red rattletrap but also hit spinnerbaits, jerk baits and senkos. They're moving up!

Friday, March 22nd, 2013

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched B&W 7am; worked tules and weedline taking advice... s-l-o-w.... picked up 4 on junebug and green pumpkin senkos. moved to st francis big boat club and continued working senkos .... blk/red flk and black/blue flk...again... s-l-o-w...and picked up 4 more.
    City: folsom

    Tips: s-l-o-w....hated it, but forced ourselves to wait. even anchored in a few spots... helped preserve the deepcycle battery in the crazy wind...left 1230 pm as the condtions were not fun anymore.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 56-59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday they were picking up dark color Senkos during the outgoing tide. I had an awesome bite for about 1 hour (2-4lb fish). Tues I went back to the same place and nothing was happening - I got some bites dead sticking a Senko. Then the weather got worse and the fishing got better as the tide bottomed out. I started catching fish in moving water off points with a swimbait. 1-3lb fish.

    Tips: Fish shallow protected areas with plastics.
    Fish moving water (cuts and points) with jerkbaits swmibaits

Monday, March 18th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 58.4 to 61.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Checkout the results from the TOC for the hook Line & Sinker from Saturday and Sunday. Saturday 7 teams had 20#+ (27.63# highest) and Sunday 4 teams had 30#+ (34.07 highest). Most teams said that on Sunday the bite had changed to a SLOW Senko bite.

    Tips: If you have an area that you know has fish, stay there until the fish eat. Fish VERY SLOW. They have not moved up yet. Best depth appears to be 8' to 14'

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 58-63

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished middle delta,pretty slow altogether. Caught a total of 12 fish one 4+ a couple of 3's and a few 2's. Caught a couple each on red cranks, spinnerbaits, one on a Senko, The brown jig was the ticket, as Shasta Dan taught me.. fished the bank out to 15 ft, found the best fishing in the back of a slough about 6 ft on the jig.
    City: Delta

    Tips: Not sure, but I'd be throwing the jig all day next trip. It's going to get rolling very soon if the weather holds.

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Can you say 'skunk'? Launched about 745am from B&W and went directly around the corner to our fav tule strips and dock and tried senkos, jigs, cranks. 1st skunk. Headed to our fav island just outside of Sycamore working same presentations. 2nd skunk. moved down to Frank's Tract and fished the tules and rock wall. 3rd and final skunk with exception of a couple of tics from some little bait stealers nipping at my senko...bit one in half when I thought I had a hit and tried to set the hook. No action today. Saw lots of bassboat trailers at B&W but saw only 2 bass boats in the mokulemne. Saw plenty more down by Frank's but don't know if anyone caught. Very windy...par for the course when it's like this!
    City: folsom

    Tips: aboluly none! would love to hear from anyone who did catch. oh, we met up with one boat who launched before us at pirate's lair and they said they had 4 on chatterbait. saw them after we trailered and they had 5total for the day. that's the only report we got.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

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Friday, March 15th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 58 - 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Friday 3-15-13, my buddy and I launched at 8:30 AM from Rossos with a high outgoing tide. All day, we stayed in the area of Frank’s Track. On my first cast, I hooked and lost a fish. I guess it was good luck that I lost this fish, since; we continued to consistently catch fish until about 10:30 when the lower tide turned the bite off. All fish were caught on dark colored Senkos. I rigged mine Texas style and my buddy rigged his wacky style. Both rigs worked equally well. The fish were caught at the entrance to cuts, on the ends of islands and along tule covered shoreline. We ended the day at 5:00 PM with 28 fish. Our best 5 fish weighted 5 lb 12 oz, 4:13, 3:13, 3:8, 3:6 for a total of 19 lb 6 oz.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: The fish are there to be caught but the tide has to right.

Thursday, March 14th, 2013

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    Water Temp: 56.5-58.2

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched my custom rebuilt nitro out of Russos today and fished all my buddy's good spots near franks throwing all his fav baits and did pretty good. I could not find a pattern out for myself so I just did everything that he does and fished all the spots that he showed me. Caught all my fish on spinning rods throwing the a rig. Biggest was a 5 lb stripper that made me excited. Tight lines and good luck out there.
    City: Dub town

    Tips: I really need to learn the delta better and learn how to throw a bait caster.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: There is always the debate of legal and limits. The bottom line is the more bass killed in the delta legal or not, hurts the bass population in that area period. When bass are hauled out in buckets the legal limit issue is all for not. Dead is dead. Kill today and dont catch tomorrow.

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: REALLY!!! Why does the race/ethnicity thing always have to come up. We are all fishermen, outdoorsmen, hunters, etc. so lets leave the race/ethnicity thing out. Please do catch and release, but if you want to keep a fish, it's legal to do so, and you're keeping it legally the regulations have your side. Just because some people prefer to strictly practice catch and release they shouldn't impose/coerce their beliefs onto others, but rather educate. Those that have a problem with people catching and keeping fish go read the REGULATIONS. It's pretty much straight foreward for bass. If you still have a problem then why don't you take the proper actions to make changes to the regulations rather then bash on people, race, ethnicity, etc. online?

    Tips: Get over the race/ethnicity thing. Shut your mouth and fish. If you have a problem fix it legally.