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Friday, October 5th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 65-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood today and caught a bunch of large mouth and stripers on top water baits. My buddy caught our big fish a nice 6.0lber, caught fish from sun up to 2pm. The weather change seemed to really help out. Delta is definitely on fire.

    Tips: Get out and Fish!

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Splashed the tube in seven mile next to owl harbor. Slow afternoon until the last hour of daylight and started catching fish on a topwater frog fly. A 3 lb. first and then a 5.5 on the flyrod. A few other keepers on the fly and a sammy. Flat calm conditions helped the bug get noticed right away. I'm just starting out with the flyrod, it is a blast.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Fish the evening hours with any topwater. Try the flyrod, I alternate between it and my conventional gear.

Monday, September 24th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70 - 74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today around 9:00 a.m. and was off the water by 3:00 p.m. Ran out to Big Al's (light 19) to start a topwater bite lasted untill 11:00 a.m. during the start of the incoming tide. A total of 3 bass and 3 stripers today. All three bass were cuaght on a Zara Sook and the three stripers were cuaght on Rat-L-Traps and jigging spoons (18 - 20").
    City: Stockton

Monday, September 17th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 72 - 75 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of ladd's today about 9:00 a.m. and was out about 2:30 p.m. Junk fished today for LM bass and stripers starting at the Turning basin and spent most of my time fishing the Calaveris River. Mojo Shotting the bass with zoom trick worms and there was also a white senko bite. Using Rat-L-Traps as a seach lure cuaght bass and undersized stripers up to 18". Small jigging spoons was the ticket for catching mutiple stripers deep between 15 - 30 feet. The key was finding a good concentration of shad and thuroughly work the area.

    Tips: Have have your rods rigged for LM bass and the other half rigged for stripers to be ready for any opportunity that arises.

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Another great day on the delta! Throwing the Berserk Baits Mad Shad in the crystal green and crystal red and the Light smoke holographic colors. All thes can be purchased at baitbarn.net http://baitbarn.net/berkleybaits.aspx

    Tips: fish were holding in moving water and tight to the cover

Saturday, September 15th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 73 - 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Saturday 9-25-12, my buddy and I launched from Rivers End Marina at high tide (6:30 AM) and fished Coney Island. Before the sun got on the water, we tried top-water baits with one fish and several boil ups. Once the sun was on the water, we switched to drop-shotting RoboWorms and wacky-rig Senko’s. The water was really moving fast during the outgoing tide so we needed to use heavier drop-shot sinkers to keep our bait on the target. During this period most of the fish were caught on 6-inch Roboworms on the inside of the weed line. In the periods just before low tide, slack tide and the start of incoming tide, we had good success using weightless Texas-hooked Senkos. We were almost dead sticking the Senkos in openings between the weeds along a long straight levee including a large turn at the end of the straightaway. The bite turned off, as the tide started to move real fast again. We ended the day at 3:30 PM with about 20 plus fish with the biggest going only 2 lb 8 oz. Most of them were in the 1 -2 lbs range with several dinks. We did see multiple large schools of what I presumed to be 3-inch shad.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: To save Senkos hooked Texas style, I tried the method recommended by “Fresnobassman” (Delta report 7-26-12). In this method your hook is pushed through a ¼ inch section of 3/8 shrink tubing that has been pulled onto the middle of the Senko. It really works. I did not break one Senko through five fish. Now, does anybody have a suggestion on now to prevent the tip of the Senko from splitting where the hook is inserted? After having to reinsert the hook several times in the split Senko, I resorted to cutting off about a ¼ inch.

Friday, September 14th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 68.4 to 71.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Two weeks ago I found a new area for me. It produced 40+ fish, best 5 at 18+# with a 7.43 kicker. Today I got to the area at safe light, fished the area a little with good results. Them expanded the area and found more fish. Best 5 15+. Less fish in the morning but better fish. About 11:00 it went the other way, alot of fish in the 6" to 10" range with an occassional 2-1/2#.

    I had good luck on brown chatterbait, sexy shad speed trap, a small spinnerbait and green pumpkin Senkos.
    City: Antioch

Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Today we fished some new water in the west Delta for stripers. We fished with Rat l traps, jerkbaits and swimbaits. Caught all our fish with Rat l traps and swimbaits. We covered a lot of water from 12 to 6pm and ended up with 12 fish to 13lbs. most in the 3-5lb range. Yesterday evening around 630 we caught black bass and stripers at the bottom of the tide at Big Break. We caught a keeper black bass and had a giant striper hit it at the boat. That was exciting!
    City: concord

    Tips: For stripers: cover water either shallow flats near deeper water or shallow cuts along the main river. slow roll the swimbait. I like white or pearl fish traps.

Monday, September 10th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 71 - 75 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today around 8:30 a.m. and was out by 2:00 p.m. Fished 14 Mile Slough using Rat-L-Traps, blk/red jigs, and mojo shotting zoom trick worms. Big LM bass went 3 pounds on the jig. Searched with the rat-l-trap then slowed down with the jig or worm. Tried looking for stripers also in main channel using my delta schooling rig and had a jigging spoon ready to go as a back up. Water temps are still a little warm, need it to drop into the 60's again.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Transition time is coming, it was mostly a finesse bite for me today. Have fun and be safe out there.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W at 6:30 and fished til 5:00, fished potato slough, started punchin and stuck a 3.5 with an all the options punch skirt and crazy legs chigger craw, good start to an extremely tough day to say the least, tide was extremely low til about 2, thought the incoming tide might produce but the fish just werent up shallow so i put down the flippin stick and went to the zappu head with a 7 inch berkley hand pour and caught 5 more fish but nothing over 1.5 pounds.
    City: Sac

    Tips: I dont have a temp gauge on my boat but the water is considerably colder than it was a couple weeks ago i had to fish extremely slow besides the one punch fish, big thanks to westernbass tv! i know time on the water is the best way to learn but the techniques ive learned through watching pringle, barrack, cooch and tosh, have put a lot of fish in my boat this year!

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: hey riverron...i stand corrected (i think)...if you were in north mokulemne, you were probably legal. i get confused with these regs....
    we launched new hope and fished fav spots from island at sycamore to moke just around the corner from b&w. picked up many dinks and 1-2lbers on red craw and sexy shad lipless and squarebill cranks. that many more on junebug and monster shad senkos either right at the tules or on both sides of the weedline.
    City: sac

    Tips: we worked the area with the cranks and then went back and worked again with the senkos... or vice versa. each time we hit it we'd pick up at least 2-3 on the return. we did this because our boat drifts quick and trolling motor isn't real powerful (55lb) so we miss alot of spots. we also lightened up and even used light spinning tackle to throw downsized cranks and they like those small baits.... fun too on the light tackle.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: RiverRon...better check your regs...I don't think the area you fished for Salmon is open. I could be wrong but that part of the Mokulemne might be closed. If I'm wrong, just take this as concerned so you don't wind up with a huge fine from DFG. They'll be waiting at the boat ramps and checking.
    City: sac

Friday, September 7th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished my spots on the San Joaquin and Potato Slough in the morning and caught several bass on crankbaits but nothing over 2.5 lbs. Decided to take a break around noon to try my hand at trolling for a salmon in the Mokelumne River north of B&W. All of the reports so far said you needed to be in the Sacramento but I decided to try anyway while eating lunch. Fished for about 15 minutes and then wham! The line screamed and a nice big Chinook was on and 20 minutes later it was in the boat. I’m normally a bass guy - this was my first salmon. What a blast.
    City: Stockton

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched Russo's at 8:00 and lasted until 2:00.
    Caught three keepers on the bank in front of Russo's in the first 5 minutes, then it slowed down. I found 8 more keepers, all in current, and all on watermelon brush hog with purple flake.
    City: PACIFICA

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 72 - 74 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's around 8:00 a.m. and was out by 12 noon. With the crazy holiday boating traffic I went to the second cut in 14 Mile Slough next to a flat and just stayed there. 10 bass today up 4.5 pounds punching blk/red flake Sweet Beavers. I had a bad case of "BASS FEVER" since my boat was stuck in the garage for several weeks waiting for the road construction to get finished on Swain Road.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Due to the heavy holiday boating traffic this last weekend the bass were either buried in the heavy cover or they went deeper. That's why I decided to stay with punchin', plus the water stayed murky with all the boating traffic so black plastics were best to use.

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

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    Water Temp: 68-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: worked east side of brannan island, started working the 'moke then went around the corner to potato slough. hit the water early, 545am, had 45 minutes of topwater action before sun hit the water. had 12 blowups on topwater frog, popper, and one hit a super spook. sun came up, topwater died, switched to chrome blue back crank bait bagged about 10. when crank bite died moved back to san joaquin and threw senkos and picked up a few more. lots of fish but nothing over 2.5lb
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Early morning topwater bite is on. but you gotta be there early for it. if sun is up, its too late

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched New Hope 6:45am and headed straight to fav island near Sycamore; water was dead calm and so was the bite. Managed only 2 barely keepers, 1 on shallow diving crank in red craw, other on monster shad senko. Went up to Mokulemne to fav dock and tules. Managed another 6 between 1-2 lbs, nothing bigger. Continued heading up north Moke and picked up a couple more on speedtraps and senko. We caught, but it was shutdown considerably. Water temp maybe?
    City: folsom

    Tips: None. Don't know what happened other than the weather seemed cool and water even cooler (dropped 5deg's) Any tips on what/how we should have adjusted are welcome!

Friday, August 31st, 2012

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    Water Temp: 72+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 25-30 fish day. Lost count. Lots of dinks biggest was 3.5 lbs. Caught about 10 fish in one specific area. Felt like I was fishing a lake. Double hookup and back to back fishes. Fished main channel. Best bite was during the outgoing tide on outside weedlines. Water is clear for the delta.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Crankbaits, swimjigs, and a few on plastics. Fish 6-10 ft of water on lower tides. Respect other boaters out there and slow down on corners. Be safe!

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    Water Temp: 71.1 to 73.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 30+ keeper bass today and only a couple dinks (usually it is the other way around). Launched at Russo's a little after 6 and off at 1:15. Best bite was during the out going tide. Best 5 were over 18# with the big one at 7.43#. Bites were close to tullies, bank and the area between bank and 1st weed line. I caught fish on Senkos, speedtraps, timber tigers and spinnerbaits. This morning there was too much chop on the water, in my area, for a topwater bite. I only punched a little with no success.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: If tossing reaction and the bite stops, toss plastics in the same areas. It worked for me.

Monday, August 27th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for 9 keepers, biggest 4 lbs, and I'm guessing 20 to 30 dinks. Kvd in sexy shad, LVR D7 in some ghost color, green pumkin senko and a beaver all got lots of action. I stayed around Frank's, and found fish on rock levys, grass flats and where openings in the levies had current.
    City: Bethyl Island

    Tips: Drink water. It was a good day for me but I had to quit because I got overheated.