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Saturday, April 7th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 8:00 AM out of Holland trac. Did not get bit until I found some semi clear water. Three keeper and three shorts all on plastics.
    City: Oakland

    Tips: Find the clean water

Friday, April 6th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 56 - 62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice to see I wasn't the only fisherman who had a hard time Friday (yjjforme). :-P
    Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's around 8 a.m. and was off the water by 4:30 p.m. My first 4 hours was focused on finding prespawn fish and my last 4 hours went spawn bed hunting in LVW Marina. Only got 4 bites all day and should have made them count. The mistake I made Friday was not switching to finesse and down sizing. Even the spawn bed bass were spooky and not willing to defend the beds. Should have down sized to 3" worms and possibly used my Strike King 2" tubes. My wacky rigged Zoom Trick Worms were not working on the beds today. The four bites were short strikes on a black/brown and black/red jigs. I should have down sized those too.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Learn to be flexible from day to day when out fishing. What worked the day or two before may not keep working days later. Keep expiramenting and be versitle.

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 2 day report, went thursday and had a great day tossing l.c. red square bills to rip rap. also was flipping brown and purple jigs but for some reason my flipping bite hasnt been too good (might just be me) all in all good day 17 fish for a best five of 21 lbs. also went out today (friday) this negative tide KILLED my day. launched at 7 and had an outgoing tide for 2hrs and quickly caught 2 fish (both bout 2.5-3lbs) on rip rap tossing square bills and that was it for the rest of the day absolute waste of a day the tide went negative round 11 and no tide change till about 230 when i was getting off the water. the bites gonna be hard the next couple days i think from looking at the tide charts. good luck and tight lines.
    City: stockton

    Tips: wait for a more stable tide swing

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Cboat you are an idiot. Keep ur shit up your ass.

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 58 ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished dead end slough for a 6 and a 5 between my brother and I. A few other fish that barely kept mixed in. Got the 6 on a crankbait. The rest on wacky senko, black and blue. Crankbait on falling tide. Show some love to fishermen in tubes. Don't cut off people in inflatables-we're here for the same reason.
    City: Concord

    Tips: Senko and crankbait

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey CBoat - It sure would be helpful if the more skilled anglers like you could share a little more information with those of us trying to learn. You don't have to give away your location or super secret techniques but what about the types of lures that were most productive, where the fish were (i.e. rocky banks, near tules, outside the weed line, etc.), the general vicinity (i.e. east Delta), the technique used (flipping). Well you get the idea – it’s really nice to hear how well you did but it would be even better to learn more about how you did it. You weren’t on the bank with minnows were you?

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

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    Water Temp: not sure - didn

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 3.5,3.5,4.0,4.50,5.1, and 6.25. Caught a number of smaller fish too. Lost a couple of nice ones. All caught on two stretches of water. Fished from 12 to 5 this afternoon. No double digit today but real nice fish...

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 56 - 59 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 2:30 p.m. My focus today to fish was Big Al's area (light 19). 7 bass today on a reaction bite first three hours. I believe I made the mistake of leaving when I got tired of the windy conditions. I used spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and my california swim jig. I also cuaght my first bass on a lunker punker 5"(modified). Big fish of the day was a 6 pounder that came off at the boat when I tried to grab her(firetiger rapala). All my fish were cuaght on or near tules. No fish were cuaght along the rock wall today. I circled around the big island and small island twice, the fish were holding on the windy sides on the out side edge of the weed beds during the incoming tide.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Tough it out on those windy days as best you can, it can be rewarding.

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched outta tracy headed for coney,caught five keepers on wackey rig senco. Went to victoria and fished it for an haour with no bites, heade back to coney and bottom of tide picked up the frog caught one and missed two more.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Even though we had no size to our fish, the better pattern was grass with wood.

Friday, March 30th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on my birthday for 3 hours. The fish gods smiled upon me. I had three in the boat in a little over an hour, including one 4 pounder. I caught them all on crank baits close to B&W. Nothing else worked. Tried: Senkos, Drop-Shot, and Spinner Bait.

    Note to Tourney anglers, you don't own the water. Attempting to shoo me off a spot with hand signals will only result in a well casted crankbait up-side yo head Lol!!
    City: W.Sac

    Tips: Prior to launching, the dock talk recommended: Chatter Baits, Buzz Baits, and Rattle traps. Being the contraian that I am; I did not throw any of them...I caught my fish on muddy exposed levees with trees. I really got geeked if I saw crawdad holes on the side of the levee. All my fish spit up Crawdad shells in my live-well.

Monday, March 26th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today and punched some hydrilla gorillas!!! Found them in less than 3 feet during middle low tide. Fished around Franks and Middle. Most bites came from a Mr. flippy ob a 2 oz punchin weight. Boom.
    City: sac-tucky

    Tips: Get out the broom sticks cause the fat girls are here, double barrel locked and loaded!!! Har!

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    Water Temp: 55 - 57 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER!" out of Ladd's at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 3:00 p.m. Over all the bite was tough for me, my focus was to fish the back side of 14 Mile Slough between the marina and the bridge. It was top of the high tide starting the out going tide. Also the wind was blowing pretty good this morning making it tough to fish slowly. I decided at 12 noon to head for the sailboat club next to Ladd's and fish for the bass I know are spawning there. Saturday afternoon and evening I enjoyed fishing from the bank after work and cuaght 5 bass off the beds.

    So for my last 3 hours I enjoyed catching the males (5 today up to 2.5 lbs) using my spinning rod and wacky zoom trick worms with nails for weight.

    Also while in the cove I tossed my california swim jig and noticed the larger females were willing to follow my swimbait to the boat, but would not commit. When this weather finally stabilizes I believe the bite is going to explode.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Get out of the wind the best you can so you can fish. If fishing clear enough water look for the spawning beds.

Saturday, March 24th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 56.5 Sat and 55

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Mildred Saturday and Sunday. Very different bite each day.

    Crazy topwater/reaction bite for striper for the first 45 minutes on Saturday. One big (10+ est) lost at the boat on the first cast. Fairly consistent 10" to 14" fish for the rest of the day with two 3 lbers thrown in. All caught on reaction baits.

    Went out Sunday to get more of the morning striper bite but a sea lion cruised through just as we arrived. Not even a sniff for the first couple hours. Around 10:30 the bite started on dropshot and senkos with one reaction fish for a tease. Mostly 12-14" fish but two 4's on the Senko so that made it a good day and the predicted rain stayed away.
    City: Davis

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched 8am from New Hope; light choc milk til we hit Sycamore area and into Mokulemne...straight to fav tule islands and dock..tried spinnerbaits, senkos, and cranks...ZIP. Worked our way back to just around the bend from Tower bridge and worked the islands...managed a 4.2lber on senko in 6ft in the weedline...full of eggs. Couldn't figure 'em out much less find 'em. Well not realy, graphed a bunch in 10-20ft but just couldn't figure out what they'd hit.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Not much other than try everything you know in cold, stained, whatever. Hope someone posts something that helps.

Monday, March 19th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 52 - 55 degress

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's around 9 a.m. and was out by 2:30 p.m. Fished the main channel to LVW Marina in 14 Mile Slough and back. I was anticipating a windy day, but did not happen. I was ready to duck into the marina for cover. I managed 4 bass and 1 striper today. The first bass and the striper hit my 1 oz. spinnerbait slow rolling. 1 bass (big fish of the day about 4 lbs.) was cuaght in the main channel with a blk/blu jig along dropoff in 10 feet of water. Flipped on bass in marina using a chigger craw. the last bass was cuaght wacky rigging a zoom magnum trick worm in junebug color.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Keep changing up, no set pattern was found today. they did prefer rocks with tules.

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 54-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of new hope and fished the back sloughs of snodgrass and middle slough just dead sticking jerkbaits and only had 2 bites despite the storm a 3.3 lbr and a 5 lbr in the shallows. About noon fished near the delta crossing and had a few schoolie stripers on lipless cranks on the point. As i moved towards the crossing had a few short strikes and missed so threw out a cranky. Low and behold i was in to some of the best crappie the fish gods had to offer. A bunch of .5 lbrs and a few 1-1.25 lbrs.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Mother nature can drizzle all she wants but the tears of joy that the fish gods gave me today reminds me how it feels to be a kid again despite my aging appearance. Btw all fishes was released. Thank god!!!

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Kalihi Boy, no worries brudda...was still a good report for DV....kinda new you weren't talkin' about "low-tide", yeah? hahaha
    Delta is starting to come on...hitting those sparse tules just like Mr. Barrack describes. Also the jerkbaits on the long pause has worked..used LC sp100 at least 20-30secs between twitches...all bites on the pause. but worked the sparse tules with dandy baits 3/8 and 1/2 oz slk and boops (craw). love the hits on the spinnerbaits. nothing on the dropshot but senkos on bps flick shimmy jigheads worked.
    City: folsom

    Tips: working sparse tules just like b.b. when that shuts down, we go to cranks, jerkbaits and senkos. also hit a couple 2+lbers on jackall flickshake worms in junebug. worked about 10ft out from the weedlines down the drop-off. my boat is a deepv tracker and the trolling motor is only a 55lb...so we drift and racetrack back...always adds at least 1-2 more on the hook.

Monday, March 12th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 51-54

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Although the water temp dropped a little due to the weather, the bite has been great and consistent. Today's tide was great. All fish came from 3-10 ft of water. Biggest was a 5.6 lber. Had a huge swirl on a wake bait in the morning. Initially thought it was a striper but caught a bass nearby so it could've been a really good sized bass.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Fish are on ledges and drop-offs. Rocks and weeds are a plus.

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: kalihi boy: what lake are you referring to? you're on the delta report page.
    anyway, tough bite on the delta today but managed to boat a few 2lbers. fished frank's and san joaquin up to b&w and down the mokulemne. no set pattern...5 on senko, 2 on white/chart spinnerbait, 1 on speedtrap, 1 on chatterbait with craw trailer. tough day on the delta.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: favorite spots have fish. just have to keep trying different presentations. we tried one of our favorite rock walls in 8-10 ft outside the weedbeds. tried cranks and spinnerbaits. finally went back and worked it a 3rd time and dragged senkos from inside, over, then outside the weedline..i picked up 2, brother got 3. all 2lbers (or heavy 1s...lol) keep trying.

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    Water Temp: 53 - 57 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's around 9 a.m. and was out by 2 p.m. Ran out to light 19 to fish the area around Big Al's and then back towards the luanch ramp fishing the main channel points. Managed to catch 4 bass today(all hungry males). Used 7" straight tail Power Worms mojo shotting, Wacky 6" Red Senko, and a 1 oz. D&M Citrus Shad spinnerbait. All the bites were aggressive. I wish I could have stayed out all day with the approaching storm tomarrow. Good luck guys and be safe out there.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Rock walls with tules, points near deep water was the ticket today.