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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 49-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Tough day on the water. Fished Woodward,Middle River and Victoria. Dropshot worms and baby Brush Hogs, Caught on 12 incher. Drowned Senkos, deadsticking, and moving very slowly. NADA on the Senkos today, Picked up spinnerbait(White) stuck a #1.5 on a windy point.Not much wind today, so put the Spinnerbait down. Ran back to Orwood and stuck a #1er on a speedtrap. No Birds working anywhere today,But enjoyed the Beautiful day.

    Tips: The water was Gin Clear everywhere I went. Once we get rain and the water starts to stain up, we may have a chance to catch some quality fish.
    TIGHTLINES ALWAYS ><>J

Monday, January 9th, 2012

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    Water Temp: 46 - 50 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Not much to report, but to say you all missed a nice calm and sunny day to enjoy a boat ride and some fishin. There was just one other bass boat that luanched out of Ladd's and we had the area to ourselves.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Fish it slow and look for the warmest water temp you can find. LVW marina area was 50 degrees.

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

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    Water Temp: 46.5-47.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Beaver Slough on 12/31 and 1/2 good two days on the water. Caught a total of 15 keepers both days; 6 fish on 12/31 and 9 fish on 1/2. Could not catch any fish on Rip Bait, crankbait or slow rolling a spinner bait. All fish came on either a weightless Senko or a Texas rigged Sweet Beaver, fishing SLOW, VERY SLOW...
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Be patient and fish slow...if you thinkk you are fishing slow then fish slower. The bite only lasted about hour and a half each day as the tide was changing.

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My first trip out since Augest and I knew it was going to be tough after the cold snap we had over the last couple weeks, but not this tough. Had one bite all day on a dropshot and missed it. We fished the entrace to fourteen mile, middle river connection are, old river by the trian bridge, cruiser haven( missed the one bite) then the boat slipps in ladds. We threw cranks,paddeltails,flukes and dropshot, even punched some heavy grass all to no avail.
    City: Modesto

    Tips: wait for a warmimg trend....also heard they been spraying the grass.

Monday, December 19th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 45-48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LONG day on the water (730 to 530) launched from ladds @ 730 in the fog but to my surprise lil to no fog once you passed ski beach. Once we located the schools i threw in the bama rig rigged with flukes and nailed em. the rest of the day tossed l.c. pointers in white for mixed bags of bass and stripers. final total for the day was around 18 stripers and around 6 bass for the two of us, lots of running and gunning.
    City: stockton

    Tips: current breaks are the key areas. if you could find a break on the back side of a point, they were there.

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    Water Temp: 44 - 46 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" around 8:30 a.m and was off the water by 12 noon. Due to the early morning foggy conditions I decided to just work around the mouth of Ladd's Marina cove and deep side of the docks. Drop shotting a south korean minnow imitation plastic was the way for me today. No jig bites or rip bites. I also tried going out on the main channel just a little ways to check out a near by drop off and scan for any striper activity. The fog just got thicker for awhile so went back into the cove. By the time the sun came out there was not enough time left to make a run any where. The bite started around 10:30 a.m., wish I could have stayed out longer.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Water temps are in the 40's so down size and slow it down.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 48 to 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Striped fishing is on fire old river to middle river the San jaquin rippin lucky crafts non stop if there is a striped near it it will crush it biggest 39" with tons of shakers nick only caught one shaker the rest keepers nick caught the most fish 26 landed and released just by nick and snagged one sore head salmon up the sj a mile or two Donnie 12 dono 17
    City: Stckton

    Tips: keep rippin til you can't rip has to be down 6 to 8 feet

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 45-46

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Ladd's at 8:00 AM fished main river, fourteen mile slough and disapointment slough...the bite was slow in the morning with only 3 fish by 11:00 am; biggest fish went 3 lbs and lost a bigger fish at the boat. Tried spinnerbait, jerk bait, jigs and drop shot. Was off the water at 1:00 PM.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Most bites came on when bait was sitting still...caught one on a jerk bait and brought the rest in on a drop shot with senko wacky rigged. Pretty much dead stick the drop shot they hit the bait when I did nothing but let it sit and let the current move the bait.

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: low 50's

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: We didn't get to fish because we had boat problems and got stranded in the mud outside of Lido Bay. Just wanted to say thanks to the bass angler Greg who towed us back to Orrwood. Cheers & happy holidays!!

    We did go back the next day and targeted stripers but got skunked. Fished areas around Disco and Old River. Continued the bad outings drawing a blank last week in Little Franks.
    City: Martinez

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from ladds @ 7 and was forced to stay close to ramp for about and hour till the fog burned off enough to take off. Went for stripers and only had one HUGE blowup on a g2 punker but no hookup. Only striper action the whole day. But came across a great shallow crankbait bite in 14 mile slough while tossing l.c. fat CB squarebills caught 16 bass for the day lots of 1.5 and 2's biggest went just under five pounds.
    City: Stockton

Friday, November 25th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from Ladd's at 7:30 am and got off the wter at 11:30 am; went to Fourteen Mile Slough and started fishing at the pump house (water was flowing) Caught my first fish 3.25 lb in 6 feet of water with a Senko drop shot, caught three keepers and the other three were dinks...Caught them on Senko (912), dropshotting, and on shallow crankbait in shad color. No bites on Black/Blue jig today.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Saw lots of fish on the graph but I think the rains the day before had an effect on their willingness to bite.

Monday, November 21st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 8:00, caught 2 keepers and some shorts on a shad crankbait in openings at Frank's before 10:00. Then only a few shorts all day on plastics and crankbaits.I tried Mandeville island and some docks in sand mound and piper. On the way back to Russo's at 4:00 stumbled on a fun senko bite in the tules inside Frank's. I caught three keepers and four fat 11 inchers in the next 40 minutes. Made my day.
    Biggest fish was 4 lbs on a tennessee shad Jackall crankbait.
    City: russo's

    Tips: All my bites came in or on the edge of moving water.

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    Water Temp: 52 - 54 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched out of Ladd's at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 2:30 p.m. With a near empty gas tank I decided to run to the Turning Basin and fish my way back to the luanch ramp. The bite was tough for me today, just managed 2 bass and 2 stripers on a white/sparkle 3" tube. I had a cuople followers on a chrome/blue jerkbait. The surprise of the day was while I was flippen a brown/chartuese 4" Reaper as I was bringing the plastic back to the boat a salmon grabbed it, but I did not hook it very well. The water was clear enough to see the salmon come from underneath my boat and grab my Reaper as I was starting to lift the plastic out at the end of my flip.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Be sure to fuel up so you don't feel restricted to where you can fish for the day.

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    Water Temp: 53*f

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched from ladds @ 630 fished shallow flats adjacent to drop offs and inlets and did great tossing white jerkbaits and caught 17 stripers and 2 bass. Almost all stripers measured 23 to 26 inches. I tossed topwater for a search bait and looked for short strikes or swirls and then tossed a follow up bait to catch em. Only one on a punker. Then threw just a jerkbait around 9 o'clock on.
    City: stockton

    Tips: THERE HERE!!!!!!

Monday, November 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 53 - 58 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 5:00 p.m. A very nice day to start out my vacation fishing, went to the turning basin first, but only managed a cuople small bass on white tubes. Went to Atherton Cove and cuaght a cuople stripers on the Robo worm EasyShad swimbait rigged on a 5/0 gammi weighted hook. next tried the mouth of the Calaveris River, but no bites. Went to 14 Mile Slough starting at the pump house towards LVW marina to get out of the wind. Cuaght a few largemouths and stripers here. I used the California Swimming Jig as a search pattern and anticipating a big bite. When I go short striked (tail shot) by a largemouth I switched to the white tube on my spinning rod to hook up the bass. The stripers were hitting my swimming jig really well. I ended up with 10 fish total today.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Use a primary and a secondary technique incase you are missing strikes.

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 55

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Brother and I launched at H&H and stayed local working rock wall and weed patches in Connection Slough; cranks weren't working so went to senkos; managed a few barely keepers in the weed patches in 6'-10'. Sun came out for short while and started working the floating hyacinth islands and picked up a 5-11 on flick-shake rigged senko. Mostly barely keepers all day with the fiver.
    City: folsom

    Tips: None...cept maybe slow it down if you can stand it.

Friday, November 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 53 - 56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 9:30 a.m. and fished until the rain started around 12:30 p.m. in the Turning Basin today. The bite was wide open, 25 fish, bass and stripers. Today I used a white sparkle tube, chrome/blue jerkbait, and a jigging spoon. Largest bass went 4 lbs. and the largest striper around 5 lbs.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Fish frontal conditions prior before the rain starts, just wish I was able to get back to the luanch ramp before it did start. I came prepared with my rain gear though.

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 53 - 56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today about 8:30 a.m. and was out of the water by 2:30 p.m. Ran out to Big Al's stopping at points and at different spots along the rock wall trying cranks, jerkbaits, jigs, and small plastics. Before leaving the spot reworked area with the california swim jig down to 10 - 15 feet in water column. Then went to upper 14 Mile Slough and did the same thing working it back to the main channel. Got a cuople followers on the jerkbaits, got bit a cuople times on the jig, but no hook ups. Every time I switched to my california swim jig is when I got the majority of (and most aggressive) my bites. By the afternoon (after 12 noon) the bites were finally becoming hook ups. Working the swim jig real slow along the outside edge of the weed line down to 10 - 15 ft. I kept telling myself to pick up a spinning rod, but I think that swim jig is starting to become my new confidence lure for now. All the fish were only about two puonds, but when you bring the fish into the boat and you don't see the swim jig (and 5" Easy Shad) sticking out of the mouth that tells me they really want to eat this lure.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Just keep retieving slower and slower until the bass lets you know when they like it. The credit really goes to Matt Alan Tacticalbassin, Randy Pringles The Fishing Instructor, and Cooche's websites for there instructional videos. I've really been learning alot the last cuople of years

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 53-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of b&w @ 630 tons of fog so fished around ramp for about an hour caught two nice stripers (29&30inch) and caught several more with a red and white pencile Popper. Once fog burned off a lil bit ran out to Franks, not to much happening there then ran to lil Frank's and caught a few on the back side of it, then ran back towards ramp and fished tule islands for bass a lil bit then headed home round 12. All in all a good day, big difference from last outing ( water was cooler by a few degrees everywhere I went) so maybe they are finally starting to filter through. I also saw a huge salmon swimming @ the surface looked kinda nasty covered in some sort of brown film took a few pics of it then let it continue on its way.
    City: stockton

Monday, November 7th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 52 - 56 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 2:30 p.m. Basically the bite was tough for me with the north wind we had today. 2 bass, 2 stripers in 14 Mile Slough. I almost decided to duck for cover in LVW Marina to get out of the wind for most on the day. Instead I decided to run north towards the Paradise Point bridge and let the wind drift me back instead. Since I was drifting to fast I could not use jigs or plastics properly. Concentrating on rock walls around points I used a smithwick rattlen rogue chrome/blue and alternated with the california swimming jig/robo worm easy shad traier (slow rolling) along the outside edge of the weed lines. With only 4 fish for my efforts today the big fish came on the california swimming jig (2.5 lbs.). Had many short strikes on the swim jig, but were aggressivly hard bites. The rattlin rogue worked well off the rock wall points as long as it did not did into the weeds.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Use the wind to your advantage and learn to fish in the wind successfully.