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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.

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched @ b&w @ 630 ran to Franks and caught two 23 inch stripers right off the bat then nada for a couple hours decided to switch to bass and caught a small limit of bass. Threw topwater with no luck most if not all were caught with a l.c. pointer along north wall of Franks. Fished Franks and lil Franks with not too much to say for it. Called it a early day @ 12.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Is everyone else having problems finding striper schools? Fished all the right areas "flats, points, rocks, inlets" late season I guess.

Monday, October 31st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 62-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went for a three day trip to the Delta to try out some fall fishing. Traffic on Route 4 heading East into Oakley is terrible in the evening!

    Having watched all of Tactical Bassin Matt's videos on night fishing and energized by the excitiment of starting the trip (and a couple of Red Bulls consumed on the drive up) fished all Friday night at the South West end of Frank's, no bites on frogs, chatterbaits, or swimbaits; guess it had gotten too cold. Slept in the boat (3-5 am); cold and wet.

    Next morning, after some hot coffee and a power bar was ready for a new day. Saturday morning had some success at the back end of Iron House Slough slow draggin Matt's recommended California Swim jig: One 2#r very dark and black, when I first saw it in the water wasn't even sure it was a bass. Also picked up a dink on on it along the tules on the north side of Big Break. That was it for that day. Friday night boat camped in Sand Mound.

    Saturday morning picked up the biggest of the trip: 2.5 on a home made Punker at the junction of Taylor and Dutch. Got 3 on it there. That was the most fun of the trip, decent fish on a topwater bait I made myself, and was starting to think I was a pretty good fisherman (not). Once the sun got up (around 10 am) nothing more on top water. Switched to senkos and picked up more dinks along the rest of of Taylor and in Little Frank's on Senkos.

    Saturday night car camped at Russo's; hot shower and some good Mexican food and was ready for Sunday.

    My heavy rod had gotten fouled up badly (tried Punching with it and the braid got jammed into the level wind gear) so couldn't use my Punker, so tried a spook early morning around the tools of Frank's Tract. Only had one strike, a small one, and it shook the bait.

    Went to Mildred for the heck of it. The River's are really full of floating hyacinth? globs. They bunch up at the banks creating a mat 4-5' wide or more in some places. Is that normal for this time of year?

    Found a school of dinks at the entrance to Mildred. Picked up at least 15 drop shotting Yamamoto Shad Shape minnows in watermelon and red flake. Went through a bag of them (amusing but not really what I had come for). Went further back to the west toward the trees. Was startled by a large sea lion that surfaced and snorted as he cruised on by. Nothing further caught and decided that since I hadn't caught anything over 2.5# it was time to call it quits.

    Throughout the trip tried spinners, cranks, chatterbaits, rat-L-traps and jigs without success. Note to self: next year go earlier, say the end of September.
    City: Monterey

    Tips: Had the best luck throwing top-water, Lunker Punker, very early in the morning.

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got there late today started at 10:30am. Started at big break. nothing!! I thought I would be a good day, cause its the start of out going. Traveled to franks tract, got 3 fish to 2 lbs. On a 6-8 ft crankbait. Tried senko and jig, just a few non keepers. Sort of a slow day for me, maybe its a cold front, so proably have to work it slower? I dunno.. Then friends motor dies, so had to tow it back to holland for him!!
    City: sf

    Tips: Maybe try fishing slower? Oh, and I spent half an hour of my fishing time trying to cut some fishing line that was strangling a baby bird? or duck's? neck!!! And he or she bit me a few times.. Please people, do not litter your old fishing line and junk in the water, please. Its so easy to put it in your pocket or a bag, and throw it in the trash when your done fishing!!! Really easy. I didn't want to help the poor creature, but I felt so bad seeing it almost dying and strangling on a tule.. Fisherman or Boaters, if you see people littering, please tell them not to, thanks.. Have a good one

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    Water Temp: 60 - 62 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 11:00 a.m. and was out of the water by 2:30 p.m. It was mostly a finesse bite for me today using 4" Magic Worms and straight tail power worms. I was forced to use the spinning rods to get most of my bites today. My only keeper came off of the jig. I tried punchin for the last time for the season. I was only getting slaps and short strikes with the california swim jig,spinnerbaits, and cranks.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Time for me to start rigging up for cold water bassin. Small tubes and reapers for flippen, small and medium size jigs, splitshot, dropshot, and now I'm ready to try the shakey head this year as well. Learn your areas you like to fish and you will basically know how to setup when the season changes. Good luck and be safe out there (especially when in the fog).

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 61 to 63

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Ladd's at 7:15 am had fist fish in the boat 40 minutres later, a 2.5 lb spot. Fished shallow crankbait all morning caught 11 keepers and 6 dinks, the largest was 4.5 lbs with 5-best going 15.5 lbs. Was fishing in Bishop Cut and 14-mile slough and got off the water by 11:00 am. Not a bad morning...
    City: Sactramento

    Tips: Let the speed demons do their thing...and lets keep the fishing report to what it is intended for so that we can assist each other in where we found fish.

    Crankbait today...Strike King, square bill in sexy shad color; it killed them all morning long.

Saturday, October 29th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out looking for some areas closer to Stockton area. Flipp'n sweet beavers,senko,crankbaits and some swimbaits. Best fish went 9+ 0n A swimbait and the rest 3lbs and smaller.Cranks had A lot of fish but no size. Best 5 20+lbs.
    City: wilton

    Tips: Outside of weed lines on low tide had better fish

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Buckley Cove in Stockton on Wednesday and B&W on Thursday. Found LM fishing tough. Tried everything. Had no luck with Stripers in the Stockton Turning Basin. Caught and released a few keeper stripers in Franks and 14-mile slough on minnows, 3 1/2" fish traps, and green/chrome spoons. Caught and released a 8-pound salmon in 14-mile on a fish trap.
    City: Novato

    Tips: The LM bite was off. We didn't see any stripers activity in the eastern half of the Delta, so you just have to search them out with a hit and miss plan. There was some bird action, but it was sparce.

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    Water Temp: 64 to 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got off work early Thursday launched round 11 tossed gizzard shad colored cranks mostly all day did okay lots of 1 and 2 pounders paralleling weed lines around white slough. Not much of a flipping bite for me, tried jigs and creatures. The cold front and blue bird skies seemed to really shut the bite down. Got off the water round 5 my best five probably only went like 8 pounds.
    City: stockton

    Tips: I shoulda borrowed myboats slower's Alabama rig with crawdad trailers lol can't stop laughing :-D