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Monday, September 12th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 70 - 73 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's today a little after 7:30 a.m. and was out by 1:30 p.m. It was a tough 5 fish limit today, no pattern found and no preferred lure. According to Pringle (LOL)it was a junk fishing day today. Just inside the mouth of 14 Mile Slough cuaght/released a 5 lber on a double buzzbait. Moved to my cut along the flat and managed a 2.5 lb bass punchin sweet beavers. Decided to run to a cuople islands in the Disappointment Slough area and another 2 pounder on a wacky red senko and moved again to an area with 15 feet of water even though low tide and one bass on a white spinner bait and the last bass about 3 lbs on a black jig with the small black sweet beaver as a jig trailer.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Look for the calmest water you can find to get out of the wind. Keep changing lures and techniques until Mr. Bass lets you know what he wants.

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at New Hope just after high-tide peaked; wind was howlin'. Went to corner island before Sycamore..picked up 1.5lber crankin' KVD 2.5 in Sexy Shad. Moved into Sycamore; bro and me picked up around 9-10, mostly smaller keepers and a few dinks on KVD crank and junebug senkos. Moved into Hog after whitecaps came up in Sycamore and picked up 2-3 more keepers and dinks til wind just blew us around too much. Went to Beaver next but decided to just call it a day at 1pm..wind and front changed the bite considerably.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Worked the weedline edges with the crank and then went back and worked 'em again with senkos, both weigtless, shaky and wacky rigged and dropshot. As shallow as 3-4ft out to about 10-12ft. Front moving in had us changing up but senkos and KVD came through. Hard fishing today but at least we boated a few.

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Great day in whites caught 22 fish with best five right around 19 pounds. Frog bite was good north of ski beach and bass are on a BIG TIME shad pattern. Threw kvd's 2.5 shad pattern cranks all day and knocked them out. When current stops make your way out towards the mouths of the main channels and crank the current. Found a few dead shad spit up in my livewell so throw shad patterns it was a great day on the delta.
    City: stockton

Monday, September 5th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 70 - 75 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" stayed in the garage today as I was invited by a co-worker/friend to go fishing in his bass boat today. We concentrated in the 14 Mile Slough and Disappointment Slough areas. The challenge was looking for calm water to fish and staying away from the crazy holiday boating traffic. We were in the water by 7:00 a.m. and out by about 5:00 p.m. I concentrated on flippen/punchen the heavy cover with sweet beavers and pitched the edges/pockets of the heavy cover with wacky red senkos from the back of the boat. My friend had texas rigged his senkos using black/red flake and also using my red senkos. The bass were preferring to be located under the heavy cover around shadede areas and close to current preferably. 8 bass were caught today, largest went 5 lbs. caught on the wacky red senko pitching to the the shade of an overhanging tree in the disappointment slough area. The bites in the hyacinth were aggressive as I noticed I had spooked a cuople frogs out of the areas I flipped/punched the sweet beavers (Oxblood 3/8 oz wt & Black/red flake 3/4 oz wt.)
    City: Stockton

    Tips: With all the heavy boat traffic today we concentrated around the heaviest cover we could find. Working the edges and pockets first for the aggressive fish first then moved in closer to flip/punch the heavy cover where the bass had buried themselves in to get away from the "Holiday Shock".

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished White's Shough this afternoon/early evening for a good frog bite before the current quit. More blowups than hookups, sadly. Fish really weren't eating the bait, just merely slappin' at it. My girlfriend stuck a 5 and a four, all the rest were average delta keepers.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Stay with the current

Monday, August 29th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 72 - 76 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out of Ladd's at 9:00 a.m and was off the water by 1:00 p.m. With the short time frame today I went to 14 Mile Slough first checking for any top water action during the out going tide. Nothing, moved to one of the cuts along the shallow flats and got a cuople blow-ups with the frog, but no hook ups. When I finally reached the cut I wanted to fish there was about 200 yards of floating hyincinth weeds to flip/punch. Ended up with 10 bass, largest went 8.3 lbs with my best 5 fish limit just over 20 pounds.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: With the high blue skies I decided to work the heavy cover flippen /punchen sweet beavers. Be safe out there.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland riverside, fished till 1:00 pm
    caught between 15-20 dinks (no Keepers)bites came on red craw speed trap and green pumpkin senko with red flake, where are the bigguns? Weather was great.

    Good luck.
    I threw other wake baits and the frog with no takers.
    City: Martinez

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    Water Temp: 72.6 to 77.3

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of Russo's at 5:45 back by 1:00. Caught over 40 fish. Mostly small. Morning bite was red spinnerbait, craw speedtrap and watermelon with red and green flake Senkos.
    About 11:00 the watermelon Senko bite stopped so I switched to Junebug Senkos with a 1/16 nail weight and the bite was on again. The best fish, 5.38#, came at the end of the day in the shade of a dock using the weighted Junebug Senko.
    Last weekend the Senko bite was on either red or orangeish red ones (ugly). I could not get a bite on the colors that worked today.
    The water fished today was clearer than last weekend.
    Best 5 would have only gone 15#. Good Day since I was only fun fishing.
    City: Antioch

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took my dad out on my new Triton for a few hours to hook some morning bites. Cranked on an isolated tule island and got a keeper that was out in front of the tules sitting in a grass bed. Next stop was Sycamore slough. Same bait, landed another keeper on the outside weedline between two tule islands. Meanwhile, I grab Bobby's Buzz Frog and threw it over a mat. Hooked a 4 pounder as soon as it came off the mat and ran across the weedline. Went across to the rip rap and cranked on some isolated tules and hooked into another keeper. 3 hours, 4 keepers, new boat and fishin with my trash-talkin dad. Good morning
    City: Oakley

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 71 - 81 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" at Ladd's about 9 a.m. and was off the water by 8 p.m. Started out worken deep water out in the turning basin looking for deep largi's and stripers. The delta wind came up pretty good so after landing a 3.5 pound LMBass on a duoble willow white spinnerbait went to look for calmer water. I decided to camp most of the day at LVW Marina in 14 Mile Slough to get out of the wind. There was a whole lot of floating slop growing back there and thr frog bite was on. I flipped/pitched/punched sweet beavers as a back up if I missed the blow up on the frog. 14 bass up to 2 lbs. was cuaght back here. By 6 p.m. I decided to head back, but wanted to fish the evening topwater bite on the way. Caught 5 more bass using a chrome/blue Strike King popper.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: When the bass did not want the frog or the blow up wasn't a hook up I switched to punchn' the sweetbeaver into the floating slop.

Saturday, August 20th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Rooky on the Delta, but fished it 3 times in past 9 days. Launched out of Paradise and Brannon Island. Tied into many on drop shot at base of tulies with Aaron's Magic, Morning Dawn and Oxblood Robo worms. Caught many on rattle traps in Franks Track. Had a couple of blowups on frogs in the moss. Zip on punch, but can see the potential. Caught approximately 28 fish in 3 trips, not a single keeper. Where are the Toads?
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: If you are not familiar with the Delta 1.Take GPS. 2.Learn how the tides effect the fishing. 3.Learn how to deal with the wind. 4.WATCH OUT FOR UNDER WATER OBSTRUCTIONS they are rarely marked. 5.Take a phone. 6.Wear your life jacket. You're shRing the water with some BIG boats and ships!

Friday, August 19th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 69-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at NewHope 6:45am; straight to low-tide Mokulemne for topwater/frog...nothing at our fav submerged weedbeds so tried crankin'. Put one nice hit on the hook and it went airborne to throw the hook..nice 2lber. That turned out to be my last one for the day. Big brother was changing up from cranks to jigs, senkos and he picked up a few 1-2lbers in Georgiana. Then we went to our island at Sycamore and worked the snot. Lots of blowups and we just couldn't make em stick...waiting the extra second or two and make sure they had it in their mouth put the pull on the rod but they were still spittin' it out..just couldn't put a fish in the boat. Bro nailed a nice 3lber punchin the snot. Kept workin the ouitside snot for many more blowups but nothin' into the boat. Our trolling motor is only 55lbs and we push-poled alot and lost fish. So went to Hog, then Beaver and just like RiverRon, a big frog nailed my Spro. By frog standard, it was a keeper! Pic posted.
    City: folsom

    Tips: No tips from this skunk...but my bro hit on Junebug senkos and craw beavers.

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Little Potato Slough with best results on the outgoing tide. Caught several on a lipless crankbait and also on a Robo zipper worm. Largest went 3.5 lbs. Of course an even bigger one unbuckled at the boat. I also caught a giant frog while fishing the mats with a Spro popper frog. That was a first for me. My artificial frog happened to go right beside this big fella and to my surprise the real one sprang on it. It looked real funny with my lure sticking out of its mouth. Gives a whole new meaning to how well the frog bite is.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished white's and little potato sloughs this afternoon from 3:30 to 7ish. Man what a great day. Had good current most of the time and found punch fish in the deeper hyacinth right off the bat. Fished some shallow stuff for two small fish and found the deeper stuff was holding a little better. Came up to a cut heavily matted with the green "snot", put down the punch bait and picked up the frog rod, and didn't put it down after that. Ripped a bunch of delta keepers, two 5's a 6 and one pushing 7. Absolutely amazed me. Fish wanted it fast and walked hard. Most fish were fairly tight to the inside edge, but did catch a couple further out in the mats. Headed back out for the morning's incoming tide hoping to pick up some more quality green heads.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Frog of choice- Spro bronzeye "redear" pattern.
    Punch bait-Cali420.

Monday, August 15th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this morning from 7:30 to Noon. Started out punchin' mats in white slough for a good bite on 1.5 to 3 pounders, with one fish pushing 5. Looking at fish busting bait in the channel, threw a Dirty Jigs swim jig and got a 4 pound striper. Threw the frog on mats for nothing. Motored down to dissapointment for more punchin' and flippin grass finding plenty more fish. Tide slacked, and called it quits 'fore the heat beat me and the pup up.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Find the current. Heavy punchin' weights, heavy braid, deep in the smutz. Hang on. Sweet Beavers in Cali420 and Sprayed Grass. Light 'em up!

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 69-70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Big bro and me launched at New Hope 6:30, went straight to Mokulemne around the bend from B&W. Worked edges of weedline and tules with cranks (KVD 2.5/1.5 in blue gill and blkback/chart) for about 8each, best to about 3lbs or high 2s. Then tried back side of an island just before Sycamore working frogs on the snot mats...bro got a nice 3lber on a money hound..nothing on the frog. Went in at 1:30pm to a crowded ramp, got in trouble for using a reserved single car space to rig (I guess my truck stuck out a bit into the launch lane...sorry about that...will just de-rig at the top road if crowded from now on)
    City: folsom

    Tips: Started out crankin' outside weed lines and weedbeds in 6-12ft along the tules and rock walls. Worked same areas with wacky rigged dropshot senkos along with 7" yum ribbontail worms Luck ''E'' Strike Perfect Worm Rig. Junebug for both plastics. Big bro used yum wooly bug in crawdad for a couple 2lbers. Then at noonthirty, found snot mats and worked them with black/yellow frogs and money hound in "hotdog" or basically firetiger color rigged on a 7/0 hook. big bro got the blowup on the money hound just twitchin' a trail across the snot and pausing at each hole..blowup came when it left the edge of the snot into the water. you could see the hump of the fish comin' to get it!

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Thursday 8-11-11, my buddy, his son, and I fished Disappointment and White sloughs. Most of our success was with various colored (use your favorite) 5-inch Senkos rigged wacky style on a drop-shot setup. On the delta, I use a beefier drop-shot setup than normal with heaver line and sinker on bait casting rod and reel. The heaver sinker allows me to control lure location in the wind and current on the delta. If the situation allows, I like going weightless with the wacky rigged Senko. My buddy’s son successfully threw a top-water popper most of the day. We also tried drop-shotting various colored RoboWorms with limited success. Most of our fish were caught on points like the entrance to cuts or on the ends of islands. We ended the day with about 30 fish (10 each). Of these fish only about 10 were keepers with the largest being 4 lbs. The main thing is that we had a lot of fun.
    City: Pinole

    Tips: If you like a top-water bite, try a popper, stay with it and you may be pleasantly surprised.

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Perfect day on the river taday! Gorgouse day, and smokin bite! A good summer pattern was in perfect place. Deep water grass produced lots of quality fish, and was unable to connect on some real solid bits that I know had to have been some nice pigs!
    City: turlock

    Tips: Was throwing big plastics in deep grass. That was defenitly the patern today.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73 - 78 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" at 8:30 a.m. out of Ladd's but had to wait for a work crew to finish cleaning up the weed mess at the docks first. Ran the boat all the way to the back end of 14 Mile Slough and did not start fishing until I reached the Feather River Rd. bridge. The top of high tide was at 9:00 a.m. and conditions were perfect. I worked the floating slop moss as far as I can towards Grupe Park. The frog bite was on ( total of 10 good blow ups) and so was the flippin' bite too. Caught 3 bass on the frog big fish went 3.5 lbs. and she was spitting out little baby blugill in my boat. My flippen rod currently did not have a heavy enough wieght for punchin' so I flipped and pitched sweet beavers in what ever holes I could find in the floating slop moss. Caught 5 bass flippen, biggest was 6 lbs. and gave me a good fight going underneath my boat looking for deeper water. Some spots were as deep as 8 ft at high tide before it started going out. I was off the water by 1:00 p.m.

    To the fella I met the last cuople days in a black Champion from Fresno good luck with the Future Pro Tour Event this weekend and hope I did not stick to many of your fish. :-)
    City: Stockton

    Tips: The larger fish did prefer the flip bite as I went through a whole pack of sweet beavers today (medium size Black/red flake). They preferred the frog presentation at a slow crawl. Remember to watch the real bull frogs as they chase yours they will let you know where the danger zones are. Good luck and be safe.

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished whites all day caught 25-30 nothing big 2 1/2
    lots on rattle trap and cranking, couple on senko and 2 on top water. couldnt get anything going really guess theres always next Sunday
    City: Elk Grove/ Sac

    Tips: throw ur confidence bait.