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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.

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished outside walls of Mildred most bites came off of a kvd's 2.5 cranks in brown craw color and lucky craft fat cb shallow cranks in royal red craw wind got strong and and fished the rock walls and did pretty good with persuader green and black jigs with a sweet beaver trailer. Just outside of grass lines.

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 69-77

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just hopped around fishing all new stuff from B&W to Victoria Island. Most sucsess was punchin a PayCheck setup w/ a Double Wide Beaver in Blk/Blue
    Fish average 2-3lbs....the Pigs were Biting but could not get them out.
    Good Luck be safe
    City: Woodpile

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 70-74degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sorry, late report. Fished old river, south of Disco on the outgo. Strictly threw frogs(snag proof, Bobby's,green with green legs) from 6:30am to 11am and only came up with 4 keepers, biggest went 3.5lbs and smallest 1.5lb. A few dinks here and there. Tossed frogs to rock banks with laid over hydrilla nearby and let it sit til rings disappear. Began a varied retrieve from 'pop-pop' to steady back to the boat then pause. Let fish tell ya what they want these days. Nothing too steady yet.
    City: San Jose

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at the Lazy M, man what a zoo.... wake borders sucking up all the water right now! they have now idea how to move over when they go down the slough...Brainless people.
    City: fremont

    Tips: give up on the delta until winter i guess then maybe they will all go away.dumb suckers care more about rap music and beer.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Little Potatoe and White Slough for 8 fish but largest was only 2.5 lbs. Threw lots of offerings - a red lipless crank was a fish favorite early and a dark senko worked best in the afternoon on both sides of high tide.

    Tips: This was my first trip on a weekend in quite awhile. Lots of boat traffic in the afternoon but it was fairly quiet in the morning. Go early.

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 74 - 76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My brother and I went out of Orowood at safelght and fished until 1:30. We caught and released 40+ fish. We threw watermelon Senkos, white Spinnerbaits and various colors of Rattle and Speed Traps, with minimal hookups or followers. We switched to red. That was the color, Senkos #302, Speedtraps, rattletraps and spinnerbaits. We tossed white frogs, alittle bit, and had 4 blowups but no hookups. The bite was solid, you knew you had one.
    Fish were only in the 6" to 2-3/4# range, but it was a good day for not having any wind.
    City: Antioch

Monday, July 18th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 71 - 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 headed for 14 Mile Slough behind LVW Marina. Top of high tide and was just starting the out going, red senkos and red/chartrues Rat-L-Traps was the ticket today for 12 bass up to 2.5 lbs. Flipped and punched a cuople on a Blk/red fleck Beaver as well. Also a cuople blow-ups on a white frog, but no hook up. Off the water by 1:00 p.m. to get some sleep for work that night.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: The bass were holding on shaded areas of docks and weeded areas around the docks.

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 69-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Based on previous report, thought we'd try White Slough. Bro caught one on red craw spinnerbait just past the far end of Tower Marina on the way to White Slough but that was the first one of the day....then zip...our usual offerings (cranks-speedtraps / lipless & senkos) weren't working or we weren't working them right. So we went to our usual fav spot on the Mokulemne around the corner from B&W...between my bro and me, caught 9 keepers, best going just under 3lbs, rest avg'g 1.5 - 2.5lbs. All on cranks, speedtraps, lipless/red eye shad in craw colors, and kvd 1.5 in sexy shad.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Work speedtraps and lipless over and on outside of weed patches in anywhere from 4' to 12'. Once we touch weeds, stop/pause, pump 2x-3x, slow 2-r cranks, pause, pump 2x-3x. Hits all came on the pause or between pumps. Almost like a semi-rip cadence. On one 2.5lber, I paused to look behind me at a ski boat that dropped a skier and my rod doubled up and almost got pulled out of my hand..then tried Sycamore but we don't know where to work in Sycamore so we didn't do any better than White Slough. If anyone cares to offer some insights and tips on Sycamore, that's appreciated!

Friday, July 15th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 73 - 78 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: After buying a brand new battery for my custom valco "BASSBUSTER1" I launched out of Ladd's at 12 noon. I ran her for an hour and started fishing in White Slough(fishing around the entire King's Island). Using Cranks, spinnerbaits, senkos, and finesse straight tail worms I managed to catch 15 bass, largest was just 2.5 lbs. It was bottom out low tide with the first cuople hours of the incoming tide. I was off the water by 7:30 p.m.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Keep changing lures and techniques. There was no set pattern found today. when the wind picked later in the afternoon I had no choice, but to stay with the cranks and spinnerbaits. Tight lines and be safe out there.

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 68-76

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from Whites up to Sycamore and back. Went for stripers til about 9am and caught a dozen undersize fish on spoons and shad. Then switched to black bass fishing. Constant action all day until I left the water at 3pm and caught too many fish to count but not much size other than a 5 lber on a shad pattern crankbait.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Flipped watermelon/red senkos to holes in the weeds and the inside weed line/trough. Also threw buzzbait until the wind kicked up then switched to a shad swimbait or crankbait depending on the weed conditions. Fish were very active all over and were schooled up.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched out of Holland Tract at 7am. Started out sunny with no wind but strong outgoing tide. Headed out to the main channel and fished the first set of tulles. 2nd cast with a popper and landed a #3-lb. Had luck with poppers, wacky worms {fished both wacky and weedless}brush hogs, frogs. All fish caught on dark colors.
    Wind picked up about 10am and headed in at noon.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: In the past I've seen a lot of garbage floating in the current but today a 20 foot+ boat dock with all the cleats and benchs floated by.
    Be real careful out their.

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Delta the last two days, first day we fish 14 Mile, water was dirty and picked up two keepers on chatterbait, missed two on a frog.Headed to mildred tossed frogs and sencos and got nothing. Headed to whites tossed frog, chatterbait and spinnerbait getting small ones on spinner and chatter baits. Heading back to Ladds we make one last stop at the mouth of Calivares and pick up a 6lbr on the chatterbait. Sometimes it pays to make that one last stop lol. Tuesday we start at the north entrance to 14 Mile for no bites, head to train bridge at Middle River for no bites, head to Old River and start fishing our way up to Woodward, fish a cople spots in Woodward and back down Middle River, hit one more spot on the Main Channel. We were tossing chatterbaits, spinnerbaits, secos and frogs, picked one on a senco and four on the frogs, off the water bye two.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Bigger fish of the day came on the frog, but nothing over 2lbs.Biggest fish of the two days on a chatterbait swimming by a tulie clump.

Saturday, July 9th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 79-86

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Gentlmen,I'd like to share a pretty scarry experience with you. Launched out of Orwood this past Thursday with my 7 yr old son for a day of fishing. Caught small fish pretty much all day 1-1 1/2lbs throwing senkos and drop shots. I decided to call it a day later that evening around 6:15. On the way back to the launch ramp my son asks if we can fish a while longer. After a hesitant moment I decided to safely u-turn in that stretch between Disco Bay and Orwood and head to Cruiser Haven. After turning left at the slough that runs parallel to Disco Bay (Indian Slough I believe) there's moderate boat traffic and a few jet skiers. So we're headed up the slough at about 35 to 40 mph when I notice a big cabin cruiser headed in the opposite direction. It's traveling at a safe speed. Near the end of the slough and preparing for the right turn that we're about to take, I decide to veer to the right to minumize the affects of the cruiser's inevitable wake. It's at that point when I hear and feel a loud crashing sound at the bottom of my transom. The boat immediately begins to spin out of control. I quickly turn off the engine and we end up facing the opposite direction pretty shook up but absolutely unharmed, thank God! Two bass boats with two anglers each immediately approach us to see if we were OK. They were kind enough to rope up to our boat and tow us back to the launch with the other boat following us. Back at the launch they help us pull the boat up onto the trailer, provided us with extra rope to help secure my severely damaged and dangling lower unit to my engine! After a friend of mine showed up to help me and the little one home, the four samaritans decided to head on their way. My son and I'd like to thank Jeremy, Leroy, Ryan, and Josh (four complete strangers)from the bottom of our hearts for taking the time to help two complete strangers in an extreme time of need! Thanks fellas...that was very big of you all! Oh yeah, FYI for those that are unaware...there are obviously submereged pilings or some sort of structure in that afformentioned area that we clipped causing our accident. Please be careful...we were very lucky! Good Fishing and safe boating to all!
    City: Hayward

Friday, July 8th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Yes, I agree as well and did not mean to exclude bass boats from the list of those who lack courtesy and mutual consideration..in fact, some are downright arrogant and rude. To them, if you don't have a bassboat, you ain't worth their attention. I think every group has that element. But also have met some very cool bassers who talk to you and don't mind sharing insights and courtesy, and no matter what kind of boat you have. And YES I DO slow down in the sloughs when I see others fishing or just moored.
    OK, FOR THE REPORT... fished the early morning outgoing tide, first topwater, only 1 blowup, next moved to speedtrap and picked up 4 1-2 lbers; moved along the tules and worked senkos from inside weedline, over the top, then dropped along the outside weedline. picked up 4 more this way, mostly as the bait moved over the top to drop on the outside. then changed from wacky to t-rigged and this sliced it through the weedline and picked up 2 more. off the water by noon.
    City: folsom

    Tips: Fish both T-rig and wacky senkos between the weedline and tules. Work it through or over the weedline and to the dropoff to deeper water. Worked for us but not all the time obviously. Hoping for an increased crank bite.