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Saturday, May 28th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of ladds @ 630 fished the back of ski beach caught 2 dinks off of chartruese and white persueder spinners and ran to white slough and caught a nice 4.5 pounder with a black and yellow spro popping frog. But the wind kicked up way to.much and decided to call it an early day.
    City: stockton

    Tips: Watch out for drunk boaters this weekend.

Friday, May 27th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 63-66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got to south end Mildred Is. by 6:30. Fished green tullies near clean water. Tried to stay away from moss. Pitched Watermelon w/red/green fleck worms and Brush Hogs. The further back into the tullies we pitched, the more hits we got. This worked last week for some 5+lb fish but only mustered 2.5 pounders today. Still some bigger cruisers around shallow water.

    Tips: Fish slow.

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

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    Water Temp: 62-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 5:30 am - 1:00 pm in the east. Fished last 1/2 of incoming to last 1/2 of outgoing. I was in a jacket and beanie until 10 am! The incoming tide was slower and as it was cold, I was not surprised I got skunked incoming. Once things warmed up at 10:30 for outgoing and with a faster tide...the bite picked up. Got them crankin. Caught 10 bass and 4 stripers. For the most part the bass were all the males too small to be on beds (most were about 12"ers with a few 1 1/2 - 2 lbers). The stripers were 12"-14" also the fish too small to try to head up river to spawn.

    Tried senko a bit with no bites. Tried topwater first hour with two nibbles and one good boil with no hook ups. Tried small swimbait late in the day with 3 nibbles and 2 strikes.

    Wow, saw quite a few school of bait (too small for the bass to focus on), but it nice to see some of them back! I thought they might be baby bass, but they were not. Threadfin shad if I had to guess. They schooled under my boat while I was taking lunch at 10 am.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: None as I did not do to well...

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Someone help me: try not to feel discouraged it happens to alot more anglers than you may think. This sat I went all day with only 2 bass and today I didn't catch one dang bass all day but I did come across the mother load of a striped school though. Like deep v said create a mental check list and just go down the list of what works and what doesn't. I like black and chartruse color jigs with a sweet beaver or a rage draw. Post spawn u want red cranks lipless or not it don't matter. Senkos always work but I don't have the patience for them; same for drop shotting. Spinner baits in a white and chartruse color parallel to grass lines on low tide and between the tules and grass on high tide. But im no pro so I have good and bad days also so try not to get discouraged and have fun while your out there.
    City: stockton

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

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    Water Temp: 61.8 to 65.2

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: My sister-in-law's brother, Johnny, had not gotten to fish the Delta this year. I launched at Russo's and fished in Franks, catching a few, while I waited for him to arrive. He was at the dock at 6:00, as scheduled. We fished around Franks for a couple hours and caught about 15 fish in the .5# to 3+# range using Speed Traps, Senkos and Spinnerbaits. No action on topwater. We hit three more areas heading East in the main river with only a few more fish in the 1# to 3# range. The last are we fished was a marina that we got another 5 fish in 2# to 4.5# range. Johnny tossed a small orangeish spinnerbait and got the best fish of the day 4.81#, it was the same one that he was getting the 5" fish on in the early morning. Great day fishing, fair day catching and our best 5 would go about 14.5#. The Senko bite was very light most of the time.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Fish slow and pay attention to your line when throwing Senkos. The Speed Trap and Spinnerbait hits were solid.

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    Water Temp: 56-58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: someone help me: you're not any different than a bunch of other bassers who employ techniques that you're aware of. keep logs or mental notes of what worked for you and be open to experiment with techniques you read or hear about. my brother and i have techniques that work when it's really on, and those techniques shut down at certain times. that's when we start going through the list of possibilities. don't give up! my brother caught plenty on dropshotting when i wouldn't give up my spinnerbait or crankbait. list of things that work on the delta...lipless crankbaits (my fav) in red crawdad/chartreuse belly or straight red crawdad. same colors in speed traps (dive 3-5-7ft)...work slow when over weedbeds, work hard and bump bottom in shallow clear areas (bro caught nice 3lb12oz fatbelly near a lone dock bumpin mud). spinnerbaits...outside weedline or right up against the tules...look out for grass/weed clumps. dropshot...up against the tules, in the pockets between the tules, and deeper dropoff outside the weedline (7-15 or deeper)...watermelon or oxblood works for us 4-6". Senkos in watermelon/red, junebug, pumpkinseed, or sweet tater pie also work (4-5"). Bro loves to throw jigs/beavers too; i like punchin' with sweet beavers or rage craws or creatures (anything similar works) in pumpkin, watermelon, blue/black, and whatever combination works for you. but my fav delta presentation is crankin', and it can happen any time. Look for transition points where moving water riffles and meets a different current like in points entering inlets or main channel current creating some eddies. also fish wind-blown tules or if it's a tule island, fish the inside lane and not the main channel. then go back up and fish the rockwall side of that same lane. all these are hit or miss but eventually you'll run into fish. really!!!
    City: sac

    Tips: all of the above. that's the best i can offer you since no one else wants to lend you a hand. my brother and i are in a tracker 185 targa and you'll see my yellow lab, tofu with us. if bass fishing was the only fishing we do, we'd be in a glitter boat, but since we enjoy so much other fishing, we have the tracker. feel free to say hello if you see us. we're happy to share what little we know that has worked for us. some of the pro-am guys we've met have also shared their knowledge with us. some don't. oh well, we love to fish! best of luck!

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Whiskey Slough starting at 8:00 am. We caught a couple keepers, couple dinks and one about 5 lb in Whiskey. The smaller fish came off the islands and the 5 came off a rocky point w/ tule. All the fish were caught after the water started to move out. Bite slowed down by 10:00 Ran up to White Slough didn't do any good. Fished Telephone Cut Caught one more keeper and a couple more dinks.
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Get out earlier than we did. We used Senko's and Frogs.

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Can someone please help me. Got a 1.5 lbr with a jig then all he'll broke loose. Hurricane winds in little potatoe slough and I tried everything that fishermans warehouse has to offer. No luck just a few nibbles and couldn't get a bite even of my life was on the line. Maybe someone can help save me from my pathetic fishing. Normally I do pretty good but today was Awfull. Can someone give me some tips. I rather be honest and get alot of tips than to lie and run my lips. Westernbass folks help me
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I guess that's why it's fishn not catching

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Can someone please help me. Got a 1.5 lbr with a jig then all he'll broke loose. Hurricane winds in little potatoe slough and I tried everything that fishermans warehouse has to offer. No luck just a few nibbles and couldn't get a bite even of my life was on the line. Maybe someone can help save me from my pathetic fishing. Normally I do pretty good but today was Awfull. Can someone give me some tips. I rather be honest and get alot of tips than to lie and run my lips. Westernbass folks help me
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I guess that's why it's fishn not catching

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    Water Temp: 56-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In the water from New Hope at 7:15am; started on Mokelumne fav tule strips...picked up a couple 2lbers on white spinnerbait and speed traps. Moved to connection slough and on the way, big brother nailed a nice 3lb 14oz fatbelly bumpin' the bottom with a speed trap. found some transition eddy points and picked up a few more comin' up from the grass beds. tried st francis yacht harbor...brother caught one then not much else......short strikes but nothing in the boat. went back to mokelumne tules but low tide moved 'em out and we couldn't find 'em. wind threw us around all day....guess that's what the big boys in the bass boats can deal with when they have 24-36v 70-100lb trolling motors...i bet it helps. oh well, good day for big brother and at least i got a couple decent to keep the skunk away.
    City: sac

    Tips: High tide work the speed trap slow over the grass/weed beds...they'll come up from below and smack that speed trap. white spinnerbait worked for my brother and the red craw/chart belly redeye shad worked for me...lost a good line stripper on the redeye shad.

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

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    Water Temp: no finder

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out a little late about 7:00-7:30am. Second cast 1.5 - 2 lbs. Weather was not fun rained and wind was tough, but we were still catching them. Senkos, Jigs and Cranking. Had about 18 lbs or a little more for 5 fish. Caught 15 in total from 7-3pm. Bite was okay theres alway next week.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: If there is a chance of rain were rain gear!! Lol
    90% of fish i caught were still pre spawn.
    Have Fun and stick to your game plan.

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

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    Water Temp: Unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Saturday afternoon I decided to leave the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" in the garage and drove down the street to Grupe Park (back end 14 Mile Slough) to do some fly fishing for bass. I used deer hair poppers I tied this past winter. I used a 10 wt. fly rod for the bass and a 6 wt. fly rod for the large panfish that had moved into the area. Ended up catch/release 51 fish from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The blugills and redears were all big females filled with eggs. Fish #47 was actually a 10" golden shiner minnow that hit my fly. While fighting this fish with my 6 wt. fly rod an 8 lb. bass grabs the shiner and now it ended up being a 15 minute battle with the big bass which did not want to let go. I was finally able to bring the big bass to shore and as I attempted to grab her she then decided to spit out the big shiner and swam off.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: with the approaching storm it was quit windy today and it was important to keep the wind at my back as best as possible so the fly casting would be easier to manage. This side of 14 Mile Slough near Grupe Park is perfect for fly fishing because it is only about 4 feet deep at the most during high tide.

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 64 - 67 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" at 8:30 a.m. and was off the water by 1:00 p.m During the bottomed out dead tide ran up into the Disappointment Slough today and mojo shot Zoom Trick worms for a cuople fish until the tide changed and started to come in. Then a brushhog bite started finding bass tight to the tules along the rip rap.

    Tryed throwing my swimmin' jig today, but no hook ups this time. No spinnerbait or crank bait fish. The wind started to blow me around really good about 10:30 a.m. so started back towards Ladd's looking for calmer water to fish while on the way.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Saw alot of spawning beds during the bottomed out low tide. Much of the spawn looks to be done in this area with a few guarding males still hangin' around.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 60-65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Unable to get onto the water till around 9:30am. Fished Whiskey, Turner, and Middle river. Caught 10-15 fish and two small stripers. Most were not keepers and nothing over 2.5lbs. Caught fish on crankbaits (craw pat), spinnerbait, and plastic craw. Wind picked up BIG TIME in the afternoon and made the water muddy. Usually I don't mind the wind too much but it got rediculous this afternoon.

    Tips: If you plan to fish this week plan for the wind according to the weather reports. Be safe.

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Left BW around 7:00. fished near Stockton main water channel for about 1 hr. Nothing. Headed back past BW and fish between BW and Terminous until 1:00. Fished the middle tullies. Caught 10 fish, nothing over 2.5lbs. Broke off at least 6 times. 14# flouro is not cutting it! Threw Wh/Char spinnerbait, Shad Speedtrap, B/Bl jig, Shad Rap, 3" shad swimbait and Purple Weenie. The only hits/fish came off of the weenie.

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    Water Temp: 60 - 64 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ran the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" out to Big Al's today and worked that area. Bass were holding off the bank along the submerged point with weed line. Used spinnerbait and my version of the California Swimmin' Jig I have been experimenting with since I watched the Tactical Bassin' video the other week. The fish were biting aggressively.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: I believe these were post spawn fish holding near the deeper water. Check out the bass fishing forum about my version of the California Swimmin' Jig. I appreciate any ideas or suggestions to improve this bait.

Monday, May 9th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 65ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Lazy M 8:30am, fished incoming tide and never left Italian. Found good brushhog bite tight to tullies with weeds. 10 fish to 6lbs. Broke 2 off on hookset. Off the water at 1:00.

    I ran out of Seaguar, so I used up some Pline flouroclear I had found in the garage . That stuff sucks! Seaguar going back on.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Tullies with weeds today. Tomorrow with something different for sure.

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    Water Temp: 60 - 64 degrees

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Due to the crazy wind and no gas money today I launch the Custom Valco "BASSBUSTER1" and just stayed around the two coves, also tryed the meat wall in the crasy wind between the coves. Tried cranks and spinnerbaits (nadda), used a jerk bait (Smithwick Rattlin Rogue / sunfish color pattern) got slapped a cuople times, but no commits. Ended up mojo shotting until 1:00 p.m. using Zoom Trick Worm Black/Neon in the protected area of the coves and was doing ok, but just hooking guarding mails.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Safety first is always with me, even though persistence pays off I always have to adjust to daily conditions whether its bad weather conditions or heavy boating traffic which dictates where I can fish safely and enjoy the day.

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

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    Water Temp: Both Fish finde

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: The wind was nuts out their on the Delta 15-20mph
    Out going tide, catching them on everything from crank baits, rattle traps, spinner baits, jigs, senko top water! It was a good day caught about 25-30, average weight 3 pounds. Saw one boat all day thats it never been on delta without seeing people fishing but saw no other boats.
    City: SACRAMENTO

    Tips: Have Fun

Friday, May 6th, 2011

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Find tule banks in the N. east Delta with no weeds, just hard clay south east facing banks and you will find fish. Early throw topwater and crank baits, but later in the day back off the bank and drop shot or throw jigs. For bedding fish throw a white damiki hydra or stinger...wow hold on. Thanks to Rodney who put me on to such great lures, and a 32nd place at FLW.
    City: Sacramento