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Monday, September 27th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Delta was tough over the weekend but we were able to get a few using spinnerbaits shallow.

    Tips: Keep moving and be persistent. TueKid - Go back to school so you can learn how to write and spell!

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at New Hope and went straight to Mokulemne by B&W; incoming tide. Worked tules and outside weedbeds with red lipless cranks and speed trap. picked up numerous dinks and a few 1.5 - 2lbers. Brother picked up a few on senko, beaver, and rattletraps. went back to sycamore and beaver slough...zip on low-tide. passed up hog slough and saw report that it was good.
    City: folsom, ca

    Tips: not much to offer...just tried different things and as tide went back out, worked outside edges of weedlines to pick up a few more. used stop/pause/go retrieve with the speedtrap to pick up the 1&2-lbers.
    ... just my report. good fishin' everyone!

Friday, September 24th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 73-79

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of russos fished from 6 to 4 started off in morning flipping sweet beavers and throwing spinner baits on the south end of franks caught 15 fish by noon some small but most were quality fish water was clear but fish were holding in tules. Stayed in the tract all day flippin and throwing spinner baits moved to north end a landed big fish of the day a 6 and a half pounder on the spinner bait. Good fishin to all hope this helps someone out.
    City: oakley

    Tips: flip and blade baits

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 3:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. out of B&W. Stayed close to the marina area. I caught 3 dinks on a red Speed Trap and 1 dink on a 6 inch Senko. The Senko was bigger the the fish!! Wifey caught a 2lber and a dink on successive cast using a Swim Bait. She's good!!! I still can't catch a fish on a Swim Bait!!
    City: W. Sac

    Tips: Where are all the hogs??!! We launched during the end of a Tourney. The winning weight I was told was around 17Lbs. I remember when 20Lbs was the minimum you needed to cash a check!!

    Going out next week with my son hope it gets better.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Rattletraps (red) were the ticket for us, just inside the Mokulumne and in Potato Slough. Couldn't get anything else to go. Just keep chucking and cranking the rattlebaits with a mixed cadence until you're sore, and they'll produce (well, at least 2 weeks ago and during our club tourney yesterday). Most of what you get might be small, but the keepers are there as well. Just keep chuckin and crankin (outside weed lines on outgoing tide was best for me on both dates). Yes, you'll probably be pulling weeds off just about every cast, but keep the bait above or adjacent to any weedbeds you see and the fish will hit, here and there---not saying it's wide open by any stretch, but it's 'fair to good'.
    City: San Rafael

    Tips: Red red red red red / crank crank crank crank crank... If trying to get into the topwater stuff, try to get out super early and time it so your early outing coincides with the high tide (use charts at http://www.deltaboating.com/tides/tidesj.html to plan... looks like next Friday/Sat will put the high tide around 6am so go get 'em with topwater first thing, then switch over to the rattlebaits and see if those are still workin!)

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    Water Temp: 65'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Early am, found shad poping and caught them on top water and one on jig. No size, just one 2 lb and the rest dinks. Fished main river, rocks. As wind picked up, fished inside pockets along tules with spinner and cranks. Plenty of dinks - 11".
    City: ssf

    Tips: Tough fishing to catch keepers. Didn't matter what color but as wind picked up, fish were chasing cranks and spiiners. When wind died, top water was good.

Monday, September 13th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Luanched out of Holland Tract about 8am. Weather was overcast and calm My son Evan and I headed out to the main channel to the tules. Evan used a single colorado blade chartreuse spinnerbait while I tossed a ribbit frog in the tules and switched to a crankbait outside the weed line. I caught 1 while Evan caught 3 or 4, all small. Wind picked up and we fished the surface weeds Evan caught a few more dinks on a chartreuse buzzbait with one giant blowup that he missed. Ended the day about 1pm. Total, me 1, Evan 9 or 10. As usual it ended up the student teaching the teacher.
    Good Luck, Have Fun And Be Safe

    Tips: Boating safety tip.I have a plastic wire tie attached to the end of my kill switch line. When moving I loop the wire tie over my wrist. It won't interfere with your steering and it may just save your life.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went fishing on the Delta the other day. It was probably one of the best days I ever fished on the Delta. Not a lot of big fish, just a lot of fun. It seemed like every bait I threw worked. Presented my bait at all levels and it didn't seem to matter, not sure where the fish were sitting, but they didn't care. Wind did kick up a bit towards the end of the day and it just helped me get back quicker. Thought it was kind of interesting while I was fishing one area that about 10 boats pulled up to this one spot, then fished a while and took off. Hmmm.....must be something going on there.
    City: Santa Rosa

    Tips: Stay focused, fish as many areas as you can and don't leave one fish behind. Fish deep, but don't rule out the top water.

Friday, September 10th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched out of Holland Tract 9:30 am. Leaving the marina I fished the tules with spinnerbaits and strike king lipless hardbaits in sexy shad. Caught 4, nothing big and 3 of them came unbuttoned at the boat. Definately not aggresive, The remainder of the morning was around a rock wall and used 7in. berkely power worms in red shad. Biggest fish went 3 lbs.
    9 fish total. Nothing to write home about but no one there knows how to read anyway. I go for the fun and I got just that.
    Good Luck All
    City: antioch

    Tips: Look for me in my 16ft. tracker and wave.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Tom, Mostly tube around Discovery Bay (friend has house and dock out there), Holland Tract,and Italian Slough in the Delta. I tube the back lakes at Shadow Cliffs, or at least I did until they shut them down more than anywhere.con
    City: Pleasanton

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took pop out fishing from 4-8pm n found bass right away. Caught them on swimbait, plastic worm, buzz, drop shot, and frog. Some where in fallen trees but most where in front or behind weed beds. They look heatlhy as heck, fat n nice looking. Froggie caught all the biggy.
    City: elk grove

    Tips: nothing on spinner(kinda wierd cuz around tree it's alwyz a killa for me) and nothing on crank. MOst fish were in shade pocket n when sun is low..froggie got the most hits, 4 hits on one spot but was able to set hook on two..boy did they ever wanted the frog. Hit froggie 1 foot in the air n swallow it...soo sick. Got pop laughing on the backseat.. Fishing with pop n make him laugh=priceless !!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey hitchhiker...where do you float tube? My buddy and I tube all over the delta. Got some awesome spots that have turned off recently. All I can find now are smaller bass to about 4 pounds and stripers. Fished Italian slough for 2 hours...only managed 8 stripers to 21". No bass, but the stripers slaughtered swimbaits and vixon's.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Topwater before first light, then swimbaits outside the weedline.

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished for about 4 hr in afternoon good bite fliping
    City: oakdale ca

    Tips: big 10 inch worms

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Martin, Thank you. I will get an email to you today or tomorrow at the latest. Appreciate it!
    City: Dublin

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: At it again early this am. Caught 5 shaker stripers before landing one with some size (7#). Put away the topwater and went with a Senko Blck/blue and landed 3 large mouth including the biggest I have ever caught (8#). Nice morning out! Float tube. Off the water by 10.
    City: Dublin

    Tips: Enjoy...be careful and watch for us poor guys in float tubes.

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This is to Hicthiker, if you want to go out on a small boat contact me. I have a 16ft boat. always looking for partners. MWitter@sbcglobal.net
    City: Sacramento

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 68-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: What a windy, cold and wet morning for the anglers of Basin Bassmasters. The day started out dark and wet, dark clouds. I headed over to my first shot with my partner Bonner Veasman. He was using a Buzz bait and boated our first five, let them take it before you set the hook.
    One came on a chatter bait. I then replaced three with a black/blue Senko off rocks in 3-8 ft. Stay with the tide moving. Later we moved into Sicamore and called out three more. At the weigh in we had a bag of 13.25 lbs and the winners bag was 15.50 lbs with a 8.12 lb kicker that came off a sped trap craw color.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: spinner baits, chatter baits, crankin and Senkos.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 6-8 and caught 2 Bass on Rat L Traps to 2 1/2 lbs. then caught 2 undersize stripers walkin the dog on a skitter walk.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Spooks, Buzzbaits, Poppers, Rat L Traps

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

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    Water Temp: ????

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 2 decent bass (2-3#) and 7 undersized stripers mostly on topwater buzzbaits and zara spooks hour before sunset till dark. Had a good time with a friend. All from the bank. Anybody with a boat out there that needs a fishin' buddy?
    City: Pleasanton

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I post about good days and great days and now I get to post about a tough day on the water. We fished long and hard and nothing panned out for us today. We managed to catch 5-6 nice keeper biggest was 5lbs and 6-10 future 10 pounders (dinks, rats, small fish), regardless the day was tough and fishing is still better than working. Click like on my Facebook page for up to date informaion. www.toadsonly.com
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Be patient this time of year. The fish are around shade and cover. Look for it and fish it slow and thorough.