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Sunday, August 15th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out about 4 times the past three weeks. Fished mildred, connection slough, and franks tract. Each trip we pulled anywhere from 6-8 bass. Most of them were small but we were able to catch a couple 4 poudners. One on a small crank and the other on drop shot. The frog bite was dead for me, everywhere.
    City: pleasant hill

    Tips: We caught our fish on senkos, drop shots, punching beavers, and a couple on my favorite wake bait ;)

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: wow it's been a while since i've been fishing on the delta due to heavy traffic of ski boats n all. Fishing sunday in n around slough hoping to get awayz from skiers but that didn't happen. Caugh 2 keeper n 6-7 dinks. Caught them on top water, drop shot, wacky, n frog. It got pretty crazy out there so we decided to switch over to striper with no luck
    City: elk grove

    Tips: Get out early n get back in b4 all hell break loose. Ski boat pulling skiers behind them n take the middle of the river n won't allow u to pass. Wat could one do but wait behind them til skier fall or they pick a side. I swear some of the ski boat people got no respect for others boater. When Skier falls we slow down n give them distance. When we fish the come along aside of us n causing big waves , which them wake boat have the the means to do and cause us to fall over n get our boat all wet. I swear sometime i just wanna cast a rattle trap across someones face to give them a lesson...rattle trap 101..tips today is to stay kool n focus..haha..words to ya motha

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Ray, Delta is windy most of the time no matter where you go. We usually launch from New Hope on the north end and in 'the meadows' area there's alot of islands and trees that block wind...fishing can be hot/cold but you gotta watch the tides because the low tide can ground you.
    City: folsom

    Tips: because i'm on a deepv and my trolling motor is only 55lbs, i anchor on good spots and sometimes a single anchor just drags anyway so at least it slows me down on a drift. if i want to stay there, i double anchor.

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I'm a new boat owner, and trying to get used to the waters. I have fished Clear Lake with some luck, but the 2 hour drive gets old. I'm about an hour from numerous ramps on the delta, so I though I would give Franks Tract a try, but the wind...WOW!! The wind was so bad, and was told it blows a lot this time of the year. Is there a place on the delta that is out of the wind this time of the year.
    City: Fairfield

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 74-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Another great day on the delta and it was made even better watching a 9 year old boy learning to fish with his dad. Take your kids fishing, trust me, they will love it. We caught over 20 fish on a variety of baits. The best producer was rip bait fished shallow. Join my Face Book by clicking "like" @ www.toadsonly.com for up to date informaion.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Fish are in less than 2' of water. Look for cover and shade for big fish.

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    Water Temp: 74.9

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUCHED OUT OF ORWOOD ABOUT 5:30 AM, FISHED ORWOOD RIVER FOR ABOUT 2 HRS, USING TOP WATER PROP
    BAITS, SIVER OR CHROME AND KILLED UM , 29 FISH BEFORE 11:00 WHEN ALL THE WAKE BOARDERS CAME OUT TO PLAY, OUT BY 11:30 FOR LUNCH, GREAT DAY FOR ME
    MOST FISH WERE 1 TO 3 LBS, AND AGRESSIVE TO HIT THE PROP BAIT, CAUGHT SOME ON PLASTIC WORMS, BUT TOP WATER FISHING WAS AWSOME, KEEP TIGHT LINES RB
    City: PITTSBURG

    Tips: GO DURING THE WEEK LOLF

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at 7am got the first fish in the boat by 7:10am. Fishing little grass points outside of little breaks where the water was moving trough pretty good. Stayed with that pattern throwing finesse baits and ended up with 5 good fish about 19 lbs. bunch of shakers too! Bassaddix
    City: Hayward Ca

    Tips: Fish slow, work the baits with focus. Also stay next to the hydrilla clumps not really in them. Good luck! Bassaddix

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 71-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Floatubed in whites launched at 630 am at about7am i caught a 7 pound14 oz largmouth on a super spook worked slowly.caught a few more bass flipping and on a chatterbait.decided to finish the day punching in about 8 to 10 feet of water to isolated mats and thick weeds caught a 7 pounder at high tide.Pretty good day for size,but caught a lot of small fish also.overall i had about 18 pounds.
    City: Fremont ca

    Tips: Tried a frog in some of the places i punched with no luck just one blowup.The fish seemed to want topwater worked superslow or punched plastics out in the deeper water in the middle of backwater sloughs.

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    Water Temp: ~70-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went three times this past week with varying ranges of success/failures. In the mornings and an outgoing tide I have had luck with Pop-Rs and white frogs. No luck on the buzz bait except for it the evening with an incoming tide.

    After the topwater bite stops I have had some success finding small-medium sized fish with weightless TX rigged Senkos right up next to the tullies. Black has worked the best but have also had some luck with purple.

    During the heat of the day, find any type of shade and fish the hell out it. Drop shot, wacky rig, etc. they are there you are just going to have to try and convince them to bite. If you make a loud cast leave the area for a couple of minutes and return back.


    I have really had some tough luck fishing low tide. Only places I have found them is in about 12-15 feet of water and with no pattern or consistency.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Try some different sized and colored plastics.

Friday, August 6th, 2010

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    Water Temp: forgot to look

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Ladds. On the water at 0530 hrs. Fished Mildred Island area. Partner caught fish ( 5 or 6 ) using Buzz bait and I tossed a frog, nothing. Went to wacky rigged worms. We caught a TON. All day. Inside or outside the weed line. For a little while we tried punching and only got 1 fish. Went back to worms. Dark colors, black and blue. Tried lots of other colors but went back to dark colors. Best fish-4 lbs lots of 2-3
    City: Fresno

    Tips: wear sunscreen

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Ladds...On the water at 5:30pm for the evening bite. Started by Flipping Senkos on the backside of the weeds. Caught plenty of fish...but...no size(all about 1-1.5lbs). Started throwing Buzzbaits, Pop-Rs and Frogs. Caught one 3 lber on a Pop-R and one on a Frog.
    City: Visalia

    Tips: Bite was good and caught plenty of fish...Definately worth the trip...Stick to what your confidence baits!!!

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Here is a video of how to modify the rubber on a frog...http://www.monsterfishingtackle.net/frogfishingvideo.html
    City: Delta

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: anyone know where i can view a video on how to change the live rubber in a frog? please post a link if so

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 76-79

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Today the California BASS Federation Nation had the honors in taking out the "Stockton Ports" Baseball Team on the Delta with one fan per team member. Three fish limit for six hours, lauching out of the Webber Point and fishing the low Delta. Most of the bass were caught on Craw Speed Traps, Flipin a Brush Hog, Senko Blue/Black,Horny Toods and a LV500. Big fish was 5.26lbs and winning weight 10.50 lbs.
    City: Rocklin

    Tips: Have fun and becareful... ware you Life Jackets.

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out early sat morning. I threw a black buzzbait and my partner threw a baby bass spook. Partner caught a few up to 2 1/2 lbs while the buzzbait didn't produce. Topwater bite died so we went straight to punching mats. Fish were biting but not near as aggressively as last week. Did not get the numbers or quality as last week but we were definitely still catching them. Missed a lot of fish because they weren't very aggressive... and also broke one of on 65 lb braid...
    City: Modesto

    Tips: Throw a spook or similar lure in the mornings and punch mats when the sun gets higher. When punching let your bait hop a few more times and work it a little slower than you're used to. Pay attention cuz they aren't slamming it like they were a week ago. Also check your line even when fishing braid cuz its very strong but not very abrasion resistant. It will break your heart real quick.

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

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    Water Temp: 68 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Was windy at my house and debated to go fishing . Said what the hell told the wife pack up lets go Started fishing out the gate at B&W resort fished tules with sweet beaver black with red flake with no takers threw a few crank baits . with no takers picked up and went North finding a few 2-lbers . lots of boats out skiing headed toward Tower Park stoped at a couple places to try to get out of wind. by the way I got out late @ 11:30 so I can fish the flood. fished bouldin Island north side with 7 total in the 2-3 lb class So Picked up again and was heading to tower park my wife noticed some one waving a flag at us . I did not want to look, but figured it might be a emergency. I know whats going to happen. yep ,,ran out of gas!!thery ran out of gas in there wake board boat being the bass fisherman I am .I wanted to say, stick where the sun don't shine but did not.I towed them to Tower park.Did continue to beat the water to a froth with minimum results fishing is tough right now . I did get on a good pattern with Pumpkin /blake flake ZOOM worm 6" with twist tail texas style .They loved it and were all over it . Think I would of caught some quality fish if I had more time to fish and the wind started blowing really hard later in the evening. Going to go out next weekend and give it a go . tight lines to all c ya on the water
    City: Elmira

    Tips: Carry a Phone # for vessel assist on you to give to water skiers running out of gas....Try to get on a pattern and stick with it .. try to plan to fish the tides at the right time. I personaly like the flood coming in from a really low tide, fish seem to be more active the last 3 hrs of flood. On really low tides try to find deeper edges fish really slow during low tides . I use bass pro shop "bass attractent" on my worms .

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I got started 11am from B&W and all the skier were out mucking up my spots. I knew I had to fish deeper. As I riged up by an island a friend stoped by and said the bite was off a bit.I gave him one of my best crankbaits wished him well. I found some nice spottedbass drop shoting in 12ft at Tower Park. The south mokelumne sloughs were pack with bass boats so I fished the only the major points. the fish were NOT right at the points today(it took me a while to figure them out),I found most of the fish on the upstream side of the sloughs (in comming tide). It took about 25 cast to get then fired up. I cranked for most of them and when grass got to sticky I use my spinner bait. most of them were 1 to 2 lb but real fun, a nice red eye almost took me to school. I started looking for bigger bites, I started tossing a big dbl wide beaver. caught two pigs by wimpys, one was a good 7Lb+. I started yelling never give up like Ike, but only ducks were watching.
    City: rio vista

    Tips: I know there is fish all over the delta, for numbers use moving baits, for size beef it up. the two pigs i landed were 2 hours apart with no other bite and in 7ft eddys. now I just need to do this when it counts. my colors are orange craw and shad for moving and black/bue,punkin for plastic. dont fight the skier just move, when IM angry I dont fish right. well be safe and my back seat is always open God Bless.

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started off throwing topwater in the morning at high tide and only got dinks. Tried cranking riprap and only got one decent bass.... and about a 6 lb salmon on a speed trap right against the tules! Weirdest thing I've ever seen. Got pics to prove it. Tide started going out and we started punching. Didn't do very well until tide got fairly low then we started catching some quality fish including one over 5 lbs. Got off the water around noon. Got hot and the "bros" and blaring rap music got outta control.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Punch rig on outgoing low tide. Don't know about high tide...

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 72-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I had a great day on the delta with two fun clients. The top water bite was off the hook in the a.m. as it slowed crank baits and chatter bait produced nice fish for us. We caught 20+ fish up to 5lbs with some real nice 3 lbs fish mixed in the bag. Not too hot, not too windy, not too cold. Awesome day! Click like on my facebook page for up to date reports. www.toadsonly.com
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Get out early in the summer months for top water actions. More tips and reports @ www.toadsonly.com

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started in disappointment and my partner catches 8 keeper size fish on a black buzzbait.I was switching between a frog,senco, and a red/ornge lipless crank, got two little blow ups on the frog and lost two small ones on the crank. After about three hours of that we move to franks and nothing there so we move on to fishermens cut. I get a 5lber on the frog, we got a couple decent blow ups on the frogs. after a blow up I immediatly followed up with a punch skirt but they wouldnt ead it. There was alot of activity under the cheese matts, i dunno if they were chasing bluegill or shad but we couldnt get em to eat the frog or punch skirt.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Dont think im the guy ya wanna take tips from right now lol im strugglin out here!!qu