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Saturday, September 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W, headed towards Frank's and ended up fishing a speed trap on the south side of the Tract on some rip-rap and boated 5 or so keeper largies to 2.5lbs. Ran up to sycamore and stuck 10 more on a laminate 6" senko to 3.5lbs.
    City: EG

    Tips: Good day considering I got to fish out of my buddies skeeter(Thanks Jon). Watch out for the boys fishin' the FLW their all over the place!!!!

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Great advice man! Also thanks for the tips on saturday. I just ordered some punch skirts. Can't wait for them to get here. For sure next month if you guys do have a small tournament again give me a call. Thanks for giving my boy and I some advice on Saturday. He ended up catching 2 small bass on the drop shot rig you showed us. Made his day. Thank you Sir!
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Don't be afraid to ask for help even if your out fishing. Anglers are awesome.

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a 11 boat tourny out there. Several guys came in with a 5 limit or less(2 or more). Most fish were produced on senco's . Guys punching mats came in @ 5 fish limits also. But they reported they worked extremly hard for the fish. Saw a lot of bass guys out there too. With the national guard out the pressure is definitley on! Look for mats they are ideal but not over fished. The pressure is on! National guard will be pounding mats so if you could resist these guys got a huge purse on the line, let's leave this to the pro's and figure out something else this coming weekend. Definitly a good weekend just to get out and watch these guys duke it out. Remember guys let's keep our distance. Bub tosh's paycheck skirts with the sweet beaver or any other plastic will work great. Good luck trying to find a Mat not already beaten. I'll focus on stripers this weekend and leave the bass to the pros.
    City: Elk grove

    Tips: Great time to start paying attention to the national hairdos tournament and see what these pro guys are doing. The winner gonna definitly have a trick up his sleeve. Keep your distance if you happen to be out.

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launch the boat at 6:15 just before sunrise at Big Break Marina. The tide was going down and we still had a good four hours until it bottomed out. We started on a weedy flat just outside the marina. I was throwing a Lunker Punker and David was using a popper. About 15 minutes into the day, David misses a good sized striper on the popper. Not more than a couple minutes later, I see a guy fly fishing about 100 ft. away from me miss an absolute monster. It looked like someone dropped a VW Bug in the water. David then catches a couple 2lb largemouth on the popper. We then move to the mouth of Little Big Break. I catch a 9lb striper on the Lunker Punker. Just as the tide starts pushing back in at around noon we move to the ship wreck and catch a half dozen schoolie stripers on Rattle Traps. They were all about 18 inches long. By about 12:30 the light breeze we had in the morning shut down, and the surface was now glassy calm. We tried fishing some of the weed beds out in the middle of Big Break, but had no luck. By 2:30 we were in the middle part of the incoming tide and it became quite hot out. We switched gears and decided to pull out the flipping rods and target largemouth bass. Punching Sweet Beavers and Paycheck Jigs, we catch 5 more bass fishing Iron House and Emerson slough
    City: San Bruno

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: My first Delta excursion, and I was successful to some extent, so hooray. Followed around my neighbor and his buddy, just getting a feel for the waters.

    Fished mainstem Moke and sloughs, top end of Franks a little bit of Whites and a bit of stuff in between. Lots of rats on spinnerbaits, probly half a dozen keepers, a 3.5 and a couple 2.5+. Keeprs pretty much evenly split between Spinnerbaits, Swim jig and Beaver.

    Hopefully the bite will pick up in a couple weeks if the bass start railing the shad (saw LOTS of those today!)
    City: Lincoln

    Tips: Spinnerbait for numbers and the lucky big fish. Plastics bite seems slow, and nothing on the frog.

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: There was a bass tournament at B&W on Sunday n wondering how they do. They were fishing mostly at spot where I normally fish. So I wonder all over mokelumne river n san Juan river caught mostly dinks on spinner, buzzer,crankbait,n rattle trap, n popper . No taker on plastic. Bass tournament people most of been there b4 I did. Saw a lot of kids in back of the boat fishing n it remind me of my old man n the OLD DAYS but we didn't have boat back then. I didn't cut infront of anyone but others did but it's understandable. They had a tournament to win.
    City: elk grove

    Tips: flipping, punching mat, senko, swimbait with no takers. Caught all of my dinks n a few keeper on rock levee. Usually we catches fish around tully but no today.

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W to windy conditions and cloudy skies. Stayed mainly around the Tower Park area for 5 hours. Landed 16 fish to 3.5lbs with our best 5 going for 14lbs. We caught fish on just about every bank we hit. We were on a descent reaction bite, with a little topwater and plastics thrown in as well.
    City: Reno, NV

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED MOSSDALE AT 6:30AM FISHED SOUTH CAUGHT 2 BLACKBASS ON THE DT-10 CRANKBAIT ALONG THE ROCKWALL FIRST 20 MINS. THEN TO MEXICAN SLOUGH LOTS OF BAIT AND CARP JUMPING.MISSED ONE ON A CHARTRUS SPINERBAIT.NOTHING IN THERE.MADE A RUN NORTH TO THE Y , WAS VERRRRY WINDY NO LUCK.CAME HOME AT NOON. WILL TRY AGAIN THIS WEEK
    City: manteca

    Tips: USED SENKOS CRANKBAITS SPINNERBAITS AND TOP WATER FROGGS ONLY LUCK WAS CRANKBAIT

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75.5

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: got out on the water around 9ish this morning and had a great day. In the frist hour boated 5 keepers and it went up from there. Lost count by noon. When I got tried of throwing Sinkos would toss Kelly prop bait. Mostly caught dinks on the Kelly but was fun. Lost the largest largemouth that I had ever hooked around 3:30. Went back an hour later but was not there. Tied did not really matter because I caught fish on the incoming, dead still and out going today.
    Fished the main river San Juan around Disappointment.
    City: dixon

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water @ 7:30 AM. Started punching matts, weeds, hyacinth and pennywart. Buddy and I ended w/ a 2#, 4# and a 9# til 2 PM. Then went out to Franks to do some striper fishing for a few hours. Buddy caught a 8#. Went back to the sloughs and start throwing lunker punker, hooked a 7.3#. Our best four 22 plus lbs. Not a bad day at the office.
    City: SaCToWN

Monday, September 7th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70-72

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched from Big Break. Gin clear, nutrient poor water with 5-8 ft. visibility made it an unusually tough day on the water. I spent more time running around in an attempt to find some good stuff, but at the end of the day, I only caught one 16"er flipping tules near deep water with current.
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Fish harder.

Friday, September 4th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74-75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Potato Slough starting at 8:00 a.m. Caught 6 bass to 2.5 lbs. using zipper worm and MM-III. All but one caught 2-3 hours after high tide between the rocks and the weed line on rocky banks with scattered tules. Also tried frogs and cranks in various colors but did not get any takers.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took the family on a two day RV trip. Stayed at Snug Harbor with a dock just 40 feet away from the RV. The morning bite was better than the evening. I caught fish on a super spook and 1/2 oz jig. When things got slow I tried using a flick shake worm and caught several shaker small mouth bass and one nice keeper small mouth. No blacks bass over 2.5 lbs., but I did miss a huge blow-up on a spook yesterday morning, wish I hooked him. Total bass over two days was 12. Lots of blue gil for the kids and a few carp for a good fight.
    City: Millbrae

    Tips: First time fishing north Delta and it seemed that the fish where relating more to the trees in the water than rocks and weeds.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 71-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Potato slough was the plan of attack for my girlfriend and I. So we were on the water at 5:15am throwing frogs and prop baits. A lot of small fish and a few 3lb fish. I Switched to a crawfish pattern speed trap and she tossed a jointed shad pattern rapala and we worked rock levee's and out side weed lines. Hooked up with another five fish in the next 2 hrs. I never put the prop bait away all day I picked that bait up though out the day a caught two more nice fish in the heat of the day around old wood docks. We had a good day together.
    City: Napa

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water by 0600, off by 1300. Launched out of russo's. spent most of the day around little franks with not much luck. Very low tide. Early morning bite was all we had. caught 2 lm and 1 striper on chatter bait and drop-shot (mmIII). No size! Any tips would be appreciated.
    City: dublin

    Tips: Don't fish little franks in low tide!

Friday, August 28th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started in potato slough on the out going tide. Tried top water,spinners and frogs right off the bat with no hits. As soon as the sun was comming up we started getting short strikes and a few small bass. My friend began throwing a craw fish crank bait and hooked up on his next few cast along a rock wall. I had a top water pencil bait tied on and caught a keeper striper. we had a great time on the delta and will be back.
    City: Napa

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: same trip, same fish... two sides of the story...
    launched outta ladds up to the calaveras fished an hour and a half got 14 fish biggest only about 2 1/2 all drop shottin mmIII (fx sculpted 3 1/2's) wouldnt hit the longer ones.... 'cept got one crankin a shad color norman


    other version of the same boat trip... fished the frog got nothin back behind ladds or the calaveras... got one keeper on a drop shot in by 11.
    City: stockton

    Tips: drop the frog ...not workin today

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 69 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a last minute ok to take my kid fishing. Off to wimpys we went close to home. Started at 2pm fishing right there in the mokolumne. Current is really moving again up there so i started looking for fish outside the weed edge in the current it diddnt take long pow a nice one on a spinner bait and a Florida Strain fat little bass with a creen colored craw in his mouth. Started flippin a new Berserk Baits Big Brawler watermelon red flake, flipping near wood and bamm! They were on it. Every fish I hooked my kid would run up and make me let her reel it in. She is 6 this is awsome she has some RB BASS in her DNA. Continuing up the mokolumne I started cranking near wood and POW the spotties came alive. Caught a few fish and my kid wanted a boat ride. So off we went out to the locke and up the Sac River. We went near the mouth of sutter slough and started cranking for little smallies and they were all little except one good one. Down to Steamboat we went and started using tubes and caught a few good ones on the switch of the tides. Moved out to the sac and watched the bankers keepin the smallies on night crawlers. Well its there right. we caught a bunch more little ones on Persuaders popping walker in a shad color. We had fun for a 5 hour trip Daughter and Dad little boat traffic and a lot of small fish. We caught northerns,floridas,spotties and smallies really cool.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Smaller line, smaller baits, light action rods, crawfish and shad patterns cover water..

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 73-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: In the spring the delta GIVETH, in the summer the delta TAKETH AWAY!! LOL
    City: modesto

    Tips: I hope these bigger fish make an apperance come fall.

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: This was my first trip to the Delta. What a fishery started at 6:15am. My second cast produced a 3lb largemouth followed by 7 more 1 to 4 pouder's. All this in a quarter mile stretch of seven mile slough. After a lull in the action.I spotted a school of strippers pushing small fry to the surface. I quickly pick up a lucky 13 and before it hit the water it was fish on. I caught 7 strippers before the action stop. These fish were all carbon copy two pounders. What a place I will be back and back often. I never started the big motor and only traveled two miles from the dock. fished for 3 hrs then off to work.
    City: Napa