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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished with 1/4oz. hair jigs that are made for topwater on mats,really good jig.brand new.I caught over 30 fish in 2 to 3 lb range. if you are a pro I would try out for this presentation and application to mats and pads. it is made in redding.
    City: concord

    Tips: smaller profile,the metal wing makes it pop on the mats like a frog.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 76-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched S delta 3 pm start. Fished sloughs off Old River and Middle River, south. Had tide just coming in. Had been out at least once per week latly. Today I finally had a fairly productive day. Started flippin outside edges (and pockets) of weedline with a 420 Beaver. This time for no particular reason, fished with the current. We were moving a bit too fast, but I started catching fish, so I stayed with it. Anyway, had alot of bites, getting most in the 1-3 lb range, but did get one that went a bit over 5lbs. Fish mostly picking it up on the fall or when I was working down the edge of weeds. Also, was a bit windy as well. I got quite a few VERY small ones on a popper also. Guess they were schooling, this happened when tide was almost all the way up. Back flippin beaver again for several more, off water by 8:30. Total was about 15 or so fish with best 5 going a bit over 14. Not great, but better then I had been doing. Hope this helps.

    Tips: flippin outside edges of weedlines on incoming tide w 10-12 ft water at the drop. Sweet Beaver, 420 color.

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Wimpy's, headed towards Lost and snodgrass. Started throwing a persuader double buzz stuck two fish in the 2-3lb. range. Picked up kermit, started huckin' it over the cheese, and proceeded to boat 8 keepers with one missed blow up around the 5-6lb. range. Overall 15- 20 blow up's the 4 hours I fished, it was good!!! Don't be fooled by the Lil' tracker, she'll stick a toad!!!!!
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Frogs(get your sharpie out!)

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Traveled from S. California and fished the Snag Proof Frog Open with Ricky-S. Got a tour of the Delta and a frog fishing lesson over the next three days. Friday pre-fish went well, about ten blow ups between us. All in the heavy junk, no open water bites. Day one, one solid keeper for me, three for Ricky. Five missed bites, and two were the kind that help you win derbys. Day two, one small keeper for me, three for Ricky, and one was a 7.5 giant. Five more missed bites, two really big ones missed. End result, 4th place for the S. Cal guys!!
    City: Sun City

    Tips: Black and dark brown frogs. If a bass started tracking it under the mat, dead stick it with vibration. Throw back quick on missed blow ups, got several to bite again. Wait for the rod to load before you swing for better hook up ratio.

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

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    Water Temp: 74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My son and I lauched out of Ladds today, fished from 6am to 2pm. We caught about 25 fish, nothing over 2 1/2. All fish came on sinkos on outside of weed lines, fished mostly around the Milred area
    City: Modesto

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tournament season is over for me untill the TOC so I went on a mission to try something new. I went chasing smallies on the Sacramento River above Locke. I threw smaller crank baits in craw colors and had a blast just floating down the rip rap walls. I caught over 40 fish while most guys blanked in the frog tourney. Most were small but i did catch several between 13-17" and they are fat. Lighter tackle graphite rod 8lb test it was fun. Ripped a few rattle trapped a few but crankin was the ticket! Cant weight to go again and figure out the bigger ones I had one that was huge chase it to the boat but did not committ.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Have fun no pressure toss cranks,blades,rip, just go fish and enjoy. The fish bit best around the begging of outgo when the water is cookin. Be carefull the water moves faster on the main sac but thats where they are at!!!!

    See ya at the 2 day tidal challenge...in sept...

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well I came out today after having a pretty decent day yesterday. Oh what a difference a day can make. Fished similar waters with same baits and had a different results. No luck with top water in the AM. Launched out of Holland at 5:30. Picked up a couple on out going with a robo worm rigged TX style. Caught nothing for about three hours and then picked up two more at high tide. Broke off on a heavy fish.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: I challenge the rest of the people who just read these reports and never post to start posting. I too was a person who never posted and just read. If you have a bad day, it happens, let us know, sometimes it is just as helpful to know what isn't working.

Friday, July 31st, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Started late out of Orwood on the bottom of the low. Fished the levy outside of holland with white frog got 3 2-3# fish in the trough between the weed line and bank. Moved towards franks and fished the outside edges pitching senkos and drop shotting. Got 6 more fish between 3-4# and one that went 6.2# on a MMIII. in about 15 feet of water. Punched for 2 other dinks. off water by 1:30pm
    City: danville

    Tips: Slow for me

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    Water Temp: 71-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood this morning at sunrise. Wanted to go towards Disco Bay but the Coast Guard and Sheriff were there searching for someone that had drown last night. So we went towards Holland. Caught a half dozen dinks on cranks. No luck with frogs or buzzbaits. Switched to a worm and had pretty good luck. Caught another 10-12, nothing big though. Caught two small stripers on rattle traps. Had a nice one between 4-5 spit the hook on an impressive tail dance. Off the water by 1:30.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Don't put all your eggs in one basket, put all of then in the fridge they will last longer.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 75-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched outta ladds 5:30 am,spent the whole day in middle river from the train bridge to connection.All fish but one came off the white/chart spinnerbait, the biggest on a 6"watermelon senco.
    City: modesto

    Tips: I havent thrown a spinnerbait in a longggg time but it felt pretty good covering water. We picked up our fish here and there just working our way up the river, we were pitching sencos, did some punching,nothing from punching, and throwing the spinnerbait.current and or wind seemed to be key.dom

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Honker Cut. Started fishing at 6am and caught 4 on top right off the bat in Disappointment. Started throwing sinkos and caught a couple more. My buddy threw a buzz the whole morning and nada. Decided to check out little Mandeville and found tons of grass that looked great for frogs. We tried but the wind forced us to quit. Did see a few bass working top water. Went to columbia and Scratched a few dinks. Ended near H and H and got 2 more. Off the water by 1:30
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Pretty good day, best 5 went 15 or so. No fat boys today but they'll be back. All the typical stuff worked, Sinkos, Frogs, poppers, Shad crank and Brush hog in bluegill.

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Dropped my kayak into Middle River at the end of Vic on Cal Pack Rd. at 5:30pm. Picked up a keeper and a lot of missed bites punching a big texan double wide beaver through the weeds on the incoming side of low tide. Same thing above the barrier. Once the sun was low on the horizon I picked up the frog. Nothing on the white one, so I tried black and started getting blow-ups in the trough near rock banks and tules. Also in scattered weed and cheese pockets. landed a 3.5# frog fish from the outside weed line along a tule island point just after dark. The blow-ups continued just about everywhere there were weeds, rocks, or tules and current or a back eddy. Picked up a nice 4.5+ working the frog a lot slower...walk, walk, p-a-u-s-e, walk, walk, p-a-u-s-BOOM! Fell in the water near high tide just before midnight and decided to go home. Nice night!
    City: Sunnyvale

    Tips: Punching the weeds, be ready when the bait gets through the canopy and set the hook HARD! Slow the frog walk down, or try a walk and pause retrieve, giving them and easier target. Hey, I'm lookin' to get on some Smallmouth action, in numbers is a +. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of B&W around 5:45 then drove under and past the bridge to the right for about a mile.fished with chatterbaits with 5 inch grub tailers. i was on the back of the boat and my brother on the front. after my brothers 5th cast he caught a small keeper that mesured 12 and a 1/2 inches. he caught 3 more about the same size then snagged a blue gill. i changed to a color that looks more like a blue gill that is similar to the sexy shad color but with out the yellow stripe, in stead of white, which is what we were using. i got bit three times and missed them. after that i caught 4 small keepers. my brother caught 3 more keepers, one was the big fish of the day. a 4.4 on the scale. then another small keeper after that. so he caught a limit and then 2 more while i caught 4 keepers all before 9:00 a.m.

    Tips: a little faster than a slow roll

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out of B&W at 5:30am headed south to franks threw buzz, spooks, and lunker punker nothing not even a blow up. started flippin the tules and pulled out one finally around 10:00 1# and then nothing. was getting ready to leave around 12:00 and decided to try one more spot flippin green watermelon brush hog and yamamoto baby craw caught about 20 in the next hour and half. Biggest 3-01.
    City: Elverta

    Tips: Big out going tide was key!

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    Water Temp: 76-80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: look for any type of healthy green weeds. brown weeds equals not a lot of oxygen which equals not alot of bites. scattered cheese with buzzbaits in between the mats has been good.
    City: antioch

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 70s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught 3 LM. Not much of a pattern. 1 flipping, 1 on tulle near point and 1 on submerged veg. They seem to be spread out so cover a lot of water. Keep moving, I haven't caught 2 in the same general area.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: Looking for some. Anyone cares to share where the bass are in these dog days of summer? Not looking for a specifc spot (obviously) but the type of locations. Thanks in advance.

Friday, July 24th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood again, Fished up towards Holland area. Stopped and asked a guy in a Champion how he was doing, Said he caught 3 fish in the last hour on Black Buzzbaits and missed a few on Frogs. He said he read about this area on Westernbass. I was glad to see he was catching the fish he read about. I started down around the old Boyscout island in Holland, No frog blow-ups but in #2 on Black Buzzbait in the weeds on the back of the point. Went and fished the Cheese matts around Rock Slough, the fish seem to blow through the matts but would not inhale the frog. I felt my hookset ratio was about as good as me batting against Randy Johnson pitching. I did not follow up with the Senko, maybe I might have stuck some of them. Fish seem to be by more open areas between the matts. I did manage a limit, but no Big fish. My best 5 bass wnt for only about #14-16#s most came on White Frogs, Because I could not find any real Buzzbait water in the Rock Slough Area.
    City: Delta Area

    Tips: Look for space between the matts, or throw your frog on the openings between the rock shore with some water on it, to openings in the matts. I got on the water at 4:00pm- 8:00pm

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished empire & mildred for 5 bass to 8.8lbs! 4.5lb frog fish caught along the levee near white pumps at empire & 8lber on a rainbow trout colored senko in mildred in the submerged trees!
    City: napa

    Tips: black & red river 2 sea frog & wacky rigged 5" rainbow trout senko!

Monday, July 20th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out today and tried for some stripers in the morning. caught about 8 of them and missed probably 20 more. mostly off spooks but one miss on bubble pop. caught two keepers one barely keeper and one 4 pounder(both released) and the rest were almost keepers. then went to bass fishing and caught one off spook. a 9 pounder flipping a coonasty beaver and one dink off frog. off by 12 because of all the wakeboarders and waterski turkeys.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: there are still stripers in the delta just not as big but they are fun to catch. bass was slow today

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

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    Water Temp: 73-75deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Took a 2 day trip to the Pro Teen rally to support our youth and grow our sport. Andy the cooch does a great job with this event we need more people to help with todays kids and teens.
    I tried to locate fish not knowing what level of skill my teen would have that I draw. What I found was the high tide over the hydrilla type grass with current had a Buzz Bait bite but you have to work for it. Senkos and cranks got consistant bite for me on both days, frogs were slow for me but some had success. The most bites for people in the event came on senkos on barrin rock walls and sparse or isolated tule clumps with hydrilla grass on high tide. The big fish are being caught deep under the vegetation trash bombing if your looking for the 5 bite plan.


    good luck
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: current,top and bottom of tides