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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Tract at 11am. Ended the day at 7:30 pm. With best five going 20lbs biggest fish was 8.13 on a sweet beaver near tullys and wood. Most fish caught on speed traps near current. One fish on a Carolina rig and 8" lizard. End of the day had a top water bite. One on a buzz, 4 on a popper, and a 11 on a frog. That is 11 inches. Very windy all day.
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: If you are fishing structure if slow. give them time to hit. If you are fishing current fish faster with crankbaits.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hello,

    Catch More Bass!
    I prefer to fish the outgoing tide starting first from the inside sloughs and following the tide out to Franks Tract. I have had more success on the outgoing, but also have had some good results on the incoming tide. Best thing to do is look for clearer water wtth current whether incoming or outgoing. Also look for water that is adjacent to deeper such as 12'-0" to 15'-0" or beter. The bass move in and out of the deeper structure as the tide moves. As the weather has been very warm lately look for shaded areas or try fishing the grass mats with a weedless frog and hang on. This is a great way to fish with kids also try a weedless whacky rig. The less hang ups you have with the kids the more they will enjoy fishing. Be prepared chances are one of those kids will land a monster bass so have a net handy, and by the way do practice catch and release to preserve the sport for future generations. Success
    City: Tracy

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    Water Temp: mid 60s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at ladds fished louis park coves and other protected water off main channel caught donkys on speed traps in spring craw and delta red.CAUGHT 20 FISH BIGGEST 12 POUND TOAD.
    City: stockton

    Tips: cover lots of water gaurenteed big fish try and you will see no bs. no luck needed

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 56

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched in the southwest end of the Delta for two days (4/16-4/17. I was trying to learn how to fish with the bigger swim baits and used an 8 inch bait for the majority of both days. I caught 8 fish over both days using the bait with the smallest being 2-15 and the biggest 12-3 (My personal biggest ever). The remainder of the time I caught 14 fish with the smallest not worth mentioning and the biggest 4-7. On the 16th, I fished from daylight to 7pm and on the 17th from daylight to 3pm. There may be something to bigger baits - bigger fish.
    City: Carson City

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    Water Temp: mid 60s

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to wiskey and nailed the big ones started out throwing dominator worms in dilisious color and zoom trick in green pumpkin when tied went out started throwing speed traps in crawdad colors along the rocks.A few days later the guy i fished with went back and won a wendsday tournament by ten pounds same area.
    City: modesto

    Tips: Fish the back side of the tulie berms consentrate on isolated tulies with the worms cover alot of water with the speed trap on the rocks. Catch the fish of a lifetime just like waylon cadwell 13.57 chek out the fish in photos.

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    Water Temp: 59.4

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started fishing the Tract at 0700 low tide. Nothing until 0730. First fish, 7.0 lbs on a watermellon senko fished wacky. Then another small one. Even caught a 12.1 carp on that senko. After another 2lb, Moved outside to tulles flipping in 2' water. Lost one about 5 lbs,after pulling her out of the tulles only to lose her on the weeds. Then several more.
    City: South San Francisco

    Tips: Fish tight in the tulles. Only action on jigs flipping and senkos. No action on cranks or swimbait.

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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    Water Temp: low n60's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Very windy in Mildred's but the bite was on. Caught over 20 with the largest being 5lbs. lost another big one early with a (blk/blu) jig. But, the "Red" crankbait bite was crazy... Nothing huge but couldn't keep the bass off of it! Started getting annoying. LOL ;)
    City: Somerset

    Tips: Red Crankbaits

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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    Water Temp: ??

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My best day since I've been back from Korea on one of the worst days I've been out. All I have to say, "WINDY!!!". I ran the custom Valco bass boat "BASSBUSTER1" to the far side of Lost Isle to work the back side. I managed a double limit on a spinnerbait, biggest was 4.3 lbs. The 4 pounder broke my favorite 3/8 double willow spinnerbait I've been using the last 2 months. So I built another one on the spot with my spair parts kit I keep in the boat. I matched it up as best I can, but ended up using a 1/2 ounce instead. I beleive that was key to getting my double limit at Lost Isle.

    I then proceeded to my destination at Tikki Lagoon. That was totally different and challenging. The water was clearer there, especially when I took my boat under the walk bridges to fish behind the boat docks. I tried every thing for a couple hours and no bites. I switched to my rod with 10 pd Berk. Sensation and found out the bass wanted 6" red shad curly tail worms. I was able to manage another limit working the deeper water behind the docks. Biggest bass went 3.2 lbs.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Try to get out of the wind as best as possible. It beat me up pretty good with the trolling motor on high most of the day.

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60-67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Ladds at 6:00am and headed towards Turner Cut, tried a blade,spook,Slammer,senko and drop-shot;Nothing!
    Moved on down to outside of Mildred and water looked great, got bit on blk/blu jig in 8' and missed it. Moved inside Mildred and caught a few on drop-shot and grnpkn senko wacky; they were tight on cover, right against it. Stuck six or seven in the 1.5-2.5 range and one 5.5 tucked in tight to a grass flat. Ended up with best five for about 15-16lbs.
    City: Hilmar

    Tips: Was not getting bit well on the 20# floroCarb so i started pitching wacky senkos with 8# test and they started eating it pretty good, every fish headed toward deep water. Drop shot 6" MM on wood.

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Pretty solid day. Good reaction in the morning and good jig and plastic bite later. The voodoo is really starting to produce now. Black first thing and bluegill later now that the bluegill are getting active. Also, a black blue jig work in a hopping motion is good.In the afternoon any senko that has a green tint to it will do and a green pumpkin jig is a good choice. Thanks to Chris and Amy at fishin magician tackle for the proto type Majestic Jig I have been using. There is nothing out there like it. The bass have been tearing it up and what an awesome bed bait. They are finally ready to start taking orders on it. Sad for me, but good for them.

    Tips: Dark colors in the morning and natural in the afternoon. Fish are really starting to feed on flats. The jigs tight to structure have been doing well. Call Chris or Amy at 530-642-9050 if you are interested in placing an order.

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    Water Temp: no idea

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday out of Holland. When I saw the boat ramp full at 7:30 AM should have gone back home. Fished until 1:00 PM and had good tides throughout. Fishing was slow for my son and I. We managed to catch 10 fish on 11 bites. Best two were 7 and 4...lost one in the 5+ range right at the boat also. All others were 1.5 - 2 lb variety. I have never seen so many boats on the water in April!!! The problem wasn't the number as much as the number who have no clue how to operate a boat...
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: All fish came on jig or drop shot. Best two were jig fish. I fished deep rock with sparse grass on it and chose areas I've never fished. Brown/Green combination worked once again as did MMIII on the drop shot. There will be better days and were it not for the non-bass guys/gals out there it would have been a nice day.

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    Water Temp: 60+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I fished a jig almost all day. Hooked a 10+ early but he spit my jig on his 2nd jump. I think my dad hooked the same fish a few hours later, but he broke off at the boat. It was definatyely a HUGE fish, possibly 2 HUGE fish? If anyone catches one with a brown jig "Lip Ring" let us know... I also caught my 1st bedding bass after letting the jig just sit in the bed.

    Ended up catching a 5, plus 7 more to 2 pounds... Very hot day, stay hydrated.
    City: Somerset

    Tips: Jigs with a creature trailer or craw worked best for us. Caught several small one's on top-water early.

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    Water Temp: 58.7 deg

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well started out at B&W resort at light. Never went further than 1.5 miles from Ramp and Boated 15 fish Nothing big, fished senko threw top water swim baits , blades found pattern with senko fished till 10 30 am was off the water at 11:00 am had my daughters ball game at noon so got my fix in quick and got out. two biggest went 5 lbs nuttin bigger needed more time, might go out tommorrow am with the ol lady and spend all day out there . got good tides in the am bite died off after top of tide . had a good time went through a bag of senkos .. good stuff going to try to post up some pics from today going to get the kid to do it.. im not to good at this computer stuff . had a good day dave.... going tomorrow..hope your doing good at shasta
    City: Elmira Ca

    Tips: have plenty of time to fish all day

Friday, April 11th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 70 deg

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Nothing to report today. I just got off from work and decided to run the Custom Valco Bass Boat "BASSBUSTER1" to back end of 14 Mile Slough to get away from the week end crazyness (it was an awesome main channel run though). With extreme low tide back there, high blue skies, and just a cuople hours of day light left I mainly was just "Chuckin' & winding" a spinner bait. I did try plastics and jigs too.

    My main reason for the post is to say "Thank you" to the two guys in the bass boat next to me I shared the water with. If they weren't there to power through the floating weed mats I may have been night fishing for a while.

    Once again thanks for your support today.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: When fishing in areas with alot of floating mats and is a little breezy look behind you once in awhile to be sure you are not getting block in. :-P

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Got out around 11:00 Brannan Island lots of tournaments boats on the water what

    Tips: Find cleaner water and have fun.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I started out of Rio Vista for Stripers. I worked my way towards the Sac river. Threw a Weedslinger in an around the Schools. The best weather and day I have had. 12 Stripers to 14 lbs. I will be back in the morning. Awesome day
    City: folsom

    Tips: Look for the birds. Then throw in the area. Hold On!

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished hog slough . small fish at mouth, went in about half way and caught 4+,& 5+ back to back.windy and tough
    City: linda

    Tips: jigs

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Fishing was good overall. Caught 10 total...Two very large (9+), four (4+), 2 (3+), 2(2+). Fishing last hour of incoming and the other side. Focused on the middle river learning new water that looked good. Caught (9) on jig and (1) on drop shot. Threw chatter, swimbait, and senko without any success. Fished deep rock walls with sparse tulles interspersed. All fish caught in 5-12 feet of water. Total of 12 bites.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Caught fish on 3/8 brwn/green combination jig and MMIII drop shot (7 inch). Key with the jig was slow presentation. A couple bites were ferocious but most were subtle pick ups with weight. Key seemed to be finding deep rock that had sparse grass in the 5-10 foot range. Not your typical Spring pattern but cooler weather and poor water clarity told me to think off the bank a bit and it worked. Best 5 was easily 27+ lbs. The two larger fish were both caught in 6-8 feet of water.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My son-n-law and I fished the Police, Fire and Corrections tournement this past week held on the 10th and 11th. 63 teams participated. The best showing ever for this tournement. I first want to again send out a HUGE THANK YOU! to Gene at the Hook in Oakley for the quick repair he did for us on the Minn Kota 101 on Wednesday. You saved our butts Gene. Tuesday afternoon on the way back to B&W we hit a cross wave in the main cannel and sheared the head off the trolling motor. We thought our week was done. But by 10am on Wednesday it was fixed and our week was saved. We were on some pretty good fish in prefish in the Track. At low tide the swimbait bit was ON! On Thursday, first day of the tourney, we started in the Track and by 8am we were culling. First fish,5+. Swimbait! The rest of the day, Senkos. 7" whacky. Until the tide bottomed out then the swimbait bit was back on. At the end of the first day we were in 9th with a little over 22lbs. On Friday we managed another 17+ good enough for a 6th place finish. First place was 58lbs. Thank you Russ Marta for a GREAT tournement. It was our pleasure to pitch in and help. We look forward to next year. Good Times for all. Tom
    City: Fresno

    Tips: Low Tide, throw the swimmer, untill then 7" senkos were the ticket for us either watermelon, blk/red flake or purple

Monday, April 7th, 2008

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The wind was tough but managed to land some toads around white slough. Tossed big baits and some frogs. next week looks good highs in the 80's its on!!!
    City: Lodi

    Tips: Mission Fish (white)
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