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Thursday, September 20th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on the water after work and landed a few stipers in My back yard in Disco Bay. There moving in but not thick yet.Just small schoolies. Caught one on the famous hair Razor and the other on top water Shellcracker. Not big but getting excited to start driffing the Blue Gills at night.
    City: Discovery Bay

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 67/72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED SHERMAN LAKE WINTER ISLAND MANAGED 12-BLK BASS UP TO 6PDS ON RATTLE TRAPS/HAIR RASIER JIGS. ALL FISH CAUGHT NEAR WEED BEDS MANAGED SIX STRIPERS UP TO 20PDS ON SAME BAITS WIND KEPT ME FROM TRYING BROAD SLOUGH .
    City: ANTIOCH

    Tips: FISH WEED LINE/TRY FISHING DEEPER WATER AROUND WEED BEDS.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished from north side of Franks to Discovery Bay. Only fished Cooch's Whaddajig. Big fish 9lbs 10oz with a lot of other nice sized fish. Took a trip with Cooch yesterday.
    City: Los Gatos

    Tips: Cooch has a great manner and is a ton of fun to fish with. I am a rookie and he showed lots of patience and had an answer for every stupid question I asked.

Friday, September 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went to Disappointment Fri AM. Launched at daylight, fished till 11:00 AM. Water was dead calm til about 9:30. Couldn't find a ripple. At 9:30 a breeze started moving the water. Ended up with one (#2) on a Senko and 3 dinks on a Rat-L-Trap (blue/chrome. All after the breeze came up. Kinda slow, but a beautiful day. Not a single skier, wakeboard or jetski.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Gotta have some water movement

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Super hot on the water with little breeze to aid both keeping cool and fishing. launched out of russo's at round 630, tried some top water action with only one boil. my buddy fishing out of the back, was cranking and caught one pretty quick. I switched up my presentation and went subsurface with an underspin/fluke combo. First cast, let it sink to the bottom and just slow rolled it. Had a fish on and it was a decent keeper, but it came off right as i was about to swing it into the boat. underpsin hard to fish in the delta, as it picks up all the weeds. The day started out well, but as the temp increase, the number of bites soon decreased. Headed out to whites slough and fished the islands and weedlines off banks. caugh some really chunky fish, so they are definitely eating well. These guys look like footballs. mid day sucked, nothing but dinks. afternoon bite turned on, as we cranked rip rap. unfortunately biggest fish only went 3.5 lbs.
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: Look for shady spots of weeds clumps. fish holding tight to the structure. find riprap on channels, and fish the outside weedlines. lots of bass killing baitfish, you can see their bellies filled to the max.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Every Thursday evening Tracy Oasis Marina has a "Turkey Shoot"...starts at 4:00 over at 8:45. I've been fishing them for about 2 months now...What a Blast! Everyone catches fish and for the most part all on topwater and their BIG! Entry fee is only 40 bucks which includes the launch fee and big fish. Weekends used to be all I looked forward to but now it's "Will Thursday ever get here". If you have the time ya gotta do it!
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Thursday evening Tracy Oasis Marina

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: took my girlfriend out and launched out of bw a little before safe light.. started throwing crankbaits and immediately sw action. put a couple in the boat and decided to try a little top water. picked up my buzzbait and first cast had at 5.5 blow up on it. continued throwing with the bass just slapping the buzzer out of the water. switced back and forth with topwater and crankbait with success coming on the crank. flipped as the day got hotter. stuck a couple of 3's and 4's. top 5 going around 19lbs. all in all good day for not going out in 3 months
    City: elk grove

    Tips: fish your strenghts

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood around 6:45 am. We went to middle river and spent most of the morning there with 12 keepers. Most were solid healthy 1.5 to 2.5 lb fish. A lot of smaller fish were hitting the senkos, but we managed to shake off most and save some senkos from an early demise. My buddy did manage an 11 lb. 3 oz. largemouth in about 2-3 feet of water on a senko. We ducked into disco for awhile with minimal success then headed in around 1:00. It was starting to get pretty busy on the water and the ramp was backing up.
    City: Newark

    Tips: On the incoming high tide we did well with pumkin senkos. Most were relatively shallow near tules.

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 71-76 NO WIND

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had fun catching dinks all day(Franks)-Nothing decent to menation. Blistering hot with no wind at times. Still looking for some big bites...hasen't happened in the last couple trips.
    City: ANTELOPE

    Tips: Most fish caught on cranks and rip baits....once again nothing big.

Monday, August 27th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 74-76

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: When out of Paradise around 6pm and fished disappointment till sunset. Caught around 20blkbass on senkos and jigs. Largest was 11.3 lbs on a senko along the weededge.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Senkos in any color you have confidence in. Tried many colors and all of them caught fish.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launch at Orwood Monday at first light. Ran to Franks on the high out going and found fish tight to tulies alot of wind and current. Only managed about 12 fish, several under 2# and only 2 that went 3-4#. Overall very poor day. Fish really seamed closed mouth for me.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: caught most on wacky senko and shaky heads

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out of B &W resort Had a reel good time Caught some really nice fish bigest went 5 lbs Found them in the tules with fast current and deep drop offs used senko and tubes 1/4 oz bullet lost couple of nice fish, hooks sets in larger fish came up short so went with other rod with heavy line and started landing some nice fish. all in all had a good time and find ing fish stacked up in some spots . 15 to 20 fish total was off the water at12;00
    City: Elmira Ca

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    Water Temp: 71-78

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Stockton Bass tourney, blasted off at safe light in search of our top water bite. Picked up the first five fish in about an hour and half if fishing. Two biggest fish came off frogs and splash its. The fish seemed to shut down fast and were VERY tight to the cover. You really had to get your frog back in the thick stuff. After about 9:30 the bite just seemed to vanish. We did not pick up another fish until 11:45 or so. Got on to a last minute frog pattern with about 15 mins left to fish. We culled three fish and had just enough weight to squeak out third place with 15lbs 10oz. I never thought that weight could have won us a check.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: You have to figure out how the fish want the frog, fast, slow, open water, mats ECT. Just try everything till you get one to blow it up.

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: The Basin Bassmasters launched out of Ladd's at safe sun light and weight-in was at 1 pm. Five of nine teams came in with there limit. Most of the anglers stayed in the South end. Some bass were cought on buzz baits, frogs, brush hogs and also drop shot out side the weed lines on low tides. Big fish on a brush hog 7.69 and winning weight was 16.38 by two non-boaters that fished together. Cool morning and light winds changed the pattern for most of us.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: fish slow and out side the weed clumps

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Antiock area in protected grass spots. No fish over 4 but all sight fishing.Lots of fun.Senko's and Flutter CrawsA few fish you can actually make mad enough to strike but most you have to wait till there almost out of sight and then lead them a good chunk.
    City: Delta

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70/75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: FISHED BACKENDS OF SLOUGHS IN SHERMAN LAKE USED SENKOS PLUS RATTLE TRAPS ANYWHERE I COULD FIND SIX /TEN FEET OF WATER ME AND MY PARTNER CAUGHT AND RELEASED BETWEEN 20/25 FISH UP TO FOUR PDS
    City: ANTIOCH

    Tips: FISH EDGES OF HYACIN AND WEEDS WITH THE DEEPER WATER GETTING THE EDGE WITH RATTLE TRAPS RED/CHROME AND RED PEPPER SENKOS

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: launched out of rivers end in south delta at 7:30am,picked up 1-2lb keepers on senkos and blades,started to throw crawdad speed trap on back end of islands around woodward and picked up a thug going 10-8 made my day!!

    Tips: look for any shade during mid day fish seem to be stacked there

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Taylor and Sandmound till noon. Drop shot with very big baits worked on larger fish. Got plenty and salted Little Franks.
    City: Ceres`

    Tips: All the releases around Russos makes a fish factory, go there for big fish and quantities.

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Also forgot to mention our first trip last week to franks. Tough bite for us but did hook my biggest fish ever. She got me caught up in the tullies and came off. Probably close, if not bigger than 10, on drop shot.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Dont ever use 8lb test for delta drop shot!! bad mistake.

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    Water Temp: approx. 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Second time ever out of russos yesterday and the topwater bite is finally coming back due to the warmer days weve been having. Fished isoated clumps of grass in middle of franks with no success. Moved towards sandmound to punch some mats also with no success. Fished main channel rock walls and picked up a few dinks and a striper on rattle traps. Finally fished inside sandmound on deep tullies and flipped a couple decent fish. The shade moved in at about 700pm and started throwing the frog out of the wind. Caught one good one to about 4lbs that came unbuttoned. Threw it right back in the same hole and caught one just over 6. two minutes later, partner caught another over 4. That was it besides a couple of smaller fish on buzzbaits.
    City: manteca

    Tips: topwater is coming back!