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Monday, August 20th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished high tide with swimbait on clean bottoms and senkos around tules with current. @5 lbs and lost two big ones around Franks.
    City: Davis

    Tips: Use heavier line than fifteen.

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Disapointment and Turner Cut for A few hours. Found fish on the outside of weed lines up to 5+lbs. Black/Blue jigs and trailer and Drop shot Robo worm Peoples color.
    City: SAC

    Tips: This is A reports page if you want to jabber back in forth take it to the Forums page please.

    Thank you, Terry

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 80

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out for some night fishing and was dissapointed when I never got a hit. The tide was out and the bite was off. I tried black buzz baits, jigs, blades, ect. Nothing. My last night trip was a 20 fish night. I guess the tide and a full moon really makes a better trip. Just when you think you have them figured out they let you know who is really in charge.
    City: S.L.

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    Water Temp: 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the columbia cut in the tules with a frog pitching way in the back finding some fish with low tide. cranked out side the weed line, also texas riged a brush hog in green pumkin.
    After most of the blow ups I backed it up with a Capt Jack Jig in Green Pumkin with green , purple flake or a Senko. Fished the riff raff around the rocks with sticks and tules.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: put the Jig or frog way in the back

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    Water Temp: 78

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Yeah, I used the big ones today and at slack high I tore em up with them.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Japan is ruling the Delta.

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just to throw fuel on the fire. My friend caught a 30lb bag on Sunday just fun fishing. All were caught on texas rig lizards. It was his first 30 bag.
    City: san bruno

    Tips: Take a guide trip and learn something.

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: spent a half day in and around Frank's Tract. Slow day on numbers, but nice fish. Two 6's a 43/4 and a 3. One on a red Japanese lipless crank and the rest on black and red jigs. Super skallow.
    City: lodi

    Tips: no tips- I'm an old grey beard that has not yet figured out how to catch consistant big fish.

Monday, August 13th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: thanks for the tips george, you left not one. here's a tip, use the weight formula by measuring length X length X girth divided by 1200. Here's another tip, senkos for the big fish on high tide.
    City: concord

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: lauch out of Lundborg 7am, caught few three ponders, my buddy Tony caught his personal biggest bass over 8 lber at 9 am, after that we keep catching 5lbers, 6 1/2lbers and 7 1/2 lbers. what a great day at delta. best five bass over 30lbs. we almost went fishing for tuna today.thanks for the bad weather forecast on ocean. will fishing again next sunday for Persauder tournament. have fun on water!
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: color of lure.

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: after a few weeks of deep water lake fishing, and not catching many fish worth braggin' about, finally brought my boat back to the delta. it was unreal the amount of quality bass that hit my lure, especially after battling the 80+ bass boats on the water. finally got my first 20+ lbs bag of fish, (easy for most of you here, but has been a challenge for me). Got a real nice crank pattern going near franks, and instead of burning down the bank, I stayed on fishing spots a lot longer, and plugged away as the tide was falling. picked up on a really great pattern where I would pull out a fish with crank, then stay in the same area with a weightless fluke. the fluke would was a great follow up bait and helped put the bigger bass in the boat. I noticed that each time my crank would hit the water, little shad or minnows would fly out of the water. So that's what gave me the idea to toss a fluke. 20+ fish pulled into the boat, best five going over 20lbs (only had my bogo grips to give me an approx weight)
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: stick to isolated tullie clumps and just watch the water for a bass ambushing the lure. too much fun!!

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    Water Temp: Nice

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sounds like big daddy doesn't have any class. I saw those two guys fish and they were very helpful to me on how they did it. Great guys. Me and Sam my partnet only had twelve pounds today. Keep your chin up and keep stroking the big ones.
    City: Davis

    Tips: We tried top early, cranks and spinnerbaits but caught our fish on drop shot. Franks was our area for today.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Daylight started south got an eight, tide was off a bit so went northward a bit and finished off with 34 lds. Left at 11:00. Was not using jigs.
    City: sac

    Tips: pay attention to current and shade.

Friday, August 10th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Nice try buddy. I don't think anybody will be giving you any fishing information until next week. There are tournaments on Saturday. You will just have to get out there and fish to find out what is happening in Franks.

    Bassman
    City: Tracy

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey blue daddy ranger, I really enjoy your postings and feel that you have good knowledge out on the water. I have a question for you. I fish mostly on the south side of the delta up to about fourteen mile. I have no knowledge of franks and was hoping to get out all day tommorrow to give it a try. where do I start and what type of water to I look for? It sounds like you throw your wake bait a lot which I do not. And it also seems like you tend to stay near visible structure like tullies and weed mats. I know that many people fish in the middle of franks but its all so overwhelming. Any info would help. thanks a bunch.
    City: manteca

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fun fishin with the wife today. About 10:30 get a nice jig bite around Franks. Turned out to be a nice 8.8 lbs. Moto mike has a bad back so I went with the wife. Bet he wishes he was there. It would have been a dollar fish for sure. Lots of different color jig worked but the depth was the key today. 15 foot.
    City: orangevale

    Tips: You need good current and depth. Slow down and throw that wadda jig.

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of B&W and headed for Franks. Really windy started fishing new water around franks. Noticed that the water temps have dropped to near 70 degrees, I wonder if they're dumping water in the river for the salmon run? Caught a nice 8lb 8oz girl on a lipless crank but the others were all small around 2 lbs. Best 5 may have gone 16lbs. My buddy Paul also caught a nice 7 or 8lb stripper on a lipless. Posted pics of the 8lb 8oz but she is really thin and wonder why she is so kinny. She should weigh closer 10lbs by now.
    City: EDH

    Tips: Fish new water and enjoy the day with friends

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 72-74

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Got another late start out Russo's,, bout 8:30 after BS'ing with the boys at the dock.. Tide was low a falling, no wind, water has cleared up a lot. Hit some docks in Piper with only a few little guys. Moved out to the track and saw a few followers and had a couple short strikes on the swimbait, but nothing impressive and only a couple in the boat. About 1030 the tide had bottomed and just started moving in,, now there was a slight breeze. Pulled up on a tule island and figured I'd give the drop shot (MMIII) a go.. bam, first one goes 6-7. I put her in the tank hoping to get another goodn' quick for a group photo,, 1/2 hr goes by and I get a couple rats and a 3,, then I stick another big dog off some wood,, she goes 7-10. I'm ready to head in cuz I don't want em in the tank any longer than neccessary. As I make my way around to the last unfished area I see some matted weeds and pick up the 797 magnum grass rod w an 1.5oz penatrator and a CA420 beaver.. Into the mat I flip and THUNK! She explodes on the hookset destroying the mat. I hadn't seen her yet but she felt big. Finally get a look and there's no way I'm gonna swing this one in..Reach out for the lip and she goes 9-1. I head back to Russo's for the flick and let em go back out in the track. Decide to give the Wake Jr. another try. The fish were repositioning with the incoming tide. Two hours later I finally found a few out in the current off a small island, stick a 3-11, 3-12, 3-15 and a 6-0 and that was pretty much it for the rest of the day. Best five went 33lbs1oz
    City: Tracy

    Tips: How is is that wednesday fish instinctively know not to bite on sat or sun????? If I could ever figure that mystery out....

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

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    Water Temp: mid 70's

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Paradise at 6:00a. Found a weed flat on the San Joaquin as the tide started coming in and started swimming spinnerbaits/chatterbaits over the weeds and fishing the edge with Rat L Traps. In less than an hour, caught 11 keeper size bass and loss several too. Caught a bunch of small ones too. Biggest ones around 4 lbs. Best 5 around 17+ lbs.
    City: dixon

    Tips: Thanks god for 50 lb braided line. Had to drag most of the fish out of the weed flat.

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    Water Temp: Mild

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished this morning out of Oakley. Very low tide...threw a popper and scraped up a few. Went deeper with plastics and found some as well. Worms, Jigs, & Creature baits
    City: San Bruno

    Tips: Deeper off the edges of weed beds. Rock/Tule cuts.

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED AT 530 AM FISHED FRANKS,FALSE RIVER BAGGED 18 LBS BIG FISH 5.1
    City: MERCED

    Tips: BUZZ/RATTLE TRAP ,PLASTICS ALL TYPES BEST ON 7.INWORM