Posted by Rus Snyders on Friday, April 8, 2011,
In :
Lake Folsom
Posted by Rus Snyders on Friday, April 8, 2011,
In :
Clear Lake
  Good day on the Delta for stripers. 20 fish mostly 3-5 pounders, but one that went 15 pounds, caught on a Lunker Punker. Ripbaits and hair jigs also worked well. Big Break, Sherman Island, and San Juaquin River all produced fish. Continue reading ...
 Launched out of San Rafael with my buddy Steve and his new 13' Whaler. Weather was hot with a light breeze at times. Started off with a low tide at sunrise. Had a 8-10 pounder hit a topwater five times but didn't hook up. Switched to hair jigs and fish traps and caught 15 or so fish, 6 or 7 keeper sized (18"). Steve caught the largest, around 6 pounds. Stayed close by and fished the Marin Islands, Brickyard, Sisters Islands, and China Camp. Continue reading ...
  The stripers have moved in!!! For all who have asked about when to book a striper trip at the Delta, the answer is now. Give me a call and lets get out there. On this day, my friend Paul from Florida and I caught 25 stripers including one big 17.5 pounder. Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Wednesday, April 28, 2010,
In :
Alpine Lake
6 pound largemouth on a swimbait. The lake is full as can be right now and most of the fish are in the back coves making nests to spawn.  Continue reading ...
Friday, we launched out of Russo’s Marina at around 7:00 am. This past week has been the first warm stable week of the spring. There was a couple ours left until the bottom of the tide, so we focused on offshore grass in Franks Tract. Throwing LV 500’s and spinnerbaits, we catch a couple small bass (maybe keepers). We move south and fish a couple spot off Old River but have no luck. At the bottom of the tide we stop at Cruiser Haven and look for bed fish. After 10 minutes of frustra... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Wednesday, March 31, 2010,
In :
Clear Lake
Fished south the first day, spinnerbaits and flipping jigs worked best. Myself and two others caught 13 bass largest was 5 pounds. Second day started at the Keys and caught nothing, then fished north between Adobe Creek and Konocti Vista Casino. Caught 10 bass on swimbaits ( Osprey and Basstrix in light hitch), and Brush Hogs fished out of the tulies. Last day started at Lands End Marina and caught a couple out from the mouth on Brush Hogs, then fished the very north end of Lakeport. Drop ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Wednesday, March 10, 2010,
In :
Clear Lake
We launched at 8:30 at the Konocti Vista Casino. It’s sunny, but still quite cold. Before we take off, we decide to make a few casts in the harbor. I gave Charlie the front of the boat, as he was making casts to the deeper pieces wood ahead of the boat, while I was flipping a jig way up in the wood. After only a few minutes of fishing, Charlie caught a nice 5.5 pounder on a Baby Brush Hog fished on a shakey head. We bounced around and fished a few more spots that had deeper wood that was... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Wednesday, March 10, 2010,
In :
Clear Lake
Wednesday was brutally cold. The rain was coming down pretty hard on the drive up, but at 8am when we launched the sun popped out, for a few hours anyway. With frozen hands we made our way from Lakeport to the Clear Lake State Park. We begin by throwing ripbaits (Lucky Craft 128 Pointer), and swimbaits (Osprey and Basstrix). We cover water quickly and make sure not to waist to much time in one spot. The water color and temperature would fluctuate drastically in the matter of 100 yards. ... Continue reading ...
Launched at Big Break Marina
Saturday morning before the sun came up at 6 am. I was with two other anglers. Both were experienced bass fisherman but neither have targeted striped bass out on the
California Delta. Just as the sun
was coming up the tide turned and started rising. We exited the marina and immediately started seeing smaller
sized stripers busting smelt on the surface. Throwing topwater lures by the boils, we each caught a few
3-7 pounders. Poppers, Vixens, and
Lunker P... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Thursday, September 24, 2009,
In :
Lake Anderson
Same bite as yesterday only less boats on the water, and more bass in the boat. Around 40 total. Jigs, drop shots, spoons, and small swimbaits all produce fish. 20-50 feet of water out on the main lake.   SPOT Personal Tracker GPS Waypoints
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David and I fished the south Delta targeting largemouth. We had the video camera rolling with high hopes of getting some good footage of the new Shell Cracker Jr. (should be released a few months from now). We caught a few little ones on that bait, but the big one I caught hit a Lunker Punker Jr. She came off a grass flat right off the main river channel (Old River). Weighed 5.5 pounds. Pretty tough day overall, only 6 bass total. Thought the overcast skies would have helped the topwate... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Clear Lake
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Lake Anderson
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Lake Trinity
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Clear Lake
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Clear Lake
Posted by Rus Snyders on Monday, September 7, 2009,
In :
Clear Lake
Located up in the Santa Cruz hills, this lake can produce a catch of a lifetime. This bass, which weighed just under 9 pounds, ate a Lunker Punker Jr. Just before we were going to call it a day the fish slurped the swimbait right off the surface. That was the one and only fish we caught that day.  Continue reading ...
It’s 6:30 Thursday morning and
Tong, Tim and I launch out of Russo’s Marina. We make a 15-minute run south and fish the mouth of a dead
end slough near Orwood. The tide
had just peaked and started to push out.
Using a Shell Cracker on a tulle point, a nice bass swirled on the
swimbait, but missed it. As the
tide continued to push out, we moved into Rock Slough, but found no
action. Finally we caught a couple
on weighted senkos on the outside of Mandeville Island. Around 1pm ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Rus Snyders on Thursday, August 27, 2009,
In :
Lake Sonoma
It’s 8am, Max his father Carl and I pull up to the ramp. The weather is
perfect and all of us are excited to get out on the water. For them, this is the beginning of a
five day adventure. The first two
days will be spent teaching them the basics of bass fishing since they are
relatively new to the sport. Then
they will be fishing from a canoe they brought for the next three days. We were committed to the north side of
the lake since we wanted to find areas within a canoe ride of the... Continue reading ...
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