LAST EDITED ON Nov-01-00 AT 05:45 PM (PST)

MY weekend started Friday evening when I got home from work 5:30 or so. I was on the water by 7:30pm Fished in the Port of Stockton till Midnight without any so much as a nibble. I tried spoons; rattle traps, pencil poppers, DC8 timber rattler, nada….

Saturday morning got up around 9:am and drove over to Isleton drop in at the bridge and went down river aprx. 2 miles throwing a assortment of baits spoons; rattle traps, pencil poppers, DC8 timber rattler, and again …nada. Damm-it

It rained off and on threw-out Saturday when I got off the water at 5:30pm I was pretty beat. I luckily had the tied going the direction I needed to make for an easy ride. Being that I was tiered and did not want to take my boat down from my truck so I decided on fishing under the I 5 bridge here in Stockton. I soaked chicken livers for a hour and produced three hungry catfish. I gave them to the local supermarket. It paid for my dinner/hamburger drink and fries.

Got up Sunday and was on the water by 11:am off and on rain. There were at lease ten boats fishing in the Port here in Stockton. I made my way over to the spot where I’ve been graphing a lot of fish and began spooning. About a hour into it I got a 19” striper not long afterward got a 22” striper threw them in the live well. I switched baits to a swimbait and whamo I got a 4.5 largemouth vertical fishing. (NM) The rain really started to come down and thunder and lighting was all around. I started to get worried so I made my way under the piers pilings and began to soak livers for catfish. For two hours I was kind of stuck under the pier due to heavy activity from the passing storm. But I did managed to put twelve catfish in my livewell. I got out of the water at 6:pm and stop off at the market and gave my fish for a total of sixteen dollars.

Thinking on going back out this weekend but I’m going to try over in Antioch I’m thinking on vertical fishing the bridges pilings NM?