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    Water Temp: 75 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Splashed the ol valco at sunset marina, bethel is. sun 7:00 am, headed to the end o sandmound slough where the water ends, worked plastic worms along rock walls, managed to get 8 , 1 going 3.5 lbs, then worked the berths and behinds docks, got 2 going 2.5 ea, inished the day ishing or blue gill, caught and released 45, had a blast, going back next week end, hope the top water bite picks up, dont seem to have any luck lately, but worms/water melon with chartruse spinn tail was the ticket. went outsat same area with a good riend, he did 8 to my 2, o-well ish on every-body, summers here! a NOTE TO FISHING FOOL, HOPE YOUR FEELING BETTER. RB
    City: pittsburg

    Tips: PLASTICS,PLASTICS.PLASTICS******

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Everstart rom the backseat so I'll leave the areas out even though I have ished them ALL beore. I was able to get small limits drop shotting and throwing senkos each day. No blade ish, never had a blowup on my rog but I did crank three between the rocks and weeds. Docks, tules and weed edges were good targets or the senkos and dropshot.
    City: Castro Valley

    Tips: 12 lb test works ine on the dropshot.Good ole watermelon/red still catches ish as does plain watermelon.Reddish speed trap works too.

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: just came o the water betwwen 8pm and 10 topwater bite was on there seemed to be now end anything that made any kind o noise produced a ish
    City: manteca

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Sometimes its good and sometimes it's not. Monday morning went down south, Victoria and got 30 bass beore 8:00 on wht/wht persuader spinner baits and cht persuader buzz baits, most o the ish were 2-lbs.Tuesday, to Dissapointment had a 4 & a 7 come up on a rog didn't set, had one about 10-12lbs on a Slimy Slug along with some 3's on the slimy slug and rog about 20 bites on the rog.Wednesday, "Everstart" went to my big ish hole down south, and lost 4 good ish on the slimy slug all over 4lbs, then over to Coney and lost one about 5 on a spinnerbait and one I never saw on a jig. Now it noon and have 9lbs or 5 so I picthed the Frog Mossback or ther rest on the day and got a 4 and ended up with 11lbs.Thursday I needed over 20lbs so I started with the Frog around Franks and had 4 good ish on and lost every one by 6:30am. By this time I think someone put a hoax on me. Back to Whites and Dissapointment and I watched several 10's swimunder my Frog but not bite and I did manage to loose 2 good ones up there on the Slimy slug. For the day I had over 20 ish on the Frog but only had about 9lbs total. That's my Story
    City: Concord

    Tips: The ish I targeted were very shallow about 1t o water in pockets and procted areas, anywhere in the delta as long as the water color is good.

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    Water Temp: na

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: ished out o orwood was only on the water or an hour and a hal got 2 on a white spinnerbait 1 on a black spinnerbait with a rattle and one on a straight tail worm lost alot due to poor line berkely vanish lives up to its name use it and all your equipment will vanish. thats what i get or not sticking with p line
    City: manteca

    Tips: strike king spinnerbaits white and black and cct lures straight tail worm in mclure crawdad

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went with a number o tubing and kickboat buddies to the Southern Delta and the topwater bite was on! Hit both the outgoing and incoming tides and only during the slack tide did ishing slow a little. I ended up with 17 ish, 1 on senko 16 on BUZZBAITS! No real size as the biggest was only 3lbs but un day on the water. A Bass-n-Tubes buddy had the Spook bite going and ended up catching between 35-40 ish. His ish were bigger as he landed a number in the 3-4 lb class and had a ew more on (one that put a nice show on or a couple o us!) that were about 5 lbs. He did get a couple dinks on senkos and another buddy caught about 10 on spinnerbaits. Others in our group caught ish on a mixture o baits with the largest going 7 lbs on a buzz (too bad it wasn't me!). Anyway, great day on the water! Can't beat a topwater bite!
    City: San Jose

    Tips: BUZZ and SPOOKS!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went out with Randy Pringle, caught around 30+ ishes. great guys, we hitting mostly with top water and jerk bait. great ishing day.
    City: Bay area

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    Water Temp: 67-73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Found tons o ish working the speed trap between the rocks and weeds only problem most o the ish are 10-14" long. Woodward, Victoria and Old River are doing pretty good. Lots o small ones and an ocassional goood one 3 or 4lbs. Most o the better ish in these ares have been on a chartreuse Helix "like a senko" draggin it thorugh the weeds. Yesterday we had over 20 blow ups on the rog but most o them wern't taking it very good and we missed hookin up. We got 2 decent ish and lost 2 big ones on a chart gold Persuader spinnerbait.
    City: Concord

    Tips: I will give up some big ish tips ater next week, hopeully they work or me.

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took guide trip with Randy Pringle. Excellent day on water. We caught many ish in 3-5lbs range, with one over 6lbs. Mostly on top water, buzz baits and slimmy slugs. Probably caught 35-40 ish or day. Tip o the day stay in clearer water. Caught a ew lipping but top water was an all day bite. This is my second trip with Pringle and was taken to a dierent part o Delta S/E area. Man makes it a great day. The trip would be worth the money just or area knowledge, catchinga bunch o ish and learning some new techniques every trip is a plus.
    City: Oakland

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out o Ladd's Thur. @ 6 and ished the mouths o coves protected orm the wind just o the main channel. I caught 3 and my partner caught 2. The white spinner is still workin good and inally got the irst luke ish this yr. It was a nice quality 3+ ish. Fri. launched @ paradise point @ 6 and ished the north end o bishop cut and got 3. 2 on the blade and 1 luke ish that went about 3 lbs. I could see bass blowin up topwater at almost dark but couldn't get any takers on a buzz bait.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: White is still workin or me with the spinner and pearl white on the luke. Most blade ish come o o concrete or rip rap by tulles. Throw the luke at weed line or overhangin trees. Good luck and have un

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    Water Temp: 65' ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Great day all around. Launched out o Orwood,(in the dark) with good riend Bill "Delta Stud" Durbin, his boat, his water, mostly his ish.Started in Slough with top water. Bill had a small limit by 6:15. (I'm not sure i I got a limit o keepers all day.)Prolly got 15-18 ish in Rock. I mostly threw senkos. ished middle-South Delta, Bill upped his weight considerably with a 5lb and two over three. total or the day was around 28-30 ish. I think I got 7 or 8, which means I got "Schooled:. It was a ton o un anyway, but then I had to get to work, ho-hum, here I sit. I hope you got more ater you dropped me o Bill.Thanks again.
    City: Redding/S.F.

    Tips: Top water lasted two hours. Large brush hogs got the bigger ish.

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    Water Temp: no guage

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Pixley and Dissapointment Sat. First ish came on a white buzz bait. Nothin till hour and a hal later and hooked into a nice ish on a white spinner with silver blades, but only to see her come unbuttoned at the boat. Only other ish came on the same spinner. Sunday ished 14 mi. slough and main channel and hit or 5. 4 largemouth and 1 striper. All largemouth came on rip rap next to the tulles.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Talked to a couple more bassers and we agreed that white seemed to be workin pretty good or the blade bite. Top water was an early bite and the blade bite shut o about 9-10.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Monday the 28th and Sunday, May 4th.28th - Caught over 50 ish during the day, ranging rom 1.5lbs to 7lbs. Fished rock walls with deined weedlines and sparse tulles. I threw 3/8 ounce wacko jigs in black/blue or black/red almost the entire day. I ished only the banks where wind was directly blowing into them, which were rather easy to ind this day. Caught the 7lb tagged ish on a spinnerbait irst thing in the AM. Most jig bites were pressure bites and not extremely aggressive. My backseat partner caught another 10+ ish on the trusty Senko. A great daySunday - Fished the 100% Futurepro out o Ladd's. Partner and I won the class portion o the event with 20.35 lbs. Caught three ish rom 4.6 - 5.8 that secured our inish. I caught my ish on jigs. Partner hooked his on Senko and Brush Hogs. All in all we caught over 25 ish and ished only two areas all day long. Both produced consistent ish or us.
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Jigs...and more jigs. Fish rock with deined weedline and you will ind ish. Pop the jig aggressively when you reach the weeds and let it all...The bigger ish were all in weeds or closeby. Fished throughout the middle Delta. Work the bait back to the 12 oot area. Nearly all my jig ish were caught in the 6-10 oot range. Good luck and stay sae...PS. Thanks to Gary at Angler's Cove who inally convinced me to use jigs consistently...He's a real sportsmen and will show you what to use and when.

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    Water Temp: 59-64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with the guide Randy Pringle. First time ishing with a guide. Known Randy many years but have very seldom ished with him.We launched at BxW at irst light. It was cold out and many guys where complaining o no ish. Well lets see, my sixth cast landed an 8lbs Large Mouth. Beore the day was out we had many ish 2-5 lbs. Most being in the 3-5lbs range. Most important was how much I learned about ishing the Delta. I have ished it or many years but I learned more rom Randy in one day then the last ten years ishing it. All this on a windy cold day with weather changing every ew minutes. I have already booked another trip with Randy or 19 March.One other thing that really impressed me, was I recently had my leg rebuilt rom injuries I got in Aghanistan and have a hell o a time getting around. Randy made it as easy as possible. I have ished with other Pro's, some o which have huge names. Randy could teach the ones I ished with beore a great deal.
    City: Oakland

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Had some luck over the weed beds, hooked up to a ew dinks and 1 at emale. The o to the moss to land two 4+ in 20 minutes on brown rogs. Quit ater the wind and rain came back.
    City: byron

    Tips: Topwater when the sun comes out, use rogs in brown with yellow legs.Git-R-Done!

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My Nephew (Jr) can up rom San Diego to ish the delta. It has been 6 months and his swing was a bit slow on Fri. We got a late start 10:00, I put him on ish. We got 20+ bass on Senko's and jigs, in the rain and wind. On sat. we ish a club tourn. and he got his swing back. Not missing as many. We hit 30+ bass. Alot rats in the 13-14" rang and 1 crappie on Senko's and Jigs. Threw a rog on some mat and hit a 2# and 15 min beore weight in, threw a blade and hit my kicker (4.55 lb). I took 5th with 3rd big ish. Great ishing with you Jr. Hope two days o ishing did not wear you out.
    City: Fremont

    Tips: Don't worry about the weather, Fish are hungry.. Throw everything you have conidence in. They'll eat it. We ished Senko's and Jigs most o the day. Don't be araid to throw a rog on mats, you'll be surprised.....

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    Water Temp: 59-62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around Franks all aternoon. (1PM to dark) Caught a couple (to 3lb) ish on gold/orange rattle trap. Even caught 10lb striper on that crazy lure. Also caught several decent blacks with the trusty ole Senko. Had almost constant action with the worms. Mostly o points, adjacent to tules/weedines. Sure beats the hell out o working!
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Try the oddball stu in your tackle box. You might get surprised. The bugs around the Tract were out or blood! Don't orget the bug spray!!!

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    Water Temp: 65-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the last bit o outgoing into the begining o incoming, about 10:30 till 3:30. We couldn't get much going down south, although we marked water temps into the low 70's in some o the looded islands and slack water areas. Headed to central delta and concentrated on low low areas and pitched 7" senkos and a big tube bait to shallow weed pockets. We only boated ive (missed two) but they were all decent ish, averaged about 3 1/4lbs.
    City: TRACY

    Tips: All our ish were in 2 eet o water or less. On a side note, The B.A.S.S. guys are all over the delta right now preishing. Kind o un to ish along side some o the big boys I've seen on T.V.

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    Water Temp: Warming up

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished rom 7-12 sat and sun. Found ish all throughout taylor, piper, and little ranks. Most ish came on black home-made jigs and homemade pumpkin trailers. Also got ish on stick-Os tight to the bank, and cranking weedlines between little ranks and the deeper surrounding channel. 15 ish or two days with 2 ish over 4 pounds, both on the jig, both spawned out and very skinny and worn out. Both the bigger ish came in deeper water (6-10 t.) It's unny I take my dad out or a rare bass trip on Saturday, and he gets a 4 pounder rom the back o the boat, his biggest largemouth to date. Then on Sunday, I take my partner/brother out, and he gets his biggest to date @ 4.3 pounds rom the back o the boat. My biggest or the weekend was a 2lb crank ish. Go igure! Oh well, we got a lot o spring let! Good luck guys.
    City: Vacaville

    Tips: GET OUT FISHING THROW WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST BE ON THE WATER!

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    Water Temp: 66-72

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the last 3 hours o daylight down souh during low tide. Had perect conditions or a good spinner bait bite, stained water, cloud cover, steady breeze and an incoming storm. Only one problem, not a single bite on blades. I'm stubborn so I kept trying to orce a bite that just wasn't happening. My girlriend however, quickly reverted to her trusty watermelon/red senko and stuck a 6.9. Then a 3 and so on. I inally switched to a 7" senko and managed a ew 1.5's. Hmmmmm, big bait small bass, small bait bigger bass. oh well, always un
    City: TRACY

    Tips: All our ish were very shallow, and tight to cover. Found several on the beds, but with the wind we were literally on top o them beore we noticed em'.