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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: That kind of language should not be permited on a family web page!!!!!!!!

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    Water Temp: cool

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished 3 days out of the Hook last Thursday, Friday and Saturday (Dec. 28-30. Thursday used rip bait on weedlines and managed to put 23 blackies in the boat. Largest was one of my biggest to date from the Delta, near 6 lbs. Most were 0.5 to 2 lbs, with some around 3 thrown in as well. Ripped my typical general area (Taylor) but did not get fish in my regular spots there, so found new water and hit groups of fish, anywhere from 4-6 fish from each spot. While ripping in Big break that day I stumbled onto several schools of schoolie stripers (2-8 lbs). It was basically a hit on every cast for half an hour, and lots of fun. Quit counting, but must have caught 25 - 30 stripers total. Friday intended to go to new water, but fog was too thick for me, so fished barge cove, Dutch, and Taylor. Pulled 21 blackies to 5 lbs, most were 1-2.5 lbs, and a couple over 3 - a little better than the previous day. Better fish came off tule berms with some current. Used rip bait and sluggo, both worked ok. Had to keep moving to find fish. Eventually hit a spot and caught 10 nice bass within 20 minutes, the rest were scattered. Tried jig for bigger fish on docks, not a hit. (I need to work on this.) Also caught 3 stripers from 4-10 lbs. On Saturday had same general day as Friday. 20 blackies, most 1-2 lbs, biggest went 4 (Got my digital scale for Christmas). Two smaller stripers one 2 lbs and one of 10 lbs. Lost a bigger striper when it snapped my line (another pointer 100 gone - ouch!). Then it happened . . . I was working my rip bait along a hydrilla clump out from the bank in a bend on the shallow side, and had just caught two nice blackies of 2-3 lbs. I was using long pauses between jerks in hopes of calling up a bigger blackie, when on one pause I felt I light tap. I took up slack and did my typical sweep set, not too hard, and the fish moved off a little and felt like a better bass, but not too big. As I started to load up the rod to bring the fish to the boat I guess it realized that it was hooked, and I felt several massive head shakes through the rod and said Uh Oh, better fish! Cool! That's when the fun began. I was using 8 lb CXX P-line, with the drag set tight enough for hook sets (I back it off on the fight). When it started smoking through the guides! The fish headed for the channel, making a very long run, and I knew I was not going to stop it, so I kicked the T-motor into high and gave chase for 30 yards or so, still losing line. I then felt the fish dive deep, where it sat and sulked, periodically telegraphing it's irritation with massive head shakes that I could feel in my shoulders, and short drag stripping runs. After about 10 minutes of this I became concerned with the line breaking before I even got to see this thing, so I decided to motor directly over the fish and try to pry it off the bottom. This worked, and shortly big mad striper surfaced, thrashing and making a boil the size of a washtub. I eased it over to the boat, and then realized that I did not have a net, and this thing had a mouthful of treble hooks. Fortunately the mouth was large enough for me to grab the lower lip but stay clear of the hooks and I dragged the beast in the boat, hoping to find the bait that had been lost earlier. I have to confess that I did take this one back to the marina (It was too big for the live well, and it must have looked odd with its tail sticking out of the enclosure.) Got the gentleman at the Hook to take a pic of the fish. THose were three of the luckiest days of freshwater fishing I have ever had - (unlike what happened to me at Clear Lake yesterday!)
    City: Half Moon Bay

    Tips: Wherever I saw evidence of bait, blackies and stripers were near by. I promised myself to stop fishing the usual area after 20 blackies, and hopefully the fog will allow me to get to new water so I don't wear out my welcome in the other areas! You gotta keep moving until you hit fish, then stop and work it a bit. Don't sit on spots that worked previously beating them to death, the fish seem to be moving around a bit.

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: in the water just after safe light . really foggy! launched at b&w marina. couldn't see 50 yards. fired the big motor up & just iddled up river 200 yds.threw traps, rip baits split shot, blades, cranks, the green lipped little buggers just didn't want to play. stuck to the above till after 12:00 when the fog finally lifted. fired up and ran down river. threw flukes,picked up one good hit& broke him off on the set. that was the exitiment for the rest of the day. off the water @ 3;00 had a feling that i should have went to Mcclure as i had planned, oh well live and learn.
    City: citrus heights

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: CVBC had it's monthly tourney out of orwood on sat. Boy, do we suck as a club!! no limits - best weight was 3 fish for 7.9# - toby - who i was backseating with.. Anyway - no morning bite whatsoever. got all our fish after 1pm in the back bays of disco. cranking shallow. Nothing on senkos, jigs, worms or splitshot.. I fell in the water. Surprisingly, i got out fast enough that i didn't get cold. THank god toby had some extra clothes in the boat.
    City: belmont

    Tips: afternoon bite. look for bait and warmer water. Winter is here. Tried Cruiser (saw cooch there), Middle river, italian and indian - nuthin.

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    Water Temp: cool

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday and Sunday out of the Hook. Saturday pitched Senko in Barge Cove for over an hour, no hits. Ran to Frank's, cranked rattletrap and norman's little N on weedlines and cuts, no bites there as well. Had heard about good striper action around Stockton, and wanted to take a tour, so ran to the turning basin. Lots of boats, no fish. Decided to head back and fish Taylor on the way out. Got to Taylor late, water was very clear, so decided to try to learn to use a rip bait, which I have only tried from my boat once before on Del Valle, resulting in one smallmouth. It ended up being a very lucky call. I tied on a luckycraft pointer 100 in chartreuse shad, and on the first cast could see the bait working along and over the tops of the weeds, when to my surprise a good bass came up out of a gap and hit the lure! I was so surprised that I missed the fish! On the next five casts I caught 5 fish from 1-2.5 lbs, missed two more on following casts and caught two more after that! 10 hits on 10 casts-amazing! Suffice it to say that in about an hour and a half I caught around 20 blackies from a 50 yard stretch of water, no big fish, the largest was maybe 4 lbs, and most of the rest were 1-2 lbs with a couple of dinks thrown in, but a lot of fun. Unfortunately, got so preoccupied with catching that I did not check the line for fraying, and lost the lure (ouch!). Came back the next day, since I could not believe what had happened, started ripping a ghost minnow, and caught around 30 fish - quit counting after a while. This day the fish overall were smaller, mostly 0.5 to 1.5 lbs, but still the top five would have gone 13-15 lbs. Lost two much better fish at the boat (4lbs plus) - got too casual since at times I was getting hit on every other cast. The fish were bunched up, you would run down a stretch and not get hit, and then once you found one, if you threw back in quickly, more often than not you could pull 3 or four more in. Because of the water clarity I was using 8 and 10 lb mono, and it was a blast to see the fish come up at times and suck in the bait!
    City: Half Moon Bay

    Tips: Tried jigs, no fish, did catch a small one on a gitzit T-rigged under a dock, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it! Ripping the pointer with longer pauses between jerks seemed to get bigger fish. Don't forget to stretch and take some ibuprofen!

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: out of mossdale at about 2p.m no luck till about 4 got a nice 4lb largemouth on a broken back rebel in about 10 ft of water
    City: SJ

    Tips: im not the one to give tips but i was working the rebel at a medium retrieve REAL soft hit

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cranked main channel rip rap with delta craw speed trap. Caught and released six fish with biggest going 5.17#. Threw the cranks all day and had two big fish come unbuttoned, they could have possibly been stripers, never got a chance to see either of them. Total of six went fifteen plus.
    City: turlock

    Tips: Crank slow and bounce it off the bottom. If you don't hit the rocks they won't eat it.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: got on the water about 9:30am and headed toward the turning basin cranked our way out without any luck. We stopped at the N/W corner of where the Calaveras river comes in and started throwing senkos. While reelin in I had a huge fish blow up on my salt/pepper senko skipping accross the water, so I pitched it right back out and again another blow-up. My buddy flips his senko on the blow up and lets it sink. Ka-Boom! this big ol striper eats it. 13lbs. So we started skipping senkos and caught two more nice fish. Went down to fourteen mile slough and flipped sinkos on tulleys to catch a couple large mouth up to two lbs.
    City: turlock

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: fished Walton's tourney out of Ladds. 18+ lbs for seven fish won the tourney, in sloughs just off main channel, plastics and jigs(?). Fish were reported on cranks, jigs, senkos. Toby and I did OK - we only caught 4 but weighed in 10#+ with a 5.25 kicker. Big fish of the tourney was a 7#+ beauty. Good turnout for a late year no-money (har!) tourney, I'd guess about 20 boats.. call jon for details and tips (he won!). (510) 352-3932
    City: belmont

    Tips: fish are moving into winter patterns. slow down.

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the central and south Delta the last 2 days. Bite was pretty good, spent a lot of time searching new water. had 8 fish day and 14 fish on the 24th up to about 3#. Fish all came from 6 feet or deeper from deep weed lines. Several fish seemed to be suspended out in the current. Caught fish on a variety of baits (Craw and Shad cranks, neon black flipping tubes, and Camo ReAction Gator Pups.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Fish Slow!

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    Water Temp: cooling down

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Finally got back from a week on business in Amsterdam. Fished out of the Hook this last Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was a decent day, with 12 blackies total, 10 of which were keepers, biggest about 4 lbs, five best around 11 lbs. Not a single bite on jigs, senkos, or brush hogs in all my regular spots both days. Caught 1-2 fish each from walls and cuts in Franks and Mildred. Pulled 6 fish from one stretch of bank on middle river, which also gave up the biggest fish of the day. All but two fish were caught on a red Norman's little N cranked in 6-12 feet of water adjaceant to levee with rocks and weeds. Had to crank extremely slow, making contact with bottom/weeds, or no bites. Pulled one dink on rip bait and one 2 lber on rattletrap out of a cut into Franks. Fish would hit hard, but then were sluggish on the fight. Went back Sunday planning to focus on Middle river where I had picked up fish Saturday, and really work the area over. Only two fish in 3 hours, one dink and one 2 lber. Nothing in Mildred, two more small fish in Franks, all on red Normans crankbait, for a total of 4 small fish for 5 hours of fishing.
    City: Half Moon Bay

    Tips: Thought I had a good pattern slow cranking red Norman's little N in deeper water, but Sunday proved that not to be the case. First time I have gone two days in a row without a jig, senko, or brush hog bite for as long as I can remember. I do not have this place even vaguely figured out-but I can't think of a nicer way to spend my time (other than with my wife, that is.) HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND GOD BLESS!

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    Water Temp: 62-56

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Fri, landed 14 fish all on cranks, rip rap seemed to produce the best although fish were everywhere. On Sat the temp dropped and and so did the fishing only landed two keepers. Sun was the toughest, with H20 temps in the med to low 50's. Absolutely no action on any kind of plastics at all. I did catch a 10.6lb striper in Disco Bay on a Yamamoto grub (orange w/red flake) that was something of a surprise!
    City: san Jose

    Tips: move alot, and ck the tides.

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    Water Temp: didn't ck.

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the Hook tournament. My partner and I had 7 for 17.88 lbs. Started in the Break. First two casts 2 keepers. Nothing more from there, went to the back of the Break, had another over 13 inches, then stuck 5+ lber. Had one more small keeper when we went to Frank's. Caught 2 small keepers for limit. Should have gone earlier as tide was ripping where we wanted to fish. Went back to Break, upgraded 3 of our smaller fish. Good tournament for the price.
    City: Pittsburg

    Tips: Cover alot of spots. We went back to 2 areas we fished in the morning and upgraded off the structure. Fished a shad colored crankbait and a white spinnerbait. Caught nothing on plastics.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Came up from Hanford for a day on the Delta going after stripers. Day started slow, no fish until about Noon. Only caught 1 striper, and about 12 largemouth, striper about 2 pounds, biggest largemouth about 3 pounds. The best thing about the trip was just being on the Delta, only my second time, my buddies first. Lots of boats, but they left about 1:00, maybe football fans. All of our fish came on Rattletraps ripped through the weeds. Striper was on weed edge with no sign of activity, just a lone fish on a stroll. No plastics fish at all. Had to make 'em bite.
    City: Hanford

    Tips: Reaction.

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Out of orwood with Mayday in his boat. Did a mostly exploratory trip, looking for new areas and patterns, and stripers. Ended the day with 8 keepers, best seven only going 13# or so. No pattern, although i did manage my first jig fish in over two months. No linesides to report. T'was rainy and wind. Wish we had better weathermen to tell us to go out Sunday!! One incident to report. Some tournament fishermen cut us off, right in front of us not more than 50' away, and parked on a piece of wood we were headed for. They saw us, looked at us, and did it anyway - it was a black hull and blue stripe Champion 190 or 200. After working the wood for about 10 minutes, they left (Maybe this was their version of being courteous?) - message for those guys - Hey thanks for leaving! We pulled two fish out of the same wood after you left. Har!
    City: belmont

    Tips: no real pattern - fish seemed to be deeper in weeds and wood than i thought they would be this time of year. I think the frontal conditions made em 'hunker down'.

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out around Frank's at first light. We ran down to the meat wall flippin with no luck. Then we headed into Dutch and did some crankin and flippin still no luck. Headed into Sand mound and finally started to get some action around 1o'clock. I Cranked Three fish on a speed trap. 2 6's and a 10, but that was inches not pounds. My partner got 1 keeper on a worm. Then we heaede back to Franks Crankin with no luck.
    City: Concord

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My partner and I fished with the East Bay Bass Club ob Saturday out of Surgar Barge, we brough in a seven fish limit for 10.65. We caught most of our fish in the Holland track area on tube baits, spinner baits and senkos. We caught over thirty fish but nothing with any size. We fish the Hook tournament out of Big Break today, We ran to the Holland Track area again. We didn't catch as many fish today but did manage to bring in a seven fish limit again for 11.17, most of todays fish we caught on senkos.
    City: Salida

    Tips: We only aught fish when the water was moving

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    Water Temp: 64 - 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: CVBC monthly tourney out of Orwood. Tough bite, as limits were hard to come by. Fish were reported on everything from senkos to jigs to spinnerbaits to frogs. Winning weight was just under 13# with most fish on senkos.
    City: belmont

    Tips: slow current, weedlines, rip rap. let the senko fall all the way and twitch. watch line - you will not feel the quality fish bite..

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well last day of my three day trip to the Delta, all I will say about my second day on the delta was it suck, one small black bass. Now on the third day instead of launching at B&W I went to Sugar Barge to try that area. The weather look bad but I felt I should give it one last chance. Launch at 1PM and went to the northwest portion of Frank's tract and for the first hour nothing. At 2pm the rain came down in buckets and that is when the fish started to turn on. Caught five bass cranking blue/chrome speed trap on a point of tules with current. Went up the side of the tules and got one blacky and a small striper on the speed trap. Than I moved south heading towards Sugar Barge and caught three bass on a tule point flipping a red flake senko. After that no current no bites. At 5pm I was cold and came in. Not to bad for a few rainy, cold hours 9 blacks all 1.6lbs to 2.1lbs and small striper. Heading back to Lompoc, if you gays and gals get a chance to come south to my area email me I can give you some tips and areas for Lake Cachuma, Casitas where I do most of my fishing.
    City: Lompoc

    Tips: don't be afaid to get wet, current,current,current on tule points

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: alright now