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SLoGiN

I look at posts all over the internet about guys catching 20 plus stripers and keeping them ...everyone says they support catch and release ....it seems they support catch and release until the catch a large striper then they always have some reason why they kept it....i will never understand this t...

SLoGiN

well i've been fishing in the delta for 35 yrs and i know what i'm doing and i'm just saying there is something really wrong out there and especially when i can see 5 feet in the water but theres some sort of irredesent freeky glow to the water....back in july in whiskey i saw it and it was alot wor...

SLoGiN

Went out a couple days ago ...launched out of Tiki lagoon..fished mouth of whiskey slough, flats around the ferry on middle river near bullfrog landing , a big circle around toward franks tract and on to the main river flats hitting various spots that have been good in the past...never saw the water...

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lots of bait around....more bait than the last 2 years....water is too hot but still caught some nice fish last week....my prediction is this will be the best year in the last few years...as soon as the temps drop to the high 50's it will bust wide open....tons of bait and birds and some big big fis...

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was bass fishing in disapointment today and saw a few small stripers bustin shad....marked a few decent looking fish up around mildred too....lots of bait everywhere i went...maybe a decent year ahead....hope so....got a few decent bass on buzzbaits and had one large boil that looked silver so who k...

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im hearing good reports from mildred island and the water is less stained there...ill be there in the morning

SLoGiN

yeah ive caught some big catfish in bethany....i love catfishin but havent dont it in quite awhile ... i havent fished for stripers in there....caught a few largemouths in there though and saw some large fish busting on bait i assume are stripers and ive never even seen los vaqueros....when i head e...

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i want to thank you guys for running this forum...its apreciated by alot of people....im just curious about something.....ive pretty much given up on politicians and politics in general....i used to care but i guess i feel like we're so far gone it doesnt matter....but when it comes to fishing i kno...

SLoGiN

fished a small flooded island near connection slough bridge with the intials lmi for an 8lber...a huge 25 plus swing and a miss....she swung n missed by 5-6 inches and never came back and one other smaller blowup....water is finally stained on the san joaquin side ....water 53 degrees....bring on th...

SLoGiN

i was joking of course. theres no chance of any politician doing the right thing..we are going to end up fishing for white sea bass in rio vista instead of stripers and surf perch off red bluff....anyway its 5 am...im off to a small flooded island to hopefully battle a couple topwater fish

SLoGiN

kwikfish is super sharp....and explained it perfect...stripers being broadcast spawners they find themselves in places they arent wanted down south...ive got a solution....stop sending water down there....make california 2 states and let southern cal find water somewhere else...our water quality wou...

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good response kwik....im going to leave money out of it and rely on my ability to read people in developing this network....so far in 2 days 2 people have joined and i trust them 100%....im going to keep it simple and i hope for 8-12 good people....basically ill get detailed info from them thats ava...

SLoGiN

yeah ive been thinking about this a couple years and ive got some positive feedback...its more about keeping good information from the poachers out there than anything else...plus im thinking about getting it going before the spring run too...in a very short time ive gotten specific information noon...

SLoGiN

I've been thinking about starting a delta striper network. I may be a freek but i consider stripers as pets...I release every striper i catch as long as they can survive...im not interested in giving up current information to people who keep fish....im looking for people that release all stripers to...

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ive seen them wacking fish but not stripers....ive seen 4 feeding in the last couple weeks...one had a carp....the other had big salmon....one at the mouth of whiskey slough at empire cut.....the other 3 were out on the san joaquin....was up above walnut grove alot august-september smallmouth fishin...

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launched out of rio vista....headed out to liberty island again....when i got there had 15 mph winds blowing over miles of water dead against a strong incoming making liberty island the potato patch or simular to franks when its rough....tried hiding behind some berms....got a few hits no stick on f...

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thanks for the info guys

SLoGiN

launched at new hope on the moke and fished around beaver hog and sycamore sloughs for nothing....decide to head out to the old sacramento but the lockes were closed so we got out of the water and headed to rio vista and launched at the city ramp around 1030....if you guys know of a website or phone...

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i like to use lunker punkers for sturgeon....i fish in water 3-12 ft deep usually and walk the bait....mildred island,san joaquin river,big braek,franks tract just a few areas....i keep trying but i havent got a sturgeon doing this....i keep catching pesky striped bass and an occasionsal largemouth ...

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Im wondering what other area youre confusing with isleton........or big break or if you really fished from isleton to big break....hmmmmmmmm

SLoGiN

1 3/4 oz duh spoon in pearl white with a owner white/chartuese trailer...nothing on big hammer and fishtrap swimbaits for me....little voices are drawing me west....lauritzens in the morning

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caught two 20 inchers on spoons in 36 feet of water in that cut that flows into franks with the palm tree....my gps says its dutch slough but i dont think its really dutch slough.....had a nice blowup on a the one on a middle river flat near mildred...caught a largemouth between 5-6 lbs at the end o...

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duh spoons are great...i still like cotton cordell 3/4 oz silver jigging spoons...hammered finish....i paint one side white or just leave them alone and add an owner trailer white tail..i add a black dot to every spoon i fish....i like the blue/white...pearl white and trout pattern duh spoons but at...

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lauritzens is on big break

SLoGiN

i got a 28 lber jan 14 last year on a trout magnum spook fishing it super slow...water was 46 degrees] and got 6 fish over 15 from dec thru january last year all on lps and spooks fished slow but if the fish didnt get it on the first try they didnt come back for whatever reason and i put tons of tim...

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launched 6am at whiskey....ramp pier frozen and nearly fell in the water....btw any suggestions for shoes or boots that will hold the frozen ramps better?....water 45 degrees at the ramp but warmed to around 50 for the day...fished a couple cuts in whiskey with topwater baits for nothing....not even...

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i wonder if any of you guys remember a lure called salty dog shrimp...i believe it was made by bagley...we used to fish this bait in the south bay at night and it may have been the first swimbait...not sure...it had an elongated one ounce leadhead and a plastic shrimp shaped tail about 5 inches long...

SLoGiN

when the delta turns over i like to use live salmon smolts or delta smelt on a 7/0 treble....when you get a bite put it in freespool for 3 minutes to make sure they have it real good then set the hook....and please practice catch and release

SLoGiN

empire cut near the pipes under a full moon tonight,whiskey slough, turner cut near the mouth between the houses and the san joaquin from holt rd to turner cut and yeah horseshoe bend is always full of stripers around now....they used to release all the fish trapped in the seines at the pumps right ...

SLoGiN

i just wish they'd make a giant one...id be the first in line to buy it...wicked bait....used hitmans trick to de rattle one of my the ones....ve vil c what happens

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fished some cuts in whiskey...flats on the middle river west of mildred and flats out on the san joaquin west of lost isle....we had 30 plus fish boil on our topwater baits.[..lps,spooks,woodchoppers,the ones] but no fish would commit....tried slower, faster,lots of in between...we got one 22 incher...

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went out tuesday 11/16...caught 2 fish 3.5 off 6 ft flats near lost isle on bone and green/silver the ones then two more about the same size miles south off some 8ft flats and a very large fish boiled twice on mine....[around 40 inches..]..water is ultra clear but wouldnt commit then a 10 plus on my...

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theres lots of decent fish on the flats on the san joaquin between the mouth of turner cut down to franks....went out thursday and me and my buddy had a 12 (me) and a 10(him) 2nd cast on magnum spooks.....wind came up....lots of chop....lots of boat traffic with the holiday and very little current a...

SLoGiN

the colors i like are the green back....silver white belly and the bone color

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Not just a pencil popper....they walk as good as anything ive fished....pop and walk....you can walk them....pop and walk them....pop them only....sounds like a commercial for them but ive caught 5 fish over ten on them in the last month so im a fan especially in dead calm water

SLoGiN

Yeah went out friday late..was going to work but with all the cloud cover had to go fishing....launched at whiskey at 11 am and headed out to the san joaquin around the mouth of turner cut....fished some 6 ft flats and was using a "the one" in green white silver belly.....fished about an h...

SLoGiN

Yeah I was up smallmouth fishing out of walnut grove and the sea lions were throwing 20 lb salmon around all day and last week i saw 5 last week on the buoys at the mouth of potato slough...they are a freekin menace

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Launched at whiskey at 4am...headed slowly to south end of mildred in the fog....huge blowup but that was it...on a white LP....went over to some flats near the bridge and ferry on the middle river...caught a couple 3-4 lbers on white/silver weightless super flukes by the bridge pilings....a couple ...

SLoGiN

injected white and i add black spots with a magic marker all over...but i put black spots on everything , swim baits....spoons too....not one black spot....lots of em....i dont know if youve tried the new topwater from paycheck baits "the One" nice lure....been using the bone color again a...

SLoGiN

right after this next full moon ill be trying whiskey,mildred, lil maudeville and franks and flats on the san joaquin but im going to try big break area and even farther west montezuma and suisun slough this week....ive caught some nice stripers in suisun sl but ive never fished topwater there and i...

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by the way i went out tuesday and lots of bait and birds in whiskey but only 10-12 in stripers on the bait..my buddy and i fished from whiskey on up to mildred and lil maudeville. no fish at all..decided to start ripping pointers and caught some super nice largemouths with a long pause between 4-6 r...

SLoGiN

the fishermen on this site have one way to fight. we are out there where its happening and all we can do is report illegal activity. i know all about all the enemies..our politicians....special interest groups but i like what rich and others are doing.. busting these poachers right out where its hap...

SLoGiN

Bottom line if you come to America be an American and live by our laws...Leave your 3rd world mentality behind. If you do that you are my brother...If you want to break our laws and use your culture as an excuse you are the enemy....I hate all poachers...including the a-holes that shoot geese on the...

SLoGiN

buy american

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good job sm....to be clear it's obvious who the poachers are...probably shouldnt have been so general just saying they are asians in aluminum boats..spending alot of time on the water its easy to see who they are...theres alot of russian poachers too...as far as throwing wakes....i always slow down ...

SLoGiN

i throw wakes on them like those big stupid cabin cruisers throw on me...yeah im sure they'll report me with their bag of 10 inch stripers in hand

SLoGiN

by the way....if people want to say we are racists or whatever....i hate them because they are poachers....not because they are asian....its really hard to catch them but i have ...and i called caltip and they got busted....once at mildred and once over near decker isl....so if you get lucky enough ...

SLoGiN

yeah they wont look at you either...been seeing them for years now...especially up around mildred...if you wave or try to aknowledge them in any way they turn away...i enjoy throwing a big wake on them whenever i can

SLoGiN

sea lions, party boats,politicians taking our water south, personally i cannot kill a fish that can survive all this....i use barbless hooks and i dont care if i lose one out of 50 that barbs help you catch...makes for a quick release....stripers don't jump so as long as you know how to fight fish a...

SLoGiN

well i went to big break today for the first time ....big clouds of mud everywhere i went...not sure if thats a normal thing..got two 20 inchers on big hammer 6 inch white swimbaits and absolutely nothing else....probably takes some time to learn this place...like the lauritzen marina...nice ramp......

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