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Burke

Larry, I know how tough it was to put down Cinder. Two years ago, I had to put down Bambi (dog) and Goldie (cat) in a one month period. I'm in my mid-50's and cried like a baby both times. My wife and I said that we won't get another dog for a long time, but 2 months after putting down Bambi, we got...

Burke

Chris, I think that the correct term that you should be using is "single filament" line to refer to either monofilament or flourocarbon line. Almost all of us fishermen who fish on a regular basis make it clear to other fisherman what type line that we use -- for most of us, it's either mo...

Burke

Haven't used "true" mono in years.

The only time I use braided line is throwing a frog. For all other applications, I use P-line flouroclear.

Burke

Burke

You're right. I didn't have my morning cup of coffee......

Burke

I just noticed that the date stamp for replies within a topic is a May 2005 date. However, at the topic listing level, the date shown is correct. Appears to be a system problem of some sort.

Burke

There are many frogs on the market so you'll probably get a lot of different opinions. For now, I've been throwing a 4 inch white Sizmic toad and have had pretty good success with it. I like it because the design of the legs gives it more action as I'm retrieving it. My best bass on it is a 6 lber. ...

Burke

Lucas, Wasn't throwing a Rat L Trap that day or I would have bounced it off his boat. If I hit him in the head, he probably won't have cared. Paul, Last year, I was in Frank's Tract tossing a Rat L Trap for stripers too when a boat did the same thing at a slower speed. I had enough time to bounce a ...

Burke

We decided to fish yesterday and launched out of Paradise Marina. Being Memorial Day, we knew that there would be hordes of cruisers and ski boats. It was given that we would have to deal with the craziness out there. We experienced or saw of the craziness out there: -nearly getting swamped by a cru...

Burke

I use Anytime Organizer. Besides the calendar feature, I use the address feature to keep all my addresses. It cost about $30.

Both features offer the ability to make notes. You can also color code your dates and/or addresses into groups.

The software also has nice print options.

Burke

Thanks Gator.

Tried it and it works perfect....

Burke

sTony, I know that this topic has been posted several times before (I posted one myself over a year ago), but it hasn't been fixed yet. Problem: Can't get to the Classifieds from the menu at the top of the screen within the Reports section after you made a selection (e.g., Delta). Here's the URI for...

Burke

What areas are you fishing?? For the delta, I use 15 lb P line Floroclear. For most lake fishing, I use 10-12 lb line, but will use 15 lb at Clear Lake.

Burke

Besides the ramp steepness during low tide at Wimpy's, there is a wicked cross current near the ramp when the tides are flowing. The ramp is barely wide enough for 2 vehicles to load/unload. If you don't account for the cross current when you're coming in to get loaded onto your trailor, you can get...

Burke

Thanks Cooch. This really cleared up the area for me. Many areas that I though were in Sacramento County are actually in San Joaquin County.

Burke

You can cook it Chinese style as a whole fish. After cleaning the fish, place the whole fish into a dish that you can place into a pan for steaming. Stuff the body cavity with fresh sliced ginger and green onions (cut into 3-4 inch stalks). Sprinkle white pepper over the outside of the body. Steam t...

Burke

Even though I've fished the Delta for years, I've never had to determine what areas are in what counties. What are the boundaries of the San Joaquin County delta area?? I know if that it's roughly the area around Stockton, but don't know how far it extends.

Thanks.

Burke

This happened to one of my fishing buddies. I was with him when he purchased a new Loomis rod and Calcutta reel (about $1000 for the package) last year. The first weekend after his purchase, we were in Sycamore slough fishing and he accidently drops the rod/reel into 15-20 ft of water. For several w...

Burke

A couple of questions regarding No Wake Zone within 200' of an occupied dock/beach. --There are a lot of areas where you can't get beyond 200' of an occupied dock/beach or you'll be in shallow water or on the rocks. What do you do? --What is considered an occupied dock? - you can see people or just ...

Burke

I think the concern about the safety of your "toys" while you're fishing was focused toward those launches where you don't pay a fee and, as a result, there is no/minimal security. I've never had any problems or concerns with those launches where we've paid a fee because we know that someo...

Burke

Burke

Do you have a specific part of the Delta that you want to fish???

If you're not familiar with the Delta and don't have GPS you'll get lost easily.

Burke

If you're using Spanish Flats, be prepared to get wet. I was there on Wednesday. The lake is high. One of the docks is unusable, it's sitting on the shoreline. The wooden ramp leading to another dock is about 2 ft underwater. Bring your waders. Also, the slope of the launch area is very gradual and ...

Burke

They are definitely out there..... 3 of us launched out of wimpy's and fished near the "lock area" for about an hour -- about a dozen boats in the area and saw only one fished boated. We then fished the Beaver/Hog/Sycamore sloughs area (with a ton of other boats) and boated 7 keeper stripe...

Burke

Last year, I was wearing my automatic Type V SOSpender, but just took it off to remove my coat. As I was doing it, a sheriff's boat comes up to us and performs the safety check. My buddy was wearing his SOSpender so the sheriff didn't say anything to him, but asks me where was my PFD. I picked it up...

Burke

Has anyone else encountered problems with accessing the Classified section from the menu at the top of the screen within the Reports section?? I have no problems accessing Classified from the Forum or Main Menu, but get an error message when I try from within a selection in Reports. I noticed that I...

Burke

I was fishing Snodgrass on Friday using a 3/4 oz chrome w/blue back Rat L Trap for stripers. I cranked the point of an island and picked up a 8 lb striper and surprisingly a 2lb bass. On the point on the other side of the island, I picked up a 1.5lb bass. Both bass were caught close to the weedline ...

Burke

Met Shane Reames on the Delta today. He had his 14 ft Klamath boat w/14hp Merc engine (black cover) stolen from the dock behind his house late last night or early this morning. The registration number is CF1900NE. It was last seen heading downstream toward the Wimpy's/New Hope Landing area with two ...

Burke

Mac -- I agree with you that the optimum distance for throwing a 1/2 oz lure is probably in the range of 30 yards. When I'm fishing for bass, I generally don't come close to throwing a lure that distance. About the only time in bass fishing that I throw it a "country mile" is swimming a fr...

Burke

Like Cooch, I've been tossing 3/4 oz traps, but in the colors chrome w/blue or bleeding shad w/blue. Been catching a mix bag of salmon, stripers, and bass in the last couple of weeks. Don't forget to upgrade the original hooks and split rings on them. The bigger fish can straightened the hook or pul...

Burke

Agree with Jason on use of that color Rat L Trap. My 2 cousins and I used that color combination today and we caught 5 keeper stripers (7-9 lbs) and 4 salmon (11-14 lbs).

Good luck tomorrow.

Burke

Jarod,
I have the same problem with the "clamp on" buoy coming off the fish. Many times, I've picked up a buoy to find that the fish isn't there and had to search the livewell to find it.

Got frustrated so I went out and bought a set of buoys that uses a giant safety pin. Works great.

Burke

My neighbor went out on Sunday with some of his buddies and limited out. Don't know how many were hunting. I haven't hunted in years -- bad shoulder forced me to quit.

Burke

Not only does loose line impact wildlife but you can get it wrapped around the propeller shalf of your trolling motor or engine. About a month ago in Disappointment on 2 separate occasions, we hooked some line. The first time, there must have been 100 ft of line with a plastic worm and a dead 1.5 lb...

Burke

Here's the instructions that I provided someone else that wanted to get to Russo's from Sacramento: Russo's is located on Bethel Tract which is the southwest side of Frank's Tract. There is no easy way to get there from Sacramento. Here's how I would do it. Go SOUTH on Interstate 5 until you reach H...

Burke

I've been to Troy's many times and have seen him in his ups and downs. Like the reader who made the "worst" store comment, I had the same thought when I visited his store several times. However, I continued to patronize his store because I know how hard it is to start a business and be suc...

Burke

Check the fishing report that is written weekly (every Thursday) by Brian Hoffman in the San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.com).

I haven't seen today's on-line article, but you can do a "columnist" search on that web site and it'll display the last 3-4 of his reports.

Burke

Tony

Thanks from me too. I forgot about it completely. Just ordered mine too.

Burke

They're probably spraying weed killer to get rid of the water hyacins. They were doing the same in Disappointment Slough about 2 months ago and about 99% of the hyacins are gone. Now are able to fish waters that were virtually impossible to toss a lure into. It seems that we've been able to catch la...

Burke

Like Gator, I've had mine for 3 years and wear it fishing as well as working in the yard on those wet days. Haven't any problems with them. I worked one day in the yard during a heavy rainstorm finishing a trench and got them so muddy that I thought I would have to toss them. Turned the hose on it a...

Burke

Stopped by there on Thursday after I finished fishing to pickup a rod that Troy was repairing for me. While I was there, I told him that I was wondering if he was going to add to his Persuader/Assassinator spinnerbaits since he didn't have what I wanted. He wanted to know what I liked and I showed h...

Burke

Russo's is located on Bethel Tract which is the southwest side of Frank's Tract. There is no easy way to get there from Sacramento. Here's how I would do it. Go SOUTH on Interstate 5 until you reach Highway 12. Go WEST on Highway 12 until you reach Highway 160 SOUTH (it's the LEFT turn before the br...

Burke

I've been fishing that area at least once for the last 3 weeks. The morning bite is great, but then it goes completely dead. Been using spinnerbaits and Rat L Traps. Tried senkos and sizmic toads but haven't had much success. Also, you'll probably catch a striper or two -- they're real aggressive in...

Burke

In the last 2 trips, we've caught 6 fish (largest = 6 lbs) swimming a white sizmic toad over weedbeds. We add a 1/4 oz of weight to the line just above the toad so that it swims about 6-10 inches below the surface of the water. My most successful trips have been cranking a 1/2 oz shad colored Rat L ...

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