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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished around Franks Tract for two days did very well. Ten for the two days. Three to five pounds. Other than the 8.4 lbs. Used crank baits and jigs. It can only get better as the days go by.
    City: Turlock

    Tips: Moving water around tullies. Work the jig slow. GET OUT AND HAVE SOME FUN.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: water temp is 58 in franks tract

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went out saturday and sunday with my grandpa n we caught about 10 fish...with about a 4 lb average..hoping to go back out this weekend anyone know the current water temp n where the hot spots are?
    City: oakley

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of paradice and stayed nearby trying to focus on certain areas. Started out with a couple in the 2.5# range right away on voo-doo baits. Missed a decent one on a senko that probably would have been our big fish in white's. We hit fish on rips cranks and drop-shot for a total of 17 fish at about 14.5#. According to other boats, it seems the action wasn't that hot.
    City: placerville

    Tips: Nobody likes high pressure days with not even a ripple on the surface, you have to take full advantage of a good tide when you have one. Time it well and you'll benefit.Our best bite after the tide rolled out was with voo-doos and speed traps in sparse weed patches, make sure you have deep water nearby during low tide.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: what ever fisherman, I feel sorry for you not catch enough bass on Monday, but if you like to find out how I did it, call me at BAY TACKLE,510-235-2032. My staff at shop are very good fishermen. example, Russell schmidt just took 7th place Stren series at Lake Mead. Also come to see the fish pictures on Monday.
    City: el cerrioto

    Tips: reaction bites, fish big plastics really slow. good luck.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Congratulations Retired Triton on the toads today!!! Was that the Black dog Shellcracker that you were fishing? Drop me an email, if you get a chance. I'd love to talk fishing with another Orindan. Tried to send you one but it bounced.
    City: Orinda

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Tract. Started out throwing Jigs and Speedtraps near the tules. Caught a few good fish nothing large. Went into Franks Tract and started with a Shellcracker Bluegill around the tules and nailed 3 Bass biggest 10.4 the smallest 7.9. I am going back tomorrow.
    City: Orinda

    Tips: Throw a swimbait near the tules and hold on!

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Started out of Rivers End and about 12:00pm and headed over to the Old River. Fished woody points near shallow bays with crankbaits and spinners. Landed 12 fish in 5 hours, largest 5 going for 14lbs. All fish between 2-3 pounds. Bite not bad. Some fish caught in sallows. Fish starting to move up into spawing areas. Unable to find anything with good size. Maybe next week.
    City: San Lendro

    Tips: Get out and fish then report back here.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: So, George most every one is saying slow to no bite and your saying a few 6 pounders and a few five pounders and some on the bed. B.S. dude. NOT COOL.

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    Water Temp: 49-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at B&W THEN OFF TO FRANKS. fIRST CAST AT 7:30-LAST CAST AT 2:00. O BITES/ O FISH-ouch!
    City: antelope

    Tips: Low tide peaked at 1:00p.m. Very few people on the water. The ones I talked to did te same as I did. One guy caught a 15 striper while trolling. Maybe next week.......

Monday, March 5th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Whatever,

    George speaks the truth about the six pounder and the probably 12 other 3s, 4s and 5s. He fished from my Ranger on Monday. I weighed the fish, and took the pictures that he'll be glad to show you. Like some of the other fellows who try to post useable information here, he simply explained how he caught them. I just wish he didn't school me on my own boat!
    -Bassinlee
    City: Berkeley

    Tips: Like George sez, slow down your plastics. Rip your suspending or sinking reaction lures. It's the real deal.

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    Water Temp: 55 degree

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launch out of Russo about 10:30am, low tide at franks tract. caught few three ponders. fished few different spots, all have good fishes there, biggest were 6 ponders, few five ponders, finder some in the deep water, also some on the bed. slow down your presentation at the shallow water. bigger fish!!!
    City: el cerrito, ca

    Tips: crank reaction baits, slow plastics....

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: posting a late report. went out sunday and got into good fish. avg. fish was 4-5 pounds, with big fish for the day a 11 pounder. caught them all fishing slow. everyone i talked said the bite was tough but its not you have to figure the fish out. george could be telling the truth don't hate on him because you can't catch fish right now.

    Tips: no tips sorry i fish a lot of tournaments.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Overall a tough bite but still managed some good fish.there must have been 30 boats in franks tract
    And fishing for most was slow.strippers and pike were crushing spinnerbates but bass were pretty hard to come by. every day is different right now with the warming trend . supposed to be 80 degree this weekend. Fish On.
    City: isleton

    Tips: creature baits have been getting bites.

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    Water Temp: don't know

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey there What Ever,

    It was slow on Sunday but there were fish to be had. I caught six, two dinks and 4 keepers over near Isleton. the two largest were in the 4 to 5+ range. I can send yo a picture of the larger one, if you like. Soooo .... maybe George did catch a six lber, or maybe he just can't judge size but don't say he didn't catch any fish. I did.

    -Perry-
    City: Orinda

    Tips: caught 5 on HuddleBugs, fished reaaaallll slow. got one on a dropshot.

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    Water Temp: 51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished for stripers in Broad slough but no takers. My 10 year old son wanted to toss crawdad pattern crankbaits around Sherman Lake. In one of the backwaters, while I am casting for "linesides", he decides to hook into a 7 lb. female largemouth. He managed to land it on a medium shimano crucial spinning rod. This kid gets better every season. I am giving up my new addiction for stripers and getting back to Bass. The females seem to be loaded with eggs just like the 2 beasts I recently caught at Contra Loma.
    City: Antioch

    Tips: Fish the slack waters with cranks and senkos.

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of rivers end with my old fishing buddy Doug. Slow for everyone we talked to. Big out going tide in the morning and real muddy water. Tide bottomed out at 1pm and then it improved. Nothing on spinners,jerks, or swimbaits. All our fish came on black or bl/red 8" worms. We ended the day with over a 12 fish, but no size to them. All 2-3#s. We spent some time exploring as we have not fished the delta much. Could not beleive how many PWC, Wakeboarders, and big boats were running aroung for early March. Most be a zoo in the summer.
    City: Brisbane

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    Water Temp: 49-54

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: With the beautiful warm day and blue bird skies my club partner boomer and I decided to head to the Delta. Expecting that Franks track would be loaded with boats, we launched out of big break and planned to avoid Franks all together. The morning proved to be a slow bite, both for us and all the people that we talked to. With an out going tied, my partner picked up a few in the 2-3 pound range on hula grubs. We couldn't buy a bite in the morning as the tide turned slack at low tide.

    Thankfully,the afternoon came, along water movement and a 6.7 pounder for Boomer. I made an adjustment and that made all the difference. I had been throwing a black and blue jig (Duh who isn't) with a black and blue glitter trailer. Switching to a bright blue trailer was the difference between my morning and my afternoon. The change lead to a half dozen fish in the 3-4 pound range on a day that I was struggling, we added several more fish on grubs, beavers and 1 on a chatterbait.

    We didn't get any spinnerbait fish, didn't throw cranks or jerks today. But on a beautiful day that ended in shirt sleeves, we had a great day. If you would like to join us for a day on the water, we fish out of the Devil Mountain Bassmaster www.dmbass.com. Our next meeting is Wednesday at 7:00 in Walnut Creek. We are a social club with year around tournaments. For more information just give me a call 925-639-7724 or drop me an email.
    City: WC

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 49.8 to 52.3

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished shallow most of the day around franks track near tully islands only one 4.13oz bass for my efforts. Tried cranking the tully island with current and pick-up a few small ones. It is almost that time of year.
    City: san bruno

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: When do the crappie start hitting in the delta?Can anyone suggest a spot in the central delta?.....Thanks ..Jim
    City: Antioch