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Sunday, January 28th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45-47

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at holland marina, started fishing there due to fog, fishing was tough for me again,
    tried dropshotting, deep and slow- nothing-,through a tube, chatterbait, spinnerbait, jig,crankbait, small worm (shaking)dark colors, downsized my line. Water temp on the main river is 45 degrees, 47 degrees at the back of cruiser haven and rock slough, spoke to two other anglers who said they caught 1 fish between them. Still had an enjoyable day fishing- better than working!!
    seems water temp is on the rise, hopefully the bite will explode soon.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: At this time of year spending allot of time on the water would help more.

Friday, January 26th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 47-48

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished a jig and a drop shot for 9 in the boat and at least the same amount of missed bites. Drop shot bites were very soft/mushy and the jig bites were crushing. Fished rock walls with isolated wood down to 8-10 feet. Mostly 2-3 lbrs (no dinks) with one big dog close to 8. Best 5 about 17 1/2 lbs.
    City: Tracy

Friday, January 19th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 43

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Bon, the stripers are still locked in the same area As i seen you in l2 weeks ago. If you go out ,all the way at the end and 5 houses back . Just tones of stripers. Email and i'll give you more details. Good luck


    Discovery bay still has stripers running pretty good.
    City: discovery bay

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Anyone know of any good places to rent a boat
    City: san jose

Monday, January 15th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 41-43

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished out of Tracy Oasis with two fine young fisherman Tenoch 9 years old and D.J.(first timer)8 years old had a great time.SLOOOOOOw bite, wish the fish were as hungry as my two buddies.Threw jigs,crankbaits,jerkbaits.Stay with a drop shot rig for more action.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Buy the new swimbait from Black Dog Lures Shellcracker its worth every penny.

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

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    Water Temp: ???

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Sugar Barge and fished around Frank's Track. I got SKUNK! I can't belive it. Probadly I simply suck fishing the Delta during th winter. I can't even get a bite? Heya......
    City: Bakersfield

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    Water Temp: 42

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a good day (for this time of year) in the Mildred area. Fished Jigs and slow rolled blades and caught a few real nice 3 and 4lb fish and the rest in the 2lb range. Better fish came on the jigs fished with a shaking motion... Bought the jigs at extreme outdoorsman, they have an excellant selection of jigs. That store is really on the up and up and there are a lot of improvements going in from what I hear, I encourage all to shop there as it has the best customer service of all the stores you will find out in the delta region. That being said, dark jigs, black & whatever as long as is is dark with black and red brushhog on the back. Thanks to Rod and all the guys at extreme angler for putting me on the fish.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Go to extreme outdoorsman and check it out you might be suprised what you can pick up along with some of the best equipment selection Ive seen.

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: FLASH!!! River closed! Frozen! (how long before this is a reality? LOL)
    City: Stockton

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 46-47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: went down to collinsville for 5 stripers to 5 pounds on butterflied shad good luckeveryone
    City: san jose

    Tips: baits been working good and wait till later in the day to find some good fish

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45/47

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: left bigbreak marina 8am fished dutch slough and big break with jigs rattln raps no fish went to sherman lake was able to scratch out two limits of stripers on shad colored ratlin raps shallow water weed beds cranked slow over weeds
    City: antioch

    Tips: fish the afternoon hours on the end of outgoing tide fish ran to ten pounds

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out the last to days and fished in Disco. The striper fishing has slowed down alot. Water temp is just very cold and there moving slow. marked alot of fish in only a couple of bays. caught one fish 10lbs. and had alot of hits. Seen another fisherman hook one spooning about 7lbs.
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: drifted a blue gill no luck. but the Hair Razor is still the ticket. let it hit the bottom and real very slow almost dragging off the bottom. good luck

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: hey striperman, was that you in seal cove on Saturday? I did get one about 5# to inhale the spoon. shallow water.
    City: SJ

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

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    Water Temp: 45

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: temps were 45 in old river and 47-48 up in middle river.
    1 hell of a crank bait bite on chrome- blue back.
    thought the first fish was a stripper but was a very active 6# black.
    for winter it was a very good day.
    City: san ramon

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 45.1 - 46.4

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Water is very stained right now, Had high tides and tough fishing. We fished Mandeville, little franks, franks, fishermans cut, sand mound, and a few places inbetween. Fish are all holding deep with cold water. Use darker colors with stained water, fish smaller baits and fish em slow. Jigs, creatures, dropshotting 15ft-20ft. It was slow but ill take a slow day fishing over a fast day at work anytime!
    City: Minden

    Tips: Wait for the water to warm up some and look deep for the fish in the meantime. Have fun and cyas on the water!

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    Water Temp: 39

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of ladds took my 14 ft aluminum out just to run it flipped creature baits with 1/8 bullets was able to scratch up over 20 on 7 with a 6 1/2 beeing the biggest..
    City: stockton

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 37-46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: If my temp sensors (both of them) are working corretly. This was the coldest I have ever seen the delta. 37 in the marina on both units at 7am, both read 46 at 2pm when I got off the water. I actually had to break ice crystals off my guides for the first hour of fishing. Usually when it's really cold air, the water feels warm in comparrison, not today.. Just plain cold. Anyway the report,, not a single bite for 3 hours, rip bait, drop shot, jig, slow rolled blade in my regular cold water spots, nada. I found a point at slack low with a tree leading out into deep water, got 7 up to 3.5lbs on the drop shot, again tried the jig and blade with nothing. Went to another deep water point to try and duplicate and got 4 more over 2. Had one bite off my third spot and by then the tide was moving in pretty good. Not great, nothing big, very very cold.. Good luck
    City: Tracy

Friday, December 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Me and the Big A fished today, weather was cold, but nice. Pitched a jig all day while partner tried other baits. Had two legit bited but did not connect. Fished Mildred area, Victoria and Whiskey. Spoke to many other fisherman and no one I talked to was catching them.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Cooch, we need you!

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    Water Temp: 46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of H&H at 8:30am air temp at 37 degrees and water temp at 46(Berrr it's cold). It was a very nice day winds were calm and the sun was up but the fish were not cooperating and I think it may have been due to the front passing and high pressure building back in. Tried rip baits, slow rolling spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jigs, texas rigged baby brush hogs, drop shot worms, creature baits on jig heads and even crawfish imitators with no luck at all. Didn't run a lot and that may have been the other reason for no bites just didn't cover enough water. I have always had problems locating fish in the winter. Should you try to locate bait fish on the Delta like you would any other lake? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !
    City: EDH

    Tips: Don't ask me I struggle on the Delta in the winter.

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49-51

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Snodgrass today for one missed fish. Threw fish traps,roadrunners and spooned. Only saw two fish caught. One on a spoon, the other live bait. Probably 18 boats in the area. Very slow today, nothing like last week.
    City: walnut grove

    Tips: Live bait was the ticket last week. Not today!
    Water clarity is not what it was!

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Striperman, I for one appreciate yours and everyone who post their reports. I don't get to fish as much as I like, and your reports are good tools to have when I do get out. I have fished Disco a few times this mouth with limited success. Any more tips would be very helpfull.
    City: modesto