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Sunday, December 31st, 2006

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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

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: It seems like there's a hater out there. Jim it's ok. you talked about fishing there since it was built and your unlucky,well put the wifes fishing gear away and let me teach you a lesson or two. I cant believe you have the time and energy to talk sh@@. when you admitt to not catching fish. Give up fishing and move onto basket weaving. I'm not here to bad mouth anybody about fishing. This is a mans sport. Just letting some people know that the fish are still biting like crazy. I live here in Discovery bay and fish out there almost everyday and night. So take it for what its worth. Good luck. Merry X-MAS
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: To all you other MEN out there thanks for the nice responses back. P.s. if you need some tips i'm there for you JIM(not)

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 45-46

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: My buddy and I launched out of Korth's Marina. Got to my favorite slough at 8:00A. Cranked 3/4 oz Rat L Traps (shad and chrome w/blue). Caught 2 striper limits by 8:30A. Since it wasn't raining yet, decided to keep fishing to see if we could catch a salmon or bass. Quit by 10:30A. Got back to the marina and had boat under shelter just as it started to rain hard. Our count for the day, 8 stripers boated (7 keeper size: largest 2 - 10 lbs), lost 2 fish (had them hooked for at least 5 seconds), and got numerous hits.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: Fish the near the end of dead end sloughs. Majority of the fish action were on the shad colored Rat L Trap.

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I keep reading the reports about no Strippers In DiscoverY bay. I live there and the stripper bite is at its best right now> all i can tell you is stay away from the east side and head over to the west side. The Hair Razor is still the ticket. Me and a few buddies must have caught over 100 strippers in the last week. Good luck
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Early morning boils are crazy right now. Mark the fish and start tossing the hair razor around really slow,also dragging it off the the bottom. Water is cold fish are moving alot slower. Good luck.

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I keep reading the reports about no Strippers In DiscoverY bay. I live there and the stripper bite is at its best right now> all i can tell you is stay away from the east side and head over to the west side. The Hair Razor is still the ticket. We and a few buddies must have caught over 100 strippers in the las week. Good luck
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Early morning boils are crazy right now. Mark the fish and start tossing the hair razor around really slow,also dragging it off the the bottom. Water is cold fish are moving alot slower. Good luck.

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I keep reading the reports about no Strippers In DiscoverY bay. I liove there and the stripper bite is at its best right now> all i can tell you is stay away from the east side and head over to the west side. The Hair Razor is still the ticket. We and a few buddies must have caught over 100 strippers in the las week. Good luck
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Early morning boils are crazy right now. Mark the fish and start tossing the hair razor around really slow,also dragging it off the the bottom. Water is cold fish are moving alot slower. Good luck.

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

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    Water Temp: Cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went back to my honey holes today for about 4 hours. Could have bagged a limit of BB but, they just broke off at the boat or I had pulled the bait out of their mouths. Cranked the same crawdad colored deep diving crank bait (16' rating) in 8-12'of water. Type of structure was the same as my last report. Deep water next to shallow coves of structure. I tend to believe, like so many pros, BB like to wander in deep water because the temp is more stable. The nearby shallow water provides forage.

    Didn't try for stripers, but saw some them being caught via. flys. Can't tell you were to go because its just too crowded as is. In general target dead end sloughs or flooded islands like Franks, Big Break, or Mildred. I only plug and drag perch in these areas so I don't think these areas are good for other techniques.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Throw a deep diving crak bait and finesse it back to the boat. Wind slow with a stop every now and then. Unlike me, wait a moment before setting the hook. I prematurely pulled too many crankbaits out of BB mouth before they had time to commit.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Well, I can tell you where the stripers were not hanging out today, Discovery Bay. I drove all around the marina side and all of the small bays and did not graph jack squat. Weird. I should have figured it was gonna suck as there were only two other boats fishing the area.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Any body doing any good anywhere else? Please post.

Monday, December 18th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 49/50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED OUT OF ORWOOD TRIED ALL PROVEN AREAS OF DISCO BAY MANGED ONE SMALL STRIPER WENT ALL THEWAY TO MANVILLE NO ACTION/ NOT MY TURN ON FISH IT WAS COLD RUNNING SORRY CANT HELP THIS TIME
    City: antioch

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Pre-fished down south and around mildred area. Found lots of reaction fish rippin shallow grass and slow rolling blades along tule islands. Fished the AC semi pro today, greated by a cold front and a clear sky,, not great for us reaction guys. Spent two hours at our first stop, the back of a dead end slough, with only 1 keep to show for it. Ran to my partners water where he'd located several schools of fish holding out in front of deep water docks. Partner sticks a 4 and 5 and now we feel like were back in the hunt. We filled our limit on the docks and decided to give another shallow grass area a try, since it was now overcast and the wind picked up. We couldn't get bit on the blade, but managed to cull our smaller fish rippin up two 2's and a 3. finished in 3rd with just over 16lbs. 1st and 2nd both had 18.
    City: Tracy

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of the Wimpie's area today to test my friend's project boat. Being the fishing addict, I brought two poles with us. One was setup with a jerkbait and the other had a deep diving Craw color Timeber Tiger crank. We targeted deep weed lines around coves. Fished both baits very slow with a long pause between retrieves. The tide was coming back in. Overall we caught three fish within a half hour. Not bad for winter.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Live weeds in coves and deep water. Throw your typical winter baits--jigs n pig, crank, jerk, and flip slow. Thoroughly work an area. It may take up to eight cast before the fish strikes your bait.

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: If that salmon guide is legit. and you have his guide license # you can get his bonding Co. name from DFG and get your money back from them. Don't let this guy rip you off!! It sounds to me like he's the cry baby that didn't want to get cold.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: You should open a can of whopa$$ on that sucker!Do NOT let the JERK get away with your deposit!

    Tips: If you do not stop him the next guy will get screwed the same way!

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: in regarde to the failed salmon fishing trip,sorry for your bad luck with kirk,your experience is nothing new,he is affectionatly known in our area as KIRK THE JERK and i think you know the reason why,there our other guides in redding that are simply awesome,dont give up on the salmon fishing up here
    City: redding

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The birds are everywhere. Off the top of my head there is mandeville, twitchell, sherman, king,empire tract, mcdonald, bouldin, franks tract area, suisun bay, san pablo bay and a few other places I cant remember right now. Or you can just go over to Grizzly Island WA or some other WA or NWR.

    Sorry I dont have a fishin report

    Tips: Use live bluegills because they work