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Thursday, November 16th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55-58

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: HIT FRANKS WITH THE CRANKS. LANDED 8 LMB UP TO 3.5# WITH A FEW STRIPERS TO BOOT. ALL HITS AT THE TULE LINES.
    City: WINTERS

    Tips: CRAW PATTERNS AND COVER LOTSA WATER. RUN AND GUN....HAVE FUN..

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Laundhed out of B&M last Sunday. On the water at sun up and fished Franks and Mildred for na da! 8 hours on the water and everyone I spoke with was batting zeros! I must of been talking to the wrong people I guess....getting ready for the next trip.
    City: antelope

    Tips: I'M THE WRONG GUY TO TALK TO......MAYBE NEXT WEEK.

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    Water Temp: 56 Degrees and

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: In water @08:00 hours, air temp at 54 deg and water temp at 56deg. Water clarity down to two feet and stained. Fished near Dissapointment slough most of the day and best 5 went just over 16lbs. Caught all fish in less then 10 feet of water on "Cooch's" New Wadda jig in Brn. Man what a Jig he has designed thanks Cooch for everything. Tried Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and other plastics but the Jig bite was on. My personal best tonight an 8lb'er and she is getting fat for the winter....I can't post the picture until I find out how to down size it from 3300kb's to the required 250kb allowed in order to posts.
    City: El Dorado Hills

    Tips: You have to search hard for quality fish but I can attest to you that they are there and man are getting fat. Take a kid fishing and tight lines.

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    Water Temp: boiling hot

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I've got my two 9/10 year old boys coming to read these reports with me, eveningS before our fishing trip. They get excited to see how the reports have been. Please keep the postingS "G" rated and related to fishing reports. Let's all remember that we come here to view reports, because fishing is joyful and a stress relief. Please make this the last post to get us back on track with the fishing reports.
    City: San Ramon

    Tips: - NO MORE NEGATIVE POSTINGS PLEASE -

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Disco for both linesides and largemouth. Started by slow trolling live gills in some of the marine side bays. It was a tough bite for the many boats out there as the fish were scattered. Managed three stripers, smallest was 8 pounds. I caught them all in one particular bay, near the mouth of it and close to the docks. It was reported that some guys had success in the Marina area early on. There was a good topwater spook bite for largemouth reported early as well with one guy catching bass up to 10 pounds. My buddy drop shotted a ton of smaller bass late in the day.
    Tight lines
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: When stripers are scattered, keep in contact with the bottom while trolling slowwwww. The fish seemed to like the smaller bluegill yesterday. Get out there and have some fun. Respect your fellow fisherman, no matter what level they are.

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    Water Temp: 58ish

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Got on the water at 245ish this afternoon and trolling by 3pm. First fish nice SALMON! WOW on a RAT-L-TRAP!! Snapped line and got off. OUCH...Then picked up a nice 18ish LBER Striper same Rat-L-Trap. Fished until 445 ran back in. Only on the water 1 hour and 45 minutes. Caught 8 stripers not counting the SALMON and big striper. Most stripers were 3-4 lb range. All catch and release even the lucky SOB Salmon. Tight Lines...sorry buddy (and everyone else) I had to post something especially seeing that beautiful Salmon...
    City: d-bay

    Tips: Watch the current tide cloud or sun situation and fish the weed lines. Use more than 12lb test line at all times in the delta!!! Where did the LM's go?

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Iwent out went my brouder tooday and we caught some Strippers and a few blackies. Most of the strippers were in the 10 pond clas and some of the blaks were 5 pond. We throwed some plugs at them. Late for dark a stripper ate my plug and took off. I got him up by the bote and then it took off striping my fishing string off my reel. it too all my strang then broke off. It was a reel tode. Some necks thank they done sompin when they catch a 10 pond black. A 10 pond stripper is a baby. I cathes them balks on minners and I like to eat um up. I let the strippers go they are too good to eat.
    City: Disc Bay

    Tips: throw plugs in curent

Monday, November 13th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: threw crank baits and swim baits, bunch a dinks until an 8lb. largemouth hit my crankbait
    City: p-town

    Tips: watch the tide. inside outside, you know

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    Water Temp: 57-59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on early Monday morning. Windy, cloudy and the tide rising. Started off with top-water plugs on the eastern weed lines at Franks, landing four stripers 20-30 lbs. Sea lions arrived shutting down the bite in the area. Ran down towards the southern end of Mildred continuing with top-water plugs and had no end to stripers mixed with largemouth pushing bait against the banks.
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Look for birds. For those pursuing big stripers try Musky Mania Doc. Walks and looks just like a super spook just 9 inches long. Small fish will hit it but cannot get hooked causing a commotion for the big ones that can get hooked by the 9" plug.

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Look, guys enough already. If you guys are relying on this website as a barometer for the fish you plan to target you ain't going to be blowing anybody away anyway. You want a good black bass report, here ya' go. chatterbait in sparse tulles. Up north and go with a yo yo retrieve. North but not north of the shipping channel (hint hint). I live in Reno and have nothing to lose but we killed em on Fri and nothing less than 3.5.
    City: Reno

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out of Big Break at first light, Ran up into Dutch looking for Stripers. Caught 8 keeper sized to 7 Lbs and a few more that were dinks. Got all of them drifting minnows. Bite stopped at the tide turn again...
    Anyone know how to fish with the bluegills as bait? Please e-mail me with instructions...
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: 16ft deep, just out of the current, back side of the points etc. etc.

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    Water Temp: cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I am curious to what "linesiders" means? Daddyblueranger and a couple of you guys have said it once or twice. Can someone fill me in? Thanks
    City: sacto

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 55-57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: On Saturday with the wind and rain the anglers fishing for the 12 spots in the California BASS Federation Nation tournament it was tough. For one angler who had a nice bag of five bass on Saturday for 12.0 lbs and big fish 4.8 lbs. On Sunday Ken Hicks came in with another nice bag and a 5.4 lb, but was bet out with Rich's 5.8 big fish for the weekend. Ken's total weight for both days were 25 lbs. Most of the fish were picked up with rattle traps and speed traps. Rich"s bass ate a big black/red jig in the tulles.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Good luck and keep cranking.

Friday, November 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 61

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Started out at first light to go Stripe-er fishing and immediately ran into thick fog. Please everyone go slow in that stuff. Had a Bass boat blow by me going way too fast. Remember Striper bait fishermen might anchor anywhere. Had very little luck with linesides, but did catch several nice Largemouth on spooks and ripbait along weedlines in Mildred. Ran to Franks fishing a few active pumps along the way. Nothing. Fished the weedlines on NE of Franks for several smallish Largenmouth on Pointer Ghost Minow ripbait and Blk/red flake Senko. Metered a good looking school of stripers in a cut off of Franks, but dumped my first hookup on a spoon when line broke. The school dispersed after that like they usually do. Picked up a 4 lb striper trolling in Disco. Drifted Jumbo minnows and Bluegill last night in Disco. Metered some good looking fish, but no bites. Everyone I talked to was experiencing the same slow fishing. Great day on the water with my son, but just seemed dead. Not much current and no wind.
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Enjoy your time on the water fishing for whatever you like. Never really did get a pattern going, but had wonderful time watching my 10 yr old son learning to throw my Curado's

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished down south looking to establish some kind of LM pattern.... tough for me to stay focused when the linesides are in....Got bit everywhere I went on just about everything I threw,, but no size. Buzzbait, spinnerbait, chatterbait, rat-l-trap, speed trap, DD14, jigs and senko's.. Got em tight to the bank, outside weed lines,deep ledges ,in the current, out of the current, high water, low water.... a few 2.5's and one 3 with bunches of rats.. Maybe 12 pounds for best five. I know the bigguns are out there, I saw the weights last weekend, just not for me..
    Still pretty good water clarity and the dams will be up till about the 20th..
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Catch more stripers!

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Big Break at 7am, Ran into a fog bank on the river. Slowly made my way up into Dutch Slough, We were going to go for stripers, and had some luck on scoolie sized ones from 18-24 inches. when the tide went slack the stripers stopped biting.
    I saw some comotion off of a tule point and fired a swimbait over there. Much to my delight it was whacked by a bass, after that we were bass fishing. We got maybee 15 bass, nothing big, but alot of fun.
    City: Suisun City

    Tips: look for tules with deep water right next to them, look at the current and pitch your baits in all the protected pockets.
    rememeber a fat bass is lazy, she don't want to fight the current......

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: Clear, cold

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the north delta in my favorite slough. Maybe due to cold ass day, the fish turned off. No Bass caught. No Strippers caught. Did catch 2 nice crappies on a DT-10 Rapala in bluegill patern. Also snagged a little Catfish in belly. Then comes the whopper. Buddy hooks to what thought to be a huge stripper, surfaced to become an ugly, stinky 20lb CARP. CARP was accidentally snagged in the bottom bass of tail fin while trolling swim bait. Since 1 guy said to report even the lowest ugliest CARP, I thought I might share my carp story as it was the only highlight of the day's trip.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: I look at it this way. Carps produce babies that feed our more sought after fishes, Bass and Strippers. I have heard stories of people shooting carp with shotguns. I have seen people toss carp onto banks to kill them. WHY? Carps do not share the same food source as bass or Stripers so there is no competition. Carps clean the bottoms of the waterways and is a vital part of the systems food chain. Give them some respect. Nicely throw them back in the water next time you catch one so it continues to help clean and supply our fishery.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I love reading the striper reports here and look forward to seeing them. Looking at the history, folks have been posting striper reports on this site for years. Why stop now? Keep em coming. It's all good! Thanks.
    City: Santa Clara

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: STRIPERS ARE BASS & LARGE MOUTH ARE SUN FISH SO KEEP ON SENDING IN THE STRIPER REPORTS THEY ARE GREAT FUN TO CATCH FORGET ABOUT WHAT BASS101 HAS TO SAY KEEP THEM TIGHT STRIPERS OR LARGE MOUTH BOTH ARE A GREAT FIGHT STICK UM
    City: SAN AMTEO

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    Water Temp: 50?

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Tom Erickson and I have been on the Delta for the last two days trying to find some big bass. The tide is slow and so are the fish. Most of our fish came on cranking the main rivers and some on Senkos, brush hogs.
    City: rocklin

    Tips: Keeping fishing and good luck.