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Sunday, October 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched at Sugar Barge last Sunday but, did not go out (at least not right away). I got lazy when I saw the weather so me and my wife just fished for bluegills and crappie. We were just sitting on the dock most of the time. Just before sunset, my wife to my truck (she's cold), the weather calmed down like you can not believe so I fished inside the wall for about 45 min. Got 5 shakers and a 2-lber on a red crank bait with crawdad pattern. A 5-lber and a couple of a 2-lber was caught on a silver/blue popper. I can't believe you can actually catch that many fish inside that wall in so little time. Kept a 2-lber for a sandwich. Thanks for your previous tips...finally learned how to fish the Delta!!!
    City: Bakersfield

    Tips: Use shallow diver in red/crawdad patter and poppers.

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fishing on Sunday with my buddy. Caught around 40 black bass and about 30 stripers. Largest BB was 4lbs on dartheaded plastic worm. All stripers caught on spooks. Caught BB on crawtubes, senkos, curltail worms, and spooks. Topwater lasted all day. Had a few very large bass follow spooks to the boat.
    City: manteca

    Tips: Watch for fish hitting the surface. And look for current.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: On the water at first light. After 5 hours had only 2 fish on frogs. Started throwing cranks and ended the day with 34 fish in the boat. Maybe 12 keepers total with lots of dinks. Biggest going 5.5. Best five for 12#. Threw spinnerbaits,senkos,jigs,beavers with no results. Crank is the only way to go
    City: Jerusilum

    Tips: Crank then pause. Fish would it immediatley after the pause. made all the difference in the world

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood in the first hour of outgoing. Fished the south, including a little in Disco. Jigs and plastics, brown and purple. 10 in the boat in 5 hours of fishing, although it seemed like I should have had more (overcast skies all day). Best was 3+ or so, and I caught 3 of those, all on jigs on points in current.
    City: Oakland, CA

    Tips: I'm not very good so I'll leave the advice for those more qualified. However, is there nothing better than a good jig bite? Maybe it's just me...

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Cool & breezy-Out of Russo's ----> around Mandaviile- Dink fest 4-13" senko & bomber (shad).
    City: Sac

    Tips: Crank the rocks

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: GOOD REPORT-THANKS BIG DADDY.

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I concur it was definately a dink fest on Sat as well. Had a hard time catching anything overf 15" but caught them on about 10 different baits while prefishing for a tournament next weekend. Had maybe 45+ fish all day but couldn't get any size. The only advice I've heard is to go striper fishing and eventually you'll run into a school of big largemouth. Go figure.
    City: Pleasanton, Ca

Friday, September 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: What a day! Started near Hog with a great frog and crankbait bite up to four pounds. Fished that way for the first hour and then went for salmon. Jigged up one 15 pounder, but nothing else. Around 10am or so we went back in to Hog but didn't do to well. I then up around Sycamore and that's when the fun really began. We threw speed traps, Voodoos and blades for the next 5 hours and loaded the boat. granted, most of the fish were under 2 pounds, it was still a kick. We even picked up some big crappie pushing two pounds, a nice catfish and a small striper to give us a 5 specie day. The real fun happened in the last hour of light. We saw a ton of gulls and turns going nuts and ran over to them. There was a ton of baitfish and the striper were going nuts. We threw spooks and Voodoos at them for the next hour and got a fish or a hit on every cast. Even picked up a 3 pound bass in the mix. Easily and 80+ fish day.
    City: Roseville

    Tips: I love to throw white baits in the fall. Craw patterns work for me as well, but the white is my stand by color. Plastics were dead. Definitely a reaction bite on this day. Gotta love 5 species in a day. Really looking forward to throwing the Voodoo this winter for the striper. The vibration and action of this bait should be an awesome bait for locating the line sides. Can't wait to get back out there.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Friend and I started fishing Whites about 7 Am with top water. Got several blowups but the fish were short striking. Switched to a small crankbait and caught three non-keeper fish immediately. Went back to buzzbaits looking for a bigger bite. More small fish blowups but no hookups.

    After an hour of throwing the Buzzbaits, I switched to a brown jig with one of the new Yamamoto Flappin Hog trailers in watermelon. Immediately caught a 3+ followed a half hour later by a 2 1/2. I was amazed at how hard the fish hit this bait.

    Ran to the middle Delta to flip hyacinth at high tide. Used a green pumpkin Senko with a Yamamoto screw-in bullet sinker to penetrate hyacinth. Caught 8 keepers up to 2 pounds over the next the next two hours. When the tide started going back out, switched back to the jig/Flappin Hog and stuck a 4# 1oz. Finished up at 1:00 with a 2 pounder on a chatterbait.

    Caught a total of 22 fish with top five going just over 13 pounds.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: The three best fish all came on a brown jig with the Yamamoto Flappin Hog trailer. They averaged just over 3 pounds. If I was fishing a tournament, I would stay with that jig all day and fish for 5 good bites.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well today was the second trip this week. Launched at the famous B&M Resort- on the water at 6:30 fishing Franks shortly after. Main body somewhat blown out...fishable if I really had to, but ended up fishing canals. Early morning topwater.....about 8 strikes, and 5 fish landed-all dinks! Started with spinnerbaits around 9:00a.m.-Nada. Once again tried it all. The only pattern I could get to work was tossing Senkos on windy points. Caught lots of fish but nothing over 2.5 pounds. Got tired of catching peanuts, so I went over to Potato Slough again. No dinks today, higher tide and only one hook-up. A 4 pounder that spit the hook at the boat. I WANTED DESPERATLY to find a different pattern, but no go. This report is starting to sound a little like Mark L. from a few days ago! REally lookimg forward to hooking some larger fish soon!!!!
    City: Antelope

    Tips: Not much has changed the last few days. The only hot ticket I can share is that I used a buzzbait to catch my topwater fish. How are other parts of the Delta doing?

Monday, September 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-71

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at B&W and started fishing at 7:30a.m. Did the Franks thing. Had a top water bite till about 10:00a.m. Largest fish of the day maybe 2 pounds. Major slack tide... Hard to find current anywhere-Had a Senko fest on dinks mid-afternnon in Potato Slough, off the water by 6:00p.m.Best 5 maybe 8-9 pounds...ouch!
    City: antelope

    Tips: Buzzbait in the morning-fun but once again no size...going back on Wednesday.

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went fishing today with Cooch. Bite was slow in the morning and we ended up fishing drop shot rigs and texas rigs with watermelon red baits. The biggest fish was probably 3# with most of them in the 1 - 1.5 range. If you want to learn to fish better weather you are experienced or a beginner Cooch is the man to call. He is a great guide and a fun dude to fish with. I would recomend the experience for anybody.
    City: San Jose Ca

    Tips: When in doubt go to your special spot and grab your drop shot rod! Call Cooch!

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    Water Temp: 69

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Holland Tract Marina about 7:00 ran up to around Mildred Island. Started off with a Pop-R and had no takers. I then switched to a Craw Wiggle Wart and started to kill em. Caught about 20 fish all off the Wart. Best 5 went for 18 lbs.
    City: Livermore

    Tips: Fish next to the shore around rip rap and target scattered tulles. It's important to fish shallow next to deep water. Windy sides are the best. Good luck.

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 71-73 degrees

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Took my lady out to wet a few lines. We launch out of New Hope and headed for Sycramore slough. Caught a couple right off the bat. My lady hooked into a 3lber off a white senko.I caught a 4lber on a frog. After that a bunch of dinks.
    City: sacramento

    Tips: Keep ya lines wet the fish seemed to be in a fall feeding frenzy.The big gals should be starting up soon. Frog bite is sweet in the morning!

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    Water Temp: 65

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with a friend from Columbia cut to North Victoria. Caught lots of small fish on Chatterbaits going from 1 to 2 pounds. All the fish were on the outside edges of weed lines. Our better fish came flipping into hyacinth with a Senko rigged with a screw in Florida weight. Best fish went just under 4 pounds. Got several frog blowups but no hookups. Best five would have been about 12 pounds.
    City: Fair Oaks

    Tips: Senko with a 1/2 oz screw in Florida rig weight goes through hyacinth easily. Spray the Senko with your favorite scent to give it extra lubrication for slipping through the thickest stuff.

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    Water Temp: unknown

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Did a pre-fish and tournament (Hook series) this weekend with Eric Thoss..Launched Saturday afternoon nad headed south for the areas around Holland..Fished the points around entrances to cuts and such, all on the slack and out going tide..Caught a few, largest around 5 but mostly non keepers..Lost the steering on the way back in, but was able to get it fixed while on the water ensuring we could get out the next day for the tourney..Launched Sunday morning for the tourney and headed south again, the tide was incoming when we arrived to our area and we once again started fishing the weed lines around points..The action was super slow, no takers for the first hour then as the tide changed and started back out we started getting some hits..Unfortunately for us those we did catch weren't that big or that many..Ended up weighing in just three fish..Had a great day on the water and enjoyed the tournament..There were a lot of dads entered with their kids, I think they all outfished us today..
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Caught fish on Beavers, Senkos, Speed Traps and spinner baits..Our keepers came on the Speed Trap (delta craw color) and Sweet Beavers (not sure of the color but it was some sort of bug)..The biggest weights for the tourney came (if honestly reported) from white chatter baits, jigs and drop shotting..

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 65.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with a buddy who was pre-fishing for a club tourney. We started with topwater around the south end of Franks and Soundmound areas with lots of bites from small fish. Tide was dropping, I switched to a beaver a picked up a 3 from a deep point in the current. Picked up another close to 3 on a swimbait off a small tule island, again in the current. We switched to crankin and got a bunch of littles ones, plus a 5 on rat-l-trap... from a small tule island with lots of current..Hmmmmm. Mid day when the current slowed way down we switched to punching mats, got another 3+ and about a half dozen decent 2LB fish. Bounced around catching lots of jig fish from points and ledges 8-15ft in the current. We set up on a point just as the tide turned around and got an 8 on jig. Finished the day with some fast action on a buzzbait and spook inside Franks on fish up to 2 1/2. Around 30 in the boat today with best five about 22lbs.
    City: TRACY

    Tips: JIGS and Cranks in the current. Punching mats when the sun is high and temp is up...CURRENT, CURRENT, CURRENT... Did I mention current

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I hunt ducks out there from a kayak, you just got to do your homework to find them. Lower Sherman Island is a good place from what I've heard but I have my own sweet spot.
    City: manteca

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Russo's today. We started with spooks and gunfish fishing deep water with current, bends in the river and cuts wit moving water, got one 2.5lber right away then missed two decent ones then caught a bunch of 1-2 lbers. Fished around Franks some but I wanted to find some fish somewhere besides Franks so we went to Potato got a few but nothing to talk about. Tide was mid way and going out, poked around the main river and still only got small ones. Went back over by Franks (gave in to the pressure) and started catching fish again we got a few 2.5 lbers and a bunch of 1-2 lbers.
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Most of the fish were in the current and 1.2 were caught on top buzz bait and the gunfish, a few on a speed trap and a few on a jig.

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    Water Temp: 70.0

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launced out of Tracy Oasis for the Nor Cal Tourney. Weather was clear and calm but was was pretty stained due to the recent winds. First spot we hit was at the west end of grant line canal. We picked up one keeper on a chartrues blade. Lost one about 2# on a speed trap that came off at the boat working the current edges on outgoing tide. Headed toward victoria and got another keeper on the speed trap on a totally stopped retrieve. they seem to hit it on the pause. We got our fourth keeper on a red rattle trap in union point area along the rip-rap.
    got bit about five or six times on a green punkin 5" senko/wacky on outside of weed edges on low tide buy could not keep em hooked up. One senko fish was rock solid when i set the hook and actually pulled drag and came unbuttoned. Hooked fifth keeper back in grand line canal on a crank and had it bounce out of the net and come off. best five went 9+ lbs. Only weighed in four keepers for 8.22
    City: turlock

    Tips: slow down and flip, the fish are there somewhere it think you just need a slower presentation. Browns seem to be the color.