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Thursday, May 11th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Brannon Island for a mornings fishing with Gunny..On the water about 6:30 off at 12:30..Fished around Brannon, no luck on either buzzbaits or spinnerbaits, also tried flipping Senkos..Headed to Franks, fished a short time in Little Franks and nailed several dinks on spinnerbaits and Senkos..And when I say dinks, I mean dinks..Stopped by the Hook and picked up some liquid refreshment and a bag of Yamamoto single tailed grubs for jig trailers, then headed for the north side of Franks..Fished a few tule islands and started picking up fish on spinnerbaits and again on Senkos..Caught a 2+ on a SpeedTrap (Delta Craw)..Most fish were still below legal size, sure were a lot of those around..Then nailed a 4+ on a Senko..Headed back to Brannon and home..Overall a great morning, great company and a few fish..
    City: San Jose

    Tips: Still don't know enough about the Delta to make any good tip contributions..All I can recommend is to keep plugging away, sooner or later you will find a fish..Most fish seemed to come from near sparse tule clumps and around points on the tule islands..

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hard day 3 keepers to 2 lbs
    City: oakley Big Break

    Tips: Siner bait , crank , worm ome on each good luck

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hit the delta with some full speed fishing guys. Launched at Russo's and proceeded to work Franks hard for good numbers of small fish. Ran to Mildreds mid day and worked a long bank outside Mildreds for a good senko bite. Ended the day at Franks with a spook bite on a striper school that was MEMORABLE.
    Good times.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Topwater the last hour of light and HOLD ON.

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 73

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out fishing with a couple of buddies.Lauched out of Russo's. What a day we had.The wind was blowing and we must have caught over 50 bass. They were slamming the lures. And alot of fish over 5 lbs. Galen Jensen thanks for the great guided trip. We had a blast.Never caught so many fish in one day. But for the record, West out fished us both with some BIG TOADS.
    City: discovery BAy

    Tips: Use top water and keep throwing till you hit the honey pot.

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    Water Temp: 60*

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Paradise on Eight Mile.. Got 4 in the Boat lost 4 at the boat.. for about 2 Hrs of fishing. Chartruse / White Spinner Baits were the happening bait of the day..
    City: Stockton

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Caught Ten,Best 5 15lb's beavers worked for me today. Tried also buzzbait And Frog couple of blow up's that's it.Went to disco bay for my last 1/2 hour and picked up the drop shot rod ,and hooked a Female going between 8 or 9lb's my personal biggest so far.
    City: Disco Bay

    Tips: Beavers ,purple worm drop shot. Rocky points with submerged weeds.

Monday, May 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished with two new bass fisherman and had a day to remember many fish over 5lbs and good #s also soft plastics worked best also top water good
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: get the most up to date fishing stories at bay tackle and gear 510 235-2032 see you their

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    Water Temp: 65.9

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: 24 fish top 5 for 17lbs, frogs in the morning, senkos and cranks in the afternoon, 2 to 10 ft of water, weed lines, tulies, moss pads. colors: watermelon red & green senkos, white frogs, red cranks.. Good luck!
    City: Vacavillw

    Tips: stay slow and cover water doing so, you won't feel the senko bite, trust the weight.

Friday, May 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: about 70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Hey Ryan, my dad and I went out a few weeks ago and got 5 frog fish. The biggest was about 4 pounds, but I missed a couple nicer fish. Oh... when we were in Rock Slough, we saw a HUGE carp sufacing in the weeds and out in the open. Good luck!

    Tips: Chuck the frog ALL day long!

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

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    Water Temp: n/a

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Just checking in to see if the frog bite has started. Also, is anyone seeing any carp. I got the bug to shoot some carp. Are they spawning yet? Thanks.
    City: chico

Monday, May 1st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Orwood and ran to Franks, ME AND EVERYONE ELSE, Looked like a Saturday. Every spot was being worked. Lots of jigs, worms, beavers being thrown. Picked up a couple 3# on blades and decided to head to some less pressured water. Went south towards disco and work middle river. Decided to switch to blades and the reaction bite was hot. 10 fish in the boat 3-4# each and 4or5 missed fish all on one bank. Same pattern 3 different rocky banks. Best 5 20#.
    City: san ramon

    Tips: Adjust to the bite. When everyone is fishing the same way, show em something different. We slow rolled 3/4 oz Revenge spinnerbaits in white w/ white grub trailer.

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 68-70

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Lauched out of Lungberg sunday, we stayed in Frank tract. early morning used 6"senko, got few 3lber, nothing big like everyone told me, lots boat probably scares the big mommas. missed few big fishes. that's fishing. have a good day!
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: fish the senko really slow in the tullies, be patient. good luck!

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished delta with 13 teams most fish caught on sinkos and dropshot sweet beavers big break franks and mildred big fish 8.80
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: high water use big senkos low water use smaller senkos

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    Water Temp: 66-68

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Disco Bay with my wife both Sat and Sun
    caught both bed in lots of the bays, best bay by far was in Marina area. Best bait was a zoom frost white
    fluke, no weight, throwing in real tight and twitching it out-letting it fall. Once we got on that pattern we locked in and caught the heck out of em'. We used to do that 10-15 years ago with sluggo's, don't have anymore, I'll have to
    look around for some. Where the heck can you find sluggo's? I prefer their action ove the flukes
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: I found that not staying and working one fish for an hour that we were far more productive and the result was 30lbs + both days. also caught several very nice!!! with carolina rig and a jungle worm.

Friday, April 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 60 62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: SPENT WEEK WITH THE BOYS. BROUGHT 13 RODS, ONLY NEEDED 1 OR 2
    THE SENKO BITE WAS ON FOR ALL OF US, EXCEPT FOR OCCASIONAL CRANKBAIT THE SENKO BITE WAS ON
    City: mountin view

    Tips: 9X SENKO FOR BIGGER BETTER FISH

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    Water Temp: 63.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out tues. and thurs., and had some good days.Tues.We started in franks and we were the first ones on the water. we had some nice fish in the boat within minutes of flipping to tules. stayed in franks most of the morning then went to mildred hitting some good fish there also, lots of 4#s in the boat by one p.m.wind started to pick up a little and the reaction fish soon followed. several fish coming from my new VOO-DOO baits in ch/white, my buddy was a bit sceptical of it for a moment but it didn't take long for him to believe in something new.We had near sixty fish, the best five were about 25.4# one of my best days, my friend Tim landed a nice 6.14 on the Voo-Doo. Thurs. was a little different, started in disappointment alot slower start for us picking up only one there. I had my wife with me this time and she was really trying to hone her flipping skills so we didn't do much else in the morning. We moved up north and started hitting several fish around 12:30 low tide,we found a great spawning flat,they were killing brush hogs, beavers and 7in. senkos; stay with neutral colors. We finished the day with 25 fish, best five were 19.5#s not to bad but not quite as good as the previous day
    City: placerville

    Tips: Flip tight when the tide is high and move out when low (pretty basic), but one key element that has been consistant for us is shallow flats near deep water ledges. Pay attention to areas when the tide is low so you can get a good idea of what things look like when there out of the water. The lures don't seem to matter as much as the areas.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 58-64

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: went with Mayday to do some fun fishing, since we're hearing about all the 20lb sacks comoing out of the delta. took tuesday off to do it. only found about a 15# sack.
    started in franks along with 20 other boats. that place is getting hammered hard every day. We figured it would be less pressured on a midweek day - we were wrong. caught a couple, then move on to avoid crowds.
    went to other sloughs around franks, and found the tides dropping. caught a bunch of keeper fish in weeds and on the backside of weeds, occasionally a nice fish.
    went to disco and found a few in the there as well.
    Overall, the fishing was very spotty with the bites coming in bunches. it seems that they were gathering up to spawn.
    City: belmont

    Tips: jigs and jig-like lures worked for us. they seemed to want compact lures in blue/brown (aka Aaron's Magic). Also caught a few trap fish, mostly within two cranks of the handles on casts close to shore.

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Sloooowwww you can doit!Go big with helix or with yamy's it work's.Oh how about frogs to hog's? Whats wrong ya'll, we ain't fishing for 7 figures just fun ,even if its money git a grip ya'll enjoy.
    City: Ogden

    Tips: frogs chugs 8"worms drive that sixfow cadi luv and big fishes

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished franks today caught several fish biggest was 10-3. Man what a awesome fishery the delta is!!!
    City: Medford

    Tips: crawfish

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    Water Temp: 58-62

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Looks like everybody is tight lipped lately!
    I took Tim out today after hearing all the big weights that are coming in, he wanted to locate better quality fish. We started in Franks along with 20 other boats, we got a few near the wall and the tulles around there, no good ones. Then with the high tide we fished some islands close by an got one close to 4 and a few close to 3 and Tim lost a giant. All one Speed Traps. Then we went to Quimby fished around the islands and caught 5 or 6 fish to 2.5lbs. The bite seem to die just about low tide we waited about and hour and then went to find some better fish shallow closer to the main river, fishing rock, weeds and sparse tulles with spinnerbaits, we started catching fish and got about 10 pretty fast up to almost 4lbs then when the water was up pretty high we landed one about 6 and one over 7 both on blades fishing next to the tulles over submerged weeds. We did get a few fish though out the day on a Blk/Blu Helix the biggest on the Helix was 3lbs. Not a lot of fish but good quality seem almost like a 20+ bag is common now, WOW
    City: Martinez

    Tips: Even though we couldn't see the fish most of them were spawning. If you are catching males (males were squirting clear liquid) then most of the fish were small but when you get in to the females it was a different story.