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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48-52.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well it was a pretty tough day overall, started with jigs with only two bites in three hours then I went over by orwood and started throwing a rip it seemed like when you found 51 to 52 degree water they would eat jerk jerk pauuuuuuuuuuuse up to ten seconds at times they would hit when it was sitting or right when you started to pull.
    City: Knightsen

    Tips: we only had seven bites today with five in the boat three were over four and two rats. bites were far and few between persistance pays off lucky craft staycees in shad patterns 8 to ten feet grass lines!

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    Water Temp: 48'

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: STRIPER TIME..... Lost 6 fish on the line, Caught ten, 9 keepers up to 6.5 lbs... Caught in the only place to find clear water this time year, don't know? find out...
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Bright colors, slow or really quick presentation.

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

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    Water Temp: 47-50.8

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished on Saturday with James and Rav of Bay Sportsfishing Charters. We had an exceptionally good fish catching day with 23 keepers on Jigs and Zippers. The Jig out performed the Zipper today 5:1, Most of the fish were caught in about 14' of water, in the weedless rocky banks of Disco Bay. Almost all of our jig fish came out in front of the deeper docks. Not every dock had fish, but when ya found a good dock, we'd catch 2-4 fish from it and several missed bites. Zipper fishin in the grass was much slower today in the afternoon. We got many bites, but unfortunately only boated four fish. These bites all seemed to be out on the outer drop of of the weedlines in about 8-10 foot. Biggest fish today was only 3 pounds. Nowhere near the quality of fish seen in the past 2 weeks, but the numbers made for a great jig fishin day.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Must cover a lot of water to find those groups of fish. Once a fish is caught, begin to slow way down and methodically saturate the area picking off as many as will bite. Temp has dropped a few degrees with the recent cold snap. Our bites were definately better in that 49-50.8 range today. Seemed like everytime we'd go through spells of no bites, I'd look down and the temps were, 47 to 48.9 degrees, moving to areas where there was a small increase in temperature made the difference in getting bit today. Never saw the sun, and it was very cold out ALL day. Dress warm guys, be prepared and keep those vests on!

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    Water Temp: 48.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: I won't say exactly where we were fishing or what we were using. But my buddy and I only caught 7 fish today. The seven were a 9,8,two 6's, and a few 3's. No small fish. We stayed in one area and the bites came very slow. It was like the small fish were no where to be found. Only good fish. The best January fishing me or my buddy have ever had! I'm still feeling kinda shocked...
    City: Stockton

    Tips: Slow presentation, deeper water and dark colors.

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

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    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: try little mandeville. it's a flooded island, easy to reach from holland riverside marina
    easy access by john boat or other shallow draft boat. you should start seeing ducks anytime now.
    City: knightsen

Monday, December 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Since I had the day off I decided to hit the delta with the goal of locating some clear water after the storms. Since the tides weren't going to be ideal for winter time fishing (i.e. low tide was at 6:35am out of Sand Mound) I decided to just have some fun and observe what I could. I found that working -2hrs->low tide->+2hrs really is the best time to hit the delta this time of year simply because working the outside weed edges is important to finding fish. Conditions were post storm front after nearly 3/4" of rain that fell the night before and almost clear skys for most of the day. Launched out of Russo's and spent a good 1-2 hours jumping around Frank's Tract and the general vacinity looking for deep water and pockets of clear water. After a while I decided to head towards Taylor slough where the water generally stays gin clear all winter long. I ran into a couple of guys on the water who were throwing a drop shot and doing fairly well, but had the same issue that I had with my rip bait -- only the small fish seemed to be active at the moment. At the end of the day I had about a dozen fish however nothing was larger than 1.5 lbs and all were on a rip bait. This is pretty typical when fishing the high tides because you typically have to let the bait sit in the strike zone for 10-15 seconds on the outside weed edge which is much easier at low tide. In all I had fun being out on the water and also ended up catching some sort of carp like fish in/around Russo's on the rip bait. Seems they were schooling up and busting the surface near the docks. No idea what kind of fish it is (maybe a squaw fish or shad). I would have headed towards the central delta looking for less pressured areas that have some clear water however I was running low on 2-stroke oil and the Hook was closed (closed Mon-Tues). At least the weather was nice and it didn't rain.
    City: Pleasanton, Ca

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of russos went south. Caught nunerous limits of blacks up to 4.5 pounds. !8 lb limit. No big fish connected. Spinners, jigs, cranks.
    City: sacto

    Tips: Drift with current with reaction baits, fish slow and deep for qualityu, Discovery bay a good place to start. Good fishing, Jimbo

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 55+

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water wasn't in too bad of shape considering the heavy rains and winds for the last few weeks. Temp came up a bit too...Bounced around testing a few different areas and found quite a few willing rip fish, about a dozen, half small keeps the others undersized. Switched to a Blk/red jig looking for a better bite and had some decent success. Found a ledge holding some 2 1/2 to 3 1/2lb fish willing to play, very suble bites. Slow rolled a wht blade over the same area and had two 3+'s that absolutley crushed it. hmmmm. Went back to work w a jig (blk/blue) and got drilled off a log, set hard, huge roll and off to deep water, yeah baby! A solid 12lbs, only this one was wearing a silver striped tuxedo.... best five largies 15 1/2 - 16lbs..
    City: Tracy

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    Water Temp: 49.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: LAUNCHED OUT OF ORWOOD CHRISTMAS EVE. WAS EXCITED TO SEE THE WATER WAS NOT TOO MUDDY. FISHED IN SIDE THE MARINA WITH A RIP BAIT FOR A GOOD 45 MINUTES WITH NEGITIVE RESULTS, QUICK SWITCH TO A DROP SHOT AND GOT A NICE GRAB, SET UP, FELT SOME WEIGHT AND POOF, NOTHING (BUMMER). HEADED UP TO THE CREEKS WITH THE RIP BAIT, NO BASS BUT THE STRIPER LIKED IT. ALL IN ALL NO BLACKS 2 NICE STRIPER. IS ANYONE FINDING RIP FISH OR CLEAR WATER LATLEY?
    City: DISCOVERY BAY

    Tips: WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS STRIPER ARE FUN TOO.....

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 47.2

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with Tim Chapman on Sat 12/17 to show him around the delta and how to put together a pattern when the conditions are really tough. We launched from Orwood with 47.2 degree water temp and gin clear water around Orwood marina. We easily put together a pattern fishing a rip bait and then duplicated the pattern across 3-4 other locations. In all we had 20+ largemouth and 5 small stripers fishing ripbaits on the outside weed edge in slack water in areas where the water was gin clear. Most of the bites came between 10-15 sec pauses in typical shad colors. We stopped into Disco Bay on the Kellog Creek side for about 30 min and left as the water was too stained for ripbait fish so we moved on. Best 5 went clost to 15lbs. No bites on the spinnerbait or jigs today although a few fish are starting to focus on craws with the sore red lips. If there's fog in the AM forecast sleep in and hit the water after 9:00am.
    City: Pleasanton, Ca

    Tips: Fish slow, find slack water areas, focus on the outside weed edge, have confidence in what you are throwing and dress warm.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48-50

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the hook tourney sunday. Fished dead end sloughs, deep weed lines, rip rap, around holland tract, orwood, and disco bay. Flipped and pitched jigs, robo worms, mini sweet beavers. Tryed rip baits. Drop shotted for a while. Cranked speed traps and r-traps too. Not more than 4 bites all day and boated 3 small fish. Water was very clear and cold. BIG DADDY BLUE RANGER - can you give a hint to the vicinity where you are getting the rip bites?
    City: Brentwood

Monday, December 12th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 50

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: I keep hearing about no fish in Discovery bay. There stacked in there.I live there and the fishing is great now.Have faith in your fish finder. Drift Bluegills. What has been working really good is Hair Razors and a nice 6" Storm swimbait.
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Trust your fish finder. when you mark fish put the swimbait and Hair Razor to work. Good luck

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished plastics on drop shot,carolina and darthead big fish 3.83 limit around 10 lbs stayed under 15ft and around wood. rastrike
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: heavy fog didnt start big motor till 11am robo worm mm11 6 inch

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 48

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went striper fishing with 2 of my buddies. Launched out of B&W around 7:30am and was fogged in. Started working down river along the riprap. About 200 yrds we came across a depth change 7ft to 14ft and wham! School of 5-7 lbers wanting to eat. Caught most on rattle and speed traps and managed a 4lb steelhead. Caught a few more in Franks but the larger schools were on the rocks.
    City: Fairfield

    Tips: presentation seemed to matter...we could only manage bits slow rolling the traps.

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    Water Temp: 49-52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the hook tourney last sun & today. Last week we had a solid rip bite going with several fish in the 3 - 5 1/2lb range each day of practice. On game day we had our limit within 35 min and continued catching rip fish all day long everywhere we went, over 30 in all. Unfortunately the better fish just wouldn't cooperate for us. Finished w just under 12 lbs.

    Today's game plan was rip for a limit and flip for a kicker. The plan was fool proof...almost, save for my bad luck. I lost a limit worth of fish within the first 20 min or so including one decent 2 1/2 that sure would have helped.. damn loose drag... Finally we started boating fish, much thanx to my partner, and we got a small bag together. Made a move and brought out the jig rods. Worked patiently for a few hours without a bite then we finally got our window (or should have been) with only 20 min left to fish. I got one close to 3, my partner gets a 4.. both mushy bites.. Then comes a solid deliberate thump, and off to deep water. I set hard and ohh yes, this was the big dog we needed... I still think I did everything right, but halfway to the boat my line went slack, she just came off.. Definatetly not my day....Finished in the top 10 w a little over 15lbs. Winners had 18 1/2
    City: Tracy

Friday, December 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: fished rattle trapps chrome/black and spoons for 2 limits of strippers then dropped shot plastics in under 20 feet for a limit
    City: el cerrito

    Tips: dropshot flat water less current is better slow slow slow limited in a hour and a half sand bottom

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 49

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished the North Delta today. Caught 19 fish, big fish was 3.15 on a Brush hog. 1 other on Brush Hog. The rest were caught on a Speed trap crankbait. Fished from 9:30 till 2:45.
    City: Elk Grove

    Tips: Outside weedlines got the crankbait fish.

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: The wife and I fished Mildred on a cold clear Sunday for 6 largies. Chartuese traps and shad color lucky pointer 100's. No sppo bites and no stripers.
    City: Pleasanton

    Tips: Fish with wife and have the best on the water lunch out there!

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched at Russo's at 7am and headed to west Franks tract. First dozen casts with a super spook pearl had 3 explosions. Stripers. Oh boy I thought we are on them now. Then nothing????? Hit a couple more points same thing. Switched over to you guessed it chrome-blue rattletrap 3/4 oz. 2 hook ups right away. 5 and 7 lbs. My buddy is just looking at me pissed off. The wind starts howling, and I mean cujo style. Managed a 6 blacks biggest 3lb 2oz. 5 bag went only 11 lbs. The white caps were huge. Thought I gone outa half moon bay. Called it a day at 12pm. Chilled to the bone, wind blown back home.
    City: bethel island

    Tips: Rattle trap chrome-blue back 3/4 oz. for stripers. Had good luck with crawdad pattern shallow running cranks.

Friday, November 25th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: This message is for the last post from Bill.
    I am taking the wife out tommorrow striper fishing, I would like to hopefully help her catch some fish. If you could help what areas were productive for you? Incoming or outgoing tide? I appreciate any help I can get.
    I have not had much success the last two times I took her out.

    Thanks,
    Pineapple
    City: Tracy