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Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Most of the fish today was coming in 12' to 16' bite was good until tide changed from incoming to out going we had 18 fish with the biggest being around 3.50 lbs still waiting on the big bite. Fished jigs all day
    City: Discovery Bay

    Tips: Need to fish jigs slow

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 50.5 - 53.0

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished in several locations Sunday, I finally found a little clearer water to fish that was right around 52 degrees. Threw blk/blu pig-n-jig
    (dark blu pork)TR worms and also did a little crankin. Found fish in 4-8' range, best bite came on TR worm, 7" got all the nice fish all solid 2-3 lb fish, 1 big bite, but missed it.
    no fish crankin. I kept the worm moving slow, all bites came on movement, very slow.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Buy the Scent Box! My bait get a soaking yet I use like half of what I used to and a heck of alot less mess.

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48.5

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out Saturday for a day of fishing. Had incoming tide the whole time. For some reason, during that tide the bite shut down. Finally picked up a Rattle Trap and caught a couple of good ones. It seems like the fish were more tide sensitive than usual for winter.
    City: Stockton

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    Water Temp: 51/52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: That Cooch is just too good with that jig. Winter fishing been hit or miss for me until today. I launched out of New Hope in search of bass in the Northern Delta. Nope too muddy no fish. Then headed south to target the dead end sloughs. Started off with slow rolling spinnerbaits with no takers. Then I went with Cooch's advice and went to the blk/blue Pig and Jig. Second cast 3lb. 10th cast a 3.5lb. These areas were rocky coves with grass as deep as 18ft under the boat which was positioned about 30ft out. I tried to repeat the pattern on other spots. I found that not all banks held fish--so you just have to work it slow and keep searching. Because time didn't permit it, I ended the day with only three but the last one was a 6lber. Thanks Cooch for all the advice--HAR it works.
    City: sac

    Tips: Like Cooch says fish deeper this time of year. All my fish came from 12-18 ft rock banks with grass. Definately look for clean water. Hop and move that jig all the way to the boat.

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    Water Temp: 46.9- 52.5

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished today with James Nevels of Discovery Bay. Decided to test a few new winter time spots in the middle portion of the Delta today. We found a little warmer water in a few of these areas. The fish seemed to be shallower in areas where the temps were above 50. Caught 12 or so keepers today and one dink. Our two bigger fish today, a 6 lb 11oz and a 5 lb 7 oz, both came out of less than 6 foot of water, tight to cover. But deep water was right there close by. Most all of our other fish came out of about 10-12 feet. Jigs on the open rocks and Zippers in the grass worked once again for us. It was an absolute gorgeous day early, then go brisk and cloudy(slowest point or us) then cleared later. We only fished in three basic areas today in the middle Delta, mostly just off the San Jaquine River. Fish were once again grouped or onesey twosies along small stretches of bank.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Keep yer trolling motor in the water, on as low as ya can stand, cover long stretches of bank and try to stay off the top of the fish. All day long, I was pointing out other bass boats to James fishing down different banks, every single one of em was right on top of the fish we wuz catching. It's a common mistake made at this time of year on the river.

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

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    Water Temp: 46-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Client for today canceled and I decided ta venture out in the storm alone. Rare the ole Coochster gits ta go out and just play fish by his self. Fish wer biten real good today with 14 keepers to 7 lb 9 oz topping the scale for the biggest. Had three other fish over 6.5 pounds as well. All the fish today came off rocky, grass banks with wood in about 6-8 foot. Two of the 6 pounders were right on the bank in about 3 foot and KERTHUNKED that jig as it was falling. I also caught three really nice 3-4 pound fish slow rolling a White Tandem Colorado/Willow blade, with a Chartruese Yamamoto grub. No crankbait or zipper fish today. Purty excellent day considerin I only fished from 10:00a-2:0pm.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Be happy and excited when ya git up in the morning and the weather is bad. SUre fire sign fishin on the river is gonna be good right nw versus them blue bird days. Still have to fish slow and methodical. Stay off the bank and fish yer baits all the way to the boat. With the exception of three shallow fish today, all my fish are still coming 15-20 feet off the banks.

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

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    Water Temp: 48-49

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Flipped jig&pig in discovery bay. Boated 4 fish all day 3.5 - 4.2. Not bad fish but slow bite. Tried rip baits, blades, and texas beavers, but caught all fish on the jig. Beautiful day on the delta.
    City: brentwood

    Tips: Jig in crawdad colors did it today for me.

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