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Monday, April 11th, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had to work for them.

    Fished Middle Delta. Got late start (1000hrs) and wnet to 1700hrs. Caught a bunch of 1-2lbs, one 3.3 and was about to give up when an 8.1 Momma hit a plug in 6 feet of water.
    City: Oakland

    Tips: Fish in 2-6' and slow.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: MY dad and I are startring to fish the delta. We aren't quite sure where to fish or what to fish with. If anyone could e-mail me some tips that would be great. Thank you
    City: CV

    Tips: Thank You

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 59-61

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Another Great day on the river with Dave Mckenzie of Bay Area Backwaters Guide Service. Tageted big bites which came with persistence. Got a 5+ with a bunch of 2's and 3's thrown in, best 5 going around 18. Had what would have been PB and the kicker but she come unbotton at the boat, she looked around nine and pushing 10 but it makes me feel better if we just call her an 8 since I didn't get to lip her, Oh well. Got em on Senko's, Blades, and Traps. A little windy but otherwise a beutiful day out there. Fish were not exactly up close yet but coming. 20+ fish and that was suppose to be slow in Dave's point of view, I sure would hate to see a good day. Learned a lot about the delta and and what the fish are doing. Sure is nice to fish with a guide who enjoys passing knowledge on to clients and actually lets you fish. Bay Area Backwaters puts you on fish and makes sure that you get em, while leaving you with an understanding of why it all happened and how to replicate it in the future.
    City: San Carlos

    Tips: Hop in the boat with Dave would be my first tip but also to fish slow. We got some good fish on traps and blades but working a senko out from shore to about 8 ft got the good bites. Always know what the bait is doing in the water because the hens are coming up and Dave can find em.

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Whites, Potato, and Little Potato Slough from 7-2. Thought the day was going to be somewhat better than past trips by starting it off with an 8-15 on first cast with chart/white blade at whites. All small fish after that blades caught the majority of fish, few flip fish. Best bite was morning high tide, rocks/tules.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: cover A LOT of water

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    Water Temp: 57'

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out to White and fished the outgoing. My brother-in law caught a 6-14 off a point and the rest were dinks in the 1.5lb range. Water very stained, cold and muddy. Fish holding tight to cover, hardly any off rocks. Caught them on senkos, zipper and one on jerk. Hardly anyone fishing White or Disappointment today.
    City: SSF

    Tips: Fish between weedline and tules.

Friday, April 8th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 67

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Went out today with a local Pro today. Fished Mildred and Franks all day. We caught more fish than we could count. Fishing was awesome. Senkos and flipping tubes. Most fish were in the 3-4 pound range but some were over 6 and 7 pounds. Mildred is on fire right now. We had at least 35 lbs in the boat today between us.
    City: Sonora

    Tips: Soft plastics, slow! Found tons of bed fish. When you think you're fishing slow, slow down some more.

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

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    Water Temp: 57-60

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished with a buddy yesterday in BIg Break and around Franks. Together we caught about 22 fish with about 5 being less than 13". Could not get anything bigger than 2.5 lbs. We had luck finding fish on rocky banks in deep water with some current but these fish tended to be smaller. Later in the day we ran into Big Break and tossed flukes for several 2-2.5lb fish. Overall a very nice day but nothing big. Seems the cold front Sunday may have put the fish off a little.

    Tips: Fish slower, we had 57 degree temps most of the day. 60 in Big Break. Bites were mush, most of the time the line would just move off. Most fish came on beavers, tubes and flukes. One fish on crank, one on buzzbait both small.

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    Water Temp: ?

    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Launched out of Orwood. After catching a 6 pounder right off the bat, I was juiced. It was near the bottom of the tide, and I was throwing a senko wacky style to the outside of a tulle clump. That was it for the next five or so hours. Sure I caught fish, but nothing to bragg about. Then the tide came back. I had about two hours to fish so I headed to my honey hole and proceded to blast through a pack of sweet beavers, catching a 5+ and a handfull of 2-3# pound fish. They were stacked and hungry! What a great day it turned out to be, no wind and fish! Best 5 went for 19+ pounds.
    City: Brentwood

    Tips: Used mainly sweet beavers unpegged with a 1/8 ounce brass and glass set up. Rocks with tulle clumps were the key. Don't give up!

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    Water Temp: 57-58

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Water still on the cool side, but weather was great. 2 of us fished 6 hours and caught 5 keeper bass (all about 1-1 1/2 lbs) and a 20" striper. All bass were tight in the weeds and caught with wh/char spinnerbait.
    City: Dixon

    Tips: This comment is for Rattlesnake: We don't need derogatory/negative comments on this forum about other fisherman. If someone can get fish consistently, I want to learn from him/her. I don't post every one of my fishing trips, especially my bad days because I'm not contributing anything to the forum. I'm sure all the fishermen/women that post here don't post every trip either.

    Your comments don't mean alot to me because you're too afraid to display your e-mail address.

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    Water Clarity: Muddy (0-2 foot visibility)

    Report: Fished Saturday arounf Mildred for fun with my brother. Lots of bucks up on the bank tight to cover. No big fish for us but I think we were fishing too shallow, Caught all our fish on jigs and senkos
    City: Sacto

    Tips: Hey Lee Brothers don't listen Rattlesnake 411. I find your reports informative and helpful. Some people are just a bit jelous.

Monday, April 4th, 2005

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    Water Temp: ?? no temp gaug

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Ran the custom Valco Bass Boat, "BASS BUSTER 1", to 14 mile slough. Cranked a 4 pounder at the mouth. Then checked out some spots farther in the slough. Cuaght the remainder on senkos, speed worms, and beavers from 1.0 to 2.6 lbs. Seven fish for 10 bites total. Partly cloudy today towards the afternoon and was quit breezy. Had a blast enjoying my new 15 HP Mercury 4 stroke. No sign of any spawners yet.
    City: Stockton, Ladds

    Tips: Look for prespawners. Rock and tules was the pattern for me.

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    Water Temp: 58to60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished sunday and monday.lot of boats out sunday for anglers choice.had a decent day,31 fish total biggest went 6lb4oz. best 5 were 18lbs1 oz. first fish a buzzbait fish that went4lb6oz. monday a tougher day. blue bird skys and the watter got beat up over the weekend. ended up with 20 fish total. biggest went 5lb2oz caught on a swimbait,also got a4lb2oz on swimbait. best 5 were 18lb4oz. not a bad weekend.
    City: oakland

    Tips: fish seem too have backed off a little work slow and thoroughly. try swimbaits,don't be supprised if you hook a striper

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    Water Temp: 58to60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: fished sunday and monday.lot of boats out sunday for anglers choice.had a decent day,31 fish total biggest went 6lb4oz. best 5 were 18lbs1 oz. first fish a buzzbait fish that went4lb6oz. monday a tougher day. blue bird skys and the watter got beat up over the weekend. ended up with 20 fish total. biggest went 5lb2oz caught on a swimbait,also got a4lb2oz on swimbait. best 5 were 18lb4oz. not a bad weekend.
    City: oakland

    Tips: fish seem too have backed off a little work slow and thoroughly. try swimbaits,don't be supprised if you hook a striper

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: was out sunday and monday. sunday didn't get on the water till 8 a.m. 23 total fish best 5 went 17lb7oz. one good fish,6lb 8oz. seems most of fish were spawned out. monday was a better day, 21 fish but better quality. best 5 were 6.7,6.1,5.3,3.8,3.4 total 24lbs7ozs.
    City: oakland

    Tips: lot of fish spawned out,blow ups on frogs but not many hooked.better fish have backed off a little . i caught two good ones on drop shots and i don't like throwing it till later. brushogs, beavers,senkos,frogs. see photos

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    Water Temp: 60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out at first light,(had to adjust for the time change)with buddy, Ed. Launched outta Holland & stayed within a mile or so of the ramp. Caught a fair amount of decent fish (7 or 8) on both char/white blades tight to tules/downed wood structures. Also fished along some rip-rap with a nice shelf and landed a couple nice fatties on 6" senkos, dark colors. Was off the water by 11 with, I think a dozen fish. Probably had a 12lb bag of 5. Action was better than I expected. Also, the water has cleared up nicely over the last few days.
    City: Tracy

    Tips: Get out there and rip some lip!

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out with Cooch yesterday and had a good time, but not fun loosing the Donkey he mentioned. I went out today at 9:00 out of Dissapointment (King Island). I applied all of Cooch's techniques and teaching and caught a couple of Hawgs. They went 2, 4.5, 5.5, 2, and three or four dinks. All of them were caught on Senkos in the dock. I guess I did kind of redeamed myself. PS Thanks Cooch, I had a great time learning.
    City: Sacramento

    Tips: Target areas without current.

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005

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    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Went out on Sat. for first time on the delta expecting good numbers. In 10 hrs. on white's only caught 4 fish. Buddies caught a striper a piece. I boated a 8.3 large mouth and my friend got a 5.3 large mouth. No other fish all day. All LM and one striper came off of senkos and one striper came off of a lucky craft rip bait.
    City: san jose

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: As expected, the bite was slow with the cold front approaching. We only had 7 hits and 4 fish boated. 11 inches, 12 inches, 2 and 5 pounds. 1 fish hit the jig, the others came on senkos. Fished Potato and White's Sloughs.

    Tips: Cooch fished the same day and did well. Does that mean he exaggerated and is not being realistic??? No, I think he just knows how to catch fish on the delta. That could be the case with the Lee Brothers. Keep them reports coming. I'll keep posting my lousy reports to keep it balanced ... HAR!

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    Water Temp: 58-60

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Had a guide trip on the River on Saturday, the bite was slow with two lil keepers on a Zipper at 7:00am. Then got a couple of big girls ta come up and take a Spook along a deep rock wall. Caught a few more fish pitchin Jigs before we went and found some 9L Senko fish in a Marina. Then headed ta Disco looking for more staging fish. Noticed a lot of lil fish 5-10" right on the bank in the trough sunnin' themselves. Started putting a Robo dropshot in MMIII into the grass and catch a couple of two pounders, figured the better fish had ta be somewhere close and began pitchin a 9 series Senko to the docks, Surprise, surprise, 6 pounder, 5 pounder, Client loose a donkey, then gets a 3.90. We then moved out to a deep rock wall and cranked a couple of 3 pounders on the red Bomber and got two more on a brown jig. All in all, slow bite but a very good day over all.
    City: Oakley

    Tips: Fish are still transitioning, but starting to move up. Saw a few small bucks on Beds in the Big Break Marina at the end of the day on the low tide. River is still very stained in many areas. We had to really work hard for our bites, and constantly try different techniques. Amazingly, we caught em on Topwater, cranks, 9 & 9L Senkos, T-rigged Zippers, a dropshot and jigs. Gonna bust lose any time now!

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    Water Temp: N/A

    Water Clarity: Stained (2-4 foot visibility)

    Report: Well the weather is warming up a bit and once again I find myself itching to do a little carp shooting. I was hoping that a few of you bass fisherman out there would have some ideas for me about where to go, when the spawn starts, and are there any carp cruising around lately? I appreciate any info you have. Thank you and good luck with the bass.
    City: oroville